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5 most overrated movies ever......

Ah such fun is being had on that other thread it's now time to take the axe to movies..........

1.Gladiator-for some reason "everybody" seemed to think there was some reason to feel emotional about this poor remake of Spartacus,the drawn-out revenge storyline trying vainly to add weight to little more than a CG generated WWF extravaganza,and the acting..oh dear..failed Aussie soap star Russell Crowe even won the oscar obviously Tom Hanks didn't make a movie that year...This films biggest crime is that it has the audacity to take itself seriously......watch it again in 5 years and wonder why you thought it was any good.
2.The Usual Suspects-with 20 minutes of this movie still to go I wanted to leave the cinema,who cared who Kaiser Sauzee was?
Off the back of Resevoir Dogs-a so-called hip movie that was all style over substance-absolute tosh,how very clever to have a script where the narrator lies to you,who cares if there were clues,who cared about any of these characters?, like a super-effective laxative launched a million movies with twist endings....
3.Blue Velvet--ah David Lynch-shocked us all with the fact that small town America had a dark side,didn't he watch the news?,read the newspapers,total junk,conceptual film-making without the concept,truly lazy nonsense,no script,only considered weird by those who like Lynch were ignored at school....unbelievably followed this up with worse movies with even more obvious points to make.
3.Platoon-some how at the time this was judged to be the movie that showed America had come to terms with the Viet Nam war..eh?
Hadn't anybody seen Coming Home,The Deer Hunter,Apocalypse Now,Bat 21?
All better movies made earlier,started Oliver Stone's trend to take serious subjects and condense them into nothing much to popular and critical acclaim.
Don't even start me on JFK.
Weren't the 80's crap.....
I don't care if he was in Viet Nam ,this movie is rubbish....
4.Braveheart-made me ashamed to be Scottish,historically inaccurate beyond belief,with an Australian playing a Scot,no doubt made ex-pats teary eyed the world over,made me cry with laughter
5.Anything with Tom Hanks-the modern day American everyman turns up everywhere,doomed space rockets,football pitches,WW2,you always know when he's in a movie that it will be sentimental populist tosh-Saving Private Ryan was great till he turned up signalling the end of any realism...oh and those Oscar speeches.............

Fire away fellow Audiogon Movie fans.........
ben_campbell
nighthawk
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This is pretty funny. Several of those mentioned I like a lot (Gladiator, Apollo 13, Fargo, Unbreakable, Memento)

Here's my most overrated list:

Crouching Tiger - Hidden Dragon
Citizen Kane
Anything by Woody Allen
A Clockwork Orange
The Mummy
fatparrot
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Did anyone mention "American Beauty"? An Academy Award winner? Did I miss something? Also, "Titanic" and "Gladiator" as Academy Award winners? The Academy has now become a popularity and promotional marketing (read that "vote buying") event, NOT having anything to do with the best picture or even a good picture. Changing the subject, anyone that doesn't understand and thinks that "Clockwork Orange" and "Citizen Kane" weren't outstanding movies and worth EVERY ounce of acclaim, well, I suggest that S.W. "Attack of the Clones" might be more your speed! Speaking of the original Star Wars trilogy, "The Empire Strikes Back" was the only decent one out of the bunch. Although the other two were fun, "Empire" was a far superior movie. And, in "The Return of the Jedi", did anyone else besides me want to see those obnoxious Ewoks slaughtered in a bloody massacre, ala Sam Peckinpah style?
fly_fish_nz
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Now wait a minute, over 20 posts and no one mentions Bored of the Rings???

For those of you fortunate enough to have spent your time doing anything else, say lancing boils at the old folks home, allow me to summarize: uninspired dialogue, swordfight with cartoon monster, change of venue; uninspired dialogue, swordfight with cartoon monster, change of venue; uninspired dialogue, swordfight with cartoon monster, change of venue; uninspired dialogue, swordfight with cartoon monster, change of .....

Now, in fairness, the filmakers did toss in a few swordfights with DIFFERENT monsters in the SAME venue, just to keep the dim bulbs guessing. And technically the animation was good, but who gives a rats ass? I don't enjoy books because they are well bound.

Best moment? Mercifully, even $100M runs out and the film does eventually end, at which point some nerf ball stands up and starts clapping, to which there was a collective groan and everyone, head down in a mind numbing daze, shuffles their way out of the theater, trying to remember their name and regretting that they had not stayed home and reorganized photo albums.

I LOVED the ending.
centurymantra
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Well...even though I enjoyed the film (but not a LOT), I will agree that Lord of the Rings was very over-rated. Perhaps my expectation were too high. I didn't even bother mentioning 'Titantic' since that one's so obvious that it goes without saying. Star Wars (or, rather, the whole SW 'phenomena') probably should go on that list as well. Yes, I was hypnotized by the hype as a young & impressionable youth and saw the film 8 or 9 times, and yes, it does embody some of the classic mythic elements of film tied into a well-composed and admittedly entertaining package. Looking at it now and considering the repercussions that have followed, it is very easy to argue that Star Wars marked the beginning of the decline of American cinema. (and to Fatparrot: yes, the Ewoks must be destroyed!!) A couple of films that represent in a perfectly distilled form the decline to which I refer are 'The Perfect Storm' and 'Mission to Mars'. Maybe they don't belong on a most over-rated list, but they're definitely on my worst-in-recent-history list; films I truly loathed and took personal offense from. I could go on...but I won't!
rosypup
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i forgot that one "the perfect storm". what a horrible movie trying to make heros out of anyone....

i agree with anothe bomb overrated: crouching tiger, hidden dragon.

now for another underrated movie because i never heard of it before and it blew me away.

jeepers creepers.... what a great scary film. where did that come from!!!!!!
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