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Author:  pcernie [ Sat Apr 04, 2020 12:57 pm ]
Post subject:  Which movies do you find seriously overrated?
From a recent work conversation...

For me there's a few DeNiro ones (and I'm generally a fan)

Taxi Driver, Midnight Run, The Deer Hunter

Spider-Man 2 comes to mind. No idea what folks thought was so fantastic about that one.

Apocalypse Now - a bit more of a plot would have been nice.

I've seen people rave about Sexy Beast. Everything about it seems random to me, even the title.

American Beauty has like two funny moments and nothing else of real interest.

What are yours?
Author:  timark_uk [ Sat Apr 04, 2020 3:49 pm ]
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Casablanca immediately springs to mind.
The Deer Hunter is mother - [LIFTED] excellent.
I find Apocalypse Now a beautiful film, yet totally devoid of any engaging story.

There will be more, these are just my immediate thoughts.

Mark

EDIT : Inception and The Godfather.
Author:  pcernie [ Sat Apr 04, 2020 9:23 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Which movies do you find seriously overrated?
timark_uk wrote:
Casablanca immediately springs to mind.
The Deer Hunter is mother - [LIFTED] excellent.
I find Apocalypse Now a beautiful film, yet totally devoid of any engaging story.

There will be more, these are just my immediate thoughts.

Mark

EDIT : Inception and The Godfather.


I quite liked Inception but it's not exactly the masterpiece it was heralded as. Interstellar was a [LIFTED] bore. Gravity was only slightly better.

The Godfather is vastly overrated because of the cast I'd guess. It's pretty dull all things considered.
Author:  Spreadie [ Sat Apr 04, 2020 10:19 pm ]
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Just about everything with Will Ferrell, Ben Stiller or Adam Sandler.

Avatar, Django unchained, Black Panther...

If you mean classics... a streetcar named desire did absolutely naff all for me. The godfather - good films but nowhere near as good as their billing.
Author:  pcernie [ Sat Apr 04, 2020 10:41 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Which movies do you find seriously overrated?
Spreadie wrote:
Just about everything with Will Ferrell, Ben Stiller or Adam Sandler.

Avatar, Django unchained, Black Panther...

If you mean classics... a streetcar named desire did absolutely naff all for me. The godfather - good films but nowhere near as good as their billing.


Avatar was just a technical demo with the added insult of 3D to sell the naff premise.

Django like every QT movie these days was overlong and not as interesting as he thought it was.

BP was pulling in so many directions it managed to waste it's star, two great villains, and it's own set-up.

I'd like to add the It remake to the list. So many raved about that movie and it was just a nasty lump of exploitation.
Author:  big_D [ Sun Apr 05, 2020 5:33 am ]
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Spreadie wrote:
Just about everything with Will Ferrell, Ben Stiller or Adam Sandler.

Avatar, Django unchained, Black Panther...

If you mean classics... a streetcar named desire did absolutely naff all for me. The godfather - good films but nowhere near as good as their billing.


I agree, although I'd go with almost any Marvel or DC film. Transformers, the original was dreadful, the sequels even worse! Ocean's series (the remake with George Clooney).

The Bourne series, I've ranted about this before, this is not Bourne. It has nothing to do with the Jason Bourne books, the mini-series was much better and closer to the original story. As a spy thriller, yeah, not bad, but as Jason Bourne? NO! DESECRATION!

In fact, I'd say there have been relatively few films in recent years that have been much cop

And, why do they have to keep remaking films? Where the original was a good piece of cinematography, why not let it stand? Why trash its name with a mediocre remake?
Author:  pcernie [ Sun Apr 05, 2020 10:36 am ]
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Movie remakes are often as much about retaining the rights over the decades as profit. They made a truly low budget Fantastic Four movie way back when purely as a bum-covering exercise.

It even happens with toys.
Author:  Paul1965 [ Thu Apr 16, 2020 10:38 pm ]
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Every Kubrick movie
Every Scorcese gangster movie
Apocalypse Now (as several people have mentioned)
Any British gangster movie (eg: Lock, Stock...)
Any British Comedy (eg: Love Actually, Notting Hill, etc)
The Blues Brothers
Evil Dead 2. A bit random I know, but one of only two times I've felt like asking for my ticket money back. I can't believe some people prefer it to the first one.
Ghostbusters
Toy Story 4 (If ever a film was unnecessary...)
Some Like It Hot

I love The Godfather though, enjoyed Avatar and liked Casablanca.
Author:  Paul1965 [ Thu Jun 09, 2022 9:13 pm ]
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I have mellowed in my opinion of Toy Story 4. I still think it's a superfluous movie, but the ending where Woody parts from Bo Peep and finally returns to her brings tears to my eyes, even more so than the ending of Toy Story 3.

I bloody hate Forky though.
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