What is your most "overrated" movie?

[RandySF]

For me, it's 'The Godfather'. I'm sorry, but it puts me to sleep every time. The dialogue is hokey and the story is bland.

[Zorro]

1. Reservoir Dogs

Blech.

[Shermann]

30. You've convinced me, gimme back my dollar! nt

[AZSkiffyGeek]

2. The Fifth Element

It looks amazing, but there is no plot and the actors are sleepwalking through the whole thing. And Chris Tucker is just obnoxious.

[Zorro]

120. It's just stupid campy fun

"Anybody else wanna negotiate?"

And yes Chris Tucker is perhaps the most obnoxious character to ever appear in a movie.

[Harker]

3. Mulholland Drive.

An atrocity.

[Glorfindel]

80. You're absolutely right.

I hated every minute of that movie.

[Harker]

87. I didn't make it to the end, but I hated every minute I did see.

Another in that vein for me was Jim Jarmusch's "The Limits of Control", which sorely tested my personal limits of control. I'd liked many of his previous films.

Painful.

[Hokie]

127. Yep, gotta agree that one is bad

I was working on a job on the west coast of Norway in 2009 and the apartment I was renting had a DVD player. One of the movies the owner had was Mulholland Drive. I watched it several times. Even a good part of a bottle of summer akvavit didn't make it any better.

[Harker]

131. You gave it a better chance than I did...

You deserve points for that.

[Hokie]

4. Forest Gump

Not even close. I watched this dog one time and will never watch it again.

The Academy should go back and award the Best Picture award to Shawshank Redemption.

[lisa58]

6. Agreed

[Skittles]

7. I absoutely agree

Forrest Gump is absolute dreck

and I think Pulp Fiction should have won

[AZSkiffyGeek]

18. There was a whole load of shitty best pictures in the 90s...

Gump
Dances With Wolves
Shakespeare in Love
Titanic
English Patient

[Scar Tissue]

21. I like it - but definitely overrated.

It's sappy and pretentious. I enjoy it but it's not a movie I'd hold up as a great standard of writing/storytelling (tho, the special effects for the time are great).

[yardwork]

53. Agreed.

[AngryOldDem]

69. Abso-freaking-lutely.

I remember sitting in the theatre trying to keep track of the years, so I knew how much longer I had to sit through it. Just a stupid premise, and that “box of choclits” crap…

Never got the love, unless it was because Tom Hanks was in it.

[Hokie]

90. I think Waterboy was actualy a better movie than Forest Gump

More Oscar worthy in my book.

[ailsagirl]

105. Agree

It was like

[wishstar]

8. Gladiator

We so looked forward to renting for my birthday in the year after it came out to much hoopla but it was a total unpleasant boring experience that we couldn't even watch all the way through.

[underpants]

20. I never understood the fawning praise

I didn’t get it.

[Redleg]

164. It's one of my favorite movies

The scene where Marcus Aurelius (Richard Harris) explains to his son Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix) why he won't be the next emperor is quite powerful. Both actors were clearly invested in that scene. The scenes with Oliver Reed and Russell Crowe are quite good too, especially when Reed tells Crowe about his own past as a gladiator and later when he gives Crowe his freedom. Harris's scene with Crowe about his plans for Rome was quite good too.

[brokephibroke]

9. Titanic

So over dramatic.

[Nululu]

35. Agree Titanic

Beautiful costumes but boring.

[Shrek]

36. +1

It sucked.

[a kennedy]

42. Oh, I kinda liked Shrek.......the original.....not the ones that followed.

[Tracer]

77. It was so loooong and dull, that by the end...

... we were saying "so die already" to Jack as he froze in the water.

[AngryOldDem]

67. It hasn't aged well, for sure.

Parts are now unintentionally funny. But at the time it was a special effects marvel, and a nice story. I’m still in awe of the level of detail Cameron went to to recreate the ship.

If you haven’t seen it yet — I think it was posted here a few weeks ago — here is OwlKitty’s take on it:

[VGNonly]

76. Paint me like your

French Kitties!

