Movies Which Movies do you think are massively overrated?

[Mack Yancy]

They don't have to be bad movies per say. But just movies you feel get too much praise, either critically, commercially or both. This also includes 'cult' movies which have had a huge uptick in viewer praise even if not when it came out.

I've already spoken at length how I think Casino (1995) is a miserable, cynical slog of a movie with zero likeable characters even if I think it's overall still a move of quality.

This is not a quality movie, it's a dogshit nonsensical mess of a movie. Now granted it's not like it won any oscars, but the Gen-X DVD bargain bin demographic seems to think this movie is an 'awesome' thriller. It's not. It's ridiculous, none of it makes sense. There is suspension of disbelief and then there is lazy meta-scheming and batman gambits times 100. The script is inane. None of the characters are likable, even the 'violent' scenes aren't cool. They are either too short and stupid or strangely squeamish.

And no I don't want to hear anything about how this film suffered because 'Jamie Foxx changed the ending'.

1. That's a myth that is 95% not true when you look into the production and cast's stories.

2. That film's ending was the least of it's problems. A 'good' ending couldn't have saved that mess.


Okay, your turn.

 

[Takes Two To Tango]

Top of my ahead.

Seven Samurai
Pulp Fiction

 

[TCE]

The Godfathers.

One was good, second was long and boring.

Both are so overrated.

 

[Randlewand]

No Country For Old Men

 

[SakurabasEar]

They don't have to be bad movies per say. But just movies you feel get too much praise, either critically, commercially or both. This also includes 'cult' movies which have had a huge uptick in viewer praise even if not when it came out.

I've already spoken at length how I think Casino (1995) is a miserable, cynical slog of a movie with zero likeable characters even if I think it's overall still a move of quality.

This is not a quality movie, it's a dogshit nonsensical mess of a movie. Now granted it's not like it won any oscars, but the Gen-X DVD bargain bin demographic seems to think this movie is an 'awesome' thriller. It's not. It's ridiculous, none of it makes sense. There is suspension of disbelief and then there is lazy meta-scheming and batman gambits times 100. The script is inane. None of the characters are likable, even the 'violent' scenes aren't cool. They are either too short and stupid or strangely squeamish.

And no I don't want to hear anything about how this film suffered because 'Jamie Foxx changed the ending'.

1. That's a myth that is 95% not true when you look into the production and cast's stories.

2. That film's ending was the least of it's problems. A 'good' ending couldn't have saved that mess.


Okay, your turn.

Thank you, I've been saying this movie is shit for years.

Spoiler

The stupidest scene imo is
Where he sends the fucking torture video too jamie fox's house and his wife takes this strange dvd and decides to not only watch with her daughter, but keep watching and then call her husband crying about it

 

[Mack Yancy]

No Country For Old Men

You've got a lot of balls to say that on a karate forum with a lot of middle aged psuedo-intellectual beer drinkers who consider themselves 'real men'.

 

[BisexualMMA]

Die Hard 3. It's an above average action film...way worse than Die Hard 2 and everyone thinks it is better.

Some real mediocre stuff has been nominated for Best Picture lately. Women Talking, Triangle of Sadness, The Fabelmans, Avatar 2, etc. Chicago winning best picture 20 years ago or whenever was trash.

I can think of a number of movies that I like but everyone else seems to like them substantially more than I do. John Wick, Minority Report, The Deer Hunter, several others.

 

[Mack Yancy]

Thank you, I've been saying this movie is shit for years.

Spoiler

The stupidest scene imo is
Where he sends the fucking torture video too jamie fox's house and his wife takes this strange dvd and decides to not only watch with her daughter, but keep watching and then call her husband crying about it

"But it's an awesome fun time, not everything has to be The Godfather, bro!"

Motherfuckers no it isn't. I can enjoy 'fun bad' movies. This movie is aggressively boring. It doesn't have the self awareness to be enjoyable on any level, it's a movie equivalent of a high school dropout who thinks he's 'educated' because he watched an illuminati conspiracy video on YouTube. It's offensively dumb.

 

[Kowboy On Sherdog]

The Godfathers.

One was good, second was long and boring.

Both are so overrated.

 

[Mack Yancy]

Die Hard 3. It's an above average action film...way worse than Die Hard 2 and everyone thinks it is better.

I'm in agreement with you on the action, I think most people see it more as a cop buddy comedy.

 

[Mack Yancy]

The Godfathers.

One was good, second was long and boring.

Both are so overrated.

As someone who thinks the first movie almost completely deserves it's praise as a masterpiece, I agree that the second one does drag.

It's just not as interesting as the first one, and splicing the Vito Prequel stuff in with the present day just made the film crawl.

 

[Mangar]

 

[Mack Yancy]

Yep.
People sucked this film's dick for 3 years straight and then forgot about it.

 

[KBE6EKCTAH_CCP]

I'm in agreement with you on the action, I think most people see it more as a cop buddy comedy.

I can‘t imagine finding Die Hard 3 better than the second, which is almost as good as the first imo.

 

[SakurabasEar]

This movie was shit, atheists didn't like it, christians didn't like it

Who the fuck liked this movie?

 

[Mack Yancy]

I can‘t imagine finding Die Hard 3 better than the second, which is almost as good as the first imo.

Interesting how you quote me and not the Shedogger who made the original statement. @BisexualMMA

 

[Mack Yancy]

Women Talking

Ah I just saw this, fucking hell did this film go nowhere.

 

[KBE6EKCTAH_CCP]

Interesting how you quote me and not the Shedogger who made the original statement. @BisexualMMA

There I also liked your post and not his. Fight me IRL.

 

[Mack Yancy]

There I also liked your post and not his. Fight me IRL.

No, be a man and tag his bisexual ass.

#imnotyourshield

 

[Mack Yancy]

This movie was shit, atheists didn't like it, christians didn't like it

Who the fuck liked this movie?

I think @Strychnine liked it.