Most Overrated Films

Wrong, no (nobody said you were). Pedantic, yes. But most people on this Forum are so you're not alone. Misery loves company and all that :p
 
I know newspaper magazine star ratings aren't to be taking seriously, but even though, giving the likes of "The Full Monty" 5 stars :confused:

This amaturish film has very little content and depth, and is a load of bollocks in the general sense.

I know it's been some time but one of my favourite british films has always been the excellent "Rita, Sue and Bob too", which would never of won any plaudits because the cast weren't in the accepted acting clique of the time.
 
Crash - it won the Oscar when Brokeback Mountain did not - BBM groundbreaking story of gay love by two well known actors and brilliant director Ang Lee - Hollywood played it safe, but it's BBM which will be remembered.
 
Harry Potter books are overrated enough, the films are far worse, the main cast can't act, especially that Hermione girl and you already know what's going to happen!

Lord of the Rings is pretty overrated too, well acted and all that but YAWN.

I've always found ET to be way too cheesy and actually a little boring so I would say that is very overrated too.

High School Musical, all three of them, pathetic one dimensional characters with a cheesy script and songs that come out of no where and feel unnatural. It's a horrid example of a musical.
 
Wow! William Murdoch's family post on rabroad? Class! Small world...

If you want to talk about rape of history, Pearl Harbour and Gangs of New York do a better job than Titanic.
 
I worked with people who genuinely felt this was the scariest film they had ever seen.

I couldn't work out how someone who had made it to the office could have done so without apparently ever leaving their house in their entire lives.

3 teenagers arguing in a wood is simply not scary. Brief glimpses of stuff isn't creating tension. It's just bloody annoying.
 
I do really like it, but I wouldn't go that far :eek: :D I actually didn't like it at all when I first saw it aged 17, just didn't get it, but came back to it a good few years later, and it suddenly clicked. Now it's one of my favourite films - perhaps that's a sign of senility :p

I do think though that it's one of those films that's sold to people as a hilarious comedy, which it is in a way, but it's also very bleak and despairing, none of the characters are happy and Withnail's only funny cos he's such a misanthrope. I do hate it when something's alleged to be funny and it's actually really sad - such as Muriel's Wedding and East is East, I felt conned after having seen those - not a slight on them as films, but feelgood comedies they ain't.
 
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