What's your most overrated movie

[fire400]

Originally posted by: intogamer
Fast and the Furious, 2Fast2Furious, Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Driftzzz

lol

 

[kaltek]

Every time my friend comes over he watches the fifth element and can recite it with his eyes closed. I lost count at 50 times

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

Harry Potter
Lord of the Rings

Two over hyped POS films.

And of course, Basic Instinct.

 

[DeadByDawn]

Night at the Museum.

I heard how great it was, then watched it and only chuckled a couple of times.

Yawn

 

[rbV5]

Originally posted by: purbeast0
Borat.

Oh god yes that movie sucks BAD wtf?

 

[spherrod]

Being John Malkovich

 

[AVP]

i stopped watching crash when ludicris stole the car, shortest duration of any oscar film for me ever

 

[theprodigalrebel]

People think Forrest Gump and American Beauty are over-rated?

 

[Ferocious]

One of the most overrated I've seen is the new 'Children of Men'

it pretty much blows.

 

[mooglemania85]

Originally posted by: akshatp
How come people replied with multiple movies? Some of you even replied with full blown LISTS! Read the original question..

Now I know people here, and I know that it's pretty hard to follow directions for the ATOT crowd. So I'll use small words. What's to you the most overrated movie. I don't mean the one you hate the most. I mean the one that everyone else you know loves, but you think doesn't live up to the hype.

I guess OP was right, its pretty hard for the ATOT crowd to follow directions. Should have used even smaller words OP!!

People read original posts? I thought people just skimmed the thread title, clicked, and then hit that reply button. You know, sometimes hit the quote button to mix things up now and then. Then type away!!!!

 

[Billyzeke]

Napolean Dynamite

 

[biostud]

The Prestige

I've only seen the first hour of this movie and was so bored that I'm probably never will finish it.

 

[TheAdvocate]

Originally posted by: DainBramaged
Heat (ducks)

You want a flame war, well you got one now, buddy.

I'll agree with the guy who said that some of you just need to stay home and not go to the movies, because you apparently hate everything. (LoTR?? Heat??, c'mon!)

But then again, it's obvious that word of mouth/your personal expectations are the real thing being judged here, not the movie. Good example (for me) is Borat. I heard so much from friends and on this board and others about how gut busting funny it was that I became just certain that it was going to suck donkey balls and I wans going to regret renting it and want my time back. It was actually pretty funny (not great), and suprisngly enjoyable to watch.

You people who are bitter about these movies are bitter about the hype, not the movies themselves. You don't hate the ones you are listing as bad as you think, you just hate people telling you how great they are. Important difference.

 

[OCNewbie]

Pulp Fiction

 

[zinfamous]

Originally posted by: biostud
The Prestige

I've only seen the first hour of this movie and was so bored that I'm probably never will finish it.

finally saw it this weekend, and I have to agree. I didn't think it was bad, but certainly not worth the hype. If you can't ID Christian Bale in a beard, then I guess you might be astounded by this one....not me, however

 

[Jeeebus]

Originally posted by: OCNewbie
Pulp Fiction

/SIGNED

To this day, I still can't watch more than 5-10 minutes of that movie if I happen upon it by chance while flipping channels.

 

[HammerCurl]

Not sure about everyone else's ratings but Spaceballs was the most God awful garbage ever (that my friend's like). If there is an even decent rating on Spaceballs it's far overrated.

 

[ultimatebob]

Brokeback Mountain, Crash, and Babel would be my three most recent picks. They weren't BAD movies, but they didn't deserve to win a ton of Oscars either.

 

[RaistlinZ]

Million Dollar Baby - didn't do it for me
Spiderman 3 - WTF, emo-dancing Peter Parker? Uh.... no thanks. :roll:

 

[DivideBYZero]

Anchorman. It licked so many balls the world almost ran out of unlicked nuts.

 

[Q]

Borat, it was funny but NOTHING like people made it out to be

 

[dbk]

Crash.
Edit: Marie Antoinette <---zOMG, so bad.

 

[b0mbrman]

Originally posted by: theprodigalrebel
People think Forrest Gump and American Beauty are over-rated?

Perhaps. What's your counterpoint, keeping in mind the definition of overrated?

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Originally posted by: intogamer
Fast and the Furious, 2Fast2Furious, Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Driftzzz

Those aren't evne good movies to begin with. Overrated? I highly doubt it. If it got 95% on RT I would be concerned, but when you pay the writers $5 to write that kinda story, it's not even good to begin with. People watch it for the cars not the story.

Originally posted by: freedomsbeat212
Fell asleep during Lost in Translation and I'm a film geek who loves classic movies including 3 hour long ones, yet Lost in Translation felt like it was 40 hours long and I didn't find it cute and didn't find Scarlet Johansen's chunky butt all that appealing (her butt isn't chunky anymore, yay to anorexia)

Fight Club - so gay! And the twist ending was dumb. I liked the first act but found the whole thing too macho, then it sold out on it's point. Bash consumerism for hours - make fun of Ikea and our "fabricated" lives run by mega-corps in favor of anarchy, then say in the last act, that anarchy is not the answer? I think people enjoy the anarchistic punk rock message but don't realize that it's AGAINST those ideologies... Stupid macho men.. Or closeted homosexuals who beat each other because they can't get over wondering what it would be like to have sex with Brad Pitt. Sorry, I HATE, HATE, HATE, HATED that movie..

Here's another one for Lost in Translation. I want to say the theme is old and it's been used in another stupid movie, Mr. Baseball. Lost in Translation is beautiful in the filming they and if you've taken any film classes, you could see all the different filming techniques they used. It's beautiful in that sense, but the story? Ehh, mediocre at best. Touching? Maybe a little because the story isn't that original to begin with. Deep movie? Definitely not. Garden State might not have the coolest story in the world, but its got depth at least. Lost in Translation is just... ehhh. Okay? It was nice filming, but other than that it's not that great.

 

[FDF12389]

Beerfest, everyone said it was great. It was ****** stupid