Underrated/Overrated Films

usmctanker242 said:
Ugh... the fight scenes in Matrix:Reloaded just went on forever where nothing ever really changed. Nobody was ever able to get the leg up on anybody else, and they just fought each other for no reason... just painfully too long. Oh well, to each their own.

Underrated: Watchmen, Lawnmower Man

Overrated : Bladerunner (even directors cut)
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To be fair, you could make the same rationalizations in the first movie. Why didn't Trinity take Neo from the nightclub straight to Morpheus? Why didn't they just unplug Morpheus when he was captured instead of storming the building? Why did Neo bother to fight Agent Smith in the subway when he knew "killing" him would accomplish nothing?

Neo vs. the three Agents showed the Matrix had upgraded its system with a new model of Agents. The Chateau scene was meant to show off the extent of Neo's fighting abilities. The highway chase was necessary to get the Keymaker to safety. The burly brawl was meant to show off how much more powerful Smith had become from the first movie; that even Neo himself had to retreat from battle.

I'm not going to say that a lot of these scenes weren't kung fu CGI porn, because they were obviously shot with an eye for flair. But they also helped to advance the plot on top of looking pretty.
 
DIABOLUS said:
To be fair, you could make the same rationalizations in the first movie. Why didn't Trinity take Neo from the nightclub straight to Morpheus? Why didn't they just unplug Morpheus when he was captured instead of storming the building? Why did Neo bother to fight Agent Smith in the subway when he knew "killing" him would accomplish nothing?

Neo vs. the three Agents showed the Matrix had upgraded its system with a new model of Agents. The Chateau scene was meant to show off the extent of Neo's fighting abilities. The highway chase was necessary to get the Keymaker to safety. The burly brawl was meant to show off how much more powerful Smith had become from the first movie; that even Neo himself had to retreat from battle.

I'm not going to say that a lot of these scenes weren't kung fu CGI porn, because they were obviously shot with an eye for flair. But they also helped to advance the plot on top of looking pretty.
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If they would have unplugged him he would have died. As for the stuff about the fights, you're correct that they established things in the movie, but they were just way too drawn out. To each their own, we all love different stuff for different reasons.
 
shadow_priest_x said:
Oh . . . is that the same guy? Didn't realize that. Weird.
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Ryan had a beard. @shadow_priest_x

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I didnt walk out on black dahlia but i wanted to.
 
Good films but Shawshank Redemption (#1 IMDB) and Pulp Fiction (#7) are grossly overrated. Could name 20 movies that are better.
 
Why are people continue saying Watchmen is underrated? It's not.
 
Zerkalo. said:
Good films but Shawshank Redemption (#1 IMDB) and Pulp Fiction (#7) are grossly overrated. Could name 20 movies that are better.
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Agreed. I have stated the same about The Shawshank Redemption on here before, all I can say is get your flamesuit ready. People get angry when you say things like this.
 
the ambush said:
Agreed. I have stated the same about The Shawshank Redemption on here before, all I can say is get your flamesuit ready. People get angry when you say things like this.
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FUCK YOU!!
 
The Avengers films are super overrated, as are some other Marvel films like Captain America: Civil War. I chalk their popularity up to some users' having grown up on the comics.
 
NightwingBJJ said:
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Review(Spoiler Alert): @SirKratos

Story: The premise of the movie is actually pretty good and interesting. In a way it is ahead of its time. The mystery keeps you interested in where it is headed. It eventually gets fumbled a bit though in the third act and becomes too convoluted. The middle act is definitely the strongest.

Pace: It moves really well and never got boring. The movie kinds of place you right into the thick of it without developing the characters. It just seems to start and kept going. Haa

Acting/Dialogue: This was the movie's biggest fault. The dialogue is kind of hammy and the acting is pretty mediocre. The line delivery is just so bad at times and it seems like the main lead actor is the only one who got the memo and tried to act, he fucks up too but he does way more than everybody else.

Technicalities(Is that a word?): Cinematography/Audio is average not bad not great just standard.

Overall: Enjoyable film, if it was handled and executed better it would have been talked about more. It actually touched on things that The Matrix would go on to expand on a year later and Inception did as well 12 years later.
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I agree it's underrated, but way ahead of its time? The Matrix came out at basically the same time and had basically the same premise. World on a Wire had an extremely similar premise and came out in 1973. Abre Los Ojos was a fairly similar, high profile reality bender that came out two years earlier as well.
 
BisexualMMA said:
Basil Poledouris (Conan soundtrack) was a musical score genius.

The thing with Citizen Kane is that it needs to be viewed in the context of other movies being made at that time. Other than being black and white, it was visually shot like a movie from the 1960s. It was decades ahead of its era.

Seeing it now, it's kind of "whooptee doo" but I don't think any other movie has ever been that far ahead of its time.
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Some other greats movies ahead of their time;

Metropolis (1927)
Directed by Fritz Lang


2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Directed by Stanley Kubrick

 
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