Most Overrated Films

Overrated films:
Citizen Kane :yawn:
Crash (just never understood the hype about that one)
PS.I Love You (awful, awful movie which was bigged up terribly)
Hairspray (again – terrible. And I actually didn’t mind HSM.)


And Harry Potter. Now… I really, really like these films. In fact I LOVE these films. But I’m still holding a grudge over the fact that Daniel bloody Radcliffe won the “British Film Award” for “Best Actor” last year over JOHNNY DEPP RAB. :mad:
 
Pulp Fiction. Maybe it's a man thing - like Jeremy Clarkson or something - but I literally fell asleep with boredom, it was that tedious. I have never been sent to sleep by any other film, ever.

Ooh yes and chime in with someone on Page 1 - anything with Woody Allen in. Self indulgent tosh and he's so ugly he's unbearable to look at on a TV screen - I can;t imagine what he'd look like on the big screen. Just boring American navel gazing.
 
I don't use smilies conventionally. I use them to be sarcastic and take the piss. When I use the :sleep: one, I'm not sleeping - I'm nodding in agreement, as if my opinion is the correct one, and the world has suddenly realised it.



Yeah, I'm with you guys on Taxi Driver and Clockwork Orange. Both very boring, and the equivalent to 20s porn where the women showed their ankles - nothing outrageous anymore.



A wise person also once said that only fools rush in. I can't help falling in love with you. :(

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It saved the franchise for me. I feared we were one movie away from teleportation technology, or human cloning. I thought Daniel Craig would make a shit Bond, but to his credit, he's convinced me. Makes sense too. Why would Britain's number one agent be a skinny bloke. He looks like actual secret service heavies look, in my opinion.



No, it's not that bad. It's just that bastard song that was played over and over again on the radio throughout '97 and '98. It was crap the first time I heard it.



I love lezza porn too. It's awesome. :)
 
I really like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. :p I just enjoyed it as a film. I think I mainly like it for Kate Winslet. :o

I agree about Garden State though. I also watched it with a friend who loved it. She grew up in the area the film is set in, but for me, "try-hard" is how I'd describe it. I thought the main character was a smug twerp as well.

I've never liked The Shawshank Redemption either. (Film version that is, I've never read the book).
 
For me........

Raging Bull
Gladiator
American Beauty
The English Patient:yawn:
The Hours (how can anyone watch that and not contemplate suicide?):eek:
most Woody Allen films
Peter Jackson's King Kong (one of the worst films ever:mad:)

I'll probably think of a few more later.
 
Haven't seen 2001 but I agree with the sentiment. I wouldn't list a film here because I personally didn't like it, only if I think it's also a poor example of its craft, or emotionally empty and masquerading as deep and meaningful (perhaps that's a bit subjective). There are lots of films that don't float my boat, but I can see that they are excellent/influential films nevertheless.
 
What films have you found to be the most overrated of all time, which everyone else seems to rave fanatical about?

I tend to have a hard time with the majority of these overhyped hollywood blockbusters. I personally find films to be a case of less is more.

Two of the ones I really still struggle to get are Silence Of The Lambs ~ so boring I fell asleep within the first half hour

And Four Weddings And A Funeral :yawn:
 
I was one of those posters who said they didn't get Withnail. The film's bad enough but the cult following :eek: I've heard people say that if they meet someone who doesn't like Withnail, then they know straight away any frienRABhip with them can only go so far :mad: I just find the film really contrived.

Spinal Tap on the other hand :D I can't even read the quotes on IMDB without crying with laughter.
 
If we all agreed, there'd be no fun in the world...you bastard. :mad:. Just kidding, ha ha ha ha.

Yeah, Forrest Gump is my favourite film of all time, but I've seen it slated by posters in here, and I've seen it on a list of the most over-rated movies of all time. Crazy. :confused:

My guess is that some people either didn't watch it in the right environment (quiet room, all in one go, given head, good mood, etc.), or that people don't like opening up.

If any man with half a heart watched that film all the way through on their own, they'd cry like a motherf-cker. People who have sexual intercourse with their mothers are notorious for crying, yeah? :cool:



I guess I liked it until Will Self destroyed it on Have I Got News For You. He said that the beginning of the film, where Hugh Grant's voiceover talks about the victims of 9/11 was a bit shit in not so many worRAB, and it then made a lot of sense to me. There's a difference between a sad movie, and emotional blackmail in movies.

Forrest Gump, for example builRAB something with you along the way, and you feel like you've invested in the characters towarRAB the end, so you really give a damn about them.

L'Amour Actuellement started off by making you either cry, or soften you up, so that you're in a caring mood right from the off, then they can do anything they like with the characters. It's a cheap trick, and I only realised it because of that pompous, sarcastic tw@ on TV. Selecta!!! :cool:



I know. It's bollocks, isn't it? I'm so glad to have found you. C'mon people - let's gather together on this one. Who else thinks Goldfinger is a load of old balls?





Don't insult the fic!!! No, I know what you're on about. I'd give Pulp Fiction a 9 out of 10. There are some boring bits, that make you want to fast forward (the restaurant, the taxi ride, Bruce Willis eating his missus), but the good parts are so damn good that it elevates the film as a whole, otherwise I'd have given it a seven.

Let's not have a go at Woody Allen for being ugly. That's not fair. Let's have a go at him for being boring, making shit films, being idolised for no reason, and most of all, for grooming his own foster daughter, then marrying her. There's enough ammo there to be getting on with without slagging someone off for something that isn't their fault.
 
Anything British in the last 10 years that the usual suspects simper and coo about during 'Newsnight Review'. The kind of stuff made with lottery money about how hard done by/dispossessed the working class/asylum seekers/ethnic minorities etc etc etc are at the mercy of the British 'system'.

It wouldn't be so bad if this type of film were not made in a style completely indistinguishable from television, or even theatre - but it just isn't cinema, so what exactly is the point of putting it on the cinema screen as opposed to just filming it for television.
 
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