Looked fine to me.
Most overrated movies?
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@Ao:
i remember getting bored and just reading or drawing or whatever halfway through out of sheer boredom. i seriously couldn't find any of it even slightly funny..
That's how i felt only watching the trailer. Wish i had stopped there.
Scott's actor was as flat as cheap piece of toilet paper… I mean, the dude sounded as if he was bored out of his mind for the entire movie. Maybe he was trying to go for the innocent loser approach, but there wasn't enough energy. He sucked! Sucked! Sucked! Sucked!
I thought Michael Cera was quite good, surisingly so since i've wanted him deads since year one. Prehaps not quite 100% match but maybe 80%. And compared to other movie adaptions that's pretty good.
300 was a fairly decent movie, definitley works in the right scenario. It's what you get with the guys if you can't find a decent Stallone movie. Heck a bad Stallone movie is still better to watch on a guys night but still 300 works.
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Yes, all but one scene used green screen (blue to be accurate), but the creators made that pretty clear.
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I agree that Christoph Waltz was great in the movie. He completely overshadowed Brad Pitt who's supposed to be the leading man.
Brad Pitt wasn't supposed to be the leading man. If you're familiar with Tarantino's movies you'll notice that the character roles aren't treated the same way they usually are in other movies. Sometimes, Tarantino can have two, three or even more leading characters, each one having approximately the same screening time.
Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Death Proof.
Honestly, can you point at these and say that there is only one lead? Kill Bill is the only noticeable exception to this rule.
To me it's quite obvious who are the leading characters in Inglourious Basterds. Shosanna (Laurent), Landa (Waltz) and Raine (Pitt). They are the ones driving the plot and share the most screening time.
Maybe I should watch the original.
What original?
Are you talking about Enzo Castellari's Quel maledetto treno blindato (aka Inglorious Bastards)? Though the title might make you think otherwise, Tarantino's film is not a remake of Castellari's. Quel maledetto treno blindato was certainly an inspiration. Tarantino borrowed the title, and even asked Castellari to play one of the German generals. Besides that, they have nothing else in common.
Nevertheless, I do recommend that you see the film. It's quite fun.
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Commercials are a lot of the time off when it comes to movies. Such as the trailers for Splice making it look like a horror movie. Damn marketing teams.
Not only that, but I see a lot of trailers give away most (if not all) of the plot, such as one of the trailers for True Grit, or Hancock, or Charlie St. Cloud, etc.
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Die Hard 4 was an amazing action spectacle with Bruce Willis being his crazy badass self. It was a popcorn flick with no substance, but if you go watch a Die Hard movie for a different reason than HES FIRING A TRUCK INTO A HELICOPTER YIPPEE KI YAY, then you're doing it wrong.
I honestly don't go into a Die Hard movie expecting much outside of mindblowing action and bloody violence two things that Live Free didn't even offer a whole lot of.
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I thought Die Hard 4 was bad even as an action film. It was really laughable at times.
I hate when the concept of hacking is used as some catchall computer dickery. The whole plot was like
"Sir they've hacked our internet and taken ALL of the computers!"
"Whoa, all of them?! How can we counter this."
"We can't. They hacked us and stole the MAINFRAME."
"The mainframe?! But we have twelve of those."
"Not anymore. They set up a bomb in the database and our matrix was pulled offline!"
"Fuck! These bastards know what they're doing…"
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No way! Not the mainframe!!
Hahahahah! Oh man. Those were the days. Lots of movies back then used computer terminology to amaze those that didn't understand them.
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Yeah, it's surreal and totally comical to still see some stuff like that exist nowadays, when "computers" are not the grand mystery they were in the 80s.
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That's also one of my bugbears..the bad guy was a lot more likeable (he makes quite the magnificent bastard) than the heroes..I mean wtf? :/
You could say the same for a lot of movies actually. Heath Ledger dominated The Dark Knight so much that it's more a Joker movie than a Batman movie. Anthony Hopkins completely owned the 19-odd minutes of screentime he had in The Silence of the Lambs. Almost every actor in Star Wars Trilogy overshadowed Mark Hamill's Luke Skywalker - especially Vader and Solo.
