Name a movie that is definitely overrated.

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[elshiva]

1. Titanic

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3. Thanks, I'm glad someone said it.

[elshiva]

6. You are welcome. And I actually saw "Titanic."

Way too long and DiCaprio was not good in it at all.

[begin_within]

9. Now if I could get someone to agree that "Citizen Kane" is boring, I could

call it a night.

[elshiva]

15. Sorry no can do. I liked Citizen Kane BUT

I DO NOT think it's the greatest movie ever. In that way it is over rated.

[Montauk6]

18. It's ... not ... boring BUT

I always thought that The Magnificent Ambersons was Welles at his best in spite of it being jacked by the studios.

[CanuckAmok]

43. Call it a night, dude!

Citizen Kane is more boring than a Taliban mixer.

[yorgatron]

125. i agree "Citizen Kane" bites

hate it.always have.always will.

[xmas74]

67. Best part was the ship sinking.

That's all I wanted to see.

[Broken_Hero]

29. yeah, Titanic is one of them, for sure.

Meet Joe Black...is another one, the only thing i enjoyed was brad pitt dying in the car accident...

[richmwill]

51. I have a few...

Titanic
Braveheart
Star Wars Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, and Revenge of the Sith
Miracle
Team America- World Police
Star Trek- Wrath Of Khan

[CBHagman]

95. I agree with you about Braveheart.

Too much preening and mooning, IMHO.

[MissHoneychurch]

54. my first thought also n/t

[entanglement]

56. Crappy maudlin POS movie, that

n/t

[ScreamingMeemie]

70. I am not ashamed to say I really like that film.

I know it's not 'the' position to hold. But I have watched it several times and love it. :hi:

[Skittles]

99. I liked it too, Mrs.Grumpy

good story, entertaining, good acting, good special effects :thumbsup:

[tokenlib]

128. I liked it==even though the romance was a liability...

The special effects and screenplay were awesome.

However I really think if Cameron would have went with more of the historical story instead of the mushy romance it could have been better.

[Montauk6]

2. Several

Shine
Terms of Endearment
The Birth of a Nation
Crash (not the Cronenberg version which was, IMHO, brilliant)
Gladiator
Monster's Ball
Broadcast News
As Good As It Gets
Orlando

[GrpCaptMandrake]

14. Hey!

How'd you transmigrate my list?!

:toast:

[Broken_Hero]

31. No!!!...not my gladiator...:)

I actually liked this one...and as good as it gets is great, just for this one line "People who talk in metaphors outta shampoo my crotch"...the others, i completly agree...they suck.

[medeak]

46. thanks for the "Crash" n/t

[democracyindanger]

4. Lost in Translation

Definitely.

[begin_within]

10. I'll second that.

[bridgit]

59. gee-awd, you got that right...

x(

[last_texas_dem]

63. Oh yeah

One of the biggest wastes of two hours of my life so far...

[XemaSab]

5. 2001

:wtf:

[elshiva]

7. Yeah. That was an annoying one.

[Robeson]

60. You are a capitalist pig.....

...shame on you.

[xmas74]

68. Better when your high.

And being a fan of sci-fi does help.

[mitchum]

135. A lava lamp of a movie

[Allenberg]

8. Star Wars

[Montauk6]

23. The first/original trilogy rocked, the second left me cold

But the ONE thing that always puzzled me about Star Wars '77:

OK, they're in the Mos Eisley Tavern, right? Luke's having a drink. Mr. Nose-Pressed-Against-The-Window Face starts harassing him, saying that he and his inarticulate companion are wanted men with death sentences in 12 galaxies; with me?

OK, with Star Wars you use your imagination, cool, I'm hip, I'm down, etc. Fine, I know all that.

But, I dunno, if you're lammin' it, would you REALLY wanna announce your legal status to a total stranger in a public place like that? I mean, Luke coulda been a bounty hunter for all this clod knew!

[hfojvt]

45. except that is not his legal status

that is his BS line to show that he is not to be trifled with. Mess with the best - die like the rest.

[Montauk6]

48. Obi Wan did give him the ultimate shoulder dislocation, didn't he?

[Robeson]

61. Thank you....

...I'm glad someone said it.

[Jade Fox]

117. Oh yeah...

Derivative, boring....Star Snooze

[ghostsofgiants]

11. All my friends raved about brilliant The Butterfly Effect was...

That movie sucked.

[last_texas_dem]

62. Yeah, but I actually wouldn't call that one overrated, 'cause

the critics were relentless in their hatred of it. Personally, I found it so weirdly disturbing that I enjoyed it.

