View Full Version : Huge Films You Have seen That Were Crap/Overrated
I'' start..
The Deer Hunter.. really looked forward to this but it was by far the slowest film I have ever seen.
The Shining.. Don't really understand the hype. I have to agree that the actual performances from Nicholson/that lass were outstanding but the film itself I thought ws utter nonsense
The Matrix.. don't even get me started on this film :mad:
Fetch The Bolt Cutters
10-05-2011, 07:10 PM
brokeback mountain, it was good, but i was expecting it to be amazing and it just wasnt
Se7en & Anachorman are my main two, both decent films but se7en isnt anything special and Anchorman only has a couple of funny moments
Scott! I think with all that's happened recently regarding permabans/invasions of privacy, you are being pretty bold using that pic of me in your avatar!! :nono:
Marsh.
10-05-2011, 07:33 PM
brokeback mountain, it was good, but i was expecting it to be amazing and it just wasnt
You sure you weren't looking for a good porn film and disappointed in the end? lol
Se7en & Anachorman are my main two, both decent films but se7en isnt anything special and Anchorman only has a couple of funny moments
I've never found Will Ferrell funny in anything. Only ever liked Stranger Than Fiction but inspite of him.
Anyway, I think Crash was awful. I really liked the premise but it was executed terribly.
Not surprised it won an Oscar though, with all its in your face racism/discrimination lessons.
The Hangover. It's not funny. Not a bit of it. It's just ~crazy non humour designed to be transfered via Facebook status updates. I literally didn't laugh at a single moment of it even though I felt like I should have been laughing at all of it which is a really rotten thing for a comedy.
TIGER IN THE APPARTMENT AND THE MAIN GUY WAS ON THE ROOF. ZACH WHATSHISFACE. DRINKING. HA HA HA HA
HA HA HA
HA HA
HA
Sorry, wrong meeting.
The Last Exorcism & The Blair Witch Project.
Oh and Splice, lots of people I know said it was amazing, I thought it was quite ****e.
Patrick
10-05-2011, 07:43 PM
The Hangover.
I have it on DVD and it was pretty cool - but it wasn't as good as people made out, honestly.
Maybe it's just because 2009 sucked in terms of movies or something, I don't know.
Due Date though, brilliant - better than The Hangover.
Oh yeah ... Inception. Falls into the overated category for me, not the crap one. A very well made, slick film with solid performances but it's had that horrible Da Vinci code effect of convincing thick people that it was much deeper, metaphysical and edgy than it actually was [See : Donnie Darko]. It's done wonders in shilling sensationalist dream decoder books to the neurotic, suburban woman who didn't already have one.
'Conor
10-05-2011, 07:45 PM
The Hangover
Avatar.
Scarlett.
10-05-2011, 07:46 PM
Definately Avatard
Fetch The Bolt Cutters
10-05-2011, 07:48 PM
Scott! I think with all that's happened recently regarding permabans/invasions of privacy, you are being pretty bold using that pic of me in your avatar!! :nono:
:joker:
Smithy
10-05-2011, 07:49 PM
O convincing thick people that it was much deeper, metaphysical and edgy than it actually was
*cough*Niamh*cough*
Mac Hiavellian
10-05-2011, 08:31 PM
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) - Man plays with food.
Jaws (1974) - Man vs shark: a battle of the minds.
Blade Runner (1982) - Man hunts 'replicants', fascinated by a lady replicant.
Transformers (2007) - I paid money to watch machines with ethos crash and burn thus creating pathos. Instead I got Shia Lebouf try and bone Megan Fox.
Harry Potter and the Philospoher's Stone (2001) - Annoying brats tackle a dark lord.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) - Annoying brats return, joined by an annoying elf.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) - After 2 *cough - 5* years of maturing somewhat, annoying brats are annoying again. This this time they're hormonal and petty. Meanwhile annoying adults are in denial.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) - Annoying brats sit around and wait for the next film.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1 (2010) Annoying brats go searching - but they don't know what for. Idiots.
Star Wars/Star Wars Episode 4: A New Hope (1977) - Man is told he's a space monk and must rescue a princess.
The Emprie Strikes Back/Star Wars Episode 5: The Emprie Strikes Back (1980) - Space monk realises Darth Vader isn't dead, meets a green puppet and learns a shattering but camp secret.
