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Posted on 03/21/2011 8:46:19 PM PDT by 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.
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lol....Contact’s on my list of Top 5 Stupidest Movies Ever Made.
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.
I clicked back to the 20 list — “Lost in Translation.”
1.5 or 2 hours of my life I want back. I am amazed we all exist since the black hole of suckitude that movie created should have devoured us all in its singularity.
I agree with 14 of the 20 picks.
Pulp Fiction is on his list? Huh? Is he insane?
PF is one of the most awesome movies of all time, unless you’re gay, or hate gays, and cannot handle the basement scene. The basement scene ROCKS.
“That watch was in my ### for years in an NVA prison, it belonged to your dad, and I promised I’d return it to you, his son...” I mean WOWSA, now I totally get it, why a guy would risk his whole life, for a F’n watch!!
The ending, totally sewed the movie up. There are times in life, where you just feel it, you WALK AWAY from it.
Absolutely right. 2001 is a classic, but these lists are just opinions, and we all know what Clint said about those
>>lol....Contact’s on my list of Top 5 Stupidest Movies Ever Made<<
To each his/her own, but it caught me up in the idea of contact and made the concept of a physical contact real — it didn’t treat us as children and examined every corner of the argument.
It wimped at the end but what movie doesn’t?
I normally find myself overwhelmingly disagreeing with these lists...but the guy writing these two makes some valid points.
My humble opinions on the lists:
20. Blade Runner: Disagree with the writer big time on this one. I’d agree Scott did better work on Alien, but Blade Runner is still amazing and many years ahead of its time. Minority Report better? Ha ha ha!!! <—(flame bait :-)
19 & 16 Shakespeare in Love and The English Patient. Both were vastly overrated, IMHO. I was never able to finish ‘Patient, actually. Too dull.
15. Giant. I speak blasphemy here, but...I never thought James Dean was that great an actor.
14. American Grafitti: I really liked this one. Overrated? Maybe. But still a great movie.
13. The Matrix: Agree. Amazing F/X, but IMHO eXistenZ and Dark City had much better acting and storylines.
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.
10. Titanic: It’s easy to pick on the biggest grossing movie of all time (IIRC). No film could live up to the hype surrounding Titanic. It’s a well-made film, though not my personal favorite.
9. Some Like it Hot: I’d agree Wilder has done much better movies. Stalag 17 is one of my all time favorites.
8. Chinatown: Y’know, I’ve never seen this one.
4. Fargo. Oh yah! I liked Fargo, and thought it was quirky fun, but I didn’t see it as the masterpiece some do.
2. Raging Bull: While it’s not my favorite Scorsese film, I think the writer really, really doesn’t “get it” if his primary criticism of the director is that his characters aren’t sympathetic.
1. The Graduate: This film has always made me feel stupid. In the sense that after watching it I always asked myself...”and?” As in “And, is that all there is?” I thought it was okay, but nowhere near the accolades it has received over the decades.
>>PF is one of the most awesome movies of all time, unless you’re gay, or hate gays, and cannot handle the basement scene. The basement scene ROCKS.<<
The revolving conceit is just that — a conceit. By the time the viewer realizes they are flipping chapters back and forth the damn movie is over.
It was good and interesting as an abstract study in cinema but hardly “great.”
No, this needs to be a slug fest for over rated movies, and folks willing to defend them. Mano a mano... movie a movie...
Just thinking about ET makes me sick, I hate that creepy, fakey looking martian thing and the stupid kids sucking up to him. Go eat candy somewhere else, and bring a cool gun next time, if you live that long you limp lymph noded pile of goo.
Leo DeCaprio (sp?) has always reminded me of the Pillsbury Dough Boy.
Anything Tarantino does is pure awesomeness, but I do understand he’s not everyone’s cup of tea.
>>20. Blade Runner: Disagree with the writer big time on this one. I’d agree Scott did better work on Alien, but Blade Runner is still amazing and many years ahead of its time. Minority Report better? Ha ha ha!!! <—(flame bait :-)<<
I think the OP was attracting flames. Just the look and feel and the REALITY of the movie was worth watching. Again, understated special effects that appear to be everyday is what creates an ambiance that is the envy of every Sci Fi movie since.
>>Anything Tarantino does is pure awesomeness, but I do understand he’s not everyone’s cup of tea.<<
He peaked at “Dusk ‘till dawn.” After that everything was/is derivative.
>>No, this needs to be a slug fest for over rated movies, and folks willing to defend them. Mano a mano... movie a movie...<<
I withdraw my prior suggestion. You are right, we should address the 10 (or 20?) in the OP.
I think overall women liked Titanic a WHOLE lot more than men.. Like Pearl Harbor.. side stories of a chick flick variety in there .. for guys it muddies the water.. for gals, it makes it a better story more or less. Well that is the consensus of my friends = men & women
Which, of course, boils down to:
Men <> Women
BTW, a few that would make my own personal list of overrated movies (all MHO, of course).
MASH - Maybe I’m just not an Altman fan, but I thought MASH was a merely okay movie with a couple really good performances (Duvall’s Frank Burns, for example).
Reservoir Dogs - I know it’s considered by many to be QT’s best work, but this one didn’t work for me. Given the cast, and the fact that it was a remake of a very good Hong Kong action film (City on Fire), RD should have knocked the socks off. Instead, we get a mailed-in performance from Harvey Keitel, so-so dialogue, and just kind of a dull movie. I’ll take Pulp Fiction any day!
Philadelphia - To this day there are folks who clamor that it should have been nominated for Best Picture and so on. Hanks put in an amazing performance, but the rest of the movie basically stunk. Even for a “message” movie, Philadelphia was heavy-handed and melodramatic. It felt more like a Lifetime network movie of the week than a Best Picture. And the way the late, great Jason Robards was squandered as a one-dimensional villain - ugh!
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