Most overrated movie?

[Baltazar325]

Pulp Fiction.

 

[Vortex22]

Originally posted by: trek
Here's five.

He is totally wrong about Last Samurai... wow it LOOKED LIKE the movie portrayed Tom Cruise as the Last Samurai, even though he really wasn't. Most of the material Maddox puts up nowadays is crap.

 

[Encryptic]

Originally posted by: Vortex22

- The Last Samurai. This got a big "meh" from me. My wife and I started watching it and got about 30 minutes into it before we both decided we were bored. Unfortunate, because it sounded interesting.

You can't call it overrated if you've only seen the first 30 minutes... heh. It's a good movie.

I gave it a go for 30 minutes and didn't get into it at all. I'm not talking about watching 2 minutes of it on TV or something and basing my opinion on that. I honestly tried to give it a chance, but it failed to live up to my expectations based on the good press it's gotten.

Hence, my opinion that it was overrated.

 

[ICXRa]

Originally posted by: Mill

Originally posted by: werk
All 3 Lord of the Rings snoozefests...
/flame retardant suit on

 

[tarak]

A few that stand out of recent:
Kill Bill (both, vol 1 especially) - so much hype, no where near as good as other tarintino films

Royal Tenenbaums - as others have said, where was the funny?

Girl with the Perl Earrings - I tried so hard to stay awake...

Dogma - Not enough witty dialogues (like his 3 before it), too much toilet humor

I know not all of those carried national hype, but amongst my friends they were all raved about for weeks and turned out to be big let downs

 

[BatmanNate]

I'm going to have to go with Top Gun.

 

[JSang]

oh god
THE ENGLISH PATIENT

 

[welst10]

There are too many overrated movies. Really don't have time to name them all.

 

[DannyLove]

although I do agree with the first poster, I have to say there are a lot of f'ing idiots in this thread. Only saying titles to be funny. fools.

and btw requiem for a dream is soooooo not overrated you dumbass

danny~!

 

[CRXican]

Matrix, all of them

 

[Bumrush99]

Jerry Maguire, I can't believe anyone won an Oscar from that crapfest. I almost felt like puking every time Tom Cruise screamed, "Show me the money"

 

[UglyCasanova]

Originally posted by: DannyLove
although I do agree with the first poster, I have to say there are a lot of f'ing idiots in this thread. Only saying titles to be funny. fools.

and btw requiem for a dream is soooooo not overrated you dumbass

danny~!

What titles were posted just to be funny?

Also, I agree with you on Requiem.

 

[Leetman]

Originally posted by: Mill

Originally posted by: werk
All 3 Lord of the Rings snoozefests...
/flame retardant suit on

 

[flexy]

yesterday they showed Jurassic Park on AMC. Saw it in the 90s, of course.

Very 'Spielbergisch', but it dawned on me what a stupid movie it actually is.

ANd this movie generated a lot of hype about dinosaurs in the 90s...i wonder why...the movie is bad

 

[flexy]

Originally posted by: purbeast0
Old School - that movie had hardly any funny parts aside from the parts we saw 1000 times on the preview.

Donnie Darko - this movie just flat out sucked, no clue on the hype

Bubba HoTep - again, this movie was just ridiculous and I dont see how that movie was even funded.

ill post more if i can think of them.

EDIT1:
Signs - if it was advertised as a religious movie instead of a thriller, maybe it wouldnt have been.

Unbreakable - this movie just speaks for itself ...

these are just BAD movies...we are talking about 'overrated' movies, movies which were hyped a lot but basically sucked

 

[Encryptic]

Originally posted by: flexy
yesterday they showed Jurassic Park on AMC. Saw it in the 90s, of course.

Very 'Spielbergisch', but it dawned on me what a stupid movie it actually is.

ANd this movie generated a lot of hype about dinosaurs in the 90s...i wonder why...the movie is bad

I agree. The book is excellent, but the movie was horribly overrated. I was so disappointed when I saw it in the theater.

 

[CraigRT]

Originally posted by: Gurck
Titanic

works for me

 

[flexy]

my big fat greek wedding.....i STILL dont know where the hype came from..it was a nice little movie, but nothing more. Forgettable.


SPIDERMAN II <------------------- WINS hands down...flame me if you want..this movie is so bad....dont get me started

 

[morkinva]

minority report

oh and about 95% of the other speilberg movies and 67% of lucasfilms

 

[Cobalt]

My Big fat Greek Wedding... that is an insult to us Greeks everywhere. BURN IN HELL.

 

[Bumrush99]

I also thought "A Beautiful Mind" was pretty terrible. It didn't do a good job showing the horrors of schizophrenia. If any of you wan't to see some great movies about mental illness rent "Shine" or Taxi Driver"

Another film I thought that fell short was "American Beauty". It wasn't as great as people made it out to be.

 

[Czar]

the whole star wars thing, they all feel like B movies

 

[clamum]

Boondock Saints

 

[Anubis]

godfather

 

[randomlinh]

Signs (the last 30 minutes was good though... if you didn't fall asleep yet).
Lost in Translation

umm.. that's all i can think of