Movies you think are incredibly overrated.

[SolarSonic]

Lord of the Rings trilogy. Not that it's bad but I just don't hold it so near and dear as many of the fans.

Jackie Brown is really overrated, especially among people who don't really like Tarantino. If you ask them why, they say it's his most mature movie which I guess is code-speak for "It's the least like a Tarantino movie" which I just don't see as a very good thing.

American Beauty. Alan Ball works better on TV and Sam Mendes should find better writers.

[LincM]

I actually quite like Jackie Brown, and haven't really liked anything else by Tarantino that much.

[The Bodyguard]

Posted my list on another site. I might be lynched soon and I am a troll now according to some

[LincM]

can you post it here? you didn't even say what site you posted it to.

[The Bodyguard]

Moviefancentral


Its the same list, just on my profile for the site. Its the social network for Joblo

[mlsterben]

Casino Royale
Mean Girls
Juno
The Blind Side
Pretty much anything by Judd Apatow:
40 Year Old Virgin
Knocked Up
Superbad
Anchorman
Funny People
The movies he's directed were really formulaic (the heroes are funny! then they're in a fight! then their friendship is strengthened by hardship! yay!) or really, really not funny (Funny People).

[Reginald Cornishstone]

I have to strongly agree with Juno and the Apatow list.
I did enjoy Superbad but not the others.

[The Bodyguard]

I agree on Superbad, I had an awful time at the theaters with it. Could not relate whatsoever.

[IsaacMahomie]

I've got a friend who keeps going to Judd Apatow but always leaves disappointed. He gets sucked in by the promises of a fun story about friendship and quirky relationships, but the endings are never satisfying. And don't even get me started on how unnecessarily disgusting they can be. (like the characterized penis' in Superbad? Wtf? Do we really need to see that?)

[LincM]

I liked 40yov and knocked up, but not as much as most. I really liked Superbad, and even more so Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Zohan, but couldn't get into Funny People. Still haven't seen grown ups, and I really want to see get him to the greek.

I liked The Blind Side, it was formulaic and possibly overrated, but it was what it was and it was good at being that.

[logosmonkey]

I liked The Blind Side, it was formulaic and possibly overrated, but it was what it was and it was good at being that.

Can a true story be formulaic? Either way, I rather liked the film myself and I really had no intention of ever seeing it but watched it on vacation this year and thought it was rather good.

I'm generally a fan of the Apatow films, I think they're pretty brilliantly done for what they're trying to be. Though, I've not seen Funny People so I can't comment on that one.

[LincM]

The story is true life (pretty much, as far as we know). The film is formulaic. The film is a representation of the facts presented, however it chooses which parts of michael's and the family's life to hone in on and where to back off. Editing of the story doesn't just happen once the film's been shot.

The formula applied here is one of selection.

[logosmonkey]

I dunno, I think it's a bit of a stretch to say that's what most people would consider when you say a movie was formulaic. That generally applies to overall story and plot, which is generally based on a true story. But, it's too inconsequential a point to argue more than that. So, whatever.

Also, I don't necessarily believe you wrong in regards to editing etc. but I think we'll just argue semantics if we go any further and we've tread those waters before... and they're banal.

[fantasticraig]

After the mass-complaints about The Last Airbender, people always say that M. Night Shayamalan's earlier movies were good but then take a dive in quality. I disagree and submit that all of his movies are shitty.

The Sixth Sense is pretty much only carried by the fact that Haley Joel Osment is good at playing a creepy little kid. The "surprise ending" is the most predictable fucking thing ever, seeing as you see Bruce Willis' character get freaking shot at the beginning.

Unbreakable was supposed to be like a realistic take on the concept of a super-hero, but it seemed like whoever wrote it had never picked up a comic and was just basing it on commonly known cliches about them.

Signs, aside from how stupid it is for the aliens to be allergic to water, and invade the one planet in this solar system that is mostly water and has water in the atmosphere and water-based inhabitants to oppose them, the twist ending was insultingly stupid. "Hooray, God gave our daughter a stupid quirk of leaving glasses of water everywhere and our son asthma to deal with the aliens that he sent to kill us!".


Also, agreeing with Lord of the Rings being incredibly boring. I couldn't get all the way through the first one and just skipped the rest.

[SolarSonic]

Wait, I came up with a few more.

X-Men 1 and 2. Superman Returns is Singer's masterpiece.

Chasing Amy. Clerks is still Smith's best movie.

Toy Story. It's not bad at all but it hasn't aged gracefully and has been outdone twice by the sequels.

Masculin, féminin. Never really got into it and it all seemed like Godard being a grumpy gus post-divorce.