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VictimOfChanges
12-23-2005, 03:59 PM
I would say War Of The Worlds.
Without a motherfuckin' doubt!
the_sneaker
12-23-2005, 06:21 PM
Here are some that I saw that were just so overrated and I couldn't understand why:
The Constant Gardner. It looked awesome, but it put me to sleep. It was so goddamn boring.
Syrianna. I'm sorry, but this was just too typical, but it doesn't surprise me that everyone in Hollywood is having wet dreams over it.
SpacePuppet
12-23-2005, 07:08 PM
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Sin City
Way too much praise.
ilovemovies
12-23-2005, 07:46 PM
The Aristocrats
Pride & Prejudice
King Kong
Good Night and Good Luck
Broken Flowers
The Constant Gardener
A History of Violence
High Tension
The Devil's Rejects
Hustle & Flow
Most of those are good movies but are, IMO, overpraised.
And I put The Devil's Rejects but it's really overrated on these boards. Everyone else seemed to not like it but it's DEFINATELY overrated on these boards!
brodeurnumber1
12-23-2005, 07:49 PM
War of the Worlds easily. It just did nothing for me. The Interpreter is not too far behind.
Hannibal21
12-23-2005, 09:37 PM
I DON'T SEE THE PRAISE BEHIND:
A History of Violence
Crash
Kevin Smith fan
12-23-2005, 11:09 PM
HIGH TENSION
modern horror classic my ass! for something to be a classic it has to show us something we've never seen before and most certainly wont forget...the only reason i haven't forgot this film is becuase how dissapointed the ending made me
40 YEAR OLD VIRGIN
alright, i could stand to watch anchorman, even though that was only about half as funny as praised...but this was just NOT FUNNY. i love steve carrell, and was suprised even he could not save this stale one note joke.
TylerDurden182
12-24-2005, 12:40 AM
Star Wars Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith.
jolanar
12-24-2005, 12:41 AM
King Kong.
dannywalker17
12-24-2005, 02:23 AM
Top 10 Most Overrated Movies of 2005:
1. Sin City
2. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
3. A History of Violence
4. Tim Burton's Corpse Bride
5. King Kong
6. The 40 Year Old Virgin
7. Cinderella Man
8. Jarhead
9. The Jacket
10. Saw II
Lazy Boy
12-24-2005, 02:39 AM
Batman Begins
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
Syriana
Me and You and Everyone We Know
Sin City
The Fantastic Four (in terms of "oh look, it broke the box office slump," it was really not worthy of that title)
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1/5
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2/5
Sigur509
12-24-2005, 02:24 PM
Originally posted by Lazy Boy
Me and You and Everyone We Know
Really? I could count on my hand the number of people I've heard raving about this film.
As for me, Star Wars. Good movie, but not that good.
Lazy Boy
12-24-2005, 04:31 PM
Originally posted by Sigur509
Really? I could count on my hand the number of people I've heard raving about this film.
I'm speaking mostly of the critical reaction.
Addi88
12-24-2005, 06:53 PM
Star Wars Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith
Constantine
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Wedding Crashers (it wasn't all that great. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills)
Layer Cake
and Ong Bak.......but just a little bit. It was a good watch but I didn't blow my load over it.
sarah1980
12-24-2005, 07:29 PM
Originally posted by Addi88
Constantine
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
i so agree
NightStalkerGtx
12-24-2005, 08:15 PM
KING KONG
jaw2929
12-24-2005, 08:40 PM
Originally posted by SpacePuppet
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Sin City
Way too much praise.
BINGO!
FilmBuff84
12-25-2005, 06:21 AM
Revenge of the Sith
It was a 7/10 from me, but it doesn't deserve all it's praise, and I am boggled at people I have heard say Ian McDiarmind desevre some sort of Award for his performance. The only thing he deserves is a Razzie.
Bogey93'
12-25-2005, 08:17 AM
Wallace & Gromit/ Harry potter and the goblet of fire
Those are two fine examples of overrated. They were both quite good but a 7/10 I'd give them. Don't know why everyone loved them so so much. Just don't * Scratches head *
FilmKing2000
12-27-2005, 11:52 AM
Sin City (even though it was visually amazing) and Wedding Crashers.
mreeez
12-27-2005, 11:32 PM
Oldboy
Mr. Fancy Pants
12-28-2005, 02:41 AM
March of the Penguins
Tagia_Romero
12-28-2005, 03:04 AM
SIN CITY
I enjoyed the Hell out of it tremendously and adored it, but all that hype beforehand was rather dick-sucky.
