Overhyped movies you consider to be horrible. Name yours.

[Strat-Mangler]

Name movies that are generally viewed to be good or great that you consider to be overhyped garbage.

Here are my examples ;

- Every Speilberg movie
- Every Kubrick movie
- Every Tarentino movie
- Every Cohen Brothers movie
- Every single movie that tries to be dark & cool (like Boondock Saints, Snatch, Lock Stock & 2 Smoking Barrels, you know the type)
- Every comic book movie I've seen (yes, including that dreadful latest Batman flick)
- Every movie Clint Eastwood has ever been associated with.
- Those stupid Bourne movies.
- All James Bond movies.

And to be more precise with others that don't fit in the above categories...

- Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World.
- Incendies
- Monty Python movies
- Taxi Driver
- Amelie
- Requiem For A Dream
- Life is Beautiful (not terrible, but grossly overhyped)
- A Beautiful Mind
- The Green Mile
- Die Hard 3
- Deer Hunter
- The Lion King
- Slumdog Millionaire (and what the hell was that stupid dance number about?)
- Good Night, and Good Luck.
- Platoon
- Scarface.
- What's Eating Gilbert Grape?
- Ghandi
- The Exorcist
- Magnolia (Captivating until it randomly starts to rain frogs. Another Walter-Tango-Foxtrot moment)

[guitar ed]

The first Batman movie. I know that this puts me into a minority, but it was so bad I have not seen any of the other Batman movies.

edg

[Phalex]

Any movie that attempts to be "art". Tell me a good friggin story, don't try to bedazzle me with your artistic crap! (Oliver Stone, I'm talking to you!)

[madmatt]

Originally Posted by Strat-Mangler

Another Walter-Tango-Foxtrot moment)

That's Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.

[jaywa]

Anything by Quentin Tarantino. Sorry, but I just don't get it.

But then gratuitous violence has never been my thing.

[Darth Handsome]

Originally Posted by Strat-Mangler

Name movies that are generally viewed to be good or great that you consider to be overhyped garbage.

Here are my examples ;

- Every Speilberg movie
- Every Kubrick movie
- Every Tarentino movie
- Every Cohen Brothers movie
- Every single movie that tries to be dark & cool (like Boondock Saints, Snatch, Lock Stock & 2 Smoking Barrels, you know the type)
- Every comic book movie I've seen (yes, including that dreadful latest Batman flick)
- Every movie Clint Eastwood has ever been associated with.
- Those stupid Bourne movies.
- All James Bond movies.

And to be more precise with others that don't fit in the above categories...

- Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World.
- Incendies
- Monty Python movies
- Taxi Driver
- Amelie
- Requiem For A Dream
- Life is Beautiful (not terrible, but grossly overhyped)
- A Beautiful Mind
- The Green Mile
- Die Hard 3
- Deer Hunter
- The Lion King
- Slumdog Millionaire (and what the hell was that stupid dance number about?)
- Good Night, and Good Luck.
- Platoon
- Scarface.
- What's Eating Gilbert Grape?
- Ghandi
- The Exorcist
- Magnolia (Captivating until it randomly starts to rain frogs. Another Walter-Tango-Foxtrot moment)

Uh, is there a movie you do like?

[spade2you]

Originally Posted by Darth Handsome

Uh, is there a movie you do like?

Probably one you've never heard of.

[Joe Gress]

^haha!

Avatar to me was pretty boring.

[steddy2112]

Originally Posted by spade2you

Probably one you've never heard of.

[macaroni tony]

Originally Posted by Darth Handsome

Uh, is there a movie you do like?

Originally Posted by spade2you

Probably one you've never heard of.

AHGAHAHAHGAGAGAGAAAHAHHAHAHA!!!!!!!

And how could you not like the Lion King? That's just unamerican

The only thing I could think of are the uber-testosterone movies, like all the Jason Statham ones. They just seem so....so cheesy and cornball to me. I get a little embarrassed just watching the previews

[GizmoTheOne]

99% of Hollywood movies. I studied film production, so am leaning a bit more towards "artistic" movies and understand a bit more than most people what lies beneath the productions I watch. Therefore I like most of the movies OP listed as bad for them, however I hate mass production movies packed with special effects to cover the fact that every movie is approximately the same story with different characters.

[Strat-Mangler]

Originally Posted by madmatt

That's Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.

Thanks. I stand corrected. For some reason, I've often heard/read "Walter."

[Strat-Mangler]

Originally Posted by Darth Handsome

Uh, is there a movie you do like?

Before I posted, I mentioned to my co-worker I'd be getting this response.

I don't mind posting a list of movies I loved, but rest assured there are plenty of movies that don't fit in any of the categories I mentioned... or perhaps your movie tastes go hand-in-hand with hype?

If you're still interested/curious, I'll post a list.

[Strat-Mangler]

Originally Posted by macaroni tony

AHGAHAHAHGAGAGAGAAAHAHHAHAHA!!!!!!!

And how could you not like the Lion King? That's just unamerican

I'm not american.

And yes, that movie truly did suck donkey balls.

When I first heard the team responsible for Aladdin was working on a new movie, I was ecstatic. What I saw was horrendous beyond belief.

[Phalex]

Originally Posted by macaroni tony

The only thing I could think of are the uber-testosterone movies, like all the Jason Statham ones. They just seem so....so cheesy and cornball to me. I get a little embarrassed just watching the previews

I love that kind of stuff! Schwarzenegger and Van Damme are awesome too!

Oddly enough, I'll watch anything with Freddy Prinz J.R. in it too.

Moulin Rouge was a wretched piece of dog excrement. The camera work (Cinematography) in Natural Born Killers drove me nuts! Yeah, I know that Director of Photography is a job title, but if I know someone's doing it, they aren't doing it very well IMO.

[Texan]

Anything with Nicolas Cage, Keanu Reeves, or Megan Fox...They just suck at acting...

[Tituscrow]

Originally Posted by Darth Handsome

Uh, is there a movie you do like?

This is the same Strat-Mangler that sits through entire movies to make notes on continuity errors and plot holes...of course there isn't a movie he does like

To the OP, you are wrong on many counts in your above list of films.

However, I have about an hour to kill, so I'd like a complete breakdown of all the bloopers in the Bond and Bourne films please.

[Bozendoka]

Originally Posted by spade2you

Probably one you've never heard of.

[echoSE7EN]

Citizen Kane. I'm sure if I was around when it was first released I may be able to truly applaud the film. However, it's been parodied and poked-fun-at so many times during my lifetime that I cannot watch it without feeling "meh." I think this is often the case with things (not just movies) that are "over-hyped". I didn't start playing the bass until long after Jaco was dead. He wasn't "cutting edge", or "nouveau" to me. He's a dude that most bassists jock like crazy. Did he define an instrument and approach? Yes. Does that really mean the world to me? No. I don't "know" a world without Jaco's playing, or people telling each other about Jaco's playing, or people emulating Jaco's playing. To me, it just is. Another example would be cellphones. I didn't get my first cellphone until about 10 years ago (I'm 36). However, a few of the younger guys I work with really do not "know" a world without cellphones...or the Internet...too them, things such as these may be "over-hyped".

[GregC]

Originally Posted by Strat-Mangler

or perhaps your movie tastes go hand-in-hand with hype?

Define "hype"? I'm pretty sure most people still haven't heard of Requiem For A Dream or Slumdog Millionaire, for example.

My answer, OTOH, would have to start with pretty much any Michael Bay movie (conspicuously missing from your list). Covering up stupidity with volume and special effects isn't my thing--well, maybe in music it is.