What is the most overrated movie of all time?

[Johnny Novgorod]

Blade Runner. The pacing was way too slow and long, the main theme of what makes us human was under explored, the ending cuts off without giving any hints to the question of who's real and who's a robot, and NOTHING IS EVER EXPLAINED.

The ending varies depending which cut you're watching. Director's Cut makes it implicit Deckard's an android, original cut is more ambiguous, others (I think) don't even address the issue.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

the Eagles could've totally flown the Fellowship into Mordor (fuck that "they're a proud race" argument, they did it all the time in The Hobbit).

How about the excuse that they're carrying what is basically a magnet for "evil glowing death light that fucks up your psyche and turns you mentally insane if looked upon for too long" really high in the sky and carrying the ring like that is essentially a death sentence?

[sub][sub]just sayin'[/sub][/sub]

I doubt they had much of a psyche to corrupt. Frodo made it to Mordor (barely), I'm sure they could've made it just fine in half that time. He'd still be carrying it anyway, it's not like they're giving it to the eagles. So they would've still needed a distraction to smuggle in the Ring, fair enough. But walking aaaaaaaall the way wasn't the best plan they could've gone with.

Yeah and walking all that way with a distraction Frodo got looked at for like 5 seconds and nearly gave in. The eagles would be in the wide open air with no cover and that Sauron light is a big fucker. Chances are it could shine on the eagle carrying whoever has the ring and the ring bearer. Both of them would be mind raped by the time they entered Mordor.

"Sauron light"? Are we talking about proper book Sauron or lighthouse movie Sauron?

Movie.
This is a thread about movies after all, I didn't think we were bringing in things that happens in books to talk about movie logic.

Still it sounds more like an excuse than an actual reason. Like when McKellen asked Jackson why couldn't he just use his magic staff on the Witch King. Jackson: "It's out of batteries". Same with the Eagles. There's never an in-universe explanation as to why not recur (yet again) to the Eagles for ferrying, just people handwaving about this or that. If this were really about calling attention, I'm sure they could've plotted distraction/s to smuggle in the Ring. That's more or less what they did in the end anyway (the Black Gate battle is one big distraction).

 

[ThreeName]

It's a tough choice between The Avengers and Avatar.

The Avengers has stayed popular longer but Avatar was more overhyped on release... tough call. Both were just bland, average movies with sparkly effects. Whoo.

 

[Drake the Dragonheart]

Scott Pilgrim. I can certainly understand why many liked it, but just not something I enjoyed.

 

[Proverbial Jon]

Wow, there's a lot of hate in this thread. I'm kinda regretting my decision to come in here.

For my part I really didn't see what was so amazing about Blade Runner. I'm normally a fan of just about anything Harrison Ford but that one didn't click with me. Conversely I actually found The English Patient to be really quite compelling.

Then again I actually enjoyed Avatar so, according to this thread, I must have no taste whatsoever.

 

[Laughing Man]

The Godfather. I'm sorry, it's just so crushingly dull and boring. I eventually just gave up on the film.

Definition for overrated would come down to a movie that everyone says is great, almost everyone says it has to be watched but for whatever reason it just doesn't work. Not a critically overrated or a monetary over rated movie but just one that everyones seems to say you need to see because it is great.

The Godfather movies fall in to this category just about everyone I know says you need to see them, that they are amazing movies and every time I have tried to watch any of them I've just ended up being so bored I've switched them off.

 

[pearcinator]

Avatar is an obvious pick

However, I would put the title of 'Most Overrated Movie' to Christopher Nolan's 'Inception'

EVERYONE loved that film when it came out (and many of my friends put it in their Top 5 movies of all time). The movie is convoluted, sterile, cold (like all Nolan films there is a lack of 'warmth') and the concept of Limbo is brought in far too late into the movie, right at the third-act. The action is brought to a complete halt as the actors have to explain Limbo to the audience in as complex a way as possible.

It also has amazingly stupid lines.
What happens when we go into Limbo? "It's just raw, infinite subconcious"...WTF KIND OF LINE IS THAT!?
When Ellen Page comes back she explains why as "It's just pure creation"...WHAT?!
These lines are almost as stupid as 'He's got space dementia' (Armageddon) which I found hilarious...unlike Inception.

Inception also has the shittiest ending. That's one way to say 'FUCK YOU' to the audience Mr. Nolan.

The Dark Knight Rises also sucked...but I think most people felt underwhelmed by it anyway.

