Whats the Most Overrated Movie? [Archive] - The ComingSoon.net Boards

Drizzt240

07-09-2004, 11:24 PM

Hmm............let me think.

Well I don't know. I think every movie has the right to have a large fan base. If I had to say one I'd say Pirates of the Carribean, but that's only because it seems like the public audience thinks it's one of the best things ever. Don't get me wrong I have it on DVD and like it. It's just that the public doesn't give other films that deserve to be in the spotlight time.

Don't kill me.

beyond_th3

07-09-2004, 11:50 PM

I think shrek 2 is highly overrated. I still can't believe that it beat lotr and spidey 1, and is about to beat the phantom menace.

PsYkOoOoO

07-10-2004, 12:06 AM

Troy.

Rizor

07-10-2004, 12:09 AM

Troy?! Most of the time I read about the flick it gets a beating. Heck it didn't even do too well.

Anyway, I can't say Titanic's really overrated. Probably in 1997/98 but now, it's perhaps one of the most hated films in history.

The original Shrek is overrated as hell. I only got two laughs out of its dated pop culture references and bathroom humor.

ProgramNeo

07-10-2004, 12:13 AM

Originally posted by glenn01880
Titanic

Agreed.

CoanBread751

07-10-2004, 12:39 AM

Lord Of the Rings:Return Of The King.

Glordreen

07-10-2004, 12:43 AM

Lost In Translation. One of the worst movies I have ever seen! But Yet it was praised by critics and goe nominated for Best Picture. I dont get it, it completely sucked!

FunnyBone

07-10-2004, 12:43 AM

I'd say Shrek 2 is way overrated. The beginning & middle were average if that. The ending made it shine.

Titanic is overrated, but does anyone really love that movie now? No. It was overrated when it came out but If it came out today I wouldn't of made 600 million.

Glordreen

07-10-2004, 12:44 AM

Originally posted by CoanBread751
Lord Of the Rings:Return Of The King.

Nay! You are wrong.

Glordreen

07-10-2004, 12:47 AM

Originally posted by FunnyBone
I'd say Shrek 2 is way overrated.

Not really. Shrek 2 was a fantastic movie. But its not worthy of 400mil, maybe 300mil.

PsYkOoOoO

07-10-2004, 01:39 AM

The Matrix Reloaded

Marv

07-10-2004, 01:47 AM

28 Days Later

PsYkOoOoO

07-10-2004, 01:49 AM

Oh yes.Spiderman for me.

Doomsday

07-10-2004, 02:07 AM

Originally posted by Glordreen
Lost In Translation. One of the worst movies I have ever seen! But Yet it was praised by critics and goe nominated for Best Picture. I dont get it, it completely sucked!

I totally agree.

For me, I also find overrated.....

Anything Matrix related
LOTR Return of the King (well, slightly overrated. Not the first two, those were excellent)
Scarface
Boondock Saints (what the hell, how is this so good? Did I miss something?)
American Beauty

and

DODGEBALL, most overrated movie this year.

droidguy1119

07-10-2004, 02:13 AM

I disagree wtih those who said Matrix and RotK.

Highfire, you are crazy for calling American Beauty overrated, I thought it was great. Scarface was somewhat overrated, but it was still great.

Shrek 2 is overrated. Not as good as the original.

Boro

07-10-2004, 02:38 AM

titanic was a joke.

Kable24

07-10-2004, 02:43 AM

I think it's funny no one disagrees about Titanic.

For me...
All three LOTR's (although they are kinda growing on me)
Scarface (seen it twice and still can't get into it)

Faithless Eye

07-10-2004, 02:59 AM

Titanic's gotta be up there.

Van Helsing (hey, one of my friends calls it her favourite movie EVER, and says that the only reason nobody else likes it is because they're too dumb to get the irony and sarcasm in it!)

Pirates of the Caribbean - because everybody seems to think it's Depp's best performance...mainly because it's probably one of the 2 performances they've seen (along with Scissorhands). i think his best was Ed Wood...hell, even Sands in Once Upon A Time In Mexico was more fun than that in Pirates. Come to think of it, I like most of his screen appearences more than the one in Pirates.

A Knight's Tale - WHY does everybody LOVE this movie?!?!

Anything like Fast and the Furious....people I know think this is, like, the best movie ever. I just don't get that.

Chicago - come on, The Pianist should've won best picture. Chicago was fun, but not Best Pic material.

Moulin Rouge...ok, it had good design, cinematography and editing, but it was fairly boring for about half of it and the music SUCKED (save for a couple wee bits). Ewan McGregor can't sing.