Return of the Jedi/Star Wars Episode 6: Returns of the Jedi (1983) - Little furry things run amock and somehow destroy an evil empire using sticks and stones with the help of Space Monk.
Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace (1999) - A little boy is told he is powerful while some space monks fight a mute martial artist and an orange creature ruins an already overrated franchise with offensively racist undertones
Star Wars Episode 2: Attack of the Clones (2002) - The little boy grows up to become an arrogant space monk. Some sh!t about cloning. The grene puppet from earlier films is now in CGI - he kicks ass. All is a joke.
Star Wars Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith (2005) - Arrogant space monk gets jiggy with his secret wife, has premonitions she will die, becomes Darth Vader, screams "NOOOOOOOOO!" - quite camp. The earlier films you know and love/love to hate are born.
The Dark Knight (2008) - doesn't suck but it is overrated compared to Batman Begins. A clown goes through many elaborate and beyond belief stunts just to corrupt a DA's mind.
Spider-Man 2 (2004) - Geeky superhero teen feels guilty conscience over his uncle's death in first film, his aunt becomes bankrupt, his love - an annoying wet diva. Some guy gets mechanical tentacles and somehow develops a split personality.
Spider-Man 3 (2007) - Geeky superhero teen learns his uncle was killed by someone else - making the whole guilty conscience plot of the previous movie redundant. Three different villains; the under-used, the over-used and, the used-and-abused.
Halloween (1978) - Boogie man stalks random babysitters with no motive. His motive is then revealed in sequel but it sucks.
Toy Story 2 (1999) - Cowboy doll is abducted by geeky man. Lacks the originality of first film and not as grand as the third.
The Matrix (1999) - Hacker learns he's a messiah, must free humanity from slavery in the 1990s for a post-appocalyptic Sentinel-warzone. Go figure.
That'll do for now :D
Patrick
10-05-2011, 08:40 PM
Good man Ben, for not mentioning Harry Potter 3.
Because that is Jizzable.
Niall
10-05-2011, 08:44 PM
The Hangover is definitely waaaaaay too overrated. Oh and when I watched Juno, I head it was meant to be really funny all the way through and that it was meant to be a comedy, I watched it and there was about 5 funny moments of it interspersed with montages featuring crappy indie songs. Its was rather sh!te. :bored:
Give Blade Runner another whirl again when you're all grown up. It's quite something.
Well I loved the Hangover, one of the best comedies I've seen :tongue:
Another one I thought was crap was Scott Pilgrim vs the World, but that was never my type of film/comedy anyway
Marsh.
10-05-2011, 09:20 PM
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) - Man plays with food.
Jaws (1974) - Man vs shark: a battle of the minds.
Blade Runner (1982) - Man hunts 'replicants', fascinated by a lady replicant.
Transformers (2007) - I paid money to watch machines with ethos crash and burn thus creating pathos. Instead I got Shia Lebouf try and bone Megan Fox.
Harry Potter and the Philospoher's Stone (2001) - Annoying brats tackle a dark lord.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) - Annoying brats return, joined by an annoying elf.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) - After 2 *cough - 5* years of maturing somewhat, annoying brats are annoying again. This this time they're hormonal and petty. Meanwhile annoying adults are in denial.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) - Annoying brats sit around and wait for the next film.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1 (2010) Annoying brats go searching - but they don't know what for. Idiots.
Star Wars/Star Wars Episode 4: A New Hope (1977) - Man is told he's a space monk and must rescue a princess.
The Emprie Strikes Back/Star Wars Episode 5: The Emprie Strikes Back (1980) - Space monk realises Darth Vader isn't dead, meets a green puppet and learns a shattering but camp secret.
Return of the Jedi/Star Wars Episode 6: Returns of the Jedi (1983) - Little furry things run amock and somehow destroy an evil empire using sticks and stones with the help of Space Monk.
Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace (1999) - A little boy is told he is powerful while some space monks fight a mute martial artist and an orange creature ruins an already overrated franchise with offensively racist undertones
Star Wars Episode 2: Attack of the Clones (2002) - The little boy grows up to become an arrogant space monk. Some sh!t about cloning. The grene puppet from earlier films is now in CGI - he kicks ass. All is a joke.
Star Wars Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith (2005) - Arrogant space monk gets jiggy with his secret wife, has premonitions she will die, becomes Darth Vader, screams "NOOOOOOOOO!" - quite camp. The earlier films you know and love/love to hate are born.
