The 20 Most Overrated Movies of All Time

Premiere Magazine ^ | December 12, 2006 | various

[Wormwood]

What's wrong with you people?

I actually had to stop reading this thread on the FIRST page before I had an embolism.

I'm popping back periodically to remind myself that I was right.

[lowbridge]

Script idea: They could have turned Kathleen Kelly (Meg Ryan) plant a bomb in the Fox bookstore in ordewr to get rid of

typos

Script idea: They could have turned Kathleen Kelly (Meg Ryan) into a terrorist and have her plant a bomb in the Fox bookstore in order to get rid of

[TruthWillWin]

#1 has got to be The Blair Witch Project. That movie was awful!

[Borges]

Well that explans it then.

[Dead Corpse]

Titanic. Not sure how the heck that one made any money at all.

[Proud2BeRight]

When you cross a field of manure and every step is a big pile you finally turn around and get out. There may be a bed of flowers in there somewhere but you don't care by then.

[thingumbob]

I disagree with "Field of Dreams", "Forrest Gump", "Gone with the Wind" and "Good will Hunting".

I wouldn't waist my money on the rest....... Yawn!

[the OlLine Rebel]

I agree. And I love to tell this story. Excuse me while I bore you....

I had NEVER heard of this 1947 movie when I was a teenager in the '80s, and that's something since my parents managed to make me amenable to old things like movies on TV or music they played. But my parents knew it and IIRC early in the VCR craze rented it and said we should watch it, it is good and sweet. So I did and I liked it.

Then within the year, my social-studies teacher actually played this very movie in class, ostensibly because he could tie in the "savings&loan crisis" with the building & loan in the movie! LOL Anyway I was rather astonished, because again, this was a RARE movie.

But then, the floodgates broke. By the late '80s "IAWL" was suddenly the greatest Christmas movie ever, and as you wrote, now it seems about the only Xmas movie ever, along with "Xmas Story" (also 24 hrs straight at Xmas).

Before the late '80s, noone KNEW "IAWL". Back then, the end-all be-all Xmas movie was "Miracle on 34th Street" (and still is, to me). Now they might show it once a year!

[the OlLine Rebel]

That may be, but it's still boring. That's the watchword in success - boring or not?

[the OlLine Rebel]

ROFLMAO!

Hey, maybe you should make that proposal to a studio!

[NathanR]

I agree. It was like, where did this movie come from? It seems that someone seemed to think there was a political component to it. That is why I think it gets played.

[bonfire]

Citizen Kane....very boring and HIGHLY overrated.

[the OlLine Rebel]

It is definitely overrated when it is ALWAYS #1 on the "critics' lists", yet is so unloved by most of the public.

[the OlLine Rebel]

I don't know how political it is. It may be, but I doubt it. The political message isn't very clear.

Unlike "Field of Dreams", let's say.

[NathanR]

This is from one of your previous posts:
Then within the year, my social-studies teacher actually played this very movie in class, ostensibly because he could tie in the "savings&loan crisis" with the building & loan in the movie! LOL Anyway I was rather astonished, because again, this was a RARE movie.
I believe that according to Post Modern Theory, it does not matter what the author meant. What matters is what the reader (or watcher) sees. Apparently, your teacher saw politics in the movie. I expect others did too.

[Borges]

CK is as much fun as a great movie can be. Every other shot is some sort of trick shot. It's highly rated on IMDB which is a pretty good gauge of popular acclaim. What does mass appeal have to do with quality anyway?

[Borges]

I believe that according to Post Modern Theory, it does not matter what the author meant.

It matters it's just not the Last Word. And this goes back before Post Modern Theory. It's more then Southern Agrarians. A group of rather conservative American literary critics. It's perfectly reasonable as well.

[Borges]

It was a 1946 film and it was beloved by film buffs in the 60s and 70s. They passed along their enthuasiasm for it to the general public. Same with John ford's The Searchers which was regarded as 'just another John Ford/John Wayne movie'. Anyway, IAWL is a masterpiece. It's a mix of film noir and a whole bunch of other things.

[Loud Mime]

The Blood Diamond movie is actually a good movie. I don't like DiCrapprio and such, but I must admit that the diamond market deserves this movie and that he acted well.

Perhaps my working in the wedding business for over 20 years has something to do with mydisgust over diamonds. They're for wimmin's egos and little more.

[Fierce Allegiance]

Thanks, I read the title.