D-WAR!!!!!!!!!!!!
absolutely Overrated movies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQyhg4FuKlk

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Is Deckard human or not?

If you go by the directors cut, then yes.

The origami unicorn, as it relates to the dream sequence, confirms this. If you go by the original version, without the dream sequence, then I'd say no.

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Well, that's superfluous when the plot doesn't work. The movie fails hardest exactly at the end, with the naive line: I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain... Time to die. Oh, the drama.

I thought that was beautifully done. Melodramatic? Maybe, but still a great scene.

I thought that Ridley Scott's attempt to make a dysphoric, modern noir sci-fi epic was a daunting task, but paid off in spades. I definitely prefer the directors cut, as the voice-over and tacked on happy ending in the original film were unnecessary. Kind of like comparing Phil Spector's "Let it Be" to "Let it Be: Naked."

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Slumdog Millionaire, it is a good movie don't get me wrong, but it feels like it had 8 oscars just because everybody loves to overate stuff these days.

I agree. It's a good film, but wasn't that good. I thought Eastwood's last one or the Wrestler should have won best picture.

Add Crash to the list over overrated films.



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The new batman movies with bale, yes after seeing American Psycho we were all in awe that we finally found the perfect batman. However the costume they put him in looks gay, and yeah I myself was awed like everyone else in the theaters of the special effects and the re imaged "joker" however it really wasn't that great. Batman never drove a tank... I don't care what you say.

And again, bale looks ridiculous in that batman outfit, why couldn't they just use one of the older suits and make one his size? The old batman suits looked great, the only not cool looking one was from the original series... But honestly even the bat suit in "dead end" looked better than this one...geez.

Someone said fight club was overrated earlier. I dont see that, I think its one of the best movies ever. It was actually underrated at firt as it recieved poor reviews until it was later released on dvd. either way im not here to argue.

300
I havent seen the whole thing, just a few parts on tv, and it pisses me off. i cant stand sitting thru that movie. it just seems so fake, and i hate the slow motin parts.

twilight
I haven't seen it, but i generally have a good sense about movies. i havent read theboks and this pretty much explains it.

vampirebunnypersonaljesus posted:

johnny_ripper posted:

Twilight, story about a 300 years old vampire, which is not even a vampire, he's a homosexual with a thrist for blood and supernatural "powers", falls in love with a teenager "300 years old goes to college and makes out with teenager, isn't that disturbing?), and suddenly is attacked by other of these so called vampires who like to expose their chest, and this is called the new fucking modern Romeo & Juliet? This is a fucking joke.

Transformers
When i first saw the trailer i knew i wasnt going to watch it. Everyone said I should see when it was in theaters because they said it was amazing. I eventually ended up watching once it was on tv. It was ok, it wasnt horrible but it wasnt the best. the onluy cool thing i like about the movie was the fact that the freeway scene was shot at the freeway thats next to my house. its like a 5 min walk there.

Lord of the Rings
I thought it was good. it was just way too overrated. They made seem like it was the best film ever. I thought it was really good but the long scenes that shouldnt be there dragged it down. Ive read the books and they dont even make those scenes as long in the book.

the_madness_will_consume_you posted:

90 percent of any and all movies that the average 15 year finds to be a "great movie" (e.g. 300, Watchmen, Napoleon Dynamite, Anchorman, Twilight, etc.)

I read you on napoleon dynamite(Even though I thought it was HILARIOUS...until out of nowhere everyone saw it months after it was out and decided it was a hilarious trend to quote...kinda killed it for me)...and watchmen/300 but anyone who thinks anchorman is overrated and not funny just has a corn of cobb wedged up their ass and can't allow anything to let them laugh and lighten up their tightly wound ass unless it's something entirely not funny but satire in which you register out a few obviously fake laughs, in which you are not fooling anybody.

Anchorman is the fucking shit. Along with most every will ferrel movie, except elf but hey that was a kids movie...oh and blades of glory completely sucked.

Coma79 posted:

I read you on napoleon dynamite(Even though I thought it was HILARIOUS...until out of nowhere everyone saw it months after it was out and decided it was a hilarious trend to quote...kinda killed it for me)...and watchmen/300 but anyone who thinks anchorman is overrated and not funny just has a corn of cobb wedged up their ass and can't allow anything to let them laugh and lighten up their tightly wound ass unless it's something entirely not funny but satire in which you register out a few obviously fake laughs, in which you are not fooling anybody.

Anchorman is the fucking shit. Along with most every will ferrel movie, except elf but hey that was a kids movie...oh and blades of glory completely sucked.

I thought Anchorman had its moments, but was not the greatest comedy that has ever been released like some people claim it. I know a lot of others who feel the same way. Although telling someone they have a corn of cobb shoved up their ass because you disagree with them is a little like the pot calling the kettle black.

