Overrated films (rock groups, authors): everyone has heard of them, seen them, read them.
Underrated films: (rock performers, authors): hardly anyone has heard of them.
Posted on 03/13/2011 6:54:03 PM PDT by Perdogg
This year was actually a good year for movies, as I’ve written repeatedly. The King’s Speech was great; so was Toy Story 3; Inception may go down as one of the most creative films of all time. The Fighter was excellent as well.
Then there were the overrated films. Black Swan was atrociously awful, another Aronofsky masterpiece of self-aggrandizing bullcrap. The Kids Are All Right was a TV movie masquerading as a prestige film because it was about lesbians. True Grit was a remake.
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Most overrated.
Anything by Michael Moore.
I remember onst upon a time, must have been a slow movie season, “Henry Fool” had four stars by a long list of critics.
Definitely a low spot in the worldhistory of criticism.
Feh to anyone who doesn’t know “A Clockwork Orange” is a great movie.
spaceballs is very over rated.
Thank you. I will!
Taps was pretty good, but then again, Penn was somewhat of a bit player.
I’ve read my share of socailist realist fiction and TGOW is a whole lot better than that. That’s why it’s still read for pleasure whereas Sholokov’s ‘Quiet Flows the Don’ and Gorky’s meat and potatoes are not. There are formal elements to it that transcend its Depression Era context. And the final episode is still jaw dropping after all these decades.
“The Grapes Of Wrath” was a lot of Socialist, class warfare dreck. It was so ideologically in-your-face that it could’ve been made today by Michael Moore.
I DO NOT like Sean Penn, but he was very good in Carlito’s Way.
Overrated films (rock groups, authors): everyone has heard of them, seen them, read them.
Underrated films: (rock performers, authors): hardly anyone has heard of them.
“Dances With Wolves” was awful for a lot more than historical inaccuracy. It just kept being idiotic, stupid, idiotic, stupid, idiotic, stupid. with a bit of White man bad Native American good in every possible way, then more stupid and idiotic.
It made me want to get out my old Wichester rifle and shoot the Indians on TV knowing I would blow up the set.
The only way it works is as an over the top comedy. Apart from that it’s a desecration of the wonderful Howard Hawks original. Tracy actually wouldn’t get a divorce because he took his Catholicism seriously.
The first nine/tenths of No Country was a great movie. The last one/tenth almost completely ruined it.
I agreed with Ben Shapiro on all his picks for over-rated-
especially Juno and Little Miss Sunshine.
“Shakespeare in Love” is wonderful. Literate, witty and genuinely romantic.
Recently, I was checking some stuff out of youtube about Daryl Hall. He is a pretty cool guy. He renovates old historical houses. Colonial era ones in the US and he was doing one in London. He appears to be a smart guy.
He had a web show where famous singers would come to his home/mansion in NY state and they would play with a band.
Todd Rundgren showed up to do one and they are both Philly guys.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pLTD23l468&feature=related
Daryl Hall has a great voice. Todd has some good pipes too.
Oh! I almost forgot those great movies with Gregory Peck:
“To Kill A Mocking Bird”
“The Big Country”
“Moby Dick”
Lol. I wondered how long it would be until someone brought up “mooltipass!” :-)
Good calls!
I don’t understand people who say that “Citizen Kane” may be influential technically, but it’s not an enjoyable movie to watch. I’ve seen it many times, and it’s one of my top five movies. If I’m flipping around and land on it, I can’t turn it off. It’s just one great scene or line of dialogue after another. And the story of seeing the girl with the parasol on the ferry 40 years before, never meeting her, but thinking about her every day since, is the type of thing that maybe you have to have some years on you, like I do, to really appreciate.
For most overrated, though, I agree with “Lost In Translation.” I’d throw in “Close Encounters” (fell asleep the first time I tried to sit through that), plus “The English Patient,” “Chariots of Fire,” “Gandhi,” and just about any other high-toned, three-hour, slow-moving epic whose intention wasn’t to entertain audiences but to make Hollywood feel good about itself for showering it with Oscars.
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