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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I saw the trailer of Avatar in a theater before it was released and it explained itself very nicely. I refuse to view it.
Any thoughts on Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels? It has elements of Pulp Fiction in it. I think I liked it better than PF.
But i was really looking forward to “Hitler on Ice” and “Jews in Space”.
Not so good at jokes though. Saying that Woody Allen has no talent has to be meant as a joke.
Love the book, love the concept, but it’s just a bad movie, and not worth it’s commom 4-star rating. Personally, I think a movie adaption of Rendezvous With Rama would have been better. By the way, it’s insulting to accuse me of “not understanding something” just because I don’t like it. We all have our own opinions. It’s like Liberals saying “Oh you don’t like Obama because you’re just not smart enough to understand his policies.” I understand perfectly well. And he blows too...
Rama was publishjed about five years after 2001 was made. And the book version of 2001 was written after the film was already in production.
It’s a perfect film that does exactly what it sets out to do. If you think the acting was bad or it was too long and slow as so many claim than no you don’t understand what the film was trying to do.
Platoon
Wall Street
An Inconvenient Truth
Avatar
Kramer Vs. Kramer
I haven’t looked at the thread yet, how many did I get?
I mean really, who even THINKS of Kramer Vs. Kramer now but it was “an important film about divorce” at the time.
20. Blade Runner: I’ve watched it three times, hoping to understand the hubbub. The concept is interesting, as all Philip Dick concepts are. The pacing, however, is glacial, and the plot is amorphous. I don’t hate this movie, I just don’t love it the way some film geeks do. Minority Report is a better movie, and an underrated one (aside from copious amounts of snot).
That's because Hollywood's A-list critics all poo pooed this film when it debuted. The "director's cut" which removed Harrison Ford's character's narration was then used as the excuse the A-listers like Ebert could then cite as why they NOW like the film which already had a sizeable "cult" following.
Removing the narration leaves a lot of empty holes in the soundtrack and make the thing crawl much more. Ignore the critics and watch the original theatrical version.
Napoleon Dynamite could not help but be overhyped. It was manufactured cult film.
The primary promotion for the first several months were 100% free screenings, and those who were on the viral list for passes were encouraged to attend 3 or more screenings for graduated prizes (a free t-shirt, and then more, and then entry into a special drawing).
The buzz was viral marketing and not rabid appreciation.
What about the "Al Gore inspired" Love Story?
BREATHLESS with Jean Paul Belmondo. Greatly over rated eurotrash.
It reminds me of the film within a film that Peter Sellers made in the movie, AFTER THE FOX. Even some twit in the courtroom scene loved it and called it a masterpiece!
***The most over-rated? Anything by Mel Brooks.***
I thought his THE ELEPHANT MAN was great! It was not a spoof or comedy. It was a very disturbing film as I remember seeing freaks in a carnival 55 years ago.
***Also Touch of Evil and The Third Man.***
Two of my favorites!
***moulin rouge totally sucked. yet all you heard for a year was how GREAT it was!***
Which one? the one about Tolouse Loutrec (which is good)or the musical one with Kidman?
“One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and “American Beauty.”
Both were garbage.
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