[Ohiya]

81. First laugh of the day!

[Skittles]

112. that is soooo well done!

[sakabatou]

109. Agreed.

[Walleye]

10. "2001" I saw it in the theater when it came out

There was some good hashish going around about then and I pretty much went to sleep during the long spaceflights

[skylucy]

16. +100 I've never understood what people find interesting about that movie. BORING!!

[lastlib]

123. It was a brilliant concept,

based on the idea that aliens were guiding our evolution from man-ape to star-child. A lot of the filler is soporific, but the denouement is magnificent.

"My God! It's full of STARS!!"

[ItsjustMe]

29. 2010 was a much better movie

[Leith]

43. I like to tell people that the movie changed my life

BUT not in the way you would think.

The psychedelic bit near the end, with the swirling colors, looking at himself as an old man, returning to Earth as a fetus just made me cringe.

What captured my adolescent soul was the Blue Danube Waltz scene. I was completely blown away by it. It has been literally 50 years since I saw it as a special showing in a theater and it is still my single favorite scene from any movie at any time. Johann Strauss the Younger is still my favorite composer and that piece of music is my favorite of all time.

[Walleye]

44. I did like that scene. I always watch the Strauss concerts from Vienna on New Year's

[Earth-shine]

64. One has to read the book to appreciate the movie. I do love both.

For example, the book explains in detail what is going through the minds of the primitive humans, and how it all changed when they encountered the monolith.

The so-called "borings" of the movie are an intrinsic part of how the characters feel about it. The astronauts are bored too. Such is spaceflight.

[pressbox69]

72. The best part

was when the Nixon like scientist explained why they needed to use the fake virus hoax to cover up that life exists on other planets.

[Jirel]

11. The English Patient.

Absolute crap. I made it partway through under protest. But hey, gotta be pretentiously artsy, I guess.

[Docreed2003]

33. That was my choice as well

Ugh, that movie is painful

[we can do it]

45. Gawd I hated that one.

[ailsagirl]

104. It must have been a three hour movie!!!

[Scrivener7]

12. Inception. Ugh.

[Freddie]

13. Saturday Night Fever

Amazing music. Really depressing movie.

[CTyankee]

103. Yeah, awful. Travolta dancing in that night club scene was the only thing worth watching and it was

great. But it was horrible, his character letting his girl friend suffer that rape...

[ailsagirl]

106. I can gladly say I never saw it

[MissMillie]

116. an absolutely fair pick (n/t)

.

[rsdsharp]

14. The Thin Red Line.

I found it incredibly boring. It’s the only movie I ever walked out of.

[gay texan]

15. Terms of Endearment,

The Big Chill, A streetcar named desire, Interstellar

[redstatebluegirl]

17. Titanic

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

99. +1. Way too long. Hey boat, just sink already!

[redstatebluegirl]

114. Exactly!

[jcgoldie]

135. Awwe man I have to tell my Titanic horror story

I was weekend vacationing in the Lake of the Ozarks at the Lodge of the Four Seasons. I would never make that choice now but when I was like 24 it seemed like a good idea and my girlfriend was impressed. We had rented a boat then went out to eat at a nice restaurant and then a bar for nightlife got back to the room like 11:30 at night. That was the days when you could rent a movie at an upscale hotel and they started it at the front desk for you. She wanted to see Titanic which we hadn't seen at the theater and the hotel seemed to have it before it was at the blockbuster or something. So I called the front desk and they started that monstrosity up. I forced myself to stay awake because I liked that girl I was with and hadn't been together long. So like 3 hours into the fucker as Kate Winslet is floating in the ice on a door or something and Leonardo is about to sink in the ocean (I never could figure out why she didn't just move her ass over and let him on the door)... the fucking video cuts. I call the front desk at like 2 Am and say "Hey man we been watching this damn movie for like 3 hours and it just cut off can you fix it so I can get to bed??" The desk clerk says "Sorry sir we can't control that but I'll be happy to restart the movie for you!!!"

FUUUUCK! No wonder it didn't work out with that girl!

