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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: Fierce Allegiance

Goody :)


321 posted on 12/14/2006 9:27:10 AM PST by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar
Not a very good list. Lotta good movies. However, they are right in these:

* American Beauty - Piece of trash
* Nashville - Way overrated
* Easy Rider - Overrated, but I can see why people like it.

322 posted on 12/14/2006 9:27:11 AM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: MikefromOhio

Forrest Gump is a great movie because it is a story about modern American culture.


323 posted on 12/14/2006 9:28:52 AM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: Maceman

The English Patient is a good movie, but it is a total rip off of Casblanca - but with 90's twist where everyone does the wrong thing instead of the right thing.


324 posted on 12/14/2006 9:30:46 AM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: Lib-Lickers 2

Yes to all of your movies.


325 posted on 12/14/2006 9:31:43 AM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: KC_Conspirator
The English Patient is a good movie, but it is a total rip off of Casblanca - but with 90's twist where everyone does the wrong thing instead of the right thing.

I wouldn't know. I spent the whole time looking at my watch trying to figure out how much longer it would be before the damn thing was over.

326 posted on 12/14/2006 9:34:00 AM PST by Maceman (This is America. Why must we press "1" for English?)
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To: Jo Nuvark
2001 A Space Odyssey - The Emperor has no clothes

I'm glad someone ELSE around here agrees with me that Kubrick was nothing but a narcissistic blowhard of a director who never met a story line he couldn't screw up!

When someone argues with me over my disgust with 2001, I tell them to watch 2001, then 2010 soon after. When you explain to them that 2010 is a sequel to 2001, written by the same author (Arthur C. Clarke), the puzzlement over my problems with the first movie often disappears.

327 posted on 12/14/2006 9:34:22 AM PST by ssaftler
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To: SoCal Pubbie

That may be. Still bored me to tears.


328 posted on 12/14/2006 9:35:20 AM PST by Mr. Blonde (You know, Happy Time Harry, just being around you kinda makes me want to die.)
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To: Borges

If mass appeal doesn't matter, then you are ignoring the fact that most people are average sane, intelligent people. Even if they're Dems. "Quality" is in the eye of the beholder, and generally what the mass says isn't far off the mark. Especially over periods of time.

If Kane is really popular, I'd see alot more of it on TV and in various every-day references, as well as SALES, both of the movies and probably like things on eBay. I never have noticed that. Almost never in a nostalgia or movie-fan store have I ever noticed lots of Kane merchandise. That's an indicator.


329 posted on 12/14/2006 9:37:44 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
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To: NathanR

Well, as I said, he was tying in the B&L troubles in the movie with S&L scandals in the news. Kind of precarious, because George Bailey wasn't being corrupt (although tempted), just having troubles with the economy. Meanwhile S&L leaders were double-dealing. My teacher didn't mean to make out Bailey to be bad. Just that it is a rather poor tie-in - but I think he used it as an excuse so he could have a movie day before Christmas.


330 posted on 12/14/2006 9:40:12 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
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To: ssaftler

LOL!

I remember sitting with an audience of college students
(they showed "2001" on campus). I pretended to be impressed
by it's "depth", fearing I would be labeled not intellectual
enough to "get it". But later shook off the stupor and
realized this movie mocks intelligence.


331 posted on 12/14/2006 9:43:35 AM PST by Jo Nuvark (Those who bless Israel will be blessed, those who curse Israel will be cursed. Gen 12:3)
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To: Borges

IAWL is a good movie, but not a "masterpiece" and in terms of how much it's overplayed and built up as the greatest Xmas film (it is NOT a Xmas film, it is primarily a biography!), it is overrated.

Beloved of "film buffs" probably tells me all I need to know. ;-) As a child in the '70s I never once had even heard of it, and I watched old movies alot on plain TV (no VCRs in those days, you know). Apparently the film buffs didn't get their way until the late '80s.

Again, it IS a very nice film and 1 I like to watch, but it's just overrated (<- means "rated higher than it should be", not "bad").


332 posted on 12/14/2006 9:44:35 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
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To: lowbridge
All this and more in the long awaited sequel: "You've Got Mail 2: This Time It's Personal Mail"

Snort!

333 posted on 12/14/2006 9:45:02 AM PST by subterfuge (Today, Tolerance =greatest virtue;Hypocrisy=worst character defect; Discrimination =worst atrocity)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

What would Kane merchandise be? A sled? Anyway TV, these days, hardly ever shows older movies with the exception of a small handful. It's on TCM all the time. The reason it wasn't a big success in its own day is because it was hindered by William Randolph Hearst's media machine. He wanted to buy every copy and destroy it.


334 posted on 12/14/2006 9:46:21 AM PST by Borges
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To: Loud Mime

Diamonds are superd materials. They are very useful in lots of technology, even precision cutting tools as relatively low technology. Their great heat resistance makes them even sought for heat-resistant epoxies. Good diamonds are beautiful, but the ugly as well are terrific engineering materials; they aren't just for WOMEN (thank you very much).


335 posted on 12/14/2006 9:47:37 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
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To: Maceman

I guess you agree with Elaine Benes.


336 posted on 12/14/2006 9:48:51 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

XMAS movies are defined pretty vaugely. Any movie with a Christmas scene in it apparently. By masterpiece I was reffering to issues of cinematic texture and nuance. Capra's mise-en-scene had never been so fluid nor had his direction of actors been so natural. The scenes with Jimmy Stewart courting Donna Reed almost seem improvised which was a highly unusual acting style in those days. By comparison, 'Miracle on 34th Street' is not very cinematic and is more of a filmed play. Enjoyable but not great cinema.


337 posted on 12/14/2006 9:51:20 AM PST by Borges
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To: Borges

Merchandise is any possible memorabilia of the movie. There are tons of posters and tinplates and such that you can buy, never mind even more mundane things like magnets, mugs and other household items as well as "conversation pieces".

Your view won't shake my impression of over 30 years. It was *never* a big deal in my lifetime; I am well aware of the changes in TV and media options from then to now. Only mentioned in some text books, especially film classes where they love it, of course. Had to see it in a liberal-arts basic film class (I'd seen it before).

Along with a true masterpiece like "Singin' in the Rain". At least they had some perspective of true greatness! ;D


338 posted on 12/14/2006 9:54:01 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

SITA is another movie that was 'just another musical' until French critics in the 60s took it up and passed it along to American critics in the 70s. At the time 'An American in Paris' was much more highly regarde'.


339 posted on 12/14/2006 9:55:40 AM PST by Borges
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To: UncleDick

I'll go along with "Fight Club" but "The Godfather" is one of the best movies ever made (but still not as good as Godfather II).


340 posted on 12/14/2006 9:56:14 AM PST by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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