Most OVER-rated Film Ever

[jaw2929]

Taking a cue from Kraxpelax, I figured I'd make a most over-rated film ever thread... And the first flick/s that come to my mind are the following:

The LOTR Flicks - All HUGE pieces of cinematic shite in my mind... Constantly robbing much more deserving movies of Academy Awards and what not, only because it's got good cinematography and based off of a beloved novel series... Fuck them!

Titanic - Won critical acclaim, and the box office numbers were fucking HUGE, this movie romanticized what was one of the worst fuckin disasters and tragedies in history....

The Godfather - While a good movie, it's by NO means "great" in my mind... Getta buncha Italians crammed into one flick and have them act as pasta-eating gangsters for 3 hours, and then *SPOILER* have the head bossman (see: "Godfather") die at the end? Eh... I've seen better...

Magnolia - Fucking garbage, this movie goes right down the toilet, thanks to it's nonsensical "symbolic" disgusting ending... All credibility that flick built up over 2 hours and 45 minutes was out the fucking window, in the last 10-15 mins... Bollocks to this piece of shite!

Anyway off the top of my head, those are the ones I think are the most over-rated.... Donnie Darko, and any of David Lynch's films get the honorable mentions....

[scottish-movie-freak]

Fargo- it seemed like the type of film I would adore but... I don't know, it just didn't work for me. Frances McDormand was good though and she thoroughly deserved her oscar.

And also...

the Shrek movies
Philadelphia
Gladiator
The Godfather

[Katsumoto]

Originally posted by Trail_Blazer
The Godfather - While a good movie, it's by NO means "great" in my mind... Getta buncha Italians crammed into one flick and have them act as pasta-eating gangsters for 3 hours, and then *SPOILER* have the head bossman (see: "Godfather") die at the end? Eh... I've seen better...

Magnolia - Fucking garbage, this movie goes right down the toilet, thanks to it's nonsensical "symbolic" disgusting ending... All credibility that flick built up over 2 hours and 45 minutes was out the fucking window, in the last 10-15 mins... Bollocks to this piece of shite!

Anyway off the top of my head, those are the ones I think are the most over-rated.... Donnie Darko, and any of David Lynch's films get the honorable mentions....

Worst. Post. Ever.

[jaw2929]

Katsumoto, the truth hurts buddy... It's true that the movies I've mentioned are most definately over-rated.... ;)

[Slim_JGE]

Originally posted by Trail_Blazer
Taking a cue from Kraxpelax, I figured I'd make a most over-rated film ever thread... And the first flick/s that come to my mind are the following:

The LOTR Flicks - All HUGE pieces of cinematic shite in my mind... Constantly robbing much more deserving movies of Academy Awards and what not, only because it's got good cinematography and based off of a beloved novel series... Fuck them!

Titanic - Won critical acclaim, and the box office numbers were fucking HUGE, this movie romanticized what was one of the worst fuckin disasters and tragedies in history....

The Godfather - While a good movie, it's by NO means "great" in my mind... Getta buncha Italians crammed into one flick and have them act as pasta-eating gangsters for 3 hours, and then *SPOILER* have the head bossman (see: "Godfather") die at the end? Eh... I've seen better...

Magnolia - Fucking garbage, this movie goes right down the toilet, thanks to it's nonsensical "symbolic" disgusting ending... All credibility that flick built up over 2 hours and 45 minutes was out the fucking window, in the last 10-15 mins... Bollocks to this piece of shite!

Anyway off the top of my head, those are the ones I think are the most over-rated.... Donnie Darko, and any of David Lynch's films get the honorable mentions....

Uuuummmm... All I can say is wow, and I'll just leave it at that.

[Mikey2Dope]

2001: A Space Odyssey
Fight Club
Raging Bull
A Beautiful Mind (good but not great)
Master & Commander: The Far Side of the World
The Thin Red Line
Ratcatcher

[morricone]

Originally posted by Mikey2Dope
2001: A Space Odyssey
Raging Bull
The Thin Red Line


To quote Dee Snider....

