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Twenty Most Overrated Films of All Time: Part 2
Big Hollywood ^ | Mar 20th 2011 | Ben Shapiro

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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To: freedumb2003

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.


61 posted on 03/21/2011 9:44:40 PM PDT by hattend (Obama got his 3am call about Egypt. The call went right to the answering machine.- Sarah Palin)
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To: winstonwolf33

I guess the message here is to not hope to get movies rated by people that hate movies.


62 posted on 03/21/2011 9:45:44 PM PDT by Ramius (Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
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To: Walkingfeather

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.


63 posted on 03/21/2011 9:48:19 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: winstonwolf33

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).


64 posted on 03/21/2011 9:49:19 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

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.


65 posted on 03/21/2011 9:51:52 PM PDT by Richard Kimball (Proud member of the Keepers Of Odd Knowledge (KOOK))
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To: I still care

+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.


66 posted on 03/21/2011 9:52:35 PM PDT by Judges Gone Wild (Who are these uncircumcised to oppose the armies of the Living God?)
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To: winstonwolf33

idiot...I figutred out the twist in Unusual Suspects before it was halfway through...


67 posted on 03/21/2011 9:54:04 PM PDT by Homer1
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To: winstonwolf33
Agree with them all except 'Some Like It Hot'. Funny movie with three of our all time greatest stars; Jack Lemon, Tony Curtis and the inimitable Marilyn Monroe.
68 posted on 03/21/2011 9:54:04 PM PDT by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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To: winstonwolf33
Who is this Ben Shapiro anyhow? What's his expertise in film? OK so his list is half-right. The Graduate is in fact a very overrated and preposterous film. Likewise Pulp Fiction and its gratuitous violence is trash. Likewise The Usual Suspects breaks all the rules of a whodunit movie.

But Chinatown, Annie Hall, Some like it hot are classics. Annie Hall and Some like it hot are two of the funniest movies ever made.

I'd like to know what movies Ben Shapiro thinks are good.
69 posted on 03/21/2011 9:55:54 PM PDT by truthguy (Good intentions are not enough.)
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To: haroldeveryman

I’m crying, this thread is so funny!


70 posted on 03/21/2011 9:55:58 PM PDT by Havisham
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To: Professional

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.


71 posted on 03/21/2011 9:59:56 PM PDT by Immerito (Reading Through the Bible in 90 Days)
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To: winstonwolf33

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.


72 posted on 03/21/2011 10:02:23 PM PDT by phatus maximus ( John 6:29. Learn it, love it, live it.)
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To: winstonwolf33

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.


73 posted on 03/21/2011 10:03:38 PM PDT by Homer1
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To: winstonwolf33

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.


74 posted on 03/21/2011 10:06:31 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (Pay heed to your principled position and you won't have to worry about your political position.)
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To: freedumb2003

I saw the movie and read the book. It is one of those rare situations where the gook is based on the movie.


75 posted on 03/21/2011 10:08:02 PM PDT by RobRoy (The US today: Revelation 18:4)
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To: Havisham

>>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.


76 posted on 03/21/2011 10:08:32 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats. /P. J. O'Rourke, 1991)
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To: DeskCaptain

>>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. ;)


77 posted on 03/21/2011 10:09:24 PM PDT by RobRoy (The US today: Revelation 18:4)
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To: RobRoy

LOL at typo.


78 posted on 03/21/2011 10:11:15 PM PDT by SIDENET ("If that's your best, your best won't do." -Dee Snider)
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To: Professional

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.


79 posted on 03/21/2011 10:11:38 PM PDT by RobRoy (The US today: Revelation 18:4)
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To: winstonwolf33

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!


80 posted on 03/21/2011 10:12:06 PM PDT by Auntie Mame (Fear not tomorrow. God is already there.)
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