Overrated Movies
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- CALLES1
Argo
- ...fuck yourselfrobthelad
- agreedmugwart
- Agree. The first half was brilliant and hilarious, but the half about getting them out was an utter bore, except for the guy who started speaking Iranian.allthethings
- pango-6
Apocalypse now
- That movie make no scene especially the final act. Lot of good moment tho.pango
- hadocpoz
- Watch Hearts of Darkness instead: https://www.youtube.…DRIFTMONKEY
- Heart of Darkness is the novel Apocalypse Now was based on. It was a World War 2 story.CyBrainX
- But sorry, I must downvote this.CyBrainX
- I think I understand pango.oey
- *sense
i dont know how ot type.pango - Further down the river, deeper into the jungle, things get darker and more animalistic. There you go pango. That’s the sense of it.monospaced
- (Heart of Darkness wasn't set ww2. actually it wasn't a war story at all)Gnash
- It's so loosely based on Hearts of Darkness though, it was more an initial spark of inspiration.fadein11
- @drift, yep Hearts of Darkness is essential viewing.fadein11
- p.s. that wasn't an attack on you Gnash, more agreement.fadein11
- I was just talking about the bookGnash
- I know, hence why I said my comment wasn't directed at you.fadein11
- Heart* in my original comment.
Anyone who hasn't seen the doc Hearts of Darkness should watch though, fantastic.fadein11
- _niko2
Discovering A clockwork Orange (for example) accidentally on your own while flipping through the channels is way different than watching it to see what all the hype from the critics and your annoying friends is all about.
if it's the former you'll feel that you discovered a gem and will cherish it forever.
If you watch it based on the latter, inevitably you will be disappointed and feel that it's overrated.
is that what we're talking about here?
- I always felt guilty I couldn't get it (clockwork orange).
OVERATEDhotroddy - This is one of my favorite movies.CyBrainX
- ok, ok fine. cy redeemed in my eyesdocpoz
- mine too. don't bother docpoz, I don't need redemption and I can't have it.oey
- Now I’m really thinking. Good point.monospaced
- I always felt guilty I couldn't get it (clockwork orange).
- Morning_star2
For those that want to know a little more about A Clockwork Orange, Very Bad Wizards podcast did a whole episode this week discussing the film.
https://fireside.fm/s/6KyWinhM+e…
For those that don't know Very Bad Wizards, it's a funny and often insightful perspective on culture from a Psychology and a a Philosophy Professor.
- jagara1
Krull
- Who is saying that is good?lemmy_k
- Isn’t it more of a cult film at this point?Ramanisky2
- bainbridge-9
The Big Lebowski
- FUCK OFF!!!Ramanisky2
- hhmmm...nah.docpoz
- there's certainly a bridge between you and your brain...oey
- Nahmonospaced
- come on ..... this is the one film no one can argue with! The way that cup bounces off Bridges head - geniusmugwart
- ^ yes, the cup throw is cinematic golddee-dubs
- Haha, idiot! Was it highly rated at the time or has it grown in its popularity and love?Ianbolton
- explain yourself. I don't think it's enough to just name a move - give at least one point of rationale.ben_
- Apologise for trolling or apologise for being an idiot. Which one?Hayzilla
- Love the Coens, but frequently I just don't get it. I also thought this was overrated.allthethings
- https://www.youtube.…Krassy
- < this guy has prob never smoked weed. only way to deny this film its glory.dirtydesign
- https://medias.spote…docpoz
- Ramanisky21
- It Follows
- Hereditarythere were some things I liked about both, cinematography, sound design & atmosphere but overall didn’t get all the hype.
- Hereditary was quite possible the worst scary movie I’ve ever seen. I couldn’t imagine how they crammed so much stupid into one film and one good actor.monospaced
- Yeah Hereditary was good for a couple of naps in the theater.Ramanisky2
- I liked both.inteliboy
- It Follows was great for mainly stylistic reasons like you say, Hereditary not so good.fadein11
- Hereditary had a great movie in there somewhere, but the ending was dumb.yuekit
- Seems like there's a trend of film critics exaggerating how good movies are at festivals, then when you finally watch it ends up being mediocre.yuekit
- ^ ExactlyRamanisky2
- critics suck so much industry dick it isn't even funnymonospaced
- special interestsdocpoz
- colin_s-2
lord of the rings
marvel movies
interstellar
batman begins
spotlight- (though i like spotlight + some marvel flicks, they're generally overrated imo.)colin_s
- interstellar is one I’m able to rewatch, unlike most movies. that isn’t an indication that it’s very good though. Same goes for Speed. :\monospaced
- Morning_star0
Inception.
