What do you think Are The Most Overrated Films ?

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Films that get credit and praise that they really don't deserve or have simply become popular and beloved by default .
 
The Thin Red Line [1998 Terrance Malick]
Supposedly it is a great war film about the human condition but for me it was long, boring and muddled.
 
I'm not really one for cinema as art, so i struggled with movies like that. Citizen Kane is a good example, it was a good movie, but i don't understand the praise that is given. .
 
The two for me are Reds and Chinatown, which I thought were awful. The former is a great cure for insomnia (like @Vladd67's The Thin Red Line), so it has some merit, but I'm baffled as to why the latter acquired a reputation as a worthy film, and my sacrilegious criticism got me into some heated arguments during my screenwriting days.
 
CupofJoe said:
The Thin Red Line [1998 Terrance Malick]
Supposedly it is a great war film about the human condition but for me it was long, boring and muddled.
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I was expecting to see a real masterpiece of cinema in the war genre, but unfortunately, I was disappointed.
 
The Matrix, for me, was greatly overrated when it came out. It had a couple of interesting camera tricks, and a vaguely Philip K Dick plot, but was much less fun and engrossing than Blade (despite Blade's dodgy computer effects).

There's a particular genre of gloomy man films that get endless adoration, especially from blokes on Youtube who think they're film critics: very long, drab, humourless blockbuster films especially by Christopher Nolan but also Fincher and Villeneuve. All three directors have made excellent films, especially Fincher, but I've got very tired of this kind of thing.
 
CupofJoe said:
The Thin Red Line [1998 Terrance Malick]
Supposedly it is a great war film about the human condition but for me it was long, boring and muddled.
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I saw it the theater , a very mediocre film .
 
The opposite, too, i.e., too much spectacle makes everything too bright. Reminds me of falling asleep in the middle of one of those Transformers movies and even the last act of the third Matrix flick.
 
About Thin Red Line, I'm reminded of one reviewer who said that it's not a movie but a modern Homeric epic; hence, the officer talking about the rosy-fingered dawn, etc.
 
paeng said:
About Thin Red Line, I'm reminded of one reviewer who said that it's not a movie but a modern Homeric epic; hence, the officer talking about the rosy-fingered dawn, etc.
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A Very lackluster film.
 
Inception and The Blair Witch Project; these are the first two that pop into my mind.
 
Toby Frost said:
The Matrix, for me, was greatly overrated when it came out. It had a couple of interesting camera tricks, and a vaguely Philip K Dick plot, but was much less fun and engrossing than Blade (despite Blade's dodgy computer effects).

There's a particular genre of gloomy man films that get endless adoration, especially from blokes on Youtube who think they're film critics: very long, drab, humourless blockbuster films especially by Christopher Nolan but also Fincher and Villeneuve. All three directors have made excellent films, especially Fincher, but I've got very tired of this kind of thing.
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When I first saw the Matrix, I its Through it a cool film. But every time I watched it since , it just gets funnier and funnier . The fantastic anime style impossible leaps and ballet battles that characters engage with the the Surrgates of Mr Smith really do look silly in the light of day , And sadly , there 's not much to the story beyond theseimpossible computer generated gymnastics. Take those away and all you got left is Morpheus going around saying " Neo You're the one " And the sequel. further expose the story Vacuum that is The Matrix.
 
Prieneus said:
Inception and The Blair Witch Project; these are the first two that pop into my mind.
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Inception is a compete waste of time and The Blair Witch is a complete waste of valuable film that could have been put to much better use.

LetS add to this witH the film It Follows which, was supposed to be cutting edge horror . The film was an un scary, unentertaining and an otherwise colossally stupid movie .
 
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Steve Harrison said:
The two for me are Reds and Chinatown, which I thought were awful. The former is a great cure for insomnia (like @Vladd67's The Thin Red Line), so it has some merit, but I'm baffled as to why the latter acquired a reputation as a worthy film, and my sacrilegious criticism got me into some heated arguments during my screenwriting days.
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Ive seen Reds and found it quite dull John Reed wrote a book Ten Days That Shook The World about that Russian Revolution which he covered .It an interesting read.

As for Chinatown and ive never understood why that film rates as high as it does.
 
Some great movies on the discussion above.

Gravity was truly turgid. Rated high due to some space shots.
 
Judderman said:
Some great movies on the discussion above.

Gravity was truly turgid. Rated high due to some space shots.
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Gravity looked great on the big screen , not so great on the small screen .
 
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