[swag]

12. Mystic River.

More?

The Godfather

Rocky

Moulin Rouge

Star Wars

[elshiva]

16. Mystic River was awful.

[amitten]

41. Ditto. Hideously weak ending, like by a six-year-old.

Not that I'm some movie critic, but damn. I could have written a better ending!

[Montauk6]

26. The Godfather? How DARE you!

I still like Rocky, but damn, it looks dated; I swear it looks more like a TV movie than a big screen feature.

And I've already chimed in on Star Wars.

[Jade Fox]

118. Hideous to look at , difficult to hear...

The book wasn't very good either IMO.

[swag]

13. Dupeberry Dupestein.

Berry Berry, Stein Stein Stein.

[bammertheblue]

17. Kill me if you wish....

Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.
I cannot understand what anyone in that movie is talking about, and I don't mean the accents!

[Montauk6]

24. Trust me, it works much better with the closed caption.

Same with Sexy Beast and any Mike Leigh movie.

[EstimatedProphet]

19. Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith

[NNadir]

80. All of the Star Wars movies I've seen sucked.

I obviously haven't seen all of them.

[Jamastiene]

20. Terminator and

anything else muscle head Ahnold "stars" in, if you can call him an actor...

[Montauk6]

30. I did think that Predator was a pretty good jungle/alien thriller

But that was on the strength of a pretty decent supporting cast, viz. Carl Weathers, Bill Duke, Jesse Ventura, et al.

[Jamastiene]

34. I do like Jesse Ventura, but

Schwarzenegger has always really seemed like a B-grade sort of guy. I can't stay with any of his movies because they camera follows him too closely.

[Montauk6]

42. His best movies rely heavily on the support.

Running Man - Richard Dawson (in a role as the gameshow host from hell that had some IIRC speculating possible Oscar considerations)
Twins - Danny DeVito
Total Recall - Sharon Stone
Pumping Iron - Lou Ferrigno (OK, I'm kidding here)

[Lex]

21. Chariots of Fire.

I must've been too stupid to understand it or something. It was a yawn-fest for me.

[Vidar]

79. It was pointless & only redeemed slightly by Vangelis' score.

[Redstone]

22. I don't know about overrated, but "Kramer vs Kramer" is a movie

that I'd NEVER watch. Why the hell would I want to watch a movie about people getting an ugly divorce? I had one of those, and can't for the life of me understand how anyone could consider it to be entertainment...

Redstone

[LSdemocrat]

25. The Lord of the Rings movies

They're ok at best, but I question the sanity of anyone who says they're among the greatest movies of all time.

Other overrated movies:
The Matrix (especially after the sequels)
American Beauty
Titanic
Goldfinger (among Bond movies)

[Montauk6]

28. THANK YOU ! (on the whole LOTR thang)

I think it's a sick joke that the last installment took EVERY FRIGGIN' OSCAR, and YET not ONE award nomination for acting. How the chuck can you have a Best Picture with no award worthy performances??? Beyond me.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

27. Spinal Tap.

:popcorn:

[amitten]

36. A pox on you! You KNOW that movie rocks (no pun). n/t

[Skittles]

102. I WILL KICK YOUR ASS

not only was it funny way back then, I bought it recently and it has stood the test of time!

[Crazy Guggenheim]

112. I still think it sucked .........

[GoddessOfGuinness]

140. Yeah...Their pants weren't tight enough.

[Fleshdancer]

32. The English Patient and Trainspotting

one put me to sleep and the other made me sick to my stomach.

[XemaSab]

49. The book "Trainspotting"

gruesome! just gruesome!

Now "Shallow Grave," that's a great film...

[Strawman]

33. Gigili

No matter how low it was rated, it was still overrated.

[amitten]

35. FORREST FREAKIN' GUMP.

Don't even go there. I hate that shallow freakin' movie and all the lame actors therein.

[crispini]

37. Me too!

and people look at you like you have two heads when you say that. :P

[amitten]

39. I don't have two heads. I have one head...with TASTE. n/t

[bigwillq]

47. Ditto

Hated it!

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

88. Me four -- Lloyd Kaufman's (Troma) review

"I like to describe Troma as Anti-Hollywood, Anti-elites, Anti-Forrest-Gump. This doesn't sit well with many people, including my own normally sophisticated wife, who think of Gump as the moving story of a simple man's triumph.