Sh8dy Milkman
12-29-2005, 01:21 AM
Originally posted by TylerDurden182
Star Wars Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith.
Well Said. Serenity Destroys each and every one of the Star Wars prequals.
Oldboy
umm what? This movie kicks all kinds of ass, and I dont know anyone thats even seen this movie, let alone praises it.
O..and War of the Worlds just plain sucks. Its a perfect example of a movie with a huge budget and nothing else.
Cyd V
12-29-2005, 04:03 PM
Without a doubt:
Sin City and Batman Begins, I was looking forward to both and they both where garbage in my opinion. Sin City just seemed pointless and its effects was pretty bad as was the acting, BB was boring, the dialog was bad (did George Lucas write it?) and they tried too hard to make it real, which I felt made the flick look rather lifeless...
urbanlegend23
12-29-2005, 04:12 PM
Originally posted by Cyd V
Without a doubt:
Sin City and Batman Begins, I was looking forward to both and they both where garbage in my opinion. Sin City just seemed pointless and its effects was pretty bad as was the acting, BB was boring, the dialog was bad (did George Lucas write it?) and they tried too hard to make it real, which I felt made the flick look rather lifeless...
Here here! :cool:
I would also have to say I find The Upside Of Anger, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrorbe, Cinderella Man, The Constant Gardener and Tim Burton's Corpse Bride all very overrated!
Sh8dy Milkman
12-29-2005, 04:18 PM
Sin City just seemed pointless and its effects was pretty bad as was the acting
The only poor performance in Sin City was Jessica Alba, and we all know that she was just there to look at. Brittany Murphey's accent was kind of annoying too, other than that Sin City was a great movie.
BB was boring, the dialog was bad (did George Lucas write it?) and they tried too hard to make it real
Umm..did we watch the same movie? Making films believable, and realistic is an accomplishment, not a flaw.
zombievictim
12-29-2005, 04:19 PM
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
An ok movie but WAAAAAAAY overrated to say the least.
urbanlegend23
12-29-2005, 04:22 PM
I hated Mickey Rourke's performance in Sin City. He was a royal pain in the ass. I couldn't count on my fingers and toes the number of times he said the name "Goldy", and he was never convincing in his role. Clive Owen's American accent just didn't feel right to me either. He should've just been played by an American actor, the same way Rachel Weisz's character in Constantine should've been. Jessica Alba was average. I liked Brittany Murphy, Benicio Del Toro, Bruce Willis and Alexis Bledel a lot though.
My main beef with Batman Begins was that I found it boring and mostly uninteresting, it just never seemed to get off the ground to me.
Brando @$$ Fat
12-29-2005, 04:54 PM
BATMAN BEGINS
Honorable Mention: King Kong, A History of Violence, Hustle and Flow, Revenge of the Sith, and War of the Worlds.
Sheriff Wydell
12-30-2005, 03:38 AM
Originally posted by ilovemovies
The Aristocrats
Pride & Prejudice
King Kong
Good Night and Good Luck
Broken Flowers
The Constant Gardener
A History of Violence
High Tension
The Devil's Rejects
Hustle & Flow
Most of those are good movies but are, IMO, overpraised.
And I put The Devil's Rejects but it's really overrated on these boards. Everyone else seemed to not like it but it's DEFINATELY overrated on these boards!
How the hell can you have Devil's Rejects, which was noted as a work of crap, yet it was a masterpiece on that list yet you don't have Sin City? Christ.
That's the most over-rated film of '05. All I here about is how good the 'tography ( visual) is. When clearly it doesn't compare to Devil's Rejects. What was so special about usage of classic film noir style? Nothing.
As for Devil's Rejects on these forums? You may be right.
The only poor performance in Sin City was Jessica Alba, and we all know that she was just there to look at. Brittany Murphey's accent was kind of annoying too, other than that Sin City was a great movie.
The question you should be answering is: What was the only good performance in Sin City? Well, it had only two. Talking about an ensemble cast; the film only had two good performances. Rourke and Willis. Other than that the film was a complete mess.
AngelDust06
12-30-2005, 09:51 AM
Mr. and Mrs. Smith
The Island
War of the Worlds
Charlie and the Choc. Factory
Cyd V
12-30-2005, 11:54 AM
Originally posted by Sh8dy Milkman
The only poor performance in Sin City was Jessica Alba, and we all know that she was just there to look at. Brittany Murphey's accent was kind of annoying too, other than that Sin City was a great movie.
