Three most overrated movies

[MNDude]

What top three movies do you think do you think didn't live up to all their hype?

[FlJoePa]

I’d also make a Baldwin exception for Glengarry Glen Ross

[raybbr]

Any of the “Godfather” movies.

[IbJensen]

Cleopatra

Zero Dark 30 (Or whatever this thing was called)

Raintree County

[When do we get liberated?]

see “the number 23” Awesome movie with Jim as a killer.

[catfish1957]

Caddyshack: Take out the too few Rodney Dangerfield scenes, and some of the Ted Knight scenes... and this film is dreck. Yawn

Are you kidding? Murray's Carl as the Assistant Grounds Keeper is some absolute comic gold.

[trebb]

Any vampire flick that doesn’t have Lou Diamond Phillips in it - without him it just ain’t a classic...

[left that other site]

I agree wholeheartedly.

I saw Forrest Gump once. That was enough.

Yet, I have seen Casablanca, All About Eve, The Wizard of Oz, The (original) Producers, The Blues Brothers, and many others so many times I can quote them word for word. They are like a favorite painting or Piece of music, that one can enjoy again and again. Perhaps that should be the standard for “Art”. How many times will you go back and experience it again?

I really LOVED Elaine’s reaction to “The English Patient” on Seinfeld. (IHATE THIS MOVIE!!!!!!!!!!)

LOL.

[left that other site]

Thank you for that review...I almost spent $4.99 to watch it. Now I will wait for it to come on Netflix.

[Future Snake Eater]

“A Few Good Men.” Despite some entertaining speechifying by Nicholson, overall it was, at best, pretty good. Key pieces of the script don’t make any sense, but we’re supposed to be placated by the overwritten witty banter provided us by Sorkin.

[AnAmericanAbroad]

“Avatar” is overrated. The story we’ll have seen plenty of times, from “Dances With Wolves” to “Pocahontas” to “Ferngully: The Last Rainforest”. I had the good luck to see it in a 3-D cinema in Prague when it came out, and the only thing that works in its favor is the visual effects - James Cameron knows how to use visual effects probably better than anyone else.

“Titanic” is in the same vein. It’s essentially a remake of “A Night To Remember” with vastly improved visual effects, but I have to give Cameron props for giving me, as a moviegoer, a good feeling of what it must’ve been like on that cold April night, watching what was at that time the biggest man-made moving object go to a watery grave - along with a good proportion of the hapless people onboard her. The story? Meh....”Movie-of-The-Week” melodrama.

“The Day After Tomorrow” and “2012”. Roland Emmerich is Germany’s answer to James Cameron meets Irwin Allen. He’s good at making disaster films that are immensely fun to watch, but as with most films in that genre, the dialogue is bland and the acting wooden. Paycheck movies for all involved, basically. Though, like Mr. Cameron, Mr. Emmerich certainly knows how to handle visual effects and create spectacular setpiece scenes.

[left that other site]

I am glad I am not the only person on the planet who HATED “Avatar”.

Or who has the nerve to ADMIT it!

Thank you for your kind affirmation of my very “unpopular” opinion!
:-)

[Smokin' Joe]

Oh Brother Where Art Thou was outstanding.

Yeah, but the music really made the show.

[left that other site]

Amen.

[left that other site]

Ah!

All these pans of “Avatar” are music to my eyes! :-)

[mrs. a]

Here are my top three:

1.) Star Wars (she ducks.) This came out the summer I was 18 - all my friends were talking about how spectacular it was - like nothing that had ever been seen before - I went to see it - meh. Smokey and the Bandit came out the same summer and I enjoyed that one a lot more.

2.) Top Gun. I have never been able to sit through that. Heaven knows I have tried but with no success. If you ever think your life is passing by too quickly, sit down in front of Top Gun.

3.) Moonstruck. Again, this was a “you gotta see it” according to my peers. It was cute and somewhat clever in spots, but I thought that was a lot of time and money to waste for just one or two laughs when it was billed as a romantic “comedy.” If they ever remake that one, they should just give everyone chainsaws. I might pay to see that.

[left that other site]

LOL!

I am SO enjoying this thread!
hahaha

[Smokin' Joe]

Any movie the NBC owned Sci-Fi channel makes. Their crap makes “Plan 9 from Outer Space” look like high drama.

Made for TV "Drive-In" movies...

Kids nowadays don't know what they're missing.

[LexRex in TN]

Actually two...he did Princess Bride also.

[Labyrinthos]

In no particular order:

Room with a View
The English Patient
Charriots of Fire

Bonus Answer:

Any movie with Jim Carey in it.

[left that other site]

Just...WOW.

I didn’t know that.

And I thought I knew a lot about “Film”.

I will never look at that movie the same way again. Yeesh!