You're gonna burn in hell!

:D

I do however agree that Fight Club is overrated.

Overrated films:
Fight Club, Donnie Darko, Scarface (enjoyable, but overrated nonetheless), CLERKS and pretty much any Kevin Smith film, LOTR series (still enjoyable, but highly overrated), Chicago, Cabaret, The Crow, The Usual Suspects, Moulin Rouge, Forrest Gump, Titanic, Braveheart, The 6th Sense

[Joshmo]

Thin Red Line
Panic Room
The Crow
The Game

[Hannibal21]

I don't like to use the word overrated, so I'll just say that I think these films are as not as good as they are made out to be:
FORREST GUMP
BRAVEHEART
THE ENGLISH PATIENT
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS
TOM JONES
THE BLUE ANGEL
STAR WARS
FIGHT CLUB
MASTER AND COMMANDER: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD

[Cronos]

Titanic
Raging Bull
Midnight Cowboy
The English Patient
Thin Red Line
all the Harry Potter pieces of shit

[Katsumoto]

Originally posted by Trail_Blazer
Katsumoto, the truth hurts buddy... It's true that the movies I've mentioned are most definately over-rated.... ;)

Trail Blazer, the truth hurts buddy... it's true that just because you say it, doesn't mean your right

[ChemicalRomance]

Hold the fucking phone and listen.

The Lord Of The Rings. Plain and god damn simple. Why are these movies being looked at as the standard for modern cinema? And not only that, passing the Shawshank Redemption on the IMDB Top 250! They aren't real movies, it's all snazzy digital effects and fucking trees walking around. Is this what the Academy decided to award Best Picture? Hahaha, okay let me throw a 100 million dollar budget out on something and then just throw a bunch of cute little fantasy elements like little hobbits and wizards! Everybody will love this! Fuck these three movies, I will hate thse until the day I die. The Two Towers put me to fucking sleep in theaters and it gives me a god damn splitting head ache anytime someone talks about how good these movies are. Overly long, unintersting, all special effects pieces of shit.

This Lord Of The Rings shit needs to stop now. I say we just forget the three movies were ever made, I think the world of movies would be better off that way. Instead were all drooling over some stupid fucking ring these 2 characters trolly around with. FUCK THE STUPID RING, TELL SOMEONE ELSE TO TAKE IT!

Oh, uh, yeah I hate Lord Of The Rings kinda :-/.

[Carpicon]

I will agree that The Lord of the Rings were a little overrated, but I think you're all being a bit too hard on them.

The reason they are so well-respected is that Peter Jackson did what many thought was impossible. He took one of the most-loved works of fiction, one that people have an almost obsessive affection for, and long thought unfilmable and made it into three films. Not only did he make these films appealing to those who never read the books, but he made the drooling fanboy community happy as well. Very hard to do. I thought the movies were beautiful, decently cast, and adequately acted. Nothing special, but doesn't deserve all the scorn that many heap upon them.

My choice for most-overrated has to go to The Crow. Many people have elevated Brandon Lee to deity status after this, forgetting that he was, at best, a bad B-movie actor who just happened to die while making a two hour long music video.

[Donnie_Darko]

Citizen Kane... simply THE most OVER-RATED movie... EVER!!!

And yea, I'll echo the LOTR... any of'm... as being VERY overrated.

Some others...

Dr Strangelove - Boring, boring... BORING!! Kubricks worst movie ever... and yea, I'm including Eyes Wide Shut.
Casablanca - Horrible acting... sorry (actually, I'm not, but I'm being polite), but Bogey can't, and could NOT act.
Gone With The Wind - Again, like just about every film of the era, the acting is horrible. I actually really like the script/story, but it's pulled down... WAY down, by the acting.

[Rufus]

I'll settle for Citizen Cane even though it's a fine film I agree that it is a tad overrated in my book(greatest film of all time?), but I have to strongly dissagree with Dr. Strangelove, which is my favorite Kubrick film. I won't go any further on that one.