Coma79 posted:

the_madness_will_consume_you posted:

Coma79 posted:

I read you on napoleon dynamite(Even though I thought it was HILARIOUS...until out of nowhere everyone saw it months after it was out and decided it was a hilarious trend to quote...kinda killed it for me)...and watchmen/300 but anyone who thinks anchorman is overrated and not funny just has a corn of cobb wedged up their ass and can't allow anything to let them laugh and lighten up their tightly wound ass unless it's something entirely not funny but satire in which you register out a few obviously fake laughs, in which you are not fooling anybody.

Anchorman is the fucking shit. Along with most every will ferrel movie, except elf but hey that was a kids movie...oh and blades of glory completely sucked.

I thought Anchorman had its moments, but was not the greatest comedy that has ever been released like some people claim it. I know a lot of others who feel the same way. Although telling someone they have a corn of cobb shoved up their ass because you disagree with them is a little like the pot calling the kettle black.

Yeah, I understand that feeling, some people are just that way.

My bad with the cobb comment. Knew this one guy who insisted Anchorman, or any thing else with will ferrel was not funny at all. Like completely hated the guy, whenever he was mentioned he would act like someone shoved a stick up his ass and was pissed off because he didn't know what jokes we were referencing to...catalina wine mixer, I love lamp, their periods attract bears...they can sense the menstration... Then one day he says he has this funny thing on youtube... He shows me "vag badger" about the dumbest thing I've ever watched... I mean just stupid. Anyone who can lol at that an not anchorman needs a new sense of humor so thats where the corn of cobb came from. I didn't mean it as a "Yeah go fuck yourself with an ear of corn" Just a lot of people that don't think it's funny are honestly so concerned with hating it they don't let themselves laugh...uptight so to speak.

Eh I don't think Twilight counts as overrated. Critics didn't like it and who really cares about the opinions of a bunch of girls aged 13 to 16? Their opinion never matters when picking a movie to watch



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Every Friday the 13th flick, honestly of all the horror film franchises that's gotta be the weakest of them all, however for some odd reason has almost the largest fan base.

anon_kaur posted:

Hugh_G_Rekshun posted:

I felt that Burn After Reading was umm, well pretty much "un-funny". People kept clammorin' about the comedic value of the movie. But the only funny line in the whole movie was at then end with the FBI director guy saying how this whole thing was just a "Cluster-fuck".

Honestly... What was funny about this?!?!? (Rhetorical)

Yeah I agree Burn After Reading isn't at all funny, but I love it anyway. I don't watch it as a comedy, more as a poignant observation of life. Middle-aged nobodies mistakenly turning their quiet lives into wild dramas. And what is the end result? They all die. There's something so sickly ironic about the blandness of the film's plot and script.

But it was wrongly marketed as a comedy.

okay spoilers


how could you not laugh when brad pitt died. the way he was all smiling like "o hai im not suppose to be here LOL ^^; "

i laughed at everything clooney and pitt did. pitt's conservation with malkovich over the phone, clooney dropped food all over in the party at the beginning, clooney stomping up to get his wedge before leaving that red headed woman. everything. I laughed throughout the whole thing

Here's some Academy Award winners for Best Picture that are/were overrated (by far) that I've had the misfortune of seeing:

Annie Hall (beat Star Wars, not surprising really but I really hate this film)
Shakespeare in Love (beat Saving Private Ryan)
Crash (Munich was much better, if a little too graphic for most people)


Titanic is also overrated, but I wouldn't go so far as to say I felt like I wanted hours of my life back (in comparison with the above 3). Both Good Will Hunting and The Full Monty were more deserving of Best Picture that year.

How many oversized ego on this topic ?

Batman Dark Knight

Lost In Translation.

Scarlett Johansson is useless, she just hangs around and isn't interesting at all. The beginning is good & very funny with Bill Murray, but near the end it just turns into a pointless typical chick flick where nothing is happening, and the story is just going nowhere. The movie just seems empty. Even do Bill Murray is brilliant.

Burn After Reading was weak
Pulp Fiction was weak and pretentious
KillBill was super weak
Tarantino's first movie turns out (me thinks) that it was like a fluke
American Beauty is shit

alot of people said Transformers and i dont agree because it was the original series thats overrated,i used to watch it as a kid and i downloaded all 100 episodes recently and it wasn't really that great (especially compared to other stuff i watched as a kid like the Lensman movie whic is still awesome)

johnny_ripper posted:

Lost In Translation.

... near the end it just turns into a pointless typical chick flick where nothing is happening...

chicks hate this movie, they find it boring, guys dig it a lot though (rent store opinions)

cadair8 posted:

Eh I don't think Twilight counts as overrated. Critics didn't like it and who really cares about the opinions of a bunch of girls aged 13 to 16? Their opinion never matters when picking a movie to watch

if it's popularity over a bunch of know-it-alls with a cheap voice, i pick popularity

johnny_ripper posted:

I felt the fanboys got too pissy about the film being different from the book. But to each thier own.

exactly, it's like a mute point when people say that movie wasn't like the original book, comic, video game, it's just an excuse to bitch about stuff

Beatrix posted:

Rambo films

you have no clue how many people take what you said as a personal insult



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