Posted on 03/29/2013 9:43:18 PM PDT by MNDude
What top three movies do you think do you think didn't live up to all their hype?
Agreed.
I hate when plot takes a second seat to special effects.
Oh Brother Where Art Thou was outstanding.
Seen a dozen times.
And that only because Connery’s overwhelming awesomeness overpowered Baldwin.
:)
The last one a saw was the one with JarJarbinks.
Good Lord that was painful.
I bailed after a half hour.
It was tedious.
I love it.
I will give clooney his due.
Oh, and zither music....
The Endless Summer was a great one.
Dude, anything hyped, anything popular ain’t worth seeing, listening to, reading. Something about the lowest common denominator, get it?
From the third most overrated and hyped to the first most overrated and hyped bomb of a flick:
3. Prometheus
2. Spiderman 3
1. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Saw each of them only once after much anticipation - and regretted the time lost on each one.
If the Coens write it, a *dog* could carry the lead role, they’re just that good.
OBWAT was great in spite of him.
He has absolutely no acting range whatsoever.
If he wasn’t pretty, no one would have ever heard of him.
I have no idea how that movie ended.
*gag*
It felt like a documentary no one had bothered to edit. Maybe others will have a different reaction. My unsophisticated view is that it's always the script that makes the movie. The script determines what the audience sees, and just as important, what the audience doesn't see (all the boring and/or esoteric bits that don't advance the narrative). Most actors in multi-million dollar productions aren't just good enough, they're excellent. It's just that this script gives them very little to work with. ZDT is obviously not the only overhyped movie with a lousy script, but it's kind of disappointing, given that I was hoping to see a movie that wasn't a clone of some dry-as-dust PBS documentary.
"Gangs of New York" was, at its heart, a case study in contrasting a professional *actor* (Daniel Day-Lewis) with a celebrity (Losernardo Di Crappio)...
the infowarrior
One of the most overrated films of all times is “Sunrise at Campobello.” I may be the only one on FR who has watched it all the way through (at the Sundown Drive-in Theater in Whittier, Calif., in 1960).
Eh...It was an ok movie, but should have been a lot better given the star power involved in front of and behind the camera. And I say that as a big fan of 19th Century history and Liam Neeson...
I find that films like that are all that keep my attention nowadays.
The CGI crap like in Avatar is no substitute for plot, acting and cinematography.
Which reminds me, Ever child oriented film of the past 10 years just bores me to tears.
No, not just bores me, it makes me want to puke with the CGI and Saccharine/Potty humor BS
“The Master” was unwatchable.
“Zero Dark Thirty” was a huge disappointment.
“Gangster Squad” sucked big time.
“Anna Karenina” was literally impossible to sit through.
We’ll never again see such cinematic masterpieces as those countless films produced by Hal B. Wallis in the 1960s and starring Elvis Presley.
I thought he was
pretty believable a a self centered sort of dapper dan man.
Still, you are correct about the Coen brothers
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