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Overrated films.

ken_shabby
ken_shabby Posts: 6,255
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As a chance to let fly at the films the critics dribble over as a counterpoint to the other thread.
As a starter, the BBC published the 100 greatest comedy films some months back, and the winner - the funniest film ever - was apparently Some Like it Hot. Not a bad film but laugh out loud funny? Fuck off. It may have had audiences in stitches in 1950 or whenever it came out, but it's just mildly amusing now. If that's the funniest film ever, comedy needs a big adrenelyn shot.
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  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,733
    edited March 2018
    Citizen Kane
    Fight Club
    North by northwest
    Eternal Sunshine of the spotless Mind
    The Shape of Water
    Sister Act
    All the Star Wars films apart from the first.

  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,051
    Sister act? That's fighting talk
  • Fumbluff
    Fumbluff Posts: 10,125
    Artificial Intelligence and fucking Vanilla Sky
  • Charltonparklane
    Charltonparklane Posts: 5,786
    Most films that win Oscars.
  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,051
    Heat. Bored me rigid.
  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,051
    Also, films like lala land, whilst enjoyable enough, are Hollywood films about Hollywood, and Hollywood gets very excited about them. I fail to see why I'm supposed to care on the same level.
  • Talal
    Talal Posts: 11,484
    Sure this was done recently... Anyway I said The Godfather then and I'll say it again now.
  • addickfanatic
    addickfanatic Posts: 1,113
    Fumbluff said:

    Artificial Intelligence and fucking Vanilla Sky

    Normally really enjoyed Cameron Crowe’s movies but what the hell was he thinking with Vanilla Sky. 2001: Space Odyssey and Being John Malkovich, make you wonder what the critics are smoking.
  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167
    Bedsaddick said:

    Citizen Kane
    Fight Club
    North by northwest ????????
    Eternal Sunshine of the spotless Mind
    The Shape of Water
    Sister Act
    All the Star Wars films apart from the first.

    Get real!
  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167
    Gravity
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  • ken_shabby
    ken_shabby Posts: 6,255
    Phantom Thread
    The most recent Star wsrs tedium
  • PopIcon
    PopIcon Posts: 5,970
    Team America, couldn't see it out to the end.
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,975
    The Royal Tenanbaums or whatever it’s called

    Read a few reviews loving it.

    One of the worst films I’ve ever seen.
  • Alwaysneil
    Alwaysneil Posts: 13,805
    This year went to watch ‘mother’, the critics thought it was great.

    I thought it was batshit crazy even before having to look up what it was about. God and creation story? Really?
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,733
    Riviera said:

    Bedsaddick said:

    Citizen Kane
    Fight Club
    North by northwest ????????
    Eternal Sunshine of the spotless Mind
    The Shape of Water
    Sister Act
    All the Star Wars films apart from the first.

    Get real!
    I hated it . It bored me rigid which is unusual because I love most of Hitchcock’s films.
  • Laddick01
    Laddick01 Posts: 6,364
    Blade Runner
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,733
    ValleyGary said:

    The Royal Tenanbaums or whatever it’s called

    Read a few reviews loving it.

    One of the worst films I’ve ever seen.

    Anything by Wes Anderson . Critics love him for some strange reason .
    Tenanbaums is bad but Grand Budapest Hotel is nauseating.
  • bazjonster
    bazjonster Posts: 2,875
    Any Tarantino film.

    What on earth is all the fuss about?

    Utter attention seeking drivel.
  • moutuakilla
    moutuakilla Posts: 7,568
    Napoleon dynamite
  • up_the_valley
    up_the_valley Posts: 4,186
    edited March 2018
    Riviera said:

    Gravity

    Yeah.. I wasn't up for this either.
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  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,737
    moutuakilla said:

    Napoleon dynamite

    No fucking way
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,733
    Add Tim Burton to the overrated directors list.
  • hawksmoor
    hawksmoor Posts: 2,608
    Trainspotting. I’ve given it a go twice but I don’t like it. At all.
  • hawksmoor
    hawksmoor Posts: 2,608
    edited March 2018
    Oh, 3 Billboards. Didn’t like it. Tone of the film was all over the place and the humour fell completely flat, for me. Like the dozy girlfriend that mistakes polo for horses with polio.
  • Charltonparklane
    Charltonparklane Posts: 5,786
    Zoolander, took it back to blockbusters after 20mins in disgust
  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167
    Bedsaddick said:

    Riviera said:

    Bedsaddick said:

    Citizen Kane
    Fight Club
    North by northwest ????????
    Eternal Sunshine of the spotless Mind
    The Shape of Water
    Sister Act
    All the Star Wars films apart from the first.

    Get real!
    I hated it . It bored me rigid which is unusual because I love most of Hitchcock’s films.
    Bored you? It's fast moving, loads of twists, brilliant humour and Cary Grant and James Mason! I think you are getting mixed up with another film or you haven't seen it or you saw it when you were too young to understand it. Mind you, you also had Citizen Kane on your list so maybe you're beyond help...
  • flyingkiwiDK
    flyingkiwiDK Posts: 5,722
    bazjonster said:

    Any Tarantino film.

    What on earth is all the fuss about?

    Utter attention seeking drivel.

    Yes! Especially “Inglorious Bastards”
  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167
    edited March 2018
    bazjonster said:

    Any Tarantino film.

    What on earth is all the fuss about?

    Utter attention seeking drivel.

    And I thought it was just me!

    Let's have loads of gratuitous violence and say the N-word a lot and call it art!
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,846
    moutuakilla said:

    Napoleon dynamite

    Yes - first film that came to mind.
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,846
    Fargo

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