[flatboat]

Of the classics, the one that leaves me cold has got to be Some Like it Hot, I chuckled a couple of times but that's about it. Of recent films, Brokeback Mountain and There Will be Blood both didn't do much for me. BM just seemed like a quite average romance and I never really cared about the characters. I was surprised not to enjoy TWBB because I'm a huge fan of the Coen's, or at least of their earlier output

[SG-1]

LOST IN TRANSLATION ( and almost everything with bill murray in lately )..Most over rated film in years,drab pointless and unworthy of any awards .

LAWRENCE OF ARABIA
ZULU
THE SOUND OF MUSIC
GONE WITH THE WIND all these films feel like they are never going to end,some people call them epics,i call them epic sh*te.

JAMES BOND FILMS : wish they stopped making these in the 70s.
ANYTHING BY WOODY ALLEN,he has to be the most over rated director of all time.
ANYTHING BY THE COEN BROTHERS
THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST

[Reality Sucks]

Originally Posted by shazzyfizz

I thought Fargo was close to genius

I liked Fargo but preferred Blood Simple, the first movie I ever saw by them, a really suspensful black comedy film noir. I liked the Big Lewoski too, but wasn't that impressed with Brother Where Art thou. I like the characters in their movies though and the fact that they are very off centre. I think some of the scenes in the Sopranos might have been inspired by the Coen Brothers (The Russian episode for example) and the general look of the show.

[job]

Originally Posted by Jackassfan

Some highly rated films i dont like

Blowup (1966)
King Kong (1933)
The Matrix (1999)
Jurassic Park (1993)
The English Patient (1996)
Blade Runner (1982)
2001 A Space Odyssey (1968)
Gladiator (2000)

Disagree about The Matrix, Jurassic Park, Blade Runner, 2001 and Gladiator.
There are some ground breaking movies there that rightly deserve the high rating. Especially 2001.


I like some of the Coen brothers work. But Barton Fink was terrible, if it wasn't for....

Spoiler

The main character waking up next to a dead body.

... I would have got up and exited the cinema.

[UltraViolet]

Casablanca - I get to the end and think "so what?"

I finally got around to watching Casablanca last year and I thought the same thing at the end, what's all the fuss about...

[revolver44]

Originally Posted by SG-1

ZULU

Good God I'm speechless

[alienghost]

I thought The Shawshank Redemption was far too sentimental. I suspect I'll be alone in this view though.

[Squirt_00]

2001: A space Odyssey
Dawn of the dead etc
Airplace
This is Spinal Tap

[Reality Sucks]

Originally Posted by Squirt_00

2001: A space Odyssey
Dawn of the dead etc
Airplace
This is Spinal Tap

Aww I liked This is Spinal Tap - especially the first time I saw it.
It had several laugh out loud moments.

My top overrated films would be

The Sound Of Music and Laurence of Arabia

More recently - American Beauty was really hyped and I thought it was only just OK

Titanic - couldn't wait for the boat to sink.

Top Gun - like a propoganda movie for the USAF crossed with an MTV video.

British movies - MY Beautiful Launderette, The Full Monty, Mona Lisa and East is East - all a bit like TV movies.

Also Mike Leigh's Secret's and Lies. I've liked a lot of his stuff but thought this was badly over acted by Brenda Blethyn

[UltraViolet]

Ugh definitely TOP GUN, I thought it was terrible.

[LostFool]

Originally Posted by JEFF62

Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind - Sent me to sleep at the cinema. gave it a second try on dvd and gave up after half an hour. Possibly the most boring film I have ever seen and yet others rave about it.

What?! I thought it was brilliant (and just about the only Jim Carey film I have ever liked). As I did Lost in Translation. I guess I just like movies where "not much" happens. Garden State is another example.

[bijou]

I'm probably going to end up being jumped on for this but I've never really been a fan of the Godfather films

[LostFool]

Originally Posted by bijou

I'm probably going to end up being jumped on for this but I've never really been a fan of the Godfather films

Thank you! I was going to mention the Godfather trilogy. I had never seen any of them but recently bought the trilogy boxset thinking it was about time I saw this "classic"

I struggled to the end of the first one, fell asleep in the second and I haven't been able to face the third one yet.

[job]

Originally Posted by Alt-F4

I often look up a film on the IMDB to see what other people thought of it before watching them. If something got near or over an 8.0 (say ... 7.5 or over) you'd think it was a safe bet, right? Well on many occasions I have been both gutted and surprised to be in the minority for what I call sucky films, here's a few (I've listed their current ratings)

Signs (qualifies because it had 8.1 when it first came out, still 6.9 now, it should be 2.0)
House of sand and fog (7.8)
Road to perdition (7.7)
Big fish (8.0)
V for vendetta (8.2)
Good night and good luck (7.8)
Assasination of Richard Nixon (7.2)

That's my load of crap. The majority of these films were non-action and/or had incredibly boring plots. Please feel free to flame me if you disagree.

