VOTE! Really? This? The overrated movies

[auntiehill]

VOTE FOR 3! VOTE FOR 3! VOTE FOR 3!

Vote for the most overrated, strangely popular, inexplicably successful and/or awarded films.


Admiral Shran

Aeon

Aragorn

auntiehill

captcalhoun

JiNX-01

Litmus Dragon

Nerys Myk

od0-ital

showdown

Zion Ravescene

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[od0_ital]

First to vote!

 

[auntiehill]

Admiral Shran
JiNX
od0

 

[Temis the Vorta]

auntiehill's is the only one I can honestly vote for. Any of these would have gotten my two other votes: Avatar, Inception, any Matrix movie, Moon and District 9.

 

[od0_ital]

^

And all of those are scifi movies, thus ineligible for the contest.

 

[captcalhoun]

hope auntie's prepared to win again...

 

[od0_ital]

Tied for second place!

 

[Too Much Fun]

"Million Dollar Baby" is the only one I don't like. It was shaping up to be a decent straghtforward underdog boxing/sports movie, then the plot twist (which some people inexplicably thought elevated it to greatness) turned it into melodramatic crap. "Brokeback Mountain" is overrated and contrived too, but at least it had good acting (Heath Ledger rocked it).

The rest are all right movies and how is "The Godfather: Part III" overrated? It may have been successful financially and nominated for best picture at the time of its release, but it's nothing but a punchline these days. One of the first famous go-to examples of how third movies in a franchise tend to suck.

 

[JiNX-01]

^

And all of those are scifi movies, thus ineligible for the contest.

Well, if somebody wanted apply the same theme in the SF&F contest ...

 

[ElBurro]

Aragorn
auntiehill
showdown

For me the most entertaining thing about Brokeback Mountain was that I watched it with 2 straight male friends and their reactions to certain scenes in the movie were priceless

 

[Itisnotlogical]

All of the movies that I recognized I thought were really good. How the hell did Gladiator get on this list!?

 

[Admiral2]

od0-ital, JiNX-01 and showdown.

I actually liked all the other movies, so I can't call them overrated.

 

[JiNX-01]

Woo-Hoo! 10 votes... best I've done in ages in this contest.

 

[od0_ital]

Holy crap! Tied for first?!?

 

[captcalhoun]

wow, so you all really loved Casino Royale, eh?

and i thought you had taste...

 

[Admiral2]

wow, so you all really loved Casino Royale, eh?

and i thought you had taste...

It opened with Daniel Craig running down a bad guy in a construction site. That's the main reason I stuck with it.


And it didn't suck anywhere near as much as "Quantum of Solace."

 

[od0_ital]

Yeah, of his two so far, QoS is the lesser movie.

 

[auntiehill]

OH dear. I won again. Thanks for the votes, guys.


Any suggestions for another topic?

 

[od0_ital]

Second place! Thanks for the votes, folks!

Suggestions...has "Biopics" been done recently? Ya know, those "based on a true story" movies & tv specials.

 

[Saga]

wow, so you all really loved Casino Royale, eh?

and i thought you had taste...

apparently you are the one without taste