What are some of the most overrated movies you ever watched?

12 minutes ago, Jerry.C said:

Probably the most boring thing I ever tried to watch (emphasis on 'tried'.)

I loathe watching 2001. There's just too much concept and too little content, it's excruciating to bear. However I respect the movie, because it achieves what it set out to achieve. The concept really is amazing when you swallow the squeaky clean driness...

Here's an odd comparison. One of the most impactful movies I've ever seen is the Belarusian flick Come and See. It is an amazing movie, an absolute masterclass in cinematography and a deeply touching experience. But I wouldn't recommend watching it unless you're ready for the director abusing you, the audience. The praise heaped on such movies is deserved and just, but that doesn't make them appealing to Joe Crowder.

The one with the Rock and the big fucking gun >:(

9 minutes ago, Starkiller said:

12 Angry Men is a English-Language Arts classic. Why is it overhyped? 

From what I can remember, the jury basically Sherlocks the case to completion... they don't just discuss a case presented to them, they solve it on their own where the law enforcement failed. And as far as I can tell, break some general priciples of jury duty in the process.

5 minutes ago, dew said:

From what I can remember, the jury basically Sherlocks the case to completion... they don't just discuss a case presented to them, they solve it on their own where the law enforcement failed. And as far as I can tell, break some general priciples of jury duty in the process.

Thanks for the clarification. I haven't seen 12 Angry Men in a long time, so my experience of it is a bit hazy.

7 minutes ago, SOSU said:

The one with the Rock and the big fucking gun >:(

That movie is loathed by almost everyone. Why is it overrated? Practically every video game movie sucks. 

And I am being hypocritical by thinking the Jaws sequels are overrated while not thinking about the Doom Rock movie. Oh, I am losing my movie tastes. 

@Starkiller It's not hated enough!

Oh and Captain America Civil war,it was pretty boring in my opinion

7 minutes ago, Jerry.C said:

Another one I have to mention is "The Big Lebowski". When it was out the reviewers were virtually drooling all over it but it was so weird that I never could connect to anything that happened..

Heresy!! It's a coming of age moment in my family when you first watch that.

BUT I can see how people don't like it. It's pretty fucking weird and nonsensical. A movie with no plot, and no point and it's fantastic. (For the record the Coen Brothers are my favourite movie directors/prodcuers).

Movies that I don't understand the hype around:

• Avatar. To be fair I never saw it at the movies so some of the spectacle would have been lost but it was pretty meh. And the plot has been ripped from the much better (no really) Fern Gully. 
• The Force Awakens/Last Jedi. They are both OK but no better than that and there was a lot the annoyed me in each movie. I'm very good at suspending disbelief and shutting down the more analytical parts of my brain when I need to but things like the arching cannon shots in space from Snoke's Dreadnaught really bugged me. And I compare them to Rogue 1 which was unbelievably good and am left a little sad. 
• Blade Runner 2049. It's good but not THAT good. The ending lets it down (I like the twist but I feel there should have been something more.

E.T was such a shit movie that i almost vomit 
Indiana jones Raiders of the Lost Ark

A Room with a View

some like it hot 

Alfred Hitchcock's all movies esp North by the northwest 

All Superhero movies 

Fight club

Apocalypse Now

Disappointed to see Tree of life,2001 a space odyssey or 12 angry men in list as these are astonishing to watch movies
 

Infinity War........, seriously, i watched the movie , and i waited more of what I had

The Super heroes movies

Most of the star wars movies

Sharknado and the animals movies

(me having 14 years , and hating superheroes, i am unique)

18 minutes ago, Gaia74 said:

Infinity War........, seriously, i watched the movie , and i waited more of what I had

Thank you!

It offered too much to effectively follow through on, I thought. The best parts were those exploring Thanos' character, and that's all, I think.

*expects to be burned at the stake for saying that.*

Probably not the most, but out of the recent stuff I really didn't understand what's so good about The Wolf of Wall Street. It seemed unfunny, way too long, and just kind of overblown. And somehow it didn't feel like satire, almost the opposite in fact.

2 hours ago, ResidentEvilGod said:

Quantum of Solace. By far the worst James Bond movie period. Horrible plot, dull villain, shitty shaky cam and overall weird arthouse style of editing which really doesn't fit with James Bond at all.   