Rings trilogy are overrated.
Sideways was overrated. Good, but saw much better this year.


Shit, I'm tired and can't even think. Fuck overrated!

By the way, who's rating Panic Room, The Harry Potters, or Master and Commander anyways? Master and Commander got oscar noms but I don't remember anyone going nuts about it at all.

[jaw2929]

Originally posted by Katsumoto
Trail Blazer, the truth hurts buddy... it's true that just because you say it, doesn't mean your right

I'm not the only one who feels the way I do about the afformentioned movies.... You've got but to look around and see that I must be right to some degree ;)

[Hannibal21]

Originally posted by Donnie_Darko
Citizen Kane... simply THE most OVER-RATED movie... EVER!!!

And yea, I'll echo the LOTR... any of'm... as being VERY overrated.

Some others...

Dr Strangelove - Boring, boring... BORING!! Kubricks worst movie ever... and yea, I'm including Eyes Wide Shut.
Casablanca - Horrible acting... sorry (actually, I'm not, but I'm being polite), but Bogey can't, and could NOT act.
Gone With The Wind - Again, like just about every film of the era, the acting is horrible. I actually really like the script/story, but it's pulled down... WAY down, by the acting.

You......are going to die. ;)

[ilovemovies]

Originally posted by Hannibal21
You......are going to die. ;)

I could say the same about you concerning Forrest Gump ;)


My choices and my rating of them on a **** scale:

The Sound of Music **
West Side Story * 1/2
Hello Dolly! *
American Psycho no stars
Big Trouble in Little China no stars
The Shining **
Trainspotting *


Good movies that are overrated:

Close Encounters of the Third Kind ***
Psycho ***
Citizen Kane ***
Fargo ***
Kill Bill Volume 2 ***
The Empire Strikes Back ***
Ghandi ***

[Brando @$$ Fat]

TOOTSIE- when you think about it, of all the transvestite comedies, this one is by far the most uninteresting, piece of garbage out of all of them. I was so ashamed of Dustin Hoffman, I can't believe the Academy fucking loved it.
BRINGING UP BABY
NAPOLEON DYNAMITE
DONNIE DARKO
REQUIEM FOR A DREAM
THE ENGLISH PATIENT- Fargo was SOOOOO much better and more original.
CHICAGO


too many to name...

[brodeurnumber1]

Let's see:

Donnie Darko
The Ring
Scarface
The Maltese Falcon(good movie, but not THAT good)
Blade Runner(need to watch it again though)

[Masterbrain]

LOTR trilogy - yes, I like them, but seriously very overrated...
Psycho - truly overrated "classic".
The Ring - This piece of shit... enough said.
Halloween - great horror flick, but IMO pretty overrated.
Steven Spielberg movies - This man is truly overrated!
Titanic - my fellow schmoes has said it all...

[Toshirô]

The Lord of the Rings is the pinnacle of overrated films. I can hardly call them "films", but rather a video game that you can't play, but watch for 3 hours. Sure, it is a milestone in film history, but it's a negative one. Due to the success of these films, directors with high-budgets are going to invest in these CGI-shitfests.

There is so much CGI bullshit that Peter Jackson should have won Game of the Year instead of a fucking Oscar. Try making a real film, Peter, and quit relying on computers to craft one for you.

If these films were without blatantly taking advantage of the recent breakthroughs in technology, I may have a little more respect to offer, but as it stands, I've had enough of retards blabbing about these flaming shitfests.

[ilikehorror]

Ahem...


STAR WARS.

[sarah1980]

Originally posted by Trail_Blazer
The Godfather - While a good movie, it's by NO means "great" in my mind... Getta buncha Italians crammed into one flick and have them act as pasta-eating gangsters for 3 hours, and then *SPOILER* have the head bossman (see: "Godfather") die at the end? Eh... I've seen better...

I agree

[Sigur509]

Dr Strangelove
The Aviator
Chicago
The Sixth Sense
Master and Commander
Shrek 1 and 2

More i'm sure, these are off the top of my head.

