Horribly overrated movies...

Come on! Most of you point out Titanic as the most overrated film but there are plenty of them. Have you seen A Billion Dollar Baby? Oh my goodness, the most 'feeling patronizing' fim i 've ever seen. Every 'arty fellow' seem to love it but noone can really explain why he/she like it. The Definition of Sentimental for the sake of it.

The list is huge, but i can add some more, like Lost in Translation (what was the point of that boredom?), Babel (all that misery, angst and sorrow for what?) and as mentioned before, Crouching Tiger; flying dancing, special effects and imaginery landscapes, nothing remarkable enough to remember .

There are plenty of overlooked art films from european, american and asian cinema that actual deserve the Oscar and the Globes.

BaldJean wrote: el b�thy wrote: Oh I just saw the other day one of the worst movies ever... August Rush. What piece of sh*t, really sh*ty in its most extreme! It�s so freakin bad. The acting is horrible, the story borderline funny (in a bad way). I dont want to sound offensive, but its a movie only 40-50 year old women can like (women with not much appreatiation for good cinema) thanks ; this will probably make me like the movie in a year

But you do have an appretiation for good cinema!

Forrest Gump!!! Shawshank Redemption was a much better movie and should've won Best Picture that  year.

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I actually think you DID get an answer, but i was a few days late and you never checked the thread again 
It's "Me and you and everyone you know", another one of my top fives. :)

Great that you like Sånger från andra våningen, i liked it too, it's a very polarizing film, most think it's boring, strange and pointlessly artsy, i thought it was fun and interesting and quite fascinating. But if you can watch that one, then Lost in Translation really shouldn't be a challenge, i think :)

En Kärlekshistoria, however, is Roy Anderssons first film, from 1969, and if you don't know anything about it, it's easy to think "what the hell, it's just a bunch of kids running around", because you're not (or at least i wasn't) used to seeing serious and artier films about 15 year olds falling in love, but it's really much more than that. Half of it is about these kids falling in love and the other half is about their parents and how their dreams have lost themselves in the routines of their lives, selling fridges and working on the house. It is in many ways pretty swedish (which is nothing like bergman), so maybe that's part of why it hit so hard with me.

March of the Penguins.  Michael Medfly attacked it for it's liberal themes.  He could have simply slammed it for it's lame story line.  I waited for it to come on cable and couldn't bear to sit through the whole thing.
I did get the dancing penguin doll for my wife and I must say it's much more entertaining.


Edited by Slartibartfast - January 18 2008 at 14:28

oracus wrote: Ahh, i see. Sorry, my mistake :) I 'm always standbay when it comes to films. So, i just rent 'Me and you and everyone you know' and i will see it tonight. Tomorrow, i will let you know my feelings about it. About En K�rlekshistoria. It sounds like the films that i really like (i love scandinavian cinema), so i 'll hunt it down. I guess some of those 'arty' films sent out encrypted signs that a specific group of people with the right experiences can decrypt and understand.

You do that! :)

Yeah, it wasn't near as great as the shorter clips in the Ali G show. I guess we just overdosed. Plus, i always liked Ali G himself more than Borat.

The T wrote: I insist: BORAT.   Anybody agrees on this?

I strongly disagree; I was cracking up throughout the whole movie.

Genesis... they really only had one great album...