The Dark Knight (2008) - doesn't suck but it is overrated compared to Batman Begins. A clown goes through many elaborate and beyond belief stunts just to corrupt a DA's mind.
Spider-Man 2 (2004) - Geeky superhero teen feels guilty conscience over his uncle's death in first film, his aunt becomes bankrupt, his love - an annoying wet diva. Some guy gets mechanical tentacles and somehow develops a split personality.
Spider-Man 3 (2007) - Geeky superhero teen learns his uncle was killed by someone else - making the whole guilty conscience plot of the previous movie redundant. Three different villains; the under-used, the over-used and, the used-and-abused.
Halloween (1978) - Boogie man stalks random babysitters with no motive. His motive is then revealed in sequel but it sucks.
Toy Story 2 (1999) - Cowboy doll is abducted by geeky man. Lacks the originality of first film and not as grand as the third.
The Matrix (1999) - Hacker learns he's a messiah, must free humanity from slavery in the 1990s for a post-appocalyptic Sentinel-warzone. Go figure.
That'll do for now :D
LMAO, any other normal person wouldn't watch the endless sequels of these series if they hated them the way you seem to. Glutton for punishment?
GiRTh
10-05-2011, 09:24 PM
Bladerunner is a great film. One of my all time faves. Deer Hunter is no where near as good as Apocalypse Now and it does have pacing issues but it probably one of the best acted films of all time.
For me, The Piano. How did that film win so many awards? Holly Hunter was good but the other actors are terrible, the characters are inconsistent and the plot has numerous holes.
Titanic. Dont get me started but consider this, the whole film is told thru the eyes of Kate Winslets ageing character but things happen that she could never have been aware of.
LMAO, any other normal person wouldn't watch the endless sequels of these series if they hated them the way you seem to. Glutton for punishment?
Hey somebody's gotta be there to question the realism of Batman villains.
Ninastar
10-05-2011, 09:26 PM
The Hangover. It's not funny. Not a bit of it. It's just ~crazy non humour designed to be transfered via Facebook status updates. I literally didn't laugh at a single moment of it even though I felt like I should have been laughing at all of it which is a really rotten thing for a comedy.
TIGER IN THE APPARTMENT AND THE MAIN GUY WAS ON THE ROOF. ZACH WHATSHISFACE. DRINKING. HA HA HA HA
HA HA HA
HA HA
HA
Sorry, wrong meeting.
not you fat jesus
Titanic. Dont get me started but consider this, the whole film is told thru the eyes of Kate Winslets ageing character but things happen that she could never have been aware of.
:joker: I never even thought of that
Marsh.
10-05-2011, 09:35 PM
Titanic. Dont get me started but consider this, the whole film is told thru the eyes of Kate Winslets ageing character but things happen that she could never have been aware of.
Of all things, that was your problem with Titanic? lol
But, we the audience saw the events onscreen as they happened, it was only the characters listening to the old lady that only heard about things she saw.
Otherwise they'd have known she still had the diamond at the end.
That's the point, the audience saw it but the characters she was telling the story to didn't.
GiRTh
10-05-2011, 09:44 PM
Of all things, that was your problem with Titanic? lol
But, we the audience saw the events onscreen as they happened, it was only the characters listening to the old lady that only heard about things she saw.
Otherwise they'd have known she still had the diamond at the end.
That's the point, the audience saw it but the characters she was telling the story to didn't.I did say dont get me started.:joker:
Its not just the fact that she wasnt aware of up to a third of the plot of the film its was mainly Camerons direction. He handled the romance much better than he handled his signature action scenes. Thus, giving the feel that so much of the action was redundant to the plot. The whole film has a very inconsietant feel the has me turning off half way thru every time its on TV.
Marsh.
10-05-2011, 09:52 PM
I did say dont get me started.:joker:
Its not just the fact that she wasnt aware of up to a third of the plot of the film its was mainly Camerons direction. He handled the romance much better than he handled his signature action scenes. Thus, giving the feel that so much of the action was redundant to the plot. The whole film has a very inconsietant feel the has me turning off half way thru every time its on TV.
I don't want to get you started lol.
But I'm the complete opposite. I liked the film inspite of the romance.
