Three grossly overrated movies (In your opinion)

[IcePack]

1, 2, and 3. The Hunger Games.

wtf was the hype about?

[Woodruff]

Shawshank.
The Life Acquatic.
Star Wars.

You, sir, are a dangerous lunatic.

(Although I've never heard of "The Life Aquatic".)

[rdsrds2120]

I agree with The Star Wars movies, and the LOTR series. I also (literally) fell asleep.

-rd

[Army of GOD]

I agree with The Star Wars movies, and the LOTR series. I also (literally) fell asleep.

-rd

Piece of schmidt.

LOTR was great. I was 12 to 14 when the films came out and pretty much got a boner during every major battle scene. The first can be a little slow but that's really just because it's the introductory film. The last hour of the Two Tower is one of my favorite parts of any film ever.

[ManBungalow]

POSTING TO GET TO PAGE 3 SO PEOPLE ACTUALLY SEE MY POST

/huge ego

[ManBungalow]

Star Wars/A New Hope - I loved it when I was a kid, but I saw it fairly recently and...bleurgh. It was great for its time and so on, but I think maybe it's time for that culture to move on (and that's not to say that we should watch the prequels instead - I don't think they can be underrated enough). Of course, I still think The Empire Strikes back is great.

And I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Inception yet. I enjoyed it, but it's not quite as orgasmic as some would have you believe.

[jonesthecurl]

Shawshank.
The Life Acquatic.
Star Wars.

You, sir, are a dangerous lunatic.

(Although I've never heard of "The Life Aquatic".)

It was the Bill Murray thing. I really wanted to see it, having been a fan up to that point. I went to see it in a posh cinema in the West End of London, was appalled, left in the middle.
But thanks for the character reference, anyhow.

[jonesthecurl]

I enjoyd the LoTR movies, all of em. What did annoy me was that the end of the last one went on in boring detail for so long, when they'd left out some bits of the story I'd have liked to see.

[DirtyDishSoap]

All the films mentioned in this thread are quality.

The movies listed aren't shit, but they're not spectacular. Another one for example is Avatar. It's a movie about big blue indians. Woo hoo...

[nietzsche]

And I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Inception yet. I enjoyed it, but it's not quite as orgasmic as some would have you believe.

True dat.

[Woodruff]

Star Wars/A New Hope

Ok, first of all...there are only two Star Wars movies, and that isn't one of them.

And I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Inception yet. I enjoyed it, but it's not quite as orgasmic as some would have you believe.

I haven't seen it (nor a lot of the movies mentioned here).

[TheForgivenOne]

1, 2, and 3. The Hunger Games.

wtf was the hype about?

I believe the books caused all the hype. It was on The New York Times bestseller for a very long time from what I remember, so everyone assumed that the movie would be dynamite.

I find it funny, since my friend just finished acting school, and his acting teacher couldn't make it 15 minutes through the film because of how poor the acting was. Jennifer Lawrence really ruined the movie for me,

[Frigidus]

Another one for example is Avatar. It's a movie about big blue indians. Woo hoo...

Oh yeah, Avatar for sure. That movie can only be described as "OK".

Hard to think of others off the top of my head (probably because I can't bring myself to give a shit about something I don't like), but on a side note Temple of Doom is vastly underrated. No idea why so many people think that's the worst Indiana Jones.

[nietzsche]

I don't like the Star War movies but I don't think I'm alone in this, those movies appear to appeal to its fan base mostly.

I saw LOTR at the theather with my friends and they were fine I guess, but yes they were a bit boring. I remember borrowing the special extended edition trilogy, I had it for 1 month with me and never really finished the first. In the movie Clerk II they make fun of it, and nailed it, 8 hours of walking to the mountain and then they throw the ring away, and finally Frodo almost kisses Sam.

