[Film] Overrated films?

Muzzy · Mar 10, 2018

Pretty much anything sci-fi bores the crap out of me!

Anything with Will Smith in it is also cringeworthy guff to me too.

Shawshank was ok but not when it's on more often than Eastenders.

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dazzer6666 · Mar 10, 2018

Klaas said:
The new new Star Wars, not the old new ones which everyone hates. I can quite happily watch any films aimed at kids, I just don't get why people try to make out Star Wars are more than that. They look great mind.

Another vote from Wolf of Wall Street. I know they're dicks, but by the end of the film that was the only feeling I had left about it; what a bunch of wankers.

Isn’t that the point ? They were a bunch of wankers.

dazzer6666 · Mar 10, 2018

Questions said:
The Shawshank Redemption is the most overated film in cinema history.

It’s no more then meh.

Yup. Will get duly flamed for this but I thought Lock Up with Stallone and Instinct with Anthony Hopkins were better prison films than Shawshank. Donald Sutherland was brilliant in Lock Up. Papillon of course is better than all of them.

Gabbafella · Mar 10, 2018

Fargo. Utter horse manure.

Cheeky Monkey · Mar 11, 2018

Oh go on let's add another NSC fave to the list. Now we've all agreed that the previously untouchable Shawshank Redemption isn't all that, I give you that instantly forgettable Bruno Gantz classic 'Downfall' (sorry).

CorgiRegisteredFriend · Mar 11, 2018

Men In Black films.

Klaas · Mar 12, 2018

dazzer6666 said:
Isn’t that the point ? They were a bunch of wankers.

True. But then there are lots of films about wankers, and I usually get more out of watching them than just the feeling, 'What a bunch of wankers'.

Garry Nelson's teacher · Mar 12, 2018

Going back a few years (well decades) - Dr Zhivago. Endless shots of a train, endless plays of that bloody theme and managed to make the Bolshevik revolution dull.

DavidinSouthampton · Mar 12, 2018

Uncle Spielberg said:
Odd how people see films differently. Many of my favourites on here. I do think the impact of a film can depend hugely on your mood on viewing and where you are in life at the time. A film can resonate with you and watched again does not have the same impact

I agree, but isn't it also that different people like different stuff. I've just read somebody slagging off Fargo, which I thought was brilliant.

Back to the point. The film I really didn't get was Mamma Mia - I have no problem with the music of Abba, but that was just pointless drivel.

DavidinSouthampton · Mar 12, 2018

Garry Nelson's teacher said:
Going back a few years (well decades) - Dr Zhivago. Endless shots of a train, endless plays of that bloody theme and managed to make the Bolshevik revolution dull.

Very much agree....... and Omar Sharif just looking watery eyed all the time.

The Clamp · Mar 12, 2018

The Italian Job. Dull.

Cheeky Monkey · Mar 12, 2018

The Clamp said:
The Italian Job. Dull.

Never had any desire to watch it, simply because it looks like a bag of utter shite. Appreciate that's not a scientific appraisal.

The Godfather I've tried to watch a couple of times and was so bored after 20 or so minutes I switched off.

The Clamp · Mar 12, 2018

Cheeky Monkey said:
Never had any desire to watch it, simply because it looks like a bag of utter shite. Appreciate that's not a scientific appraisal.

The Godfather I've tried to watch a couple of times and was so bored after 20 or so minutes I switched off.

I've watched IJ a couple of times, never enjoyed it. Watched Godfather films once each and no desire to watch them again.

boik · Mar 12, 2018

dazzer6666 said:
Yup. Will get duly flamed for this but I thought Lock Up with Stallone and Instinct with Anthony Hopkins were better prison films than Shawshank. Donald Sutherland was brilliant in Lock Up. Papillon of course is better than all of them.

Any excuse........

FamilyGuy · Mar 12, 2018

Gravity - extremely disappointed, nothing really happened other than special-effects.

FamilyGuy · Mar 12, 2018

An Officer and a Gentlemen - it was one of those "big films" in my youth, and it was sh!te

dazzer6666 · Mar 12, 2018

FamilyGuy said:
An Officer and a Gentlemen - it was one of those "big films" in my youth, and it was sh!te

I liked it.....

DavidinSouthampton · Mar 12, 2018

The Clamp said:
The Italian Job. Dull.

Is that the original or the remake.... or both.

Austrian Gull · Mar 12, 2018

Goldstone1976 said:
But this has one major redeeming feature - a pre-hardened and pre-cynical Johansson.

My nomination: most Spielberg.

I was pretty hardened when I saw Johansson in that film...

Oh, and an overrated film for you - Gangs of New York. I'm glad Daniel Day Lewis is retiring.

Questions · Mar 12, 2018

Blade Runner is garbage.

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