If I ever watch it I always skip after the first half hour to the last 90 or so minutes. The "romance" was just soppy teen angst that was too lustful to be considered love. lol
Plus, the action stuff was what the film was about. The infamous sinking of the Titanic, not Leo and Kate getting it on. The romance was redundant to the plot.
But anyway, if I found anything off putting it was Celine Dion's soundtrack.
BB_Eye
10-05-2011, 09:56 PM
Most of those mentioned by Mac Hiavellian and happyland. I disagree on Jaws and Close Encounters though. They are among Spielberg's best work.
Plus...
Anything directed by Danny Boyle (especially the pathetically unscary 28 Days Later, I'll leave out Shallow Grave though)
Anything directed by Gore Verbinsky
Anything directed by Tony Scott, except Deja Vu
Anything written/directed by the Farrelly Brothers EXCEPT Kingpin
Anything written by Joe Esterhaz (especially A Time to Kill, insanely dumb courtroom drama)
Anything starring Mike Myers
Anything starring Jim Carrey
Anything starring the eminently charmless James MacAvoy
Anything starring Forrest Whitaker
Team America: World Police (saying the gags in this are hit & miss is being generous)
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
In the Bedroom (not so much a huge film, but critically acclaimed)
Titanic
Gladiator
Rain Man
Hallam Foe
Jerry Maguire
Kill Bill
Every James Cameron movie except the original Terminator and the decent, but flawed True Lies.
It's a Wonderful Life
The Sound of Music
The Departed
The Ring - remake
Ju-On: The Grudge - original (the remake sucked too, but everybody knows that)
Y Tu Mama Tambien (hipsters/scenefags worship this movie... bored me to death)
Pan's Labyrinth (REALLY wanted to like this one)
Extreme examples of overratedness in bold. :)
Scarlett.
10-05-2011, 10:08 PM
Most of those mentioned by Mac Hiavellian and happyland. I disagree on Jaws and Close Encounters though. They are among Spielberg's best work.
Plus...
Anything directed by Danny Boyle (especially the pathetically unscary 28 Days Later, I'll leave out Shallow Grave though)
Anything directed by Gore Verbinsky
Anything directed by Tony Scott, except Deja Vu
Anything written/directed by the Farrelly Brothers EXCEPT Kingpin
Anything written by Joe Esterhaz (especially A Time to Kill, insanely dumb courtroom drama)
Anything starring Mike Myers
Anything starring Jim Carrey
Anything starring the eminently charmless James MacAvoy
Anything starring Forrest Whitaker
Team America: World Police (saying the gags in this are hit & miss is being generous)
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
In the Bedroom (not so much a huge film, but critically acclaimed)
Titanic
Gladiator
Rain Man
Hallam Foe
Jerry Maguire
Kill Bill
Every James Cameron movie except the original Terminator and the decent, but flawed True Lies.
It's a Wonderful Life
The Sound of Music
The Departed
The Ring - remake
Ju-On: The Grudge - original (the remake sucked too, but everybody knows that)
Y Tu Mama Tambien (hipsters/scenefags worship this movie... bored me to death)
Pan's Labyrinth (REALLY wanted to like this one)
Extreme examples of overratedness in bold. :)
If you didn't like Pan's Labyrinth, did you like the Devil's Backbone? :p
BringItOn
10-05-2011, 10:12 PM
Inception, fell asleep through it :)
Marsh.
10-05-2011, 10:34 PM
Most of those mentioned by Mac Hiavellian and happyland. I disagree on Jaws and Close Encounters though. They are among Spielberg's best work.
Plus...
Anything directed by Danny Boyle (especially the pathetically unscary 28 Days Later, I'll leave out Shallow Grave though)
Anything directed by Gore Verbinsky
Anything directed by Tony Scott, except Deja Vu
Anything written/directed by the Farrelly Brothers EXCEPT Kingpin
Anything written by Joe Esterhaz (especially A Time to Kill, insanely dumb courtroom drama)
Anything starring Mike Myers
Anything starring Jim Carrey
Anything starring the eminently charmless James MacAvoy
Anything starring Forrest Whitaker
Team America: World Police (saying the gags in this are hit & miss is being generous)
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
In the Bedroom (not so much a huge film, but critically acclaimed)
Titanic
Gladiator
Rain Man
Hallam Foe
Jerry Maguire
Kill Bill
Every James Cameron movie except the original Terminator and the decent, but flawed True Lies.
