The 20 Most Overrated Movies of All Time

Premiere Magazine ^ | December 12, 2006 | various

[EveningStar]

It happens to everyone who loves movies: You're in a conversation at a bar, or at a wedding, or online, and someone begins rhapsodizing about one of their favorite movies and you can't help but say, "Uh, that movie sucks. It's totally overrated." How two perfectly well-balanced individuals can have such drastically different views of the same film is one of the great wonders of being a film fanatic. It happens to us at Premiere all the time, enough so that sometimes we find ourselves questioning who we work with (boy, did it get ugly here when Love, Actually came out, and some of us are still snickering over our boss's love for Bowfinger, not to mention his affection for The Last Samurai). Well, we decided to let our staff go at each other regarding some of the more beloved movies of all time, and, sure enough, sobbing can still be heard coming from the bathroom stalls. Relationships have been strained. Egos bruised. Consider this a film lovers' quarrel, an admittedly rabid one.

[Texas_shutterbug]

Anything with Woody Allen!

[Wormwood]

glengarry glen ross

It's not even 9:30 in the morning, and I've already lost my faith in humanity.

[AnnaZ]

Crimes and Misdemeanors may be my favorite film of all time. I also absolutely adore Annie Hall, Bullets Over Broadway, and Sleeper.

His last few flix were barely watchable, though.

: \

[Melas]

I guess that depends on just how badly historical innacuracies grate on your nerves. I'm at least fairly accomodating, but they just veered way too far from history.

[SMARTY]

Color Purple
Titanic

[MattinNJ]

Titanic was horrible up until the point the ship went up and started to polunge into the water. I have no idea why, but watching the passengers lose their grip on the railings and have them hit objects on the way down and change their trajectories had to be one of the funniest things I have ever seen.

AAAAH pong Oooooh Bang wooooah splash.

[Wormwood]

"Mr. Smith Goes to Washington."

Oh dear God I hate that movie.

Jefferson Smith isn't a human being, he's a lifeless construct, a placard upon which the filmmaker projects his simplistic message.

Capra has always had the subtlety of a brick, but "Mr Smith..." is the most pedantic, patronizing specimen of his "Preachin' to the Proletariat" series (along with "It's a Wonderful Life" and "State of the Union")

[Holicheese]

The only Woody movie I can watch is Zelig.

[lowbridge]

A Fish Called Wanda.

Titanic.

Anything with Tom Cruise in it except for Risky Business and Taps.

[lowbridge]

Bowfinger is greatness. It's positively briliiant. Love it, love it, love it.

Here here! (or is it hear hear?)

[AnnaZ]

Here here! (or is it hear hear?)

Here is where you are. Hear is what I'm doing.


Here's another fave that I watch over and over:

[AnnaZ]

I somehow pinged the wrong one of "you" above. Was I supposed to know there were two?

[Hatteras]

Titanic
Pearl Harbor

[lowbridge]

Ah! That one I've seen as well. :-)

Other good movies on moviemaking:

Ed Wood: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109707/
Mistress: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104892/
How to Get the Man's Foot Outta Your Ass (aka Badasssss) aka Badass): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0367790/

[AnnaZ]

'Cept American Movie is a documentary. LOL!!!

[retrokitten]

Now that I've seen The Big Lebowski a lot of times, I've decided it's a Free Republic live thread. You've got all the types... The stoner, the know it all hothead vet (shut up Donny you are out of your element), some other minor players who add a little spice here and there, and they're all playing Freeper Detective with their own theories and sub-stories and side arguments about what's going on.

LMAO!!! You are so dead on!

[Poser]

Fight club was hysterical. It was no classic, but very funny.

[lowbridge]

'Cept American Movie is a documentary. LOL!!!

True :-) But Badass comes kinda close to being a documentary of a movie being made, even if it isnt a documentary (its based on the true story of the making of the first blaxploitation movie: "Sweet Sweetbacks Badasssss Song" (Produced, written, starring and directed by Melvin Van Peebles). Mario van Peebles plays his own Father, Melvin, in Badass.

[Osage Orange]

BINGO!!!

WE HAVE A WINNER!!!!!

[Osage Orange]

LOL!!