Field of Dreams
Good Will Hunting
Forrest Gump
Moonstruck
Nashville
Gone With the Wind
That movie that they play over and over beginning on Christmas Eve and into Christmas Day. I forget what it is called.
I liked Field of Dreams. My list of overrated movies would be anything by Michael Moore or Algore.
I've seen 6 of 'em.
Liked Fantasia and Forrest Gump.
Never liked Wizard of Oz.
Space Odyssey I liked in college, don't know what I'd think now...but it may have been better than Planet of the Apes, which I hated.
Gone With the Wind...don't think it was overrated, but it's not my type of movie.
Easy Rider sucks.
I agree with those who put The Patriot on the list of overrated.
Movie I like: Long Kiss Goodnight
The Blair Witch Project - I just didn't get it, what was the big deal.
I loved Forrest Gump!
Anything with Julia Roberts--Queen of the Monotone. Ennui, anyone?
Reading the article just confirms the axiom: pan reviews are always more fun to read than raves.
An Inconvenient Truth
MOULIN ROUGE
For me it is "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington." I love Jimmy Stewart, but that ending stunk! I did it, it was me........the end.
Anything with Woody Allen!
Color Purple
Titanic
Titanic.
Anything with Tom Cruise in it except for Risky Business and Taps.
Titanic
Pearl Harbor
Agree with all of those, except I did like Forrest Gump.
My worst two, and I was bamboozled into seeing them (yes a woman was involved) was:
A Perfect Mind
You've Got Mail
Complete waste of time imo.
For the 1s I really know about from this list:
Fantasia – I would agree it’s a little dull. Mostly because one should not be expected to sit through several hours of endless instrumental “music videos”. 1 at a time is much better. But it is in its own way, brilliant.
Field of Dreams – Definitely overrated. Everyone remembers the nice fantasy of baseball ghosts all in 1 spot, and the re-connection to a dad, but what about the not-very-subtle Ode to the Commie Hippie Movement (as if there haven’t been hundreds of those)? That is a major annoyance for me and hence, I am in no hurry to see it again. If it happens to be on, OK, but with that “commie ideal” tripe, even clashing with (of course) monotonic robotic traditional conservative types (that ridiculous “meeting” where the wife proudly lashes out about how she’s from the ‘60s or something), I will not be deliberately watching it.
Chariots of Fire – I saw this once long ago. All I remember specifically is it was too long and dull. Good premise, but dragged out; “exciting” it most definitely is not. Typical non-American approach, I might say.
Forrest Gump – Definitely overrated. I can’t put my finger on it, but maybe it’s because it’s not as if this guy is so great. I think it would’ve been better if it had been shorter (again, the dragged-out dullness issue).
Moonstruck – I think it’s pretty well placed (now, more than 10 years later). Yes the men are ridiculous and it’s silly this “tortured” dope suddenly “passionately loves” this woman with no experience/”development”, but the latter is a fault with far too many movies anyway. It’s at least a rather entertaining movie, if not exactly in my mind truly romantic.
Wizard of Oz – Give the movie a break. It’s supposed to appeal to youngsters. Now, the truth is it wasn’t a big hit when it was in theaters in ’39, but it’s still a pretty good movie. My biggest problem with Oz is that Judy Garland never gets credit outside this movie for all the great stuff she’s done, except for those more in the know. Sometimes you’d think she never did another movie.
American in Paris – DEFINITELY overrated. Well, at least by critics then & now. Its popularity went down fast, exactly because again, it is too long and dull. While Gerschwin is great, that horrid 20-min “ballet”, purely instrumental, is not very pretty and is way too long in itself. Gets boring quickly. And again, why does this guy love this girl so much (besides, I always called Leslie Caron the “bulldog girl”, because her face looks like those MGM cartoon bulldogs) out of the blue? Never mind the fact that the adulation of Frenchie Paris is sickening (but was a trend in the ‘50s), because Paris is also overrated. This film is dirt compared to the fantastic “Singin’ in the Rain” of the next year. Apparently Kelly learned a lesson in that short time, too – the “ballet” should be shorter and include WORDS. Vastly superior to “Paris”.
2001 – Again, just plain boring and way too long.
GWTW – kick off the PC. While it is unfortunate about slavery, truth is it existed. In this movie it is just a matter of course, NOT at all a main point of the story. The slaves are incidental and also treated in their own way lovingly. The “dumb” 1s are pictured more for their cuteness than the fact that they’re not real smart (how is this different from FORREST GUMP, dedicated completely to a dumb guy?). Mammy in particular is pictured and even scored as a smart moral upright commanding mother of a woman. The less-important slaves are pictured as good people. Beyond the incidental slavery – which I suspect is ALWAYS the main reason detractors detract – this is a great story shown marvelously and moved along extremely well.
#1 has got to be The Blair Witch Project. That movie was awful!
Titanic. Not sure how the heck that one made any money at all.
I wouldn't waist my money on the rest....... Yawn!