Most Overrated Movies

GoIrish41 · May 13, 2014

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

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Raising Arizona was great.

alohagoirish · May 13, 2014

So many George Clooney movies just bore me to death--they often get good reviews but seem to be in too many cases just a vehicle to have Clooney walking and talking--

Solaris/Syriana/Burn after reading/ The peacemaker/ Up in the air/The American/Michael Clayton etc

#1rish · May 13, 2014

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GoIrish41 · May 13, 2014

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Pachuco · May 13, 2014

Is it too early to add Gravity to the list?

Though the visuals were superb, I didn't really enjoy the story.

palinurus · May 13, 2014

I generally like Private Ryan, but I do think Hanks was miscast. He is really pretty limited as an actor, in spite of Hollywood's insistence that he has great range. He seemed like an actor playing soldier. His face seemed to have a two second delay switch where you can see him thinking, "How would a real soldier act now?", then acting our his conclusion, woodenly.

I dislike gratuitous gore in movies; Tarantino, like most directors who specialize it, uses it because he lacks ideas. Not to say all his movies are bad.

The most overrated movie of the last 25 years is "Dances with Wolves." It was laughably bad; nothing in it was remotely serious and Costner established his acting mediocrity to such a remote depth that he will never get out that hole. I laugh in ridicule even now thinking about it.

A lot of people like "Das Boot" and "Out of Africa." I tried to watch both several times but fell asleep each time. "Das Snore" is more like it.

koonja · May 13, 2014

palinurus said:
I generally like Private Ryan, but I do think Hanks was miscast. He is really pretty limited as an actor, in spite of Hollywood's insistence that he has great range. He seemed like an actor playing soldier. His face seemed to have a two second delay switch where you can see him thinking, "How would a real soldier act now?", then acting our his conclusion, woodenly.

I dislike gratuitous gore in movies; Tarantino, like most directors who specialize it, uses it because he lacks ideas. Not to say all his movies are bad.

The most overrated movie of the last 25 years is "Dances with Wolves." It was laughably bad; nothing in it was remotely serious and Costner established his acting mediocrity to such a remote depth that he will never get out that hole. I laugh in ridicule even now thinking about it.

A lot of people like "Das Boot" and "Out of Africa." I tried to watch both several times but fell asleep each time. "Das Snore" is more like it.

Not big into classical movies, but I really liked das boot. Not much of a plot, but I feel like that's a really accurate depiction of submarine life. Hard for me to say that because ive never been on one, but I'd imagine it's extremely close to the movie. I'd recommend that movie.

Side note, semi pro is my most underrated commedy.

palinurus · May 13, 2014

kuehnja said:
Not big into classical movies, but I really liked das boot. Not much of a plot, but I feel like that's a really accurate depiction of submarine life. Hard for me to say that because ive never been on one, but I'd imagine it's extremely close to the movie. I'd recommend that movie.

Side note, semi pro is my most underrated commedy.

I'm sure it's me about Das Boot; everybody I know likes it.

koonja · May 13, 2014

palinurus said:
I'm sure it's me about Das Boot; everybody I know likes it.

Let me reiterate, if you're talking about 'good movie' as in entertaining, I agree with you. I just really appreciated how realistic is seemed, and I think that was their goal.

So you're definitely not wrong that it's not very enjoyable, but I wanted to add the asteric

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Booslum31 · May 13, 2014

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

Come on

Exactly!

ShawneeIrish · May 13, 2014

All of Wes Anderson's films.
Titanic.
Black Swan.
Training Day (not sure its that highly rated but it sucks)

no.1IrishFan · May 13, 2014

Prometheus.

Buster Bluth · May 13, 2014

palinurus said:
I dislike gratuitous gore in movies; Tarantino, like most directors who specialize it, uses it because he lacks ideas. Not to say all his movies are bad.

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

Buster Bluth · May 13, 2014

no.1IrishFan said:
Prometheus.

Who thought it was good? I thought the general consensus was "wow this could be awesome! Oh... swing and a miss."

no.1IrishFan · May 13, 2014

Buster Bluth said:
Who thought it was good? I thought the general consensus was "wow this could be awesome! Oh... swing and a miss."

