Most overrated movies

[J.R.]

LOTR ruled and you sir have no taste. I find most Oscar contenders suck. Traffic, Erin Brockovich, Moulin Rouge, Titanic, A Beautiful Mind, etc., all crap.

And Silence Of The Lambs. An above average thriller but was it the best movie of 1991?

[Lee]

Hey J.R., bite me!

[Steve]

MATRIX, THE - Live-action anime. Too bad I'm not an anime fan.

TITANIC - They wasted all those great FX on an overblown romance novel?

SILENCE OF THE LAMBS / HANNIBAL - "Sir" Anthony Hopkins grinning wickedly & acting peculiar in front of a young lady. I don't get it.

BRAVEHEART / GLADIATOR - Get your history straight. Try again.

Anything made by M. Night Shymalan - He's a ghost. He's a superhero. Fine. Why does it take you 2.5 hours to make your point? The Twilight Zone did it in 30 minutes & did it better.

Anything made by Quentin Tarantino - Watching bad people talk about everyday topics does not make them cool. It makes them boring. Get to the point.

Anime in general - He's misunderstood. He's a rogue warrior given one last chance to make right. She's a lonely princess no one understands. She's a feisty princess no one understands. Gee, how many movies have I just described?

SAMAURI JACK - Nice gimmick that wore itself out by the 2nd episode.

SURVIVOR / BIG BROTHER / MOLE / [insert reality show here] - Everyone's a backstabbing a$$hole. I learned this is elementary school. What else is new?

Any Stanley Kubrick film - Yes, nice camera angles. Now try & make it exciting.

SCHINDLER'S LIST - Beating a dead horse dead, part XXIII.

Any film with either Denzel Washington or Morgan Freeman playing the "wise" or "disadvantaged" African-American stereotype.


That's all I can think of off the top fo my head. Bye.

[J.R.]

No one bites a dwarf!

[Luca Brasi]

Frederico Fellini . . . god lord, how many semi autobiographical movies can one man make that focus on the horrendously boring, only to attempt to convince the viewer through excess and flambouyancy that what were watching is interesting!  . . . and why is he so obsessed with fat . . . err. . voluptuous women! and George Lucas, good salesman, no doubt there, overrated director . . . except for "Howard the Duck" of course, that was a real winner!

[Lee]

Funny(sarcasm).

[Drezzy]

**sniff, sniff**

I like Howard The Duck...

[XxSilverHxX]

Howard the Duck...All I rememebr was the female ducks breast...i liked that movie.

[Luca Brasi]

it's a shame overrated lucas didn't get together with overrated speilburg to make a movie about howard the duck in a concentration camp . . . or getting balsted apart storming omaha beach . . . or getting devoured by a shark . . . or getting crushed by a rolling boulder . . .  what was lucas thinking? "hey, ive gotta make a flick about a creepy, horney duck! and its not enough to have a creepy, horney duck, it has to be a creepy, horney duck that wants to have sex with humans! . . . lets make the duck an alien too!"

[J.R.]

Howard The Duck scared me when I was younger. Seeing Mr. Rooney from Ferris Bueller all possessed was disturbing to me. And just where does Tim Robbins get off being so politically outspoken? No one who appeared in such a horrible film has any right to tall anyone how to think. Same goes for Alec Baldwin, Martin Sheen, George Clooney, Barbara Streisand, etc., etc.

[jmc]

CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON didn't do much for me.  Okay, so it's an action movie that isn't totally retarded.   I didn't see what was so special about it, and I'd rather see real martial arts than all that flying around crap.  

Just about all Robert Altman films, with the exceptions of MASH, THE PLAYER, and OC AND STIGGS.  

I generally like the Coens, but BARTON FINK epitomized everything that is bad about independent film.

I didn't like MAGNOLIA much either.  

I kinda agree about Wes Anderson's films...I like them, but they seem to lack a basic humanity, and that keeps me from really embracing them.

[durbster]

Four Weddings and a Funeral.  

I don't know if the US really did like it (I'm sure critics did but what does that mean?).  I found it one of the most painful experiences of all the films I've seen.  I have never seen the end of it as I had decided that they had taken three quarters of an hour from my life, and that was enough.