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

You know the feeling. Seeing a college dorm room and looking at the Fight Club posters or the Pulp Fiction DVD lying on the floor, worn from use. Going on some video game site or anything otherwise not directly film-related and seeing the Saint's Prayer or whatever from Boondock Saints.

You can't escape them. These are the movies that everyone and their mother's mother has seen, those helped on word of mouth and e-mail and poorly spelled Instant Messenger message. The films quoted by people who, in all probability, have only seen the trailers.

These are the overrated movies.

What would you say are some of yours and which ones can you absolutely not stand?

As a means of instigating, I will merely state one title:

Napoleon Dynamite.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Atomic Duck

Most overrated movie I can think of off the top of my head is Open Water. I fail to see how it was suspenseful or freaky or anything.

Spoiler:

I mean, it's the same thing dragged out... they're in the water... they're still in the water.... now they're yelling... they're still in the water... still in the water... still in the water.... credits rolling... wanting hours of life back...

Agreed. This came right out of Sundance on a wave of praise and it was nothing but a messy piece of crap. Okay, so they're in the middle of the ocean. There may or may not be a shark. No SFX and no flashy gimmicks means more realism thus automatically more tension. No, the reason people liked that was that at the beginning they just had to have some random scene where the female lead was completely naked. She could have been under sheets, you know disorderly sheets so it wouldn't be too "Hollywood" clean, more true to life, but they didn't have to show her completely nude. There was no point except for that it was a small budget and nudity is a big drawing factor so if all else failed, it would be a contingency. Yeah, that failsafe didn't work for me.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Dhsu

If you want an existential movie that DOESN'T suck, check out Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.

Heads. Heads. Heads.

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