Most overrated film of all time...

[tali1]

GetCarter said:

Cotty said:

GetCarter said:

marcosgt said:

Shawshank often cited as "bestest film 'eva!" despite being really rather dull and derivative

Takes all sorts I guess. Rachmaninoff was okay on a pub piano I heard.

FYI One million, six hundred and eighty nine thousand, seven hundred and twenty nine film enthusiasts disagree with you. (Plus me) >>> http://www.imdb.com/search/title?groups=top_250&am...

That's the total number of votes, you need to look at the breakdown as some people did not rate it highly. Although 946,969 gave it a 10
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111161/ratings?ref_=t...

It's number 1. Every other film in history scored less. HTH

Lots of people simply like Shawshank because it has a trendy title -it makes them look cool and funky saying it .Probably first film with a flashmob following.
I bet if you asked the IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi about movies he would say "They are the work of Satan defeacting and they all should be burned.Apart from the Shawshank Redemption...i luuuvve that movie! "
Out of the Top 30 on IMBD -only Wizard of Oz,Psycho , 12 Angry Men and Some Like it Hot do it for me .Imho.

[Evangelion]

Blues Brothers.

Definitely the biggest load of bks I have ever witnessed in my entire life. It not only eclipses all other movies in its bksness, but all books, albums, stage plays, radio and television programmes, cars and ex-girlfriends.

I can't imagine how anybody even acknowledges its existence, let alone likes it.

[nicanary]

I take it you don't like Cab Callaway?

[coppice]

How about ..the music , the humour , the sheer wonderful daftness of it ? It obviously is not to your taste but as Eric has eloquently argued a binary like /don't like approach isn't that interesting.Tell us what your favourite film is - and why?

[Evangelion]

coppice said:

How about ..the music , the humour , the sheer wonderful daftness of it ? It obviously is not to your taste but as Eric has eloquently argued a binary like /don't like approach isn't that interesting.Tell us what your favourite film is - and why?

Music ... how can anybody call that horrible racket music?

Humour ... sorry, I don't find any of it funny, just stupid.

Daftness ... see stupid above.

I haven't got a favourite film but I could list some I like for you, in no particular order:

Vertigo, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, Some Like it Hot, When Harry Met Sally, Back to the Future (all 3 but particularly 2), Citizen Kane, The Italian Job (the original), Donny Darko, The Butterfly Effect, My Super Ex-Girlfriend, Saving Private Ryan, The Lavender Hill Mob, Shadow of a Doubt, Alfie (the original), plus a few dozen more. But that's not really what this threads all about.

Other films I consider over-rated: Nearly all science fiction films. Most of them are awful compared to the books they are based on.

[otolith]

Evangelion said:

Other films I consider over-rated: Nearly all science fiction films. Most of them are awful compared to the books they are based on.

Perhaps because the amount of exposition required would make them unwatchable for a mainstream audience?

[Pachydermus]

Evangelion said:

Music ... how can anybody call that horrible racket music?

James Brown, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, John Lee Hooker and Cab Calloway.
A horrible racket? Well that's certainly an interesting opinion.

[amgmcqueen]

Life of Pi.

Complete and utter garbage from start to finish!

[coppice]

Or moving , funny , startlingly original and visually stunning - that's the version I saw anyway....

[Gandahar]

I think Interstellar is the most over rated Sci-Fi movie of all time.

On IMDB it gets 8.6.

The original Star Wars only gets slightly more at 8.7 and that was ground breaking.

Close Encounters gets 7.7

Alien gets 8.5

Finally 2001 a Space Odyssey gets 8.3.


HOW THE FECK CAN INTERSTELLAR GET 8.6 when matched up against Star Wars, Close Encounters, Alien and 2001?


It's the most over rated movie of all time.

I have tried to watch it twice, and just bored the fugging pants off me. A sci fi movie has to grab your imagination. This just grabbed both eyelids shut.

It's hype rather than hyper drive in summary.

Complete bks

Edited by Gandahar on Saturday 13th August 19:22

[Gandahar]

otolith said:

I would say that one considers a film to be "overrated" if one disagrees with critical and/or popular opinion of its merit.

That's the general jist of this thread. It's taken you 24 pages to come up with that earth shattering conclusion?

I read the title and figured it out ..... maybe I'm a quick learner.

[paulwoof]

Gandahar said:

I think Interstellar is the most over rated Sci-Fi movie of all time.

On IMDB it gets 8.6.

The original Star Wars only gets slightly more at 8.7 and that was ground breaking.

Close Encounters gets 7.7

Alien gets 8.5

Finally 2001 a Space Odyssey gets 8.3.


HOW THE FECK CAN INTERSTELLAR GET 8.6 when matched up against Star Wars, Close Encounters, Alien and 2001?


It's the most over rated movie of all time.

I have tried to watch it twice, and just bored the fugging pants off me. A sci fi movie has to grab your imagination. This just grabbed both eyelids shut.

It's hype rather than hyper drive in summary.

Complete bks

Edited by Gandahar on Saturday 13th August 19:22

All modern films are over inflated in terms of IMDB rating.

Most people tend to add their rating to the new film they just watched. Less vote older films before IMDB became popular. You only have to look at the top 250 film list. There is many older films on there but lots of new films (Last 5 years) which should not, But get mega internet hype before release, Everyone adds a rating etc.

[paulguitar]

Shakespeare in Love.

Pretty Woman, what a horrible shallow tale that is.

Gravity. That was bad I had to watch through my fingers and then gave up.

[matt666]

Interesting how 2001 polarises opinion. Personally I thought it was garbage, there are sequences in there that last too long even on fast forward. Most of it is so boring it's almost unwatchable.

[matt666]

Interesting how 2001 polarises opinion. Personally I thought it was garbage, there are sequences in there that last too long even on fast forward. Most of it is so boring it's almost unwatchable.

[Evangelion]

I'd agree with Gandahar about Interstellar. I watched it last week and frankly couldn't see what all the fuss was about.

[otolith]

Gandahar said:

otolith said:

I would say that one considers a film to be "overrated" if one disagrees with critical and/or popular opinion of its merit.

That's the general jist of this thread. It's taken you 24 pages to come up with that earth shattering conclusion?

I read the title and figured it out ..... maybe I'm a quick learner.

I also reached that conclusion. Some apparently didn't. The comment wasn't for the benefit of those of us who already understood that.

[coppice]

Well , iconoclasm is certainly alive and well on this thread....I only saw 2001 in period and it was quite unlike anything I had seen before- extraordinarily good film. Would it be as good now ? I am not sure that's too important . But what I will say is that many judgments of film seen on another medium - telly big or small - are at best provisional. Film often doesn't translate well to a small screen and it's rare we give TV full attention anyway .

Oh- and Shakespeare in Love bad... ? Really- I thought it was terrific(and I am not even sure I have met anybody who didn't love it ) - as of course it had to be with the sublime Tom Stoppard writing the script .

[Evangelion]

coppice said:

... Shakespeare in Love bad ... ? Really - I thought it was terrific ...

I thought it was terrific too. Particularly liked the bit where Will jumps in a boat and says "Follow that boat!" and when the boatman finds out who he is says "I had that Christopher Marlowe in the back of my boat the other day." Brilliant.

(Think I'll start a new thread: Favourite Movie Quotes.)

[TwigtheWonderkid]

amgmcqueen said:

Life of Pi.

Complete and utter garbage from start to finish!

IMDB gives it 3.14.