Top 5 Over-rated movies

Titanic - I cheered when Jack sank and wished Rose would fall off the door as well by the end

Being John Malcovich (sp) - boring, took me 3 days to actually watch, the 'oh isn't this the kookiest film ever made' got old very quickly

Sleepless in Seatle - Spent the entire film wanting to punch Meg Ryan and her stupid 'wistful' look (mind you, she provokes this reaction in me most films)

Unbreakable - wish someone had broken it long before I spent, what felt like, days watching it - tedious

Shaun of the Dead - it's not bad, but it's not that funny
 
I don't know how you came to that feeling!

Overrated films that I saw due to all the fuss but saw them as a let down:

Harry Potter (All of them)
Gone with the wind
Lord of the Rings
There will be blood
The Shawshank Redemption
 
Of which case in point is Shawshank Redemption.

I'd put Pulp Fiction on the over-rated list though. It's a great movie but I doubt the film as a whole will endure as long as the Kill Bill saga for instance and certainly not as long as it's '94 rival Forrest Gump.
 
1. The Dark Knight - Batman has been de-clawed in an overly long and predicatable storyline. Ledges performance being oscar worthy is laughable.

2. Pulp Fiction - Sorry I just dont get it.

3. Starwars ANH - whist undoubtedly the beginning of a legend - the acting is hammy. Not as good as the two sequels it spawned.

4. 2001 A space Odyssey - groundbreaking effects - but the story is rambling and confusing. The sequel 2010 is actually required watching in order to figure out exactly what was going on.

5. Kill Bill - Quentin Tarrantino is one weird guy and seems to make movies simply for the sake of extreme violence.
 
Well I certainly can and the fans of the films probably can also... just because you can't doesn't make him crap :p

Adding Clerks to the overrated list, Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
 
I can't agree with that one. It was public acclamation that made"Shawshank" such a big hit on video and DVD..the critics largely ignored the movie and it flopped at the box office.
I agree with you about "Titanic"..but millions must have liked it.
 
Every film thats ever been made will have been over-rated

However, these are the 5 that take the biscuit

Titanic- One of the worst films ever in my opinion. Painful viewing.

King Kong (2005)- Again a Jackson film thats too long

Rocky- I love it but the Best Picture was unjustified

Lord of The Rings: Return of the King- Far too long

Saving Private Ryan-Great film, just a bit overdrawn out.
 
1. The matix

2. Lord of the rings

3. Rocky 1 to 1000

4. Silence of the Lambs

5. All the Terrantino movies

Its all personal choice though, some of the movies that people have listed as their top 5 over hyped filmes are amongst my most loved.
 
Requiem for a Dream - I think I was supposed to find this "deep" and "harrowing" - but it was shallow and ugly. The ending is the most unsophisticated attempt to move an audience I've ever seen; like a cartoonishly bleak "drugs are bad & will ruin your life!" advert. Possibly aimed at people who like sitting in dark rooms reading books like "American Psycho"?

Fight Club - Another one I think I was supposed to find deep & challenging - but ended up finding it juvenile & silly; a powerful & dangerous underground organisation forms because a bunch of grown men are so damn angry! about their day-to-day lives that they have to get together and beat each other up regularly. Hmm.

Hero - Chinese cultural fetishist Zhang Yimou pounRAB out a couple of hours of scenic views, martial arts, cool costumes & pretty colours. Slow, shallow, boring - American translation was pretty hideous, too. (Could also apply this to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon & House of Flying Daggers.)

The Godfather - Eh. I just don't get it. I was just bored by everything about it - the characters & the plot didn't grab me at all.

Gladiator - Bloody hell. How on earth did the Oscars give this so many awarRAB? Most of the time Crowe just had to look mean and sound gruff - apart from that scene where he revisits his pillaged home. Surely Javier Bardem or Geoffrey Rush should have taken the award that year.
 
I'm completely with you on Goodfellas. Decent movie but a classic? No way.
King Kong is another matter. It's obviously going to look rubbish now, it's 70 years old! For it's time it was amazing, a real landmark in cinema. It was still affecting people back in the 60s...it's the reason Peter Jackson went into film making.

Taxi Driver is grossly overrated imo. I found De Niro's character more of a socially-inept nob than some psychopath.

A Clockwork Orange is another one. Bunch of men old enough to know better dressing the same and talking in the most childish and annoying palare I've had the misfortune of hearing is not entertainment.

And finally let's really throw the cat amongst the pigeons and go for Life Of Brian. There seems to be some really annoying law in this country that Monty Python are above criticism. It's an ok comedy, but I didn't find it laugh-out-loud funny at all. Much prefer Holy Grail.

Rant over. :p
 
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
Had the misfortune to sit through this long and rambling crap where nothing actually happens (especially during the 5 minute psychadelic sequence) once. Never again.

2. Apocalypse Now
Ok, so the first bit of the film is quite promising and the "Ride of the Valkyries" scene is fun, but seriously: how can people rate this film at all, let alone as the best war film ever made. It's confusing, it's boring, it's long and nothing much really happens (see 2001: A Space Odyssey).

3. Lost In Translation
A comedy you say? Seriously? It's boring, long and nothing much really happens (see Apocalypse Now).

4. Bourne 1,2,3
Woo, look at my cool special effects. And nothing else.

The Godfather
See 2001: A Space Odyssey.
 
I dont think De Niro's character was supposed to be a psychopath in "Taxi Driver"..that's what made it interesting.
He was observing life from his cab. He wanted to believe there was some good out there, something different to the filth he could see all around him. I thought it was very interesting and strangely moving..the terrific musical score helped.
 
i have to say that i do not agree with the comments about the blair witch project, i personally think it is a great film...everybody know's it's not real, that's fair enough but if you put that to one side and pretend that it is then it's a really enjoyable film, if you take it too serious then you are just not going to see the whole point of the film. The point is to use your imagination and take it more as a documentary that a mockery.
 
1. The Godfather
2. American Beauty
3. Meet the Fockers
4. Lord of the Rings Trilogy
5. Chicago

This is just my opinion. I've seen these films, deciding to check them out to see what the big deal was, and at worst I was bored rigid, at best I just couldn't understand what I was supposed to love so much. But different strokes for different folks.
 
Lost in Translation. Complete and utter bollocks! Miserable old bloke goes to Japan and meets miserable young girl. They go out and about, talk abit and not much else.

Apocolypse Now. What the hell was that all about?

Dances with Wolves. Self indulgent shite from Kevin Cockner!

Braveheart. They fought like "warrior poets" - apparently! A load of ole cobblers.

The Dark Knight. Decidedly average film. Overhyped by the sad death of Heath Ledger.
 
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