Movies Nostalgia-overrated movies.

[Starman]

If you where underwhelmed by the movie, why would you buy on 4K?

I liked it, I just didn’t think as highly of it as many others seem to do. But that’s true with a lot of films. For example, I mentioned thinking Aliens was overrated. It’s still a good movie, though.

 

[CrimsomSky]

I thought both Apocalypse Now and Full Metal Jacket were overrated. Never made it through Saving Private Ryan. I got to the point that I just stopped watching 1900s war movies because I apparently just don't like them. I loved Inglorious Basterds... but that was probably the only one.

Never watched Dunkirk for example even though I love most Nolan movies.

Inglorious basterd was unashamed Jewish revenge porn. At least it’s my takeaway seeing the movie the first time as if Tarantino wanted to please someone for favors in the business. I didn’t like it. Reservoir dogs I liked as a teen, after seeing again years ago I can tell it’s shit. I don’t know why I liked it.

 

[Deleted member 449757]

Motel Hell for me. I remembered it as being this gruesome bizarre horror movie with the pig mask guy, but after recently rewatching it, there isn't even really any brutal scene in it.

 

[Deleted member 110072]

Inglorious basterd was unashamed Jewish revenge porn. At least it’s my takeaway seeing the movie the first time as if Tarantino wanted to please someone for favors in the business. I didn’t like it. Reservoir dogs I liked as a teen, after seeing again years ago I can tell it’s shit. I don’t know why I liked it.

I think it does have more to it than that personally, Hitler and Goebbels become buffoons rather than monsters with Landa the true villian who semi gets away with it via making a deal plus you have the doomed Romeo/Juliet plot that shows Zoller as somewhat relatable.

It feels like less a "good vs evil" kind of film than is typical for Hollywood making WW2 films to me.

 

[Mack Yancy]

My list of overrated films

Apocalypse Now
Casino
The Dark Knight
Gladiator
Fight Club

Gladiator is a film I really like, but goddamn is it overrated.

It's a fun film with some very good performances, but it's still a fairly by-the-numbers popcorn flick. Sherbros will have you think it's Ben Hur or some shit.

 

[Mack Yancy]

Nothing unusual:

JP
BTTF
Batman/The Dark Knight
Jaws
The Matrix
Terminator 2
LOTR
Die Hard
Raiders of the Lost Ark

I'll agree with you on Jaws. I just don't get it.

 

[Bubzeh]

Shawshank and The Shining spring to mind. But it’s been a while since I saw either.

 

[Wetarmpits]

Predator
Training Day
300
Ghost Dog
Lars von Trier
Quentin Tarantino
And that new Dune crap

 

[Prefect]

cameron diaz character in gangs was pretty awful too

Gangs of New York felt like a stupid blow hard movie. DiCaprio was cast wrongly in it. Daniel Day Lewis just played an over the top cardboard cutout. The whole movie just feels incredibly stupid.

 

[Deleted member 110072]

Shawshank and The Shining spring to mind. But it’s been a while since I saw either.

I feel The Shining perhaps suffers a bit from people obsessing too much over questionable fan theories rather than the film itself was IMHO deserves all its praise.

Ghost Dog

I love Ghost Dog, perhaps the problem is people go in expecting it to be some action thriller rather than an offbeat drama which is playing around with the idea of cultures mixing/collapsing.

 

[Deleted member 587672]

Braveheart, Gladiator, Titanic, Mac and me

Mac and Me is the greatest sci-fi bromance the world was offered.

 

[Wetarmpits]

I feel The Shining perhaps suffers a bit from people obsessing too much over questionable fan theories rather than the film itself was IMHO deserves all its praise.

I love Ghost Dog, perhaps the problem is people go in expecting it to be some action thriller rather than an offbeat drama which is playing around with the idea of cultures mixing/collapsing.

I just don't like the actor. I also don't like fat ninjas.

 

[Deleted member 587672]

Top Gun
Terminator 2
Blade Runner
The Running Man
The Dark Night
Gladiator

You are a FPOS. Delete your account and go live in the woods dude.

 

[StewDogg11]

Fright Night (1985)

Please someone explain to me why so many people love this movie. The remake is better.

 

[Deleted member 110072]

Gladiator is a film I really like, but goddamn is it overrated.

To be fair I think Gladiator does have some genuine flare to it and an excellent performance by Phoenix but I do tend to find a lot of "prestige drama" of that era to be overrated. Most of it really is pretty shmaltzy but gets talked up as the greatest cinema ever made.

I would also argue you see a bad sign in that era, the people directing a lot of that stuff tended to be those who were longtime hollywood stables, mid 90's prestige drama was really stuff being made by people who already well established. I think you kind of see that reflected it in being a bit uninspired, this isnt the RIdley Scott of Alien making films, it wast the Zemeckis of Back to the Future or the Spielberg of Jaws, its older safer versions of them making more standard cinema.

 

[Volador]

Fight Club to me, for sure. I watched it years after the hype went down, and it honestly felt corny, like one of those “you had to be there” kinda jokes.

 

[Jack Reacheround]

Braveheart, Gladiator, Titanic, Mac and me

I’ve never seen Mac & Me but I totally agree about Braveheart and Gladiator. They are really very basic, predictable movies that just do nothing for me.

 

[Dinkin_Flicka]

I don't think it's souch nostalgia overrated rather than too much before it's time with The Never Ending story.

Loved it as a kid and probably watched it 100 times a long with The Goonies, but watching it as an adult the effects really don't age well, but it was back in the 80's and ground breaking for its time.

I typically don't want a bunch of remakes, but would love a modern day take on The Never Ending story.

 

[Goon Dog]

I really love 3 or 4 scenes in Gladiator, but as a whole the film is overrated. It's one of those where I'll skip to the good scenes and be done in 15 minutes. I remember hating 6th Sense in the theater until the twist at the end. I never saw it coming and I ALWAYS see them coming so I loved the surprise. I guess that made me forget the first 95% of the film was boring because when I rewatched it years later I was surprised how blah it was.