Overrated movies

[CYlent Bob]

Agree. This is the one and only movie I enjoy Christian Bale in because he is playing a total d-bag (which is exactly what he is in real life.) He is the worst choice to play Bruce Wayne since George Clooney put on the Batsuit with nipples.

FIFY

 

[CYlent Bob]

Would be interesting to see what people think is Tarantino's most violent film. One could argue the ear cutting off scene in RD is the most violent thing he's ever put on screen. The accidental blowing off of a kids head in the car in PF which in turn shows brains in Sam Jackson's hair. Killing for sport in Death Proof. Do you base violence on how much blood is spilled? How many deaths there are? Or more the act going on itself? If someone asked me the most violent scenes in any Tarantino written movie, my top two would be the ear in RD and the hotel scene in True Romance. Which might be odd to some because Kill Bill, IB, and DU all have bloodbaths.

Inglorious Basterds is horribly violent. But it's all good because (most of) the people being tortured and killed in this movie are Nazis.

I remember hearing a story that when Paul Verhoeven signed on to do Starship Troopers, he decided to go over the top with Nazi symbolism and totally go against the book's theme of a government where those who make the decisions are limited to those who have served. I wonder if Tarentino's preproduction meetings for IB were along those lines....."Hey, let's see if we can come up with fresh new ways to kill Nazis!"

Don't get me wrong, it was an entertaining movie to watch. I'm just admitting that it was pretty freakin' violent, even by QT standards. But ultimately, the absence of Samuel L. Jackson kept it from being a true classic.

 

[BoxsterCy]

I liked a few others, but his last two offerings have been terrible. It seems like he's just trying to show how outside of the box he is by befriending and then using racial slurs for as many groups as he can, and also that he's trying to prove how versatile he is by making movies in each genre. But they're just not good anymore.

And this is why Pai Mei never taught you the five point palm-exploding heart technique! :shocked:

 

[Cycl1]

Shebeast. I thought it would be bad, and it was even worse.

 

[Cycl1]

underrated - Identity

 

[Jambalaya]

I read the Da Vinci Code and saw the movie, and from what I remember it seemed like the movie was a step by step re-telling of everything that happened in the book.

But I will agree that Tom Hanks was not a good Robert Langdon.

Tom Hanks is very talented but was terribly miss-cast in Da Vinci Code. I could think of 20 other actors who would make his character more memorable.

He was also awful (with that lousy NYC accent) in 'Catch me if you Can' with Leonardo DeCaprio.

Not edgy nor convincing FBI agent....Was happy his character was getting hosed in that movie over and over

 

[ZombieCyclone]

Inception

I walked out of the theatre saying it was just dumb. I fully comprehend the movie and everyone who defends it always says "you don't understand it, it's so deep". I look at them and understand they didn't understand it and therefore is somehow intellectually confounding so they assume it's brilliant.

 

[Pitt_Clone]

Talladega Nights

Not very funny. At all.

With all due respect that's dumbest thing I've ever heard.

 

[kilgore_trout]

You must have missed:

The Shining
Misery
The Shawshank Redemption
Dolores Claiborne
The Green Mile

That's why Stephen King books make terrible movies. There is just too much going on to compress it to 90-120 minutes. The best movies based on Stephen King stories were adapted from short stories.

 

[ISUAlum05]

You must have missed:

The Shining
Misery
The Shawshank Redemption
Dolores Claiborne
The Green Mile

Shawshank and Green Mile are both from short stories.

 

[MNCyGuy]

Tom Hanks is very talented but was terribly miss-cast in Da Vinci Code. I could think of 20 other actors who would make his character more memorable.

He was also awful (with that lousy NYC accent) in 'Catch me if you Can' with Leonardo DeCaprio.

Not edgy nor convincing FBI agent....Was happy his character was getting hosed in that movie over and over

I loved him in Catch Me If You Can. That character was supposed to be a ridiculous uptight stick-in-the-mud. Where did you get the idea he was meant to be some sort of edgy, bad-*** agent?

 

[harty83]

Green mile was actually a serialized novel. Originally broken up into about 5 or 6 hundred or so page books.

 

[Cyclonepride]

Talladega Nights

Not very funny. At all.

You take that back

 

[ISUAlum05]

Green mile was actually a serialized novel. Originally broken up into about 5 or 6 hundred or so page books.

You're right. I remembered that after I posted.

 

[Tarbox]

Lol @ all the entries here. They can't all be "Brian's Song", can they?