I have nothing against bad guys overshadowing the leading actor, as long as the character is awesome, and the portrayal is awesome. Waltz was just that - awesome.
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@Xai:
You could say the same for a lot of movies actually. Heath Ledger dominated The Dark Knight so much that it's more a Joker movie than a Batman movie. Anthony Hopkins completely owned the 19-odd minutes of screentime he had in The Silence of the Lambs. Almost every actor in Star Wars Trilogy overshadowed Mark Hamill's Luke Skywalker - especially Vader and Solo.
I have nothing against bad guys overshadowing the leading actor, as long as the character is awesome, and the portrayal is awesome. Waltz was just that - awesome.
It's just that I'm German so this is kind of a sensitive subject when I say I actually like a Nazi character :ninja:
@ Green Hair
With leading man I didn't mean his role in the movie but that he's the most famous out of the actors, who has been in many Hollywood flicks. Yet he was overshadowed as an actor by the presence of Christoph Waltz who played his role so convincing that I couldn't care less about the rest of the cast. There may have been three leads but Waltz turned this thing into a one man show.
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Borat.
I'd love to see someone defend it now that Obama is in office.
ahahahaha, what the fuck does this post even mean?
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I've only seen a glimpse of Borat but I always thought the film was more about the general idea of certain stereotypes grossly overexaggerated and the public still callously accepting them as truthful depiction.
Would this movie really mean any different now with Obama in office?
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I may get killed for this, but Once Upon a Time in America was really overrated for me. I got so many people telling me it was one of the best movies ever, and when I watched it was just so lackluster. I enjoyed the part about the characters childhood, but everything else felt so random to me. Maybe I just watched it with wrong expectations (I assumed it was very Godfather-like) but meh. The ending was also completely bizarre for me. James Woods jumps into a garbage truck to kill himself?? Why? Why not just use a gun? That, again, just was so random…even silly.
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I've only seen a glimpse of Borat but I always thought the film was more about the general idea of certain stereotypes grossly overexaggerated and the public still callously accepting them as truthful depiction.
Would this movie really mean any different now with Obama in office?
Not really?
It's always been pretty harsh since the series in the nineties.
I cant really see how it would be any different.
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I at least think that OUaTiA is better than the Godfather. The trashcan thing was a little weird, though, I agree. Maybe the reason it felt random to you is that it jumped around in time so much, I think that's how I felt the first time I watched it.
It is a really good movie, though.
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I've only seen a glimpse of Borat but I always thought the film was more about the general idea of certain stereotypes grossly overexaggerated and the public still callously accepting them as truthful depiction.
Would this movie really mean any different now with Obama in office?
Terek is a baffling idiot is all I can say.
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On that, while I can't take anything from Godfather, I feel like its "best ever" status comes from people just going along with what they hear.@SympathyX:
Disappointed at the piss poor visual effects. Major let down. Horrible film.
First I've heard of someone not liking the visuals, of all things. That is not too surprising, but I can't imagine the visuals seeming dated. Did you see it on network tv?
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@CatMonster:
I enjoyed LoTR for the fact that they put so much work into the movies to make them as close to the books as possible. I don't care about any of the franchise, I just enjoyed the movies for what they were.
I think Scott Pilgrim vs The World is overrated. The plot is stupid and the comics are not that great.
If there's any overatted movie I'd mention, it has to be Scott Pilgrim vs the World. I absolutely love the comics and the chracters. After seeing the movie, I was quite disappointed and embarrassed enough to watch it with my sister. Scott's actor was as flat as cheap piece of toilet paper… I mean, the dude sounded as if he was bored out of his mind for the entire movie. Maybe he was trying to go for the innocent loser approach, but there wasn't enough energy. He sucked! Sucked! Sucked! Sucked! While it's not the most unfaithful adaption to a cult-based comic book(that belongs to Tank Girl), I liked the overall style the movie had. Unfortunately that's not enough to call a great movie.