[50 Shades Of Blue]

19. Star Wars

[targetpractice]

32. BLASPHEMER!!!

Just kidding, but shocked.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

57. Rofl! Mark Hamill is great on Twitter though!

[we can do it]

46. Which one?

[50 Shades Of Blue]

56. The one released in 1977.

I loved the Empire Strikes Back though. But by the time the next one finally rolled around I’d lost interest.

[Skittles]

52. I hated it too

I fell asleep during the original, I thought it was stupid.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

58. I failed to understand all the hooplah about it!

[Skittles]

59. it still seems ridiculous to me

I have always liked Star Trek though

[underpants]

22. The Ten Commandments and Gone With the Wind

The Ten Commandments is just a godawful movie.

Scarlett O’Hara was so irritating and obnoxious I couldn’t wait for it to be over.

[RFCalifornia]

146. Gone with the Wind was excellent propadanda!

That and Birth of a Nation inspired so much evil and revived a level of racism that pushed Civil Rights back years

I put it up there with Triumph of the Will and Red Dawn

[ProfessorGAC]

155. GWTW Is 2nd On My List

Grossly overacted.
Way too long.
That's setting aside the nonsense of the "noble" slave owner as victim aspect.

[greatauntoftriplets]

23. Titanic.

I kept telling the damned ship to sink. The whole thing was taking too long.

[Shipwack]

24. Tie between "Wuthering Heights" and "Gone w/ the Wind"

An ex-girlfriend loved "Wuthering" and hated "Casablanca"... I should have taken that as a warning.

GWtW is a bunch of traitorous, obnoxious, self-centered people. I can understand why it was popular at the time, but not why it endures.

[Tetrachloride]

25. Unbearable Lightness of Being

[Algernon Moncrieff]

133. Yes - i didn't put it on my list, but I wish I had that ticket money back

You'll recall it was NC 17 when it was released. I was expecting.....something different.

[Mike Nelson]

26. The Searchers...

... for the "fat Indian woman" segment, especially.

[ItsjustMe]

27. Independence Day

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116629/

[exboyfil]

28. Avatar

[MissMillie]

117. That was my first thought

but I honestly don't know what kind of reviews it got.

[catbyte]

31. It's a tossup between The English Patient and Out of Africa.

Both of them are pretentious snooze fests. Oh, and Forrest Gump is right up there, too. Ugh.

[we can do it]

47. You left out Chariots of Fire😀

[CTyankee]

102. THAT was a great movie! I just saw it again the other night. I was so impressed by the acting and

the overall production! One of the lead actors (I think the Scot who was going to be a missionary in China) died from AIDS after the movie came out and received so much acclaim. What a loss!

[Shermann]

34. The Big Lebowski

I've been getting pressured to watch this for years and finally broke down last week. It was OK, just a few laughs for me. A lot of the humor was forced, and they were trying too hard to manufacture a cult classic. The best cult classics are the inadvertent ones like Evil Dead, Troll II, and the Warriors (in my opinion). But I do like the Dude.

[Earth-shine]

65. I felt the same way as you until ... I saw it a second time.

I enjoyed it more the second time.

[Shermann]

92. Interesting, I have heard that about it

Mostly my second movie viewing experience is similar to the first.

The one exception was Napolean Dynamite. It just didn't do it for me the first time. Then I saw it again and it just clicked. Weird.

[FSogol]

37. Silence of the Lambs. Hopkins character is supposed to be an evil criminal genius,

but personally knows the identity of the killer. That takes some smarts!

[Walleye]

41. Agree. I hated that movie

[beaglelover]

95. OMG!!! That's still my all time favorite movie!!!

[Tikki]

38. I totally agree on 'The Godfather'....

I have never found a mafia movie all that interesting.
Also, fight movies...

Tikki

[ailsagirl]

107. Ditto here

[Control-Z]

39. Forrest Gump

I watched it once and it was one time too many. Bleh

[First Speaker]

40. Gandhi...

...the Western Tourist version of India. Smug, self-satisfied and overstuffed. The fact that Ben Kingsley gives a great performance makes it all the sadder, somehow...

