Spinoff: Most "overrated" Classic Movie

[J_Dee]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Picture

Looking over Best Picture Academy Award winners, I'd definitely place Forrest Gump in the "vastly, vastly overrated" category. I think that Hanks, Wright, and Sinese all sell their roles very well, but the character of Forrest and the plot are soooo sappy and cringe-inducing. IMHO every other Best Picture nominee from '94 blows it out of the water (especially Pulp Fiction and Shawshank).

 

[cat_in_the_hat]

Citizen Kane is considered great because of all of the groundbreaking techniques that Orsen Welles did filming it and not so much that it is a great story.

My nominee is "Breakfast at Tiffany's". Snoozefest.

When my two sons were visiting colleges, we went over to Asbury College and toured their campus. I was shocked to learn they have a really good film and media program. They have a separate building that houses movie sets, editing rooms, broadcast truck like ESPN would use, etc. They actually have part of the original set from Citizen Kane. Apparently, one of their graduates had a pretty successful film career and came back to Asbury and started the program. They have movie posters from the various movies their graduates have worked on and the list is impressive. Who would have thought something like that would exist in a small private college in the middle of Kentucky.

 

[Tskware]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Picture

Looking over Best Picture Academy Award winners, I'd definitely place Forrest Gump in the "vastly, vastly overrated" category. I think that Hanks, Wright, and Sinese all sell their roles very well, but the character of Forrest and the plot are soooo sappy and cringe-inducing. IMHO every other Best Picture nominee from '94 blows it out of the water (especially Pulp Fiction and Shawshank).

1994 was a very very strong group, lot of great choices for those three.

OTOH, Shakespeare in Love beat out Saving Private Ryan for Best Picture, which IMO is the biggest travesty in the history of the Oscars.

 

[Catman100]

Going to commit blasphemy here: Never saw a John Wayne movie I liked, or could even sit through. OTOH, love all the Eastwood westerns. Go figure . . . .

Good Lord. Early favorite for bad take of the year.

 

[cole854]

The F#cking Wizard of Oz. What a colossal piece of ****.

You may want to sit out anything regarding music/cinema going forward.

 

[wkycatfan_rivals376690]

Rocky Horror Picture Show.

 

[LordEggForgotHisPassword_rivals]

i love 2001. and Larry of Arabia. thread full of dolts. lol.

 

[Kooky Kats]

Stagecoach


controversial take:

all the Star Wars movies blow

 

[TortElvisII]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Picture

Looking over Best Picture Academy Award winners, I'd definitely place Forrest Gump in the "vastly, vastly overrated" category. I think that Hanks, Wright, and Sinese all sell their roles very well, but the character of Forrest and the plot are soooo sappy and cringe-inducing. IMHO every other Best Picture nominee from '94 blows it out of the water (especially Pulp Fiction and Shawshank).

Number one I don't believe in awards and comparing one artistic thing against another.

With that said since there are these awards, I think Cool Hand Luke not winning best picture is a greater crime than any. Probably along with Star Wars.

 

[sefleming]

Don't think it is a classic but my pick would be Twister.
I watched it twice and fell asleep both times. lol

 

[christophero]

I used to think Goodfellas was overrated, but I saw it again and realized how incredibly wrong I was.

 

[HymanKaplan_rivals48997]

2001 is about man learning to use tools.

And then, ultimately, the tools we created fought back.

That’s the long and short of it.

The plot isn’t what makes it one of the greatest films ever made. The visuals, w/o the aid of CGI still stand up, and Kubrick got the science/physics damn near perfect.

Taken in the context of when it was made, it’s a masterpiece.

 

[HymanKaplan_rivals48997]

Forrest Gump is hot garbage. I didn’t care much for it when I had to read it in school either. Back then it was called Candide. Some frog named Voltaire wrote it.

 

[HymanKaplan_rivals48997]

Somebody mentioned French Connection. Couldn’t agree more. I’ve tried, many times, to get through it and I can’t. Hackman is one of my favorite actors, but he was horrendous in it. (As far as I got anyway)

Key Largo is considered a classic but I found it grueling to make it to the end. Just one long and boring sermon about corruption. Blech

The sad part is that these “lists” of the greatest movies always include the usual suspects. There are indie movies out there, and I mean scores of them, that blow away 80 percent of what’s on most of those “lists”

 

[VernHatton52]

The French Connection is great. Movies that are considered great that I think are overrated include:

Forrest Gump
Shawshank
Scarface
Gladiator
Star Wars, all of them
Braveheart
Tootsie
Some Like It Hot

 

[christophero]

The first 2 SW films were pretty great.

 

[tls]

Pulp Fiction

Walked out after about 30 minutes

 

[J_Dee]

In animation:

Akira. It looks and sounds incredible (the pronunciations in the original dub suck but the 2001 dub's great). It's a terrible adaptation though. There's no good way to adapt only about the first three volumes of a six-volume work into a self-contained two-hour movie and still have it make sense, but props for trying I guess.

