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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Flash Gordon (1980) is one of my favorites too. Max Von Sydow stole the show as Ming. Hence my tagline.
1. Anything by James Cameron
2. Anything with Kevin Costner
3. The Color Purple
4. Fried Green Tomatoes
5. Forrest Gump/Big (tie)
I did not like the Kill Bill’s. I don’t know, it just did not have the same “flavor.”
Dusk til Dawn still makes me chuckle, and who’s jaw can stay clenched when Selma Hayek comes on the screen.
Inglorious Basterds was a little slow...but I still think it was wonderful. They should have left Brad Pitt’s little crew on the screen the whole movie.
The Silence of the Lambs does look overrated to me. Not just as a movie, but as a cultural phenomenon -- both as a movie people still quote from and as an inspiration for other serial killer movies.
I wonder if you could say the same thing for some Hitchcock movies. Not that they were bad, just that they may not have been as great as people came to think afterward. With so many imitators in the suspense and horror genres it's hard to get back to the original thrill.
Maybe Kubrick, too. 2001? Barry Lyndon? Is Eyes Wide Shut overrated or has it fallen into the memory hole and been forgotten? Or is Kubrick's work so much better than run of the mill movies that a little overrating is forgivable?
I 100% concur, that was the most god awful movie I ever forced myself to watch. Yes, after 20 minutes in, it was pure torture to watch.
American Beauty (1999) was the most overrated movie I ever saw.
Almost forgot: Zulu and also Zulu Dawn were great war movies for their time. and Band of Brothers was pretty good, too.
Don't know anyone personally that likes him either.. The MSM, and Hollywood think he's a genius, but then they are shallow.
I’ll have to check out the Zulu films.
Band of Brothers was surprisingly good (Spielberg & Hanks).
Why were you surprised? Spielberg has been dealing with WW2 since the 1970s.
Have you ever seen any of his best films? He’s was a comic prodigy. Wrote for Sid Caesar as a teenager.
Because being the liberal he is, I’m surprised he hasn’t portrayed the USA as the “bad guy”.
What films did he do that in?
You never saw Zulu?
Oh—you’re in for a treat!
Here’s what one reviewer on Amazon has to say about the movie: “Zulu is one of the greatest historical action movies ever made, and one of the great war movies. It is based on what historian Michael Glover terms ‘the most highly decorated battle in British history’, the defence of Rorke’s Drift during the Zulu War of 1879. Eleven of the defenders received Britain’s highest award for military valor, the Victoria Cross—the rarely awarded counterpart of the US Congressional Medal of Honor. The movie is a landmark in the art of cinema for its extraordinary combination of location, cross-cultural engagement, a real story, good script and fine cast. This 1964 film never looks tired, despite my many years of rerunning it in 16mm, the Criterion laserdisc, and now the Front Row Entertainment Inc. DVD. Anecdotally, military colleges have used Zulu to show the power of directed massed musketry, and leadership and teamwork in combat.”
One of the movies iconic moments: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkSPmsZxesw&feature=related
I don’t think this is anything but a column-filler made of straw men, but I’ll t’ro’ in my two cents.
“Blade Runner” — it’s all about the looks. And imagine the ego of someone who thinks they can improve on PK Dick by throwing out everything except the character names? Do I have it on VHS? Yes, the narration version, and I used to have the other version on VHS as well. Do I have it on DVD? Yes. Do I have the deluxe Blu-Ray edition? Yes, I do. I’ve watched it a LOT of times, because it’s entertaining, and try to overlook the screwed up dialogue, at least one goofy voiceover (for example, the one shot of Harrison Ford through that fish tank), some other stuff. And the climax pursuit scene goes on too long.
“Juno” — I have no idea what that is.
“Shakespeare in Love” — the jackass who wrote this “overrated” article has his head up his ass about what this movie was about. What an imbecile. Russell Crowe also doesn’t like it, because he thinks he should have been cast in the lead. Yeah, that and throwing a telephone at a hotel clerk will get you a cup of coffee thrown in your crotch. This is a nearly ideal movie because it has so many angles by which it can be enjoyed. The only reason I don’t watch it more is that Gwyneth Paltrow, surely one of the ugliest actresses of all time, is the female lead.
“Little Miss Sunshine” — WTH?
“The English Patient” — all I know about it is the lampooning of it and its fans in that episode of Seinfeld. I don’t have the remotest interest in seeing it.
“Giant” — speaking of overrated, James Dean. In this society, people die young and the are elevated well past their significance, kinda like what Hadrian did with his catamite Antinoos. Three movies, gets outed, crashes his car. One of Liz Taylors little girlie-boys.
“American Graffiti” — all of George Lucas’ movies are overrated by someone (mostly by George Lucas and his fans), but this one is pretty fun, and has that cool amateurish quality of a lot of nostalgia films which try to have a message.
“The Matrix” — it’s a kung fu movie without the plot.
“Annie Hall” — it’s a classic, but not every film is for everybody. That said, those who don’t like this one would probably test positive for drugs of abuse. Whatever Woody Allen’s personal failings are or may be, he is a great director and writer of screenplays. In this connection, it’s perhaps not a coincidence that he made the list, because in his “Manhattan” there’s that memorable scene where his best friend and the bf’s lover are discussing their “academy of the overrated”.
“Lost In Translation” — it’s amusing, it’s not annoying, and it has an intimate quality because of the nearly absent soundtrack. There are no car chases, explosions, and the only thing that comes close to a sex scene is also the only scene that made me laugh the first time through.
I can’t wait to see the next ten. :’) Thanks Perdogg.
“Too bad she won’t live. But then again who does?”
“Disgusting”? Lighten up. It’s a big world out there!
I liked Shawshank but you’ll like this anecdote: I am an inventor and in 1998 Disney World invited me to show something I made at an anniversary show going in Fla. I had a booth and Tim Robbins was in my booth looking at my product and I sincerely asked him who the actor was that he looked like. He replied that he was Tim Robbins. ...and then he left. (and I do mean ‘left’)
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