All three Back to the Future movies.
I honestly will never understand what people like about them. It boggles the mind.
I honestly will never understand what people like about them. It boggles the mind.
Fair enough. I think Kane is good, but not great. But I think the bottom line is the same, and something that needs to be remembered in this thread. First, that this is all personal opinion and not worth getting worked up over...and second, that if someone says something is overrated, they are not necessarily calling it 'bad'. Just 'not as good as the hype'.
No biggie.
Well, I think the silent version is very good. I am generally not the biggest Ramon Navarro fan (I've seen a couple of films where they tried to make him into Rudolph Valentino, with utterly ghastly results), but I think Ben Hur might well be one of his best films (if not THE best) - at least of the ones I've seen.What do you think of the silent version, then? It's half the length and even includes material from the book that never made it into the film (like Iris, for example).They probably coulda cut about 30 minutes out of Ben Hur, for example, without trouble.That film is probably my favorite CH film...but man it is too long!
Personally, I love a good epic movie and I'm not that prone to ADD. But if a film is a half-hour short or a gargantuan epic, it has to hold my attention and keep me entertained consistently for me to like it. Gone with the Wind really doesn't do that, though I'll concede Vivien Leigh is a fine spoiled brat.
Now, I do love the Charlton Heston version, and I actually quite like Heston in the part. However, the film itself is too long (not Heston's fault) and if they cut down parts of it, it would have been alot 'tighter' and more riveting.
And yes...I am well aware of the fact that you most certainly do not suffer from ADD. Anyone who makes a Christmas Day annual event out of watching both parts of Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible and whose idea of a Sunday afternoon 'quick flick' is a Kurosawa film of 3 hours or so definitely does not have ADD.
Well, I'd go along with The English Patient (a turgid, dreary bore IMO), but some of the others I enjoy a great deal.
Okay...forget what I said above about not getting worked up.
Oh, I have a good one. The Exorcist. Good movie, I enjoyed it, but definitely overrated, especially as a scary movie. It was one of the least scary horror movies I'd ever seen! I remember being about 10 at a slumber party and we were watching it, and one girl was hiding under the covers but the rest of us were laughing our asses off when her head was spinning.
Yeah, Cicero-what do you think is a great movie? You've just smacked down like, 15 or so of the AFI's top 100. I'm just curious-cause if there's movies out there I don't know about or haven't seen that's better than your "overrated" list I want to see them!
Somehow, rating movies always seems to bring out the iconoclast in many folks. That was directed at nobody in particular.
I say all that in this context - to this day I refuse to watch "The Exorcist" because I saw it "way back when" ... and it was that effective.
I have to ask just when you saw the film, and more specifically... what other horror films had you seen before The Exorcist? The reason I ask is because - and I'm sure you've anticipated this - of the whole "desensitization" that especially horror films can bring on. The original King Kong had people fainting in the aisles when the film was first released back in 1933. With the latter day special effects and often times gratuitous violence, what scared folks a generation ago has little to no effect today.
I say all that in this context - to this day I refuse to watch "The Exorcist" because I saw it "way back when" ... and it was that effective.
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Now, in the vein of the original thread question... films that I just cannot get into or agree with what at least SEEMS to be the consensus - or at least a significant group of people:
The 40 Year Old Virgin
Napoleon Dynamite
American Beauty
Star Trek: First Contact
I don't deny there is some quality in them, but they didn't impress me anywhere as much as each seemed to impress the larger viewing audience.
The 40 Year Old Virgin
Napoleon Dynamite
American Beauty
Star Trek: First Contact
I don't deny there is some quality in them, but they didn't impress me anywhere as much as each seemed to impress the larger viewing audience.
Titanic.
If it had been about the disaster, and *only* the disaster, I'd have given it a fair chance. But they just had to throw in that stupid shit about Jack & Rose.
+1 million.
Despite my unwavering love of Kate Winslet I cannot stand that film.
I pretty much desensitized myself to horror films back when I was a teenager, but The Exorcist still manages to creep me out - and I've seen it many, many times. I love it.
I, along with many in this thread, am kind of unimpressed with Citizen Kane. I loved the Dickensian childhood sequence, the cinematography and direction, etc. But as the film wore on I found that I cared less and less for it. I don't hate it, though.
I, along with many in this thread, am kind of unimpressed with Citizen Kane. I loved the Dickensian childhood sequence, the cinematography and direction, etc. But as the film wore on I found that I cared less and less for it. I don't hate it, though.
