OVER THE TOP..movies

[RobertScorpio]

Many movies get bad reviews because it is said that they plot, or in the case of this thread, the FX, were 'over the top'. What are some past movies that you think fit this bill...they could have been good, but...they just were way over the top in terms of visuals...

my short list..

Judge Dredd...I actually like parts of this movie, but I felt it was way over done..

Lost In Space...the movie, again, had effects that I think overwhelmed the story

Batman Forver..forgetting that the plot was stupid, and the acting was wanting, I just look at Batman Forever, and Batman/Robin as well, as examples where even had the plot been better, the FX were just way to much...

Back To The Future 2..I like the first and third movies, and I know 2 took place in the future, but for me the FX were just too much and cost the movie's light-hearted soul..

what are some movies that also had this problem??

Rob
Scorpio

 

[Thespeckledkiwi]

All Three Star Wars Prequels...

 

[Harvey]

The Running Man (with Arnold). I love it, but there's no other way to describe it beyond OTT.

 

[Meat Tenderizer]

The Running Man (with Arnold). I love it, but there's no other way to describe it beyond OTT.

Commando, starring the Governator and Bennett.

 

[RobertScorpio]

The Running Man (with Arnold). I love it, but there's no other way to describe it beyond OTT.

Yes..thats a good one. I know what you mean!!! LOL

Rob

 

[RobertScorpio]

XMEN 3 is one I put in this catagory...could have been better if they had just TONED it down..

Rob

 

[Tom Servo]

All Three Star Wars Prequels...

QFT!

 

[RobertScorpio]

Spielberg has done this a few times IMO..

Hook was over-the-top..IMO. As was the last Indiana Jones movie, Crystal Skull. I even think Minority Report sacraficed story for FX..IMO.

Rob

 

[davejames]

When I think "over the top," the movies that FIRST jump to mind are Pirates 2 and Mummy Returns (I never saw the third movies). I've seen a lot of mindnumbing, over the top movies in my life, but those two were the absolute worst.

 

[Aragorn]

Currently in theaters: Eagle Eye.

The Mummy Returns was like one big special effects roller coaster from start to finish. They barely had time to slow down for exposition. The director's next movie, Van Helsing, did actually try to slow down a little bit to tell an ambitious story (even though it failed miserably), but in many ways it was even more over the top than The Mummy Returns with unnecessary and over the top effects and sets.

And speaking of The Mummy, the third movie's director Rob Cohen (xXx, The Fast and the Furious) has completely lost his marbles and is now way over the top.

 

[Mistral]

So many to choose from. Almost anything Arnie is in. And the one that really stands out(even though I love it) : ID4.

 

[Goji]

The first movie that pops in my mind as being over the top is The Fifth Element. I don't know if that's it's reputation, but I really like the movie precisely because I think it's so over the top.

 

[TheBrew]

The first movie that pops in my mind as being over the top is The Fifth Element. I don't know if that's it's reputation, but I really like the movie precisely because I think it's so over the top.

Me too.

 

[Gaith]

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

Trashy, stupid fun. :P

Die Another Day... not so good.

 

[Barbados Slim]

Over the top...two directors come to mind

Roland Emmerich with Godzilla, The Day After Tomorrow and 10,000 BC
and
Michael Bay with Pearl Harbor, Bad Boys II, The Island

Oh, and David Twohy got put in movie jail for Chronicles of Riddick

 

[davejames]

Die Another Day... not so good.

I actually saw this again for the first time in years, and it's actually a VERY solid and well written Bond movie... up until the ice palace and invisible car. And then it degenerates into the campiest, most over the top cartoon you can imagine. Ugh.

 

[Sephiroth]

Ang Lee's The Hulk