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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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.
typos
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
#1 has got to be The Blair Witch Project. That movie was awful!
Well that explans it then.
Titanic. Not sure how the heck that one made any money at all.
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.
I wouldn't waist my money on the rest....... Yawn!
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!
That may be, but it's still boring. That's the watchword in success - boring or not?
ROFLMAO!
Hey, maybe you should make that proposal to a studio!
Citizen Kane....very boring and HIGHLY overrated.
It is definitely overrated when it is ALWAYS #1 on the "critics' lists", yet is so unloved by most of the public.
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.
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?
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.
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.
Thanks, I read the title.
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