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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Most Overrated...The assumption is that someone made a big deal of them in the first place. You may notice that my list all have something in common?

Gladiator
American Beauty
Shakespeare in Love
The English Patient
Braveheart
Unforgiven
Silence of the Lambs
Dance with Wolves
Driving Miss Daisy
Rain Man
The Last Emperor
Platoon
Out of Aftica
Amadeus
Terms of Endearment
Gandhi...

Titanic struck, no pun intended, the hearts and minds of more than teen girls. I am a 45 year old man who saw it 5 times in the theater and own 2 VHS versions and one DVD. This movie grossed 1.9B worldwide and the next closest is only 900M...the movie goer spoke with their wallet.

Finding the best or most overrated is hard to do without defining your measuring rod. I am not into statement movies that have no entertainment value and I don't like artsy movies that also have no entertainment value.

There are exceptions to this rule, Star Wars Epsisode 1 & 2, made a lot of money but no one really liked them. Everyone was hoping for the original trilogy magic and it just isn't there....nor will be.

Love LOTR. In my mind, being a hugh LOTR fan (read the trilogy more than 2 dozen times, own a collection of all the Calendars going back to 1973), I was ready to be extremely disappointed...the movie was not the book but the movie was very good. It held most of the feel of the book but made the jump to big screen (unlike Harry Potter). I think the whole team did a masterful job with a very very difficult and complicated story. Legalas rocks.

Love Tom Hanks.

Love Croching Tiger Hidden Dragon. I don't think this movie was overhyped I think it was under hyped and I considered a "find". A movie that doesn't get much press but is really almost an undiscovered jewel. Now that isn't true anymore but when it first came out it was a find.

did not like Momento but it was not hyped either so I couldn't say it was overrated. I agree the Mexican was terrible but again I don't know how much hype it got to begin with. Also, and this should get some people hot, didn't like Fight Club or Traffic, both of which I think have been hyped and both of which I rank as some of the worst I have ever seen.

opinions abound
cd
Has anyone noted that my movie list, which incompassed many of the other posts, is just a list of the Oscar winner going back in order 16+ years...except that I dropped off Titanic and Forest Gump which I thought should have won...hey, when its your opinion, you can do what you like.

cd