Overrated Movies

[SuperTed]

Scarface was a great movie but it's legacy has been tarnished by the fact that every wannabe thug, ghetto rat tries to impersonate the title character.

[bradistani]

Some of these movies we seem to dislike have skyrocketed into the Billion Dollar atmosphere.

According to Box Office Mojo here are the top ten worldwide money making films of all time

Avatar   $2.8 Billion
Titanic   $2.2 Billion
Avengers   $1.5 Billiion
Furious 7   $1.5 Billion   
Avengers: Age of Ultron   $1.3 Billion
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2    $1.3 Billion
Frozen      $1.3   Billion
Iron Man   $1.2   Billion
Transformers: Dark of the Moon   $1.1   Billion
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King   $1.1

You have to add 'Gone With the Wind' in their someplace if the figures were adjusted for inflation. Currently at 1.6 Billion.

BOXOFFICEMOJO.COM ... a darn good site if you are interested in the movie biz. Also IMDB.com

box office takings aren't a measure of how good or bad a film is. especially with like s of the popcorn fodder above which will generally make bank no matter how crap it is. the transformer films being a case in point.

[The Scott]

1939 is generally thought to be the finest year for films and such classics as "The Wizard of Oz" and "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" bear witness to this.

"Harvey" is a superb film and I recently viewed it again on Blu-Ray in a stunning transfer.   For me, "Casablanca" eclipses "Citizen Kane" as the best film ever  but I can understand the reasoning behind so many choosing the latter as the combined efforts of all involved make it an excellent choice.

[The_Iron_Disciple]

Scarface is one if the greatest movies of all time. The story, the message, soundtrack by Giorgio M., the cast of characters, etc. Unbelievable movie. You guys have no taste.

Off topic, but really loved Carlito's Way. Pacino is one hell of an actor.

[BDsauce]

Scarface is one if the greatest movies of all time. The story, the message, soundtrack by Giorgio M., the cast of characters, etc. Unbelievable movie. You guys have no taste.

Off topic, but really loved Carlito's Way. Pacino is one hell of an actor.

Sean Penn was amazing in that one too....

[stuntmovie1]

BRAD, It's difficult to argue with your statement that a movie's financial success is not a measure of how good that movie was, but within the eyes of all individuals who were involved within he production of that financially successful film .... it was definitely a great movie.

And 'great' movies make 'everything' ever greater when those great residuals start arriving in your mailbox.

One day I gotta explain how 'residuals' work within  the movie and tv production biz.

it might inspire some of you to look into  the possibilities.

[The Ugly]

Yeah, lots of movies are bad.  He means movies that are undeservedly acclaimed.  Critical or commercial successes that didn't deserve.

Citizen Kane - Cures insomnia.
Easy Rider - 2 self-satisfied guys go around affirming their views and a 3rd guy helps.
Mad Max 1 - When nothing happens it's not always 'suspense.'  Sometime it's just 'boring.'
Footloose - The preacher was absolutely right.  Dancing leads to sex.  Cringeworthy.
Dirty Dancing - As above, but starring Patrick Sleazy as the middle aged lothario.
Leon - It's not about a hit man.  This is a film about pedophilia being ok.  This film is not ok.
Iron Men - RDJ?  I'm not saying it didn't work.  I'm saying that Iron Man is possibly bisexual.  Certainly campy.

Honorable Mention: The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly.  Yeah, he's a legend.  He did some slow moving shit tho.

Oh, shit, forgot. This may be the Beatles of overrated films.

[The Ugly]

lol Boondock Saints is no Guy Ritchie film

This, it's wannabe Ritchie.

[The_Iron_Disciple]

Sean Penn was amazing in that one too....

Totally agree !

[BB]

Citizen Kane comes to mind. It wasn't terrible, but I feel people just have this idea it was great and if they don't agree, that somehow they are stupid.

Citizen Kane is a long, drawn out piece of shit loaf! They should be praising Welles's "Touch of Evil", not that one.

Also not a huge fan of Star Wars, Goonies gets too many props also. Scarface is a fine film, but overblown, Carlito's Way is much finer film.