Okay, I totally mis-understood this thread title. I thought this was about highly rated films, not just by the viewers, but by everyone including film-makers.

So when most film-makers vote Citizen Kane as being the best film or The Godfather, they're saying not only because it was 'exciting' but because it broke ground on technique, some new device or storytelling. So, I find parts of 2001 'boring' but I also recognise why it's so highly rated (heck, it still looks better than a lot of today's space films).

[нöℓєs]

Originally Posted by musiclover1267

Lord of the rings.

oh god!!
i seriously died while i watched that

[Hera]

Originally Posted by LostFool

Thank you! I was going to mention the Godfather trilogy. I had never seen any of them but recently bought the trilogy boxset thinking it was about time I saw this "classic"

I struggled to the end of the first one, fell asleep in the second and I haven't been able to face the third one yet.

If you found part I & II boring then whatever you do, do not watch part III - you will be suicidal!
I am saying this as a fan of Godfather part I & II.

[77amy77]

I didn't like Atonement as much as everyone else seemed to. Loved the first act, thought the second and third were meandering and made me lose all interest. And if I hadn't read the book beforehand I think I might have been completely lost as to the entire point of the story.

[edwardscraig200]

I found Stardust quite boring; the ratings for it were all so good, but when it came down to the plot, it was rather boring and predictable

[Rach28893]

I guess the problem with high scores on imdb is that a film could have a high rating because it has a devoted fan base and/or has been released recently therefore more votes etc. Although obscure films tend to do quite well in the ratings too because the people that tend to watch them are fans of that particular genre.

For me personally, The Matrix has got to be up there in most overated films, think Kill Bill should be up there too, I like Tarantino films, but this one got a little bit too much praise.

Oh and the first Lord of the Rings!!! I was so miserable by the end of it, and there seemed to be so many potential endings and then it would go onto another scene, made me want to cry!

[Agent Krycek]

Being John Malkovitch - twaddle, pretentious and just plain boring, I hate films that wear their 'wackiness' like a badge of honour

[Alt-F4]

Originally Posted by Rach28893

I guess the problem with high scores on imdb is that a film could have a high rating because it has a devoted fan base and/or has been released recently therefore more votes etc. Although obscure films tend to do quite well in the ratings too because the people that tend to watch them are fans of that particular genre.

For me personally, The Matrix has got to be up there in most overated films, think Kill Bill should be up there too, I like Tarantino films, but this one got a little bit too much praise.

The groundbreaking and original, but not actually enjoyable genre.

Originally Posted by Rach28893

Oh and the first Lord of the Rings!!! I was so miserable by the end of it, and there seemed to be so many potential endings and then it would go onto another scene, made me want to cry!

Not nearly as bad as the ending of the ROTK, that Boyens/Walsh vomit bucket at the greyhavens farewell was just unbearable to watch.

[Granny72]

Dances with wolves
Cloverfield (aka 80 minutes of silly plotting and annoying characters)

[Rhinestone]

Crash. Awful load of tosh.

Brokeback Mountain. Even bigger load of tosh.

Atonement. Snore fest.

The Terminal. Spielberg continues his Shark Jump... Will Indiana Jones rescue him?

The Da Vinci Code. Poor film, from beginning to end. Tom Hanks why did you even make this drek? Oh and get a new hair stylist.

Finally... The king of the overrated....

Scarface.

A ridiculous film. One which likes to tell its audience "The world is yours" actually knows very little about it at all..

Pacino's abysmal performance, right up there with that laughable Cuban accent of his. The Godfather this drivel isn't and ain't ever ever going to be. Pacino comes across as nothing more then a lame, camped-up joke, that would have been better off in one of thouse awful "Carry On" films.

It's Diddy's favourite film. Bad Boy for life... how impressive.

[Rhinestone]

Isn't it funny that the very people that love to love Scarface are also the same kind that like to dictate "Gangsta C-rap" as being an art form.

[newkid30]

I will probably be slated for these but here goes

I'm not saying that these are BAD films just hugley overhyped and overrated, they are all decent, just not AMAZING.

History of Violence, critics raved about it, noone I know was overly pushed about it.

Country of Old men - pretty good, but way overhyped.

Goodfellas - decent movie, but No WAY is it like top 10 ever, I think that is ridiculous.

Brokeback Mountain - I enjoyed it, and thought it was poignant, but did not get the complete hype about it at all.

I, robot, I thought was utter garbage.