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Most Overrated & Underrated films ever.
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Aisling
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Re: Most Overrated film you've ever seen.
I was hoping nobody would. :[ It always has me rolling.
It really does seem to be a "you love it or hate it" sort of thing...
I was hoping nobody would. :[ It always has me rolling.
It really does seem to be a "you love it or hate it" sort of thing...
Dannichu
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Ooh, thread title change!
Most underrated? Well, there are a ton of gay and lesbian movies that are very, very good, but don't reach a large audience because they only show at LGBT film festivals and then have a very limited DVD release. I bet your average person on the street couldn't name a film that centres around a gay couple outside of Brokeback Mountain.
And I'm sure there are loads of others, I just can't think of them right now. Silly brain.
Most underrated? Well, there are a ton of gay and lesbian movies that are very, very good, but don't reach a large audience because they only show at LGBT film festivals and then have a very limited DVD release. I bet your average person on the street couldn't name a film that centres around a gay couple outside of Brokeback Mountain.
And I'm sure there are loads of others, I just can't think of them right now. Silly brain.
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most of those famous john hughes movies from the 80s - the breakfast club, sixteen candles, etc etc - are pretty overrated, too. but something about them is so alluring that they end up being very entertaining anyway.
as far as underrated goes, i am surprised hard candy isn't more well-known now that juno was a big hit. ellen page was much more convincing when she wasn't a wordy, oozing-with-hip teenage girl. (i liked juno, but i can understand why people have so many gripes with it. i found it hard to believe in the beginning myself.)
as far as underrated goes, i am surprised hard candy isn't more well-known now that juno was a big hit. ellen page was much more convincing when she wasn't a wordy, oozing-with-hip teenage girl. (i liked juno, but i can understand why people have so many gripes with it. i found it hard to believe in the beginning myself.)
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I agree completely, but those scenes just made me jump a bit more than the rest.
There isn't a weak moment in the thing.
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I have a kind of... odd opinion of Napoleon Dynamite. I don't think I found any part of it funny in the slightest, but I liked it anyway because it managed to be surprising at the same time as it had a typical happy ending. Essentially the entire first half of the movie made you honestly find the main characters to be complete losers so that in the end when everything works out absolutely perfectly for them, you're actually just as dumbfounded as all those kids at Napoleon's school. Or something.
The Godfather... I thought it kind of dragged and was not at all as godly overall as people tend to rank it, but there were scenes in it that I thought were really well done and I know what they see in it, so I would hesitate to say I find it overrated, per se.
I liked Juno and The Dark Knight; they weren't perfect, but I never expect a movie to be.
I... think the one most praised film I've really not seen anything in was Brokeback Mountain, to be honest. :/ I couldn't buy the beginning of their relationship and in the end I sympathized a whole lot more with Ennis's wife than with him. And Jack's death felt... random. I might appreciate it more if I saw it again, I guess.
Oh, and I still think that Monty Python's Life of Brian is so much better than Monty Python and the Holy Grail. D: I mean, they're both hilarious, but among the two of them, I find Life of Brian very underrated and Holy Grail overrated.
The Godfather... I thought it kind of dragged and was not at all as godly overall as people tend to rank it, but there were scenes in it that I thought were really well done and I know what they see in it, so I would hesitate to say I find it overrated, per se.
I liked Juno and The Dark Knight; they weren't perfect, but I never expect a movie to be.
I... think the one most praised film I've really not seen anything in was Brokeback Mountain, to be honest. :/ I couldn't buy the beginning of their relationship and in the end I sympathized a whole lot more with Ennis's wife than with him. And Jack's death felt... random. I might appreciate it more if I saw it again, I guess.
Oh, and I still think that Monty Python's Life of Brian is so much better than Monty Python and the Holy Grail. D: I mean, they're both hilarious, but among the two of them, I find Life of Brian very underrated and Holy Grail overrated.
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Agree completely that Life of Brian is better than The Holy Grail. I like them both, but I think Brian's much funnier and cleverer.
Personally, I think I'd have bought the Jack/Ennis relationship more if they'd shown more emotion and less sex. I haven't seen it in a while, mind, but I remember thinking that at the time.
I really want to watch Juno now, but I have a slight irrational fear/disgust of pregnant people ._.
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I shall rephrase. All parody movies that are have the title "*insertgenrehere* Movie". Becuase Naked Gun and Hot Fuzz are teh l33t epic winz0r.
