AH! Eraserhead? Swingers? The Godfather? I can't read this thread anymore!












:(

Oh damn I forgot to add Full metal jacket and The shining, Kubrick is the most overrated director of all time.

I disagree with the majority of these, but two that I agree with are Scarface and Gladiator. I don't think Scarface is boring or too long, I just didn't really like it too much.

and Gladiator (or any of those dumbass epics), I mean come on! that movie may be mindless fun for dudes, but as far as being a "good" movie it doesn't come close to half the movies listed here as overrated.

You already knew I hated Eraserhead though. That shouldn't come as a shock to you.

bastard!!!

why did you hate eraserhead? I think its one of the most brilliant movies of all time.

man! are you people smokin crack?

You laughed your ass off at Jaws? You bastard :mad: ;)

If we're going for any genre of movie, I'm going to have to add E.T. and Forrest Gump.

E.T. was just kind of boring (saw it in the theater when I was a wee pup, think I fell asleep) Watched it again several times trying to find the charm. Just can't do it.

As far as Forrest Gump goes, this well may be what I consider the absolute most over-rated film of all time. Others I can see peoples points in.

E.T. - I can see how people consider this a magical movie. Just didn't do it for me.

Scream - Like I said before: almost every part was ruined for me. I still didn't really care for it the second time around, but slasher movies aren't a genre I care for much humor in. Nice gore, though.

Jurassic Park - Dinosaurs are cool. I'll be the first to admit the FX are amazing. It was built up for me as an absolutely terrifying movie, and it just wasn't in any way. I really didn't even find it suspensful. I think that's the problem with a lot of people who saw Exorcist after hearing years of hype. Creepy, maybe. Utterly terrifying? Not in my opinion.

Jaws - Same thing as Jurassic Park, but a tad before my time.

Forrest Gump - No redeeming qualities. Not funny. No touching. Not good. Add Tom Hanks to make one great big shit sandwich.

not so


it had a great soundtrack

"Lovesick Blues"
by Cliff Friend & Irving Mills
Performed by Hank Williams

"Hound Dog"
by Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller
Performed by Elvis Presley

"Rebel-'Rouser"
by Duane Eddy & Lee Hazlewood
Performed by Duane Eddy

"(I Don't Know Why) But I Do"
by Paul Gayten & Robert Gudry
Performed by Clarence "Frogman" Henry

"Walk Right In"
by H. Woods, Gus Cannon, Bill Svanoe & Eric Darling
Performed by The Rooftop Singers

"Sugar Shack"
by Keith McCormack & Fay Voss
Performed by Jimmy Gilmer And The Fireballs

"Pomp And Circumstance"
by Edward Elgar (as Sir Edward Elgar)
Performed by Dresden Philharmonic

"Hanky Panky"
by Jeff Barry & Ellie Greenwich
Performed by Tommy James & The Shondells

"Blowin' In The Wind"
by Bob Dylan

"Fortunate Son"
by John Fogerty
Performed by The Creedence Clearwater Revival

"Respect"
by Otis Redding
Performed by Aretha Franklin

"I Can't Help Myself"
by Edward Holland, Lamont Dozier & Brian Holland
Performed by The Four Tops

"Rainy Day Women #12 & 35"
Written and Performed by Bob Dylan

"Sloop John B"
by Brian Wilson

"All Along The Watchtower"
by Bob Dylan

"Soul Kitchen"
Written and Performed by The Doors

"California Dreamin'"
by John Phillips & Michelle Phillips

"For What It's Worth (Stop, Hey What's That Sound)"
by Stephen Stills

"What The World Needs Now Is Love"
by Burt Bacharach & Hal David
Performed by Jackie DeShannon

"Hello, I Love You"
Written and Performed by The Doors

"People Are Strange"
Written and Performed by The Doors

"Break On Through (To The Other Side)"
Written and Performed by The Doors

"Mrs. Robinson"
by Paul Simon
Performed by Simon & Garfunkel

"Volunteers"
by Marty Balin & Paul Kantner
Performed by Jefferson Airplane

"Hey Joe"
by Billy Roberts

"Where Have All The Flowers Gone"
by Pete Seeger

"Let's Get Together"
by Chet Powers

"San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair)"
by John Phillips
Performed by Scott McKenzie

"Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is A Season)"
adaption and music by Pete Seeger
Performed by The Byrds

"Aquarius"
by James Rado, Gerome Ragni & Gault McDermott

"Joy To The World"
by Hoyt Axton

"Everybody's Talkin'"
by Fred Neil

"Silent Night"
Arranged by Les Brown

"Stoned Love"
by Frank E. Wilson & Yennik Samoht
Performed by The Supremes

"Thanks For The Memory"
by Ralph Rainger & Leo Robin

"Love Her Madly"
Written and Performed by The Doors

"Let's Work Together"
by Wilbert Harrison
Performed by Canned Heat

"Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head"
by Burt Bacharach & Hal David
Performed by B.J. Thomas

"Tie A Yellow Ribbon 'Round The Ole Oak Tree"
by L. Russell Brown & Irwin Levine
nc.

"Jesus On The Mainline"
Arranged by Alan Silvestri
Soloist: Donny Gerrard

"Get Down Tonight"
by Harry Wayne Casey & Richard Finch
Performed by KC & The Sunshine Band

"Mr. President (Have Pity On The Working Man)"
Written and Performed by Randy Newman

"Free Bird"
by Allen Collins & Ronnie Van Zant

"My Rock"
Arranged by Paul Owens

"Sweet Home Alabama"
by Ronnie Van Zant, Edward King & Gary Rossington

"Plant My Feet On Higher Ground"
by Ruth E. David

"It Keeps You Runnin'"
by Michael McDonald
Performed by The Doobie Brothers

"Running On Empty"
Written and Performed by Jackson Browne

"I've Got To Use My Imagination"
by Gerry Goffin & Barry Goldberg
Performed by Gladys Knight & The Pips

"Go Your Own Way"
by Lindsey Buckingham
Performed by Fleetwood Mac

"Against The Wind"
Written by Bob Seger
Performed by Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band

"On The Road Again"Written and Performed by Willie Nelson

Pshaw! Can't you go make legitimate counterpoints somewhere else, you cad?:p

I haven't seen Feast yet:o but the rest is true!

Didn't enjoy Gump either, and I personally didn't like American Beauty much.

Yeah, Forrest Gump is a movie I find utterly boring. Dull as hell, completely over-hyped.


I try not to jump on people's opinions...after all, they are opinions.
But Kubrick certainly isn't the most overrated directors of all time. I'd go so far as to say he's underrated.

Kubrick's problem doesn't have enough respect for other people's material. Yes, according to George Steiner's linguistics text After Babel, enhancement can be an important part of translation, but Kubrick prioritizes enhancement OVER translation. His adaptations don't take the original into consideration enough. His Shining camps up the story of a child in jeopardy to the point at which it loses a lot of the frightening aspects. Doctor Strangelove is incredible. A Clockwork Orange is a noble effort, but one that doesn't give the viewer an opportunity to explore the moral questions native to its setting, instead choosing to give a pretty straight answer to them. It's visually stunning, it's well acted, but it's easy. The answers are too pat. He asks "is it bad to take personal freedom from anyone, regardless of how bestial they might behave?" and then answers it almost without debate. The message of mankind losing its humanity from Burgess' novel is conveyed well, but there's not a dialogue. Movies should make people think instead of telling them head on what to think. Pretty ironic for a movie like A Clockwork Orange.
As for Gump, it's a maudlin sack of crap that's an insulted to every learning disabled person in America. The idea that a disabled person gains glory by stumbling through life on a blissfully ignorant odyssey through contemporary history is not a humanitarian one, but rather just as backward as thinking SPED kids should be smacked until they concentrate. As a person with a major learning disability, I was told by a teacher that Forrest Gump would be an inspiration, instead I was disgusted. The next time I came to school, I asked the SPED teacher "is THAT what you think my options look like?" If any, the movie should be seen as a barometer for American hypocrisy.
Scream is also terrible. You want a self-informed parody of horror cinema, see Young Frankenstein for a comedy, or Opera for a REAL self-reflective slasher film. People forget that Opera means work, so Argento uses the movie to examine it. The killer's comment "I can take you anytime I want" is far more eloquent than any of the downright scatological metafiction in Scream. Just thought I'd boost a slightly underrated entry on the top 100 lists as I cut into some overrated movies.

