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OT: Most over-rated movies!
Amber:
--- Quote from: The CHRIS on July 12, 2006, 12:54:37 am ---I didn't necessarily enjoy the martial arts aspect of the film as much as I did the artistic integrity that it had...that make sense? It was a beautiful film IMO despite the subject matter or theme...
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This I can agree with ... it definitely was a beautifully filmed/made movie, even if it wasn't my taste!
Giancarlo:
I know this is mentioned a lot in the IMDB forum, but I have to say Crash. I saw it twice and was rolling my eyes quite a bit. It is so forced and so contrived, and totally unrealistic.
Sheyne:
Crash (*sniff* I swear I'm over that Oscars stuff now)
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (only film EVER that I walked out of half way through)
Memoirs of a Geisha (beautiful to look at but dull dull dull)
newyearsday:
Glad someone mentioned Crash....even if it hadn't eclipsed BBM's rightful claim to the Best Picture Oscar this year, I would feel exactly the same way about it--it's so overhyped and contrived.
Here's another---The Big Lebowski. I liked a few scenes, especially the ashes in the wind scene, but overall, thought it was really not so funny or cool as everyone else seemed to think. I also was one of the few who didn't like The Piano.
On a more postive note, how about the most underrated movies of all time? At the top of my list would be one of my favorite movies, a little-seen gem called Local Hero that came out in 1982. It was Burt Lancaster's last film, though he's not the main star. In a way, the main star of the film is Ferness, the town in Scotland where the movie is set, and all the townspeople in it. It's subtley funny, sweet, beautiful, and magical. Check it out sometime.
ednbarby:
Titanic.
My apologies in advance, but I would sit through any other movie ever made three times in succession (Crash would be a challenge - can I use recreational drugs while I'm doing this? - but I'd do it) before I'd sit through this one again even once.
Contrived doesn't even begin to cover it. And when they had such a compelling *true* story to go from, rife with irony, class bigotry, fatal flaws both literal and figurative - the works - WHY on God's green Earth they had to frame it around a ridiculous love story. It still irks me to no end that the trailer for BBM actually compared the former to the latter. No two movies could possibly be so different. Please. And how many Oscars did it win? 10? 11? Gag me with a spoon. Never mind - I'm already there.
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