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The 20 Most Overrated Movies of All Time
Premiere Magazine ^ | December 12, 2006 | various

Posted on 12/13/2006 5:40:45 PM PST by 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.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: critics; dontbelievethehype; fiddledeedee; film; gwtwrules; movies; overrated; overratedmovies; thiscriticknowsjack
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To: Spiff
What's wrong with you people?

I actually had to stop reading this thread on the FIRST page before I had an embolism.

I'm popping back periodically to remind myself that I was right.

301 posted on 12/14/2006 8:45:41 AM PST by Wormwood (I'm with you in Rockland)
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To: lowbridge
Script idea: They could have turned Kathleen Kelly (Meg Ryan) plant a bomb in the Fox bookstore in ordewr to get rid of

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Script idea: They could have turned Kathleen Kelly (Meg Ryan) into a terrorist and have her plant a bomb in the Fox bookstore in order to get rid of

302 posted on 12/14/2006 8:45:55 AM PST by lowbridge
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To: EveningStar

#1 has got to be The Blair Witch Project. That movie was awful!


303 posted on 12/14/2006 8:46:12 AM PST by TruthWillWin
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To: Proud2BeRight

Well that explans it then.


304 posted on 12/14/2006 8:46:56 AM PST by Borges
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To: EveningStar

Titanic. Not sure how the heck that one made any money at all.


305 posted on 12/14/2006 8:50:26 AM PST by Dead Corpse (Anyone who needs to be persuaded to be free, doesn't deserve to be.)
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To: Borges

When you cross a field of manure and every step is a big pile you finally turn around and get out. There may be a bed of flowers in there somewhere but you don't care by then.


306 posted on 12/14/2006 8:52:50 AM PST by Proud2BeRight
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To: EveningStar
I disagree with "Field of Dreams", "Forrest Gump", "Gone with the Wind" and "Good will Hunting".

I wouldn't waist my money on the rest....... Yawn!

307 posted on 12/14/2006 8:53:21 AM PST by thingumbob (Dead terrorists don't make more terrorists!)
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To: NathanR

I agree. And I love to tell this story. Excuse me while I bore you....

I had NEVER heard of this 1947 movie when I was a teenager in the '80s, and that's something since my parents managed to make me amenable to old things like movies on TV or music they played. But my parents knew it and IIRC early in the VCR craze rented it and said we should watch it, it is good and sweet. So I did and I liked it.

Then within the year, my social-studies teacher actually played this very movie in class, ostensibly because he could tie in the "savings&loan crisis" with the building & loan in the movie! LOL Anyway I was rather astonished, because again, this was a RARE movie.

But then, the floodgates broke. By the late '80s "IAWL" was suddenly the greatest Christmas movie ever, and as you wrote, now it seems about the only Xmas movie ever, along with "Xmas Story" (also 24 hrs straight at Xmas).

Before the late '80s, noone KNEW "IAWL". Back then, the end-all be-all Xmas movie was "Miracle on 34th Street" (and still is, to me). Now they might show it once a year!


308 posted on 12/14/2006 8:54:05 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
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To: SoCal Pubbie

That may be, but it's still boring. That's the watchword in success - boring or not?


309 posted on 12/14/2006 8:55:37 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
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To: lowbridge

ROFLMAO!

Hey, maybe you should make that proposal to a studio!


310 posted on 12/14/2006 8:56:56 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel
I agree. It was like, where did this movie come from? It seems that someone seemed to think there was a political component to it. That is why I think it gets played.
311 posted on 12/14/2006 9:00:21 AM PST by NathanR (Après moi, le deluge.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

Citizen Kane....very boring and HIGHLY overrated.


312 posted on 12/14/2006 9:01:22 AM PST by bonfire
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To: bonfire

It is definitely overrated when it is ALWAYS #1 on the "critics' lists", yet is so unloved by most of the public.


313 posted on 12/14/2006 9:03:11 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
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To: NathanR

I don't know how political it is. It may be, but I doubt it. The political message isn't very clear.

Unlike "Field of Dreams", let's say.


314 posted on 12/14/2006 9:04:08 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel
This is from one of your previous posts:
Then within the year, my social-studies teacher actually played this very movie in class, ostensibly because he could tie in the "savings&loan crisis" with the building & loan in the movie! LOL Anyway I was rather astonished, because again, this was a RARE movie.
I believe that according to Post Modern Theory, it does not matter what the author meant. What matters is what the reader (or watcher) sees. Apparently, your teacher saw politics in the movie. I expect others did too.
315 posted on 12/14/2006 9:12:19 AM PST by NathanR (Après moi, le deluge.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

CK is as much fun as a great movie can be. Every other shot is some sort of trick shot. It's highly rated on IMDB which is a pretty good gauge of popular acclaim. What does mass appeal have to do with quality anyway?


316 posted on 12/14/2006 9:13:10 AM PST by Borges
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To: NathanR
I believe that according to Post Modern Theory, it does not matter what the author meant.

It matters it's just not the Last Word. And this goes back before Post Modern Theory. It's more then Southern Agrarians. A group of rather conservative American literary critics. It's perfectly reasonable as well.
317 posted on 12/14/2006 9:15:37 AM PST by Borges
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To: the OlLine Rebel

It was a 1946 film and it was beloved by film buffs in the 60s and 70s. They passed along their enthuasiasm for it to the general public. Same with John ford's The Searchers which was regarded as 'just another John Ford/John Wayne movie'. Anyway, IAWL is a masterpiece. It's a mix of film noir and a whole bunch of other things.


318 posted on 12/14/2006 9:17:35 AM PST by Borges
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To: MikefromOhio

The Blood Diamond movie is actually a good movie. I don't like DiCrapprio and such, but I must admit that the diamond market deserves this movie and that he acted well.

Perhaps my working in the wedding business for over 20 years has something to do with mydisgust over diamonds. They're for wimmin's egos and little more.


319 posted on 12/14/2006 9:19:32 AM PST by Loud Mime (Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. - Voltaire)
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To: EveningStar

Thanks, I read the title.


320 posted on 12/14/2006 9:20:30 AM PST by Fierce Allegiance (SAY NO TO RUDY!)
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