Most Over-rated Films

[renormalised (Carl)]

Originally Posted by Octane

Paul,

You will be pleased to know that Titanic is being remastered in 3D, lol.

H

It'll be the only time that particular film will have any real depth

[fuso (Anthony)]

A clockwork orange.
Would have to be the dumbest, idiotic, overrated, pathetic movie I ever started to watch(I walled out after 20 min).
Don't get me wrong, I love rated R, horror, violence, sex....etc, but this movie is just pure whale crap(It sinks faster).
Also a movie I rented call "Chicken Park". A comedy spinoff of Jurassic Park, biggest waste of 2 bucks I ever spent.

[Steffen]

Originally Posted by fuso

A clockwork orange.
Would have to be the dumbest, idiotic, overrated, pathetic movie I ever started to watch(I walled out after 20 min).

Maybe you shouldn't have…

Cheers
Steffen.

[OneOfOne (Trevor)]

Best in show comes to mind...we hired the movie and watched waiting for something funny to happen....we barely smiled.

The first Star Trek movie? It was just a remake of an episode, although I am a fan of all things Star Trek, I am afraid this just didn't do it for me. They spent too much of the movie being in awe of one another, the movie set and special effects, they neglected to put something original into it

Can't think of another one at the moment.....

[Steffen]

"Most overrated" would imply somewhat highly rated without justification, right?

I think I go for "Lord of the Rings" 1, 2 and 3. The movies were heaped with Oscars and nominations, I just couldn't see what for.

Cheers
Steffen.

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

Beyond Thunderdome

[Octane (Humayun)]

Steffen,

I tend to agree re: LotR.

They were fun... but, I don't know...

H

[trek1701 (Mark)]

Independence Day for me.

Disagree about Bladerunner.

Cheers Mark

[AdrianF (Adrian)]

Loved the blues brothers. Watched it about 5-6 times.

Couldn't watch inception (boring) couldn't watch Sunshine, the movie where there was a mission to the sun to get it reignited and didn't really like Avatar.
All three over rated


Adrian

[BPO]

Totally agree about the 'Lord of the Rings' movies being overrated. Boring, and like watching a hairdressers convention sometimes. (Those elves.)

And 'Avatar' left me cold too. Some of the SFX was very nice, such as the jungle foliage, while a fair bit of it was laughable (the magic marker drawing giant mining machines come to mind, for starters), and the story was just 'Dances With Aliens'.

[TrevorW]

Although I loved Avatar, I was disappointed in the overuse of CGI, it lacked the realism I would have liked, just wasn't seamless enough.

Likewise with LoR dynamic not grab me by the seat of the pants want to see again the next day

Maybe getting too old

[FlashDrive (Poppy)]

Harry Potter ..... ..... and I mean all of them....!!!!

[Lee]

Originally Posted by koputai

AVATAR by a huge stretch.

Cheers,
Jason.

+1

+1 for Inception too....

[Moon (James)]

Great idea for a thread. Let me get this off my chest:

• Any TV Movie with Brian Dennehy - shocking!
• Avatar - the only movie where I have seriously considered walking out
• Sex and The City 2 - I only watched this to keep the peace. There was no need to make this movie. Seriously.

I feel much better now.

Luckily there are so many good movies around. Here are two I recommend in case you haven't seen them yet:

• Into the Wild
• Barneys Version

James

[Nightshift]

Ooohhhhh, I'll buy in to this one, my vote all time over rated has to be Pulp Fiction, what a load of drivle, I just didnt get it, I even watched it twice in one night to try and see what the hype was about and still didnt get it. Typical Quentin Tarantino rubbish yet I know others will argue?????

Lets not forget the original King Kong with Fay Ray, the CGI was crap. LOL.

[Waxing_Gibbous (Peter)]

Neven, Neven,
Its because I like films with substance and hidden meaning that I dislike Seventh Seal.
It is shallow and by-the-numbers Marxist-Freudianism.
A terrible re-hash of DaDa-ist and Surrealist imagery married with the pretentions of a film-school graduate, the soul-less self-absorbtion of existensilist angst and the general depressiveness of Scandanavian artisme.
Dali and DuChamp did better years earlier.

I'd forgot Titanic.
Dang that's a bad film.

[astroron (Ron)]

Originally Posted by Nightshift

Ooohhhhh, I'll buy in to this one, my vote all time over rated has to be Pulp Fiction, what a load of drivle, I just didnt get it, I even watched it twice in one night to try and see what the hype was about and still didnt get it. Typical Quentin Tarantino rubbish yet I know others will argue?????

Lets not forget the original King Kong with Fay Ray, the CGI was crap. LOL.

Lets not forget the original King Kong with Fay Ray, the CGI was crap. LOL.

Hi Dennis,If you remember that movie you must be old
Cheers

[leon]

Must be something about getting older and movies, I don't care for them at all now, haven't been for years, and never watch a DVD.

Even if i get free tickets for birthdays and such, i give them away.

However the once that I did go, with Alice, because she really wanted to use up a freebie, we went Gold Class, and you wouldn't believe it we were the only ones in the small theater, truly, I kid you not.

That was a real experience to have the place to ones self

The picture had Mel Gibson in it and I think the name was something like, To The Edge, or the Edge of something, From the Edge, cant remember, it was quite good actually

Leon

[AstralTraveller (David)]

For overrated movies has anyone mentioned Australia? I only saw the last 10-15 minutes but my better half said it was as bad the whole way through.
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As a lover of the book the movie of LotR I was always going to have mixed views about the movie. On one hand I was thrilled someone was making a serious attempt at an adaptation but I had to accept that it is a movie based on the book, not a movie of the book. Having seen how compressed the narrative is in the movie it's obvious that a movie of the book would run for a week and so can't happen. I know a few hobbitophiles and the views about what part of the adaptation worked and what didn't are a bit mixed. (I'll be talking to a few tomorrow night so I'll bring up the subject.) One thing that didn't work and couldn't is the power of the Nazgul. The chill feeling in the heart, the mindless fear could never be conveyed on screen. Likewise the effect of wearing the Ring.

I don't think I'm a good judge of acting but it seems to me to be generally OK. I quite like Gandalf, Aragon, Sam, Gollum and (eventually) Gimli. One problem is that Frodo wasn't always as convincing as I'd like but, again, it's that issue of visually expressing an inner torment.

One thing that I got into and is brilliant is the costume and sets. The realism, the attention to detail, the way it is used to convey background information and context is just great. So many people didn't just want to make something good enough, they wanted to make it as good as they could and you can see this; it gives it a visual richness. I know that you couldn't get an armourer in Australia (and probably elsewhere) while the movie was in production. These blokes are amateurs who make armour for the love of it, even when they sell it, and who often are (so I am told) LotR fans. So they made things as works of art, not just as a prop. My favorite story concerns the scene where Theoden is being fitted out in his armour before leaving for the Battle of Helm's Deep. The back and breast plates have padded leather lining and on that lining, in a place where it could never appear on screen, is embossed his coat of arms. Bernard Hill, who played Theoden, said that when he saw that he felt like a king, and there are similar stories from other actors.

[norm]

The Hurt Locker...... Even more so that it won the Oscars as best film 2008 !

Norm