Apocalypse Now was/is very very hard going. Almost sacrilege to criticise anything with Marlon Brando in the lead role but I really struggled to follow the storyline and find the message that it was trying to convey. A very messy production IMHO, which I'm sure most of the audience at the time felt they had to heap praise upon to be cool because Brando and Vietnam were both hot potato subjects at the time. If they were honest, they would mostly say they came away in complete bewilderment. You needed to take a tab of acid to understand it......anyone who has done so will understand the irony in that comment.
I saw Shawshank on VHS when it first came out, knew absolutely nothing about it, and loved every second of it. It's popularity and subsequent backlash can't change what I thought of it the first time I saw it, and I think many people felt that way at that time.
@Bedsaddick - how come wth Shutter Island? I loved the final line, it made the movie for me.
Not a problem, just don't rate them as top ten films of all time as they are often voted. And I love game of thrones.
Widely considered a masterpiece by old hippies and fantasy genre freaks : - ) It is nonsense. Even the lion, the witch and wardrobe and harry potter make more sense.
And they are very derivative of Norse myths and legends as Tolkien was a professor of medieval studies or something.
What doesn't make sense about a group of short, hairy footed people who live in beautiful countryside and eat and drink all day everyday?
Aah, I see you've had the honour of meeting Mrs cafcfan then?
I saw Shawshank on VHS when it first came out, knew absolutely nothing about it, and loved every second of it. It's popularity and subsequent backlash can't change what I thought of it the first time I saw it, and I think many people felt that way at that time.
@Bedsaddick - how come wth Shutter Island? I loved the final line, it made the movie for me.
I suppose the main gripe I have with it is that it doesn't feel like a Martin Scorsese film. I love Scorsese but this felt like someone else has directed it.
Pulp Fiction. Tarantino at his pointless, self-indulgent worst. None of it matters or means anything, it's like a sketch show
...so you went into a film called "pulp fiction" and expected anything different?
It's like coming out of "snakes on a plane" and complaining it had too many scenes on a plane where there were snakes.
I got exactly what I expected; some nonsense mess. This thread is about overrated films, and Pulp Fiction is king of that; it's number 1 on Reddit's top 250 films, number 7 on imdb's top 250 etc and people describe it as one of the best films of all time. It's not even good pulp fiction.
Well said...I saw it at the cinema and by half way through half the audience had walked out...Me and the Mrs stayed as we were paying a babysitter, otherwise we would have done. When I asked the usherettes about it when we left she said that the same had been happening since it opened its screening.
Agree with you, Chips. Its the only film I can remember that I walked out of. I couldn't understand half the dialogue anyway, and realised I didn't want to.
Crikey be careful its the first time we have agreed on anything
Second time actually Chips, you were kind enough to rate my rant about the FAPL and the money, the other week.
I'll chuck in a gratuitous "Roland Out" so you can like this too :-)
Another vote for the Tolkein stuff - films and books. I can take magic and fantasy stuff, I'm a big Michael Moorcock fan for example, but LoTR is so juvenile. You've got your goodies in handsome, noble or cute varieties. And you've got your baddies - you can tell they are bad because they are very ugly and have no characteristic other than being really, really bad. Where is the nuance? Where is the dramatic tension? Where, come to that, is the plot? Why are highly intelligent people apparently satisfied with this? Grrr.
Another vote for the Tolkein stuff - films and books. I can take magic and fantasy stuff, I'm a big Michael Moorcock fan for example, but LoTR is so juvenile. You've got your goodies in handsome, noble or cute varieties. And you've got your baddies - you can tell they are bad because they are very ugly and have no characteristic other than being really, really bad. Where is the nuance? Where is the dramatic tension? Where, come to that, is the plot? Why are highly intelligent people apparently satisfied with this? Grrr.
Spot on.
And it not just that some people like them and others don't that makes them over rated but that they are voted in the top ten films of ALL TIME.
Frozen. My daughter convinced me that it was a life changingly profound film. I thought it was childish, one dimensional, pseudo feminist rubbish. After many hours of discussion and more than a few tears my 4 year old saw the error of her ways.
Frozen. My daughter convinced me that it was a life changingly profound film. I thought it was childish, one dimensional, pseudo feminist rubbish. After many hours of discussion and more than a few tears my 4 year old saw the error of her ways.
Frozen. My daughter convinced me that it was a life changingly profound film. I thought it was childish, one dimensional, pseudo feminist rubbish. After many hours of discussion and more than a few tears my 4 year old saw the error of her ways.
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Almost sacrilege to criticise anything with Marlon Brando in the lead role but I really struggled to follow the storyline and find the message that it was trying to convey.
A very messy production IMHO, which I'm sure most of the audience at the time felt they had to heap praise upon to be cool because Brando and Vietnam were both hot potato subjects at the time.
If they were honest, they would mostly say they came away in complete bewilderment.
You needed to take a tab of acid to understand it......anyone who has done so will understand the irony in that comment.
Zulu
Blade Runner
The Searchers
Clock work orange
My favourite film ever.
@Bedsaddick - how come wth Shutter Island? I loved the final line, it made the movie for me.
HAL does my nut in, call me a philistine.
I'd rather watch Barry Lyndon twice back to back, followed by the Starwars prequals (@extended versions)
Overrated doesn't mean 'popular or classic films that I personally don't like'.
I'll chuck in a gratuitous "Roland Out" so you can like this too :-)
And it not just that some people like them and others don't that makes them over rated but that they are voted in the top ten films of ALL TIME.