5 most overrated movies ever......

Kirk:

Here are JUST a few of my favorite movies. Movies that I have the good fortune of owning, and thus, have become mainstays in my movie collection. These are movies that I will look at again, again, and again.

And they are:

(01). Die Hard.
(02). Die Hard II (Die Harder).
(03). The Godfather I.
(04). The Godfather II.
(05). Lethal Weapon I.
(06). Lethal Weapon II.
(07). Speed.
(08). The Specialist.
(09). Exit Wounds.
(10). Passenger 57.
(11). The Terminator (1984).
(12). Terminator 2--Judgement Day (1990).

And on my wish list is the complete James Bond series. And that is from Sean Connery to Pierce Brosman (if I spelled his name correctly). The movies that are listed above are the just the select few that I would look at again, again and again. Of course, there are some that I have regret buying (I think I have mentioned those yesterday), as well as those that I find so-so (so that I don't purchase any more of those either, maybe I better open me a rental account somewhere....... For "so-so" type of movies, Ocean 11 and Entrapment (but I am in love with Kathrene Zeta Jones) come to mind).

And speaking of another movie that I don't like, how about Spy Game???

--Charles--

Kirk, there are many, many greats! Out of my top 30 or so, Casablanca, Citizin Kane (saw it in high school and it made one heck of an impression on me), Godfather, Napolean (Russian two part film -- 180,000 soviet troops were used!), Little Big Man, Unforgiven (derivative, but still so good), Pulp Fiction. It goes on. A couple of recent ones I greatly enjoyed are Bread and Tulips and Memento (see comments above).
I can't recall -- did anyone mention Moulin Rouge as greatly overrated? What do you think of that movie?

Most Overrated...The assumption is that someone made a big deal of them in the first place. You may notice that my list all have something in common?

Gladiator
American Beauty
Shakespeare in Love
The English Patient
Braveheart
Unforgiven
Silence of the Lambs
Dance with Wolves
Driving Miss Daisy
Rain Man
The Last Emperor
Platoon
Out of Aftica
Amadeus
Terms of Endearment
Gandhi...

Titanic struck, no pun intended, the hearts and minds of more than teen girls. I am a 45 year old man who saw it 5 times in the theater and own 2 VHS versions and one DVD. This movie grossed 1.9B worldwide and the next closest is only 900M...the movie goer spoke with their wallet.

Finding the best or most overrated is hard to do without defining your measuring rod. I am not into statement movies that have no entertainment value and I don't like artsy movies that also have no entertainment value.

There are exceptions to this rule, Star Wars Epsisode 1 & 2, made a lot of money but no one really liked them. Everyone was hoping for the original trilogy magic and it just isn't there....nor will be.

Love LOTR. In my mind, being a hugh LOTR fan (read the trilogy more than 2 dozen times, own a collection of all the Calendars going back to 1973), I was ready to be extremely disappointed...the movie was not the book but the movie was very good. It held most of the feel of the book but made the jump to big screen (unlike Harry Potter). I think the whole team did a masterful job with a very very difficult and complicated story. Legalas rocks.

Love Tom Hanks.

Love Croching Tiger Hidden Dragon. I don't think this movie was overhyped I think it was under hyped and I considered a "find". A movie that doesn't get much press but is really almost an undiscovered jewel. Now that isn't true anymore but when it first came out it was a find.

did not like Momento but it was not hyped either so I couldn't say it was overrated. I agree the Mexican was terrible but again I don't know how much hype it got to begin with. Also, and this should get some people hot, didn't like Fight Club or Traffic, both of which I think have been hyped and both of which I rank as some of the worst I have ever seen.

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There has been a lot of bashing of movies that I like as well, Braveheart, Dances With Wolves, A Clockwork Orange and Gladiator being a few, but IMO the following really define overhyped:
1. Unforgiven - this lame attempt of Eastwood to try and shed his "man with no name" image failed miserably. Too many times when they TRY and make characters flawed, you end up just not caring about them. That, plus a lot of other things in this movie never held water.
2. Spiderman - OK, it takes the high school kid to point out to the scientist that one of their spiders, supposedly monitored 24/7, is missing? And has created a nest up in the rafters of this place no less. And while most villians have a plan that needs to be thwarted, the Green Goblin had nothing. Gotta love (and wonder) why the billionare bad guy and his son hang out to eat Thanksgiving dinner with the peasants from the hood (how did they know each other again?)- VERY BELIEVABLE! And this has made over $400M???
3. Anything by Woody Allen in the last 10 years - need I really get into why?
4. Platoon - ditto what others have said. As my father once said. "I'm still waiting to see the 'Nam movie where somebody came back 'normal' and wasn't involved in a massacre of civilians". So I guess a long list of Vietnam films can be thrown on this heap, from "Born on the 4th of July to my next film...
5. Apocalypse Now - I know I'm going to catch Hell on this one but this is one of those movies where the ending kills a good thing. Yes,yes, I know about the Joseph Conrad parallel but when a movie is a narrative for it's first 2-1/2 hours, don't turn it into a impressionistic experiment for the last 1/2 hour. The pink, red and white smoke while arriving at Kurtz's lair is too over the top as is the whole surreal set. Restraint in this area would have justified the rest of this, otherwise, worthy film. But hey, I love Citizen Cane too and my wife hate's it - go figure.
6. Pearl Harbor/Armeggedon/Con Air (or anything else that Jerry Bruckheimer is involved in) - For the love of God, I don't know of anyone else that can serve up the visual pablum of this producer - each flick always has the slo-mo "americana" thing that is so pandering it literally makes me sick. Think Armeggeddon after the meteor explodes and there is a slo-mo of 3 "small town" kids (ethnically diverse, of course) waving the flag, while running past the red brick General store that has a portrait of Kennedy painted on the side of it. Or the explosion (pick a film) that is shown from every possible angle ad nauseum. Subtlety is not in this guy's dictionary.

I'll stop there, although there are a ton of movies that fit into this category. I feel better now...:-)!!

This is great! Many of the movies mentioned are ones that someone loves and someone else hates. Wouldn't it be great to be a movie critic? One of the reasons I love this site is that there can be extreme, healthy disagreement without it getting personal (well, most of the time).
Treyhoss, I forgot about Last Emperor -- there's a movie that deserves to be on the overrated list. It needed serious editing work to patch all the holes in it. Bbtuna, I am also a big Tolkien fan and really enjoyed the movie, which was quite true to the book -- again one of those love it or hate it flicks.