Overrated movies

[Bryancd]

Any movie by Kevin Smith.

[Dan M]

Far and away, my pick is 2001.

[PepperDude]

I know Rico said no debates, but to put 2001, Bladerunner, and Big Lebowski on a list of overrated movies and then praise Independence Day?  This thread is asking for trouble...

  :roflmao  I know what you mean Jobydrone.  lol. Although I did like Independence Day because it was just a fun movie.

I think Good Will Hunting was overrated. I know there's another one I think was overrated but I can't seem to remember right now. . .

[Darth Gaos]

Any movie by Kevin Smith.

I would agree with you 60%.....Clerks I loved and Dogma was wonderful...and I'm Catholic....I felt a lot of Catholics needed to lighten up when it came to this movie.  All his other stuff I am bound to agree with you...meh.

Every "documentary" by Michael Moore.  Please understand I do not feel they are overrated simply because I do not share the same political opinion as Mr Moore.  I put them in this category because so many have told me "You have to see Faranheit 9/11 (as an example)....he is so right"  Well anyone with an eye for editing or any sort of rudimentary fact checking skills or knowledge of government can see he is, in fact, not right many times (not all...many).  I don't always necessarily dispute his points but I dispute his methods of making and marketing them.  That being using a grain of truth, alot of half truths and flawed logic and some just outright BS and then marketing that as the gospel truth or a "documentary" when in fact , at best it is a 90 min op-ed piece.  So to me it's overrated in that people have convinced me to see them but I watch....think "Maybe a good point but he is so full of crap it's laughable".

Let me say too that in a previous post I listed 2001 as overrated.  I want to add that I think most of Stanley Kubrick's movies are overrated.  Again, I enjoyed some of them (Full Metal Jacket, Dr. Strangleove) but it seemed that all Hollywood would wait with bated breath for the next Kubrick film and I thought most were boring and self indulgent and just did not live up to the hype.

[Rico]

Just to explain my "Independence Day" problem a bit.  The movie is fun, but I felt let down by the ending.  Plus I was amazed at how well it did the summer it came out.

[Bryancd]

Every Martin Scorcese film since Casino.....
Every Jerry Bruckheimer film since Top Gun and even that was overated but cool...
Every James Cameron film since True Lies

[Ktrek]

Two films that come immediately to mind are

Titanic (1997) Gosh this was awful! I cannot begin to describe the boredom!
Pearl Harbor (2001) Another sfx extravaganza that just doesn't live up to it's calling! *sigh*

I'll post more later as I have time to think about them.

Kevin

[Darth Gaos]

Two films that come immediately to mind are

Titanic (1997) Gosh this was awful! I cannot begin to describe the boredom!
Pearl Harbor (2001) Another sfx extravaganza that just doesn't live up to it's calling! *sigh*

I'll post more later as I have time to think about them.

Kevin

quoted for truth....OH LORD if these aren't two of the most HORRIFYINGLY overrated films of ALL time, then I don't know what would be.  Great call Ktrek.  I can't believe I didn't think of them myself.  Must be one of those instinctual repressing of bad memories things :D

[jedijeff]

For me, I think King Kong, people were Hyping it as maybe the biggest Movie ever, and I just felt it was Blah and it never lived up to the expectations. A minor over hype for me is The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, felt it lacked edge (which is probably should, so it is probably me), I was expecting a bit more out of it.

[X]

Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, any Segal movie. All hyper violence and a few one liners ... not anything great at all.

Oh and Spiderman 3

[Bryancd]

Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, any Segal movie. All hyper violence and a few one liners ... not anything great at all.

Oh and Spiderman 3

Oh, wait, how about ALL the Spider-Man movies.

And I hate to say it as I know there are big fans here but.........HARRY POTTER. Sorry, does nothing for me.

[Blackride]

Armagedon, even though I have a piece of the actual asteroid used for filming the fx. I should post pics of some of the real movie props I have collected over the years.

[PepperDude]

Yeah Ktrek and Darth, I'm with you on those movies too. 

How about Alexander and Troy?  I thought both were overrated, especially Troy.  I mean, how can you possibly exclude the Greek gods from that movie?

[Bryancd]

Let's at least confine this to films that were actually well recieved!

[Bryancd]

Oh, while I am shooting down sacred cows....How about Buffy the Vampire Slayer. What, am I my 14 year old sister?! :)