The Overrated Thread Volume III (Movies)

#3
#3
i don't know. ledger's death is one of the main reasons i feel that way. had he not passed, i don't think the movie has as many great reviews as it did. i actually enjoyed batman begins alot more than i did the dark knight.
 
#5
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i don't know. ledger's death is one of the main reasons i feel that way. had he not passed, i don't think the movie has as many great reviews as it did. i actually enjoyed batman begins alot more than i did the dark knight.




The build-up to it's release would certainly have been different. But when it opened it just exploded on the scene. Word of mouth was already high volume but it just accelerated the inevitable. That kind of movie just doesn't know how to fail.
 
#6
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duckman398686 said:
i don't know. ledger's death is one of the main reasons i feel that way. had he not passed, i don't think the movie has as many great reviews as it did. i actually enjoyed batman begins alot more than i did the dark knight.
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and ledger's performance was greatly overrated as well.
 
#8
#8
as if his death had nothing to do with him winning that thing......:ermm:
 
#9
#9
kev20 said:
as if his death had nothing to do with him winning that thing......:ermm:
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Actor in a Supporting Role

Josh Brolin in “Milk”
Robert Downey Jr. in “Tropic Thunder”
Philip Seymour Hoffman in “Doubt”
Heath Ledger in “The Dark Knight”
Michael Shannon in “Revolutionary Road”


No, I don't think so.
 
#11
#11
despite it's box office, "Avatar" will be the most overrated movie in history.

and in no particular order of overrated-ness:

"Thelma and Louise"
"Unforgiven"
"Reservoir Dogs"
"Natural Born Killers"
"No Country for Old Men"
"Burn After Reading"
 
#13
#13
That is not a bad list MG. I would replace "Unforgiven" with "Mystic River". I still don't care for "Million Dollar Baby" either.

"Burn After Reading" needed more Malkovich and less Clooney.
 
#14
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MG1968 said:
despite it's box office, "Avatar" will be the most overrated movie in history.

and in no particular order of overrated-ness:

"Thelma and Louise"
"Unforgiven"
"Reservoir Dogs"
"Natural Born Killers"
"No Country for Old Men"
"Burn After Reading"
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Definitely agree on Reservoir Dogs but I thought Unforgiven and No Country were great. NBK was okay but I don't seem to hear enough about it anymore to call it overrated. Haven't seen the other two.

I think Inglorious Basterds and the Curious Case of Benjamin Button were overrated.
 
#16
#16
wow. Burn After Reading is fantastic. alot of people just went into it expecting something totally different. Much like that movie Funny People last year
 
#18
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banman360 said:
wow. Burn After Reading is fantastic. alot of people just went into it expecting something totally different. Much like that movie Funny People last year
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I knew going in that a Cohen brothers movie was going to have some very twisted moments. I wasn't expecting it to become almost Tarantino-ish with meaningless death scenes.
 
#19
#19
When I think of overrated movies, one immediately comes to mind.

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#22
#22
Avatar wins hands down, at least for now.

But pre-Avatar, I thought both No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood were both overrated from 2007. Daniel Day Lewis' performance wasn't though in TWBB.

I go back and forth on Pulp Fiction. Right now I'd say not, but next week I'll probably say yes.

And definitely Forrest Gump.
 
#23
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VolsSportsFan said:
Avatar wins hands down, at least for now.

But pre-Avatar, I thought both No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood were both overrated from 2007. Daniel Day Lewis' performance wasn't though in TWBB.

I go back and forth on Pulp Fiction. Right now I'd say not, but next week I'll probably say yes.

And definitely Forrest Gump.
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#24
#24
buckeyevol23 said:
Definitely agree on Reservoir Dogs but I thought Unforgiven and No Country were great. NBK was okay but I don't seem to hear enough about it anymore to call it overrated. Haven't seen the other two.

I think Inglorious Basterds and the Curious Case of Benjamin Button were overrated.
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I really liked Inglorious Basterds, but thought Benjamin Button was borderline terrible.

Whoever the poster was who said that they go "back-and-forth" on whether Pulp Fiction is overrated should be given merciless public lashings. Pulp Fiction is the Michael Jordan of movies. Any and all arguments that even tend to suggest something other than its absolute greatness shall be summarily dismissed.

I'm on board with several other posters re: Reservoir Dogs. I wasn't blown away.

I thought Goodfellas was overrated, but that's almost certainly because I read the book (Wiseguys by Nicholas Pilleggi (sp?)) before I saw the movie. The Lufthansa heist was half of the book. It was condensed to about 30 seconds in the movie. I realize this is the nature of the game, but it still affects my opinion of the flick.

Another overrated mafia movie is Donnie Brasco. Actually, maybe that isn't overrated. We'll just call it weak.

To all the people yelling "avatar": STOP! A movie can't be considered overrated when a good 75% of the population thinks that it was only good for its graphics. I would apply the same rationale to Titanic. It may have won some awards, but anybody who isn't abjectly dumb -- and I try not to associate with people who are in fact abjectly dumb -- will tell you that Titanic is an absolute festering pile of poo. Slightly off topic, but Titanic is also about the best example (that's coming to mind) of a film that needed a way hotter leading lady. Kate Winslet? Seriously, James Cameron? You thought I was that concerned with seeing Kate Winslet's breasts. No sir, I wasn't.

Another example is Tombstone. I forget the name of the female lead...but she needed to be hotter. She actually needed to be way way hotter. I never found the "enchanted moment" scene to be particularly believable...and that's a shame.
 
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