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
completely agree with Charles on favorite movie list. I'd like to add:
(1) Indiana Jones I and II
(1.5) First 3 Star Wars
(2) Forrest Gump (man it's deep!)
(3) Almost all Jackie Chan movie
(4) True Lies
(5) Yeah! The Blues Brothers!!!!
(6) 1941

Hate list:
(1) Momento ( made my head spin uncontrollable for serval days! )
(2) Anything by Oliver Stone -- Liberal/self righteous B#$%^@t!

Not bad but over rated:
(1) Titanic
(2) Harry Potter
(3) out of africa
(4) (New) Stars Wars I/II
(5) A Beautiful Mind

Phew .........
My 10 Favorite movies In no particular order are:

Brazil
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Some Like It Hot
Coneheads
The Empire Strikes Back
Dr. Strangelove
Citizen Kane
Dark City
Akira
A River Runs Through It

The Ten Most Overhyped movies IMHO are:

Titanic
Star Wars: Episode 1
Star Wars: Attttackkk of the Ccloness
Gladiator
The Patriot
Traffic
Armageddon
Harry Potter
Pearl Harbor
Dances with Wolves
Lord of the Rings

I have enjoyed many of these movies but I still think that in one way or another they were made out to be much better than they actually were.
Hmm, I wonder whose rating is the standard here by which to measure the overrating?
Anyway, I find most Hollywood stuff pretty bad and overrated (two thumbs up - anybody?). But some of it is pretty enjoyable, though, just for that reason (however, it's a bit disappointing, that I'm usually the only one in the theater laughing at stuff like the 'Scorpion King').
Anybody saw 'The Piano Teacher' lately? Now, that (among a lot of other independent movies) is a good movie with a stunning performance of Isabelle Huppert.