I liked Quantum of Solace quite a bit. For every scene that I can think of that I like in QoS, I can think of a scene I didn't like in Die Another Day.

2 minutes ago, chopkinsca said:

 

I liked Quantum of Solace quite a bit. For every scene that I can think of that I like in QoS, I can think of a scene I didn't like in Die Another Day.

Oh yeah Die Another Day is definitely terrible. Can't stand that one either.

3 hours ago, ResidentEvilGod said:

Quantum of Solace. By far the worst James Bond movie period. Horrible plot, dull villain, shitty shaky cam and overall weird arthouse style of editing which really doesn't fit with James Bond at all.   

License to Kill

The Living Daylights

Casino Royale 1954

Casino Royale 1967

Never Say Never Again

All worse movies than Quantum of Solace. 

@Master O

I forgot to mention The Goonies. Bratty characters, poorly filmed action sequences, paired with a very unfocused story. The dialogue is also really, really bad. There are so many instances where it's hard to even understand what anybody is saying because everyone is shouting at each other all at once. 

Dude License to Kill and The Living Daylights are awesome. Dalton is underrated imo. But Never say Never Again is pure shit.

Crank (and by extension Crank 2), the Crank series is some real messy hot garbage even for an action fan like me yet so many action fans love it, really fucking blows IMO.

Sharknado, I love really shitty films but Sharknado has no right being one of the "great" shitty movies people hail it as because it tries too hard to be said amazingly shitwank film, "great " bad films are never intentional and every second of Sharknado was just unrelenting pain disguised as failed irony.

Timothy Dalton is a great actor, but completely miscast as Bond. 

[License to Kill spoiler]I remember the cartel raping and then murdering Felix's wife on their wedding night, then feeding Felix to a tiger shark. Impossibly, Felix somehow survives the maiming and is then allowed to live for no practical reason. What's even more baffling than all of that is that when he's in the hospital, he comes across as bizarrely jovial and continues to act that way until the end of the movie. His wife was raped, murdered, and he then got fed to a tiger shark and he seems completely happy about it. It's bewildering.[/License to Kill spoiler]

War for the Planet of the Apes.

21 minutes ago, Ajora said:

Timothy Dalton is a great actor, but completely miscast as Bond. 

 

[License to Kill spoiler]I remember the cartel raping and then murdering Felix's wife on their wedding night, then feeding Felix to a tiger shark. Impossibly, Felix somehow survives the maiming and is then allowed to live for no practical reason. What's even more baffling than all of that is that when he's in the hospital, he comes across as bizarrely jovial and continues to act that way until the end of the movie. His wife was raped, murdered, and he then got fed to a tiger shark and he seems completely happy about it. It's bewildering.[/License to Kill spoiler]

I'll give you that point that he acts so happy at the end which is stupid. In the second Bond novel Live and Let Die Felix gets mauled like in License to Kill except he comes back with prosthetic limbs and continues to help Bond out in the field. I kind of wish we could have seen that in the films. Also Timothy Dalton plays bond as he's portrayed in the novels and with a darker more serious tone. That's why I like him.

Well personally I think all the James Bond movies during Craig's era are overrated. To me they feel more like Jason Bourne films than James Bond films. There's hardly anything I like about Craig's version of Bond, I find him boring and dull with the wit and suaveness of a brick.

However I also didn't like two of Brosnan's James Bond films such as Tomorrow Never Dies and Die Another Day.

Tomorrow Never Dies was absurd, I thought the idea of a news reporter being a villain was absolutely ridiculous. There's hardly anything I like about that movie except maybe the remote control car scenes.

As for Die Another Day my complaints are pretty much the same as the majority of people who dislike this film, it was way over the top for a Bond film.

License to Kill was another Bond movie which I really can't understand all the praise it gets, it didn't even feel like a James Bond film, it felt more like an 80's undercover cop drug bust movie of some sort, it was dreadfully boring to me.

Also On Her Majesties Secret Service was another, it was just very dull and boring to me, I thought Lazenby didn't make a good Bond and his accent didn't seem to fit the character well imo, I thought the mind control scene was pathetic and the car chase just went on and on that it sometimes put me to sleep.

