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The overrated films thread

ArcspacE said:
Thought it was absolutely brillinant, imv - nihilism at its finest
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I went to the cinema really excited with all the rave reviews etc, and was just soooo disappointed at the end. For me it was just people mindlessly worshipping the Cohens but each to their own I guess.
 
Yid (Israel) said:
Nobody said no country for old men yet? the mother of overrated films!
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nayimfromthehalfwayline said:
Seriously, I watched a couple of months back for the first time - basically because it was so highly regarded - and didnt think it was anything special at all.

The much vaunted Gin fight was ok, rather than mind blowing.
All of the characters were cliched and the acting to me seemed 'sufficient'.
Its all been done before. High level bank robber gets chased down by flawed but smart detective. They make a big deal outt of getting into each others heads. Robber wants out but has to do one last job. Cops life goes to brick because he is so focused on his job. A few henchmen fudge up/get killed/are Madsen....

It was a decent enough film but far from deserving of the applause it gets IMHO.
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I suppose that is one way of looking at it. The interesting part for me was that for Pacino and De Niro, it was their job. Outside of their cop/crim role, they were no different (probably Pacino the bigger fudge up). But as De Niro said, the key difference was the fact that when the Heat came, he could cut ties with everything he loved and walk away, whereas Pacino couldn't.

Val Kilmer couldn't, and that's how he got busted. If he could have just left, he'd have been a free man.

Same with that scene where they're staking out the jewellery store (??) and they hear the noise. De Niro walks away. He's clinical and that's why he's so good and gets to fudge judging Amy.

It's also got an all-star cast. The afforementioned legends of modern cinema (De Niro, Pacino, Skinny Kilmer, Sizemore - not Madsen) and Judging Amy, it also has Henry Rollins, Natalie Portman, Danny Trejo, the banker from the first scene of Dark Knight, Tone Loc, Jon Voight and Ari fudging Gold.

I really need to watch it again and remember why I like it so much.
 
Superted said:
I suppose that is one way of looking at it. The interesting part for me was that for Pacino and De Niro, it was their job. Outside of their cop/crim role, they were no different (probably Pacino the bigger fudge up). But as De Niro said, the key difference was the fact that when the Heat came, he could cut ties with everything he loved and walk away, whereas Pacino couldn't.

Val Kilmer couldn't, and that's how he got busted. If he could have just left, he'd have been a free man.

Same with that scene where they're staking out the jewellery store (??) and they hear the noise. De Niro walks away. He's clinical and that's why he's so good and gets to fudge judging Amy.

It's also got an all-star cast. The afforementioned legends of modern cinema (De Niro, Pacino, Skinny Kilmer, Sizemore - not Madsen) and Judging Amy, it also has Henry Rollins, Natalie Portman, Danny Trejo, the banker from the first scene of Dark Knight, Tone Loc, Jon Voight and Ari fudging Gold.

I really need to watch it again and remember why I like it so much.
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Fair enough fella, clearly plenty liked/loved/enjoyed it else it wouldnt get such fanfare!

I ALWAYS get Madsen and Sizemore mixed up, my bad.

I get the story, I get the character dynamics and all that - I just didnt think it was so good.

Particularly considering the outstanding cst assembled as you point out (though in truth its been a long time since DeNiro/Pacino produced top quality work)

It was just all very generic and by the numbers for me. The only thing splitting it from most other cops and robbers type films is the more serious tone it took - but that was possibly where it fell down for me because it didnt elevate itself enough to pull it off...
 
Yid (Israel) said:
Nobody said no country for old men yet? the mother of overrated films!
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Agreed. It was an attempted carbon copy of the book but they left out the sheriff's monologues which would have been great in the film as a TLJ voice-over. Also the bad guy was nowhere near as intimidating as he was in the book. He was mooning about in the back of cars, at times he reminded me of the goofy brother in What About Raymond. He did not have the icy edge of the character in the book.
 
I'll add a few more that i think are decent/good films but overrated as fudge;

Memento, Seven, Any Tarantino film (Jackie brown being the best but still overrated).
 
Haven't read whole thread so dont know if its been mentioned but fargo for me got told by so many how great it is watched it thought it was dull as fudge and quite frankly a pile of poop
 
WhoopWhoop said:
Haven't read whole thread so dont know if its been mentioned but fargo for me got told by so many how great it is watched it thought it was dull as fudge and quite frankly a pile of poop
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Yo I know you might be mentally challenged and experience difficulties understanding moving pictures on a screen, and Imma let u finish, but Fargo was one of the best movies, OF ALL TIME!
 
Rock Strongo said:
Yo I know you might be mentally challenged and experience difficulties understanding moving pictures on a screen, and Imma let u finish, but Fargo was one of the best movies, OF ALL TIME!
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This this this. Fargo is quality.

And to KingDawson and DFS, what exactly do you like if you don't like the original trilogy?!
 
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