But what's this movie really saying? Forrest Gump acts exactly as the mainstream and the government tell him. He follows orders, becomes a hero in Vietnam, and meets U.S. presidents. he becomes Ping-Pong champion of the world with absolutley no effort, not to mention a member of the Forbes 500. His life is directly contrasted to that of the woman he "loves," played by Robin Wright. This young
woman, who acts independently, often as part of underground culture - including protesting the Vietnam War - dies of AIDS. The lesson to our young people is obvious: DON'T THINK FOR YOURSELF. DON'T ACT DIFFERENTLY THAN THE HERD. GO ALONG WITH BIG BROTHER, ESPECIALLY IF YOU'RE A WOMAN, OR ELSE YOU WILL GET AIDS AND DIE."

http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/morrissey/394/gumpy.html

[Skittles]

104. finally got around to trying to watch it

lasted about an hour - just excruciating. I cannot believe that POS beat out Pulp Fiction for best picture.

[Initech]

127. Amen, I cant stand that movie!

[eeyore]

38. Gladiator

Gladiator was thin on plot, overacted, and way too long.

Worst waste of human and natural resources ever made into a movie.

[DanCa]

40. Rocky anthology - Rocky one was decent as was the first part of rocky two.

From there they went down hill fast.

[erpowers]

101. Rocky IV

What did you not like about Rock IV? I liked Rocky IV.

[amitten]

44. Sleepless in Seattle.

Sorry girls. Hate Meg. Hate Tom. Hate sappy two-hour sitcom crap.

[Skittles]

103. I AGREE

:puke:

[CarpeDiebold]

50. ya'll are going to force me to give you atomic wedgies

ok not really :p, but i have to defend my beloved crash(the hagis one), lotr, and lost in translation. i absolutely LOVED all those movies.

the one superoverrated one IMO is citizen kane.



that movie was a piece of xanadu-doo.

:hide:

[devilgrrl]

52. American Beauty

Sorry. That movie sucked ass.

[southlandshari]

53. Hell yes, devilgrrl!

I was trying to post that movie a bit ago, computer froze and had to reboot.

SO GLAD I'm not the only one that thought that was perhaps the most inane, ridiculous and painful-to-watch piece of crap to ever win an Oscar.

Of course, I don't want to put words in your mouth. So "sucked ass" works for me, too!

;)

[HughBeaumont]

72. Damn skippy it did.

The only two likeable characters in the whole movie were their homosexual neighbors. I wanted everyone else to fucking die.

[Enraged_Ape]

121. I call that a "Dirty Dozen" movie

That's a movie that probably wouldn't have been too bad if Lee Marvin, Charles Bronson, and the rest of the Dirty Dozen had shown up at the end and fragged the entire cast of characters.

American Beauty was a DEFINITE Dirty Dozen movie.

[mitchum]

132. Oh man, that is hilarious!

You do know that I am going to borrow that perspective in order to make some unbearable dreck slightly more tolerable in the future, don't you?
Thanks :)

[Enraged_Ape]

141. Enjoy. It works.

You don't how much sanity I've been able to salvage with this technique. A crappy movie is one thing, but a crappy movie with a repellent cast of characters is the absolute worst.

[mattomjoe]

77. Easily my #1 pick -- AB

I'll probably never understand the appreciation for this film.

[Jade Fox]

119. Yes, it did...

suck, as you say, ass.

[Enraged_Ape]

120. You got that right

I hated that movie with an absolute passion. Sophomoric pedophile porn.

[Ron Green]

55. "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"

What a drag that was. Maybe I don't get whatever Tim Burton is trying to do.

[ScreamingMeemie]

71. He was trying to do a film more true to the book. It was great. I was

so bummed out as a kid watching the original movie...and I'm a Gene Wilder film. The new one is just how I pictured it in my mind when reading the book. :hi:

[entanglement]

57. Dr Zhivago

n/t

[tammywammy]

58. Napoleon Dynamite

I just didn't get it I guess.

[against all enemies]

90. Dang

[AZBlue]

105. I was gonna say that!

I don't think there was anything to get!

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

107. the MTV version of an indie movie

it was so contrived and all if its 'eccentric' characters were so forced-"weird" that they weren't even believeable

[Enraged_Ape]

122. Oh, I lived in rural Idaho for quite a while

They're believable. I knew a guy who looked, dressed, and acted just like Uncle Rico.

[newportdadde]

64. Fight Club.

[taterguy]

65. anything by Wim Winders n/t

[smirkymonkey]

66. Sideways.

Hated it - I can't think of one aspect of that movie that was good - the script was terrible and it was just one annoying episode after another. Virginia Madson was good considering what little she had to work with, but I find Paul Giametti extremely annoying.

Also...

