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Overrated Movies

Lost in Translation was overrated, but good, nonetheless.

All three LOTR installments were overrated, and, I believe, they got consistently worse in their order. Return of the King (at least the version I saw in theater) was one of the most contrived, poorly-edited, poorly-written movies I've ever seen.

I liked Million Dollar Baby (though, admittedly, Morgan Freeman's scenes made me laugh). I thought Mystic River had potential, but a lot of badly-scripted moments (such as any time The Bacon appears, or Laura Linney's Lady MacBeth sermon) nearly sunk it.

House of Flying Daggers was a thorough disappointment.

The original Batman is overrated. That film sucks something awful.

Blade Runner, however, rules to an absurd degree. So does Raising Arizona. Those movies rule so hard.
 
I'm going to go ahead and say Citizen Kane. If you're going to be the end-all be-all of (at least American) cinema then you should make me feel it. I really do feel that it's more a product of its time than anything else and no one has the balls anymore to speak against it because it has been a classic for so long.
I honestly think it's funny that House of Flying Daggers is getting the **** end of the stick. I watched Hero three times trying to find something in there I enjoyed besides the very end of the movie but I couldn't. It took one viewing of House of Flying Daggers, though.
As far as Eastwood is concerned, though, Abosolute Power, in my opinion, is a wonderful movie that no one remembers.

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All three Lord of the Rings films are true masterpieces and will go down in film history for sure.

Overrated? I'd say Saving private Ryan (in my opinion another war film that party romanticises the war) and Requiem for a dream (its a good film just not as good as people say)
 
I think scarface is overrated. Especially that there are scarface t-shirts everywhere, and i hate when people were them and i asked them something about the movie(to see what they know)and they tell me they havent seen it.
 
Ah yes saving private ryan. That movie reminded me of playing G.I. Joe when I was a kid. I personally preferred my plots where the G.I. Joe's had to make it from the living room rug to my bedroom, several of them drowning in the sink along the way. The Thin Red Line came out the same year and was overshadowed by SPR. In my opinion it is a far superior movie.

Lost in Translation was overrated to a ridiculous degree. Please tell me why a Yale graduate in philosophy is listening to Tony Robins self-help tapes or whatever they were. Oh that and she didn't say an intelligent thing all movie. That script could have been written by a high school girl. Gotta love nepatism.

I did think the opening shot was very good. Something that is never lost in translation. I just find it hard to feel sympathetic for an Ivy league graduate vacationing in Tokyo who walks around noticing how "cute" the Japaneese culture is. Too bad Sophia Copolla doesn't have anything to say, especially since her father will keep making sure she directs movies until he dies.

Oh and every Tarantino movie with the exception of reservoir dogs is overrated. He truly has nothing to say.
 
Boondock Saints! I really don't like that movie at all. In fact, I would go as far as to say it blows.

Oh yes, and I hated Paul Haggis's CRASH with a passion.
 
Crash may be just a teeny tiny tad overrated, but I don't know how someone could "hate it with a passion"...that makes no sense to me. Oh, and on that subject, Traffic is also somewhat overrated...as the movie went on, it got steadily less and less interesting for me. A very good movie, sure, but not "4 Oscars" good. The same issue applies for American Psycho as well.
 
I'd say Lord of the Rings. Definitely Lord of the Rings. I hate the over use of CGI, and those 'films' are the perfect example of such. It's faster and more enjoyable for me to read the books.

Also:
Requiem for a Dream (didn't do anything for me)
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (good, overrated, but I still like it more than the remake.)
Saving Private Ryan (someone covered it already.)
Game of Death (Enter The Dragon is Bruce Lee's true masterpiece.)
Million Dollar Baby (Eastwood should stick to playing Dirty Harry.)
Alien (I loved this movie, it used to horrify me, I didn't watch it for about 11 years, but after seeing it on the big screen a few years back, I just didn't feel the same.)
The Ring (I love the atmosphere of the Japanese one so much more.)
 
Citizen Kane was mentioned, and rightly so, although I watched that movie two days ago, and I still marveled at it. I suppose the movie is much better in context, though - it would hardly be revolutionary today.

I think Contact is a severely underrated movie. It seems hardly anyone has seen it. I remember hating it when I was 12 or 13 and first saw it, but I've watched it since then and loved it.

And yeah, The Thin Red Line rocks. I'm eagerly awaiting The New World.
 
And Scarface did suck something awful, except for this line: "You tink I got dis scar eating poosy, mane?" I quote that every day.
 
I'm amazed you liked Contact, Harris (or anyone!) funny...I liked it when I was little, wheras I saw it last week and thought it was stupid! If you're into weird sci fi stuff though, check out SOLARIS (the one from the 70s, not the remake with George Clooney's ass...unless you're into that sorta thing
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Contact is very good. So is American Psycho.

I can't imagine how anyone can consider Scarface or Citizen Kane overrated.

It does strike me as kind of comical when people slam films which were made decades before they were even born as 'overrated'. What films from this decade will still be discussed and watched 50 years from now? Very few.
 
i just saw the last hour of the film Waking Life on IFC. once again I'm dissapointed in what fan boys say of it. I could see where the film coulda gone if a better script and intention were behind it. animation was interesting, though the shakey background and objects started to irritate me in its excessiveness. whoever based that dream world off their own needs to see a doctor.
 
Better script? Better intention? How can you better anything in a movie completley and entirely about the nature of life, death, and existentialist philosophy? So scarcesly few movies are like this (because no one has the balls to make them, probably, lol...), so how can you measure this movie against anything, any prior movie, any possible expectation? How can you even call a movie like Waking Life overrated at all? Doesn't make much sense, if you ask me...
 
now I havent seen the whole thing, Dan. I will check it out though just in case I've missed something! I suppsoe I just have a different idea of what film can be, I really thought the only innovative thing they did in the film was the way characters came out of nowhere or how the scenes transitioned. But as far as content? It was existential, but you know...I've heard all those ideas before. I'm not saying they're bad ideas or anything was wrong with them, but the presentation and delivery. How characters just spoke and there was no real "character" to them. Like I said the only thing dream like was how character emerged from nowhere, but please, they did nothing but ramble on about what they thought life/dreams/blah blah was all about. Its interesting to hear those ideas and I'm sure someone who's never dwelled into such would find it an amazing find...but the characters were not real, they just threw out ideas using big words and lots of emotion as to back them up and leave little for me to decide and think of on my own. It was extremely blunt in that there was too much talk and not enough of a show. Part of the reason I liked I Love Huckabees was atleast it didn't shove ideas in my face, it presented a story along side to give examples of its messages, whereas Waking Life was just talking heads. I think it failed a lot because its like they used the dream atmosphere as a scapegoat for the very reasons I mentioned, just talking heads coming outta nowhere. If it were more sublte and real, confusing, maybe even unsure of its actual messages, it could of been something great.
 

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