I'm not sure what critics were saying, I just remember sci-fi geeks hailing it as the second coming.

greyhammer90 · May 13, 2014

palinurus said:
Tarantino, like most directors who specialize it, uses it because he lacks ideas.

If your intention was to raise my blood pressure you succeeded. I think a vein in my forehead popped when I read this.

greyhammer90 · May 13, 2014

no.1IrishFan said:
I'm not sure what critics were saying, I just remember sci-fi geeks hailing it as the second coming.

I remember everyone hating it. Terrible screenplay made no damn sense.

gkIrish · May 13, 2014

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.

greyhammer90 · May 13, 2014

Titanic's screenplay sucked... Really badly. But I actually think it's the opposite of overrated. It's that movie I find guys hate almost universally, but I don't know why. The entire last 2 hours of that movie is nothing but one long action scene that's shot and edited extremely well. But guys act like it's Twilight or The Notebook or something.

The Titanic is only a romance superficially, it was made because James Cameron loves to blow shit up. I (usually, because I hated Avatar) like watching James Cameron blow shit up. At least he's good at shooting action unlike certain other directors coughmichaelbaycough.

irishog77 · May 13, 2014

alohagoirish said:
So many George Clooney movies just bore me to death--they often get good reviews but seem to be in too many cases just a vehicle to have Clooney walking and talking--

Solaris/Syriana/Burn after reading/ The peacemaker/ Up in the air/The American/Michael Clayton etc

Much like madonna went from being considered just a dirty-leg, opportunist to all of a sudden, glamorous and sophisticated, I think Clooney went from being an also-ran on a popular tv show, to poignant and sophisticated.

I loved O Brother (and thought Clooney was outstanding), but yes, most of his other stuff is exactly how you described it. And crap.

irishog77 · May 14, 2014

greyhammer90 said:
Titanic's screenplay sucked... Really badly. But I actually think it's the opposite of overrated. It's that movie I find guys hate almost universally, but I don't know why. The entire last 2 hours of that movie is nothing but one long action scene that's shot and edited extremely well. But guys act like it's Twilight or The Notebook or something.

The Titanic is only a romance superficially, it was made because James Cameron loves to blow shit up. I (usually, because I hated Avatar) like watching James Cameron blow shit up. At least he's good at shooting action unlike certain other directors coughmichaelbaycough.

Proud to admit that I've never seen Titanic.

Take that, all you saps :wave:

Kaneyoufeelit · May 14, 2014

greyhammer90 said:
Titanic's screenplay sucked... Really badly. But I actually think it's the opposite of overrated. It's that movie I find guys hate almost universally, but I don't know why. The entire last 2 hours of that movie is nothing but one long action scene that's shot and edited extremely well. But guys act like it's Twilight or The Notebook or something.

The Titanic is only a romance superficially, it was made because James Cameron loves to blow shit up. I (usually, because I hated Avatar) like watching James Cameron blow shit up. At least he's good at shooting action unlike certain other directors coughmichaelbaycough.

"I don't understand the difference."

"I know you don't."

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RyCo1983 · May 14, 2014

Just as I was going to say "Anything Michael Bay has ever been involved in..."

Pachuco · May 14, 2014

irishff1014 said:
The fact they keep making Spider Man.

How did I miss this? Please... someone make it stop.

BobD · May 14, 2014

Just calling Rocky V a movie is over rating it.

Anyone who doesn't think Saving Private Ryan is a great movie should be deported.

IrishJayhawk · May 14, 2014

NoJusticeNoPeace · May 14, 2014

The Sixth Sense is the biggest piece of garbage to ever have favorable ratings.

EDIT: Wrote the comment before reading the article. Finally some common sense.

NoJusticeNoPeace · May 14, 2014

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.

GATTACA! · May 14, 2014

Brian31 said:
Exactly!

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%

NoJusticeNoPeace · May 14, 2014

Their justification for including Schindler's List was ridiculous. Basically they wanted it to not be about Schindler's List?

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