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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Funny thing... If I remember right, the book “2001” was being written at the same time the movie was being made.
Chicken or the egg?
It was ‘68... I may be remembering wrong.
I guess the message here is to not hope to get movies rated by people that hate movies.
Cagney was so exhausted after filming (gee I can’t imagine why), he pretty much gave up acting after that, only appearing in “Ragtime” twenty years later, which was his last movie.
I hope “Top Gun” and “Independence Day” were in there somewhere. Also the last 3 1/2 star wars movies (from the friggin ewoks forward - special effects not included).
Star Wars was great up until they rescued Hans from the block of carbonite or whatever. After that, it started seriously stinking. Princess Leia looked great in her bronze bikini, though.
+1 The Deer Hunter was garbage, except Meryl Streep was hot.
I was teaching 7th grade when Titanic came out. The girls all thought Leo was dreamy.
American Beauty was trash.
idiot...I figutred out the twist in Unusual Suspects before it was halfway through...
I’m crying, this thread is so funny!
The “romance” was very unbelievable. A girl in high society flipping her elders the proverbial bird and rushing about with a young rogue she barely knows?
Now, as an elderly woman, her most treasured memories are of a fling she had with a boy for a few days? She’s married, had children, and grandchildren, but yet when she “passes”, she’s not reunited with her late husband, but with her lover of four days.
The author absolutely misses the point of the Usual Suspects in that it didn’t follow the same boring hint giving...that’s why it was such a great movie...at least in my opinion.
Pulp Fiction is ome of the better comedies (albeit dark) of the last 20-30 years. As an action film it’s mediocre, but the comedy is brilliant.
I don’t know about “over-rated” because I don’t know if anyone was crazy enough to like it, but the worst movie I’ve ever seen was Peter Jackson’s “King Kong.”
I hated every character and wished someone would kill them off, including the digitally created title character.
There’s one scene where they fell off a cliff, along with a bunch of dinosaurs, in which I think they fell for about an hour and half. It was beyond stupid.
I saw the movie and read the book. It is one of those rare situations where the gook is based on the movie.
>>He died for her. The scrap of wood couldn’t hold them both so he stayed in the icy water and talked her back to life. That was a great scene and lesson about grace in extreme circumstances;<<
Grace is one word — dumb is probably a better word. There was so much flotsam and jetsam than he could have grabbed something to keep himself afloat.
Sacrifice for its own sake isn’t noble — it is just, well, dumb.
>>As for Titanic, it’s very formulaic, and I was surprised by how successful it was.<<
Yeah, but there is a cool part, toward the end, where this big ship sinks. ;)
LOL at typo.
My wife and I are huge fans of fargo. But you have to “get it”. One of the major and influential “characters” in the movie is the weather.
I’m going to put my vote in for overrated movie on “Saving Private Ryan.”
It was pretty good up until the last scene at the cemetery where the old guy (was that Ryan? who knows, who care) said, “I was a good man, wasn’t I?” which completely ruined the movie. It made me hate the entire movie I had just watched. Blech!
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