Most Overrated Movies

[GATTACA!]

99% of things with child actors are awful because children don't know what they are doing in front of a camera. The Wire season 4 is the biggest exception.

War of the World with Dakota Fanning is another example.

 

[Jimmy3Putt]

I thought Titanic was okay.
I love Leo as an actor and don't mind the occasional "sappy love" story.
Biggest problem is every guy is just waiting for the iceberg.

I still say the film would've been awesome if you went into it not knowing the ship was going to sink.

 

[koonja]

IMO the four greatest actors are Leo, Kevin Spacey, Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman.

 

[Irish#1]

Totally agree with the author on Unforgiven (incredibly boring--and I love Westerns) Amadeus, and Titanic obviously... but the rest of that list was ignorant.

I thought Unforgiven was pretty good. Maybe you thought it was boring because there weren't a gazillion bullets flying every 5 minutes? I thought "A Good Day to Die Hard" was bad because it was pretty much "shoot 'em up" the entire movie. I like action movies, but I prefer a good plot behind it that makes you think. Too many movies these days rely too much on special effects.

 

[rikkitikki08]

Avatar- Dances with wolves with giant blue people
The Avengers- Good movie, just a bit overrated
Scarface- AWFUL MOVIE

 

[tussin]

IMO the four greatest actors are Leo, Kevin Spacey, Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman.

Lol @ Hugh Jackman on any "greatest actors" list.

 

[koonja]

Lol @ Hugh Jackman on any "greatest actors" list.

I'm bias because he won me over in Les Miserables. IMO one of the greatest acting jobs I've seen.

 

[tussin]

Also ridiculous is the notion that Tom Hanks doesn't have range as an actor. Dude is easily one of the most versatile actors in the past 30 years.

My list of overrated movies:
Matrix Trilogy
Avatar
Juno
Crash

 

[tussin]

I'm bias because he won me over in Les Miserables. IMO one of the greatest acting jobs I've seen.

Have you ever seen it on Broadway? If you haven't, go out of your way to see it and your opinion of Jackman's performance will change.

 

[Irish#1]

I'm bias because he won me over in Les Miserables. IMO one of the greatest acting jobs I've seen.

Why doesn't it surprise me that you like musicals?! lol

 

[koonja]

Why doesn't it surprise me that you like musicals?! lol

Lol, I don't usually, but I watched Les Miserables because my college put on the show and my girlfriend played Éponine.

The show was unreal, I won't even try to explain because I couldn't. They killed it and I had goosebumps during the applause.

 

[koonja]

Have you ever seen it on Broadway? If you haven't, go out of your way to see it and your opinion of Jackman's performance will change.

I know broadway is the best there is, but I wish I could share with you guys how well my school did at the play. It was the next best thing to being at the ND/USC night game.

 

[Polish Leppy 22]

How do you feel about McConaughey in True Detective? Assuming you've seen it which might not be true


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Have not seen it

 

[Polish Leppy 22]

Good Will Hunting, Argo, The Town, Gone Baby Gone, Pearl Harbor, State of Play, and Armageddon?

Come on

Oh really? lol

 

[zelezo vlk]

This implies his movies are rated favorable. Do you know anyone with a favorable opinion of him and his movies


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The late Roger Ebert considered him one of the greatest actors of the generation.

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[rikkitikki08]

Pearl Harbor was a giant insult to every veteran of the second world war. That movie sucked so many balls

 

[IrishLion]

Your gonna honestly say you didnt enjoy any of those movies?

Not that rating should be the be all end all but on RT

Argo 96%
The Town 94%
Good Will Hunting 97%
Gone Baby Gone 94%
State of Play 88%

Ben Affleck was not in "Gone Baby Gone," it was his brother. But it was a fantastic movie. Had to watch it for a detective fiction class in college, a very enjoyable week of class.

 

[IrishLion]

I loved the Avengers, but I also believe it was terribly overrated. How it got a 92% on Rotten Tomatoes is beyond me.

Another? Reservoir Dogs. I've seen it twice, and was pretty bored both times. Maybe I need to give it one more chance. And I was bummed because Pulp Fiction is probably in my top three.

My most UNDER rated currently? The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. That movie blew my mind with the visuals, and the soundtrack was nearly perfect to go along with it.

Also, Pacific Rim. The acting is so cheesy that it's uncomfortable, but it's also giant robots fighting giant kaiju. It did exactly what it was supposed to do, and I loved it.

 

[zelezo vlk]

I agree with people saying The Avengers was overrated. It still boggles my mind how much everyone likes it. Also: Argo. It's just my opinion, but I really don't know how it won an Oscar.

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[rikkitikki08]

Ben Affleck was not in "Gone Baby Gone," it was his brother. But it was a fantastic movie. Had to watch it for a detective fiction class in college, a very enjoyable week of class.

Ben Affleck did direct it though, that's worth mentioning

 

[IrishLion]

Ben Affleck did direct it though, that's worth mentioning

Welp, I'll withdraw my initial objection to the movie's inclusion on Gattaca's list then. I had no idea he directed it lol.

