Overrated Movies

[Gelfling Girl]

Oh, I loved Katie! She was the best part of the movie. Her film would have been better.

Yeah, same here. We pretty much had to watch that movie in many of our classes during testing week, the half-days before a holiday break, etc. It got rather boring after the third or so class that we were watching it in, but Katie's scenes were hilarious.

 

[BobThePizzaBoy]

Pineapples Express, a very unfunny comedy that went on about a half hour too long. I seem to be the only one who doesn't think this movie is brilliant.

 

[Puckrox]

Pineapples Express, a very unfunny comedy that went on about a half hour too long. I seem to be the only one who doesn't think this movie is brilliant.

UUUUUUUUGH. I love Judd Apatow movies. I do. I think Knocked Up, 40 Year Old Virgin, Funny People, and Super Bad are hilarious and brilliant, but I hate Pineapple Express. I'm pretty sure it's a movie made specificially for stoners, which I'm not, so it makes it hard for me to enjoy it. This is the only part I thought that was funny in the whole movie (that I can remember, at least).

Overrated movies? Uh. Twilight (overrated and awful!). And AVATAR. Avatar was so horribly overrated and was also kind of just horrible. But pretty. It was very pretty to look at. But horrible. And long. Too long. Quite, quite.

 

[Sgt Floyd]

I finally saw Avatar and I agree with it being overrated. I can barely sit through a two hour long movie...I can barely sit through a 90 minute movie. It was just way too long. It was very pretty and had amazingly detailed CGI, but other than that, the plot seemed very generic and was really predictable

 

[Puckrox]

I finally saw Avatar and I agree with it being overrated. I can barely sit through a two hour long movie...I can barely sit through a 90 minute movie. It was just way too long. It was very pretty and had amazingly detailed CGI, but other than that, the plot seemed very generic and was really predictable

Yeah! The CGI and 3D were really spiffy, but the plot was the generic white supremacy saving the native tribe story (like Dances with Wolves, Pocahontas, or Ferngully). It's soooooo long and the story gets to a point where it's super dull. The best part of the movie is when there's a giant robot and it literally pulls a knife out from a sheath. Here's the picture. Look at that. That's a giant friggen robot holding a knife. So ridiculous.

Click here to see Avatar compared to a bunch of other movies. Tis funny.

 

[Drtooth]

Saying Avatar is overrated is in itself overrated. A movie really has to be overrated to say that. But what do you expect from the overrated director that gave us that overrated classic Titanic?

And everything that M Night Shabbadoo guy does is overrated, even if it's a flop. Dude has NO TALENT.

Still, I'll take how he ruined The Last Airbender (that couldn't even use it's full real title thanks to said overrated film) over how everyone else who does kid's movies ruins cartoons.

That said, Yogi Bear is surprisingly overrated. But at least it kept to the concept and didn't turn him into a wisecracking actual bear with the wrong voice like Underdog did. Underdog was a bomb and it was still overrated. And the Second Chipmunks movie, which had some good concepts burried under horrid ones. The first one was actually watchable... not great, but surprisingly watchable.

 

[CensoredAlso]

But what do you expect from the overrated director that gave us that overrated classic Titanic?

Titanic was definitely overrated, though it also seems to have been largely forgotten in recent years. At the time it seemed very impressive, and the sinking scenes are still very poignant in my opinion, but the love story was just too cliche and one dimensional.

In contrast, an earlier Titanic film, A Night to Remember, still remains very touching for me. : )

 

[Starchamberfall]

I am preparing to receive your tomatoes over this.

I saw the first Batman movie (1989) in the USA. When I returned to Canada, I went to see it again. I was certain I must have missed something. I hadn't. No offence to fans of this! It was a very honest try. I thought it was stilted. Maybe for people who had never gotten Batman in the first place, it was a revelation?

 

[Drtooth]

Frogboy has a better spin on this than I do...