I like Nolan films (The Prestige is his best movie) but his last couple have been complete duds.

 

[DaWaffledude]

Avatar is the the worst film I ever saw. It's dead, atrocious, plotless, pointless, grotesquely overhyped, overated, overpromoted, garbage.
It has less plot than half a half hour cartoon.
It's nothing more than a blatant rip off of disneys pocahontas and fern gully.

All the star wars films are dead, cretinous stupid, grotesquely overated, overhyped, garbage.

Toy Story films are total and utter, atrocious, creepy, cretinous, grotesquely overated, overhyped, garbage.
The premise is creepy as firetruck, and the films sickening, sacharine, contrived, horsedung.

Toys coming to life when a child is'nt there is freaking creepy! It makes you want to flamethrower toys!

Almost all the pixar films are grotesquely overated, overhyped, horsecrap.
Pixar are the most grotesquely overated, overhyped, overpromoted, company ever.

Apart from A Bugs Life, all their films are atrocious, smug, s**te.
A Bugs Life, is a ok film. Anything else, total and utter, smug, s**te.

I loathe and despise pixar and their smug, s**te, films.

I censored swore. That's how much I hate them. Replacement words were'nt enough to show how much I hate them.

Thor is dead, grindingly, tedious, garbage.

G.I Joe: Retribution, is one of the stupidest, most grindingly cretinous films I ever saw.

All of Guillermo Del Toros films are smug, atrocious, garbage.
He is a useless, talentless, cretin.

Yikes. Somebody's angry.

 

[Jaeke]

*Bottles Dark Knight fanboy rage*

Probably Avatar, since it's literally just the plot of Dances With Wolves but with lots of CGI and a stupid story about a bunch of hippy cos-players.

EDIT: Oh! And also anything J.J. Abrams has made. Not that they're bad, I like Super-8 and I don't think the Star-Trek remakes are that bad but they're barely above average.

 

[Hatchet90]

The fact that I'm seeing Kubrick make the list of most overrated movies pretty much proves how uncultured this site's users can be. Most of the reasons given are just buzzwords that critics use with "pretentious" being the absolute most common, hackneyed, used to prop up the "intelligence" of the word's user, and usually given to movies whose criteria would fall under more appropriate words such as heartfelt, intellectual, earnest, sincere, artistic, unconventional, nonconformist, or non-commercial.

Bad writing and poor direction are also buzzwords users give to why they don't like good movies, as if they have any idea what that even means cause I certainly don't. This thread seems like a breeding ground for hipsters, "This movie's popular therefore, I don't like it."

 

[IBlackKiteI]

For me, Schindler's List.

Mainly because of the portrayal of Schindler. In the movies he's basically put down as some sort of half god. Capable of seducing any woman and charming any German officer. Rich, handsome, dedicated to saving everyone from the Nazi regime. Which really makes the movie rather dull and boring. Of course he's going to save everyone, he's basically portrayed as Superman. Of course he's going to do the right thing, he's the perfect guy everyone in the audience is imagining they'd be and act as.

And then in the credits they tell me about a man who couldn't keep any of his businesses afloat. Who couldn't manage his marriage to his wife. Who seemed to be a troubled man but still managed to save a lot of people and do a lot of good. I'd have loved to see a movie about that guy, would probably have been interesting. Instead I got a movie about a god among mere men who, naturally, did some good and saved a few people.

As much as I liked Schindler's List this is kind of it. To me Schindler himself was probably the least interesting thing in the movie, I wouldn't quite say he was a god among men but looking back on it I would say he never seems to be in any real great danger despite the whole scenario being risky and difficult as hell to pull off (to be fair you might say the real danger is reserved for the Jews...). The movie doesn't seem to stress just how difficult a ton of things he did would've been, like with how he seems to manipulate everyone he tries to way too easily and towards the end the whole business with not wanting to have the munitions factory produce any working shells and his actually accomplishing this kind of just happening.
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Most overrated movie of all time? Shit, no idea, however for a rather overrated movie within recent time I'd go with The Avengers.
The Avengers is kind of like a good jack-of-all-trades movie of sorts. I wouldn't call any part of it bad, I reckon it's really really competent all round, but it ultimately just felt like a better version of a million other movies/stories before, not some big huge new great thing some claim it is. When the bad guy goes on his rant about how inherently misguided/subservient/crap people are, when the heroes are suddenly at each others throats then best buds just as suddenly, the whole thing with the good guy getting brainwashed and coming good again, the many sudden big damn heroes style arrivals, all this kind of stuff and more made it feel almost more like a homage to every superhero movie ever rather than something really its own. Not bad at all, but not some kind of masterpiece snowflake.