Tara

07-10-2004, 03:33 AM

Episode one: The phantom menace. Thank god episode two was better...but only a little

Troy was overrated also

07-10-2004, 04:18 AM

I preferred Episode 1 over Episode 2... quite a bit actually.

And I'm here to stand up for Lost in Translation and American Beauty... easily two of the best films of the past five years. I don't remember much about Titanic, so I can't really comment.

The Two Towers and The Return of the King were slightly overrated. Fellowship was fantastic, though. And, though I like Fight Club, I don't think it's quite as great as so many fans make it out to be. Not to say it's a bad movie, but many of its cult fans seem to think it's just the greatest movie ever. Oh, and The Birds is definitely one of Hitchcock's worst. I don't know why so many people think it's so great.

droidguy1119

07-10-2004, 06:26 AM

Well, with Fight Club, I think there's a ton of people who watched it and didn't get it but think it's cool because it's cool to like Fight Club. Which is annoying.

I don't think a lot of people liked Episode I. I know I agree with you, Oj, it's way better than Episode II.

JackBauer

07-10-2004, 07:53 AM

Originally posted by PsYkOoOoO
The Matrix Reloaded

this movie is not actually overrated. it did well, but not that well. and the reason it did so well is because of the first one. the movie was burned in every paper and got realy bad reviews so i wouldn't say its overrated.

Troy isn't overrated either imo. made only 140mio in the US!!! that is pretty bad actually. but it made a lot more overseas, about 300mio. reviews were average. to me still the best movie of the year.

overrated movie IMO:

Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

highly overrated. overhyped. total gross more than 1bil, correct me if i'm wrong. this movie was a let down imo and i won't get into this anymore. i still don't get it how ROTK won 11 oscars.

Neverending

07-10-2004, 08:15 AM

Honestly there is no such thing as an overrated and underrated movie. Its all about opinion, but if we're going to get into this discussion based on opinion then I think Citizen Kane is overrated. Is it really the greatest movie of all-time? I don't think so. This year, so far, I think Spider-Man 2 is overrated. Yes, it is a great movie in my opinion, but it wasn't that good. There was problems with that movie and things I would have changed. I still can't believe its the most critically acclaimed movie of the year.

sphericthor

07-10-2004, 08:22 AM

Yes it's about opinions so we're giving them

I just don't know where to start.......

The one reason movies are over rated is because the media hype them up so damn much because they're paid, but when we the public listen to the hype and expect this great movie it ends up being just another average movie. Some examples of this are Matri Reloaded/Revolutions, the LOTR Trilogy and Spider-man.......... these were the so-called great movies over the last few years but they were rather disappointing

Boy Wonder '04

07-10-2004, 08:24 AM

1) The Matrix 2
2) The Matrix 3
3) Spiderman
4) T3
5) Spiderman 2

Neverending

07-10-2004, 09:41 AM

Originally posted by sphericthor
The one reason movies are over rated is because the media hype them up so damn much

That's also what I was saying. There's movies that people think are overrated, but in reality aren't. Its just the media thats making them seem so popular. Thats why I said Citizen Kane is overrated because its a movie many 'people' seem to consider the greatest thing ever made. Then again it all has to do with opinions. I think Spider-Man 2 is a great movie and every critic in the nation believes it to be a masterpiece. Even though they've never read a single Spider-Man comic in their life and don't notice there's problems with the film. Like Doc Ock being such a
p-u-s-*-y! The same can be said about Titanic. Lets face it guys hate the movie, but we all know women love it and thats why it made 600 million dollars. Lets not forget that movie was also a great date movie. Titantic made more money during Valentines Day then it did during its entire run.

rosncranz

07-10-2004, 11:45 AM

Halofan1

07-10-2004, 12:24 PM

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Highfire

07-10-2004, 12:30 PM

Originally posted by droidguy1119
Highfire, you are crazy for calling American Beauty overrated, I thought it was great. Scarface was somewhat overrated, but it was still great.

I think you mean Doomsday.

I think Spider-Man 1 is overrated but that IMO.

Mat

07-10-2004, 12:30 PM

Spider-man 2

Doesn't deserve all the critical hype and box office revenue it's receiving.

Antony

07-10-2004, 12:48 PM

How are people saying that movies like the Matrix sequels and Troy are overrated? That's not possible. These movies got lame reviews, and not alot of people went to watch Revolutions or Troy. Most people talk about how much they hate these three movies, so how can they possibly be overrated?

