STERRRN
Posted on 03/29/2013 9:43:18 PM PDT by MNDude
What top three movies do you think do you think didn't live up to all their hype?
Well, look at your advantages... A 6-foot tall Amazon woman to you is a spinner. :-P
Gotcha.
As for A Streetcar Named Desire. Yeah. That sucked.
Did you ever see the “South Park” episode, “Major Boobage”, where they paid homage to “Metal” ? Great stuff.
I’ve never seen “American Pop.”
Tom Hanks did two good movies... in the ‘80s. “Splash” and “Bachelor Party.” I miss those ‘80s movies. I miss the ‘80s, period.
Naah, I’m not too down on Brando. Beats a lot of the crap actors today. A bit of a strange guy, though.
A 30 year old did a great job acting like a 12 year old.
He was also excellent in Apollo 13. And whether you liked the movie itself, in Forrest Gump he is also excellent. He is one of the few actors who can become the character he is portraying, and make you forget the actor himself.
So you're saying he wasn't acting when he was in Apocalypse now.
Someone awhile ago on FR said something about how Citizen Kane was ground breaking with the use of lighting or something. Whatever.
Sometimes movies are so groundbreaking that all later movies tend to copy them. For science fiction, for example, Star Wars was so influential that for a long time nobody made any science fiction films that did not directly reference Star Wars in some way. Its like there is a clean break, before Star Wars, and after Star Wars.
Citizen Kane is the same thing, only bigger, but more subtle. Citizen Kane was the first film to use many of the now conventional editing and story telling techniques we have all gotten used to in films. For a filmgoer today, we kind of shrug at the innovations. We look at Citizen Kane like we have seen it before, and that's true. It has been copied so much in little ways that nearly every film uses something from the film, and so we have already seen Citizen Cane thousands of times before we actually see Citizen Kane.
Heh. If I’m remembering correctly, the character of Col. Kurtz was supposed to be emaciated. Brando showed up on set looking like the Goodyear Blimp. Aside from “Tucker”, that was probably the last good Coppola movie.
Had my psycho spouse so no thanks.
:)
I think “Workin’ In A Coal Mine” was playing during that scene.
I still *love* Felder’s Heavy Metal (Takin’ A Ride)
Really dig it cranked up around curvy back roads on the bike.
1) Forrest Gump
2) Fahrenheit 9/11
3) Day After Tomorrow
Yeah, I did.
You need to see AP.
I bet you’ll like it.
*Great* sound track.
CC
I haven't seen Shane, but your other two were on my list. The category is "Most Overrated", not "Worst Movies". These movies were overhyped way way beyond their real entertainment value or significance.
Third on my list would be "Out of Africa". It was just dull and pretentious, yet won "Best Film" in 1985.
American Beauty. Exactly! What a piece of hyped insultive crap that was. I walked out of it.
Three most overrated films:
Caddyshack: Take out the too few Rodney Dangerfield scenes, and some of the Ted Knight scenes... and this film is dreck. Yawn
The Dark Knight: Christopher Nolan makes good films....but this one plodded along. Inception was better than his Batman films
Godfather: Sorry, but films with too much boring dialogue are overrated. When making a mob film...how about killing more people?
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