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Henry Plainview 
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 Topic: Most overhyped movies.
Posted: February 11 2010 at 01:28 |
Yup, Eraserhead was pretty awful. I made it half an hour in before I bailed. I'm sure there's some reason Stanley Kubrik and Spielberg love it, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to figure it out.
I did like the mother lighting up a cigarette for the catatonic grandmother, and the soundtrack was effective, but otherwise, just no.
Edited by Henry Plainview - February 11 2010 at 01:36
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Vibrationbaby
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Posted: February 08 2010 at 15:46 |
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Lots of sh*t movies out there these days. I yearn for a good old fashioned Godzilla movie with crappy models of Tokyo being stomped out by a guy in a cheap rubber suit. Those were the days of cinema at it's finest.
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jampa17
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Posted: February 08 2010 at 14:22 |
 KoS wrote:
Crash.
It was supposed to be against stereotypes but all it was was stereotypes.
Plus, it seemed totally contrived.
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Exactly my words... 
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Change the program inside... Stay in silence is a crime.
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Bitterblogger
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Posted: February 08 2010 at 13:01 |
TealFoxes wrote:
Scorsese films.
His formula is beaten to death & never was that fascinating to me. I really like Age & Innocence, but besides that i think they're all just for the sake of sadism.
Now that i mention sadism, Mel Gibson directs & stars in very overhyped movies
(I'll give a bit of credit to Ransom, though) |
Can't go along on Scorsese (although I think his best is behind him), but you're right on about Gibson as an actor.
I'll add Braveheart to Ransom as worthy since he became a big star (though Hamlet, which I haven't seen, was evidently better than OK). Others are merely passable, or worse.
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TealFoxes
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Posted: February 06 2010 at 11:19 |
Scorsese films. His formula is beaten to death & never was that fascinating to me. I really like Age & Innocence, but besides that i think they're all just for the sake of sadism.
Now that i mention sadism, Mel Gibson directs & stars in very overhyped movies (I'll give a bit of credit to Ransom, though)
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Kashmir75
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Posted: February 05 2010 at 21:50 |
sleeper wrote:
The Star Wars films, all 6 of them. Its not that they're bad films because they arent, they're just massivly over hyped with every single aspect of them best described as OK. |
See, SW is like Pink Floyd for me. Sure, they're good. But ask a non-sci fi fan, or a non-progger, and they can only come up with Star Wars, or Pink Floyd respectively.
There's so much more sci fi than just Star Wars.
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Hello, mirror. So glad to see you, my friend. It's been a while...
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Kashmir75
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Posted: February 05 2010 at 21:42 |
Kestrel wrote:
From 2009, I'd say Star Trek and Avatar were the most overhyped. It seems like every nerd loved Star Trek when I don't think it was actually that good and I don't think Avatar is the revolution James Cameron claimed it would be. |
Really? I thought the new Trek was the best one they've done in years, since First Contact probably. It had something for both the fans and newbies. Avatar may not have been anything really new in the story department (Dances with Wolves, Pocahontas, or Last Samurai with aliens), but the technology really was breathtaking and stunning. I totally believed in the mo-cap creatures.
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Hello, mirror. So glad to see you, my friend. It's been a while...
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Kashmir75
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Posted: February 05 2010 at 21:39 |
Tony R wrote:
Interesting. The OP asks for the most over-hyped movie and people merely post about films they don't like.
I guess that over-hyped really means that there was general critical and popular acclaim but you as an individual could see no merit in it but in this sense it means movies where the trailer contained all the "best" bits I guess. No one could genuinely think that The Godfather was a bad movie.
2012 (absolutely atrocious, lazy film-making and bad science)
The Day After Tomorrow (see above)
The Star Wars Prequels (urinating on a favourite childhood memory)
Transformers (even the lowest common denominator should feel insulted by the stilted dialogue and 1D characters)
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I don't think anyone really rates those movies you list. I thought the general consensus on those films was that they were terrible?
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Hello, mirror. So glad to see you, my friend. It's been a while...
