Top 5 Over-rated movies

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On the back of the Citizen Kane thread, what are your Top 5 over-rated movies?

They don't have to be movies that you hate just movies that have much more critical acclaim than you feel they deserve.

Here's my Top 5 in no particular order.

Dr Strangelove
- This piece of Kubrick quirk was certainly amusing in parts, confusing in others and downright unfunny in a good many others. But one of the greatest films of all time? Surely not.

Citizen Kane
- An great acheivement from Orson Welles and pioneering in it's social comment but this movie really did drag.

Goodfellas
- Is there anything that sets this apart from being 'just another gangster movie'? Joe Pesci says f*** a lot, De Niro phones it in and Ray Liotta gives a performance of gross indifference. The movie was good but seemed like little more than an excuse to have a big Italian/American actors party. Partner it with a The Departed and you've got a nice double feature.

Lawrence of Arabia
- A fine performance by Peter O'Toole, but this is one of the most boring films I've ever seen. The wide camera lanRABcape shots were certainly very impressive, but a lack of motivation and strong narrative made it a task and a half to sit through.

King Kong (1933)
- Crap acting and a crap monster. A shame that Peter Jackson's version was 30 minutes too long, but at least he brought some emotion to it.
 
Gregory's Girl

Another often tagged as the greatest British film of all time. "Ooh, isn't the chap in the penguin suit walking around all the time so abstract and rib tickling?" Um, no. It's a mediocre love story with unnatractive people in it. Apart from the young Grogan. And besides, any film about football just has to be slightly carp. It's the law.
 
Top Gun - Maybe not critically acclaimed but a huge box office success - just hated it - maybe you have to be a guy to appreciate it.

Titanic - couldn't wait for the iceberg to hit. Absurd sub plot as if the ship sinking wasn't enough for the MTV generation :rolleyes:

East is East - and any other film that looks as though it's been made for TV, so that would include My Beautiful Launderette and Mona Lisa too.

American Beauty - Highly overrated - predictable stereo typical characters. A bit of a waste of Kevin Spacey who I really rate as an actor.

Brokeback Mountain- started to watch it but got about halfway through and had to give up. Just too slow.
 
Only 3 spring to mind:

The Dark Knight
Not a bad film, it's solid enough but the media make it sound like the best movie ever made. Heck, it wasn't even the best movie of 2008 in my opinion. Had Heath Ledger not tragically died I'm not sure this film would have been as hyped up as it eventually was. It has a good overarching story but it's full of padding in the middle.

The Nightmare Before Christmas
I watched this for the first time over Christmas and it was a struggle, yet it's always given 5 out of 5 in reviews. They obviously see something I don't.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
The first 3 Potter films were so similar, only seperated by one or two plotlines.
 
Gangs of New York ~ Awful film, But throw in some Daniel Day Lewis's over acting and the name Scorcese and the critics go into overdrive hyping it up.

Love Actually ~ Probably the most boring film i've ever seen, I'm sure the only reason richard curtis gets away with it is because he's british, The man shouldn't be allowed to make anymore films.

Braveheart~ Should be renamed, Mel Gibson's a massive C**T, He does a great job of butchering the history of our island for the sole purpose of pleasing the uninformed morons who hate to think they have any English blood or heritage.

The Passion of the Christ~ A deeply ugly film, Like a propaganda film for radical christians. Here's a good article by Christopher Hitchens about it http://www.slate.com/id/2096323/

Lost in Translation ~ I really like both Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson, But i thought it was a boring film that dragged on.
 
This thread is becoming absurd.
Just saying a movie is a load of crap is hardly constructive criticism.
We have just about mentioned most of the great movies ever made and dismissed them with one-liners..its meaningless.

Battleship Potemkin..what a load of rubbish, even the sound track doesn't work.
 
One film springs to my mind immediately whenever this question comes up:

Lost in Translation

Stop feeling sorry for yourselves you self-analytical morons! Whoever wrote this steaming pile of crap deserves a slap, not an oscar!........Oh.
 
