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    Question most overrated movie?

    I absolutely cannot understand the fuss made about 'Citizen Kane'; I like Orson Welles, but really CK must be in my opinion the most overrated movie ever - it'd be lucky to get more than 7/10 from me if I was giving it a score on IMDB.

    Another movie I consider grossly overrated, but I never less still like all the same, is Ingmar Bergman's 'Seventh Seal'; it is a 'nice' movie but hardly warrants being termed a 'classic'.

    Perhaps, as all with all things being relative, it is a case of a better kind of rubbish?

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    Please do share your most overrated films

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    Default Re: most overrated movie?

    Casablanca. Bogey spends the entire film whining, agonizing, and acting like an angsty teen over a married woman because she hooked up with him for a weekend when she thought her husband was dead in a Nazi prison camp, but then went back to her husband when she discovered he was alive & had escaped the camp. Granted, it was Ingrid Bergman, but for crying out loud, man it was one weekend and she's freaking married!
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    Default Re: most overrated movie?

    Anything by Quentin Taratino is overrated
    Anything by Oliver Stone is overrated

    If truth be told, it's all a matter of subjective opinion.

    Citizen Kane has to be taken in context of its times, however movies like "Best Years of our Lives," and "Gone With the Wind," are true classics of that period IMHO. OTOH, movies such as "Local Hero," "Crossing Delancey," "Two for the Road," "My Brilliant Career," or "Reds" are the movies I can watch over and over and over.

    Indeed "Reds," is a magnificent film far superior to "Citizen Kane" IMHO and generally overlooked.

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    What seems to be over-rated to somebody it could make completely sense to somebody else. ..
    And this can be related with everything, from pens to cars, art and culture. It's all about how you perceive that "thing" related with your preferences, experience, education and your small world that you live in.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dreck View Post
    Casablanca. Bogey spends the entire film whining, agonizing, and acting like an angsty teen over a married woman because she hooked up with him for a weekend when she thought her husband was dead in a Nazi prison camp, but then went back to her husband when she discovered he was alive & had escaped the camp. Granted, it was Ingrid Bergman, but for crying out loud, man it was one weekend and she's freaking married!
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    Anything by Quentin Taratino is overrated
    Kill Bill 1&2 together as one movie would definitely be in my top ten, but I could probably cope with losing the rest of his works.

    Quote Originally Posted by usk15 View Post
    What seems to be over-rated to somebody it could make completely sense to somebody else. ..
    And this can be related with everything, from pens to cars, art and culture. It's all about how you perceive that "thing" related with your preferences, experience, education and your small world that you live in.
    So... What do you consider to be overrated movies?

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    Default Re: most overrated movie?

    LOTR, Harry Potter, all super-heroes movies, so called horror movies...

    Tell us what movies you like.

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    Forrest Gump. Hated it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by usk15 View Post
    Tell us what movies you like.
    Amazing how one actress can be in two of my most very favourite films - 'V for Vendetta' and 'Heat' (I also liked 'Black Swan' and 'Leon')...

    I'm also partial to one or two in particular of Stanley Kubrick's films - truly a master filmmaker, but also one who divided opinion with every example.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SIR View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by usk15 View Post
    Tell us what movies you like.
    Amazing how one actress can be in two of my most very favourite films - 'V for Vendetta' and 'Heat' (I also liked 'Black Swan' and 'Leon')...

    I'm also partial to one or two in particular of Stanley Kubrick's films - truly a master filmmaker, but also one who divided opinion with every example.
    Very good movies, very good tastes!

    Anyway, I have to add to my earlier sentences: is very important the mood that you are in the moment you going to watch a movie, you might like it or hate it!

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    Default Re: most overrated movie?

    Maybe, have you ever watched the same movie more than once in the cinema?

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    Default Re: most overrated movie?

    Nope. In the last 15 years I use to watch movies on TV or through rental DVDs, very rare on cinema. But in the last year or so I haven't watch more than 20 movies till the end.

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    Default Re: most overrated movie?

    The Last Metro.

    Utterly pointless and baffling - it still annoys me and I was dragged along to see it in 1981 by The Woman Who Ruined My Life* - this of course doesn't help...

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    Default Re: most overrated movie?

    The Notebook. Maybe my expectations were too high going in, but I really wasn't as impressed as everyone else I spoke to was


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    Quote Originally Posted by usk15 View Post
    Nope. In the last 15 years I use to watch movies on TV or through rental DVDs, very rare on cinema. But in the last year or so I haven't watch more than 20 movies till the end.
    Yeah, more recently movies have become of an astoundingly low average quality... Blame the FB generation, or at least those who use them as the baseline for their target marketing.

    I've seen only two movies more than once in the cinema (the same number as movies I've walked out on); "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and "Casino Royale" - both definitely worth seeing in the cinema, and both worth seeing more than once.

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    Default Re: most overrated movie?

    Well, it could be the mood I watched or even comparison with other movies from the same year, but I guess the movie that has frustrated me the most was "The Hurt Locker", that won the Oscar in 2010. It was not bad, but no Oscar material IMHO. There are many more, but that one was the first that came to my mind...
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    Default Re: most overrated movie?

    Yessss Citizen Kane! And Gone With The Wind, too. And hell yes Harry Potter.

    "Anything by Quentin Taratino is overrated" <--yes also that.

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    Default Re: most overrated movie?

    Titanic

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    Default Re: most overrated movie?

    "Beasts of the Southern Wild", which was nominated for a few Oscars in 2012. Found it really depressing but critics loved it. Also, "Birdman" another nominated film in 2014. Blah. There are much better Michael Keaton movies, IMHO.

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    Default Re: most overrated movie?

    I could probably name several movies I didn't like (such as Titanic), but I will say this: Recently I watched Lech Majewski's The Mill and the Cross - and wow! Visually amazing. Tonight, I watched his Wojaczek, and maybe the story itself wasn't incredible, but the cinematography (again) was - the composition of scenes, the light and shadows, and black-and-white.

    Another visually stunning movie is Hirokazu Kore-eda's Maborosi.

    I'm glad for the reminder of Local Hero, one of my favorite favorites. Haven't watched it in a while. Also love Tarantino's Kill Bill I/II.
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    I'm on board with Tarantino films being over-rated. I walked out of Kill Bill. I tried watching Inglorious Bastards and turned it off after 15 minutes...which was 10 minutes after I decided it sucked. I wanted to give it a chance, but it never got better. While he only directed one scene of Sin City the rest was done by a director wanting to be Tarantino. To date that's still the only movie I've ever slept through at a theater. This is still just personal opinion. Plenty of folks love his work.


    The most over-rated film I've ever seen has to be "The Blair Witch Project". Ads and previews called it the scariest film ever. Friends said it was scary, but awesome. Another group of friends talked me into watching it. I hate horror films. I don't enjoy being scared. I saw "Alien" at a young age and had nightmares for years. Trees creaking in the wind a night make me think someone is breaking into my house. I walked out of "Blair Witch" laughing. The scariest movie ever was a comedy. It was so poorly filmed and produced that the only thing scary is the intelligence of the studio exec that gave it a green light. It is so bad that it makes "Battlefield Earth" look like a good movie, and that's rated as the worst movie ever!

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