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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: Holicheese

Missed that one too :)

The wife tried to bribe me into watching Chicago, but I was on midnight shift at the time so I was asleep within 10 minutes of that movie starting :)


61 posted on 12/13/2006 7:03:44 PM PST by MikefromOhio (losers are fun to talk too....especially when they don't realize they are losers.....)
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To: EveningStar
-Independence Day (what a piece of crap)
-Anything Robert Altmann was ever involved with
62 posted on 12/13/2006 7:04:26 PM PST by lesser_satan (EKTHELTHIOR!!!)
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To: EveningStar
Some on this thread are forgetting the question.

For something to be "overrated" it has to by highly rated to begin with.

Titanic (it won an Oscar for best movie) has to be near the top of my list. Great special effects but a horrible movie.

Nashville is one of those films that critics liked but it's an awful movie.

63 posted on 12/13/2006 7:06:22 PM PST by G-Bob
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To: MikefromOhio

Liked "Super Troopers," did ya?

Put "Beerfest" on your list. It's a new fave of ours!


64 posted on 12/13/2006 7:08:12 PM PST by Xenalyte (Anything is possible when you don't understand how anything happens.)
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To: Holicheese
Also, Gangs of New York was very overrated.

Any piece of celluloid featuring that girl Leonardo DiCaprio should be glad to be overrated.
65 posted on 12/13/2006 7:09:47 PM PST by Xenalyte (Anything is possible when you don't understand how anything happens.)
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To: Xenalyte

heh ok :)

I already saw my one movie of the year so I'm having to wait for it....


66 posted on 12/13/2006 7:10:24 PM PST by MikefromOhio (losers are fun to talk too....especially when they don't realize they are losers.....)
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To: UncleDick
I couldn't force myself to sit through all of Fargo, but Raising Arizona is one of my all-time faves.
67 posted on 12/13/2006 7:11:15 PM PST by lesser_satan (EKTHELTHIOR!!!)
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To: hawgwalker

OMG, if I hear another actor/Rennie buddy of mine enthuse about "Moulin Rouge," I swear I will projectile-hurl.

I've never even seen it, but their raves fill me with distrust and a desire to avoid the alleged film in question.


68 posted on 12/13/2006 7:11:27 PM PST by Xenalyte (Anything is possible when you don't understand how anything happens.)
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To: randita

The "Green Berets" with John Wayne and the little Dondi-type kid and the ending where the sun sets in the east?

I have never seen it, but I understand it to be a marvel of suckitude.


69 posted on 12/13/2006 7:12:25 PM PST by Xenalyte (Anything is possible when you don't understand how anything happens.)
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To: EveningStar

Citizen Kane. Not a bad movie, especially for its day, but hardly The Greatest Film of All Time.


70 posted on 12/13/2006 7:13:41 PM PST by Mr. Jeeves ("When the government is invasive, the people are wanting." -- Tao Te Ching)
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To: EveningStar

1. The Graduate - almost every top 100 (or whatever) movie list puts this movie near the top. It's gotta be one of the stupidest movies EVER!

2. Chicago - I lasted about 10 minutes through Chicago and I fell asleep; my wife turned it off a few minutes later. And 'All That Jazz' is annoyingly stupid, yet every preview and promotion for that movie played that song over and over.


71 posted on 12/13/2006 7:14:13 PM PST by loreldan (Without coffee I am nothing.)
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To: G-Bob

"Titanic" is a triumph of marketing. That girl Leonardo DiCaprio is calculated to appeal to teenage chicks who find him non-threatening, possibly because the average teenage chick has more testosterone than he ever will.

I hated hated HATED "Titanic."

But a friend posed a question: if a) an actual guy had been cast in the Jack part, and b) there were no such animal as Celine Dion, would the movie still suck?


72 posted on 12/13/2006 7:14:35 PM PST by Xenalyte (Anything is possible when you don't understand how anything happens.)
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To: G-Bob

Titanic, Solaris, the Psycho remake and JFK immediately come to mind.

(and someone above slammed Glengarry Glen Ross -- that is actually one of my favorite films of all time. Some of the crew on that film referred to is as "Death of a F---in' Salesman", thanks to the language, but it is by far one of my favorite films. Then again, if you saw my list of favorites, you'd raise your eyebrow...)


73 posted on 12/13/2006 7:14:52 PM PST by mhking (I make my livin' on the evening news....)
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To: Xenalyte

Please note my tag line since October!!


74 posted on 12/13/2006 7:15:45 PM PST by Holicheese (Beerfest could be the greatest movie ever made!)
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To: LdSentinal

I disagree about Fargo. It is probably the greatest film ever made. Pulp Fiction was great but it was marred by that overdose scene (where the woman had blood coming out of her nose and the guy had to jump start her heart with a needle). That ruined the movie for me. Quentin Quarintino is good at ruining great movies. In Reservoir Dogs, that police torture scene ruined that movie as well. Totally unnecessary.


75 posted on 12/13/2006 7:16:11 PM PST by SamAdams76 (I am 4 days away from outliving Billie Holiday)
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To: Duke Nukum
The Big Lebowski

That's just like your opinion man.


In all honesty it did take me about three viewings before I thought it was one of the funniest things I had ever seen. It takes a while to get over the fact that the plot is practically meaningless.

My overrated list (from looking at IMDB's top 250) is
Citizen Kane
Leon
Donnie Darko
Finding Neverland
and finally I hate Super Troopers.
76 posted on 12/13/2006 7:16:26 PM PST by Mr. Blonde (You know, Happy Time Harry, just being around you kinda makes me want to die.)
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To: MikefromOhio

That's about how long I lasted through Chicago too. My wife even stopped watching a few minutes after I fell asleep.


77 posted on 12/13/2006 7:16:32 PM PST by loreldan (Without coffee I am nothing.)
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To: MikefromOhio

LOL! like i said... Hate. ;)


78 posted on 12/13/2006 7:18:30 PM PST by Echo Talon
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To: loreldan

Mine didn't.

I think she even went to see the play when it was in Columbus....


79 posted on 12/13/2006 7:18:33 PM PST by MikefromOhio (losers are fun to talk too....especially when they don't realize they are losers.....)
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To: Mr. Blonde

I have to disagree with you on some of those.
Loved Super Troopers, Donnie Darko and really like Citizen Kane.


80 posted on 12/13/2006 7:19:05 PM PST by Holicheese (Beerfest could be the greatest movie ever made!)
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