All I know is that yall better leave my Forrest Gump alone!
Now I'll have a little more Bubba Gump shrimp and wait here in my place with the snow people. Until the bus comes...
Posted on 12/13/2006 5:40:45 PM PST by EveningStar
It happens to everyone who loves movies: You're in a conversation at a bar, or at a wedding, or online, and someone begins rhapsodizing about one of their favorite movies and you can't help but say, "Uh, that movie sucks. It's totally overrated." How two perfectly well-balanced individuals can have such drastically different views of the same film is one of the great wonders of being a film fanatic. It happens to us at Premiere all the time, enough so that sometimes we find ourselves questioning who we work with (boy, did it get ugly here when Love, Actually came out, and some of us are still snickering over our boss's love for Bowfinger, not to mention his affection for The Last Samurai). Well, we decided to let our staff go at each other regarding some of the more beloved movies of all time, and, sure enough, sobbing can still be heard coming from the bathroom stalls. Relationships have been strained. Egos bruised. Consider this a film lovers' quarrel, an admittedly rabid one.
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Field of Dreams
Good Will Hunting
Forrest Gump
Moonstruck
Nashville
Gone With the Wind
Field of Dreams isn't overrated.
Rudy is though....
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I went to the link to have a look, but shied away from going to "next."
The ultimate overrated movies:
An Inconvenient Truth
Fahrenheit 9/11
Oh wait I see this is an actual list.
Someone wasted their time watching most of those movies...
:)
I do have the complete list copied to a text file but I didn't post it because of copyright laws. However, it is interesting to see what the critics have to say.
March of the Penguins, would make my list.
I agreed with a few. I could name a bunch on my personal list.
The Matrix
Braveheart
The Patriot
Dances with Wolves
Anything starring Jennifer Lopez
Anything starring Meg Ryan
I love Gump, the rest are boring.
Matrix II - Faux Psycho Intellectualism
2001 A Space Odyssey - The Emperor has no clothes
The Godfather
Fight Club
I don't agree with all of them, but 2001 is on the list. That's all I ask for.
All I know is that yall better leave my Forrest Gump alone!
Now I'll have a little more Bubba Gump shrimp and wait here in my place with the snow people. Until the bus comes...
There are 20 movies. I listed only 6.
Not on the list that should be:
Shane (I hate every wuss in that town. "Shane, come back and fight our battles for us Shane! We'll be waiting right here outside!")
Maltese Falcon.
ET
just for fun...
My list in no particular order....
Superman (the Christopher Reeves version)
Rudy
Hoosiers
I happen to agree with them about Forrest Gump
Braveheart
The Patriot
Titanic
Anything with Ben Affleck NOT named Dogma
Anything wtih Matt Damon NOT named Dogma or starting with Bourne...
Anything with Leanardo DiCaprio
The Crying Game
The Russia House
Brokeback Mountain
Also, PULP FICTION.
Correct about American Beauty.
LOL
I can watch Forrest Gump, but for whatever reason I just can't understand why some people call it the greatest movie they've ever seen.
It's good, but I mean it's not on Super Troopers level or on South Park: Bigger Longer and Uncuts' level....
:-P
Unfortunately, they did not include "It's a Wonderful Life" in the list.
For sure!!!
Yawn. Most of their basis for attacking Gone with the Wind is the fact that, with approximately seventy years of hindsight, parts of the film are now considered "racist."
It admittedly is. But shouldn't art be viewed in an historical context? By that argument Twain, Stowe, etc, were also racist.
I completely understand. I even figured that out all by myself. :)
Loved Field of Dreams.
Most over rated in the last 5 years, "Lost in Translation"
Never saw Lost in Translation....
FARGO
5 Star war movies, 3 Lord of the Rings movies.
The English Patient
Susperia
The Shining
Neighbors
Sudden Impact
Doctor Zhivago
Brazil
Mad Max
1941
The Cable Guy
How so? It's the great American play of the last 40 years. Don't tell me it's 'nothing but swearing'?
I'm going to be sorry I asked but what's wrong with The Godfather?
I like both of those movies.
Everything by Woody Allen.
Let's not forget "Valley of the Dolls"
Russ Myer's opus generated a total new genre.
Everything by Woody Allen.
Let's not forget "Valley of the Dolls"
Russ Myer's opus generated a total new genre.
Moulon Rouge
Blade Runner
Alien
Anything by Robert Altman
Wild At Heart
Almost Famous
Fast Times at Ridgmont High
A Christmas Story
Caddyshack
Blues Brothers
The Big Lebowski
Jacob's Ladder
Meyer did "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls"
I agree with the list for the most part except for field of dreams and maybe forrest gump(a pretty good movie and probably a "classic")
I saw it the other day at a friends house and I now have Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome. My life will never be the same.
And Roger Ebert wrote it.
Thumbs down.
Consider yourself very lucky.
Also, Gangs of New York was very overrated.
What????!!! You can't be talking about "Shane"! That's one of my favorite movies. I don't understand how you can say everyone in that town is a wuss. You've got Stonewall, who gets shot because he goes into town on his own, doesn't even wait to go with the others, and gets into the fatal duel. As for Joe Starrett, he tells Shane this "isn't your fight" and has to be knocked unconscious in order for Shane to go to town in his place. So I protest!
I am happy, though, to see that I am not alone in hating the movie "Rudy." I also vote for "Good Will Hunting" and "Scent of a Woman" as very overrated.
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