Film Overrated movies

[El-Manos]

The "Underrated movies" thread inspired me to start this one.

Name 3-5 movies which you find overrated or simply over-hyped by the public/critics.

1. Gravity- Al though visually and sound wise this movie is absolutely stunning, I found the story to be quite uninteresting and failed to impress me overall, did not care too much about the characters either. The ratings and hype this movie received is absurd.

2. Avatar - I quite like Avatar but having said that, I fail to see why it is rated as highly as it is, as the movie contains some very obvious flaws. I don't exactly classify Sam Worthington as a great actor either.

3. The Avengers - No, it's far from terrible but how on Earth did it make IMDB's top 50 list? It's not even the best Marvel movie ever made. Still enjoyed it though, not going to deny that.

Will update this list throughout the year.

 

[Phurry]

Inception
/end thread

 

[BigDunc9]

A Bronx Tale.

 

[That'sHernandez]

Shawshank Redemption

 

[Berbaclass]

My 4:

Scarface - Not as good as De Palmas other film Carlitos Way IMO which deserves more credit.

Citizen Kane - Good movie but way too hyped IMO.

Iron Man 3 - Nowhere near the first two in the series for me.

Shawshank Redemption - Just not as good as it's made out to be.

 

[Rooney in Paris]

I think Gravity and Avatar are just rated as good entertainment films, blockbusters. Gravity a bit more so for how ground breaking it was visually and from a sound point of view.

 

[Twigg]

I am the worst for overrating films. Too easily impressed.

 

[Stringer]

American Hustle and Mystic River

 

[Waldner]

Avatar, definitely.

It's not even that good. People just go 'OOOOH COLOURS' and think it's amazing

 

[Duffy]

Star Wars

 

[Scarecrow]

I agree about American Hustle. It was decent but something was definitely missing.

The first one to come to my mind though, was The Big Lebowski. Absolute garbage in my eyes.

Edit 1: Others I can think of are Apocalypse Now, The Dark Knight Rises, Taxi Driver, Up, The Avengers, Captain America (both ones).

Edit 2: Oh, and There Will Be Blood. One great scene doesn't make it a great movie.

 

[R.N7]

I agree about American Hustle. It was decent but something was definitely missing.

The first one to come to my mind though, was The Big Lebowski. Absolute garbage in my eyes.

Better clean that shit up so that you can realize just what a brilliant film it is.

 

[R.N7]

There Will Be Blood
Forrest Gump
The Deer Hunter
Scarface

Eugh, horrible stuff.

 

[Archie Leach]

Sideways, Zero Dark Thirty, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Melancholia, The Royal Tenenbaums, Saving Private Ryan.

Shawshank Redemption ftw though.

 

[Scarecrow]

Better clean that shit up so that you can realize just what a brilliant film it is.

I'm going to bold it, actually. Just watch.

 

[Tarrou]

The Prestige
Shutter Island
Amelie
The Usual Suspects
Million Dollar Baby
Brokeback Mountain
The Matrix
12 Years A Slave
Crash
Scarface
Inception
Avatar
Latest Ape movie
Anything with super heroes lately that I've seen

Went slightly over the 3-5 remit by mistake

 

[Twigg]

Avatar, definitely.

It's not even that good. People just go 'OOOOH COLOURS' and think it's amazing

Agree. It was an amazing watch the first time at the cinema, the world was incredible, but the story was crap and I haven't enjoyed re watching it much.

 

[Archie Leach]

It made 2.2 billion dollars though, which is what it was built to do.

 

[R.N7]

Sideways, Zero Dark Thirty, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Melancholia, The Royal Tenenbaums, Saving Private Ryan.

Shawshank Redemption ftw though.

Nooo.

Agreed with the others tho

 

[LeChuck]

Any comedy with Seth Rogen or Jonah Hill in it (apart from Superbad...which actually had both of them in it).

Anchorman 2.

 

[Tarrou]

How can Anchorman 2 be overrated when everyone thinks it's gash?

 

[Archie Leach]

Nooo.

Agreed with the others tho

It was revenge for There Will Be Blood.

But really, I have pretty mixed feelings with Anderson. I loved Fantastic Mr Fox and enjoyed Budapest Hotel but can't stand any of his other films of which Tenenbaums seems to be the most rated.

 

[Rooney in Paris]

La Vie d'Adèle (Blue is the warmest colour or whatever it's called)
Anything made by Wong Kar Wai

 

[Archie Leach]

I've only seen Blueberry Nights but I don't think that's a fair representation of his work.

 

[Stringer]

I agree about American Hustle. It was decent but something was definitely missing.

The first one to come to my mind though, was The Big Lebowski. Absolute garbage in my eyes.

