Over-rated Movies

Well, you’d have to add: “Thread #1879 in series.”

Gone With The Wind - I regret every moment I spent with that bee-ATCH Scarlett.

Re: Some Like It Hot - it might not have aged well, although I think it’s hilarious. My mother said that watching it in a movie theater in its original release, the audience was laughing so much that many of the funniest lines could not be heard - including the last line.

“Nobody’s perfect”

I would think Some Like It Hot would be more relevant today than in its time.

The trick with Billy Wilder movies is that you have to see them in a continuous run. “One, Two, Three” is one of my favorite flicks ever, but it’s merely funny on broadcast TV with commercial interruptions. Seen in one sitting with an audience the genius of the pacing comes through. Even my kids - who do not have the Cold War background - laughed at the jokes. I raised 'em right.

Its good to see Animal House on the list… I hate to say it, but comedy doesn’t age well. I love old movies more than new ones for the most part, except comedy. The 60’s and 70’s were certainly the Golden Age of Cinema, but I can’t make it through most of Mel Brooks’ catalogue nor Steve Martin’s stuff and don’t get me started on Monty Python. Woody Allen old stuff isn’t very funny but he was well rounded enough that his movies transcend.
Sure you had “comedies” like Paper Moon, Bad News Bears, Slap Shot, Rock’n’Roll High School, Harold and Maude… but those transcended too.

While I prefer older comedies to more recent stuff, because I think the writers were at least slightly more capable and less dependent on “body part or function described crudely equals funny”, as in any junior high locker room. :slight_smile:

There is a lot of garbage out there now for sure…

No kidding. I’m embarrassed for the Dope when these things pop up again, and again and again.

Fargo was freakin hilarious. And also dark and sad and depressing. Fantastic movie.

I agree with some of the above, disagree with others. That’s surely true for all of us.

My most “over-rated” film of all time is E.T. Hated that freakin’ manipulation festival. It made it tough for me to ever enjoy *any *Spielberg movies ever again.

Wait, are we talking movies we disliked, or just ones that we liked less than the hype? Because I found Titanic, for instance, to be a decent movie, and I don’t feel like I wasted my time or my money… It just wasn’t the Greatest Movie of All Time. Or in the top 50 or so. Heck, it probably wasn’t even the greatest of its year, though I can’t be bothered to look up what it was competing against.

No kidding. At least the 10th or so.

I wouldn’t go that far, but it seriously seems like we get a lot of repeats. What’s next? A “Battlestar wasn’t as good as everyone says” thread? :smiley:

I think Titanic got overrated in so quickly in 1997 that it almost became underrated because of the backlash. I haven’t seen it since the theater, but I thought it was pretty good. Better than Avatar, actually.

I’ve never seen the movie but I am a researcher in one of the fields John Nash revolutionized. He is a paranoid schizophrenic and spent decades in and out of psychiatric hospitals into which he was involuntarily committed. He has had enormous mental health struggles. And he also proved some of the most fundamental mathematical results of my discipline when he was in fucking grad school. I cannot overstate just how important his contributions are.

I know Nash quibbled with some factual issues in his biography and the film on which it was based, but in broad outline, it is quite true.

You have to think men dressed as women is really funny, and that needs to be enough for an hour and a half of Marilyn Monroe’s horrible acting. There isn’t enough eye candy in the world to make that work. That script would have been thrown out of a porn studio.

Blade Runner.

Ridley Scott is entirely overrated.

Spartacus hasn’t aged very well.

I have to disagree about Sideways; it was about a quartet of non-functioning adults trying to make the leap to functioning, unsuccessfully. I loved it.

I have yet to really love any Judd Apatow movie; one of his defining traits is a stretch of the movie that’s excruciatingly painful to watch. I’m sure he’s got a great comedy in him somewhere, but I haven’t seen it yet.

The only Rodgers and Hammerstein/Joshua Logan movie that successfully translated to the big screen was South Pacific. All the others, especially Oklahoma! and Show Boat, looked affected and badly-paced.

I was always baffled by the amount of over-the-top, fawning praise that was heaped on the thoroughly mediocre (being generous) Lost In Translation, by both professional critics and wannbe cinemaphiles alike.

The amount of praise The Shawshank Redemption receives staggers me.

Huh? There’s only two silent movies on that list! And I don’t think much pretension is required to enjoy “The Gold Rush.” (“Birth of a Nation” I have not seen in its entirety.)

For me, “Avatar” was jaw-droppingly bad. I’ve never felt more bewilderingly at odds with mass critical and popular opinion of a movie.

I was very disappointed with The Princess Bride. Nice enough homage to old films, but all I could think was, “my friends who loved this movie must have never seen the Errol Flynn originals, or they would know this was just a pale imitation.”

I have to admit that Rutger Hauer’s final speech [from a SF fans point of view] is simply fucking amazing. I can do without the rest of the movie [though I do appreciate the set design, very wonderful dark SF noir] but I absolutely love that scene.

I have mentioned it previously, but I do not understand the worship that The Godfather seems to get [which is really nicely parodied in The Freshman] It is a workmanlike movie, but it really is no great cinematic feat. I also don’t understand the fascination that Apocalypse Now seems to instill in people. It took me multiple times to see the entire thing as I kept falling asleep. I will say the first time through was my fault, it ended up recorded on 4 or 5 different tapes as we had to sort of tape it on what we had around and we had no blank tapes, or one I was willing to bulk out so I sort of tried watching it out of order. It made absolutely no sense. So when DVDs came out, we got the DVD, and I still kept falling asleep because even shown in the correct order, it was boring and didn’t make sense. Though I did like a few of the scenes - the helicopter and surfers, and the napalm run were nicely done. [I would load the DVD and fast forward to the last scene I remember watching and watch more until I fell asleep again. sigh]

It is a shame, really. I like detective noir, regular crime movies and war movies. I just don’t see why people seem to simply adore some movies.

A New Hope. I have always thought of it as the weakest of the films.
Shakespeare in Love The acting is iffy and the script sounds like bad fanfiction
Chicago Not that good.