i'll start: "gone with the wind"

Wizard of Oz

Star Wars eps 1,2,3
Complete waste of money effects-fest with minimal story, far far too much special effects (some really nice, but there's so much of it, it's just lost) which dragged out poorly written scenes longer than was good for them; going back on original ideas; over-hyped (feck the advertising budget was three or four times more than some films made today); playing to the fans rather than a plot (Yoda with a lightsabre - yeah right!) - and even when they did get to a story point, like Anakin becoming Darth, we'll skip past that dead quick like and get on with some cheesey special effects!

Anything by the Wachowski Brothers
Bubblegum producers of tat - tastes nice the first time, but the flavour goes after a while and your just chewing spittle.

American Horror movies not ripped from the Orient
Unless they've ripped it from the East the Yanks ideas for horror is blood, tossy music, more blood and guess what - special effects! Plus some blood.
I just don't bother anymore with horror films as they just aren't.

Pulp Fiction

Finding Nemo

Thin Red Line

Memento

Usual Suspects

Shite Club

Three Kings

Lost in Translation

Schindler's List

Apocalypse Now

Seven

Sin City

Kill Bill

Million Dollar Baby

Batman Begins

Crash (2004)

Donnie Darko

Forrest Gump

etc etc etc !

Pulp Fiction
Usual Suspects

Shite Club

Batman Begins

go fuck yourselves, these are great movies!

How about saying why you think they are overrated rather than just listing them?

That would be great. Thanks. So much.

Star Wars eps 1,2,3
Who rates them in the first place for them to be overrated?

go fuck yourselves, these are great movies!

Pulp Fiction isn't a bad film - just very overrated in my opinion. I enjoyed watching it and would definately watch it again, but I don't really get why it's so hyped up. I've seen much better films than this, and Tarantino isn't as great as everyone says he is. I suppose my expectations were really high before I sat down to watch it and it didn't quite meet them.

Also I get pretty annoyed with this film because it's everyone's favourite film in my film studies class. And everyone worships Tarantino because he's so 'original'.

Pulp Fiction is a good movie, not a great one. The only great movie Tarantino has made is Reservoir Dogs.

Always thought Leon to be incredibly overrated.

Eye loikes moi lists

Of the ones Ive seen.

Memento- A good film which manages to convey the confusion of the main character and his very short memory. It was nice not to spend the first 20 mins of a film learning who everyone is and instead just taking it as it comes.

Shite Club- ho-ho, did you mean fight club? Fight Club was one of those films I didnt get round to seeing until it had been out for 4 or 5 years, a lot of friends had already said it was a must watch and I wasnt at all disapointed. Its nice to see a film that actually pokes fun at the world we live in and yet still manages to let the viewer decide what its all about.

Apocalypse Now - Bloated, but worth it.

Seven - A good enough film, but the 'twist' at the end was a little too obvious for me.

Kill Bill - 2nd best of Tarrentino's output. Starts as it means to go on, plenty of needless blood and guts. Typical of Tarrentino it had a superb soundtrack which worked really well with the film, I always think this is one of his greatest strengths.

Donnie Darko - I preffered butterfly effect, but lets not get into that argument (been there...) DD is another film where a lot of the interprutation is left up to the viewer, so if you think its crap maybe you just have a crap imagination.

Forrest Gump - Tom Hanks in a feelgood film, whats not to like.

DD is another film where a lot of the interprutation is left up to the viewer, so if you think its crap maybe you just have a crap imagination.Or......you're annoyed that the makers have made such a lazy conceit and largely avoided true commitment to ideas, themes etc.

I will admit though, that the sequence set to TFF's Head Over Heels is rather brilliantly done.

I think the fight club sound track is under-rated, the film itself is excellent, but probably still just a tiny bit over-rated.

I think "the english patient" is over rated, maybe its because its not my sort of film and didn't like it, but I got the distinct impression everyone was bigging it up because they thought they should rather than actually liking it.

Lord of the rings - lovely film - over-rated and largely badly acted. Proof that if you throw enough money at something that you can turn it round in the end.