[J3R3MY420]

STAR WARS
TITANIC

[Cronos]

West Side Story
Sound Of Music
Singing In The Rain
Lawrence Of Arabia
Fargo

[Toshirô]

I don't know what it was, but The Godfather just drew me in and held me the entire way.

[APzombie]

Moulin Rouge

why does everyone love this crap?

Lord of the Rings

Big production doesn't mean big impact, only evoked little emotion from me.

[drago25]

My top pick has to go to Star Wars.
also:
Titanic
LOTR
Scarface
Forrest Gump
Citizen Kane
Braveheart

[zeppelin]

Movies that I like, but not nearly as much as most other people seem to:
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (the other two are fantastic, but this one is just not up to par if you ask me)
The Piano
Dances with Wolves
Say Anything
The Age of Innocence
Easy Rider
A Streetcar Named Desire
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The Night of the Hunter
Blade Runner

And well-loved movies that I don't like:
Doctor Zhivago
Night of the Living Dead
Donnie Darko
Braveheart

I'm sure there's more, that's just what I can think of off the top of my head.

[bluesbrother965]

1. Singin' In The Rain
2. Scarface
3. The original version of the Thing (not really popular, but I've never seen a bad review of it. John Carpenter's is way, way better)

[shawn-o]

A Beautiful Mind
Titanic
Moulin Rouge! (Good but not Great)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Godfather Part III
THe Bourne Identity and The Bourne Supremecy

[redorblue01]

One comes to mind:
The Wizard of Oz

[B1rd_Po0p]

I absolutely love the LOTR trilogy.

I don't get the whole 'overrated' bullshit. Isn't it a matter of opinion?? Someone hears a bunch of hype because a bunch of people love a certain movie; they see it; they hate it; so they whine that it's 'overrated'. Wah. This topic is overrated.

[jeo4]

Originally posted by B1rd_Po0p
I absolutely love the LOTR trilogy.

I don't get the whole 'overrated' bullshit. Isn't it a matter of opinion?? Someone hears a bunch of hype because a bunch of people love a certain movie; they see it; they hate it; so they whine that it's 'overrated'. Wah. This topic is overrated.

I agree. It's like I see a new one of these spring up every week or two. It is a "Best/Worst/Favorites" topic and I've had my fair share of posts here, but I see the same handful of films in every one of these threads getting beaten to a pulp. It's like going into the music forum and seeing people bash on Creed continually. I can only hear so much of it before it gets old.

[markuskorpela]

Fight Club

or

The Sixth Sense

[MrScissorhands]

Taxi Driver
Goodfellas
Scarface
The Crow

[jaw2929]

Originally posted by jeo4
I agree. It's like I see a new one of these spring up every week or two. It is a "Best/Worst/Favorites" topic and I've had my fair share of posts here, but I see the same handful of films in every one of these threads getting beaten to a pulp. It's like going into the music forum and seeing people bash on Creed continually. I can only hear so much of it before it gets old.

Come on guys, nobody's holdin a gun to your head to read or participate in these threads....

[AJAX]

The bored of the rings trilogy
Saw
Magnolia

[ChemicalRomance]

Originally posted by MrScissorhands
Taxi Driver
Goodfellas
Sir I am going to have to ask you to leave immediately.

[EvilEd]

Scarface
Heat
Shrek 2
Finding Nemo
Godfather

[Trinity]

Originally posted by ilovemovies
Hello Dolly! *
Does anyone actually like that movie? I don't remember ever hearing anyone praise it. I love Streisand, so I enjoyed a couple of her numbers, but overall the movie was pretty ho-hum even for a musical nut like me.


Originally posted by Brando @$$ Fat
BRINGING UP BABY
I kinda agree with this one. Even though I enjoyed the movie a lot, its reputation is a bit much. It's not the be all end all of comedy. There's much better screwball out there, people!

And on that note, It's a Wonderful Life - a fine movie, but don't get the 'magic'. Capra's rarely been less interesting (actually, only Lost Horizon comes to mind).