As far as Bond films go, I love the ones with Dalton, but also Roger Moore and Sean Connery (John Lasenby was also pretty good - not terribly exciting, but still good enough).

Anyways, the 2 Bond films I hate are Skyfall and Spectre. Skyfall, because it negates the whole idea of James Bond as being an invincible spy with gadgets and tons of women, while playing on a casino once in a while. Here he just becomes a weakling and don't even get me started on the new Q and the lack of gadgets (a damn pistol with safety, instead of laser watches, grenade pens, e.t.c.) ... And Spectre because I couldn't even watch 5 minutes from the damn boredom.

Also, I dislike the Hunger games, if only for the huge wave of dumb survival games and mods that got released some years ago, only to be forgotten now (there was a Minecraft mod, the Culling, e.t.c., but today, only Rust seems to be kinda relevant). And I once again got bored with it.

And I don't know if it counts, but I hated Twilight. Wouldn't have included it as it is hated by a lot of people, though I still saw girls of my high school rushing to see a sequel to that when it got released.

Additionally, I have never seen a Harry Potter movie fully. Guess why? I somehow got bored again... I prefer Lord of the Rings a lot more, even without knowing what is happening at Tolkien's universe most of the time.

Finally, I think that Star Wars are good movies, although they are really overrated (by far the most overrated movies in my list). I think Blade Runner blows Star Wars out of the water.

Surprised to see Your Name, Terminator 2 and 2001 here. I loved Your Name,  Terminator 2 is one of the greatest sequels of all time to an already perfect first movie (if only 1 didn't get overshadowed by 2) but about 2001, I haven't seen it yet (want to read the book first) and I was expecting it to be a masterpiece. Maybe it is too artistic, with hidden meanings and stuff, in which case, it depends if I will like it.

Some overrated films of mine are:

• Taken - okay, it's not too bad, nor is it loved by everyone, but I found the action to be a bit too shaky and quick-cut-y for my liking. Also, the geography was downright shit in some cases. (As an additional note, the sequels are way worse).
• Paranormal Activity - boring as fuck, and that's coming from someone who thinks Blair Witch is okay.
• Quantum of Solace - easily the worst Bond film ever made - shit action scenes, shit villain, shit plot, shit drama, shit portrayal of Bond from Craig (he's basically the Terminator in this film, which is odd since Craig was fine in Casino Royale).
• Star Wars: The Last Jedi - the more I think about it, the more I dislike it. Politically correct nonsense and insulting to the fans is probably the best way to put it.
• Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy - okay, Batman Begins is good, but the other two are overrated in my opinion. The Dark Knight is hardly worth the second best film ever title on IMDb (or whatever place it was), even if Heath Ledger was fucking amazing. I like Nolan's films as well, so it's a bit odd calling out on his superhero flicks.
• Bowfinger - didn't find it too funny, to be honest.
• Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - I'll take annoying Willie from Temple of Doom over anything from this film.
• Die Hard 4.0 - how this is rated over Die Hard 2 is beyond me.
• Avatar - obvious reasons.

13 hours ago, Teder said:

Avatar for me looks like paralel to Pocahontas. 

Terminator: Genisys. I saw people who fell asleep on it near my seat.

I hated Terminator: Genisys the first time I saw it. It was like a laugh riot for me. Maybe because I never saw commercials to utterly ruin it as the Terminator commercials have always ruined any sort of surprise the movie had. The second time I saw it was much better, because I knew the crap I was in for. I don't think its overrated though because Terminator 1 & 2 exist and those two are legendary.

As for falling asleep in a movie theater, when I saw SpiderMan 2 (Doc Oc), my friend fell asleep. Not only did he fall asleep, but he snored loud for like 10 - 15 minutes. Nothing I did would wake him, the explosions didn't wake him. People didn't notice during the explosiony action sequences, but they were laughing at him during every other moment.

Now that I've read some of the other overrated movies:
 - Evil Dead 2... remaking, making a sequel to a movie? What? Why? It suddenly turns into cartoon violence that I guess the series hangs its hat on. With that said, I like the franchise so much I've even seen the live play.