Umm..did we watch the same movie? Making films believable, and realistic is an accomplishment, not a flaw.
Hey I liked Jesica Alba in it, the main problem was everyone was trying to hard to act like they were in a film noir flick which made their accents and acting seem a bit staged. Madsen was just brutal, Rourke and Willis were alright though...
As for Batman, I don't think realism belongs in that type of flick, I don't want to hear that much of his backstory. I'm just not a fan of exposition...
lunatic
12-30-2005, 01:53 PM
My two cents:
From the scoundrel George Clooney: "Good Night..."
Sh8dy Milkman
12-30-2005, 06:29 PM
I don't want to hear that much of his backstory.
What did you think you were going to be "hearing" about in a movie entitled Batman Begins ?
Rated R
12-30-2005, 06:43 PM
Why wasn't there this much negative opinion of Sin City when it was released? Seems to me that only now are there more and more people hating it.
Me, loved it, most fun I've had at the cinema since Kill Bill. It is what it is and Madsen didn't even bug me like he did the rest of ya. It is my number one of the year and is somewhere in my top 30 ever.
As far as the topic at hand is concerned: Crash, as I seem to be one of the only ones that doesn't like it at all...is there something wrong with me? I feel like an out cast.
Mr.HyDe807
12-30-2005, 09:11 PM
Batman Begins- I enjoy how they did the storyline, but the fight were very constricted and just alright in my opinion.
ilovemovies
12-30-2005, 09:15 PM
Originally posted by Sheriff Wydell
How the hell can you have Devil's Rejects, which was noted as a work of crap, yet it was a masterpiece on that list yet you don't have Sin City? Christ.
That's the most over-rated film of '05. All I here about is how good the 'tography ( visual) is. When clearly it doesn't compare to Devil's Rejects. What was so special about usage of classic film noir style? Nothing.
As for Devil's Rejects on these forums? You may be right.
The question you should be answering is: What was the only good performance in Sin City? Well, it had only two. Talking about an ensemble cast; the film only had two good performances. Rourke and Willis. Other than that the film was a complete mess.
Wait, are saying that you think the Devil's Rejects is way better than Sin City? Because if you are then I couldn't disagree with you more. Sin City is superior to The Devil's Rejects is EVERY way possible! EVERYTHING about Sin City is WAY better than The Devil's Rejects. The writing, the acting (most definately the acting), the overall production value. Sin City had characters worth rooting for whereas in The Devil's Rejects, it makes the biggest miscalculation ever by asking us to sympathize with some of the most loathesome, vile, despicable, cruel, heartless, coldblooded characters to ever be created. Even the one character in the movie we sympathized with (besides the killer's victims), which is the cheriff, ends up turning into a twisted, psychotic nutcase! The last third of the Devil's Rejects is truly terrible, especially the ending!
Sin City is one of the most entertaining movies of the year. Whereas The Devil's Rejects is for sure, one of the absolute worst of the year.
And only Willis and Rourke are good? Clive Owen is also great. Actually, I think just about everyone in this movie is good. Even Jessica Alba, which a lot of people say she's not good, but I like her performance in this movie. She fits her character well.
Hannibal21
12-30-2005, 09:20 PM
Originally posted by Rated R
As far as the topic at hand is concerned: Crash, as I seem to be one of the only ones that doesn't like it at all...is there something wrong with me? I feel like an out cast.
Most certainly not. I didn't care for Crash when I first saw it and afterwards I can only dislike it the more I think about it. The only thing that saved the film from being a complete trainwreck is the stellar acting (Howard, Dillon, Newton, and Bullock are especially amazing).
Rated R
12-30-2005, 10:00 PM
Originally posted by Hannibal21
Most certainly not. I didn't care for Crash when I first saw it and afterwards I can only dislike it the more I think about it. The only thing that saved the film from being a complete trainwreck is the stellar acting (Howard, Dillon, Newton, and Bullock are especially amazing).
I'll agree with that except for Bullock, I thought she herself thought it was a miracle she got hired for such an actor's playground of a film. My problem with Crash is that it wanted to be a special movie but only beat around the bush and never really broke the surface of racism in everyday society. I know it's there, I see it every day anyway so this movie did nothing for me other than state the obvious. They really could have fleshed out the characters more and made them less one-dimensional. It is one of the few movies that I think should have been longer, by at least a half hour.