***StanRAB up and applauRAB***

spot on - I'm glad I'm not the only one of that opinion. For that reason it's top of my list as well, followed by:

2. The Talented Mr Ripley: Self-indulgent load of tosh
3. Close Encounters of the Third Kind: A couple of hours of people gawping up at the sky :yawn:
4. Titanic: I so wanted to love it, but it bored me to tears with it's overlong schmaltzy lurrve story
5. The Blair Witch Project: What the hell was the ending all about? Went even further down in my estimation when I saw that girl in an old TV commercial on "Before they were famous" or something of that ilk - hello? I thought those were real people, not actors? :o:o
 
I'll agree with Dr Strangelove and Citizen Kane.

The Godfather
- Not a bad film, but nothing special. Comical performance from Brando.

Bored of the Rings
- God it's so long and dull. Why was there so much hype around these films? It's just a bunch of one-dimensional characters stumbling from one bad special effects laden event to another.

Blade Runner
- "Drab" is the best description. Only really notable for introducing the concept of the "Director's cut" - a marketing man's wet dream. Was Deckard really a replicant? Well Harrison Ford's acting didn't suggest any kind of humanity in the character, and Ridley Scott's direction is certainly soul-less.;)
 
Films I will avoid whilst I am still living and breathing......

The English Patient-It won a truckload of Oscars but was the most mind numbingly tedious film ever.You would have to tie me up,cut off my eyeliRAB,and shoot me up with 1000cc of Morphine to force me to watch that s*** again.:mad:

The Hours-All of the above,but it's even more slow and depressing,if that's possible.:eek:It's probably the most depressing film I've ever seen.If you are feeling borderline suicidal,do not watch this film because it will tip you over the edge for sure.

American Beauty-Kevin Spacey was actually very good and well worthy of an Oscar,but the film itself was empty,tedious,superficial,over rated bullsiht.:yawn:

Gladiator-I couldn't see what the fuss was all about.Russell Crowe was stone cold emotionless throughout,yet he was still nominated for an Oscar.He had about as much charisma as Daniel Craig on a bad day...I thought the special effects weren't special at all,and the lame Hollywoodized ending really sucked.As far as I'm concerned,Ridley Scott may as well have stopped making movies after Blade Runner because nothing else has ever even come close to living up to that standard.

Sex,Lies,And Videotape-One of the catchiest and most borrowed titles ever,but at the end of the day it was just a seriously boring Yuppie arthouse flick.:sleep:

I also can not get into most things by the likes Martin Scorcese or Tom Hanks,and English costume dramas make me want to scream.
 
1) Top Gun - I'm a guy, and I think it's shite, but then again, I do believe Tom Cruise is the spawn of Satan.

2) Titanic - It's not as bad as that, Shirley? :confused: The Celine Dion song is what ruins it for me.

3) East Is East - I'm mixed race, so any films about mixed race families became essential viewing in my house when I was younger. My dad said it was his favourite comedy, and I thought it was average dross.

4) American Beauty - I think it's a really good film. There are some golden comedy moments in it, as well as terrific drama, and overall great acting. Spacey was terrific, and was not wasted in this film (well, he was wasted outside, smoking a joint! :D ).

5) Brokeback Mountain - How and why is this film so popular? I'll tell you why. Because America is still 100 years behind Europe on understanding homosexuality. To the US, this is a groundbreaker. To me, it was boring, boring, boring. I could hardly understand a thing Heath Ledger said for the duration of the film, the mumbling sod.



Well, then, you're a sucker. I can't believe so many people thought they were real people, and that this was genuine footage. The hype before this movie came out was incredible. Once you discount the credibility of the film-makers, it becomes the least scariest film ever, and one of the most boring.
 
That's a great shout, Chief Wahoo. Hugely overrated film. I'm a fan of Crowe (thought he was superb in Beautiful Mind) but yes, he was as wooden as Pinocchio's dick in this.
 
I would like to nominate
Titanic
Sideways
The Dark Knight
Lost in Translation
Another Bill Murray film whose name escapes me involving a submarine, it was dire
 
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