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OT: Most over-rated movies!
slayers_creek_oth:
--- Quote from: newyearsday on July 12, 2006, 10:29:11 am ---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.
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I definitely agree that Crash was vastly over-rated. But I did like the film for what it was...granted it was fairly medoicre and acting wasn't top notch...but it was still a good film IMO! But in no way worthy of that Oscar...
slayers_creek_oth:
Another over-rated film....Braveheart...
And I'm not just sayin that because of that cheese Mel Gibson...
JennyC:
--- Quote from: ednbarby on July 12, 2006, 02:28:12 pm ---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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I was giggling at Barb’s comments. Her comments are always so refreshing, colorful, and straight to the point. Thanks for the laughs and I learned a thing or two from your comments. ;) Yeah, I didn’t love Titanic either, vastly overrated with all the Oscars.
Good Night and Good Luck is another one that I think it’s over rated. Don’t get me wrong, I like the subject matter of the movie. It was a timely movie with a strong message, and hats off to George Clooney for undertaking such a project. I saw the movie and was disappointed. A few Murrow’s speeches hit home run with me, but overall the movie fell flat for me. I actually liked Capote better as a movie (though I can not stand for the manipulative nature of Capote). I don’t think Good Night and Good Luck deserved Oscar domination more than other movies, such as A History of Violence.
henrypie:
Not to be all Elaine Benes about it, but The English Patient. Just didn't do it for me, except horrify me with the thumbs thing. So it went
yawn
scratch
cross and uncross legs
dread
horror
aching horror
yawn
look at watch
newyearsday:
Sarah, thank you for speaking that truth for me! I forgot about that one.
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