Anonymous
Post 11/01/2013 00:58     Subject: Re:s/o Overrated movies
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I don't know if they were well "rated", but people certainly seemed to love the following movies that I walked out on, they were so bad:
Napoleon Dynamite
Little Miss Sunshine
Best in Show

I hate that conceit of showing painful losers who think highly of themselves, so that we can laugh at their loser-ness, AND their mistaken self-confidence. (Add The Office, Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Parks & Rec...)


That is my favorite genre


+10,000
Anonymous
Post 11/01/2013 00:19     Subject: Re:s/o Overrated movies
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I really liked Lost in Translation, Casablanca, Sideways, Four Weddings and a Funeral, and Argo.

Couldn't stand Ghost, Napolean Dynamite, or A Fish called Wanda.

Was meh about Titanic and the Bodyguard. And really disappointed by Zero Dark Thirty.

Won't admit it publicly, but liked the American Pie series and Love Actually.


Love Actually is fantastic!!!!! And I'm looking forward to the one that comes out Nov 22nd with Rachel McAdams.


I die a little inside when I read posts like this. You don't like cinema. You like mass media, test marketed pulp, turned into a motion picture to make you feel good.

I am not a snob. I promise. I loved Bridesmaids. But I saw it for what it was.


I like Love Actually for Hugh Grant and Colin Firth. Is it a cheesy movie? Yes, but Hugh Grant singing CHristmas Carols for the little girls gets me every time.

Ugh, Bridesmaids. Seriously, I do NOT get it. Kind of like Superbad. Just stupid.

Although, I admit to loving the Idiocracy. Yeah, I said it. It is a genius.
Anonymous
Post 10/31/2013 23:51     Subject: Re:s/o Overrated movies
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I really liked Lost in Translation, Casablanca, Sideways, Four Weddings and a Funeral, and Argo.

Couldn't stand Ghost, Napolean Dynamite, or A Fish called Wanda.

Was meh about Titanic and the Bodyguard. And really disappointed by Zero Dark Thirty.

Won't admit it publicly, but liked the American Pie series and Love Actually.


Love Actually is fantastic!!!!! And I'm looking forward to the one that comes out Nov 22nd with Rachel McAdams.


I die a little inside when I read posts like this. You don't like cinema. You like mass media, test marketed pulp, turned into a motion picture to make you feel good.

I am not a snob. I promise. I loved Bridesmaids. But I saw it for what it was.
Anonymous
Post 10/31/2013 23:47     Subject: s/o Overrated movies
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The big lebowski


Agree!


Are you both insane?


I must be insane as well. My husband loves this movie. I can't watch it. (And I actually love all most movies, pretty much everything people love and hate on this thread.)
Anonymous
Post 10/31/2013 23:38     Subject: Re:s/o Overrated movies
Lord of the Rings
Any movie with Robin Williams
Forrest Gump

Anonymous
Post 10/31/2013 23:24     Subject: s/o Overrated movies
Anonymous wrote:The English Patient


+1000 for English Patient -- so terrible and slow moving, real torture, saw it because Oscar winner but wish I could get those hours of my life back.
Anonymous
Post 10/31/2013 22:44     Subject: s/o Overrated movies
Steel Magnolias
Terms of Endearment
Titanic
Avatar
Any Andrew Lloyd Weber adaptation
Election
Crash, a cheap ripoff of Robert Altman's Short Cuts. It should never have won a best picture Oscar.
Anonymous
Post 10/31/2013 22:36     Subject: Re:s/o Overrated movies
Anonymous wrote:I really liked Lost in Translation, Casablanca, Sideways, Four Weddings and a Funeral, and Argo.

Couldn't stand Ghost, Napolean Dynamite, or A Fish called Wanda.

Was meh about Titanic and the Bodyguard. And really disappointed by Zero Dark Thirty.

Won't admit it publicly, but liked the American Pie series and Love Actually.


Love Actually is fantastic!!!!! And I'm looking forward to the one that comes out Nov 22nd with Rachel McAdams.
Anonymous
Post 10/31/2013 22:29     Subject: Re:s/o Overrated movies
I really liked Lost in Translation, Casablanca, Sideways, Four Weddings and a Funeral, and Argo.