Didn't enjoy it. Couldn't see what all the fuss was about. Thought i may have been unfair/high/drunk/distracted when i first watched it. Watched it again... felt exactly the same.
It's not bad but IMO it didn't warrant all the hype.
- https://banner2.kiss…Bluejam
- ^ LOLMorning_star
- Thought it was great conceptually and was happy to watch it a couple times, but probably wouldn't bother watching again.ben_
- yep agree, I never understood the fuss, average at best. And Interstellar I'm sorry to say. He's overrated full stop.fadein11
- Yeah potentially interesting concept but it didn't hold my interest at all.yuekit
- https://www.youtube.…prophetone
- BRAMMM!!!yuekit
- have to becareful in what I write (lawers might be reading) but IMAO - this was all stolen idea anywaymugwart
- Solid filmdocpoz
- Was ok .. loved the dream concepts .. but I never felt a sense of danger when they were being chased by the bad guys towards the end.Ramanisky2
- pablo28-5
2001: A Space Odyssey
- really?fadein11
- https://cdn.vox-cdn.…Bluejam
- to much chimps in it for pablitouan
- You have to place it in context of time. There views and ideas are still relevant after 50 years.milfhunter
- I loved it (saw it in theaters at 8, and then in college), but agree it's overrated, particularly now.allthethings
- cuz ur too dumb lolzdocpoz
- Hayzilla-3
Mulholland Drive
- dirtydesign-3
Green Mile. Shit movie. I walked out of the theater.
- Bluejam3
The Grand Budapest Hotel & Isle of Dogs
Yes, good films and watchable but, at this point "all good things come to a trend".
- allthethings-1
It occurs to me that you could draw a line between "overrated" and "inexplicably popular." I guess sometimes they're the same thing. Popular entertainment...a lot of times people go for the latest summer spectacle, and it's the big thing of the moment, and if you don't really like it as much as other people seem to, well personally I just chalk it up to my being a little off. It doesn't get me all riled up to declare it overrated.
I think I save the kind of outrage that leads me to declare something overrated for movies that seem like their popularity is...fraudulent. Sometimes they're not even popular, but they've been declared worthy of my attention, and I spend ten bucks on it, and seriously, shame on me for falling for it.
So, there are movies that critics gush about because they just refuse to mess with an icon, and then the public just goes along with the subterfuge. As an example, Woody Allen hasn't made a good movie since 1989 (and during that time has had multiple creepy and/or outright illegal things alleged). And yet there are tons of movie critics who just refuse to pan his movies. I long ago learned how to read a Woody Allen review to know what I could spot between the lines that would tell me just how bad the new movie was.
I would name him overrated...I probably wouldn't name any of his movies since 1989 as overrated, though, because I have only seen one or two, fuck me they were awful, and really, only about 10,000 people actually went to any of them...he gets pretty much zero word of mouth going. His audience is the same 10,000 people, every time. His movies are propped up by literally 50 people watching screenings and then making excuses for threadbare plots, underwritten characters, miscasting and cultural cluelessness.
Every year in the run-up to the Oscars you get movies that gain a critical following or consensus when no normal people have yet seen them. Last two weeks of the year, something gets screened for critics to make it Oscar eligible and then there's a huge marketing effort that pushes a movie's or actor's "front-runner" status...and if enough people succumb to the marketing, there's your true overrated movie. For example, "The Remains of the Day." That was a nothing movie, painful to sit though. Seriously overrated, by "Serious People." If people had just ignored it, it would have gone away. Occasionally these sorts of movies gain a following because they become movies "you have to see"...Remains of the Day because it was a) Merchant-Ivory (untouchable icons), and b) an actor's showcase, who cares if they actually have anything to do for 120 minutes. A recent one I can think of was "The Butler," which you supposedly had to run out and see because of its significance (in that case, civil rights). That one was really horrible. Just moronic, with cringe-worthy impersonations of famous people.
The one with Leonardo DiCaprio wrestling grizzly bears? I mean, seriously? I save my wrath for movies like that.
- Match Point was fine.docpoz
- That was one of the two I saw. Absolute rubbish, in my opinion.allthethings
- That is great! Hadocpoz
- Ramanisky20
This one ..
Clint Eastwood using that fake prop baby was just a start.
- docpoz-4
81/2
- sarahfailin-2
I've seen Woody Allen's Manhattan twice, and it just doesn't do it for me. *shruggie*