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The 20 Most Overrated Movies of All Time
Premiere Magazine ^ | December 12, 2006 | various

Posted on 12/13/2006 5:40:45 PM PST by EveningStar

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To: Borges

"Miracle of 34th Street" is a very touching movie with the true Santa Claus in it (Edmund Gwyn is magnificent, unparalled).

I know what you mean about masterpiece and I think it's alot of blowhard stuff. Why not just go by how it actually strikes you, 1st-blush kind of thing? Why pick it apart? Sure, you can if you like, LATER, but is that really how you "film" (buzzword) nuts watch a new movie the 1st time? Can't you just sit back & relax and see how it hits you? I really don't mean to be insulting, but then, frankly, the references to "the masses" by such film nuts is insulting.

We can argue about IAWL all day. Bottom line is it is a GOOD movie that is enjoyable to watch. But it's not something that makes me say, "hey, I GOTTA watch that every month!"


341 posted on 12/14/2006 10:00:08 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
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To: Borges

"Die Hard" is still the best Christmas movie ever. :)


342 posted on 12/14/2006 10:01:09 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Borges

WRONG.

Singin' in the Rain was preferred in box-office sales at its release compared to American in Paris. It is PARIS that is MORE preferred by critics. Never mind it continued having more popularity since then, all along.

Thankfully, it is so good that even critics can't "criticize" it, as they do most "mass-appeal" pieces.


343 posted on 12/14/2006 10:02:48 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
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To: Borges

As far as the "Xmas movie" thing, I think I agree to an extent. Although, while it is sometimes shown at holiday time (and will be this Xmas Eve and the Day itself), "Meet Me in St. Louis" I've never heard referred to as an "Xmas movie", although it has a wonderful setting during winter & Christmas specifically. Thus, the fact that IAWL starts and ends at Xmas only pushes my limits of the definition. Sure it's convenient that it was at Xmas, but it wasn't really BECAUSE of Xmas that anything happened. And most of the movie spent time giving George's biography. Not extremely Christmasy to me!


344 posted on 12/14/2006 10:06:25 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel
I guess you agree with Elaine Benes.

Yes indeedy. She had me hysterical in that episode. I knew JUST how she felt.

345 posted on 12/14/2006 10:53:00 AM PST by Maceman (This is America. Why must we press "1" for English?)
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To: Maceman

Why didn't you just go to sleep?


346 posted on 12/14/2006 11:03:11 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
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To: My Favorite Headache
"Fast Times at Ridgemont High
A Christmas Story
Caddyshack
Blues Brothers

These are 4 of the best movies ever made ..."

Certainly four of the best comedies made in the past 25 or so years.
347 posted on 12/14/2006 11:18:43 AM PST by riverdawg
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To: the OlLine Rebel
SITA is almost universally regarded by critics as the best movie musical of all time. The late Betty Comden who co wrote the script says she was acosted at a party by Francois Truffaut who claimed it was one of his favorite films of all time and how it pops up on Critics' All Time Best lists like the Sight and Sound poll which is the most prominent international critics poll...(Citizen Kane, ruyles of the Game...Singing in the Rain!)

It's much more highly regarded then AAIP which isn't even Vincente Minnelli's best movie musical (Meet Me in St Louis, The Band Wagon, The Pirate).

The reason SITA was overlooked at the time is because it came out right right when AAIP won the Best Picture Oscar. But amongst Auterist critics SITA is preffered hands down.
348 posted on 12/14/2006 11:20:41 AM PST by Borges
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To: lowbridge
How do you feel about the Kevin Kline movie "In and Out"?

never heard of it...

349 posted on 12/14/2006 11:27:50 AM PST by Echo Talon
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To: Echo Talon
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119360/

Howard Brackett (Kevin Kline) is a high school teacher in a small town in Indiana with everything going for him; a nice job, an attractive fiancé named Emily (Joan Cusack) and respect from everyone. Everything changes in one night when a former high school student of his, named Cameron Drake (Matt Dillon), now a famous actor living in Hollywood, makes an acceptance speech after receiving an Academy Award for his portrayal of a homosexual army soldier and 'outs' Howard Brackett as his inspiration for his role. The media circus immediately begins as Howard desperately tries keep his life from falling apart by protesting that he is not gay and that the whole thing with Cameron's speech is a simple misunderstanding. While most of the townspeople want to believe Howard, Peter Malloy (Tom Selleck), an openly gay TV reporter who arrives in town to cover the story, suspects that the teacher is in denial.

Story rumored to be loosely based upon Tom Hanks acceptance speech when receiving his Academy Award for "Philadelphia".

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119360/plotsummary

350 posted on 12/14/2006 11:43:49 AM PST by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

ahh.. always with the gay overtones... thats Hollywood for ya.


351 posted on 12/14/2006 11:47:54 AM PST by Echo Talon
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To: riverdawg
Certainly four of the best comedies made in the past 25 or so years.

I recently saw "Hollywood Knights" for the first time in years. I had forgotten how funny that movie was. Robert Wuhl was an absolute riot as Newbomb Turk.

352 posted on 12/14/2006 11:50:45 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Borges

I highly doubt that was true 40-50 years ago. Although I don't doubt they at least had a good view of it. Hadn't gotten the impression critics "hated" it, just that it wasn't the darling that Paris was. After all, Paris won *Best Picture* and Rain wasn't even nominated. That's telling right there.


353 posted on 12/14/2006 11:53:33 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
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To: EveningStar

Most UNDERRATED movies:

Airplane
The Police Academy movies
Revenge of the Nerds
My Cousin Vinny
Beverly Hills Cop
Spaceballs

;-)


354 posted on 12/14/2006 11:54:39 AM PST by RockinRight (Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. He's a Socialist. And unqualified.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

They didn't hate it. It's just not regarded as all it was cracked to be at the time. And Oscars are strictly a Hollywood thing. Critics don't get a vote.


355 posted on 12/14/2006 12:07:08 PM PST by Borges
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To: Borges

Yes, but frankly, "Hollywood" tends to be much closer to critics in what it thinks is great than to the "masses".


356 posted on 12/14/2006 12:49:36 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
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To: Borges

I think you're confusing the "its" - you seem to be talking about Paris when I was talking about Rain.

They didn't hate either. But at the time, they seemed to prefer Paris.


357 posted on 12/14/2006 12:50:55 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel
Why didn't you just go thttp://www.freerepublic.com/perl/post#help see help for more informationo sleep?

I kept trying, but my wife kept jabbing me in the ribs every time I started snoring and drooling.


358 posted on 12/14/2006 12:56:57 PM PST by Maceman (This is America. Why must we press "1" for English?)
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To: Duke Nukum
Moulon Rouge Blade Runner Alien Anything by Robert Altman Wild At Heart Almost Famous Fast Times at Ridgmont High A Christmas Story Caddyshack Blues Brothers The Big Lebowski Jacob's Ladder

I'm not a huge DVD collector by any stretch of the imagination, but I own five of the films on your list.

Remind me never to invite you to the movies.

359 posted on 12/14/2006 12:59:46 PM PST by King of Florida (A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

Critics make fun of the Oscars all the time which tend to avoid overly edgy for the safe and prestigious (An American Paris over 'A Street Car Named Desire' 'My Fair Lady' over 'Dr. Strangelove', 'A Man for All Seasons' over 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' etc.) Critics polls tend to go differently almost all the time.


360 posted on 12/14/2006 1:11:39 PM PST by Borges
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