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  • tangoflash
    tangoflash Posts: 10,794
    edited December 2011
    Most have been mentioned already, but here goes..............

    Blair witch project

    Black Swan

    Lord of the rings

    Pirates of the carribean

    Inception

    All the later Star wars movies (would probably include 1st 3 if i hadn't have fallen under Lucas' spell as a child)

    Almost forgot the Matrix (how I wish I could).
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,285
    Blimey Stig, you have sat through a lot of crap. Didn't you realise you didn't like any of them after the first installment of each series? Glutton for punishment is the expression I would use... 
    Forced viewing as our kid loves them all.
  • adamtheaddick
    adamtheaddick Posts: 8,664
    All of m.shalyamans films, the village the happening, signs, the i see dead people one, guff yet he is hailed as some kind of geneius.
  • AdTheAddicK
    AdTheAddicK Posts: 3,435
    Hangover is epic ....

    Hot tub time machine however is kak !!
  • AddickUpNorth
    AddickUpNorth Posts: 8,326
    Trainspotting! Grubby Jocko smackheads is not my idea of a popcorn night.
  • supaclive
    supaclive Posts: 6,528
    The Matrix trilogy was nonsensical
    The Pirates' series was absurd
    Never seen Lord of the Rings trilogy so won't comment

    But the most overhyped film and overrated film of all time ......

    The Da Vinci Code

  • kafka
    kafka Posts: 2,387
    Every film in the Star Wars series
    Every film in the Harry Potter series
    Every film in the Pirates of the Caribbean series
    Every film that was ever made in 3D




    Potter films; dreadful acting from annoying stage school kids
  • HarryHutchens
    HarryHutchens Posts: 541

    Agreed. The acting from the children in the Potter films was abysmal.

    Generally I try and avoid reading reviews before seeing films. I think it's the best way to avoid being influenced by the hype and therefore being underwhelmed. Expectations are everything.

  • blackheathaddick
    blackheathaddick Posts: 1,405

    Lost in translation.   I spent the whole film waiting for something to happen. It didnt

     

  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,173
    I think the twist at the end of Fight Club is brilliant, watch it again and everything falls in to place.

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  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,285
    edited December 2011
     But the most overhyped film and overrated film of all time ......

    The Da Vinci Code

    Was the film that hyped-up?  No doubt that the book was, but I remember being surprised that I hadn't heard as much about the film as I thought I would.

    I know a lot of people slated the film (and the book), but I thought it was alright.  I just wished Ian McKellern hadn't played the Teabing character.  Not because he was bat, but because he was a million miles away from how I'd imagined it on reading (more Matt Lucas for me).
  • Greenie
    Greenie Posts: 9,174

    Lost in translation.   I spent the whole film waiting for something to happen. It didnt

     

    Agree with the above

    Saving Private Ryan? This is a top film!!
  • Carter
    Carter Posts: 14,345
    The Hangover - well overrated
  • philcafc
    philcafc Posts: 3,928
    Batman with  Michael Keaton & Jack Nicholson - Hated It
  • philcafc
    philcafc Posts: 3,928
    Also didn't like Lord of the Rings either
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,325
    Blimey Stig, you have sat through a lot of crap. Didn't you realise you didn't like any of them after the first installment of each series? Glutton for punishment is the expression I would use... 
    Forced viewing as our kid loves them all.

    You took your kid to see Final Destination 3D and Piranah? :-) 
  • Carter
    Carter Posts: 14,345
    Anchorman is a work of art, but the Hangover is OVERRATED
  • Bexley Dan
    Bexley Dan Posts: 3,658
    Anyone who thinks Hangover is a great film are the sort of people who inflict platitudes on people in lifts. Good idea for a film but i could have made it and written it far better myself. (can feel a semedo style debate coming on)
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,950
    edited December 2011
    Anchorman is a work of art, but the Hangover is OVERRATED



    Anchorman is a classic comedy just for the scene where they burst into song - Afternoon Delight .
  • BlackForestReds
    BlackForestReds Posts: 17,952
    The Matrix - tedious philosophy for geeks with bad acting thrown in.

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  • kentaddick
    kentaddick Posts: 18,729
    Anyone who thinks Hangover is a great film are the sort of people who inflict platitudes on people in lifts. Good idea for a film but i could have made it and written it far better myself. (can feel a semedo style debate coming on)
    I actually thought it was pretty well written, however everything else was very mediocre.
  • Clem_Snide
    Clem_Snide Posts: 11,796
    Oh brother, where art thou. Utter shit.
  • kentaddick
    kentaddick Posts: 18,729
    Oh brother, where art thou. Utter shit.
    have to disagree, think it's a fantastic film.
  • SuperCliveMendonca
    SuperCliveMendonca Posts: 913
    Cobra - I only watched it for Stallone's Missus, otherwise toilet
  • Saga Lout
    Saga Lout Posts: 6,845
    Gone with the Wind
  • Bournemouth Addick
    Bournemouth Addick Posts: 16,300

    Citizen Kane.

    Always comes out near or at the top of critics lists but really don't get it myself.

  • kentaddick
    kentaddick Posts: 18,729

    Citizen Kane.

    Always comes out near or at the top of critics lists but really don't get it myself.

    it was a film that used a bunch of revolutionary techniques (especially in cinematography) that have been used countlessly since. The thing is about old classics like that is you don't see what's so special about them, since what they were special for at the time have been copied by just about every film since.
  • jdsd42
    jdsd42 Posts: 1,506
    Shawshank Redemption, good not great

    you are Joking ?
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,173
    The Matrix - tedious philosophy for geeks with bad acting thrown in.
    The perfect recipe for a cult classic then!
    Shawshank Redemption, good not great

    you are Joking ?
    A lot of people are of the same opinion, including myself.
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,325
    Oh brother, where art thou. Utter shit.
    have to disagree, think it's a fantastic film.

    Clem doesn't "get" real ale either... I think we can see a pattern emerging here... ;-)  

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