Ben-Hur - want the best Roman epics? Watch Spartacus or Quo Vadis. Want the best Wyler? Watch anything but Ben-Hur.

[jeo4]

Originally posted by Trail_Blazer
Come on guys, nobody's holdin a gun to your head to read or participate in these threads....

True, which is why I've decided to rant about a few I hate, too. Why be a spoil-sport, right?? :D

THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT – Dreadful film. Poorly constructed and badly acted.

MYSTIC RIVER – I’m just dumbfounded that this film was nominated for (let alone won) any Oscars. It was horrible.

HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG - Awful doesn't even begin to describe how bad this piece of shit really is. The plot was predicatable. The ending was melodramatic and pitiful. And this got rave reviews??

MAGNOLIA - Yep...I agree with everyone else who hated this thing. Sorry, but it was moronic.

ET – To quote Garth Algar: “…sucked!” I hate this film to this day. I had never seen a merchandising blitz like this one before the 80’s. And I went with my family to see it…and it was rancid. The acting was cheesy. The ending was corny. The writing was mediocre. I just hate it.

THE HOURS - Ugh. What a piece of shit. Nicole Kidman might be the most overrated actress of our time. The whole film just depressed me.

EYES WIDE SHUT - If Stanley Kubrick is one of the most brilliant directors of our time, this film offers no proof.

SPIDERMAN - Critics universally loved it. Audiences saw it in droves. And it was just pathetic. Kirsten Dunst and Willem Dafoe were both appalling in their respective roles. Not even Toby MacGuire made this film tolerable. I can't sit through the entire film again. It's just that bad.

NATURAL BORN KILLERS - Oliver Stone made his first mistake with this film. Again, critics loved it, audiences saw it in droves, and I hated it.

REQUIEM FOR A DREAM - Drugs are bad...mmmm'kay? So is this film. Not even a double-dildo penetration featuring Jennifer Connelly could save it.

[jeo4]

Damn double-posts.

[B1rd_Po0p]

Originally posted by jeo4
Not even a double-dildo penetration featuring Jennifer Connelly could save it.

Damn, that's BAD.

[The Young Son]

The Village. I don't care what you say. This movie sucked big time. It climaxed with an anti-climax.

[B1rd_Po0p]

Originally posted by The Young Son
It climaxed with an anti-climax.

Don't you hate it when that happens?!? ;)

[Flesh Mechanic]

American Beauty
The Green Mile
21 grams
Traffic
Titanic

[jimmyjdmb]

Leon : The Professional
The Crow
Dances with Wolves
Dr. Strangelove (funny but not great funny)

[Grim H.]

Dances With Wolves. It's bland, uninteresting, and it has Kevin Costner. Seriously, Goodfellas got robbed in 1990.


CURSE YOU COSTNER!!!!

[LordSimen]

Almost every post in this thread made me cry. :(

[LordSimen]

Originally posted by Toshirô
The Lord of the Rings is the pinnacle of overrated films. I can hardly call them "films", but rather a video game that you can't play, but watch for 3 hours. Sure, it is a milestone in film history, but it's a negative one. Due to the success of these films, directors with high-budgets are going to invest in these CGI-shitfests.

There is so much CGI bullshit that Peter Jackson should have won Game of the Year instead of a fucking Oscar. Try making a real film, Peter, and quit relying on computers to craft one for you.

If these films were without blatantly taking advantage of the recent breakthroughs in technology, I may have a little more respect to offer, but as it stands, I've had enough of retards blabbing about these flaming shitfests.

Really intelligent post here.... (Sarcasm incase you can't tell.) So because he used CGI the whole movie is shit? Because he used modern technology he is shit? I hate to break it to you, buddy, but no one wants to make a movie using technology from 50 years ago. They're going to use the new stuff, everyone would. Watch the damn movies, is there a computer controlling the camera? Is there a computer telling the actors how to act? Is there a computer writing the movie? Is there a computer picking locations, building sets, teling the crew what to do?