Most overated films
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LilJen said:Just realised I wont win any argument on this film as it is so overrated and pretentious, I have refused to see it more than once
i really don't care if you don't like it - horses for courses and that - it's just the nonsense about racism that irks.
There are lots of perfectly well-rounded Japanese characters, and the gags really are just about difference.
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Agree with Fight Club and with Shallow Grave, which was treated like something Polanski would have made but was just actors wondering around a set.
I'll nominate The Piano. What was that all about?
Nooo!
I'll nominate The Piano. What was that all about?
Mrs Magpie said:
Nooo!
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And Kalifornia, though I can't remember whether it was rated that much. Nasty little film.
jbob said:
I was building up to it
jbob said:
yes
"it's ok to be a scab if it means your kid can be the new Wayne Sleep"
in that case, Team: America.
just shite, really
just shite, really
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killer b said:i'd be glad to be converted... i just found very little in it to interest me.
Fair enough, and it's not the greatest film ever made. But it is nevertheless a great film. I was questioning the use of the word pretentious more than anything. Orson Welles had too much art and vision to be called pretentious imo.
Dubversion said:yes
"it's ok to be a scab if it means your kid can be the new Wayne Sleep"
Bizzarely, I can remember having a raging argument on here (in the days when I could be arsed), with this bloke who took exception to my suggestion that it stereotyped working class people to a toe curling degree, and that Jamie whatshisface couldn't dance for shit anyway. This bloke was, apparently, his dance teacher.
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i_hate_beckham said:
I think you may have missed the entire fucking point of the film TBH . I don't think half the films are overated , it seems a lot of people just don't get them ( a bit like whoever said 2001 as well )
for most overated you need to think of stuff like Titanic , Braveheart and probably the most overated film in all history - Gladiator !
DJ Squelch
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LOTR trilogy - good special effects but they fuckin dragged, i wanted to kill the little hobbit cunts through most of it.
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jbob said:
Why does it have to be serious critics that rate it though ? When Gladiator came out it was being heralded as a brilliant film and to be honest I'd rather watch Quo Vadis than that piece of shit again .
Apocalypse Now I think was a brilliant film ( although the redux is shite ) , yes it was tedious in places but that IMO helped make it better by creating a mood in the viewer which complimented the films direction , the cinematography IMO was excellent as well . While maybe not deserving the accolades it gets it's no way near the most overated film !
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LilJen said:I'm on a roll
Four Weddings and a fucking Funeral
I quite liked that the first time I watched it, I think I was under the influence of Tom Paulin saying on The Late Review that it was like the great screwball comedies of the 1930s.
SpookyFrank
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Godfather part II. Coppola really laid an egg there methinks.
Another vote for the excorcist as well- you don't have to go far to find a scarier episode of doctor who.
Another vote for the excorcist as well- you don't have to go far to find a scarier episode of doctor who.
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