As far as T3 goes, almost everyone hates that movie, I love it, but if everyone hates it, how can it be overrated?

And Pirates of the Caribbean IS great. I would never even give it the time of day until a few weeks ago when I saw it on Starz. I now own it on dvd and I can say it's one of my favorite movies. I seriously think it is one of Depp's best performances. Just don't be all pissy cause one of his best works is in a Jerry Bruckheimer movie.

Neverending

07-10-2004, 12:51 PM

To Mat's comment:

I think it deserves its box office success. Its a great movie, but the critical success is insane. Critics seem to think its a masterpiece without never reading a single comic and not realizing the flaws. Also there's people like Ebert that think every comic should be light. "This is what a superhero movie should be." What the hell is that supposed to mean?! Are you trying to say that in the new Batman movie Bruce Wayne should be walking down the streets with Rain Drops Fallin' On my Head in the background?! It works for Spider-Man because there's always been room for humor in that Spidey comics, especially the Stan Lee/Steve Ditko ones. However, it wouldn't work for Batman because it is dark and intense. He gave the Burton films thumps down because it was too dark. I should slap him!

prizm

07-10-2004, 01:02 PM

anchorman
titanic
anything with j lo

Neverending

07-10-2004, 01:04 PM

How is Anchorman overrated? The movie was released yesterday.

JackBauer

07-10-2004, 01:22 PM

Originally posted by Neverending
To Mat's comment:

I think it deserves its box office success. Its a great movie, but the critical success is insane. Critics seem to think its a masterpiece without never reading a single comic and not realizing the flaws. Also there's people like Ebert that think every comic should be light. "This is what a superhero movie should be." What the hell is that supposed to mean?! Are you trying to say that in the new Batman movie Bruce Wayne should be walking down the streets with Rain Drops Fallin' On my Head in the background?! It works for Spider-Man because there's always been room for humor in that Spidey comics, especially the Stan Lee/Steve Ditko ones. However, it wouldn't work for Batman because it is dark and intense. He gave the Burton films thumps down because it was too dark. I should slap him!

i agree, and i'll slap every stupid critic who's gonna bash BB next year, without reading any of the Batman comics.

btw, Spidey2 IS simply great and i'm glad the critics love it. it has its flaws, but the 95% of the movie i loved made me forget the other 5% that sucked.

Neverending

07-10-2004, 01:27 PM

Originally posted by JackBauer
btw, Spidey2 IS simply great and i'm glad the critics love it. it has its flaws, but the 95% of the movie i loved made me forget the other 5% that sucked.

True. Since the movie IS the most critically acclaimed film of the year as of now it could get a Best Picture nomination at the Oscars. If ROTK won last year then who knows.

JackBauer

07-10-2004, 01:35 PM

lol, ROTK

No question Spidey2 will get the credit it deservs.

Boy Wonder '04

07-10-2004, 01:38 PM

ROTK is the third best movie ever made!!!!!!!

JackBauer

07-10-2004, 01:40 PM

yeah sure :p ;)

Antony

07-10-2004, 01:45 PM

Originally posted by Boy Wonder '04
ROTK is the third best movie ever made!!!!!!!

Ok, it's a good movie, but you're really pushing it.

rosncranz

07-10-2004, 01:53 PM

the two most overated movies ever made are fight club and rotk, rotk being the most i think. this movie just wasnt anywhere near as good as fotr.

jenna

07-10-2004, 01:59 PM

ugh titanic. how embarrassing for the human race that titanic was the highest grossing film of all time. bluh i feel sick.
fight club was not overrated. what the hell are you talking about?
i agree with Van Helsing though...

JackBauer

07-10-2004, 01:59 PM

i agree, i realy liked FOTR.

as for fight club, you know my opinion. its one of my favs ever. how many times have you seen it rosncranz?

droidguy1119

07-10-2004, 02:08 PM

Fight Club is a good movie, but your devotion to it I don't think counts unless you got the point.

And sorry, Highfire, I did mean Doomsday.

HellaGood

07-10-2004, 02:50 PM

Spiderman 1

I really just didn't like that film at all.

Antony

07-10-2004, 03:04 PM

Jack, as a fellow Fight Club loyalist, I think we might as well give up on trying to get him to like it. He'll never like it. Every thread with Fight Club has him saying he doesn't like it, and people like you and me trying to convince him otherwise. I think we better just call it a loss and move on.