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crimhead
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Posted: January 10 2010 at 12:54 |
marktheshark wrote:
Bitterblogger wrote:
marktheshark wrote:
Anybody ever heard of or seen any of the Billy Jack films. Four of them altogether starting with a 1967 biker exploitation film called Born Losers that introduced the character. These films were independently made by Tom Laughlin. Billy Jack (played by Laughlin) is a character that's a half-breed Indian, ex-Green Beret Viet Nam vet and martial arts expert. He comes to the aid of a hippy Freedom School on a reservation in Arizona. The films were horrendous and critically panned everywhere. But they touched a nerve with the counterculture in the early 70s and became box office sensations. Bad acting, bad directing, very pretentous and not to mention hypercritical. Always preaching peace and love and yet Billy just keeps beating the crap out of the rednecks that don't go along with that. They're really laughable now (and even then) and are hopelessly dated and eventually drifted off to obscurity, thank god! |
Seconded heartily--and was co-star and wife the ugliest "heroine" of all time or what? |
Seconded there too. Would you believe Laughlin is filming a 5th Billy Jack film? He's almost 80 years old! He must be a glutton for punishment. His wife Delores looked bad enough in the 70s, I can't imagine how she looks now. |
Maybe it's going to be like The Karate Kid movies with Billy Jack mentoring a young man.
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marktheshark
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Posted: January 09 2010 at 11:09 |
Bitterblogger wrote:
marktheshark wrote:
Anybody ever heard of or seen any of the Billy Jack films. Four of them altogether starting with a 1967 biker exploitation film called Born Losers that introduced the character. These films were independently made by Tom Laughlin. Billy Jack (played by Laughlin) is a character that's a half-breed Indian, ex-Green Beret Viet Nam vet and martial arts expert. He comes to the aid of a hippy Freedom School on a reservation in Arizona. The films were horrendous and critically panned everywhere. But they touched a nerve with the counterculture in the early 70s and became box office sensations. Bad acting, bad directing, very pretentous and not to mention hypercritical. Always preaching peace and love and yet Billy just keeps beating the crap out of the rednecks that don't go along with that. They're really laughable now (and even then) and are hopelessly dated and eventually drifted off to obscurity, thank god! |
Seconded heartily--and was co-star and wife the ugliest "heroine" of all time or what? |
Seconded there too. Would you believe Laughlin is filming a 5th Billy Jack film? He's almost 80 years old! He must be a glutton for punishment. His wife Delores looked bad enough in the 70s, I can't imagine how she looks now.
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Kestrel
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Posted: January 09 2010 at 05:27 |
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From 2009, I'd say Star Trek and Avatar were the most overhyped. It seems like every nerd loved Star Trek when I don't think it was actually that good and I don't think Avatar is the revolution James Cameron claimed it would be.
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Posted: January 08 2010 at 23:47 |
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Crash.
It was supposed to be against stereotypes but all it was was stereotypes.
Plus, it seemed totally contrived.
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Posted: January 08 2010 at 23:14 |
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Posted: January 08 2010 at 21:39 |
^ whoops my mistake 
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Posted: January 08 2010 at 21:32 |
Bitterblogger wrote:
Xanthous wrote:
Most New Movies
All Superhero Movies
All Super Villain Movies
Most Childrens movies
Most Scary Movies
Most movies that don't have a psychological, psychedelic, or sci-fi theme.
Overall I hate movies. I've seen way too many of the things listed above. Scary movies are usually cliched and all the others listed are just dreadful. I'll take books, music, or most other forms of entertainment for that matter over movies.
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One wonders why you chose this thread to vent on movies in general. |
well he's Bitterblogger, what do you expect?
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Chris H
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Posted: January 08 2010 at 21:00 |
I can't really comment on Harry Potter, I only saw the first one but it was a while ago. I don't remember anything about it, which means that it couldn't have been too great.
I haven't seen Across The Universe either, but I hear that it was completely dreadful from some people, and others think it's the greatest movie ever made.
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Posted: January 08 2010 at 20:53 |
Mr ProgFreak wrote:
Harry Potter ... that's all I'm going to say.
At least for now ... 
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I'll agree as far as the movies go.
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Posted: January 08 2010 at 20:43 |
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I'm surprised no one has mentioned "Across the Universe" yet. Basically, that film was just "let's see how many Beatles songs we can put in one movie, and add in faux-surrealistic that looks like they were from the 60's to go with it." It amazes me how many people were convinced that was some kind of "art" film.
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Mr ProgFreak
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Posted: January 08 2010 at 17:48 |
Harry Potter ... that's all I'm going to say. At least for now ...
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Xanthous
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Posted: January 08 2010 at 17:45 |
Bitterblogger wrote:
Xanthous wrote:
Most New Movies
All Superhero Movies
All Super Villain Movies
Most Childrens movies
Most Scary Movies
Most movies that don't have a psychological, psychedelic, or sci-fi theme.
Overall I hate movies. I've seen way too many of the things listed above. Scary movies are usually cliched and all the others listed are just dreadful. I'll take books, music, or most other forms of entertainment for that matter over movies.
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One wonders why you chose this thread to vent on movies in general. |
This was the most relevant thread I have found without having to go searching for one. I am just very angry with movies right now.
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