Most Overrated "Great" Movies

[Kuwabara377]

Reported.

I thought "Cunt" was endearing for people from a bog

 

[Randy Trevor]

that newer Batman movie with the Joker in it. that movie sucked dog shit

 

[moreorless87]

This is very true, its why I think Gangs of New York is also a disjointed film like The Departed is. Gangs of New York was only good because of Daniel Day-Lewis, and The Departed was just a horrible film, very boring and just nothing there, almost barren. I saw Infernal Affairs years before and had no idea that The Departed was based on it, still scratching my head on that one...

Gangs of Newyork is I think the perfect example of his strengths and weaknesses, pretty much everyone seems to be in agreement that they'd far rather have seen a film based on Bill the Butcher, maybe still have the Irish plot but with Neesons character leading it showing some interest and flaws himself rather than Leo's boring whitebread hero and his revenge plot.

Its not down to Leo either, when Marty went back to character studies with him on the Aviator or the Wolf of Wall street he was fine.

 

[Trotsky]

I'm tempted to ban you.

I'll hear rebuttals on the latter two. But nothing could possibly polish the (coincidentally over-polished) turd that is The Departed.

I dont like threads like this.

Just pure hater shit


No humor or anything good can come from it. Just arguments and insults.

Already have a user calling someone a cunt and were only on page 2

Just for you, then, here are a few off the top of my head that I think are underrated and should be considered great movies

Spoiler

1. Moon
2. Sideways
3. Children of Men
4. Pi
5. Psycho II
6. 21 Grams
7. One Hour Photo
8. Barton Fink

 

[Fluffernutter]

Good call on Fight Club.

Can I add the LOTR movies as well?

 

[Fluffernutter]

Oh, and I thought Breakfast at Tiffany's was meh.

 

[DeepCover]

LOTR
Nearly every super hero movie

 

[5crew]

All of the Lord of the Rings - 4
Seven Samurai - 1
City of God - 5
Terminator 2 - 3
Apocalypse Now - 3
Dr. Strangelove - 1
The Lives of Others - 1
The Dark Knight Rises - 3
Once Upon a Time in America - 1
Citizen Kane - 4
Vertigo - 4
M - 1
A Clockwork Orange - 5
To Kill a Mocking Bird - 3
2001: A Space Odyssey - 5
The Sting - 3
Snatch - 3
Monty Python and the Holy Grail - 3
Rashoman - 1
Yojimbo - 1
All About Eve - 3
The Great Escape - 2
The Third Man - 4
Ran - 1
Judgement at Nuremberg - 4
The Seventh Seal - 2
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels - 2
Casino - 4
V for Vendetta - 2
Trainspotting - 5
Fargo - 2
The Big Lebowski - 3
Cool Hand Luke - 4
Hacksaw Ridge - 1
Donnie Darko - 1
Annie Hall - 4

The Shawshank Redemption - 10
The Godfather - 9
The Dark Knight - 9
12 Angry Men - 10
Schindler's List - 8
Fight Club - 9
Forrest Gump - 10
The Empire Strikes Back - 9
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - 8
Goodfellas - 9
The Matrix - 10
Star Wars: A New Hope - 8
Se7en - 10
The Silence of the Lambs - 9
It's a Wonderful Life - 10
Life is Beautiful - 9
Leon: The Professional - 10
Saving Private Ryan - 10
American History X - 9
Interstellar - 9
The Green Mile - 8
The Pianist - 8
Raiders of the Lost Ark - 10
The Departed - 9
Back to the Future - 10
Gladiator - 10
The Lion King - 8
The Prestige - 10
Memento - 10
Alien - 10
The Great Dictator - 10
The Shining - 9
WALL-E - 10
American Beauty - 9
Witness for the Persecution - 8
Oldboy - 9
Aliens - 10
Braveheart - 10
Return of the Jedi - 8
Reservoir Dogs - 9
Requiem for a Dream - 9
Lawrence of Arabia - 8
Amadeus - 10
Taxi Driver - 8
Full Metal Jacket - 10
Singin' in the Rain - 8
Toy Story - 9
Toy Story 3 - 9
Inglorious Basterds - 9
Good Will Hunting - 10
For a Few Dollars more - 8
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade - 10
Up - 8
Batman Begins - 8
Some Like it Hot - 8
Unforgiven - 10
Downfall - 10
Die Hard - 10
Pan's Labyrinth - 8
Mr Smith Goes to Washington - 9
A Beautiful Mind - 8
Blade Runner - 8
The Elephant Man - 10
The Wolf of Wall Street - 8
Gran Torino - 8
Dial M for Murder - 9
Gone With The Wind - 9
The Deer Hunter - 8
The Sixth Sense - 8
The Thing - 10
There Will Be Blood - 9
Rebecca - 8
Gone Girl - 8
Hotel Rwanda - 8
In The Name of the Father - 8
Network - 9
Stand by Me - 9
Rush - 8
Ben-Hur - 9
Jurassic Park - 8
12 Years a Slave - 8

I love majority of those from your above 8 list. Those in brackets are my rating that I feel the need to point out are my favorites as well.