Gomamon

07-10-2004, 03:08 PM

Aladdin
Beauty & The Beast
Gladiator
Interview With An Vampire
Lion King
Passion Of The Christ
Shrek
Spider Man
Terminator 3
The Matrix movies
The Ring
Titanic

Mat

07-10-2004, 03:10 PM

Originally posted by Neverending
To Mat's comment:

I think it deserves its box office success. Its a great movie, but the critical success is insane. Critics seem to think its a masterpiece without never reading a single comic and not realizing the flaws. Also there's people like Ebert that think every comic should be light. "This is what a superhero movie should be." What the hell is that supposed to mean?! Are you trying to say that in the new Batman movie Bruce Wayne should be walking down the streets with Rain Drops Fallin' On my Head in the background?! It works for Spider-Man because there's always been room for humor in that Spidey comics, especially the Stan Lee/Steve Ditko ones. However, it wouldn't work for Batman because it is dark and intense. He gave the Burton films thumps down because it was too dark. I should slap him!

I strongly disagree with Ebert's reviews on the first two Batman movies. He even says once "I always thought it would be fun to be Batman." Fun to be Batman? The man is haunted by more ghosts than Disney's Haunted Mansion. Ebert misses the character by a mile.

My problems with Spider-man are publicly known. I think it's too much melodramatic teen angst hoo-hah. Most everyone else thinks it's some deep character study. That's fine, but it's hugely overrated in the Book o' Mat.

Hitman

07-10-2004, 03:42 PM

Old School. Sure it was funny but it wasn't "ALL DAT".

Rizor

07-10-2004, 04:54 PM

Originally posted by droidguy1119
Shrek 2 is overrated. Not as good as the original. I got around to seeing Shrek 2 today and it totally blows away the first one. Heck, I actually like this one.

rosncranz

07-10-2004, 05:53 PM

Originally posted by Antony
Jack, as a fellow Fight Club loyalist, I think we might as well give up on trying to get him to like it. He'll never like it. Every thread with Fight Club has him saying he doesn't like it, and people like you and me trying to convince him otherwise. I think we better just call it a loss and move on.

how is it a loss? you like it i dont, i dont see how anyone lost there.

jack-i have seen it 2 and a half times now.

Vigilante_X

07-10-2004, 05:54 PM

I have to agree with the people who said: Titanic, Lost in Translation and Return of the King. While ROTK was a really good movie, I don't see how it sweapt the Oscars.

JackBauer

07-10-2004, 05:59 PM

Originally posted by rosncranz
how is it a loss? you like it i dont, i dont see how anyone lost there.

jack-i have seen it 2 and a half times now.

i understand if its not your thing. its just, i didn't like it when i've seen it the first time. by the second viewing i loved it and its one of my fav movies ever, if not my favourite. many people didn't like this movie the first time, but loved it the second. like dustinedame. i just thought maybe you should see it once more, but if you already have and still don't like it. well, there's nothing to do. ;)

Xander

07-10-2004, 06:03 PM

Overrated?
- Titanic
- Lord Of The Ring Series (A second viewing of each movie on the DVD had me sleeping, still, I love the fist one, the best IMO)
- Star Wars (Never got into it)
- Shrek 1/2 (not that funny)

obsessedwithsnl

07-10-2004, 06:35 PM

Fight Club- some parts are great other parts weird- I think it's just a movie that most people like to say they like because its "cool" (I'm not trying to diss the hardcore Fight Club fans).

Lost in Translation- I just didn't find it all that "deep" or whatever. Awesome performance by Bill Murray though.

Spiderman 2- How can this be the most critically praised movie of the year?

Neverending

07-10-2004, 06:36 PM

Originally posted by Mat
I strongly disagree with Ebert's reviews on the first two Batman movies. He even says once "I always thought it would be fun to be Batman." Fun to be Batman? The man is haunted by more ghosts than Disney's Haunted Mansion. Ebert misses the character by a mile.

It is fun to be Superman. It is not fun to be Batman unless you are some kind of Travis Bickel and hate society enough to do something crazy like that.

My problems with Spider-man are publicly known. I think it's too much melodramatic teen angst hoo-hah. Most everyone else thinks it's some deep character study. That's fine, but it's hugely overrated in the Book o' Mat.

It is a character study. Spider-Man is a normal person with the same problems we have. Right now he is having "teenage" problems because he is still a teenager. Once he gets older and faces issues an older person would encounter the movies will focus on that.

Antony

07-10-2004, 07:18 PM

You know I never run into these people that like Fight Club, yet don't understand it. The majority of the people living in my dorm last year loved it, and we sat around talking about it all the time. They all got it.

