What movies did you think were overrated?

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Except for Singinā€™ ini the Rain, Gone with the Wind, and Big, most of the ones previously mentioned.

Alsoā€¦

Citizen Kane (why, oh why, is this considered the greatest movie of all time? Is it mainly because of the weird camera angles etc.?)

A Clockwork Orange

An American in Paris (I generally like musicals, but donā€™t understand why this one is considered so wonderful.)
 
Luvz2travel said:
I totally agreee on Silence of the Lambsā€¦I couldnā€™t believe the senario that traumatized her as a kid it was too absurd plus I hate movies and stories to do with canabalismā€¦nasty and not worth the time.
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Iā€™m not a horror fan at all, I can tolerate the occasional ghost/supernatural/monster type.

I can not watch any serial killer type horror film. Iā€™ve read too much true crime accounts, particularly those by FBI profilers to see these kind of things as entertainment. ā€˜Silence of the Lambsā€™ just kept bringing up things human beings had actually done to each other.
 
Lost_Sheep said:
Hollywood could *never *get away with a film like Blazing Saddles these days.
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You are right, I would not make fun of religion or race enoughā€¦Blazing Saddles is tame compared to say Southpark the movieā€¦ Or any of the spoof movies that are so common. Heck American Pie is more racy than Blazing saddlesā€¦
 
tee_eff_em said:
Gravity

All the reviews and talk-show pushers led me to expect some kind of life-changing event, but I got just three words for it:

Stink-
er-
oo​

(Why do we not have a smiley holding its nose?)
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Yes! That was awful. I was laughing it was so bad!

There are so many over rated movies, but the three I can think of right now are Gone Girl, Avatar and The Wolf of Wall Street.
 
KevinAK said:
The Dark Knight.

This was nothing but a second rate crime drama whose success was increased by the tragic death of Heath Ledge. Definitely not and Oscar worthy performance.
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I hate this movie. My brothers all loved it, but I thought it was boring and predictable.
 
Luvz2travel said:
I totally agreee on Silence of the Lambsā€¦I couldnā€™t believe the senario that traumatized her as a kid it was too absurd plus I hate movies and stories to do with canabalismā€¦nasty and not worth the time.
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I thought the screaming lambs thing was dumb too. One of the reasons that movie lost points in my book.
 
I rarely post but I read all these replies and just had to chime in. This is going back a little, but I have to say 2 of the worst that got a lot of hype were Out of Africa and A Passage to India. All I can remember was being amazed at the hat collection they put on Meryl Streep in the first one and some guy screaming, ā€œMRS. MOORE!!!ā€ in the second. Oh, I just thought of another - Dances With Wolves. (That one I walked out of the theater.) At some point you realize youā€™ll never get that time backā€¦
 
styrgwillidar said:
Iā€™m not a horror fan at all, I can tolerate the occasional ghost/supernatural/monster type.

I can not watch any serial killer type horror film. Iā€™ve read too much true crime accounts, particularly those by FBI profilers to see these kind of things as entertainment. ā€˜Silence of the Lambsā€™ just kept bringing up things human beings had actually done to each other.
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Yeah I donā€™t get the facination some have with Canabalism. :eek:
 
I am going to show my age here with these two films- I am now in my later 40ā€™s, but I look and feel much younger (most people think Iā€™m somewhere between 36 and 41).

The Academy Awards often pick a ā€œforeign filmā€ that the Academy likes. It makes the awards because it was released in New York and Los Angeles. While the critics rant and rave about it, the general public finds it boring. *The Unbearable Lightness of Being *was one of these - it was up for an award in 1987 or 1988.

Another movie IMHO that was overrated was St. Elmoā€™s Fire. I saw this movie when I was 18 years old and thought it was the best movie ever, with many young actors of the day (Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, Mare Winningham, Demi Moore, and Rob Lowe) who went on to bigger and better things. Not long after I finished college, I saw it again on video with a few friends who were completing their graduate degrees (I was an older undergraduate who returned to college in his mid-20s, graduating at 28). Seeing the film ten years later and spending time outside of a university before returning to school, the movie *St. Elmoā€™s Fire *was really stupid - it was nothing more than a bunch of recent college graduates complaining about how the ā€œreal worldā€ was not what they expected, and how they werenā€™t ā€œentitledā€ to anything. I felt the cast needed to wake up, smell the coffee, get to work, and go out and pay their dues. In the ā€œreal worldā€, no one can start at the top.
 
hwriggles4 said:
I am going to show my age here with these two films- I am now in my later 40ā€™s, but I look and feel much younger (most people think Iā€™m somewhere between 36 and 41).

The Academy Awards often pick a ā€œforeign filmā€ that the Academy likes. It makes the awards because it was released in New York and Los Angeles. While the critics rant and rave about it, the general public finds it boring. *The Unbearable Lightness of Being *was one of these - it was up for an award in 1987 or 1988.

Another movie IMHO that was overrated was St. Elmoā€™s Fire. I saw this movie when I was 18 years old and thought it was the best movie ever, with many young actors of the day (Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, Mare Winningham, Demi Moore, and Rob Lowe) who went on to bigger and better things. Not long after I finished college, I saw it again on video with a few friends who were completing their graduate degrees (I was an older undergraduate who returned to college in his mid-20s, graduating at 28). Seeing the film ten years later and spending time outside of a university before returning to school, the movie *St. Elmoā€™s Fire *was really stupid - it was nothing more than a bunch of recent college graduates complaining about how the ā€œreal worldā€ was not what they expected, and how they werenā€™t ā€œentitledā€ to anything. I felt the cast needed to wake up, smell the coffee, get to work, and go out and pay their dues. In the ā€œreal worldā€, no one can start at the top.
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Well I am in my 60ā€™s and when those types of movies were made like Pretty in Pink and there was another movie with a group of up and coming hollywood stars that took place in a high school particularly the library but the name escapes me - I was in my 30ā€™s and found those types of movies good. Now they are just silly and dumb. I laugh at the hairstyles and what they were wearing. Makes me feel really old though!
 
7_Sorrows said:
Well I am in my 60ā€™s and when those types of movies were made like Pretty in Pink and there was another movie with a group of up and coming hollywood stars that took place in a high school particularly the library but the name escapes me - I was in my 30ā€™s and found those types of movies good. Now they are just silly and dumb. I laugh at the hairstyles and what they were wearing. Makes me feel really old though!
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The Breakfast Club
 
Little Miss Sunshine. Definitely. Sad movie, really. Not at all the ray of sunshine they billed it as.

Also Lonesome Doveā€¦abysmal.
Porkyā€™s. :eek:
Animal House. double :eek:
Titanic.
Cliffhanger. That one is actually hilariously bad. He scales this huge mountain, and the bad guys just come walking. Looks like they drove a jeep up to the top.
Silly.
 
hwriggles4 said:
Another movie IMHO that was overrated was St. Elmoā€™s Fire. ā€¦ with many young actors of the day (Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, Mare Winningham, Demi Moore, and Rob Lowe) who went on to bigger and better things.
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But I am lately getting a kick out of Rob Lowe pitching DirectTV in ads featuring the Love Theme from St Elmoā€™s Fire. :rotfl:

tee
Who still likes *The Breakfast Club *šŸ˜› probably for reasons of irony
 
tee_eff_em said:
But I am lately getting a kick out of Rob Lowe pitching DirectTV in ads featuring the Love Theme from St Elmoā€™s Fire. :rotfl:

tee
Who still likes *The Breakfast Club *šŸ˜› probably for reasons of irony
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Those Rob Lowe ads for Direct TV are hilarious!
 
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