If there was more running time to make things better, I would have loved more scenes within Subspace, all of the events at Clash at Demonhead (I really hated when Todd was a bigger prick in the movie), and Kim's story(it could have done without the hinting).
The comics have NOTHING to do with making the movie orated and you are just wrong about scott pilgrim being overrated. It is in NO WAY overrated. It goos good reviews from critics for the visuals with you cannot argue were good to look at, and for the video game "style" I.E the effects when fighting Matthew patel and gideion. They say this because other video game movies like resident evil, doom, etc, didnt have any aspect of them that felt video game like and thus this movie did something we've never really seen before. THATS IT. Nowhere did anyone say the plot was amazing, it had great acting, great camera work, NONE. The visuals and style were the only things "hyped" at all and they were not "overhyped"
Yeah Scott Pilgrim has been hyped as hell; "Best movie ever" etcetra.
I actually got it and thought it'd be a let down for how hyped it was. It was pretty awesome. It's a movie with a very simple plot (which benefits it) and a very funny and quotable movie also. Michael Cera has great comedic timing.
And you sir, you just need to learn what hyped, and overrated mean because a couple of your friends saying it's the best movie ever does not translate into the movie being overrated. The MAJORITY of people need to say that which hasnt been the case at all.
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Doom had that first person part, though, where the guy was going through shooting stuff. Seemed pretty videogame like to me.
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Doom had that first person part, though, where the guy was going through shooting stuff. Seemed pretty videogame like to me.
You're 100% right i just couldnt think of another video game movie at the time, but yeah doom is like the only one i can think of thats done something like that before scott pilgrim and scott did it better.
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@JERK:
Terek is a baffling idiot is all I can say.
I see. :ninja:
And what's everyone's problem with 300? It was an action flick so I didn't expect much from it to begin with (also the story is from Miller who's just cheap compared to Moore). The effects weren't the best in the universe but the massive ass kicking made up for it IMO. Heck, I don't remember any particular film that had effects worth remembering. By the way good effects =/= good movie so why does that even matter?
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I think it had too much slow motion but it doesn't really take much away from the movie.
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Hear are 5 most over rated movies of Hollywood,
1. Titanic
2. Scarface
3. MAS*H
4. Animal House
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Titanic I agree 100% with, don't get how the movie won eleven oscars when it was just trying too hard to make you cry. Also I found the ending silly, why the guy didn't climb on the door as well?
E.T. is something you either like or don't I guess, I never cared enough about it.
And how was Animal House overrated? I remember it as silly comedy which never earned much recognition.
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I see. :ninja:
And what's everyone's problem with 300? It was an action flick so I didn't expect much from it to begin with (also the story is from Miller who's just cheap compared to Moore). The effects weren't the best in the universe but the massive ass kicking made up for it IMO. Heck, I don't remember any particular film that had effects worth remembering. By the way good effects =/= good movie so why does that even matter?
No but if the effects are so bad that they take away from the suspension of disbelief then it eats into the movie quality.
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The Godfather is definitely overrated.
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(500) Days of Summer is definitely a movie that's overrated.
When I saw it while on an airplane with my mom we both decided it was a pretty awful chick flick that tries to hard to be artsy, with a male lead who is a dong and a female lead who is completely unlikable.
When I came home I searched it up on the net and EVERYBODY loves this movie and considers it one of the best of '09. What the hell is going on here and what exactly made this boring piece of crap so good.
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(also the story is from Miller who's just cheap compared to Moore). The effects weren't the best in the universe but the massive ass kicking made up for it IMO.
Miller at least beats Moore in the arena of action. If I want a summer blockbuster I'm gonna look a little closer to Born Again and a little further from Swamp Thing.
