Theda Baratheon Posted August 12, 2013 Share Posted August 12, 2013 Argo. How it won the best picture oscar is beyond me.The trailer for Sightseers looked incredible but the film was just okay, at best.I have a couple of friends obsessed with LOTR, so I decided to watch them in order to know what the hell they were talking about. Never been more disappointed in a film(s).omg i saw sightseers in the cinema and i was laughing out loud almost the whole film. Then i recently watched it with my mother and sister and they did not find it funny at all, wondering what's wrong with me lol - i think it's hilarious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theda Baratheon Posted August 12, 2013 Share Posted August 12, 2013 Watched American psycho the other day and just wasn't interested in it in any way, i laughed once at his stupid dance, curled my lip in disdain at the sexist conversation and that was the extent of my feelings throughout Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramsay B. Posted August 12, 2013 Share Posted August 12, 2013 I liked Sightseers as well. Very well done. I see big things for Ben Wheatley as I loved Kill List but I will say that A Field in England was pretty disappointing, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weeping Sore Posted August 13, 2013 Share Posted August 13, 2013 Actually, Citizen Kane is one of the most undoubtedly overrated films ever made; it consists of a great opening and ending, but the theme is dull, the pace is somewhat leaden, and it stretches on it seems till Doomsday. It's a quite good film given masterpiece status because of a)who directed it, and the romantic image people have of the auteuristic Wells bucking the producer system in order to take command of his own work, and its supposedly groundbreaking technical innovations. Never mind that its innovations weren't especially anything special compared to those which Fritz Lang and Leni Reifenstahl had already come up with on an even larger scale. Casablanca is far better but is also overrated; it's nostalgia hinges mainly on a few scenes, apart from the end.Rebel Without a Cause is also overrated. The first half is deeply thrilling and the second half is a formless letdown that goes nowhere whatsoever. The Wild One is far better, and also features a better lead actor, but it doesn't garner the same cult attention because Brando never died young.Argo is excellent, btw, but it was nowhere near my favourite film of its year.If I picked movies nobody had heard of, it wouldn't be funny. Personally I like Welles' Magnificent Ambersons better, and I prefer Curtiz's The Sea Wolf (1941) to his Casablanca. As far as Nicholas Ray (Rebel), In A Lonely Place (Bogart 1950) and On Dangerous Ground (1952) are superior. But Kane is still a masterpiece, gloomy, Gothic, yet still witty and elusive in its meaning. Welles' reputation is mainly built on Kane, so I'm not sure what you mean when you say Kane is overrated because of Welles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Top Notch Balanter Posted August 13, 2013 Share Posted August 13, 2013 Can't forget about this gem either Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nictarion Posted August 13, 2013 Share Posted August 13, 2013 Goodfellas came out in 1989 and was up for the 1990 award show. Dances With Wolves beat it. :ack: :stillsick: :bang: :tantrum:I know right, absolutely unforgivable!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedEyedGhost Posted August 13, 2013 Share Posted August 13, 2013 Heh, bunch of tricksters on this forum.This wave of the fl00b... fuck; they make me want to quit the board.Otherwise, people saying that the likes of Moonrise Kingdom, The Prestige, or Lost in Translation were disappointing are crazy.Thankfully nobody actually mentioned this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramsay B. Posted August 13, 2013 Share Posted August 13, 2013 I mentioned Lost in Translation...get off my back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Killer Snark Posted August 13, 2013 Share Posted August 13, 2013 The Prestige is superior to Inception, by the way. I loved Inception the first time I saw it; I thought it was a masterpiece. But the second time around I found it pointlessly overconvoluted and too interested in being tricksy and clever just for the sake of it. It's still an excellent film, but too ambitious for its own good and filled with unnecessary non-sequiturs.I really didn't get the fuss about Lost in Translation in any way whatsoever.I'm nominating I Am Love. Tilda Swinton's vanity piece was based on a book the producers should have avoided paying royalties to, because the plot, such as it is, is a total ripoff, even metaphorically, of Lady Chatterley's Lover. Her film has zero pace, its little dialogue is banal, and it has zero characterisation. The photography is ravishing, and there is at least a gorgeous sex scene, but the much talked about score by John Adams consists of some badly handled excerpts mainly from his tone poem The Chairman Dances, which is cut off in any scenes where it appears before it can build. Great use of his Harmonielehre in the end scene, though, and I bought this film cheap, as there are some things I like about it. I don't think it's a very good movie, though; the critics felt different, proclaiming it widely to be a masterpiece in a fit of absolute pretension. I'd recommend instead a few fine adaptations of Lady Chatterley's Lover, which this basically is, but free of character and generally of passion, with the action transposed to Rome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Killer Snark Posted August 13, 2013 Share Posted August 13, 2013 "Not the bees". God, that remake was fucking awful. The Wicker Man (the original) is one of my favourite horror films. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sightofthesun Posted August 13, 2013 Share Posted August 13, 2013 omg i saw sightseers in the cinema and i was laughing out loud almost the whole film. Then i recently watched it with my mother and sister and they did not find it funny at all, wondering what's wrong with me lol - i think it's hilarious.I found it quite funny but I guess I just had ridiculously high expectations. I thought it was hilarious when she told her boyfriend that guy they had meet had tried to seduce her. The ending was pretty good too :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ser Rodrigo Belmonte Posted August 13, 2013 Share Posted August 13, 2013 Les miserables Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derfel Cadarn Posted August 13, 2013 Share Posted August 13, 2013 Lincoln. Looked impressive, but i couldnt wait for it to end. Yawn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MinDonner Posted August 13, 2013 Share Posted August 13, 2013 Oh, here's one - Caddyshack. My brother and I had heard that it was this amazingly hilarious work of comedy, and we sat through the entire thing waiting for the jokes to start. Even to this day it's a byword for Lame Unfunny Disappointment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guy Kilmore Posted August 13, 2013 Share Posted August 13, 2013 I have come away with two things from this thread. Good taste is not universal and people are weird. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drawkcabi Posted August 13, 2013 Share Posted August 13, 2013 I will say that the first time I saw Goodfellas, I was 16 I think, I was underwhelmed. I watched it on VHS on a dying 20-year-old tv, bad sound, bad video, - this is one of those movies where scene crispness and audio clarity add to the power of the film tremendously. So when it started being shown over and over on premium cable, each time I watched it I loved it more until it became one of my favorite movies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaarioKnowsBest Posted August 13, 2013 Share Posted August 13, 2013 Oh, here's one - Caddyshack. My brother and I had heard that it was this amazingly hilarious work of comedy, and we sat through the entire thing waiting for the jokes to start. Even to this day it's a byword for Lame Unfunny Disappointment.Totally agree with this and along this same line add Animal House Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedEyedGhost Posted August 13, 2013 Share Posted August 13, 2013 I mentioned Lost in Translation...get off my back.Was it only one of those movies in the list being bolded or the singular 'this' instead of the plural 'these' that threw you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Killer Snark Posted August 13, 2013 Share Posted August 13, 2013 Disagree with the inclusion of Goodfellas, though Casino is IMO better. Only God Forgives is a near-masterpiece, in case anyone jumps on the criticular bandwagon (only Empire and the UK Guardian were brave enough to laud it) and decides to rip into that. I'm not accepting anyone laying into The Lone Ranger either, as I believe it is very good, in spite of Johnny Depp's hambone performance and the lead character being a bit weak. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polishgenius Posted August 13, 2013 Share Posted August 13, 2013 The Lone Ranger was shit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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