[hojutok]

Shawshank Redemption - everyone goes on and on about how amazing it was, but I just don't see it. Good movie, but I found it somewhat dull and not this amazing picture everyone likes to claim it as.

[Munccoughe]

Originally posted by LordShiva

Gladiator

[+++Poguru+++]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison
Starship Troopers. Even if people say it is sh*t, they are still overrating it Starship Troopers is a great satiric view on sci-fi action movies and propaganda films.

[boltondd]

Shawshank Redemption - everyone goes on and on about how amazing it was, but I just don't see it. Good movie, but I found it somewhat dull and not this amazing picture everyone likes to claim it as.

You're so ****ing gay, dude...

[banditorfv]

Originally posted by Wezil


...and your thoughts on this one? I mainly rented it because I heard it had lots of sex scenes in it. But it was just too far out there. Even for me.

[AricGoffgog]

Originally posted by Dis

Crash (oscar winning version, not the Canadian perverted version) was also very overrated. The situations were so contrived, it just wasn't believable. QFT

[truportodfa]

I would say that almost every recently produced Hollywood film is utterly overrated. To be specific, the films of this decade thus far. (In the 90's, Hollywood was still mass producing fairly decent films like Jurassic Park, Forrest Gump, Fight Club etc.)

Take the first Spiderman film for example. I watched the first hour the other night on broadcast TV. I avoided this film initially because I thought the CGI action sequences looked lame. I thought there might be a decent film apart from the special effects, but I was wrong! From the first moments I couldn't believe how crap it was. How could this movie spawn two sequels except that people had been somehow body snatched by an alien species that had a fondness for garbage films?

Okay, so recently I thought I would try a more serious minded superhero film: Batman Begins. I had heard nothing but goodness about the film, and although I had very much enjoyed the over the top previous installments, I was enthusiastic about seeing a more gritty and realistic portrayal of Batman. But within 7 minutes or so I found myself looking at the clock, depressed that I might have to waste another 90 minutes or so of my life in yet another crap film. Then I came to my senses, switched off the DVD player and salvaged precious minutes that on my deathbed I will be grateful for. My god Batman Returns was pathetic.

I admit that I tend to be most attracted to science fiction/fantasy type films, and I can't really comment on the supposed cream of Hollywood: films like A Beautiful Mind, Crash, Brokeback Mountain etc. I only have limited funds, and anyway, films about gay cowboys and crazy mathematicians don't perk my interest in the slightest for some reason.

Conclusion: to me, Hollywood doesn't produce films anymore. They produce material that is more akin to mini-series quality, or even TV show quality. I can only speculate that rationalisation has had such a severe affect on the Hollywood machine, forced largely by the file sharing and dilution of profits, that many of the aspects that made films have a heightened, otherworldly feel, have been mercilessly pruned off.

(Thankgoodness for foreign and independent films, because Hollywood is now a write-off.)

The most depressing thing though is everyone seems to be ignorant, and still display enthusiasm for dreck like Spiderman 3 or 300. But I know the bottom line tells the true story, with cinema going at all time lows (at least in my home).

[Qnpqbpac]

Spiderman 2 sucked

[Appeselve]

Children of Men
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

[WebDocMan]

Originally posted by BeBro
Matrix QFT

[Jerwittdergut]

I was going to say Schindler's List. But, come to think of it, everything Spielberg directed after Jaws is overrated.

Everything he directed before Jaws is underrated.

Jaws has exactly the reputation it deserves.

[sessoorale]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
How can you overrate Raiders of the Lost Ark? Well, you could start by imagining it can't be overrated...

[Angry White American]

Most overrated movie is without doubt Matrix

[Bromymbollile]

Shakespeare In Love.

Braveheart.

Nearly everything with Steve Allen in it.

Mr. Bean.

[lollypop]

Originally posted by Cort Haus
but the second was tedious. Tedious in the extreme.

Let's have a hippie orgy !

No, let's not....

Then let's have Keanu Reeves dressed as a 'Father Ted' extra do pole-dancing... for what feels about 5 hours.


I was less bored the second time I watched 'Chelsea Girls'.


Most of Jean Luc Godard's later films. Really dull.

[Ygxejxox]

"got bogged down in talking" :hehe: I presume you haven't read the book.

You probably don't like classic Film Noir then, where hard-boiled dialogue in moodily-lit sets IS the action.

Bogart

[DuesTyr]

Originally posted by nostromo
Spiderman 2 kicked ass Fixed.

[oxinsnepe]

Spiderman was ok. Spidey II was ok. Neither was particularly good.

And Imran, you're smoking crack about Shawshank. Great movie

Hmm... overrated. Overrated by whom?

bpb - suffice it to say that the films did a pretty good job of being true in spirit to the book, and where they didn't it wasn't an issue of taking too long - it was the other way 'round at times. The book is massive.

-Arrian

[MarythePuppy6]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison
Battlefield Earth. Even if people say it is sh*t, they are still overrating it Fixed.

[dubballey]

Originally posted by LordShiva
All comic book-based movies. QFT.

Bkeela on the first page was complaining of the crap Hollywood has produced over the past ten years. He then went on to list a slew of comic book movies.

I think we've found his problem.