[Film] Overrated films?

[Uncle Spielberg]

I hope Pulp Fiction is on here. Decided to watch it a few weeks back for the first time and found the plot to be surprisingly weak. No idea why it is so glorified, especially among my generation - perhaps because it isn't a remake?

This, I thought it was a near masterpiece and by far Tarantino's best film

 

[BadFish]

LaLa Land was not at all my cup of tea.

Absolute guff imho.

I watched it the other night and I agree. I thought it was shite.

Not exactly Fred and Ginger are they?

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

I watched it the other night and I agree. I thought it was shite.

Not exactly Fred and Ginger are they?

Loved this film. Must be the only one. I don't think they were meant to be fred and ginger though to be fair

 

[Soton Seagull]

The Fast and the Furious. Whilst I accept it wasn't rated in oscar terms it was sucessful enough to spawn several sequels. Utter, utter shite with the most wooden acting known to humanity. Apparently it was 'about the cars' - well buy auto trader and F off then! A truly incredible waste of 2 hours of my life that makes me angry even typing about it. GGRRRRR!

 

[kevo]

never quite understood why so many went mental over "Close encounters of the third kind".

I think it was just that it was so much better than Star Wars.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

I think it was just that it was so much better than Star Wars.

Yes close encounters knocked star wars out of the park

 

[Ninja Elephant]

La La Land is a brilliant film with such a strong narrative. Only the opening sequence on the highway yanks my chain, but that is easily skipped. The rest of the story is honest, genuine and sobering whilst being funny and hopeful at the same time. I don't think that one is overrated in the slightest.

Moonlight is a shocking bore, on the other hand.

 

[Weststander]

Yes close encounters knocked star wars out of the park

Star Wars was out of this world.

 

[marlowe]

Just the title of "Nude Nuns with Big Guns" led me to have quite high expectations but after watching it I felt it didn't really live up to its promise.

 

[AlastairWatts]

Titanic would have been brilliant if Rose and Jack had never met. Never mind, at least the iceberg did it's bit.

Not sure about that. I have a theory that the only reason it sank was because Fatty Winslett was at the pointy end...

 

[curly69]

Withnail and I.

Despite several viewings, all the way through, thinking I may have missed something on previous viewings because many seem to rave about it for no obvious reason, I always come to the same conclusion: What Gives?

Sorry i love it so well done and makes me laugh each to his own i guess.

 

[DFL JCL]

Babel
There will be blood
Tree of life
Taxi driver
Deer hunter
The revenant
Easy rider
Leon

 

[Klaas]

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.

 

[Psychobilly freakout]

Any Star Wars movie

 

[The Clamp]

Withnail and I.

Despite several viewings, all the way through, thinking I may have missed something on previous viewings because many seem to rave about it for no obvious reason, I always come to the same conclusion: What Gives?

That's a shame. It's genuinely brilliant. In my opinion of course.

 

[Jim Van Winkle]

Deliverance was pretty pants apart from the duelling banjos scene.

I told my mate to watch it - I told him it had a really great graphic sex scene.

A few days later he told me I was a ****.

 

[Weststander]

Star Wars films starring Ewen McGregor (whereas, I liked those before and after).

Batman films starring Michael Keaton (in contrast, Christian Bale's versions are immense)

 

[Questions]

Is there going to be an overrated TV shows thread? I'd like to nominate Breaking Bad.

My wife recommended it as one of the best series ever. I told her I couldn’t get past episode 2 because of his incessant coughing.
I know he had lung cancer but it just annoyed me.

 

[Questions]

Which is precisely why BG has been signed up to star in the remake, set in Haywards Heath and the killing fields of Hassocks and renamed The Beer Hunter it depicts one retired landlords's long-winded search for the perfect pint of Harveys.

Christ.......... how many seasons in that box set then ?

 

[Questions]

Argo. Utter tripe. Presumably it won the best picture Oscar as no other films were made that year.

I didn’t make it to the end with that one.

Birdman I got to 40 minutes.