Signs (unintentionally funny)
Love Actually (Hated it)
Croupier (didn't get the hype - found it boring and slow paced)
Sexy Beast (ditto)

[Richardo]

83. Bingo.

I felt ripped off after that one. And I only spent rental money on it.

[Deja Q]

69. Any of them.

[MissMillie]

73. Pulp Fiction

It was so bad it didn't even deserve a rating at all.

[HughBeaumont]

74. Pulp Fiction.

Eccch. Absolutely NO shelf life. It's annoyingly mean spirited, the scenes drag and the dialogue is pompous to the point that it makes Kevin Smith look minimalist in comparison. It also sounds like a 12 year old who's parents just gave him permission to use "Fuck".

Plus I just want to kick the screen in whenever I hear John Travolturd talk in that flick. Shove your "royale with Cheese" up your ass, goombah.

:popcorn: because I know there's people who think this is the greatest film ever made. The joke is, I'm not kidding.

[Awsi Dooger]

111. That's a fantastic summary of the trash called Pulp Fiction

Not only do the scenes drag, I was predicting virtually every one that would follow, without any knowledge of the book or movie. I never saw something that was trying to be different yet was virtually a cliche for what a pathetic brain dispersal flick would be. There wasn't a threat of clever dialogue or a unique twist in the entire movie. Agreed, mean spirited and pompous but without the slightest basis for it, no reason to care about a single character. I still haven't fully forgiven the people who dragged me to that triumph of cinematic incompetence.

[Bassic]

75. Bridget effin' Jones nt

[terrya]

76. "The Blair Witch Project"

I stood in line and...I just didn't get what was supposed to be so "terrifying" about this overrated piece of shite.

I'll also agree with "Napoleon Dynamite" as ridiculously overrated.

[Kashka-Kat]

84. yes- a godawful bore

[AZBlue]

106. It was silly, not scary

We're in total agreement - Napolean Dynamite and Blair Witch were the two I was going list in this thread!

[Vidar]

78. English Patient: good cinematography but horrible movie.

[Deep13]

81. Gone with the goddamn Wind

Soft pedalled slavery and all of the characters were really unpleasant.

[ThatsMyBarack]

82. All the Harry Potter movies.

I used to love the Harry Potter book series until it got too commercial with movies, toys, clothes, coffee mugs, breakfast cereals, etc....:eyes:

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

85. A Clockwork Orange or pretty much anything Kubrick.

[edbermac]

92. Boo! Stan was da MAN!

[mitchum]

133. A Clockwork Orange is the only Kubrick movie I enjoy...

I was telling a friend just yesterday that I admired everything about Stanley Kubrick...except for his movies.

[mitchum]

134. ALL of the above...

with the exception of Citizen Kane, A Clockwork Orange, Reservoir Dogs, and Wim Wenders' The American Friend

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

138. The problem with Clockwork Orange the movie versus the book is

They give the impression in the movie that the society in which the movie is set is one so rife with crime that the main character's actions really aren't all that extraordinary, whereas the book does a much better job framing the main character for what he really is. This is an incredible critical difference and a huge and quite common failing point for Kubrick and his works. He tries so hard to be a genius that he neglects very important details that keep a plot together.

[mitchum]

139. That is a very good point...

In an interview, Kubrick himself indicts (almost) all of the characters. He said that the chaplain was the only decent character in the film. Of course, this make everyone else the moral equivalent of Alex.

Obviously, Kubrick also normalises Alex's behavior by having him portrayed by the incredibly charming Malcolm MacDowell. In the novel, he is much more of a graceless lout. It is a stunning performance, though.

[China_cat]

86. Madagascar.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

87. Donnie Darko

Don't get me wrong. I even liked and enjoyed this movie. I've seen it a couple of times.

However, I know many, many people who have told me that hands down this is their favorite movie of all time.

Which leads me to think that it's way overrated. Cause it's good, but it's certainly no masterpiece.

[TK421]

89. Good Will Hunting...I thought the main character was a jackass

and I didn't sympathize with him at all...in fact, I wanted to knock his teeth out

[HughBeaumont]

116. Huh, so I'm not the ONLY one who felt this way . . .

Like I'm supposed to relate to some repellent punk who's smart in math and his bitch-ass buddies? My wife loves this movie but I found it to be grating and repellent. Yet another over-wrought script that's too pretentious for it's own good.