Couldn't stand Ghost, Napolean Dynamite, or A Fish called Wanda.

Was meh about Titanic and the Bodyguard. And really disappointed by Zero Dark Thirty.

Won't admit it publicly, but liked the American Pie series and Love Actually.
Anonymous
Post 10/31/2013 21:14     Subject: s/o Overrated movies
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Funny, some of my favorite movies are listed here. Different strokes for different folks. Like music (or any other art), its in the eye of the beholder, and some things resonate with some and not with others.

Lost in Translation is one of my all-time favorites. Gave it to a friend to watch, and she was completely floored that I thought it was any good. She just said that nothing happened in the movie, it was boring. I guess I could relate to the characters, and she couldn't.


Lost in Translation is BORING! It's mostly shots of Scarlett Johansen in her underwear looking out a hotel window. ZZZZZ (Sofia Coppola is a crappy director, but at least nepotism is alive and well in Hollywood.)


We'll have to agree to disagree -- I think the movie was brilliant.

But there are plenty of polarizing movies. I for one, love Napolean Dynamite... I know of plenty who just don't get it, and think its lame (including Roger Ebert).


PP I agree with you. Lost in Translation is one of my all time favorites and I love Napoleon Dynamite, too!
Anonymous
Post 10/31/2013 20:30     Subject: s/o Overrated movies
The Breakfast Club
Inception
Saving Private Ryan
Anonymous
Post 10/31/2013 20:12     Subject: s/o Overrated movies
I loved The Bodyguard
Anonymous
Post 10/31/2013 19:46     Subject: Re:s/o Overrated movies
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Agree with so many on this thread:

Dr. Zhivago (I thought it would never end)
Casablanca (And to the PP who said it's on the top of movie lovers' lists....we'll have to agree to disagree)
Lost in Translation
Napoleon Dynamite
Black Swan -- Natalie Portman's performance (the movie was ok as was Mila Kunis)


Could not disagree more with Princess Bride! Love, love.

And no more spoilers (PPs posting about Shawshank I'm looking at you!)


about what? That it's on the top of most movies lovers' list?


usually ranked 1 or 2 - not on "greatest" but on "favorite." see e.g., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFI's_100_Years...100_Movies

how anyone can say it is overated is beyond me. Maybe it's a generational gap thing.


There's no accounting for taste.


true. some people prefer Celine Dion over Whitney Houston. Don't see it myself but...
Anonymous
Post 10/31/2013 19:41     Subject: Re:s/o Overrated movies
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Agree with so many on this thread:

Dr. Zhivago (I thought it would never end)
Casablanca (And to the PP who said it's on the top of movie lovers' lists....we'll have to agree to disagree)
Lost in Translation
Napoleon Dynamite
Black Swan -- Natalie Portman's performance (the movie was ok as was Mila Kunis)


Could not disagree more with Princess Bride! Love, love.

And no more spoilers (PPs posting about Shawshank I'm looking at you!)


about what? That it's on the top of most movies lovers' list?


usually ranked 1 or 2 - not on "greatest" but on "favorite." see e.g., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFI's_100_Years...100_Movies

how anyone can say it is overated is beyond me. Maybe it's a generational gap thing.


There's no accounting for taste.
Anonymous
Post 10/31/2013 17:49     Subject: Re:s/o Overrated movies
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Agree with so many on this thread:

Dr. Zhivago (I thought it would never end)
Casablanca (And to the PP who said it's on the top of movie lovers' lists....we'll have to agree to disagree)
Lost in Translation
Napoleon Dynamite
Black Swan -- Natalie Portman's performance (the movie was ok as was Mila Kunis)


Could not disagree more with Princess Bride! Love, love.

And no more spoilers (PPs posting about Shawshank I'm looking at you!)


about what? That it's on the top of most movies lovers' list?


usually ranked 1 or 2 - not on "greatest" but on "favorite." see e.g., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFI's_100_Years...100_Movies

how anyone can say it is overated is beyond me. Maybe it's a generational gap thing.