 

[hazabaza1]

the Eagles could've totally flown the Fellowship into Mordor (fuck that "they're a proud race" argument, they did it all the time in The Hobbit).

How about the excuse that they're carrying what is basically a magnet for "evil glowing death light that fucks up your psyche and turns you mentally insane if looked upon for too long" really high in the sky and carrying the ring like that is essentially a death sentence?

[sub][sub]just sayin'[/sub][/sub]

I don't see how walking in by the massive field would have been any more stealthy then flying above the clouds where you cant be seen.

Wait is this about Frodo or Aragorn?

Because by the time Frodo was in the open and near Sauron the big guy was being distracted by Aragorn's army. As for why Sauron doesn't just insanity beam the army at his door...
I'unno.

 

[Trunkage]

Pacific Rim - heard lost of great things but felt like I was watching an episode of the Power Rangers.
Avatar - Boring
Lord of the Rings - Needed the Ents to help at helms deep. That was the only thing I really wanted to see, and you couldn't in cinemas. Also Sauron attacked many areas of middle earth, not just Minas Tirith as in the movie

 

[Casual Shinji]

the Eagles could've totally flown the Fellowship into Mordor (fuck that "they're a proud race" argument, they did it all the time in The Hobbit).

How about the excuse that they're carrying what is basically a magnet for "evil glowing death light that fucks up your psyche and turns you mentally insane if looked upon for too long" really high in the sky and carrying the ring like that is essentially a death sentence?

[sub][sub]just sayin'[/sub][/sub]

I always figured it had to do with the more powerful the ringbearer is the easier they are corrupted. Or the more powerful they are the more dangerous they become when they get corrupted. Which is why they give it to a weak little person with zero ambition. I assume if you let that shit near a couple of giant bad ass primordial eagles, the consequences would be rather disastrous.

 

[TheVampwizimp_v1legacy]

This thread is depressing me. All this vicious hatred for so many films I love...

Avatar is a big one, but it's been beaten to death already here, so I would have to say Scarface. It's a handful of hyperviolent scenes sprinkled meaninglessly throughout utter tedium. Tony Montana's story is not only boring, it's a dime a dozen. His character has precisely one emotion: anger, and precisely one reaction to outside stimuli: murder. It's just so one-note all the way through, and entirely uninteresting. Al Pacino deserves better than for this movie to be one of his most noted performances.

 

[Sam Lowry]

Unforgiven. The Wild Bunch did what this movie was trying to do way better.

 

[Your Fearless Captain]

Star Wars V, it lacks emotion, the famous parts of the movie would've been much better in anime because they know how to make emotional parts way better.

I spilled my drink laughing at that.

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Any movies you think aren't "shite"?

OT: I think the Hairy Potter movies aren't that great.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

the Eagles could've totally flown the Fellowship into Mordor (fuck that "they're a proud race" argument, they did it all the time in The Hobbit).

How about the excuse that they're carrying what is basically a magnet for "evil glowing death light that fucks up your psyche and turns you mentally insane if looked upon for too long" really high in the sky and carrying the ring like that is essentially a death sentence?

[sub][sub]just sayin'[/sub][/sub]

I always figured it had to do with the more powerful the ringbearer is the easier they are corrupted. Or the more powerful they are the more dangerous they become when they get corrupted. Which is why they give it to a weak little person with zero ambition. I assume if you let that shit near a couple of giant bad ass primordial eagles, the consequences would be rather disastrous.

There's also the fact that Sauron would've seen that coming a 1000 miles away and probably sent those big black dragon-y things to intercept them if they tried that.

 

[shootthebandit]

*activate flame shield*

LOTR. I find these films massively boring. I know theres a huge culture behind LOTR but all is see is a lot of boring dialogue and travelling to places then a few decent fight scenes which make about 5% of the trilogy. They are also about 3 hours long which (shy of godfather and possibly braveheart) is too long for any film (including dark knight rises)

I can see why people like these films and i respect that but i dont see why they are as big as they are

P.s. i feel the same about harry potter but to a lesser extent

 

[Jodan]

Im going to have to go with Blade runner. I dont want to get into a shouting match so i will just say I did not like it.