Sheriff Wydell
12-31-2005, 01:01 AM
Originally posted by ilovemovies
Sin City is one of the most entertaining movies of the year. Whereas The Devil's Rejects is for sure, one of the absolute worst of the year.
And only Willis and Rourke are good? Clive Owen is also great. Actually, I think just about everyone in this movie is good. Even Jessica Alba, which a lot of people say she's not good, but I like her performance in this movie. She fits her character well.
Sin City is a mess of a film? How was it entertaining? Every moment was too boring. I really couldn't understand what sort of genre this film fit in. It wasn't comical, serious, action, noir. Hell it was many thinks put into one. The visual effect wasn't nearly as good as it was made out to be. Which parts were so good? Filming in black and white? That's all the film had. It wasn't visual at all. Natural Born Killers was a visual feature, now can you compare Sin City's cinematography to Natural Born Killers? No you cannot. Which makes this film to be not visual whatsoever. Look at another classic noir feature. It's a recent one, The Man Who Wasn't There. Can you call that visual? No you cannot. It's a classic approach to film making.
The plot was based on basically revenge. Not so original; a cliche. It was done many times. Formaly as Kill Bill. Not comparing to Kill Bill, but this wasn't Rodriguez's finest work. It's not even comparable to his first feature or Despardo. Both are ten times more entertaining. Sin City is just too boring. What parts entertained you and made you say: This is one of the most entertaining films of the year?
Let's see. I'll give you character depth. That was a strong point in this film. Rodriguez did a good job in that. You got to know some real deep characters. Well maybe two. Rourke and Willis. But that's enough for me, because most films these days don't have any character depth whatsoever.
What else. Acting? Again. Other than Rourke and Willis nothing was good. The little camoe's were nice. Dawson was too wooden. Alba? She tried to hard to fit her character and didn't do a good job. Can you compare her performance from Honey to Sin City? Owen was decent. I wouldn't really call his work acting. He was just in a couple of good scenes and his physical approach wasn't magnificent either.
Oh and, how was The Devil's Rejects the absolute worst film of the year? Some valid reasons please.
Wait, are saying that you think the Devil's Rejects is way better than Sin City? Because if you are then I couldn't disagree with you more. Sin City is superior to The Devil's Rejects is EVERY way possible! EVERYTHING about Sin City is WAY better than The Devil's Rejects. The writing, the acting (most definately the acting), the overall production value. Sin City had characters worth rooting for whereas in The Devil's Rejects, it makes the biggest miscalculation ever by asking us to sympathize with some of the most loathesome, vile, despicable, cruel, heartless, coldblooded characters to ever be created.
Even the one character in the movie we sympathized with (besides the killer's victims), which is the cheriff, ends up turning into a twisted, psychotic nutcase! The last third of the Devil's Rejects is truly terrible, especially the ending!
No. I don't think. I know it's better. Every little aspect. From dialogue, to monologues, to acting, to 'tography, to directing, to musical approach, to entertainment, to memorable scenes, to the ending and to the beggining.
A film doesn't need to have characters worth rooting worth to make it a good film. It needs to know what to deliver, and Devil's Rejects just did that. Look at the character depth? Forsythe's, Moseley's, Foree's, Lewis', Haig's, and Moon's characters were very deep. They were complex and the best part about them, they didn't evolve ( yes, in some films that's considered bad writing, but in this case not only is it reality but it's perfect for the ending of the film). You learned that people can't change in the real world. Not after a long, long past of psychopathic killing. You learned how they treated other people, you learned how they reacted to punishment; never giving up and still keep on going. Yes, Zombie wrote them as sick, psychopaths, but Zombie told one of the best stories of the year with these characters. He told us the complex lives of psychopathic killers and a man trying to avenge the seventy-eight murdered people, and then turning into one them. Oh yeah, that just proves one point, Zombie is a good writer; maybe the main characters didn’t change but the Sheriff did. He turned from a follower of the law into a sadistic monster, and he had every right to do so. The Devil’s Rejects showed many things, many of them being good and complex. It was a powerful film. Can I say the same thing about the proclaimed ‘One of the greatest films of the year”? No I cannot. There is no comparison between the two. One is targeted towards the main-stream audience and the other is targeted towards a more mature crowd. This crowd should understand the film. I did, and I loved the film.
