Top 5 Over-rated movies

Fight Club is the only one that I can think of.

I can't really say why, I just didn't like it. In fact it's one of my least favourite films. I just thought it was dull. Nothing else, just boring. Although then again, I can see why people like it.
 
Agree with Pulp Fiction and Blade Runner but not King Kong.the acting is of its era and noone is jaw droppingly bad,the effects still hold up and if you don't think there is any emotion check out the ending and the look on the dying Kong's face.How about these.

The Exorcist-It takes a while to get going and not as purely entertaining as say The Omen.

Some Like It Hot-Excuse me while I don't split my sides.

E.T.-Just left me cold apart from one or two moments.

Crocodile Dundee-mildly charming but did it deerve some of the accolades?

The Old Dark House(1932)-Could have had more thrills,mostly dull apart from odd memorable line
 
The Dark Knight - a dull and overly long film which suffers even more from the critical love fest over Heath Ledger's very average performance, and Christian Bale's deathly dull acting combined with that stupid voice he puts on on when he's wearing the Batsuit.

Superman Returns - yawn. Actually, didn't quite poorly at the box office, so probably not overated at all.

A Clockwork Orange - have never understood what all the fuss was about. Being banned for 20 odd years doesn't make a bad film good.

Mamma Mia - Now the biggest selling film on DVD ever in the UK, occupying a shelf in one in four homes. Have you seen the huge number of second hand DVD copies of Mamma Mia being sold on eBay at the moment?!

Donnie Darko - Just plain, good old fashioned weird.
 
Oh thank god.

I thought I was the only person who dosent think this is automatically the greatest film of all time...

It is a good film, and in parts a vg film, but it is imo NOT a great film, a work of genius. Maybe if Orson Welles had directed it. But I found some of the scenes cinematically jarred and didnt work. I actually found the scene where Fiennes looks at himself longingly in the mirror laughable. I found some scenes worked very well, but others didnt at all.

But due to the subject, it has become a film which you cannot criticise for fear of others reading something else into your criticism. And conversely, it is a film which people almost say they love because you are somehow 'supposed to'.. It is a film I fear has lost touch with any semblance to its cinematic merits.

Like you, I found The Pianist far more moving, far more touching, far more shocking even (the man in the wheelchair scene in it shocked me far more than Fiennes shooting the inmates in 'List' for example). I find it like you, a far superior film to Schindler's List.

I think The Pianist is a masterpiece. 'List' to me is Spielberg self-indulgence.
 
Once Upon a Time in America: THE most boring thing I've ever seen, and nearly 4 hours worth of it too.

No Country for Old Men: Call me shallow, say that I didn't understand it, whatever, but you'll never convince me that the last half an hour didn't ruin it.

Donnie Darko: Vague, confusing.

Lost in Translation: Wow, I'm watching a really boring mid-life crisis.

Kill Bill Vol 2: Always thought it was a bit of a let-down compared to the first.
 
Good Will Hunting - What a boring pile of poo that was.

Forrest Gump - I have tried to watch this to the end twice so far, failed both times.

King Kong

Fight Club - Just rubbish!

Any Batman film
 
1. The Dark Knight. Can't say I didn't enjoy it, but I guess it got so much hype that you were expecting a 3 hour orgasm or something - in which case it was always going to be overrated.

2. Lord of the Rings. In general, I love fantasy books and films, but I just found this one really bland. Great, they're taking a ring to a volcano, did it really need 3 films/books to get to that stage...?

3. A.I. The critics went mental for it and it had the worst ending I've ever seen.

4. Finding Nemo. On the whole, I love the Disney-Pixar films but I just couldn't click with this one. What was it about the unoriginal storyline, bland characters, and lack of humour that people pick this one out for?

5. Notting Hill. It's hardly the most critically acclaimed film, but being of the X Chromosome myself I mix with a lot of people that bum it. A lot. What's so great about a story where a celebrity falls in love with a humble bookshop owner? Especially when it starts Spew-lia Roberts and Poo Grant?
 
1. Sin City.
WorRAB just can't sum up the hate I have for this over rated piece of poop.

2. The Dark Knight.
Heath's untimely demise caused the hype to this movie. If the poor chap hadn't died then it would not be spoken of so fondly. After all, deep down, it is just another Batman movie.

3. Braveheart.
It's inaccuracies of The Bruce's actions annoy me. This piece of rat shit Braveheart movie can burn in hell for all I care. It's a pathetic view of Scotland's history made by a bunch of disrespectful yanks [and one Aussie].

4. 28 Weeks Later.
A pile of horse poop. Inferiour in every way to the original. It is dull and dragged out. It is so good that the viewer just can't wait on The Infected turning up to liven things up. Where as in the original, we didn't need The Infected to keep us entertained, the whole ghost town vibe and survivors struggling to cope kept things going, The Infected were a bonus in the original. In the sequel they were a must to keep things going. In my eyes this movie is a yank infected bastardisation of Danny Boyle's previous work.

5. Casablanca.
It was either this movie for fifth place or Gone With the Wind. Take your pick.
 
Breakfast Club I know, I know. But the worRAB era defining and iconic are well overused. Yes it's a good film but its tinted by hashed sentimentalism when rewatched and stodgy acting in parts.

M*A*S*H I find it a bit smarmy and its not as groundbreaking as many like to claim.

Fahrenheit 9/11 Even the proudest liberal can see this hatchet job simply rode on a wave of European lead anti-Americanism. Even Bowling for Columbine can't match this crap.

Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back A hell of an ego trip, he may claim self satire but I found it unbearable

O Brother Where Art Thou? Self indulgent, patronising crap that 'must be good because its the Coen brothers'. They are good...but this is not
 
Since when were these movies ever acclaimed?
MASH was never the be-all and end-all of comedy, Fahrenhet was taken with a grain of salt and Jay and Silent was largely derided by....well....everyone.
 
1. PS I Love You- awful, awful movie. terrible unrelatable characters and a slow undriven plot. Yet it was given loaRAB of 5 star ratings -?!

2. Crash - decent enough, sure. But not as incredible as everybody makes out

3. Silence Of The Lambs - I didn't find Hannibal Lecter convincing or scary at all. But then I was expecting something incredible because of it's 5 Oscar wins.

4. Citizen Kane - same reason as OP

5. Kes - good enough film, but "the best british film of all time"?! NAH.
 
Five from me

1 Forrest Gump - Aaargh. Sentimental, nauseating gubbins.

2 Titanic - Sink the ruddy boat already! How that beat the magnificent LA Confidential is beyond me

3 Braveheart - Ahistorical, anti-English claptrap

4 Babe - A cute talking pig - please pass me the spoon so I can scoop my eyes out, and a needle to stick in my ears..

5 Any Woody Allen film - a comedy is supposed to be funny..

I can't include Mamma Mia! as I have wilfully avoided it after seeing clips on the TV - the stage show was great, but a musical neeRAB people who can (on the whole) sing

It's interesting to see peoples views - most of my favourite films have been mentioned already, but it would be a dull old world if we all liked the same thing.

However, I'm reclaiming Bladerunner (any cut), Shawshank, Nightmare Before Christmas and Lord of the Rings (up to the final 40 minutes of goodbyes) - that's a chunk of my Top 10 right there, and you're not having them...:)
 
Last time I looked, the song/poem lyrics come from Roald Dahl himself and Danny Elfman worked on them for the movie... not all from Danny Elfman. Elfman isn't a bad song writer at all.
 
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