Overrated Movies - Which One Do You Hate the Most?

[Grey_Focks]

The Room. yes, even as the most hated film in history, it's still overrated.


And for movies a few people actually liked, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button did nothing for me. For movies popular within The Escapist community, Oldboy was crap.

 

[Darkgoosey666]

Scott Pilgrim. I would explain, but I've done it enough times already.

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i agree, i was expecting something actually funny, and got something more akin to the matrix.

 

[stormtrooper9091]

Avatar, a friend told me he liked the PLOT. WHAT PLOT???? That film has really few artistic points, the acting is horrible, the plot was ripped off, the music is laughable and if you want visual shit, then congratulations, you have the brain of a six year old

also, 300. The clusterfuck that spawned those silly memes (so i suppose it wasn't that bad) was NOTHING compared to the novel which actually had something to it.

 

[Jesus Phish]

Scott Pilgrim. I would explain, but I've done it enough times already.

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Presumably you didn't like Hot Fuzz, then.

No, Hot Fuzz is one of my all-time favorite movies. I watched it twice during one summer and both times I laughed throughout the whole thing. Why wouldn't I like it because I didn't like Scott Pilgrim?

That's puzzling me a lot too. What does Scott Pilgram and Hot Fuzz have to do with each other?

OT:There are ALOT of movies that I think are overated. My problem is usually along the lines of this
-Big movie is released. Everyone and their mother raves about how good it is. I don't go to see it in a cinema because I don't have the time to, I don't have the money to or all my friends went to see it before me.
-Few weeks/months down the line and everyone is still talking about said movie, but it's out of the cinema by now. So I wait it's out on DVD and usually til it's cheap.
-Get said cheap movie from a store or grab a friends copy as they tell me one more time "OMGWTFBBQBESTMOVIEEVER!!!".
-Watch it and am truely disappointed at how bad the movie actually is.

Here's some examples
-The Matrix. "Omg it's so good, the action is amazing". What action? The last 15 minutes of action? Where the fuck is the rest? I'm going to watch Die Hard.
-Donni Darko "Omg it was made by a guy in college!". So? Alot of directors were in college when they had ideas for movies. Alot more didnt even go to a college and just made good movies. Donni Darko honestly felt like the longest movie of my life.
-A Clockwork Orage "Omg its a classic!". It might've been groundbreaking when it was released, but so was sliced bread and sliced bread does not impress me.


It doesnt happen with every movie. I like alot of Tarintinos movies and they were out before I was old enough to know who he was. Zombieland is another movie I was really worried that I would think sucks, but turned out to be good. And I love it when that happens. When a movie lives up to its hype its like christmas.

 

[Valksy]

Avatar.

Although I have never seen it and intend to dodge it for the rest of my life.

I know that I am having a problem with a film when I get overwhelmed with the need to cock-punch the stupid fucking blue people standees that popped up all over the place when the DVD was released.

I know enough about it to know the plot and gist of it.

I hate CGI. I like the nuance and the presence of actors, I am not a fan of animated movies at all. But having had Avatar shoved down my neck as a movie lover, and being told that it will revolutionise cinema (yeah, in turns of the grotesque and offensive budget used and nothing else), it just makes me want to spit.

And I have never felt that way about a movie. If I don't like it, or don't think that I will like it, I ignore it and move on, don't buy a ticket, don't buy a DVD. But Avatar was so aggressively marketed that I wanted to kill it with fire. Fucking thing.

 

[DuplicateValue]

You are making sense, but I still disagree.

Of course I would be more impressed with Pandora... but that's because it's something I haven't seen before. Once that's gone, it's just an extremely green jungle with glowing trees.

I think the Wild West is far more beautiful than that.

Alright, I'll give you that - Avatar is good-looking. But it's not THAT good-looking. For most people, its looks sold the film. I can't understand that.

It also has to do with suspending your disbelief, which is something I couldn't do.

When it showed heights, I didn't feel it was any high. When it showed the jungle, I didn't think it ever could be real.

It's not the reason why I hate that movie - like I said, were it a good action film or a great fantasty movie, I would love it.

But I think it sucked and the world didn't help.

I guess it changes from person to person.
I don't need to believe something's possible to get immersed in it, it just happens anyway.

And I suppose it's a matter of opinion really. If you prefer sand dunes and scorching sun to glowing forests, who am I to argue?

Yes I realise I've completely contradicted my original post. Hush. >.>

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Avatar.

Although I have never seen it and intend to dodge it for the rest of my life.

I know that I am having a problem with a film when I get overwhelmed with the need to cock-punch the stupid fucking blue people standees that popped up all over the place when the DVD was released.

This however, is silly. Disliking a movie you haven't seen because of how it was marketed.

*sigh*

 

[Koroviev]

All of the fodder for the masses currently preventing Black Swan and 127 Hours from coming to local theaters ):<

 

[Atmos Duality]

Overrated movies? Titanic.
What the hell was so bloody great about Titanic's story? It's just a daily soap-opera with a higher budget and placed on the Ship of Doom.
It certainly wasn't worth putting up with two solid years of "My Heart Will Go On".

At least in Avatar, I can crack jokes about Pocahontas/Fern Gully/Dances with Wolves.

EDIT: 28 Days Later.
Seriously. The idiot-borne plot contrivances had me laughing my ass off.

Spoiler

The drop of infected blood hitting the father squarely in the eye?
The Rape-Centric military who gets punked out by hilariously bad timing?
If you're going to kill off lead characters, make sure that it isn't through bad plot-convenience-writing. If you're going to write comically stupid assholes, don't do it in a suspense-horror sort of movie. It's the kiss of death for your atmosphere.

