Your Most Overrated Movie Ever

[yamabushi]

Just for sh*t and giggles.

That one 1 movie your just so tired of hearing about how great it is. Because you know, deep down, everyone else is wrong and your right and it sucks.

[edit:] Let me clarify, to be overrated a movie has too be considered, at least, somewhat of a financial and critical success.

Ill get things going with:
you all know where this is going

the Dark Knight. this could be the best movie in the past 50 years (its not) and it still wouldnt live up to the fawning praise. Im waiting for Charlton Heston to come down from the mountain and throw stone tablets at it.

[Adam Dayton]

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I can't think about "ever" but The Dark Night was certainly overrated and it is pretty comical how much buzz a Batman movie has been getting. I feel Ledger's performance was obviously good but was far from oscar worthy and I would still take Nicholson over him anyday. Also, what was up with the voice of Bale when he was in the Batsuit? Pretty bizarre stuff and a weak attempt at trying to sound like Keaton (who in my mind will always be the quintessential Batman)

[Skerik]

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American Beauty.

[goh]

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The Others. One of only two movies I ever fell asleep watching and skipped to the ending then turned off. Grave of the Fireflies isn't well known enough to be considered most over rated but it's more over rated by those that know of it.

[Adam Dayton]

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The Ring was overrated as hell as well.

[Laettner32]

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Independence Day.

This movie should have had it all! Aliens, Jets, Patriotism, and Harry Connick Jr. But it was just awful. C'mon the president hops in a jet and becomes the Red Baron? Idiots hanging out on buildings with signs wanting to be abducted? And finally the less talented Quaid brother destroys the "Mother Ship" by flying a bi-plane?

In Bill Waltons voice..."Just Horrrrribblle!"
I want my 2 hours back, my money, and the 5 minutes it took to post this all back.

[trobinson97]

Re: Your Most Overrated. Movie. Ever.

I can't think about "ever" but The Dark Night was certainly overrated and it is pretty comical how much buzz a Batman movie has been getting. I feel Ledger's performance was obviously good but was far from oscar worthy and I would still take Nicholson over him anyday. Also, what was up with the voice of Bale when he was in the Batsuit? Pretty bizarre stuff and a weak attempt at trying to sound like Keaton (who in my mind will always be the quintessential Batman)

Agree with everything except taking Nicholson's Joker over Ledger's anyday. Can't definitively say I'd do that.

[SportsTop]

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American Beauty.

I actually like American Beauty.

Some of the symbolism in it was pretty good and it had me thinking after the movie.

As for Batman....

It was actually better the second time I watched it. I think the only thing that really missed the mark was the swing and miss of Bale trying to capture Bruce Wayne's inner struggle becoming the Dark Knight. I wasn't feeling it.

Comparing Nicholson's Joker to Ledger's Joker is almost apples and oranges. It's like comparing Stan Lee's Spiderman to McFarlane's Spiderman. They are trying to portray two different types of the Joker.

That being said, I absolutely loved Nicholson's Joker and I thought Ledger's Joker far surpassed that one.

[JayBee74]

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There are so many. Certainly Stagecoach comes to mind. 1939 had a lot of great movies (Wizard Of Oz, Gone with the Wind, Mr. Smith Goes To Washington) that stood the test of time, but for all the praise that is heaped upon it (Orson Wells watched it 40 times while making Citizen Kane) the character development of the main players is almost non existent.

[Adam Dayton]

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Like I said, he was good but he didn't have the charisma of Nicholson (Ledger's joker was essentially in one mode the entire movie, and never deviated from it). I understand its two different portrayals, but Ledger's performance was hardly oscar worthy.

[ASB37]

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This is obviously just my personal opinion and is in no way representative of how good or popular these movies are but for me its the Star Wars Movies. I have never seen a single minute of any of them. I have no desire to ever see them, I don't think they look good at all, and I don't particularly like that genre of movie. However it's the most overrated for me because those who are obsessed think Star Wars is the greatest thing ever. (you know the ones collecting the figurines and such, not that their's anything wrong with that as a few of my friends are star wars junkies)

The entire following, the coventions the people who dress up etc, to think it all stems for those movies makes it the most overrated IMO. But to each his own.


P.S I'm not trying to come off as judgmental I hope it doesn't sound that way.

[Adam Dayton]

Re: Your Most Overrated. Movie. Ever.

This is obviously just my personal opinion and is in no way representative of how good or popular these movies are but for me its the Star Wars Movies. I have never seen a single minute of any of them. I have no desire to ever see them, I don't think they look good at all, and I don't particularly like that genre of movie. However it's the most overrated for me because those who are obsessed think Star Wars is the greatest thing ever. (you know the ones collecting the figurines and such, not that their's anything wrong with that as a few of my friends are star wars junkies)

The entire following, the coventions the people who dress up etc, to think it all stems for those movies makes it the most overrated IMO. But to each his own.


P.S I'm not trying to come off as judgmental I hope it doesn't sound that way.

You really have to see the movie/movies before you can call them overrated.

[jmood88]

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The Lord of the Rings series. I saw all three in theaters and all three bored me to death. The 50 endings in the last one was pretty annoying too.

[jmood88]

Re: Your Most Overrated. Movie. Ever.

This is obviously just my personal opinion and is in no way representative of how good or popular these movies are but for me its the Star Wars Movies. I have never seen a single minute of any of them. I have no desire to ever see them, I don't think they look good at all, and I don't particularly like that genre of movie. However it's the most overrated for me because those who are obsessed think Star Wars is the greatest thing ever. (you know the ones collecting the figurines and such, not that their's anything wrong with that as a few of my friends are star wars junkies)

The entire following, the coventions the people who dress up etc, to think it all stems for those movies makes it the most overrated IMO. But to each his own.


P.S I'm not trying to come off as judgmental I hope it doesn't sound that way.

How in the world can you talk about a series of movies that you've admit to have never seen?

[Jukeman]

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