[Leith]

48. Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Playing with mashed potatoes and people gathering in middle of nowhere to watch a giant Simon Says toy is not anything like a serious sci-fi movie (and I love sci-fi) about humanity's first contact.

[Casandia]

93. Yep! Pretty stupid.

And I didn’t care for ET either….

[zipplewrath]

49. Moonstruck

Went to see it with 9 other friends. Decided to stick it out to not interfere with the other 8. After the movie was over, all 9 of us agreed it was dreck and would have left if not for the other 8.

[Celerity]

156. yes, that was shit

[skypilot]

50. Shawshank Redemption

I didn't dislike the movie but seeing it rated so highly and repeatedly called the greatest movie of all time on IMDB has put it firmly in the overrated column for me.

[AngryOldDem]

68. Why it airs over and over and over again on TV baffles me.

Plus, I’m by nature skeptical of any film adaptation of a Stephen King story, with the exception of Stand By Me (which definitely does not belong in this thread).

[skypilot]

75. What baffles me...

...is how some people laud the movie without ever acknowledging its debt to The Great Escape. I'm pretty sure I'm remembering correctly that in both films the protagonist escapes from prison the exact same way.

[Emile]

78. What's so great about it, it has a great ending!

[skypilot]

79. That doesn't make it the greatest movie of all time...

...as is often proclaimed on IMDB, often in ALL CAPS. Overrated.











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[Redleg]

165. Not the greatest of all time but still a fine movie

I realized the film is much more about the development of a deep friendship than of prison or escaping. I do love the escape aspect and how Andy and Red meet again at the end. I also love that the smarmy warden got his comeuppance.

[smirkymonkey]

51. Love, Actually.

I hated that movie and everyone loves it so much. There was so much wrong with it I don't even know where to begin.

[catbyte]

55. Ditto. I didn't find it cute, funny, or endearing.

And the fat-shaming was off the charts. Hard pass from me.

Blecch.

[Ohiya]

83. You might like ...

Shit, Actually -The Definitive, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinema
by Lindy West

The author HATES -- Love, Actually

[smirkymonkey]

84. LOL!

I will definitely have to read this!

[Ohiya]

89. It was with the Staff Favorites at the library, so I thought I'd check it out. I'm glad I did!

[TexasBushwhacker]

54. Bridges of Madison County and The English Patient

Call me old fashioned, but I just don't find adulterers sympathetic.

[CTyankee]

97. If it had been any other actress than Streep, I would probably agree, but she brought her

character to life so brilliantly and beautifully I couldn't condemn her. She ends up staying with her husband but you can almost touch her humanity and her sorrow. She married to get out of war torn Europe and make a better life for herself. She had been a good wife and mother. I found it hard to judge her.

[TexasBushwhacker]

98. Don't get me wrong. She made the right choice!

I just don't think that choosing to stay with your husband and keep your family together instead of running off with a traveling photographer is a great tragedy - LOL. Sew your wild oats when you're young and single 😉

[CTyankee]

101. Yeah, I didn't like the novella so much, so I think the artistry of Streep and Eastwood made it so

wonderful. Eastwood not only starred in it, he directed it and I think had a hand in the screenplay. I always thought he was this one dimensional actor but his performance and the overall movie was so well done I didn't think too much of the reality of the story. Plus, they had (ahem) "chemistry."

[Totally Tunsie]

60. Lawrence of Arabia

Lots of sand. Just when you're absolutely tired of sand, more sand.

Boring.

[Trueblue1968]

61. a clockwork orange

[ailsagirl]

108. That was a vile movie

[Algernon Moncrieff]

134. It's as well as I think you could have done with the novel.

The novel is a tough read. Anthony Burgess' wife was raped and killed during the blitz, and that obviously influenced the narrative. The other influence is a criticism of the bureaucracy of English socialism of the late 60s drawn to a dystopian extreme. Burgess actually released a "lost chapter" in the early 80s that, essentially, changes the ending of the book. In later interviews, he expressed regret over the film and the book.

