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?
Knowing how it ended ruined it for me.
You are very noble for giving it a second chance.
You are a better person than I! LOLOLOLOL!
I had nothing else to do that day.
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The only redeeming parts of Top Gun are the action sequences. The writing was as if HS boys wrote it.
By the way...have you ever seen that one movie with Tom Cruise? The one where he plays the smiling, cocky guy.
Ditto on Shakespeare in Love (not exactly a horror film, but then again ...). There was a lot of clever Tom Stoppard repartee, much silly word play on the titles of the plays, some annoying stock characters, and an incredibly distorted and erroneous history version of history, but was did that really make it Oscar material? My guess is they just wanted to stick it to Spielberg.
Come to think of it did Gladiator really deserve the Oscar?
And Hugo -- I don't know if it was overrated or not, but it creeped me out?
One year, metacritic.com gave just about its highest score to Pan's Labyrinth. So far as I could see it was a really awful movie in so many ways: crappy fantasy effects, a cardboard villain, a turgid, morose atmosphere, and a very maudlin and sadistic treatment of the child hero.
It did have a politically correct angle: daring to take on Spain's fascists (or whatever they were) over a half-century after they took over and over a quarter century after they left power. By Hollywood -- or Spanish -- standards that takes guts.
In general, from the point of view of US narrative movies, foreign art films are the most overrated. Sometimes it seems like you only have to do the opposite of what a Hollywood film would do -- linger painfully over an unchanging scene for minute after minute rather than get on with the story -- to be acclaimed a genius.
yup.
“By the way...have you ever seen that one movie with Tom Cruise? The one where he plays the smiling, cocky guy.”
No, but I have seen the one where he plays the self-congratulatory smart*ss...
Ha Ha Ha!
1. Avatar
2. Pulp Fiction
3. Pearl Harbor
Dreck, dreck, and dreck, in that order.
And of today’s actors, I do think only Daniel Day-Lewis and Sean Connery could have realistically hung out with the best of Hollywood’s Golden Age.
Can you see DiCaprio trying to play Rick Blaine? Neither can I.
That was a major disappointment. So much talent on screen but so little point.
Paul Michael Thomas took a lot of risks with There Will Be Blood, and they more or less paid off, probably because Daniel Day-Lewis carried the movie over the awkward, hard to figure out spots. He took all the same gambles with The Master but they failed miserably.
FWIW, The Thin Red Line was another big disappointment. Hollywood waited twenty years for another movie from Terrence Malick and all they got was almost three hours of maunderings and meanderings in the jungle. I suspect he got so into voice-over narration in his earlier movies Badlands and Days of Heaven that he just couldn't resist overusing it to no point in the later movie.
American Beauty
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That was more of a TV or video movie than a theater movie. It works okay on the small screen when you have other things to do.
It was more of a film-maker's movie. The story starts to look pretty pat and contrived -- the millionaire boy who couldn't find happiness. The point was more the way it was told on screen.
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Like Gone With The Wind?
Are you finally getting over the Civil War at long last?
Ride With the Devil also fits. An excellent movie.
Wells was definitely about film-making and not so much story-telling.
Will we ever be rid of this gooey film?
Leni
Yes but, the faces that work made as he sings was heeLarryUs...
Like be had to think about taking a breath....everytime ...
Forgot about The Descendants.
Excellent, excellent, excellent.
No one could walk away from that movie and not feel good.
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