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

Originally Posted by splur

Overrated:
Anything Quentin Tarantino - Seriously, finally someone agrees. Everyone where I live thinks Tarantino is god. Pulp Fiction was "okay". Kill Bill was mediocre but the hype it got was definately overboard.

Not overrated,
Lost in Translation - I watched this movie 4 times. First 2 times I stopped watching half way through because I thought it was terrible. Then I watched it a third time and laughed constantly. This movie seems more of an aquired taste. And it was not popular at all here.

Oh dear. Seems to me that there is a problem with you yourself rather than some of the masterpieces you just mentioned. How the hell can you watch something twice, finding it unfunny to the extent that you stop it half way through, then on the third viewing laugh constantly? Sorry, but that is retarded. Maybe you need to watch Kill Bill and Pulp Fiction 37 times so that you can 'acquire' their taste. May I ask, do you dislike Anime/Spaghetti Westerns/Kung Fu/Samurai/revenge flicks? This is the only logical reason as to why anyone would think Kill Bill is mediocre.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Aardark

What? It's cool if you think that Kill Bill is super awesome, I liked it myself, but saying that there is only one possible logical reason why someone might dislike it just isn't serious. Don't call people retarded if the only argument you have is 'you probably hate movies in general, why else would you dislike this one specific film?'.

Dude, I didn't say it's retarded to not like Kill Bill, I said that the Lost In Translation scenario was retarded.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I would have to say that The Exorcist is the most overrated film I've ever seen. It is often billed as the scariest film of all time yet, when I watched it by myself and in total darkness, I did nothing but laugh. Now, were I to repeat the same act with something like Ju-on: the Grudge I would probably cry like a little girl.

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