Overrated Movies (or "Why Does Everyone Like Tyler Durden?")

I've never been able to get into anything by Stanley Kubrick. But since I love Pulp Fiction and Lost In Translation, it's probably my taste in films rather than Kubrick being overrated.

Though I heard enough Napoleon Dynamite quotes to last me a lifetime in high school last year, I thought it was pretty good when I finally saw it a couple months ago.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I like Donnie Darko a lot, but mostly for the setting. I'm not quite sure how to describe it, but the entire film has a very distinct atmosphere that I've never seen anywhere else.

Anyone else who's seen it get the same feeling? To me, it's almost like they managed to instill every scene with a vague sense of foreboding that kind of comes to a climax in the end.

I'm probably just nuts. Anyway, Donnie Darko would definitely fit with Boondock Saints and Napoleon Dynamite in the "overhyped by teenagers" category.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by a_brit

As for the Tarantino discussion I read briefly in here, I agree that his films are good but he's not a genius director people make him out to be. Another thing that pisses me off is how his name seems to crop up on films like Hero, so stupid people think that he directed it because it has a "Quentin Tarantino Presents" at the top of the case.

I'm pretty sure the director of the film asks him either to be an executive producer or to provide guidance while the film is being made, at least that was the case with director Eli Roth for Hostile. I think a film with Tarantino's name on it draws people into a movie they wouldn't have checked out otherwise.

I don't think Tarantino actually takes any creative credit for the "Quentin Tarantino presents" films, it seems to me like he's just helping out lesser-known directors. I'm sure plenty of stupid people do go into those films thinking it's written and directed by him, but that's their problem.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.