I think it is a well crafted piece of cinema, and Malcom McDowell gave an incredible performance as Alex (he had eye problems for years afterward over the hook-on-the-eyelid scene). That said, I saw it once and I don't plan to ever watch it again.

Love the soundtrack, though.

[Coventina]

62. Citizen Kane. I get that it's a fable about WR Hearst and all that.

But it just doesn't mean much anymore. The world has moved on.

[ProfessorGAC]

158. At This Point...

...much of the continued attraction is the list of movie making technical firsts.
The lighting methods used were never used before, and have been used in nearly every movie since.
The best example is the shot of him in the mirrored hallway after he trashes Susan's room & finds the snowglobe.
He's in the dark, with mirrors on both sides if the walkway, everything is shadows and we see no lights in the mirror. Quite brilliant.
But the story, 80+ years later, has gotten stale.
It's less about the plot & acting, and much more about the groundbreaking movie making.

[Earth-shine]

63. Superman, 1978

Ironically, I think Man of Steel, 2013 is brilliant and completely underrated.

[Coventina]

147. I really enjoyed Man of Steel, except for Kevin Costner.

He comes across as just a complete autocratic grump.

Martha, though!

[Earth-shine]

167. Uttering that name saved Sup's life in the next movie.

Diane Lane is totally

I think Costner is okay in roles that aren't movies made by him. He's a better actor than producer.

[Earth-shine]

66. Star Trek 4: The Voyage Home

After loving ST 2 and 3 more than words can say, I could never get into number four.

ST 2 and 3 are at times just riveting, and visually and emotionally stunning.

Both these movies have amazing soundtracks that drive them.

Number 4 has some of the worst movie music I have ever heard.

I just got my 4K disks and watched these favorite movies again. After 30-40 years, my opinion is unchanged.

[AngryOldDem]

70. Be warned -- the Oscars are doing a tribute to it.

[Emile]

71. Chariots of Fire

[Emile]

124. It's one of the most boring, slowest-moving films ever.

[pressbox69]

73. Tom Jones, pointless waste of time.

Hud, The Great Escape, Bye Bye Birdie, were better movies that year.

[vercetti2021]

74. Armageddon

Seriously that thing is a big stinking pile of shit. And sadly that movie is referred to Michael Bay's good times...

[Paladin]

82. Oh, Goody! Another "I Hate 'The English Patient'" thread!

I finally got around to seeing the "Seinfeld" episode with Elaine thinking the movie sucks, and everybody else being teary-eyed lovers of it. Sorry, Elaine: I thought it was terrific.

My candidate for most overrated: "Gone With The Wind." God knows it hasn't aged well, but I believe I would have felt the same in 1939, the best year for great movies ever. Glad to see I've got some company on this.

[milestogo]

85. Pretty Woman.

[Mad_Dem_X]

136. I agree. I kind of liked it when I first saw it, but

on subsequent viewings, I found it horrible.

[milestogo]

138. A hooker with a Cinderella story.

The shopping and the music are great, but the story is revolting.

[DashOneBravo]

86. Any James Bond movie

[Coventina]

148. Gotta disagree with you when it comes to "From Russia with Love"

That is an excellent movie!

[DashOneBravo]

150. Maybe this?

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[Coventina]

151. I plead the fifth!

[DashOneBravo]

152. The only reason I know about that

Is because my mother and older sister would holler, “Dash your favorite show is on.” It was like 20 years before I realized they were just looking at the chest hair.

[FakeNoose]

88. Memento

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0209144/

It's highly rated, for whatever reason I could never gather. I cannot watch this movie! They play the entire thing backwards from the end to the beginning. It's so confusing that I can't watch it.

Christopher Nolan directed it, and I'm a fan of everything he's done, except THIS one!

[Hokie]

91. I could not disagree more on The Godfather and Godfather II

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I will watch either no matter where it is when I tune across them. I put them in my top ten list easily.

Now Godfather III is another matter. They should have quit with the first sequel.

[yellowdogintexas]

118. same here. Have you seen the version that re-edits 1 and 2

in chronological order? It is awesome!!