 

[Cackalacky]

Avengers was fantastic. It was absolutely everything I wanted to see out of the initial joining up of the main characters. Plot holes? Yes. Incongruencies? maybe. Still it delivered IMO and is a strong foundation moving forward. I love Marvels stuff because all of it is tied together and builds from earlier stuff. The Avengers, from the multiverse perspective was extremely well done.

 

[no.1IrishFan]

Affleck was the bomb in Phantom, yo!









Reps for the reference.

 

[IrishJayhawk]

I thought the Sixth Sense was amazing. I watched it without having heard anything about it. I didn't know there was going to be a surprise, let alone what the surprise was going to be. Loved it.

 

[IrishLion]

Avengers was fantastic. It was absolutely everything I wanted to see out of the initial joining up of the main characters. Plot holes? Yes. Incongruencies? maybe. Still it delivered IMO and is a strong foundation moving forward. I love Marvels stuff because all of it is tied together and builds from earlier stuff. The Avengers, from the multiverse perspective was extremely well done.

Like I said, I loved it... but I'm not sure how it's so critically acclaimed lol. I think the first "Iron Man" and now "Captain America: Winter Soldier" have shown that Marvel can make a superhero movie that delivers everything the fans hope/expect to see while also still making a good film in a critical sense.

I don't think Avengers lived up to the critical hype, and yet the critics loved it anyway. I thought it was way over-the-top; forced humor at times (that didn't feel forced in other Marvel films), and the "arming-of-the-hero" scene when they all come together downtown was wayyyyyy beyond anything that had come before in terms of cheese factor.

But again, I loved it because I knew what it was and it did exactly what it was supposed to do. Exactly why Pacific Rim and hopefully the new Godzilla will be favorite movies of mine.

 

[Black Irish]

For me:

"Fletch." I grew up loving classic 80s comedies with Chevy Chase, like "Caddyshack" and "Vacation." Most guys my age love it, but I thought it was pretty average.

"The Departed." I think almost all of Scorcese's stuff is good to masterful, but this was just a mangled mess. There were some good lines and performances, but overall, a far cry from Scorcese's classic films. I can't believe this is the movie that finally got him an Oscar.

"E.T." I know it's universally loved and I thought it was great as a kid, but the luster wore off once I got older. I couldn't even sit through it now. Not that it's a bad movie, but it just doesn't hold adult interest as well as other kid-oriented films.

 

[tussin]

I agree with people saying The Avengers was overrated. It still boggles my mind how much everyone likes it. Also: Argo. It's just my opinion, but I really don't know how it won an Oscar.

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It's all about hitting the road, campaigning and champagning.

That, combined with the feel-good Affleck redemption story, won the Oscar.

Best Picture is rarely given to the actual best film of the year, IMO. However, these dynamics are much more blatant with Best Actor or Actress.

 

[Cackalacky]

Like I said, I loved it... but I'm not sure how it's so critically acclaimed lol. I think the first "Iron Man" and now "Captain America: Winter Soldier" have shown that Marvel can make a superhero movie that delivers everything the fans hope/expect to see while also still making a good film in a critical sense.

I don't think Avengers lived up to the critical hype, and yet the critics loved it anyway. I thought it was way over-the-top; forced humor at times (that didn't feel forced in other Marvel films), and the "arming-of-the-hero" scene when they all come together downtown was wayyyyyy beyond anything that had come before in terms of cheese factor.

But again, I loved it because I knew what it was and it did exactly what it was supposed to do. Exactly why Pacific Rim and hopefully the new Godzilla will be favorite movies of mine.

1. Fuck the critics. They have agendas. I hate critics like I hate politicians and news guys. Fuck them.
2. Winter Soldier was great, probably the best one to date. I would put that at or equal to the Dark Knight. Guardians of the Galaxy has a great chance to pass that.
3. The "assembling" scene was a shot straight out of a comic IMO. Marvel has at least one of those in every movie. I don't find any of this stuff overly cheesy as comics are by their nature cheesy in most terms. I guess what I am getting at is I do not have high artistic expectations for Marvel as I would for a Kubric film or Black Swan. I don't expect to see Oscar winning acting or direction in these so I am hardly disappointed if a marked is missed or a scene runs a little long. Would it be nice if all of them hit it out of the park all the time Like Winter Soldier? Yup. But for a father who grew up with this stuff but can't really get my children into the comic books, the movies do a great job entertaining me and my family.

 

[koonja]

Rudy.

 

[palinurus]

You are free to not like his movies or gratuitous gore, but the notion that Quentin Tarantino "lacks ideas" is just silly.

Stop being an unmitigated jackass. You simply cannot disagree without being abrasive and obnoxious. Grow up.

My statement was that Tarantino uses violence because he lacks ideas, as in "he cannot come up with creative way to show something he wants to communicate so he shows gore." You should be able to disagree with that without being an ass.