Overrated movies?

[AngryGoldfish]

Apocalypse Now. Pretty much any movie by Coppola. Including the Godfather. Waaaay overrated.

Forrest Gump. "It's so deep and meaningful" LOL. It's poop!

Almost anything with Robert Deniro, except Taxi Driver.

The first half of Fight Club was excellent, then it went downhill...

ANY movie connected to M. Night Shyamalan

I'm not a huge fan of DeNiro either, but I think Taxi Driver is amazing. That alt-hero thing is juice for my brain.

Forest Gump isn't especially deep and meaningful. It's just an attractive, simply story about a simple man. It's humble. That's the charm.

[Andrew]

I've tried rewatching Django Unchained and I just can't do it, it makes me so uncomfortable.

Though, I found Spring Breakers so terrifying that I found it fascinating on a weird morbid curiosity level. I liked it, but its the sort of film that you only watch it exactly once.

[Chankgeez]

Film as a genre/meduim is overrated.

[behndy]

lol. i loved Spring Breakers. my drummer is still pissed at me for saying it was awesome. he and his grrL walked out of it like 3/4 in.

[backwardsvoyager]

Films usually feel mega rushed to me, like they're skipping out on potentially important things just to make it under a certain running time.

I've tried rewatching Django Unchained and I just can't do it, it makes me so uncomfortable.

I liked that movie. It is kinda uncomfortable to watch, though.

[behndy]

what parts uncomfy? the constant nigga being thrown around?

'cause like..... every one that's a casual or extra evil racist gets a horribly bloody reckoning.

i like that movie a lot. not quite as good as Inglorious Bastards. i mean, the first scene in the farmhouse where he suavely talks him into giving up the jewish family made me more broken feeling than anything in Django.

dunno. maybe it's growing up out here. but for so many people it's not even a bad word and you hear it allllllll the time. as long as if someone's using it to be a racist fuck in a movie then they're either the bad guy or something awful happens to them, it's just another framing device to me i guess.

[D.o.S.]

I absolutely love A Serious Man. It took multiple viewings to really appreciate it though. The lead character just makes me smile in every way possible. I adore him. Seeing him in Lincoln gave me goosebumps.

I only saw it once in the theaters. I don't dig those Jobian stories where everything just gets worse and worse.

Fargo was just straight up funnier and better looking, so whatever issues you have with its take on violence or its caricature of Canadians are kind of irrelevant when you factor in how glorious it looks and how hysterically funny it is.

Not Canadians. Also, forgot O Brother Where Art Thou, which I also love.

Apocalypse Now. Pretty much any movie by Coppola. Including the Godfather. Waaaay overrated.

Almost anything with Robert Deniro, except Taxi Driver.

I bet you think The Beatles are overrated too.

lol. i've been saying that forEVER. and i get these horrified, are you RETARDED looks. but Casino is way better than Godfather. at least it's watchable.

[D.o.S.]

Also, checked out the script for the new Ridley Scott movie. Odds are it'll be good. Probably no oscars, though.

[Andrew]

what parts uncomfy? the constant nigga being thrown around?

'cause like..... every one that's a casual or extra evil racist gets a horribly bloody reckoning.

i like that movie a lot. not quite as good as Inglorious Bastards. i mean, the first scene in the farmhouse where he suavely talks him into giving up the jewish family made me more broken feeling than anything in Django.

Nah, it's a really good film and if it wasn't then I wouldn't have the same feeling about it.

It's just the drastic shift from the uncomfortable, heavy racism to the final showdown filled with cartoony violence just gives me this weird emotional whiplash.

I could just be a weird-o Mr PC.

[D.o.S.]

More importantly, why is the singer from Creed in Underworld?

[behndy]

DOS. SORRY BUDDY. GODFATHER IS FUCKING BORING.

lol. but that's what i lurrrrrrv about Tarantino. the FUCK I'M LAUGHINGawwww now i feel bad stuff.

the single funniest scene to me in Django is when he shoots Leo's Hump Buddy Sister. just him telling the mammy style slave "Ms. Cora? say goodbye to [can't remember her name]" then not only blasts her off of her feet with a revolver, which doesn't happen, but magically flings her at like a 90 degree angle of where she should have flown.

i die laughing every. single. time.

