s/o Overrated movies

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Anonymous wrote:Casablanca

Dr Zhivago

Dangerous Liasons

Legends of the Fall

Casablanca is the best movie ever made. It is the best movie that ever will be made.

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Anonymous wrote:Good Will Hunting

I like it, but it’s really not that deep.

+1. Actually anything with the insufferable Robin Williams has aged very poorly indeed. This is a movie it’s defensible to like at 17, but if you cant see it for the pretentious mediocrity it is by 30, check your taste. It’s a little hard to see at first because Matt Damon is actually a pretty strong actor and kind of sort of holds it together. Dead Poets Society is similar, it’s a movie a sensitive young person can fall in love with, but is an utter train wreck in hindsight, made palatable only because Ethan Hawke is such a strong actor.

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Anatomy of a Fall. I enjoy courtroom dramas, and I understand this was more about the wife's character and the choices she made before and after the death, but this was so boring. The Oscar buzz is undeserved.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good Will Hunting

I like it, but it’s really not that deep.

+1. Actually anything with the insufferable Robin Williams has aged very poorly indeed. This is a movie it’s defensible to like at 17, but if you cant see it for the pretentious mediocrity it is by 30, check your taste. It’s a little hard to see at first because Matt Damon is actually a pretty strong actor and kind of sort of holds it together. Dead Poets Society is similar, it’s a movie a sensitive young person can fall in love with, but is an utter train wreck in hindsight, made palatable only because Ethan Hawke is such a strong actor.

But can't those kinds of movies be good for certain times of a person's life? I think many books or movies hit differently at different ages. It doesn't make them worse because they don't hit the same at 40 as they did at 20.

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Love, Actually — No, Actually

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Barbie

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Home Alone. It’s good but it’s not that good.

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Anonymous wrote:Love, Actually — No, Actually

Agreed. This movie is so so so bad. The only part I find remotely moving is Emma Thompson re the affair. But that scene is an island in the stream.

[Anonymous]

Honestly most moves that get big hype are a disappointment. Very few really deserve it.

And I take issue with the person criticizing Casablanca. That is a great film.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Honestly most moves that get big hype are a disappointment. Very few really deserve it.

And I take issue with the person criticizing Casablanca. That is a great film.

correction: movies

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Do the right thing.