Suffice to say, I really liked those 2 Batman movies Tim Burton did... I felt the third one enjoyable, but I HATE how Twoface was portrayed with the Joker's personality, and I have yet to meet anyone who LIKED Batman and Robin. When it came down to it, Tim Burton actually didn't read the comics and just did the movie how he felt it should have been done, and while I like Jack's Joker, Caesar Romero was the best one until Mark Hamil (Larry Storch's one for the animated series in the 60's and 70's was pretty good too). Plus, it seemed everyone who played Batman in those 4 movies was just a little uncomfortable (though, out of the bunch, Keaton was the least uncomfortable). And according to a Charlie Rose interview, (I forget some of it the most part since it was over a year ago) Tim Burton stopped doing the Batman movies because he kept butting heads with the license because the gruesome death scenes made horrible Happymeal toys. Not kidding.

HOWEVER, without the Time Burton Batman movies, we never would have had the groundbreaking, scene changing Batman the Animated Series (A cartoon almost everyone universally likes). It may not seem like much, but that cartoon pushed envelopes that let to more realistic nail biting action and brilliant writing on children's TV, something to the dismay of parental groups. There have been some very action packed shows in the 80's, but there was there was a gritty darkness that BTAS brought to the table that changed animation. Right up their with Nicktoons, the most important thing to happen to cartoons at the time.

In other words, check out an episode of Batman TAS and a Super Friends cartoon. The Super Friends never lay a finger on Lex Luthor, and the villains ALWAYS escape at the end of every episode. Batman CLOBBERED the villains, and for the most part, they either got caught in the end, or met a gruesome ending.

 

[frogboy4]

Frogboy has a better spin on this than I do...

Suffice to say, I really liked those 2 Batman movies Tim Burton did... I felt the third one enjoyable, but I HATE how Twoface was portrayed with the Joker's personality, and I have yet to meet anyone who LIKED Batman and Robin. When it came down to it, Tim Burton actually didn't read the comics and just did the movie how he felt it should have been done, and while I like Jack's Joker, Caesar Romero was the best one until Mark Hamil (Larry Storch's one for the animated series in the 60's and 70's was pretty good too). Plus, it seemed everyone who played Batman in those 4 movies was just a little uncomfortable (though, out of the bunch, Keaton was the least uncomfortable). And according to a Charlie Rose interview, (I forget some of it the most part since it was over a year ago) Tim Burton stopped doing the Batman movies because he kept butting heads with the license because the gruesome death scenes made horrible Happymeal toys. Not kidding.

HOWEVER, without the Time Burton Batman movies, we never would have had the groundbreaking, scene changing Batman the Animated Series (A cartoon almost everyone universally likes). It may not seem like much, but that cartoon pushed envelopes that let to more realistic nail biting action and brilliant writing on children's TV, something to the dismay of parental groups. There have been some very action packed shows in the 80's, but there was there was a gritty darkness that BTAS brought to the table that changed animation. Right up their with Nicktoons, the most important thing to happen to cartoons at the time.

In other words, check out an episode of Batman TAS and a Super Friends cartoon. The Super Friends never lay a finger on Lex Luthor, and the villains ALWAYS escape at the end of every episode. Batman CLOBBERED the villains, and for the most part, they either got caught in the end, or met a gruesome ending.

I just watched this again and enjoyed it with even more perspective.

Tim Burton actually takes pride in the fact that he doesn't read comic books and did very little actual reading during his research for Batman. One only need look at his Willy Wonka, Planet of the Apes or Alice in Wonderland to see that, while always visually striking with stellar performances, Burton chooses not to digest the source material before going off on his own tangents. I think all of his adaptations would be far more solid in terms of story if he'd show reverence to the original material. He's an artist.

That's not to say I didn't like his original Batman or its sequel. I did. His (and Nicholson's) Joker followed the Cesar Romero model rather than the darker, more mysterious place the character actually comes from. Some could say Nolan and Ledger went too far, but the psychological elements in that Joker are pitch perfect. The Batman in my head kind of lives in the space between the Nolan and Burton visions.

Ultimately Batman 1989's greatest hiccup is in its writing and poor pacing. It's uneven and really kind of a mess that was aided by the editor. The visuals, the performances and the fact that it’s friggin’ Batman on the big screen pick up the slack for the structural pitfalls. Even though I wish they would have fixed a few elements (like maybe have the Joker alongside Joe Chill while the Waynes were killed rather than kill them himself) I like this film. It’s not perfect, but it brought back Batman and comic book movies in a big way!