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

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Star Wars???? Gee, how about Planet of the Apes??? Also, I thought that Unbreakable was a WEEEEEEEE bit overated. A lot of people in my area made such a big deal about this movie when it finally came out on DVD that I just had to buy a copy myself (BIG mistake..... I regret doing so now). And don't let me get started on Traffic. The plot was all messed up with this movie, with NO ending in sight, even when the damn end of the movie came up. I am still trying to figure out to this VERY day, how in the hell did this movie win (or got nominated) for any Academy or Oscar awards??? For it to get the acolades that it did, this has to be one of the most disappointing movies to ever become part of my movie collection. Blow also gets a nomination from me as one of the most overated movies ever made.

Okay, once again, here are MY five most overated movies ever.

(01). Planet of the Apes (Man, I am glad I don't own this piece of garbage).
(02). Unbreakable.
(03). Traffic.
(04). Blow.

Well, I tried to come up with five. But I managed to come up with four. I'm sure there are others out there. But those are the four that come to mind right now.

Later????

--Charles--
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--