Overrated Movies - Which One Do You Hate the Most?
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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.JourneyThroughHell said:
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.Grey_Focks said:
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.
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.redisforever said:
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 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.
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.
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.
Agreed. I could have better spent my time just watching the fight scenes on Youtube.Zannkimaru said:
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.dastardly said:
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.Jamboxdotcom said:
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.Jamboxdotcom said:
Uhm...Inception, Avatar, the usual stuff.
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.Neverhoodian said:
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.
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!!!TerribleAssassin said:
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.).
While I wouldn't say I 'hate' it by any stretch of the word, I didn't think Terminator was all that great.