Not only was this film powerful and truthful to what it wanted to be. It had a beautiful soundtrack that matched any event, the ending was done brilliantly because not only did it see The Firefly Family not change but it kept to reality and stated that you break the law and you pay. The acting was perfect. You sum up the whole cast of Sin City and all of them put together couldn’t pull off a better performance than Forsythe. Zombie showed us that casting huge names doesn’t necessarily make the films acting brilliant. He casted minor actors that not many are familiar with and still the result was just plain brilliant. All three leading men, Forsythe, Haig and Moseley played their roles with such brilliance that it made me believe that Forsythe was the Sheriff, and that Haig and Moseley were actually psychopathic killers.
The writing was great too. The dialogue was not only shattering and riveting but comical too. Not many can make that happen. Most of the dialogue that did not revolve around the ‘killing’ plot was every-day dialogue. Foree talking to his prostitutes, the reference to chicken fucking by a zero intellect person, the talking about last nights event/rodeo riding and playing with the band, the complete usage of cursing words in order to describe how pissed off the character really is, the type of intellect between the hired hunters i.e. “Hey, my mother owns me $14 dollars.” It was perfect. Not to mention the beautiful speech that Moseley’s character gave before the supposed killings of Roy and Adam.
So let’s see. With great acting, great character depth, great cinematography, great plot, great storytelling, great dialogue, great writing and most importantly great and realistic scenes filled with lot’s and lot’s of blood ( yes, that’s what happens when you get killed and beaten). How can the picture be anything but great? Name me points which were so awful about this film? Please.
KillaMyers
12-31-2005, 09:16 AM
Batman Begins!-4/10 There's not a fucking doubt in my mind that this is the most overrated movie of the year.
The Other
01-01-2006, 12:37 AM
Batman Begins and Sin City are the two most overrated movies of 2005 for me, so far. Both were okay at best, but everyone, especially at this site, fucking creamed their pants over them.
Pulp_Joker
01-04-2006, 05:10 PM
King Kong 5/10
Star Wars Ep. III 3/10
Batman Begins 7/10
Mr-Blonde
01-04-2006, 05:30 PM
Wait, are saying that you think the Devil's Rejects is way better than Sin City? Because if you are then I couldn't disagree with you more. Sin City is superior to The Devil's Rejects is EVERY way possible! EVERYTHING about Sin City is WAY better than The Devil's Rejects. The writing, the acting (most definately the acting), the overall production value. Sin City had characters worth rooting for whereas in The Devil's Rejects, it makes the biggest miscalculation ever by asking us to sympathize with some of the most loathesome, vile, despicable, cruel, heartless, coldblooded characters to ever be created.
Other than Mickey Rourke and Benecio Del Toro which performances exactly in Sin City were so brilliant? Marv and Jackie Boy were the only characters that seemed on the mark. That's not to say that I still didn't enjoy the film but the performances mostly ranged from wooden to over-the-top. On the other hand, I heartily agree with Sheriff Wydell's sentiments about the cast of Devil's Rejects in that they were all were realistic and memorable performances.
I never sympathized with the Fireflys (in fact I rooted for Wydell) in DR and I'm really not sure that was Zombie's intention. I believe that he was simply was trying to make them seem more human by showcasing their familial loyalties and thus made them thouroughly more believable whereas the characters from SC never seemed like more than the 2D comic book archetypes they sprang from.
ChemicalRomance
01-04-2006, 05:54 PM
God, these two movies sucked and are overrated to the point of migrane.
A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE (6/10)
THE DEVIL'S REJECTS (4/10)
The Devil's Rejects was the very worst film I saw this year.
Not that it had the lowest rating, becuase it didn't. Because it missed the mark so terribly, and was held in such high regard that it's failure to be even an okay film was devestating.
See my review in this thread: http://www.livejournal.com/community/ohnotheydidnt/4774555.html?#cutid1
Kevin Smith fan
01-04-2006, 07:25 PM
LAND OF THE DEAD-
receive rediculous amounts of praise from critics, including "George Romero's Masterpiece". Yes it was a decent zombie flick, but MASTERPIECE?! Gimme a break! If you wanna watch George Romero's masterpiece, go back about 30 years to the mall. Thats a masterpiece. LAND didnt really even surpass DAY. It just didnt seem like it fit in with the other DEAD flicks, and was one of my biggest dissapointments of the year.
