Originally posted by Esau Cairn
Whereas I don't know what your tastes in movies or literature lies & for that matter Janet Maslin's (the reviewer) too, I'm simply suggesting that you judge yourself rather than show me a link to a newspaper review.
Try Choke, the novel & not the tamed down movie version.
I'm sure the novel Choke is a perfectly good book. It does not make fight club a good movie.
Originally posted by roughrider
Some of the most overrated Best Picture winners of the past few decades - Terms Of Endearment (1983), Out Of Africa (1985), A Beautiful Mind (2001), Crash (2005); none of them were worthy of that honour.
Agreed. Well haven't seen terms of endearment and out of Africa, but crash and a beautiful mind winning best picture was definitely an eyebrow raising event
A Beautiful Mind was excellent... what is wrong with you people? Then again, the subject of schizophrenia strikes particularly close to home for me, but still. That's a great movie.
I thought The Hurt Locker was a ridiculous choice for best picture. The cinematography was annoying. It was going for a shaky-cam documentary-esque feel, but then there were slow motion and close-up still camera shots. That was irritating because it's a pretty fundamental thing to f#ck up.
Originally posted by ares834
Thor? WTF?Anyway, I gotta go with Inception. It's a good movie but not nearly as great as the fan-boys make it out to be. Plus it's riddled with plot holes.
Indeed.Thor? give me a break.
the biggest laughable one on there by far though is Star Wars a new hope. Try Return Of The Jedi and you WOULD be accurate.
oh and Batman Begins and The Dark Knight are the only decent batman movies that have been made. 😆
while were talking about overated films,you can add spiderman 1 and two there as well.
another one that needs to be mentioned is Top Gun.God anytime I have turned on the tv over the years,I swear,that movie is always playing.The networks act like it is the best movie ever made or soemthing. 🙄
10 Titanic - ship sinks, kate gets he baps out, leo dies - blah
9 The Matrix - it's good but not really that original or profound
8 The Back To The Future Trilogy - can't believe the amount of love these films get, they're very ... light weight.
7 Pulp Fiction - good film, good cult film, a tad over hyped now though.
6 The Shawshank Redemption - Not even Stephen King's best work
5 An Inconvenient Truth - cheap ass "mockumentary" in the style of Blair Witch, soooo 90s ... 😖hifty:
4 Star Wars (the lot of them) - seriously... not worth 1 episode of Firefly
3 The Hunger Games - boring, unoriginal, trivial and looooong
2 Gladiator - words fail me as to how poor and horrid this was
1 Avatar - christ was this stupid and long!
Originally posted by janus77
10 Titanic - ship sinks, kate gets he baps out, leo dies - blah9 The Matrix - it's good but not really that original or profound
8 The Back To The Future Trilogy - can't believe the amount of love these films get, they're very ... light weight.
7 Pulp Fiction - good film, good cult film, a tad over hyped now though.
6 The Shawshank Redemption - Not even Stephen King's best work
5 An Inconvenient Truth - cheap ass "mockumentary" in the style of Blair Witch, soooo 90s ... 😖hifty:
4 Star Wars (the lot of them) - seriously... not worth 1 episode of Firefly
3 The Hunger Games - boring, unoriginal, trivial and looooong
2 Gladiator - words fail me as to how poor and horrid this was
1 Avatar - christ was this stupid and long!
So just out of curiosity... what is a good, not-overrated movie that is worth all the attention it gets? (Because I would easily consider The Shawshank Redemption one of the best films of all time.)
Originally posted by Patient_Leech
So just out of curiosity... what is a good, not-overrated movie that is worth all the attention it gets? (Because I would easily consider The Shawshank Redemption one of the best films of all time.)
Shawshank initially received modest critical praise, iirc, it's just that over time the inflated idea of it being some profound epic came into being and it wormed its way into the upper reaches of so many "best of all times" lists.
A movie worthy of all the attention it gets? I would say The Godfather was genuinely epic and engrossing, felt very real and was a good depiction of the inevitable chaos of a crumbling patriarchy.
I know it's often at the very top of "best of all times" lists but, it actually has substance and a maturity that lifts it beyond entertainment or feel good stuff.
Memento is another one that I think deserves the praise it gets (and yes, Inception is shite).
Paranormal Activity lives upto its billing.
Dr. Strangelove is another.
In terms of pure entertainment, I think Avengers is worth its box office. It delivers a fantastic ride with good humour and well realised depictions of dynamics between established comic icons.
There's plenty, but this thread is about overrated films and I presented my choice of 10.
I might have stuck Fightclub in there, except I think the film has faded from memory somewhat.