 - Blade Runner is a movie I never made it through. I tried on several occasions. Maybe I'm just unfased at the atmosphere while other people gush about it. I just saw it as a dull story with so many logic flaws I just couldn't shut my brain off to just enjoy it.

 - 2001: A Space Odyssey I wouldn't say is overrated, so much as its a product of the 60s when there was a lot of dead air in movies. Its a visual feast that Star Trek: The Motion Picture tried to recapture. Today's movies just do it so much better and there's more density when it comes to the plot, dialog and characters.

 - Star Trek IV somehow is this great fish out of water movie now when it was laughably terrible from a lot of perspectives for the first two decades of its existence.

 - The Big Lebowski I have to agree with, but I saw it a decade after it was released at a literal Lebowski fest. People were dressed up and stuff. So I was in the most hard core group of fans. While I did like the movie, I didn't go crazy over it. My friend that brought me warned me that I'll probably hate it the first few times I see it.

 - 300 after hearing the hype and watching it. I hated it and it was dull. Thin, video game plot, every character blended in with one another. Rewatching it 2 months ago it was far better.

Some new ones:

 - Mad Max... all 3 of them. Chances are these are so good and well remembered because its another star making movie with Mel Gibson, plus one of the few big post apocalyptic movies that's really... just dudes in the desert. With that said Fury Road was surprisingly awesome, but that could be because I was expecting it to be terrible.

 - Lord of the Rings trilogy. I struggled to watch all 3 of them. Maybe I'm just not into the lore or the books despite playing video games full of elves, orcs, swords and sorcery. The movies are dull and boring, but maybe that's because I've made the mistake of watching them on DVD where its like oh now the movies are 30 - 60 minutes long. I can see why the studio wanted to make all 3 movies into 1. I get it though... people wanna immerse themselves in that era and there's just not enough of those movies.

Both Mad Max and Lord of the Rings fall into the same category. They are their country's greatest export at the time. They have settings that just aren't done that often and the themes are done better than the movies themselves.

 - Pulp Fiction. I saw a lot of parodies before I saw this, so it was just like the parodies were better. I assume the fact that it has so many parodies means its popular and well loved.

10 hours ago, dew said:

I loathe watching 2001. There's just too much concept and too little content, it's excruciating to bear. However I respect the movie, because it achieves what it set out to achieve. The concept really is amazing when you swallow the squeaky clean driness...

I saw 2001 with a live orchestra a couple of weeks ago, it was mesmerizing. I've seen it a few times on a big screen and find that it really seems to lose something when transposed to the smallscreen. So if you haven't already, try seeing it in the cinema.
 

Edit: To contribute to this thread:

I thought Interstellar was laughably bad.

Avatar

Batman The Dark Knight

Seriously, take away the joker and you have yourself a generic dark super film.

I think Scarface 1983 is overrated. Feels more convoluted and edgier compared to the 1933 version. 

1 hour ago, Starkiller said:

I think Scarface 1983 is overrated. Feels more convoluted and edgier compared to the 1933 version. 

100% agree 1933 version seems realistic portrayal, while later was highly glamorizing the gangsters thus generating high fan following from juveniles 

20 hours ago, Starkiller said:

 

12 Angry Men is a English-Language Arts classic. Why is it overhyped? 

All classics are overhyped. [Edit] EXCEPT John Wayne movies. I love those.

22 hours ago, DeadAstronaut said:

 

I find Bruce Willis better in non-action roles. His first big start was appearing on Miami Vice as a bad guy and he was really good in his guest starring role. Wish he had done more stuff like that with bad guy roles. 

 

 

Check out Pulp Fiction. He's not the star of the show, but he does a good job.

1 hour ago, Stonewall_Jackson said:

All classics are overhyped. [Edit] EXCEPT John Wayne movies. I love those.

 

I enjoy John Wayne movies. Personal favorite has to be The Searchers. Watching a movie with John Wayne in it is like golden sugar. 

On 5/20/2018 at 5:56 PM, ResidentEvilGod said:

Dude License to Kill and The Living Daylights are awesome. Dalton is underrated imo. But Never say Never Again is pure shit.

I'm a big Bond fan. I think Casino Royal (2006) was very overrated. I still like it, but it's not as good as everyone says it is.  Also the Dalton Bonds were great. which one do you think is better?