Most overrated movies

[AlexanderAstartes]

Saw. Everyone hyped it up and I was really disapointed when I finally saw it a couple months back.

I disagree on Gladiator. It's a really well constructed film. Almost like a play in the way it's split into three acts.

 

[RatsInTheWall]

Twilight

 

[Klepa]

I'm only mentioning the ones people haven't brought up yet.

Original Star Wars trilogy - Nowhere as great as most people seem to imply.
Donnie Brasco - Only seen it once, but I didn't think much of it.
Goodfellas - Two of the most annoying actors of our time, in a movie that doesn't have a plot.
2001: A Space Odyssey - Fucking murder me.

 

[fearofthemind]

dark knight

 

[Russian Redneck]

I mean when you get down to it the scene in the bar came down to nothing, and it took up at least 30 min of the film.

Actually, it was cinematically significant because the female British double agent was able to meet with the Basterds and inform them of the assassination plot against Hitler.

Yeah, that scene was absolutely not significant to the progression of the plot in any way, no siree!

 

[Glass_House]

Transformers (Both), Star wars 1-3, Twilight, Australia, Meet the Spartans, oh every single disaster movie. There are probably some more but I really can't think of any at the moment.

 

[Random Argument Man]

Shaun of the dead. Saw it and I was disapointed. You guys gave me false promises.

Saw: It's not bad. The acting however....

 

[Inverse Skies]

Ha, I quite enjoyed it but to each his own. If you're interested
[spoiler*Click if ye dare*]The son was the mother all along[/spoiler]

Yup, I'd definitely never heard of that before. It does seem like the kind of plot twist which would accompany a film like that. Lol, I dared to click!

 

[TotallyFake]

Just because a film is highly rated, doesn't mean it's actually an enjoyable film.

Take Citizen Kane and 2001. Hughly influential films, introduced radical things into film-making that we now take for granted (Look at Alien, at the time it was groundbreaking, now it's cliched. It just INVENTED the cliches) and are significant for the impact they had. By modern standards they're nigh unwatchable.

And I disagree that District9 is overated. Maybe because I'm the one hyping it up. I still say it's the perfect example of a high-brow sci-fi action movie. Not high-brow in the way it says anything particularly deep or artistic, but it throws in enough thought provoking stuff to justify the carnage. It's like Terminator 2, the thinking mans gratuitous violence.

 

[annoyinglizardvoice]

Also I am not crazy mad for the Ring which I honestly di not find very scary... maybe it comes from growing up with Pet Sematary but whatever the case I just don't scare easily anymore.

Which version of Ring did you see first? If it's the American one then this doesn't suprise me in the slightest. American film-makers nowerdays just can't get horror right. The Japanese one had a much better atmosphere.

My list would include American Beauty, Pearl Harbor, Titanic and almost anything with Tom Cruise or Adam Sandler in it.

 

[FROGGEman2]

Spoiler: Long rant I started then gave up on.

Juno?

Juno is like the best movie EVAR.

Uh, I don't know.

Wait... is someone saying that District 9 wasn't good?

RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGEQUIT!

*logs back on*

*trawls*

For me it's The Princess Bride, I hated that movie. It's not funny, it's not charming, I don't care if it's being half sarcastic. It's deadbeat trash.

Oh my.

Oh myohmyohmy.

*deep breathing*

OK.

It was funny (for me), but you're entitled to that opinion.
It was charming (for me), but you're entitled to that opinion.

Deadbeat trash?

No.

You've crossed the line into idiocy.

That movie was many things. Trash? Never.

Wait...

THIS THREAD IS FULL OF SILLINESS!

I give up, maybe chasing up every opinion isn't such a good idea.

Anyway, the OP...

The Matrix. No, I liked the first one. The other two. But no one liked the other two!

Um.

Transformers 2?

Um.

Ironman was OK..?

Um.

OH I'VE GOT IT YIPEE!

Australia!!!

Gosh, that movie was long and irrelevant to Australians.

But Baz Luhrman is a fantastic director. Rather, he made Romeo + Juliet.

 

[Hutchy_Bear]

Donnie Darko
Diary of the Dead
Titanic
The Incredibles

 

[Phantom9123]

Napolean Dynamite...If its possible for a movie to cause brain damage, this is it.

 

[IckleMissMayhem]

Any Will Ferrel Film
The Matrix Trilogy
Donnie Darko
Anything related to Dan Brown (but that's got more to do with the vast overrated-ness of the books)
James Bond: Die Another Day.
The Terminal
Cast Away

I'm sure there are more...

 

[scareBro]

Eraser Head is shit. Total shit

 

[systhicsfg]

Shaun of the Dead.

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[asdasdasdasda]

Transformers 2, & Twilight IMO. I disagree with Dark Knight. I think it genuinely deserves all the praise it got. *shrug* opinions are like asses..

 

[Carbon Dog]

The Departed (it had too many twists and a TERRIBLE ending)
There Will Be Blood (a good movie? yes. an entertaining one? not at all)
Pirates of the Caribbean [and sequels] (Johnny Depp is fun but the plot is convoluted and just not that entertaining)
Star Wars 1,2,and 3 (The new movies suuuuck. Just had to get that out there.)
Any SAW movie past the second one. (Jigsaw is fucking dead! He has been since #3! Don't build a franchise around a villain with BRAIN CANCER)

 

[Ironpanda]

Napolean Dynamite...If its possible for a movie to cause brain damage, this is it.

THANK YOU!!!!!!!