[Sniper08]

star wars the orginal trilogy is over rated imo , dont get me wrong they are still great movies(well VI is ok) but they arent what ppl make them out to be . on the flip side the prequels are under rated , they arent bad movies just ppl had such vivid memories of the orginals they felt the prequels let them down.

[maxfaraday]

star wars the orginal trilogy is over rated imo , dont get me wrong they are still great movies(well VI is ok) but they arent what ppl make them out to be . on the flip side the prequels are under rated , they arent bad movies just ppl had such vivid memories of the orginals they felt the prequels let them down.

I actually like the prequels, Anakin is one of my favourite fictionnal characters.

[nietzsche]

In related news, I watched The Intouchables last night, which is the opposite of watching one of this movies, because I wasn't expecting much of it and really enjoyed it.

[Juan_Bottom]

citizen kane.

WHOA THERE'S A TWIST AT THE END HOLY SHIT BEST MOVIE EVER

this is the part where you all start hating on me for being a philistine

It's the best because it changed absolutely everything about film making.

I mean, not right away, but later on people realized they had missed the revolution.

The thing with Citizen Kane isn't so much the film itself as how it was made. It was the first film to do a lot of things.

In order to appreciate that you'd have to see a lot of movies that came before it. The cinematography was incredibly innovative: deep focus shots where things are going on in both the foreground, midground, and background all at once. The low-angle shots involved new ways of building sets. They introduced effects to make crowds look bigger and buildings look grander. The compositions and shading of the shots are quite beautiful.

Welles invented the L-cut: the edits for a scene would change the soundtrack a few frames ahead of the visual. They do that all the time today, and when you see old movies that don't do that the cut feels abrupt and jarring.

Finally, there's the way the film was produced. They gave Welles an unheard of amount of creative control, so he got to make the movie he wanted to make. It's as if he made an indie film on a big studio budget, perhaps the only time in history that has ever really happened. That gave Welles the freedom to shoot a controversial script (Kane is a thinly disguised version of William Randolph Hearst, who tried to get the movie shut down or destroyed) using novel filmmaking techniques.

But I can hear you saying, "Why do I care?" and in fact, you really don't. All of this is for film buffs, who repeatedly call it the Greatest Movie of All Time. For the rest of us, all of these technical tricks have been done over and over and over, and "it was the first!" rings rather hollow.

Get the version of the film with Roger Ebert's commentary and you'll find out why the critics all go ga-ga over the movie. Beyond that, though, it's just a movie. A pretty good story, with some nice visuals and some great acting, but just a movie.

[Symmetry]

star wars the orginal trilogy is over rated imo , dont get me wrong they are still great movies(well VI is ok) but they arent what ppl make them out to be . on the flip side the prequels are under rated , they arent bad movies just ppl had such vivid memories of the orginals they felt the prequels let them down.

Nah, episode 1 was terrible.

[Frigidus]

star wars the orginal trilogy is over rated imo , dont get me wrong they are still great movies(well VI is ok) but they arent what ppl make them out to be . on the flip side the prequels are under rated , they arent bad movies just ppl had such vivid memories of the orginals they felt the prequels let them down.

Nah, episode 1 was terrible.

It is, to date, the only movie I fell asleep while watching in the theater.

[Maugena]

Napoleon Dynamite.
It was not that funny.

[Army of GOD]

Napoleon Dynamite.
It was not that funny.

You, sir, can go f*ck yourself.


Also I've never fallen asleep in a theater, but the only movies I've ever fallen asleep during just watching them at my house are Braveheart and Kingdom of Heaven. Very boring.

[thegreekdog]

Napoleon Dynamite.
It was not that funny.

I agree. I also did not find Superbad that funny.

[Army of GOD]

Napoleon Dynamite is funny f*ck all of you

[thegreekdog]

Napoleon Dynamite is funny f*ck all of you

I only laughed once - when, after Napoleon was done exercising (or whatever), his brother's girlfriend is talking to him and Napoloean drinks some kind of gatorade really quickly. That was it.