Jilian Michaels, famous fitness trainer, said she was inspired by Linda Hamilton in Terminator 2. If 300 doesn't create a male equivalent to Jilian then there isn't a current film that will. It's just sheer masculinity with an sfx coating. And even if they are somehow bad the damned puppets in Star Wars don't stop those movies from getting watched in modern times.
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So T2 inspired one of the worst cases of man arms i've ever seen on a woman.
Pretty interesting bit of trivia there.
I agree with whoever said E.T as well. Never got the love for that creepy thing.
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Well, she had nothing better to do in that mental institution. Still think that Sigourney Weaver in Aliens was way more badass though. And also Vasquez, the female marine, man she was buff for a female!
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Hear are 5 most over rated movies of Hollywood,
1. Titanic
2. Scarface
3. MAS*H
4. Animal House
5. E.T.: The Extra TerrestrialI always thought that Scarface didn't become a success until it hit the home video market. So remembering that can we still consider it to be overrated
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Scarface was amazing for its time, so was Animal House, you really should consider the time these movies were first released before judging them so harshly.
The Godfather is definitely overrated.
Perhaps, but Godfather II was not, if you have any sense of what acting is, Robert De Niro wove a masterpiece of epic proportions.
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John Belushi on a ladder is and will always be hilarious.
@CatMonster:
Well, she had nothing better to do in that mental institution. Still think that Sigourney Weaver in Aliens was way more badass though. And also Vasquez, the female marine, man she was buff for a female!
Now those two in aliens, those are the good kind of workout ladies.
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Hear are 5 most over rated movies of Hollywood,
4. Animal HouseCant believe I missed this.
This movie is fucking underrated!!!
It's one of the movies that set the bar for comedy. It's the movie EVERY teen comedy wishes it could be.
There is absolutely nothing overrated about this film anyway. Please understand the difference between "things I dont like" and "things that are overrated".
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I dunno the movie came off as pretty unfunny in the German version, then again it might be lost in translation.
And I'm not saying it's shit or whatever but there are funnier movies out there. Maybe it's because I enjoy Monty Python so much that I have trouble with this one. Please don't take it to heart
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I dunno the movie came off as pretty unfunny in the German version, then again it might be lost in translation.
And I'm not saying it's shit or whatever but there are funnier movies out there. Maybe it's because I enjoy Monty Python so much that I have trouble with this one. Please don't take it to heart
Whos taking anything to heart?
Most likely lost in translation. It's a fantastic film.
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Everything comes of as horrible when it's dubbed.
It's a terrible practice that needs to stop.
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I tend to watch most movies in English nowadays because that always bugged me too. God was I shocked when I saw the original OP for the first time and realized just how bad the German dub was.
The Dark Knight is a movie I would also count as overrated. I get it Heath Ledger was amazing as Joker but Nolan was a real bore and the sequences without the Joker felt really dragged. It was still an enjoyable film but to call it one of the best in the decade? That's kind of stretching it.
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The Godfather is not overrated at all.
Godfather II though is, well, the modern portions, because the past scenes are all really amazing. -
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Animal House set the bar for a lot of modern comedy, case closed.
And as for Scarface…well even for it's time it just didn't feel that amazing. I guess it just has a lot of the "80s feel" to it now in it's production value but even so it just felt like another "rise and fall of a hoodlum" with a lot more f-bombs and buckets of blood. If I want something like that, I rather see a film like "The Roaring Twenties", an incredible film that was about the '20s, made in 1939 and, while it has a similar story, just feels way more sympathetic and interesting for it's lead as he goes from a WWI vet to a nobody to the king of the hoodlums to literally on the streets to his tragic end.
Y'know, Negima WAS awesome…
For the first 18 volumes.
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I don't think a character has to be sympathetic to be compelling.
Originally Posted by Battle Franky
Bad move, bub!
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Now I normally don't really like Superheroes(except Batman, or sometimes Spiderman) but I think I'll leave this here.