It's a Wonderful Life
The Sound of Music
The Departed
The Ring - remake
Ju-On: The Grudge - original (the remake sucked too, but everybody knows that)
Y Tu Mama Tambien (hipsters/scenefags worship this movie... bored me to death)
Pan's Labyrinth (REALLY wanted to like this one)
Extreme examples of overratedness in bold. :)
Lol, if you watch a film that's both old and musical you're guaranteed a bad film. Why watch it?
I agree about Jim Carey, never found him funny in anything.
But I wouldn't say I didn't like "anything" with him because The Truman Show is a very good film.
Marsh.
10-05-2011, 10:40 PM
I can't remember if 2012 was a big movie when it came out but watching it for the first time now and it's very boring and the action sequences aren't convincing in the slightest.
I know to switch my brain off for these types of films, but it's beyond stupid.
Out of everyone a clapped out camper van swerves falling skyscrapers, major earthquakes, tsunamis, volcano eruptions etc.
And now they've got someone who's never flown before flying them about dodging every disaster going.
Scarlett.
10-05-2011, 10:51 PM
Lol, if you watch a film that's both old and musical you're guaranteed a bad film. Why watch it?
I agree about Jim Carey, never found him funny in anything.
But I wouldn't say I didn't like "anything" with him because The Truman Show is a very good film.
I think Jim Carey and Robin Williams are much better at serious acting, Robin was extremely scary in One Hour Photo, but he still had parts of the characters that made you realise why he was like he was.
Mac Hiavellian
10-05-2011, 11:15 PM
Good man Ben, for not mentioning Harry Potter 3.
Because that is Jizzable.
Yeah I do kinda like the 3rd and 4th one. The first 2 were just too kiddy though and the rest were bleak and long. Btw don't ever put 'Harry Potter' and 'Jizz'/'Jizzable' in the same paragraph again. ;)
LMAO, any other normal person wouldn't watch the endless sequels of these series if they hated them the way you seem to. Glutton for punishment?
Part OCD, part masochism. As I said with Harry Potter I did kinda like films 3 and 4, it's just the rest I disliked and with Toy Story 2 but not the other 2. I liked moments in Star Wars Episode 3 but alas, crappy dialogue and camp ending...
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Eurgh.
Tom4784
10-05-2011, 11:29 PM
Lord of the Rings for me, they're all overlong and boring. I never quite got the appeal of them.
Niamh.
11-05-2011, 09:34 AM
I agree with The deer Hunter (boring), The Hangover, The Blair Witch project (just a pile of s**t, I'd also like to add The English patient (hated that film)
Niamh.
11-05-2011, 09:36 AM
Oh and yeah, I agree with Girth, I hated Titanic
Aww, I absolutely loved The English Patient. It's one of my favourite fims actually..
Oh and to those slagging Titanic off.. I went to see it 11 times at the cinema. :laugh2:
:blush:
Niamh.
11-05-2011, 09:39 AM
Aww, I absolutely loved The English Patient. It's one of my favourite fims actually..
Oh and to those slagging Titanic off.. I went to see it 11 times at the cinema. :laugh2:
:blush:
Oh you sad woman:nono: It was terrible :joker:
Oh you sad woman:nono: It was terrible :joker:
I loved every single minute of it..lol. And I still cry every time I watch it.. like most of the way throught it!
:laugh:
Niamh.
11-05-2011, 09:53 AM
I loved every single minute of it..lol. And I still cry every time I watch it.. like most of the way throught it!
:laugh:
lol, I've only seen Dirty dancing around 700 times:laugh:
lol, I've only seen Dirty dancing around 700 times:laugh:
Haha.. me too. Another film I will never ever tire of watching!
CharlieO
11-05-2011, 10:04 AM
Pretty much every new US comedy film. They are getting extremely repetitive and not very funny at all. Adverts of them make them look very funny but in the end they are not because they put the only funny parts in the adverts.
Pretty much every new US comedy film. They are getting extremely repetitive and not very funny at all. Adverts of them make them look very funny but in the end they are not because they put the only funny parts in the adverts.
I agree.. I can't stand those crappy American romcom type films..
hennessy
15-05-2011, 01:37 PM
a bout de souffle
what an existential piece of tat
only redeeming feature is Jean Seberg
Accent was crap tho but wowhttp://alisonkerr.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/jean-seberg-off-duty.jpg
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