Overrated Movies - Which One Do You Hate the Most?

[redsoxfantom]

A Clockwork Orange. Yeah, Kubrik's good at things. Yeah, there's a lot going on in this one. Yeah, it's got some edge to it. But no, liking this movie doesn't make you deep. And it's not a damned masterpiece.

Yeah I never liked the movie either. I feel like Kubrick made it for the money (I mean, come on. It doesn't even include the last chapter from the book!) So, as cliche as it sounds, the book was better.

 

[carpathic]

Avatar

American History X

everytime I say these are way overated, I get flamed, but I don't care. Edward Norton is a decent actor, but I just HATE his movies. American History X works as an examination of america society, but it is just way overated.

 

[yamitami]

Given that I had to deal with working the Walmart release party last night, any given Twilight movie.

 

[ComicsAreWeird]

Avatar. Overhyped and overrated. Not a bad movie though.

 

[Jesus Phish]

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?

So you are right. However, they're nothing like each other. Hot Fuzz is funny and enjoyable. Scott Pilgrim is just another Michael Cera movie.

 

[BlastedTheWorm]

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?

Yeah. People seem to think that direction is the only thing that matters. Y'know, not the fact that Simon Pegg probably had as much to do with Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz as Edgar Wright did, whereas he had fuck-all to do with Scott Pilgrim.

Uhm...Inception, Avatar, the usual stuff.

 

[Singularly Datarific]

Can I fudge a bit and mention three?

Here they are (in no particular order):
Forrest Gump- The only thing I liked about this movie was the war segments. I don't understand it's appeal. It didn't help that the two major female characters are both hypocritical whores.

The Da Vinci Code (book applies here as well)- Good God, everybody stop treating it like it's some kind of revelation. I can't tell you how many people have tried to use the story (a story that is clearly FICTIONAL) to support some half-baked conspiracy theory of theirs about the Illuminati controlling the world. Oh yeah, and the supposed "truth" about Jesus and other Biblical figures? The author pulled those "facts" out of his ass.

M*A*S*H- Now I love M*A*S*H. It's one of the greatest TV series of all time, in my humble opinion. As you probably guessed, this is about the movie. It's just a series of glorified frat-boy pranks by immature, chauvinist pricks who just happen to be surgeons working near the front lines. I understand this is meant to be some kind of biting satire against the Vietnam War and cultural and religious norms, but it just comes across as being far too cynical and juvenile.

Anyway, as far as overrated movies I don't like, I was going to say Avatar, but instead, I think I'm gonna go with 2001: A Space Odyssey. I had a very hard time keeping awake watching it, much less paying any attention. By the time they got to HAL my friends and I had all stopped paying attention and we only really went back to noticing any of it when the credits were rolling. Maybe I'll give it another try sometime, but until I do, it's just behind Avatar on this list to me.

But...but...2001's a CLASSIC!

Okay, I'll admit it can be pretty slow at times, but you have to remember it was a ground-breaking film for it's time. Also, it's one of the few science fiction films that depicts space realistically.

Pretty slow, likely on account of the realistic approach. Also, there are TONS of crappy science fiction films from the '50s and '60s that depict realistic space, but THEY SUCKED.
At this moment, I'm thinking of making a realistic space combat movie that works like a sniper movie, slow and suspenseful, with a ton of unknowns and fear.

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

Not to mention how they use the fact that it made more money than anything else as A SELLING POINT. Goodness, they are self-righteous. Besides, OF COURSE it made an assload of money! IT'S $15 DOLLARS A TICKET!!!
Avatar only sold about 90 mil tickets.
Now, look at some of the movies with more tickets: 101 dalmations, Jaws, E.T., Empire Strikes Back, Sound Of Music, Star Wars (2nd place with over 175,000,000), and Gone With the Wind (202,044,600. From a movie made in 1939.).

 

[mParadox]

Avatar.

Could go with Twilight but that is the universal truth so why bother right?

 

[subject_87]

While I wouldn't say I 'hate' it by any stretch of the word, I didn't think Terminator was all that great.

 

[postalworker147]

trans-fucking-formers

 

[Singularly Datarific]

trans-fucking-formers

Don't worry, EVERYONE hates that.
'Cept the stereotypical college frat-boy idiot (How the crap they GOT in college tends to make me wonder)

 

[SecretAlienMan]

The Twilight series. I only saw the first two and they were both terrible. The plot made little sense and the characters had very little chemistry. I have no idea why it is so popular.

 

[Vinylsiding]

My choice would easily be District 9. I absolutely hated that movie. It had one of the most annoying main characters that I have ever seen.

 

[Fidelias]

300, just didn't like it. The whole film just felt kinda "meh" to me. Stopped really caring about watching the film after a while. Hell i started to fall asleep in the cinema

This. It was just another gritty movie which praised the macho man who had no feelings or no weaknesses. The only reason why I watched it the whole way through was because I was hanging with my dad on his birthday.

 

[Morbira]

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.

Now it's interesting you say that because the main character, Michael, was never meant to be part of the family business. He was a soldier returning home from WWII after being discharged for wounds. Before that he was a college student at Dartmouth where me met his future wife. The only reason he gets to where he is at the end of the film is because a rival gang tries to assassinate his father and he swears revenge. All in all, he seems like a pretty down to earth character to me. At the very least he's absolutely no criminal in the beginning, which makes the fact that he's slowly transformed into the new head of the family a poignant character arc.

 

[Artina89]

Can I?

Avatar. I hate Avatar with a fiery passion.

I really didn't find it that pretty and I sure as shit didn't find it any smart. He had the worst, most pandering, most annoying, most obvious set of messages I've ever seen in that film. I thought I would hate it before I saw, but I had no idea.

DISCLAIMER: I have nothing against shallow entertainment. I liked The Expendables. My favorite movie is The Rock.

Avatar just pissed me off so much by pretending to be smart and edgy. It's none of that.

And it wasn't even that good-looking.

Damn ninjas..... yeah I disliked Avatar too. It was too long. I think James Cameron is overrated.

 

[Hyper-space]

Inception.

Okay movie, but the hype really killed it. Critics were raving on about how you need a PhD to understand and follow this movie when it was pretty straight-forward and in complete chronological order, lets be honest this wasn't primer-level of complexity at work here.

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

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Spoiler: my face

 

[dreddfan]

The Thin Red Line.

Boring as poo.

 

[Dead_Man]

Micheal Bays Transformers. It's just a pile of crap filmed with a shaky camera that explodes.