[Hokie]

126. No, where does that play?

GF II esp. does jump around a bit in time

[yellowdogintexas]

169. I saw it at a drive in in 1979. I think it ran on HBO at some point

It is called the Godfather Epic.

THe Godfather Saga includes GF 3 but we don't really need to watch that part, do we

I would love to own it and probably will have to haunt Amazon and Half Price books to find it

[beaglelover]

94. Melancholia

[kairos12]

96. Star Wars. By a mile.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

100. But somewhere in the series, they introduced Jar Jar Binks.

So there's that.

[Hokie]

128. You have to take Star Wars for what it is

It was like an old serial with heroes, villains and cliffhangers galore but with the best special effects money could buy in 1977. It became famous because people just liked it not because of any hype. Of course no one expected it to become and entire industry. I have not watched any of them beyond the first 3.

[Upthevibe]

110. Out of Africia for sure but

there's a caveat:

It's not the kind of movie that I'd be into (just not my taste) so I wouldn't have gone to see it in a theatre.

A few years ago I was helping a friend with her business out of state and it was coming on cable. It's one of her favorites so I watched (tried) it but I think I fell asleep about 1/2 through. I love Robert Redford, Meryl, and Sidney Pollack (who I think may have won an Oscar for direction but I'm not sure)....It's just not my thing.

I think when we consider movies or T.V. shows and how we rate them, I normally take into account if it's "my kind of movie." I loved The Big Lebowski and have seen it more times than I can count but it's right up my alley (I adore The Cohen Brothers).

For some reason, I really enjoy some of the mob movies but not The Godfather trilogy. I absolutely LOVE Casino and Goodfellas....

[TexasBushwhacker]

113. OOA has a beautiful soundtrack though n/t

[MissMillie]

115. and the cinematography was lovely (n/t)

.

[Mr.Bill]

111. It's a Wonderful Life.

And I'm a big Jimmy Stewart fan.

[pacheen]

141. Agree!

It picks up quite a bit when Uncle Billy loses the money, but the first part is just so slow and boring! No wonder it bombed at the box office.

[Mr.Bill]

142. It was such bomb the studio eventually didn't

bother to renew the copyright on it. The reason it's all over TV every Christmas isn't because it's a classic holiday movie, it's because it's free.

[yellowdogintexas]

119. It's still Citizen Kane for me

English Patient was god-awful.

I have not seen most of the others y'all hate .

I will disagree on Star Wars, Godfather, Moonstruck, definitely.

[Laffy Kat]

121. I walked out of the Godfather.

The only other movie I've ever walked out on was "Marathon Man."

[Laffy Kat]

122. The English Patient.

It didn't do a thing for me and it was soooo long.

[Wolf Frankula]

125. La Dolce Vita

Boring Italian film types sitting around swilling Scotch, not because they like it, but because it's expensive and they want to show they can afford it. Paparazzi swarming over everything. The boring Hollywood Sex Symbol. Snooze snooze snooze.

Wolf

[argyl]

129. Forrest Gump's a very close second but I'll say Titanic.

Can't believe that dreck beat LA Confidential for Best Picture at the Oscars.

[jmowreader]

130. Forrest Gump and The Graduate

The Graduate is worse…it’s like the writers were sitting there going “should we bully Ben or throw in another Simon and Garfunkel song? Oh! We should bully Ben and throw in a Simon and Garfunkel song immediately thereafter?”

[Algernon Moncrieff]

132. 5) Empire of the Sun

4) Ordinary People
3) Annie Hall
2) Chariots of Fire
1) The Artist

These five bore me beyond all reason. I've never been able to sit through the English Patient, so I didn't put it on the list.

I differentiate these from films that have not aged well (GWTW) or what I think of as the "one and done" films - they are fine when you watch them the first time, but don't lend themselves to repeat viewing (including, but not limited to: Forrest Gump, Shakespeare in Love, The Crying Game).

[Coventina]

149. I despised the Crying Game.

I was waiting for this huge LIFE CHANGING EVENT that was supposed to take place........
and it turns out that the girl is really a dude.

