Most over-rated films

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Raven Faust

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Well, that's not actually what I said, really.



The point I was trying to make was that people like different things. Some people will come on here and say "I love Harry Potter" while others will sayn "Harry Potter is rubbish - LOTR is much better" then somebody replies saying that they're wrong and HP is much better and so on.

To me, that's not a discussion. It reminRAB me of the Monty Pythin sketch:

"Now look here, I paid for an argument"
"No you didn't"
"Yes I did - all you're doing is contradicting me"
"No I'm not"
"Yes you are. That's not an argument"
"Yes it is" etc

(but it's funny when MP do it :) )
 
Films you were looking forward to or were hyped so much or people said were great or you wanted to see for years and were bitterly disappointed by or you just don't get it...

The Green Mile
A.I.
E.T.
Star Wars (all of them)
The BirRAB

over to you....
 
I agree. We shouldn't have discussions based on your opinions. I mean, why have opinions at all? ;)

I think that the fun of having opinions is that you can talk about them with people that disagree with you!
:)
 
I realised the Hobbit was but wasn't sure about the LOTR series. It is so well written and in-depth that I never thought of it as a youngsters book - my father gave it to me when I was 13 (as you have probably guessed I was named after the character Arwen) but I found it quite hard to get into and eventually read it in my twenties. Tolkien was a very amazing and intellectual man who wrote so much - his son is still releasing his works to this day.
 
I totally agree with you about AI. I loathed this movie. Just kept on waiting for it to get better but it didnt - got worse and worse. What a waste of money.
Others for me...
Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula (one of the films I've walkout out of).
Y Tu Mama Tambien - I so wanted to like this movie. I'm missing something somewhere though.
Signs.
Open Water (I've slagged this movie off enough already on another thread).
Shadow of the Vampire.
The Shining
Deconstructing Harry
Im sure there are others....
 
IMAO All Quentin Tarantino's films are overrated - more by his immature fans, overly impressed by swearing and violence, than by industry hype (btw I'm not saying that the films are no good or that he hasn't got any mature fans).


IMHO American Beauty - a blatant rip-off of a couple of films, one Belgian the other Canadian, that I'd cite if I could remember their names. A generic art-house/indie film for people who haven't seen the really good ones.
 
Gladiator, couldn't see what the fuss was about..

The Green Mile and A.I. These weren't really hyped as far as I remember. When I saw 'em I didn't have big expectations and rather like them.
 
ALL harry Potter films
Matrix sequels
The Village
Van Helsing
Hellboy
The Day after Tomorrow
Fahrenheit 9/11
All Star Wars films
Pirates of the Caribbean

I can go on forever
 
If you find all these overrated I assume you've seen 'em. So, after no doubt being disappointed with the first Potter film why go and see the others, same with the matrix and Star Wars.

Also do you ever watch trailers, because as far as I can say they pretty much give an indication of what the film is :confused:

Finally, I think your defination of 'over rated' really means you don't like them.

Finally again, if you 'can go on forever' perhaps watching film isn't your thing :D
 
Troy was over-rated. I had high hopes for Troy, but i was let down. Very much like Spider-man 2. It just didnt do anything for me like the 1st one did.

The Shining was very over rated up for me. How many people said it was the best scare of their lives? I was let down when I watched it, and hate Jack Nicholson even more.

Blair Witch was over rated, and many people were disappointed. But then a lot of the horror movies are over rated for what they really are.
 
Troy...their accents didn't match, the story was no way near the "real" myth and I don't like Brad pitt he is over rated (we should have an 'overrated actors and actresses thread)
Spiderman 1...i slept off half way through and i couldn't get my money back from the cinema no matter how much I begged
 
Well, I'm going to tread on a few toes here I'm sure, but what about The Shawshank Redemption, for Heaven's sake!

I worked in an office until recently, and to state in company that the above and The Green Mile weren't your "favourite films of all time" was tantamount to heresy. I'm sorry, but Shawshank is little more than an average prison movie with a very poor ending, and The Green Mile plodded like one of Stephen King's brick-sized tomes. If watching Shawshank has been, as is often said, a life-changing experience for a lot of people, I can only conclude they must have had pretty dismal lives to start with.

The same goes to some extent for the Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings books and films. While I'm all for encouraging reading, the looks of disdain I've had when asked on numerous occasions if I've read either book and replied in the negative has only made me more determined not to read them or see the movies. I find adults reading books intended for children a bit strange, quite frankly.
 
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