Sin city - over-rated - ohhhh black and white, faux film noir - arn't they clever. Clive Owen? hello.

i agree that whilst pulp fiction is fantastic (was one of my favourite films as a teen) it *is* over rated, as is tarantino. when pulp fiction was made it was very original (for the mainstream) with a funky sound track and an unusual method of showing the events. now its been copied a million times (and im guessing it was copied from somewhere before hand) it has lost its sheen.

but the dialogue was sharp, the storylines interwoven well and all the parts were cast well. Motherfuckin Sam L jackson - need i say more?

memento - made people think they were dead clever cause they figured it out on the 3rd watching. this is what made it so over rated. a good movie spoiled by being just that little bit too clever/confusing for most.

sin city - as xavier said. a good comic, a good movie. stfu about it already, i watched it twice and would never watch it again.

apocalypse now - meh, was alright but i think it was a social commentary on a topic (vietnam war) that none of us can really comprehend as we werent alive then or didnt live in the states then. will people in 40 years time really understand the impact of 9/11? no, they wont.

fight club - i dont think i could over rate this movie. for the uniquness of the story, the social impact it had, the social commentary, the names, the acting, the decor, the screenplay... it was hard, it was biting, it had a twist, it had romance in an odd way... i cant think of anything i didnt like about it. its only over rated in the sense that everyone (just about) loves it.

donnie darko - good movie, good showcase for old jake, unusual story that i still cannot figure out. i still enjoyed it though. ot everything in life can be understood but can usually still be appreciated. do you really understand half of the cubist movement? or the surrealists? i dont, but i still like their work.

Star Wars eps 1,2,3
Complete waste of money effects-fest with minimal story, far far too much


Whoever rated any of them? The Phantom Menace was totally trashed by the critics.




memento - made people think they were dead clever cause they figured it out on the 3rd watching. this is what made it so over rated. a good movie spoiled by being just that little bit too clever/confusing for most.
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Memento is in my top favourite 10 movies of all time. The whole reversal thing was innovative film-making and cleverly pieced together. Awesome script, score and acting too.

Vertigo: = nice pics of San Fransisco back in the day and about two really creepy minutes at the Redwood forest. Otherwise as full of holes as a New Orleans levee.

apocalypse now - meh, was alright but i think it was a social commentary on a topic (vietnam war) that none of us can really comprehend as we werent alive then or didnt live in the states then. will people in 40 years time really understand the impact of 9/11? no, they wont.

The cinematic version is very good.. the redux version is too long.. contains all the scenes that were cut out in the first place. As a rule, I hate directors cut jobbas.

Vertigo!?! /slopes off in huff.

Okay, let's talk overrated shall we?

Death in Venice

Some the attention to detail is fantastic (even alone our tormented protagonist keeps his hands behind his back), but this is a bloated, way overlong take on a more effective novella, and the flashbacks don't really add anything either. The scene in the elevator is quite superb, mind.

Blue Velvet

“You’re not going down Lincoln now, are you?”

Alas, not far enough. Watched this t'other night and it has not aged well – the once striking balance of droll naiveté and puerile nastiness now seems oddly quaint for one, especially next to the more forceful Mullholland Drive. Luckily, Lynch, like Kubrick, has an eye for composition and unsettling editing that touches genius. But unlike Kubrick he lets the narrative trick the audience - the Dorothy/Jeffery relationship (the initial crux of the film) heads nowhere once established, sidelined for the indulgent Frank Booth freak show and some unconvincing schlock-thriller pastiche. Beautifully presented, and visually inventive (notice Laura Dern first emerging from pure shadow), but a conveniently elliptical film, and not the masterpiece of form and theme it perhaps could’ve been.

A Clockwork Orange

Again, perhaps the book was better. This is in no way bad, but it's certainly not Kubrick at his best. It's much too hobnail-booted, especially the scenes delivering the message (hey, wake up at the back), and so lacks the subtle prowess of his best. Interesting to see the warped fairytale element creep into the narrative though, something better utilised in both The Shining and Eyes Wide Shut.

I agree, "A Clockwork Orange" and "Blue Velvet" are both overrated. Still worth seeing, though. "Flawed masterpiece" an' all that. And phenominal scores for both films (Purcell through a Moog, creeeeeeeeefuckingpy).

"Casablanca" struck me as overrated when I first saw it, although it's a well-written film and Bergman is absolutley lovely. I think it strikes me as being a bit too arch for the subject matter. How cutesy was the Second World War, after all?

"American Beauty" is misogynistic shit. Oh, lookie, lookie, Annette Benning is concerned about the sofa, what a materialistic cunt. Lookie, lookie, Kevin Spacey bought a Camero, what a wild man. Balls.