Posted on 03/13/2011 6:54:03 PM PDT by Perdogg
This year was actually a good year for movies, as I’ve written repeatedly. The King’s Speech was great; so was Toy Story 3; Inception may go down as one of the most creative films of all time. The Fighter was excellent as well.
Then there were the overrated films. Black Swan was atrociously awful, another Aronofsky masterpiece of self-aggrandizing bullcrap. The Kids Are All Right was a TV movie masquerading as a prestige film because it was about lesbians. True Grit was a remake.
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Glad to see someone else thinks Legends of the Fall was overrated. Too many screaming Indians. Hard to sit thru.
2001 is slow boring and dull. And that is its good parts. People tell me I just don’t understand it. No $hit Sherlock!
Celine was also big on supporting anti-piracy efforts, 'Hey Celine, let them hear dose tings for once."
Blade Runner
“Blade Runner”: Good stuff. Not overrated.
“Juno”: Makes me bark like a collie. ‘Nough said.
“Shakespeare in Love”: I saw it once and honestly don't remember much about it.
“Little Miss Sunshine”: Never saw it.
“The English Patient”: Boring. Overrated.
“Giant”: Never saw it.
“American Graffiti”: STRONG DISAGREE!!! Classic film; one of my top 30-35 flicks.
“The Matrix”: Good stuff. Not overrated.
“Annie Hall”: Never saw it.
“Lost In Translation”: A bit dull, but ok. Generally overrated though.
Juno and Little Miss Sunshine don’t seem to be rated that high to be the most OVER RATED of all time. I think we need to look at movies that are seen by so many as major achievements that saying anything bad about them is like that kid who says “the emperor wears no clothes!”
My most overrated list:
Godfather
Apocalypse Now
Last Tango in Paris
Tootsie
Pulp Fiction
Anything by woody allen
Anything by mel brooks
Raging Bull
Taxi Driver
Fargo
The Graduate
Mine:
1. The Prisoner of Zenda (1937 version, not the one with Stewart Grainger)
2. My Man Godfrey
3. Brief Encounter
I have to disagree, but do it nicely.
CK had some technical issues, dealing with sound and camera angles that were the first of their kind. They probably look cliche now, but the movie was not overrated—in the context of the impact it had on the “art” of filmmaking.
Read John Gardner’s assessment of it in one of his two books on writing fiction. He demolishes it, its two dimensional characters (the capitalists bad, the peasants all good,) if you ever read socrealist fiction, Steinbeck’s novel fits the template, and was widely translated in Communist countries as one of the few American novels. He visited there in the late 40s or early 50s, there are factual and fictionalized reports by Czech writers, of a useful idiot American writer extolling the virtues of socialism.
Are you kidding? The mohawk and the rail system make the movie, not to mention “You talking to me?”
‘Rebel Without a Cause’ is a brilliant film. It has to be seen widescreen to grasp the architectural direction of Nicholas Ray.
moulin rouge totally sucked. yet all you heard for a year was how GREAT it was!
I HATE both the book and film versions of To Kill a Mockingbird. What a bunch of sentimental, self-righteous, middle class pile of
2001 the movie came out in '68, I was 6. Too young to appreciate the movie. I guess maybe I still am.
Brings up a whole new way to review movies.
Did you see Milla Jovovich in The Fifth Element?
Ok, Spaceballs was only good if you were stoned. There was another one, High Anxiety and that was marginal.
But Young Frankenstein was wonderfully funny.
With the exception of "Blazing Saddles."
I agree. One of THE funniest movies ever made. IMO
And finally the questions: Most overrated by whom? And why should I care?
Another overrated actor.
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