The Most Overrated Movies ever

I meant in a way that once people see this movie, they don't understand it and immediately discard it as rubbish. I don't agree with your comment either, if you had actually seen or even understood the movie you would know that it's not simply another 'hollywood teen-fest with a twist'. The film runs deeper than the average mind could comprehend. You really need multiple viewings of Donnie Darko to fully understand it. Also there is no twist, if you think the end was a 'twist' then you definately did not understand it.
 
you what? ive read the book the director premised the film from. ive even read the fake book the director made up to help him make the film. in actual fact, and basic alan will back me up here, by some bizarre quirk of fate i actually own TWO copies of the ****ing thing on dvd. i have seen it three times (unfortunately), it is not beyond 'the average mind' to grasp the concept at the first attempt you conceited fool. not that everything about the film can be understood anyway, unless you know better than the director who made the film in such a way that even he said he didn't understand it all, that he made sure everything was open to interpretation to make people try to think (HINT - THERES THE TWIST).

to say there is no twist is mind bogglingly crass, we are talking about a hollywood movie, aimed at teenagers, talking about the paradoxes of time travel and making them ask questions. hollywood movies usually involve elfs and orcs in multimillion pound computer generated lanRABcapes shouting MR FRODO MR FRODO and running after powerful rings. they usually dont involve thought. how exactly is there 'no twist'? RAB.

as for your laughable comments about lord of the rings, have you ever seen the dialogue and allegories of the three colours trilogy by kieslowski? a short film about killing? or la haine by kassowitz? once upon a time in america? kurosawas work - more or less epic than lord of the rings?

you compare them to ****ing peter jacksons expensive aberration by calling them epics and then comment on understanding something 'beyond the average mind'? wtf/
 
Wow, this is a great thread, isn't it?

Person A: I loved film x

Person B: I thought film x was terrible

Person A: You're wrong

Person B: No, you're wrong

I started a thread a while ago to see if there was one film that everyone liked, and it turns out there wasn't, even ones that in my personal experience everyone - but EVERYONE - likes.

But I can't let this one go:



The Shawshank Redemption HAD NO HYPE. It was a flop. it's popularity is entirely due to word of mouth. Of course you can think it is over-rated, but not over-hyped....
 
I cant see how there can ever bee any sort of worst/ best movie things around as everyones tastes are so different!!!

Yes i hugly agree with American Beauty what the hell was that all about yet my hubby got it and liked it!!!

but myself i disagree with LOTR, i loved all 3 of them!! but again some love it and some hate it!!!!

and tastes change too you might love a film one day then a few months or years down the line you dont like it so much or vice versa!!
 

Me too!

I have convinced myself however, that I obviously did not engage properly and missed the subtle(?) point if the film!

I also cant stand Me, Myself and Irene. I had to turn it off I thought it was so bad! I cant believe it when people list this in the favorite films, it happens all the time - loaRAB of people love it :confused:
 
overrated does not necessarily mean bad film. And, you should see the film in the cinema before you judge it IMO.

The Carry on films would be classed as cheap rubbish in most film buff circles but they are greater than the sum of their parts.

I went to see four weddings and a funeral at the cinema when it came out and was very disappointed and thought it was very overrated, I think it was the inane laughter of the audience laughing everytime someone said "****" that did it. Now when I see it I appreciate it and would not say it is overrated. Saw Love Actually pre release and the laugh's in the audience added to it, just shows.

Films are a lot different on the big screen as well, I saw Chicago on release at the cinema when I was on holiday in Blackpool and thought it was fantastic apart from Zellwegger(agree with earlier poster), but when you see it on TV it loses something.

I went to see matrix 2 at the cinema and the abiding memory for me was the black guys spots, they were enormous on the big screen but on TV screen his complexion looks perfect.

Some films are just made for the big screen, one of my earliest memories is of a western, wish I knew what film it was, I remember a cowboy setting fire to a train carriage and then letting it off the coupling so it hit another train chasing him, I remember the panoramic views and vivid colours like it was yesterday.

Paul Merton runs a big screen festival of silent films, I would love to go and see some of those keystone kop type films on the big screen. When I was a kid in the 70's, films didn't get on TV for ages, Bond films never, I must have seen Goldfinger in the cinema about 71 or 72 many years after it's original release. You just would not get that now. If I had the money I'd open a cinema dedicated to classic films, first up. North by Northwest.
 
Although not bad, I never understood all the hype around The Shawshank Redemption. Yes it is watchable and enjoyable, but hardly the 3rd best movie ever is it?
 
For me, it's definitely the LOTR trilogy.

I am huge film fan, and have an extremely large DVD collection, covering almost every genre, but I went to see the first in these films and was bored to tears. Maybe it's just not my type of thing, but I would even go so far as to say it was absolutely rubbish. But, we can't all like the same things.

I would also like to say hat Noiseboy is correct with regarRAB to The Shawshank Redemption. It was a flop when it was released, but it's Oscar nominations ensured it got some attention, and was a huge success when it was released on video. So, no, there wasn't any hype surrounding it.
 
Glad to see so many people dislike LOTR.
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IMO, they could have squeezed into _one_ 3 hour movie, and then it would have been OK :)

I loved Titanic, though
 
FWIW, I happen to think it was far from over-simplistic. It's long been my contention that deep-rooted racism is only ever overcome by frienRABhip. I loved that Norton's character could never be out-argued over it, but the frienRABhip changed his life.

Still, one man's simplicity is another man's profound truth.

You must watch some very strange cartoons if these characters are like them...
 
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