QUENTIN
01-05-2006, 01:19 AM
The Wedding Crashers
The 40-Year-Old Virgin
Both were okay, but I didn't laugh more than once or twice per movie...and I love Anchorman and Old School, very disappointing
Sh8dy Milkman
01-05-2006, 05:36 PM
Originally posted by QUENTIN
The Wedding Crashers
The 40-Year-Old Virgin
Both were okay, but I didn't laugh more than once or twice per movie...and I love Anchorman and Old School, very disappointing
Never would have thought it was possible not to like 2005 two funniest movies. Anchorman was hilarious though.
morricone
01-05-2006, 06:38 PM
Originally posted by Sh8dy Milkman
Anchorman was hilarious though.
That's a given.
Deeber
01-06-2006, 01:15 AM
a history of violence.
had a great time watching the movie....just not a great film.
redorblue01
01-08-2006, 01:15 AM
Can someone explain how Batman Begins was overrated?
Sh8dy Milkman
01-08-2006, 01:59 AM
Originally posted by redorblue01
Can someone explain how Batman Begins was overrated?
I sure cant, loved every second of it.
TracyFlick
01-09-2006, 05:09 PM
The Constant Gardener
Good Night, and Good Luck
Downfall
Crash
Sin City
Batman Begins
March of the Penguins
Strider
01-09-2006, 05:42 PM
A History of Violence
War of the Worlds
Wedding Crashers
jimmyjdmb
01-09-2006, 06:32 PM
The 40 Year Old Virgin (3/10)
Serenity (6.5/10)
JCPhoenix
01-11-2006, 05:25 PM
Normally I like to avoid saying such and such movie is overrated as everyone has their own opinions but this year there was one that was just too much for me to bear, one that I had a particular (and continually growing) hatred of, one that, in fact, has my vote for most overrated movie of the last decade...if I only ever mentioned one movie as being overrated, that would be CRASH
Sh8dy Milkman
01-11-2006, 07:36 PM
Originally posted by JCPhoenix
Normally I like to avoid saying such and such movie is overrated as everyone has their own opinions but this year there was one that was just too much for me to bear, one that I had a particular (and continually growing) hatred of, one that, in fact, has my vote for most overrated movie of the last decade...if I only ever mentioned one movie as being overrated, that would be CRASH
What exactly is their to hate about Crash? I can understand someone calling it overrated, but thats hardly a reason to hate a film.
TylerDurden182
01-11-2006, 08:18 PM
The 40 Year Old Virgin
JCPhoenix
01-12-2006, 12:45 AM
Originally posted by Sh8dy Milkman
What exactly is their to hate about Crash? I can understand someone calling it overrated, but thats hardly a reason to hate a film.
I should've made things more clear...my hatred is not as much due to the film itself but rather its reception...I'm sorry, I just can't help getting annoyed as it's risen through Oscar season to be pretty much a lock for a Best Pic nom...the film itself I thought wasn't very good (5/10) but it's how well received it has been that kills me. Especially feeling like everyone out there loves the movie but me (though there have been several schmoes as has been listed here who also are not fans of the movie at all)...yes that could be an irrational feeling but it's simply how I feel about the film.
Put it this way, it's like if House of the Dead was nominated for Best Picture to me...it feels like everyone got duped or fooled by the film - again, this is just purely on a feelings basis, I'm not actually saying people got duped by the film but I've never had another film ever where I felt that way before. Always before, with films that others might consider great that I didn't like, I still understood at the back of my mind, even if only in a limited way, how they could like it. For Crash, I couldn't even understand it at all.
I've probably talked or written more about this film than any other film ever...if you go back and search I'm sure you'll see tons of posts I've made about Crash (and there you can find my many reasons why I dislike the actual movie itself) and I've talked with many, many people about the film (I ranted on to my friend - I can't believe she listened to the whole thing - Mel about it for a good 30 minutes)...there's just something about the whole buzz surrounding Crash that just gets to me. Like I said, it may be irrational but it still doesn't change the fact that it bothers me.
CaptainGyro
01-13-2006, 02:58 AM
It makes me feel a lot better to see all the people who picked Crash on their lists. I said on another forum I really disliked it, and people basically said I was a dumbass who just didnt get it.
For the life of me I cant figure out what was so powerful , touching,( a lot of people were moved by the "shooting "of the little girl, I thought it was one of the hokiest things Ive ever seen) and thought provoking( it didnt say anything I didnt know already) about that movie. The acting was good, but thats about the best I can say about it.
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