[Hulkotron]

The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
The Godfather (1972)
The Godfather: Part II (1974)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Inception (2010)
Schindler's List (1993)
12 Angry Men (1957)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
The Dark Knight (2008)
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
Shichinin no samurai (1954)
Star Wars (1977)
Goodfellas (1990)
Casablanca (1942)
Fight Club (1999)
Cidade de Deus (2002)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
Rear Window (1954)
C'era una volta il West (1968)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Toy Story 3 (2010)
Psycho (1960)
The Usual Suspects (1995)
The Matrix (1999)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Se7en (1995)
Memento (2000)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
Sunset Blvd. (1950)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Forrest Gump (1994)
Léon (1994)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
North by Northwest (1959)
American Beauty (1999)
American History X (1998)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Vertigo (1958)
Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (2001)
Alien (1979)
WALL·E (2008)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
The Shining (1980)
Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001)
Paths of Glory (1957)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Double Indemnity (1944)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
The Pianist (2002)
Das Leben der Anderen (2006)
The Departed (2006)
M (1931)
City Lights (1931)
Aliens (1986)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
Das Boot (1981)
The Third Man (1949)
L.A. Confidential (1997)
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Chinatown (1974)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Modern Times (1936)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
La vita è bella (1997)
Back to the Future (1985)
The Prestige (2006)
El laberinto del fauno (2006)
Raging Bull (1980)
Nuovo Cinema Paradiso (1988)
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Rashômon (1950)
All About Eve (1950)
Amadeus (1984)
Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
The Green Mile (1999)
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
The Great Dictator (1940)
Braveheart (1995)
The Apartment (1960)
Up (2009)
Der Untergang (2004)
Gran Torino (2008)
Metropolis (1927)
The Sting (1973)
Gladiator (2000)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Unforgiven (1992)
Sin City (2005)
The Elephant Man (1980)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Oldeuboi (2003)
On the Waterfront (1954)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
Rebecca (1940)
The Great Escape (1963)
Die Hard (1988)
Batman Begins (2005)
Mononoke-hime (1997)
Jaws (1975)
Hotel Rwanda (2004)
Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
Det sjunde inseglet (1957)
Blade Runner (1982)
Fargo (1996)
Heat (1995)
The General (1926)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Touch of Evil (1958)
Per qualche dollaro in più (1965)
Ran (1985)
Yôjinbô (1961)
District 9 (2009)
The Sixth Sense (1999)
Snatch. (2000)
Donnie Darko (2001)
Annie Hall (1977)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Smultronstället (1957)
The Deer Hunter (1978)
Avatar (2009)
The Social Network (2010)
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
High Noon (1952)
The Big Lebowski (1998)
Hotaru no haka (1988)
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
It Happened One Night (1934)
Platoon (1986)
The Lion King (1994)
Into the Wild (2007)
There Will Be Blood (2007)
Notorious (1946)
Million Dollar Baby (2004)
Toy Story (1995)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Trainspotting (1996)
Ben-Hur (1959)
Scarface (1983)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
The Graduate (1967)
The Big Sleep (1946)
Groundhog Day (1993)
Life of Brian (1979)
The Gold Rush (1925)
Amores perros (2000)
Finding Nemo (2003)
The Terminator (1984)
Stand by Me (1986)
How to Train Your Dragon (2010)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
The Thing (1982)
The Kid (1921)
V for Vendetta (2006)
Casino (1995)
Twelve Monkeys (1995)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Ratatouille (2007)
El secreto de sus ojos (2009)
Gandhi (1982)
Star Trek (2009)
Ikiru (1952)
Le salaire de la peur (1953)
Les diaboliques (1955)
8½ (1963)
The Princess Bride (1987)
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
The Incredibles (2004)
Tonari no Totoro (1988)
The Hustler (1961)
Good Will Hunting (1997)
The Killing (1956)
In Bruges (2008)
The Wild Bunch (1969)
Network (1976)
Le scaphandre et le papillon (2007)
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
Les quatre cents coups (1959)
La strada (1954)
The Exorcist (1973)
Children of Men (2006)
Stalag 17 (1953)
Persona (1966)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Ed Wood (1994)
Dial M for Murder (1954)
La battaglia di Algeri (1966)
Låt den rätte komma in (2008)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
Big Fish (2003)
Magnolia (1999)
Rocky (1976)
La passion de Jeanne d'Arc (1928)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
Fanny och Alexander (1982)
Mystic River (2003)
Manhattan (1979)
Barry Lyndon (1975)
Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)
Mary and Max (2009)
Patton (1970)
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Duck Soup (1933)
Festen (1998)
Kick-Ass (2010)
Fa yeung nin wa (2000)
Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
Roman Holiday (1953)
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
Mou gaan dou (2002)
The Truman Show (1998)
Crash (2004/I)
Lauru no ugoku shiro (2004)
His Girl Friday (1940)
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Harvey (1950)
Le notti di Cabiria (1957)
Trois couleurs: Rouge (1994)
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
A Christmas Story (1983)
Sleuth (1972)
King Kong (1933)
Bom yeoreum gaeul gyeoul geurigo bom (2003)
Rope (1948)
Monsters, Inc. (2001)
Tenkû no shiro Rapyuta (1986)
Yeopgijeogin geunyeo (2001)
Mulholland Dr. (2001)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)