Really? That's the big surprise?

Maybe it was because I had already figured out that Dil was a guy that I was so let down.

I thought the main character had also figured it out.

Oy. How I hated that movie!!

[skypilot]

161. I read one review of that movie and...

...guessed at what the big surprise might be. As soon as that particular character appeared (in close-up, no less) I knew that I had guessed right. I sat in the theater thinking that the director was just trying to lull me into thinking that I had figured it out but would eventually spring the REAL surprise on me. Unfortunately, that was not the case.

[3catwoman3]

137. A 3-way tie amongst...

- Forest Gump
- Terms of Endearment
- Deer Hunter

I'd rather scoop my cat boxes than watch any of those again.

There was a movie in maybe 1969-70 that my art teacher made us all go see - something about a photographer. Boring as hell. All I remember is him cavorting around on a giant lavender backdrop with 2 naked models. Can't remember the name of the movie.

[Doc_Technical]

139. "Blowup" (?)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowup

[3catwoman3]

140. Yes!

It was sooooooo boring.

This same teacher once assigned the following - compare and contrast a silk serigraph to a bulldozer. I think he thought he was being clever, innovative and creative. I just thought he was a jerk.

[Celerity]

157. roflmaooooooooooooooooooooooo

I'd rather scoop my cat boxes than watch any of those again.

[3catwoman3]

159. It's true.

[Celerity]

160. oh yes, I just loved the expression, I hate all of those as well

[highplainsdem]

143. LOL! Interesting thread, and just goes to show how much people's taste can vary.

I see some of my favorite films called "overrated" here -- especially Star Wars and Lawrence Of Arabia -- as well as lots of films I enjoyed: The Fifth Element, Tom Jones, Out Of Africa, The Big Lebowski, Pretty Woman, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, and James Bond films (I especially like the Sean Connery and Daniel Craig films).

I hope the fans of films being bashed the most won't be discouraged from talking about those favorite films later.

After all, if a film was successful and/or won awards and/or is now considered a classic (even just a cult classic), it's because lots of people loved it and rated it that highly.

Which doesn't mean we're all going to love it. It just means we're outvoted in the wider audience, or the audience of critics and film professionals, if we don't see what others see in it.

And you can bet the people who made all the highly rated or most successful films aren't all fans of all the other films at that level, either.

Films would be so boring if everyone liked the same things.

[ShazzieB]

144. The Blair Witch Project

I was excited to see it because of all the hype I'd heard, including people I knew personally who said it terrified them, but it turned out to be one of the most boring movies I ever saw, before or since.

When it was over, my husband and just stared at each other in bafflement. Our reactions could be summed up as "WTF did we just watch?" And "That was supposed to be scary?"

We felt like we had just spent an hour and 20 minutes waiting for something to happen....and nothing ever did. To this day, we still don't understand what the big deal was.

[RFCalifornia]

145. 100% Agree about the Godfather

Slow moving, operatic when it doesn't need to be

Coppola is amazing, but that movie was a snoozefest

[ProfessorGAC]

153. Titanic

My wife & I were laughing out loud during the first hour.
We walked out after 90 minutes.
We tried to watch the rest on cable. Took at least 4 sitting to watch as much as we could tolerate to get to the end.
Dreck!

[Celerity]

154. Anything Woody Allen ever did. Dishonourable mention, Gone with the Wind.

[Wolf Frankula]

163. Anything Woody Allen did when he was trying to be somebody else.

The Woody Allen/Woody Allen movies are good. When he was trying to be Truffaut, De Sica and so on he stank. So did his later movies which featured a young woman stuck on Woody Allen.

Wolf

[BlueNProud]

162. Caddyshack

A poor man's Animal House.

[alphafemale]

166. Grease

Because nearly all of the cast was visibly too old to be high school students by about 10 or more years.

[Torchlight]

168. The Matrix

Poe's Dream Within a Dream reduced to its lowest common denominators minus the immediacy, prose, grace, craftsmanship and pacing of good art.