Edit 1: Others I can think of are Apocalypse Now, The Dark Knight Rises, Taxi Driver, Up, The Avengers, Captain America (both ones).

Edit 2: Oh, and There Will Be Blood. One great scene doesn't make it a great movie.

Apocalypse Now is amazing. Coppola's best movie.

 

[Tarrou]

La Vie d'Adèle (Blue is the warmest colour or whatever it's called)
Anything made by Wong Kar Wai

How dare you!

 

[JustAFan]

Haven't we had this thread many times? Basically a chance for the Caf to prove once again that no matter how good something is there will always be some who do not like it.

 

[R.N7]

La Vie d'Adèle (Blue is the warmest colour or whatever it's called)
Anything made by Wong Kar Wai

You dislike him just because the French love him so much.

I've only seen Blueberry Nights but I don't think that's a fair representation of his work.

It's awful, awful, awful. You have a lot of great cinema there to catch up with.

 

[Rooney in Paris]

You dislike him just because the French love him so much.

I dislike him cos you love him more than you love me and I'm jealous.

 

[izec]

Donnie Darko, dont understand the hype.

 

[PedroMendez]

At least half of the movies in this thread are random blockbuster. How the hell are they overrated?

 

[Revan]

Shawnshank Redemption - the great movie, but can't understand why he is regarded as (one of) the best ever.
Citizen Kane - see Shawnshank Redemption
Inception - decent enough, but nowhere near the best of the genre. It gives the impression that it is smart while being incredibly stupid. It also makes dumb people feel themself smarter.
Titanic - how on Earth this movie won 11 Oscars and 2billion of dallars from the cinema?
Avatar - the movie which has won more money than any other movie. Decent realization, embarrasingly weak plot.
300 - a pile of shit. Somehow rated by some people.

 

[amolbhatia50k]

Avatar isn't highly rated.

 

[amolbhatia50k]

I thought avengers was wank.

 

[R.N7]

I dislike him cos you love him more than you love me and I'm jealous.

You need to up your sunglasses game.

 

[DatIrishFella]

I agree about American Hustle. It was decent but something was definitely missing.

The first one to come to my mind though, was The Big Lebowski. Absolute garbage in my eyes.

Edit 1: Others I can think of are Apocalypse Now, The Dark Knight Rises, Taxi Driver, Up, The Avengers, Captain America (both ones).

Edit 2: Oh, and There Will Be Blood. One great scene doesn't make it a great movie.

 

[Nucks]

The Prestige
Shutter Island
Amelie
The Usual Suspects
Million Dollar Baby
Brokeback Mountain
The Matrix
12 Years A Slave
Crash
Scarface
Inception
Avatar
Latest Ape movie
Anything with super heroes lately that I've seen

Went slightly over the 3-5 remit by mistake

You are a liar and not a gentleman.

I went to the theater to see The Matrix, had no, and I mean NO idea what it was about. Almost walked out when Trinity vanished as the dumptruck smashed into her in the phonebooth. I kept giving my friend sidelong glances (sorry man, I heard it was good). Glad I stuck it out.

 

[dumbo]

Foreign and subtitled films. 20 percent of a positive review can often be attributed to a self congratulatory pat on the back for the reviewer themselves. Par exemple:

The films of Almodovar - What transgressive cinema looks like to the bourgeoisie.

Studio Ghibli - A twee, conservative milieu pervades much of the studio's output.

Sympathy For Lady Vengeance and other Park Chan Wook Films - Underneath the facade of exotic foreignism, it's really just a Michael Bay movie if produced by Tarantino.

 

[Wittmann45]

I agree about American Hustle. It was decent but something was definitely missing.

The first one to come to my mind though, was The Big Lebowski. Absolute garbage in my eyes.

Edit 1: Others I can think of are Apocalypse Now, The Dark Knight Rises, Taxi Driver, Up, The Avengers, Captain America (both ones).

Edit 2: Oh, and There Will Be Blood. One great scene doesn't make it a great movie.

What are you, like a nihilist, man?

That's over the line, OVER THE LINE!

Lots of interesting choices so far that I do agree with. Saving Private Ryan is still a really good film, its just not the greatest war movie of all time, as is often cited

 

[Revan]

Sympathy For Lady Vengeance and other Park Chan Wook Films - Underneath the facade of exotic foreignism, it's really just a Michael Bay movie if produced by Tarantino.

Oldboy is one of the very few movies that I have given a perfect rating. Sympathy for Lady/Mr. Vengeance are both decent. No fecking idea where does the comparison comes but is very weird. Bay has terrible plots with great effects, Park makes only drama that don't have any special effects, explosions or other shit.

The best current non-Hollywoodian director. Unless you're a hipster or something equally awful.