Also, the concept of why the "zombies" go mad and murder each other in a fit of rage early on, yet are perfectly willing to cooperate and coordinate attacks on non-infected later makes no sense. If the virus is supposed to override higher brain functions and drive human beings into a hungry-murderous frenzy, they shouldn't ever be capable of discerning friend from foe!

It's proven later on that they have no real survival instincts either, willingly starving to death at the end of the movie. If they have no preservation instincts then why the fuck do they not indiscriminately attack each other? The nature of the infection is far too plot-convenient to be believable at all, and this movie was made as an attempt to properly rationalize a zombie apocalypse plot.

At least the movie started out decent. RAGE MONKEYS.

Yes that's the reason people thought he was a good Joker, it has nothing to do with his actual performance.

It's sad that such poor reasoning dominated popular opinion.
Why wouldn't we form our own opinion on his last performance based on his actual performance? Ledger doesn't exactly care what we think of him now.

Besides, Ledger's performance was quite excellent, though I agree that the movie really didn't deserve the hype it was getting; especially since Christen Bale had all the character of particle board in comparison.

 

[Koroviev]

Avatar, a friend told me he liked the PLOT. WHAT PLOT???? That film has really few artistic points, the acting is horrible, the plot was ripped off, the music is laughable and if you want visual shit, then congratulations, you have the brain of a six year old

also, 300. The clusterfuck that spawned those silly memes (so i suppose it wasn't that bad) was NOTHING compared to the novel which actually had something to it.

Yeah, I didn't get the appeal of 300. My friend had me watch it and I came away with mixed feelings of "meh."

 

[TerribleAssassin]

Avatar. I hate it with a passion, wasn't worth the 3D.

 

[Jamboxdotcom]

That's puzzling me a lot too. What does Scott Pilgram and Hot Fuzz have to do with each other?

both directed by the same guy. Edgar Wright, i believe?

 

[Sparrow]

Can I?

Avatar. I hate Avatar with a fiery passion.

Yes, oh GOD, yes. I could have written that plot. The characters were all 2D, the acting wasn't great and honestly the only thing that saved the film for me was the soundtrack, which was quite good. All it all, "being pretty" is the worst reason for people to like a film. I hated it from beginning to end, but I had to see it twice regardless. Once with the girlfriend, a second time with the family. It was torture.

For movies popular within The Escapist community, Oldboy was crap.

To me, Oldboy was good, but nowhere near as good as I was told it would be. Sure, the bit in the hallway was awesome and for the most part the acting was quite good (I suppose, some of the other characters brought it down). Maybe it's just me, but I think the ending was just going for shock value.

Spoiler: Spoilers within

So he banged his daughter, the main villian admits to banging his own sister and then the main character cuts his own tounge and pleads for forgiveness... "what in the hell did I just watch?" sprung to mind.

 

[dontlooknow]

I can't watch the Lord of The Rings, I just get so bored...

THANK YOU! I'd happily bite my own fingers off before watching that ridiculous self indulgent, self righteous nonsense again. I've got some very puzzled faces for saying that before - it's just one of those films I just don't get. Same with Kill Bill actually.

 

[thejboy88]

For me, the overrated film I dislike the most is the Godfather.

Now before anyone goes nuts over that, let me explain.

Yes, the film has a good story, yes it's well acted, yess the score is memorable. But the problem for me was the characters. It's always been difficult for me to "like" criminal characters or relate to them. There was no-one on screen I coud realte to. I did'nt like the things they said, or did and no amount of good acting could change that.

Or I suppose it could be because I just don't like gangster films in general, could never get into them.

 

[Strain42]

Yes, because Kubrick invented Clockwork Orange. It's not like it was based on a book or anything >_>

 

[Fenra]

For me its District 9, probably one of the few movies I've ever been tempted to walk out of but I stuck with it in the hopes of whatever people were seeing in it would become apparent to me by the time its over and I would walk away awe struck and proclaiming it an amazing movie like the rest of the world seemed to be.

Unfortunatly I just found myself more and more bored. Now I will freely throw my hands up and admit that, whatever message the film was trying to convey I didnt get it, even after people explained it to me I still sat there saying "really? thats what I was supposed to take away from that?" so I'm fairly sure thats why I thought it over rated, didnt enjoy it and walked away feeling bored and let down. Whatever message there was, I didnt care enough to work it out.

Still even taking the "message" out for a moment, the film itself to me was just tedious, the story to me was bland, seriously how many times are we going to see a variation on person A starts turning into subject B (either physically or morally) who they previously hated/oppressed/whatever and now seeks help from them, gaining new perspective/sympathising with them and bla bla bla... and how the hell does space ship fuel do that anyway!

Of course last but not least the characters... perhaps this was intentional I dont know but every last one of them were despisable, not a single one I liked or cared about. Humans were jerks, main guy was a jerk, military were well armed jerks, aliens were intergalactic jerks. Every last person/thing who showed thier face on screen I couldnt stand which left me not giving a damn what the hell happened in the story by the end. Was I supposed to feel for the aliens? the main guy? anyone? because if I was I sure as hell didn't.

Thus by following that logic if I dont give a damn about any of the characters I dont give a damn about the story, if I dont give a damn about the story I will lose all interest and end up thinking very poorly of the film in general.

 

[Ironic Pirate]

300, just didn't like it. The whole film just felt kinda "meh" to me.

Agreed. I could have better spent my time just watching the fight scenes on Youtube.

 

[no oneder]

The Butterfly Effect with Ashton Kutcher. Every wannabe artsy kid loves this movie. It isn't even that good.