For me what is critical about rating Citizen Kane is simply when it was made. At that time, it was groundbreaking in its technique and went on to become a tremendously influential film. I may not find it terribly engrossing, but the circumstances and timing of its development keep me from placing it in the "overrated" bin.
Well, I know all that, and I still consider it overrated.
All those factors don't make up for (IMO) dull characters and a storyline that simply doesn't engage me. Oh, do you like that movie?Well, I'd go along with The English Patient (a turgid, dreary bore IMO), but some of the others I enjoy a great deal.
Okay...forget what I said above about not getting worked up.
I had no idea. 
An extended, but still incomplete, version of the partial list of favorite movies I posted earlier in the thread:
A Knight's Tale
A Little Princess (1995)
Amistad
Amelie (Le Fabuleux destin d'Ameli Poulain)
Anastasia (animated)
An Ideal Husband
A Very Long Engagement
Bend it Like Beckham
Big Fish
The Big Sleep
The Breakfast Club
The Bridge on the River KWai
Casablanca
Crimson Tide
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wu Hu Zang Long)
Die Hard
Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge
The Dish
Dr. Strangelove, or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Father Goose
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Fight Club
Finding Forrester
Finding Neverland
Freguency
Galaxy Quest
Gandhi
Gettysburg
The Ghost and the Darkness
Ghostbusters
Gladiator
Glory
Going My Way
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
The Good Shepherd
Good Will Hunting
The Great Escape
Groundhog Day
Guess Who's Coming To Dinner
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Henry V (1989)
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Hero (Ying Xiong)
High Noon
His Girl Friday
Holiday Inn
How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying
The Hudsucker Proxy
The Hunt For Red October
Inherit the Wind
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
In the Heat of the Night
It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World
The Iron Giant
Jurassic Park
Kal Ho Naa Ho
Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham
Kingdom of Heaven (Extended Director's Cut)
The Last Castle
Lawrence of Arabia
Life is Beautiful
The Lion King
Love and Death
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Extended and Theatrical)
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Extended)
Lucky Number Slevin
The Magnificent Seven
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
The Matrix Reloaded
Meet Boston Blackie
Meet Joe Black
Men In Black
Minority Report
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
Mister Roberts
Morning Glory
My Cousin Vinny
My Fair Lady
My Man Godfrey
Mulan
The Natural
The Negotiator
Notting Hill
Ocean's 11 (2001)
Pather Panchali
Patton
Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
The Pride of the Yankees
The Princess Bride
The Professional
The Quiet American
Red Dragon
Remember the Titans
The Right Stuff
Sabrina (1954)
The Sandlot
Secondhand Lions
Sergeant York
Seven
Seven Years in Tibet
The Shawshank Redemption
She's All That
Shrek
The Silence of the Lambs
Sneakers
Spanglish
Spartacus
Spider-Man 2
Spy Game
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
Summer Catch
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Three Days of the Condor
Three Smart Girls
Thirteen Days
Together (Han ni Zai Yiki)
To Have and Have Not
Toy Story 2
The Untouchables
V For Vendetta
WarGames
Whale Rider
The Winslow Boy
You've Got Mail
Some of these were outstanding, but I'd never watch them again.
The first two Alien movies. Alien is dull and slow-moving. Aliens, while an improvement, is brought down by the presence of the Marines, who are quite possibly the least likeable characters I've ever seen in a movie. Seriously, I cheered when a few of them died. Interestingly enough, I actually liked Alien 3 and Alien Resurrection, even though no one else does.
Lord of the Rings. Specifically the first two, as I never saw the third. Confusing and hard to understand.
Spider-Man. The first specifically. Teen romance with super hero stuff thrown in. Never bothered with the second or third.
V For Vendetta. Entertaining, yes, but pretty average. Not really the masterpiece some make it out to be.
Lord of the Rings. Specifically the first two, as I never saw the third. Confusing and hard to understand.
Spider-Man. The first specifically. Teen romance with super hero stuff thrown in. Never bothered with the second or third.
V For Vendetta. Entertaining, yes, but pretty average. Not really the masterpiece some make it out to be.
Well the first time I saw it I was 10, so it was 1996. I hadn't seen many horror movies before that really...I know I had seen Halloween though, and that one definitely scared me. I think it's just my personality. I'm much more frightened by the idea of someone breaking into my house with a knife than anything supernatural. I see lots of horror movies now, and they very very rarely scare me.
The only ones I've ever been scared by are Halloween and the Blair Witch Project.
Oh yeah... that one really caused me a few sleepless nights
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