Dario Argento's

Deep red
Suspiria
Phenomena
Phantom of the Opera




Dario Argento sucks...

You're much better, of course

the blair withch shamble..i mean project....and i know a guy and his dumbas cousin who thought it was real wen it came out....dillholes....believed what they read on the internet, it took me ages to convince him. plus it gave me a headache.

BOOOO!

YOU SUCK!



...but seriously, man. You suck.









...just kidding, but seriously. Argento's the man.

Here's my review I wrote after watching it since I don't want to waste any additional time thinking about it.


Eraserhead

After it put me to sleep 3 times, I finally finished Eraserhead and I gotta say I thought it sucked! What a boring and pointless piece of crap! I hate watching a film and then feeling like I just wasted a couple hours of my life afterwards and that is how I feel about this one. It gave me nothing. I don't like movies that are weird just for the sake of being weird. There's no real gore, the story purposely makes no sense, and it just was not entertaining in the slightest. I hated it and it's heading to the bottom of my list where I keep Phantasm, Fulci and all the other over-rated films and directors so I remember not to watch them ever again.

D-








I can agree with Suspiria too. I didn't think it was very impressive. And pretty much any Fulci film I've seen has been highly over-rated as well.

^5 @ Flayed One for ET and Gump.

Who said that? Jurassic park and scream are in my top 5 films!

To be completely honest, I don't think evil dead's are great either. The second one was funny the first time I saw it, but now only 3 little parts are, and its way too corny, even though meant to be, for my taste. The first one was good, but I just don't care for it that much.

As far as a movie that I like but feel is way overrated... Braindead. I dug the movie, I own it and have watched it plenty of times, but I feel it gets a wee bit too much praise.

Wow nothing like falling into the trap and giving people shit...in a thread...about giving people shit for their opinions. Sheesh

Anyway as for me I personally didnt like any of the Halloween movies they just didn't live up to the hype for me and I found them generally unscary

It seems like this is a major issue as far as enjoyment of a film goes. I don't think it really has any bearing on how I feel about a film UNLESS that hype comes with a spoiler that ruins the ending.

That is true, hype definitly become a factor. I was expecting much better then what I got which I thought was an ok film, not horrible in any means but didn't stand out as a masterpiece for me.

Another huge factor is that watching this movies 20/30 years after its release they seem cliche thanks to the thousands of cookie-cutter movies that used many of the movies ideas. Then, even though the movie pioneered some techniques and came out before these other movies, they seem played out because you have seen them a hundred times in latter movies.

I can understand that one too. Halloween was probably the first slasher I saw and loving it so much then probably impacts how I feel about it now quite a bit.

I'm not a real big fan of The original Dawn of the Dead. Also, I haven't been found of any movies pre 1965, they just seem too dated and lame to me. Maybe it's because I'm still fairly young...I'm 28.

How is that giving him shit? I commented & then gave my own opinion, but I didn't knock his.


Sheesh is right....

:rolleyes:


noobs...

Akira.
Nice animation (though only "ok by todays standards), but hated the storyline.

I really don't much like Bruce Lee films either.

Platoon, just not all that great IMO...largely boring to me.

And a SHOW that a lot of people seem to like that I just find fucking unfunny and obnoxious, is "arrested development"

arrested development

I'm with ya on that one. I just don't find Jason Bateman funny at all.

Agreed. So many other great war movies. I still wonder how this movie achieved the level of acclaim it did.

If you mean the Dead Alive thing of Braindead and not that weird sci-fi movie, then hell yes. That movie had an amusing kung-fu priest, and fuck all else.

Titanic....


Jim Cameron worked absolute magic in the Terminator films and Aliens. But damn! Titanic? Jim, were you high when you agreed to do that movie?!

The way things have been going lately, he is probably in production for Titanic 2: The Prequel... soon to be in a theatre near you!

I don't care for Lord of the Rings anymore.

No, but what does that have to do with anything?

Hostel

Saw I, II and III

Scream

and many more

Oh Hostel, yeah. I forgot about that movie. It had like two parts I thought were interesting, the rest was about as exciting as reading a playboy on the toliet and having no penis.:confused: :D