Warren

07-10-2004, 07:20 PM

Malitos_Sahkir

07-10-2004, 11:45 PM

ROTK is overrated, but if you say that it's because it got 11 Oscars then that's alittle silly... It's preety easy to see that it was a homeage to the entire trilogy, not just ROTK. You can disagree with me, I could care less... ROTK alone did not deserve 11 Oscars, but as a trilogy ( which is how it should be viewed ) it did.

AGENTofDOOM23

07-11-2004, 01:41 AM

The ring
The passion(just a horrible movie)

city of god -it was good but just not very original and it was hardly touching)

MovieFreak322

07-11-2004, 01:48 AM

King Arthur-You just CAN'T do a PG-13 War movie.
And Scarface is NOT overrated. It's the best movie ever.

spikethebloody

07-11-2004, 01:56 AM

Originally posted by CoanBread751
Lord Of the Rings:Return Of The King.

This is the correct answer.

chewie

07-11-2004, 02:23 PM

I'd say that Citizen Kane, Scarface, Annie Hall, Tootsie, Dances With Wolves, and Platoon are all overrated.

MovieFreak322

07-11-2004, 03:04 PM

Scarface is NOT overrated! It's the BEST MOVIE EVER

equipe

07-11-2004, 03:31 PM

Spiderman 1. It was just a crappy movie. I don't understand how fanboys like this crap.

Se7en the movie

07-11-2004, 05:21 PM

Originally posted by Hitman
Old School. Sure it was funny but it wasn't "ALL DAT".

nope wasnt funny at all! My list?

Gladiator
Titanic
Old School
Crying Freeman (overrated by you guys)

all i can think of for the moment......

Neverending

07-11-2004, 09:33 PM

Originally posted by MovieFreak322
King Arthur-You just CAN'T do a PG-13 War movie.

How the hell is King Arthur overrated?! I haven't heard anyone say they liked it.

MovieFreak322

07-11-2004, 09:44 PM

Everybody who went seemed to enjoy it.

chewie

07-12-2004, 12:33 AM

Scarface

cg124

07-12-2004, 01:05 AM

IMO hellraiser is very overated

Andy_R

07-12-2004, 01:25 AM

The fast and the furious
Titanic
Spiderman
Mission Impossible 2

Xander

07-23-2004, 11:31 PM

Originally posted by Malitos_Sahkir
ROTK is overrated, but if you say that it's because it got 11 Oscars then that's alittle silly... It's preety easy to see that it was a homeage to the entire trilogy, not just ROTK. You can disagree with me, I could care less... ROTK alone did not deserve 11 Oscars, but as a trilogy ( which is how it should be viewed ) it did.

You watched the whole trilogy, as like, all togheter? wow....I would just sleep thru it. I would fast foward the whole film, and the movie would still be long.

Angelixx

07-23-2004, 11:50 PM

Troy was WAY over rated.....everyone was saying how amazing and spectacular it was..i went in their expecting to see a great dramatic moment where i could finalyl cry my eyes out for once......i did cry...i laughed so hard my mascara was flowing down my face

and the ring was just sooo not scary....i was actually pretty bored

Dilophosaurus89

07-24-2004, 12:00 AM

Master & Commander: The Far Side of The World.

Angelixx

07-24-2004, 12:09 AM

oo so true!!

MovieFreak322

07-24-2004, 12:29 AM

Never saw Master and Commander but I'm sure The Pirates Of The Caribbean is better.

Hitman

07-24-2004, 12:56 AM

Fight Club

Halofan1

07-24-2004, 01:00 AM

Originally posted by MovieFreak322
Never saw Master and Commander but I'm sure The Pirates Of The Caribbean is better.

And thats why that's the most overrated movie.

Sora Kahn

07-24-2004, 03:04 AM

I think the most overrated movie of all time has got to be Lost in Translation. Hopefully Murray's new film "The Life Aquatic" will be a whole lot better.

true fan11212

07-24-2004, 07:59 AM

Shrek 1 & 2
The Passion Of The Christ
Moulin Rouge
Traffic

How can TPM and/or AOTC be overrated? More people hate them than like them. In fact, the people that like them are in the minority.

Tornado

07-24-2004, 08:08 AM

Originally posted by true fan11212
How can TPM and/or AOTC be overrated? More people hate them than like them. In fact, the people that like them are in the minority.

That's not true. More people "OVER THE INTERNET" hated them then people "OVER THE INTERNET" liked them. Sorry if that didn't make sense.

But, more people in the world liked more then they hated them. Look at all the little kids that saw it. I remember when I was younger, every new movie that I saw instantly became my favorite of all time.