[TK421]

129. EXACTLY! My nephew couldn't stop talking about this movie-how great

it was and all that. The guy was a math genius,but he was an arrogant brat as well. I think I was supposed to feel sorry for him,growing up in a rough neighborhood and all that,but anyone with those smarts could get a great paying job somewhere (not everyone is good at math,including myself)

[Enraged_Ape]

123. I wanted to grab him by his ankles and beat the psychiatrist with him

Another one of Robin Williams' overwrought "sensitive" roles. :puke:

I liked him much better in Insomnia and One-Hour Photo. He needs to keep playing insane bad guys.

[RubyDuby in GA]

91. Moulin Rouge and The English Patient and definitely Sideways!

[amitten]

130. Moulin Rouge was like slow, painful hideous torture.

If you liked it, SERIOUSLY liked it, some part of you, I don't know which part exactly, but some part of you deep deep down is very damaged.

[anarch]

93. Cold Goddamn Mountain

well, OK, I don't actually know if it was rated highly or not...but just thinking about it pisses me off.

[TK421]

96. This movie was a huge disappointment...

and the actors looked like they were lost throughout the entire thing

[CBHagman]

94. Pretty Hooker.

Dances with Wolves.

Forrest Gump.

[jakefrep]

97. Reservoir Dogs

and Passion of the Christ

[ucmike]

98. "sideways"

good cast, absolute borefest.

the last 3 star wars movies. (nice effects, is there a story there? i was distracted by the effects)
matrix. (i don't get any of them, why would a computer generated hero be made of wood?)
garden state (yeah, you're melancholy, we get it. driving on the turnpike is more entertaining)
crouching tiger, hidden dragon. (why are we captivated by a special effects kung fu movie? i'll stick with the b/w samurai movies on ifc)
million dollar baby (bored-with-life old boxers train an excited-by-life young boxer, but not that well. hillary swank should have stopped making fight movies after Karate Kid 2, at least that was good for a chuckle. give me alice cooper's "billion dollar babies" any time, even if you hate it its only 4 minutes long)

[Skittles]

100. I would agree with these assessments

I didn't think any of these movies were bad but their wild acclaim mysified me

[fishwax]

108. The Cider House Rules

:puke:

[MissMarple]

109. Pretty much anything that is supposed to be "profound"

I'm not kidding.

[suzbaby]

110. Casablanca

and It's a Wonderful life.

They both put me to sleep and I can't stand the acting style of that era anyway.
:boring:

[Bushy Being Born]

113. The Lord of the Rings movies, definitely. And Titanic.

[lovelaureng]

114. Jerry Macguire, nt.

[RevCheesehead]

115. Pretty much anything with John Travolta or Tom Cruise in it.

And WTF is it with Travolta? Does he have a "Dance" clause in his contract? I'm hard-pressed to think of any movie he's done without strutting his sorry ass across the screen.

[calico1]

124. Definitley Titanic..

That is, the most recent version. The best Titanic movie (imho) was the British "A Night to Remember" which was done low budget and was the truest to the actual events. There were also no big stars in the movie.

Gone With The Wind--too long. Hammy acting on the part of Vivien Leigh and Leslie Howard (though I loved Clark Gable in it).

The English Patient-- I could totally identify with the Elaine Benis character when she blurts out "Die already! Just die!" That could have easily been me! LOL.

Saturday Night Fever--good movie, but plot sucked.

Almost anything with Bette Davis in it. As far as hammy, over the top acting goes, she was the biggest one of them all, imo. (My apologies to Bette Davis fans).

[Initech]

126. War Of The Worlds - the 2005 version (spoilers)

God that movie was overrated and here's why:

1. I fucking HATE when they have a female character in a movie whose sole job is to scream the entire time. It drives me up the wall!

2. It just ended! After all that, you expect that there's going to be a way that the humans are going to figure out a way to destroy those machines and they just fall over.

Horrible piece of crap.

[Arkham House]

131. Anything by Chaplin--especially "The Great Dictator"

Chaplin was a modestly-talented mime who got a huge reputation when the movies were young, and reps were relatively easy to obtain. The world was still half in the Victorian era, and his quasi-Victorian bathos still appealed to a lot of people. Keaton was immeasurably his master, something few today would doubt... Anyway, Chaplin kept getting puffed up by critics as a "genius" and the "voice of humanity" so much he started to believe it, and tried to show what a "genius" he was by making a funny picture about Hitler, whose eerie resemblance to him had long been remarked on. The results were an obscene fiasco, for reasons best demonstrated by Ron Rosenbaum in his essay *The Arrogance of Clowns*, which also disembowels "Life is Beautiful", another worthy addition to our list...

[davmo]

136. Sideways - a total letdown

[MrSlayer]

137. A Christmas Story.

You know that incredibly annoying movie with Messy Marvin in it that everyone swears is so funny? It fucking sucks!