[Joe Gress]

the single funniest scene to me in Django is when he shoots Leo's Hump Buddy Sister. just him telling the mammy style slave "Ms. Cora? say goodbye to [can't remember her name]" then not only blasts her off of her feet with a revolver, which doesn't happen, but magically flings her at like a 90 degree angle of where she should have flown.

i die laughing every. single. time.

Me too man, me too.

[Haki]

Films usually feel mega rushed to me, like they're skipping out on potentially important things just to make it under a certain running time.

I've tried rewatching Django Unchained and I just can't do it, it makes me so uncomfortable.

I liked that movie. It is kinda uncomfortable to watch, though.

It's uncomfortable cause it's boring and lame.

[AngryGoldfish]

Films usually feel mega rushed to me, like they're skipping out on potentially important things just to make it under a certain running time.

I've tried rewatching Django Unchained and I just can't do it, it makes me so uncomfortable.

I liked that movie. It is kinda uncomfortable to watch, though.

I dislike TV shows, for the most part, for similar reasons, but the polar opposite. Even though I think Breaking Bad is a modern day piece of television art, I found some of it boring. I can't concentrate for that amount of time. I prefer film for that reason... for the most part.

lol. i loved Spring Breakers. my drummer is still pissed at me for saying it was awesome. he and his grrL walked out of it like 3/4 in.

I've never walked out of a film. Ever. I can't afford to watch every film I'm interested in, either in the cinema or on DVD/Blu-ray, so I choose very carefully. The last movie I saw in the cinema I actually disliked was... I think... was the 2010 Robin Hood film. But even that I sat through. Someone almost forced me to go to Conan the Barbarian, but I knew it was a piece of shit and demanded we do something else. I'm not wasting €15 on that POS.

[AngryGoldfish]

I absolutely love A Serious Man. It took multiple viewings to really appreciate it though. The lead character just makes me smile in every way possible. I adore him. Seeing him in Lincoln gave me goosebumps.

I only saw it once in the theaters. I don't dig those Jobian stories where everything just gets worse and worse.

Fargo was just straight up funnier and better looking, so whatever issues you have with its take on violence or its caricature of Canadians are kind of irrelevant when you factor in how glorious it looks and how hysterically funny it is.

Not Canadians. Also, forgot O Brother Where Art Thou, which I also love.

Apocalypse Now. Pretty much any movie by Coppola. Including the Godfather. Waaaay overrated.

Almost anything with Robert Deniro, except Taxi Driver.

I bet you think The Beatles are overrated too.

lol. i've been saying that forEVER. and i get these horrified, are you RETARDED looks. but Casino is way better than Godfather. at least it's watchable.

Oh, I thought Fargo was in Canada. After just Googling it I see it's based in North Dakota. And I was actually going to say O Brother Where Art Thou instead of Fargo, but I thought Fargo would have been a better comparison to Burn After Reading seeing as they are both set in the modern day and are more black comedies.

And I also usually don't enjoy films where everything falls apart. I dislike Raging Bull, Casino and to a lesser extent Goodfellas for that reason. I see the genius behind them as pieces of art, but I just don't like them. That constant search for self-destruction is depressing and exhausting. I am maddened when watching how the characters destroy each other over two and half hours. The same goes for reading Shakespeare. It's just OTT to me.

The Beatles are overrated. They have some good stuff—some very good stuff—but also a lot of what I would call annoying filler. I find them aggravating to listen to. I see their complex and characterful melodies; I understand how their lyrics were very poignant at the time and are still somewhat relevant today; I totally get how they captured an era and defined a sound. But I just don't like them.

More importantly, why is the singer from Creed in Underworld?

I knew I recognized him from somewhere. I dig the Underworld films. If it didn't have the visuals or Kate Beckinsale and Bill Nighy then I probably wouldn't have liked them.