x2 all complete shite

[The Ugly]

Scarface is one if the greatest movies of all time. The story, the message, soundtrack by Giorgio M., the cast of characters, etc. Unbelievable movie. You guys have no taste.

Off topic, but really loved Carlito's Way. Pacino is one hell of an actor.

I love Scarface, but Carlito's Way is an all-time favorite. Back when DePalma still had chops. And screw you anti-Costello critics. He sounds exactly the way my SoCal ass wants a Bostonian gangstah to sound: "You recall ahh little chat ... little boys? Suckin' on their peckas, etc., and so fawth."

Fight Club grew on me (Inception, too, later). The book was SO good, it didn't hold up at first (same with Green Mile, which still doesn't). Love it now - even the author thinks Fincher outdid his book. I do like Citizen Kane as well, mostly for how it changed narrative structure. Can't sit through GwtW or Lawrence of Arabia, though.

Not sure how Dark Knight Rises is rated, but I f'n hated it. First time Nolan let me down. And I'm the only person I know that thought the original Old Boy was cheesy as hell.

[thegamechanger]

american sniper.

[The Ugly]

american sniper.

Seconded.

[Dr Dutch]

Rocky 2-6
Rambo 2-4
Terminator 3-4

[thegamechanger]

no country for old men.

[The Ugly]

no country for old men.

High as fuck on this one, though.

[Teutonic Knight]

All shit with that black guy Denzel ................

[SuperTed]

Rocky 2-6
Rambo 2-4
Terminator 3-4

Not sure if any of those films are rated highly tbh. Just generic sequels living off their predecessors. 

[Dr Dutch]

Not sure if any of those films are rated highly tbh. Just generic sequels living off their predecessors. 

Well maybe Rocky 3 with mr T was allright....

[The Ugly]

taxi driver, raging bull and the deer hunter are shit films!!!??  i'm about ready to punch a hole in my wall and send you guys the repair bill!

No, no, and no.

Dude just pasted IMDb's Top 250 list, posteth what thou meanest not.

[Voice of Doom]

I'm gonna take some heat from this one but I think 2001 is overated

There's some excellent scenes but overall if you're invited to a sci-fi Saturday night party and you find out they're playing 2001...how stoked are you really gonna be?  What if they said they're playing Aliens...or Predator...or Bladerunner or Star Trek II or The Thing...or Back to the Future.  Don't lie now

[The Ugly]

I'm gonna take some heat from this one but I think 2001 is overated

There's some excellent scenes but overall if you're invited to a sci-fi Saturday night party and you find out they're playing 2001...how stoked are you really gonna be?  What if they said they're playing Aliens...or Predator...or Bladerunner or Star Trek II or The Thing...or Back to the Future.  Don't lie now

It's definitely one to watch alone. Amazing film, though.

[NarcissisticDeity]

Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas
Sin City
Do The Right Thing
The English Patient

[SF1900]

Are you high?  Shawshank Redemption is one of the top 20 greatest movies of all time.

Agreed. One of the greats.

Movies, like music and art, is just WAY too subjective. I mean, some people think Shawshank Redemption is one of the greatest movies (I agree), and others think its way overrated.