The Matrix - 10 [9]
Se7en - 10
The Silence of the Lambs - 9
The Green Mile - 8 [9]
Interstellar - 9 [8]
Oldboy - 9
Aliens - 10
Good Will Hunting - 10 [9]
Blade Runner - 8 [9]

But I do think your below 5 list is alittle too harsh. Especially those with rating of 1.

Terminator 2 - 3 [8]
V for Vendetta - 2 [8]
The Big Lebowski - 3 [7]
Donnie Darko - 1 [8]

 

[gspieler]

Fight Club is a great, albeit flawed, film.

As far as The Departed, I don't understand the claim it was all-round shitty. Nicholson was a caricature; but that's who the character was. Damon's character seemed flat, because his character was essentially a spy playing chess with his own life. The dialogue is good, the action scenes are good. They pour it on a little thick with the New England stereotypes, but so does every single other film ever made, set in Boston.

 

[5crew]

I'll hear rebuttals on the latter two. But nothing could possibly polish the (coincidentally over-polished) turd that is The Departed.



Just for you, then, here are a few off the top of my head that I think are underrated and should be considered great movies

Spoiler

1. Moon
2. Sideways
3. Children of Men
4. Pi
5. Psycho II
6. 21 Grams
7. One Hour Photo
8. Barton Fink

One Hour Photo is really a very underrated film. Rarely see it mentioned.
Moon isn't underrated imo, it's a great film and many love it.

 

[Goodfella86]

Goodfellas, by many miles.

Overrated, lazy tryhard nonsense

 

[Kraysla]

Avatar. Nice visuals, predictable and overdone story.

 

[I Am Legion]

Wow, I can’t believe The Godfather, Goodfellas, the Departed are on people’s lists.....

I do t like movies that are so dark all of the fun is gone.

TDKR
District 9
Captain America

 

[DiegoLunes]

I wouldn't say i hate Nolan, I just feel his movies for a lack of a better word having an incredibly bland /sterile feel to them. They cant even evoke a strong emotion either way about them be it negative or positive.

Exactly right.

 

[Twelve75]

this thread reminded me of the first 30 seconds of the above.

how many here are shitting on quality movies, while at the same time, have emerged from a movie theatre, and thought ''Wow that was fuckin awesome'' and the ''fuckin awesome'' was some lame Avengers or other juvenile superhero horseshit ?

if so, delete your post, because your opinion doesn't matter.

 

[Clear Winner]

All of the Lord of the Rings - 4
Seven Samurai - 1
City of God - 5
Terminator 2 - 3
Apocalypse Now - 3
Dr. Strangelove - 1
The Lives of Others - 1
The Dark Knight Rises - 3
Once Upon a Time in America - 1
Citizen Kane - 4
Vertigo - 4
M - 1
A Clockwork Orange - 5
To Kill a Mocking Bird - 3
2001: A Space Odyssey - 5
The Sting - 3
Snatch - 3
Monty Python and the Holy Grail - 3
Rashoman - 1
Yojimbo - 1
All About Eve - 3
The Great Escape - 2
The Third Man - 4
Ran - 1
Judgement at Nuremberg - 4
The Seventh Seal - 2
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels - 2
Casino - 4
V for Vendetta - 2
Trainspotting - 5
Fargo - 2
The Big Lebowski - 3
Cool Hand Luke - 4
Hacksaw Ridge - 1
Donnie Darko - 1
Annie Hall - 4

Terminator 2 a 3/10? City of God 5/10?

 

[Trotsky]

One Hour Photo is really a very underrated film. Rarely see it mentioned.
Moon isn't underrated imo, it's a great film and many love it.

I feel like Moon and Crazy Heart, both outstanding movies made in 2009, never get brought up. I like the latter much more than the former, but both are really great.

Robin Williams' performance in One Hour Photo always stuck with me. And the director did such a good job of sort of sterilizing the film around his performance.

 

[moreorless87]

Fight Club is a great, albeit flawed, film.

Ironically its probably most overrated by people who don't really understood its message taking it more as a cool anti establishment film.

As far as Nolan goes its really more than outside The Dark Knight and maybe Memento I don't have his films down as absolute classics, just generally very good. I'd agree there's a certain sterility to his work, perhaps because he tends to talk down to the audience quite a lot with excessive exposition? You could argue I spose that's the price you need to pay for making massive blockbusters.

 

[Peteyandjia]

In this thread, people brag about having bad taste as if it's a virtue.

 

[elreece]

12 years a slave. long drawn out fucking boring movie. I get it slavery sucks wrap it the fuck up.

Get Out: according the the reviewers it was AMAZING. Sucked donkey dick.