I hope like hell you have seen Rushmore. This was the movie Murray should have got the Best Supporting Actor nomination for and it is the best movie ever set in Texas. I was friends with the directors mom and know well the actress who played Max’s teacher at Grover Cleavland HS. She’s a real teacher at Lamar HS in Houston.
I think it’s the most horrible move people ever liked
I gotta say ET is the worst movie that ever became a hit. GWTW needs to be consigned to the flames, and I say this as a Southerner with kin who fought in The War (on both sides). Get over it y’all, we lost and were a bunch of dumbasses to begin with.
I think the series was clearly aimed at the youth market. The first one was actually a great movie for a number of reasons. It opened the door for big budget Sci-Fi movies and it was entertaining in a campy way. It did not appear to take itself seriously. What followed was bad followed by “please God, make it stop”.
I still remember seeing the first one and made the effort to see it in a full screen theater. This was back in the day when the trend was to downsize theater screen size. It had considerable “WOW” factor with great special effects and sound. It should be referred to anytime someone thinks a movie would benefit from 3D.
But they really can be; they are worse than fundamental Christians.
Wow. And I thought I was… abnormal, or something. Usually LOVE Philip Seymour Hoffman. I simply couldn’t finish the damn thing…
Its also a love story, and in my mind, not a bad one, at all.
The Kids Are All Right The twist was ridiculous!
I didn’t like that movie at all.
But I DID liked Synecdoche, New York, though it’s too depressing to watch again. How is it “overrated”? Synecdoche, New York | Rotten Tomatoes
69% is “fresh” but not great.
I thought Forrest Gump was moronic, offensive and vomit-inducing, but I don’t think anyone argues that it’s some great piece of intellectual art. (Please tell me they don’t.) Most overrated for me has to be The Remains of the Day. Maybe I’m just a lowbrow barbarian, but honest to God, here is that movie:
Anthony Hopkins wears 1930s costume and a pained look.
Emma Thompson wears 1930s costume and a pained look.
They wander around a large house, occasionally exchanging deeply meaningful glances and snippets of dialogue about, I don’t know, hand towels.
Repeat for over two hours.
The End.
And yet this was hyped as THE most profound, most intense, most thought-provoking and blah blah blah movie ever. Yes, the acting was great, but so what? There was no movie there.
Or, again, maybe I’m just a barbarian who wasn’t up to its lofty standards.
How dare you.
My own two pence; The Hurt Locker. Everyone raved about this, but I struggled to stay awake. Seriously the most boring film I’ve ever seen. The most interesting character and best actor in it gets blown up in the first five minutes. Then the rest of them just kind of wander around aimlessly for the rest of the movie, defusing the odd bomb, meeting some random British guys who are unceremoniously gunned down, diffuse some more bombs, zzz. Call me old fashioned, but I like films to have some kind of plot.
“War is a drug”, yeah, sounds very profound until you think about it for 0.2 nanoseconds. How many vets do you know who can’t wait to get back into war for the rush? Yeah, that’s what I thought. What a load of shite. And it won an bloody Oscar!
Fair question.
I guess, to be more accurate, I should call it the film that disappointed me most. I went in with very high expectations based on a few reviews by my most trusted critics (along with my once-held conviction that Philip Seymour Hoffman could do no wrong).
So, I basically overrated it myself before I even saw it.
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I know this is just me but I never thought Caddyshack was all that.
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Most people have a favorable opinion of Caddyshack based on its memorable comic bits and funny lines. What most people overlook–or forget–is that there are a lot of dead spots between the comic bits and funny lines.
It’s definitely a movie that’s gotten a good reputation despite the fact that its production was an Exhibit “A” example of executive meddling. Screenwriter Doug Kenney wrote the film as basically a coming-of-age story with some outrageous comedy mixed in. The focus was going to be on the kids with the roles played by Bill Murray, Chevy Chase, and Rodney Dangerfield to be nothing more than short cameo appearances. However, by the time producer Jon Peters and the studio intervened, the coming-of-age elements were mostly chucked in favor of more broad comedy (in particular, Murray’s ongoing war the the gopher). As a result, the movie is rather sloppily paced and plotted to say the least.
The Andrei Tarkovsky film Stalker. 100% on Rotten Tomatoes and supposedly one of the greatest science fiction films ever made, its plot boils down to “four people go for a walk and come back.”
Anything by Quentin Tarantino. His films always seem to come out accompanied by all sorts of adoring “ooh’s” and “aah’s” from critics and fans, but I have yet to see one that did not leave me wondering if this was not how a kid who’s just been felt up by his dirty old man uncle must feel like. There is something disturbingly wrong with how he manages to manipulate sentiment and pervert it into a thing unclean and/or unhealthy.
…and it featured utterly unwatchable shakey-cam-snap-zoom all the damn time. Totally unwatchable.
Fargo.
2001: A Space Odyssey. There’s a good movie in there: the parts that have to do with Dave fighting against HAL on the spaceship.
Everything else is just SO BORING. It came across to me as a plotless excuse to show off visual effects.
2001 is long, plodding, and certainly can be boring to most, but it’s certainly not all about visual effects. There’s a lot of subtext and superb cinematography.
Could it have been something more like its sequel, 2010: The Odyssey Continues, sure. But We would’ve lost out on one of the greatest film achievements in science fiction, let alone history.
And shame on you people for dissing on Pulp Fiction. Shame! 
I loved Goodfellas the first time I saw it. It didn’t need its “quotability” to “make” it. It was a wonderfully shot and assembled film, from a compelling story.
I’ll agree about Inception (I thought Matrix and other VR movies had already done it, better) and Avatar (great special effects and 3D work, I have to admit, but it seemed surprisingly simple-minded and sentimental for a film from the director of Terminator and Aliens. And it has the same plot as Ferngully, fer cryin’ out loud!) and Cadushack (the popularity of which I’ve never understiood).