Twenty Most Overrated Films of All Time: Part 2

Big Hollywood ^ | Mar 20th 2011 | Ben Shapiro

[winstonwolf33]

10. Titanic: If you’re a teenage girl, I understand – Leo is soooo dreamy (retch). But if not, you have no excuse. Utterly ludicrous interpretation of a tragic event. Exploitative in the extreme. Yes, during the sinking of the Titanic, I’m sure that people went hunting each other with pistols. The dialogue is some of the worst ever penned. And she throws the diamond into the sea at the end? My God, old woman, there are millions starving and you throw a priceless jewel into the ocean? Selfish hag.

9. Some Like It Hot: Not a terrible movie, just not a great one. Still unsure why this is considered one of the great comedies of all time. I love Billy Wilder, but this isn’t his best comedy, or even among his top ten movies (see The Apartment, The Fortune Cookie, Stalag 17, the underrated Ace in the Hole, Witness for the Prosecution, Ball of Fire, Sabrina, Love in the Afternoon, Sunset Blvd. and Ninotchka all rank above it). And what the hell does the last line even mean?

8. Chinatown: A good movie, but is it really the best script of all time?

7. 2001: A Space Odyssey: 45 minutes of greatness, almost two hours of poop, including half an hour of monkeys hitting each other with sticks. Oh yeah, and there’s a monolith.

6. The Usual Suspects: When I finished this movie, I wanted to punch somebody. Here’s the deal with twist endings: you have to give the audience clues, and the twist must not invalidate the entire movie. The Usual Suspects broke both these rules. First, the clues were not available the entire movie – only when they show you the board, the mug, etc. do you realize he’s been making up the story. That’s called cheating.

[JoeProBono]

[patriot08]

He’s really a smart kid.
Think he did a pretty fair job of it.
:)

[kevkrom]

all Star Wars movies after the first one

I disagree -- the original Star Wars was groundbreaking, but otherwise not a particularly good film. The characters were cartoonish cutouts more than anything with real depth. But the scope and the use of visual effects was amazing at the time of its release.

In my opinion, the only good movie in the series, on all fronts, was the second (The Empire Strikes Back), which, coincidentally, was the one Lucas had the least direct involvement in. Just sayin'.

[Kimmers]

Titanic, yes.....

“The Piano”....that may have been on the first list.....horrible movie that critics loved.....

[JoeProBono]

[Borges]

2001 the book was written when the film was already in production. It was a unique situation. The film makes all the sense it needs to. Harlan Ellison was a generation after Clarke who was writing classic SF in the early 1950s.

[Borges]

He didn’t even direct FDTD.

[mad_as_he$$]

I take on exception to the list. I actually really enjoyed The Usual Suspects and think it is a work many do not understand at it’s true level.

[Borges]

I saw ‘Reservoir Dogs’ in the theater before anyone knew who he was and the audience loved it. It’s a tour de force of a film.

[Borges]

Pulp fiction isn’t that violent. Most of the violence is just outside the frame.

[Rummyfan]

Chinatown: A good movie, but is it really the best script of all time?

It is a great movie, probably the best thing Jack Nicholson ever did, ditto for the child-molesting Roman Polanski.

[Rummyfan]

American Beauty: Obnoxious beyond belief.

Agree wholeheartedly! And Kevin Spacey - please go away!

[BlueLancer]

"12. Annie Hall: This is the only Woody Allen film I’ve ever seen. I thought it was quite funny, but have nothing to compare it with."

You need to watch "Play It Again, Sam". It's the only Woody Allen movie that I thought was truly funny, with Woody Allen, for the most part, playing himself (or at least what I imagine him to be).

[Rummyfan]

Wilder's "One, Two, Three" is one of the funniest movies ever made, and Cagney's performance was one of the most brilliant comedy performances ever.

One of my favorites!

[ConservativeWarrior]

It would have been a better movie had they done it more from the perspective of the crew, instead of turning it into a chick flick.

You've got that right. Same thing with Pearl Harbor.

I saw the Pearl Harbor teaser in the movie theater. It was a gorgeous sequence of Jap planes launching from carriers, breaking through cloud cover, and dive bombing a battleship. The perspective for the final scene was a chase view of a bomb being dropped. The special effects were outstanding, and you could see the crew scattering over the deck as the bomb reached its target.

When I went to the theater 4 months later, all I got was a bunch of pansies cast as pilots, some crass hags cast as "hero nurses", and a 2 hour soap opera with a few battle scenes tossed in at the end.

Pearl Harbor was the most dissapointing movie ever filmed. Period.

[Rummyfan]

Avatar. My gosh, don’t get me started. If I want a message, I get an answering machine.

As Louis B Mayer said, if you want to send a message, use Western Union!

[Rummyfan]

The film's vision of a dystopian future and defective androids that had to be identified and decommissioned was great.

REPLICANTS! (Or Skins as they were called in the flick...)

[trisham]

No flames here.

[trisham]

I’ve tried watching “American Beauty” a couple of times. I don’t get it. It’s boring and the characters are not appealing.

[BlueLancer]

Bookmark for later response ...