Spiderman 2- is a pretty average movie…It immediatly goes in my category of 'bad movies or average movies I thought were great younger.' Whether its Tobey Mcguires wussy Peter Parker, or Alfred Molina's terrible Doc Oc. Seriously why fuck was so frightening about Doc Oc? He was fucking fat uncle with robotic arms. I'll give it props for the train stopping scene. Why the fuck is this praised as an accurate Spidey on any other media? Spectacular Spiderman is the true representation of Spider-man.
Spiderman 1 isn't so overrated, is so much as its revered as the first accurate representation of Spiderman. Yeah despite Gobbies gay Power Rangers suit it worked.
Batman Returns- This may be blasphemy. This film is as bad as Batman and Robin, but for different reasons.
Catwoman is revived by cats licking her all over, Penguin is a mutant abandoned baby, batman kills and smiles(portraying him as a psychopath almost no different from the Joker). Its pretty obvious Frank Millers even more overrated Batman influenced this film. Yeah Batman killed in his original incarnation, but really now that was only because he was based on pulp character's like the Shadow THAT and he never enjoyed it.
I'm honestly shocked that this film gets so much praise from comic book buffs It's a disaster in my opinion . Its not a Batman film. Mask Phantasm was a Batman film, Batman Begins was Batman film. This is Tim Burton infusing his style way too much onto the character until he becomes too different for the viewer even recognize him as a hero. Yes Batman is a dark character but not this type of dark.Dark Knight - Its a mixed bag for me. I love this film and I loved Heath Ledgers Joker. On the other hand I thought the way Harvey Dent was handled was unrealistic and contrived. Gary Oldman's Gordon is by far the best portrayal I've seen of a comic character to date. Its a weird film for me because some of the gripes many people have with this film aren't mine, common complaint I've heard is that this film is Bales Batman is campy and gruff. While I thought it was totally believable in the sense of a guy faking a voice to fit with this frightening image hes carrying to scare the pants of criminals. This film has a more gritty cop film atmosphere that fits well with Batman. Another gripe I have is the ending….
The Batman in the comics would never take responsibility for murders committed by another, especially the way his reputation is now. I mean it didn't feel believable. Gotham never was portrayed as even needing Harvey to keep its sanity, Harvey wasn't really treated as this Barack Obama-esque symbol of hope, or saint as you will. In fact the ending sorta goes against the fact that Gotham had the strength to stand on its own feat. I mean hes arrested by the police and his reputation is bound to be tarnished already.
This is showcased in the ferry scene. They weren't thinking about Harvey as an example of purity. Harvey Dent seemed to be treated as this saint in the ending and by the Joker, holding the city's sanity together. Is it intentional? Maybe? Maybe not? Nolan should have shown Gotham more desperate, and corrupt with Harvey the more recognizable, trusting, face in contrast to the extreme, masked man using illegal methods to achieve the same goal. Rachael was an artificial plot device to get Harvey to transform Harvey into Two-face. The philosophy in the film is not that deep, if anything its actually pretty pretentious and above average for a film. Nolan's Batman was never the definitive Batman film in general, but definitive in showcasing an early Batman's beginning years in a more realistic toned down Heat/Seven fashion.
I disagree that the Dark Knight was a Joker film. If you think that then it must be due to Heath clearly doing a frightening, iconic character with such power that clearly overshadows the non-larger then life generic cop Batman was portrayed to beThe Dark Knight is not even a Joker film its a toned Seven/Heat with masquerading as a Batman film. Batman Mask of Phantasm is much better film and has much better romantic chemistry between Batman and and Andrea then that drivel with Rachael, and it made much, much, much, less money than this film.
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Stargate .
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It was canceled? Damn. It had humor, wit, wise-cracking Spider-man.
Why did it get canceled? Low ratings?Edit: Hmm It seems there's a new series that Dini's involved with. Oh well, as long as Dini is involved since he was involved in the DCAU. But come on at least give it a decent finale.
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Guess that the studio execs couldn't tell a hit from a piece of stool and just wing every choice they make.
