WHY, in an instance like this, cannot we simply respond? WHY must there be the “blabber-mouths”? Cannot THEY be somehow eliminated?
“The China Syndrome”
“Caligula”
“The English Patient” (How could THIS triviality won The Academy Award over “Fargo”?)
Anything with Steve Carell in it.
People are so desperate to turn him into a cinematic comedic genius even though he cant act his way through a plastic bag. Every move he is in flops.
Funny in the Office, but that’s about as far as you go.
Anything with Woody Allen or Al Gore.
any tom hanks/meg ryan movie
any daryll hannah movie
any ben affleck movie
any jennifer lopez movie
1) Forrest Gump
2) Fahrenheit 9/11
3) Day After Tomorrow
Any of the “Godfather” movies.
Cleopatra
Zero Dark 30 (Or whatever this thing was called)
Raintree County
Any vampire flick that doesn’t have Lou Diamond Phillips in it - without him it just ain’t a classic...
“A Few Good Men.” Despite some entertaining speechifying by Nicholson, overall it was, at best, pretty good. Key pieces of the script don’t make any sense, but we’re supposed to be placated by the overwritten witty banter provided us by Sorkin.
“Avatar” is overrated. The story we’ll have seen plenty of times, from “Dances With Wolves” to “Pocahontas” to “Ferngully: The Last Rainforest”. I had the good luck to see it in a 3-D cinema in Prague when it came out, and the only thing that works in its favor is the visual effects - James Cameron knows how to use visual effects probably better than anyone else.
“Titanic” is in the same vein. It’s essentially a remake of “A Night To Remember” with vastly improved visual effects, but I have to give Cameron props for giving me, as a moviegoer, a good feeling of what it must’ve been like on that cold April night, watching what was at that time the biggest man-made moving object go to a watery grave - along with a good proportion of the hapless people onboard her. The story? Meh....”Movie-of-The-Week” melodrama.
“The Day After Tomorrow” and “2012”. Roland Emmerich is Germany’s answer to James Cameron meets Irwin Allen. He’s good at making disaster films that are immensely fun to watch, but as with most films in that genre, the dialogue is bland and the acting wooden. Paycheck movies for all involved, basically. Though, like Mr. Cameron, Mr. Emmerich certainly knows how to handle visual effects and create spectacular setpiece scenes.
Here are my top three:
1.) Star Wars (she ducks.) This came out the summer I was 18 - all my friends were talking about how spectacular it was - like nothing that had ever been seen before - I went to see it - meh. Smokey and the Bandit came out the same summer and I enjoyed that one a lot more.
2.) Top Gun. I have never been able to sit through that. Heaven knows I have tried but with no success. If you ever think your life is passing by too quickly, sit down in front of Top Gun.
3.) Moonstruck. Again, this was a “you gotta see it” according to my peers. It was cute and somewhat clever in spots, but I thought that was a lot of time and money to waste for just one or two laughs when it was billed as a romantic “comedy.” If they ever remake that one, they should just give everyone chainsaws. I might pay to see that.
In no particular order:
Room with a View
The English Patient
Charriots of Fire
Bonus Answer:
Any movie with Jim Carey in it.
Only 3. There have been so many bad movies it is hard to think of just 3.
Sideways
Avatar
Little Miss Sunshine
Inception
Erin Brokovich
The Big Chill
The English Patient
The entire Star Trek franchise
Titanic
And my most overrated of all time:
Out of Africa
Anything written by M. Night Shyamalan, including but not limited to ..(these I’ve seen..Arrgh)
Sixth Sense
The Village
Signs
Unbreakable
Booooring..!!!
Any movie that the women wear bonnets a drive around in horse and buggies.
Let’s not forget “The Innocence of Muslims”. it was available for a very short time and then disappeared.
It was mindblowing ridiculous but it served a purpose at the time.
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.
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.
American Beauty
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Will we ever be rid of this gooey film?
Leni