G.I. Joe: the Movie. The opening sequence is epic, the cast is great, and it introduces a few cool new characters (and toys), but everything else about the movie completely sucks. It's got a 7.0 at the IMDb. For me it's maybe a 3.

Transformers: the Movie. The first part of the movie's a lot of fun but around the middle of the movie the plots mostly become pointless until about the last 15 minutes. I still like it better than the two Michael Bay Transformers movies I saw though.

 

[Ukbrassowtipin]

I got two for you. I’ve tried multiples times to watch these because they are supposedly two of the best movies ever made, and most movie critics sprout wood while discussing them.

Casablanca
Citizen Kane

I get to about the 10 minute mark and I just can’t take it any longer. Maybe it’s just me? But I don’t get the hype.

Citizen Kane is considered bc it was revolutionary at the time in how it was filmed and set precedent in how movies were shot...from the cinematography to the editing.

It doesn't hold up to anything today

 

[Tskware]

Saw an article about The Godfather that was released 50 years ago this week. Things I did not know:

Talia Shire is Francis Ford Coppola's sister
John Cazale (Fredo) died 40 years ago of cancer, right after he finished The Deer Hunter
James Caan auditioned for the part of Michael (Al Pacino) but ended up cast as Sonny
Ryan O'Neal and Robert Redford were considered for the role of Michael
Marlon Brando, by all accounts, was great to work with in The Godfather . . . but refused to appear in Godfather Part II

 

[VernHatton52]

Talia Shire is FFC's sister.
Citizen Kane is even better today.

 

[Kooky Kats]

Burt Reynolds turned down Sonny.

 

[Kooky Kats]

The Deer Hunter is still a masterpiece

 

[Tskware]

Talia Shire is FFC's sister.

correct, my memory is not what it used to be.

 

[Tskware]

The Deer Hunter is still a masterpiece

Still don't really understand that movie, but the Russian Roulette scene in the prison camp is one of the best most intense scenes ever filmed.

 

[cole854]

The French Connection is great. Movies that are considered great that I think are overrated include:

Forrest Gump
Shawshank
Scarface
Gladiator
Star Wars, all of them
Braveheart
Tootsie
Some Like It Hot

This is why you should stick to whatever it is that you might have knowledge of....still to be determined.

 

[VernHatton52]

This is why you should stick to whatever it is that you might have knowledge of....still to be determined.

Cole is pathetic.

 

[WildcatFan1982]

John Cazale (Fredo) died 40 years ago of cancer, right after he finished The Deer Hunter

He was only in 5 feature length films and all were nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars.

 

[Tskware]

He was only in 5 feature length films and all were nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars.

Talia Shire said he was one of her favorite actors to work with, only the good die young

 

[_Mav_]

You may want to sit out anything regarding music/cinema going forward.

Munchkin lover huh? Not surprised.

 

[GGCAT]

Have to agree with those who put Citizen Kane and 2001 at top of the list. Cannot sit thru either of them. For their time they were groundbreaking in different ways, but today, one big snoozefest.

Lawrence of Arabia probably falls into that category for me as well, though their are many long run period epics that I love.

Outside of Casablanca, most of the classic Bogart movies do nothing for me.

Really picky on Westerns of any kind. Probably seen less than 10 in my life. that I would consider good. (I could probably winnow that number down to 5)

 

[WildcatFan1982]

Really picky on Westerns of any kind. Probably seen less than 10 in my life. that I would consider good. (I could probably winnow that number down to 5)

I'm not a huge western fan but there are some that I really enjoy. Meanwhile my dad will watch a Western channel on TV all day and night. He DVRs gunsmoke and my mom bought him a Matt Dillon shirt for his birthday

 

[TortElvisII]

He was only in 5 feature length films and all were nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars.

I love this scene.

 

[WildcatFan1982]

yes that was a great movie, back when Pacino was actually good at acting.

 

[VernHatton52]

Citizen Kane, 2001 and Lawrence of Arabia are 3 of the greatest movies ever made.

 

[joeyrupption]

I love 2001. I’ve watched it few times on HBOMax already. The technical conceit of the stargate sequence is unparalleled IMO.

I vote Shawshank.

 

[rudd1]

-a decent movie that has been completely overblown: lebowski.

^love the Coen Brothers, it's not in their top 5.

 

[KentuckyStout]

These threads are great at getting people to proudly share their stupidly bad takes.

 

[Kooky Kats]

A Clockwork Orange is a furry piece of ****.

 

[WildcatFan1982]

These threads are great at getting people to proudly share their stupidly bad takes.

I can't think of many 'all time great' movies that I hate, but the problem is sometimes that you spend your life hearing how some movie is just the BEST MOVIE EVER! and then you watch it and when you aren't blown away it just comes across as overrated.

I'll use a recent film as an example (for me). Black Panther. I enjoyed it. I got my $10 worth at the theater. But it had been out for a month before I finally got to see it. I remember talking to my mom that weekend for our weekly chat and she said "Is it as good as everyone says?" and my first thought was "How could it be? I've spent the last month being told it was the best movie ever made."