Horribly overrated movies...

Comic books tend not to make good films (exceptions Batman Begins and first two Spidermans), but graphic novels are rapidly becoming some of my favorite films. Sin City, 300, V For Vendetta (though V got a massive overhaul in order to shift focus from Thatcherian England to the post 9/11 world).

stonebeard wrote: I just watch a movie we can all hopefully agree is not overrared: Silence of the Lambs. Brilliance.

Lol, I think it is terribly overrated. I was really disappointed with it. Not that it is an extremely bad movie, but it is nothing special either. Definitely not my cup of tea.


Edited by BaldFriede - July 31 2007 at 09:36

Dr. Strangelove is a true masterpiece. "Mein Führer - ich kann wieder gehen!" lol.

Blue Velvet

BaldFriede wrote: TR!P wrote: Blue Velvet   it was just crap...   i was expecting so much more from this "cult classic"   and your man the lead character who finds out all the stuff is terrible too, never really liked him as an actor To each their own. I really liked "Blue Velvet", especially Dennis Hopper. The sentence "What a polite little f*cker he is" will stick with me forever.

Blue Velvet, and more or less the rest of Lynch's films are fantastic. Isabella Rosselini is also unforgettable in it. Making a complex and challenging femme fatale out of a  classic B-movie character.

The only real stinker he made that I can remember is: Fire Walk With Me. That Twin Peaks related movie. But I'm not sure if its rated highly by anyone.

Now I don't watch a terrible lot of movies, but the one that disappointed me the most in the last few years was Peter Jackson's King Kong. Me and a friend heard the hype and figured we'd see what was supposed to be the biggest movies of the decade in theatres, what a waste of good money.

I really dont like the Kill Bill films, I thought they were terrible. Grease is another one that I dont like at all.


Edited by sleeper - August 01 2007 at 13:25

Okay, here is a review from me:

"Week End" by Jean Luc-Godard.

This is one of the weirdest movies ever made, and I've seen a lot weird ones. A couple, who secretly plan to kill each other, set out to kill the parents of the wife instead. They have a long trtp to the countryside, during which they meet all kinds of weird people (some fictional characters too, like "Alice in Wonderland"; also someone who looks and behaves like Jesus). They finally arrive at a colony of cannibals who kill tourists, where the husband gets killed and the wife joins the cannibals. Unforgettable last line in that movie, which I have to translate from the synchronized German version into English:
Wife: "What's that we are eating?"
Cannibal: "The rest of the English tourists from last week. A bit of your husband is in it too".
Wife: "Then please give me some more".
Car crashes play an important role in that movie; there are a lot in it, and there is one famous scene in which the couple passes a traffic jam with lots of accidents in it, but the people who were in the cars are having a kind of picknick beside the traffic jam. It takes the couple seven and a half minutes to pass that traffic jam; that scene somehow never seems to end.
If you like are real weird and surrealistic movie, look no further. Some scenes are, in my opinion, a bit long; the scene with the piano player for example, but it is endurable, and you are being richly rewarded elsewhere in the movie.
It also helps if you are a bit familiar with French literature; one of the cannibals, for example, constantly quotes from Lautreamonts "Les Chants de Maldoror".

Let's be clear about this - overrated just means "I don't like it yet loads of others do".

Edited by Archer - August 02 2007 at 06:10

The Simpsons Movie.

I love The Simpsons, but this was just a 90 minute version of one of those ho-hum episodes. The Bart/Flanders thing is dreadful and there are very few laugh out loud moments.

I suppose it could never be expected to live up to the legend or the hype...


On a seperate note, Transformers is probably the most boring film I've ever had to endure. Normally I can get a kick out of the special effects, indeed they are very good in this movie, but the film is a tedious mess.