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Overrated films that people seem to think are a great but really are not

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    #722
    Capt'n Midnight
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    igCorcaigh wrote: »
    I hated Rambo and pretty much most 80s film. Especially anything to do with boxing.
    Rambo was generic rubbish.

    First Blood is a good film. The first one is very different, like the Aliens series.


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    #723
    Capt'n Midnight
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    gmisk wrote: »
    Naw...he has been in an awful lot of rubbish but since that he has been in some films I liked
    The rock
    Con air
    Face off
    Adaptation
    Lord of war
    Matchstick men
    Kick ass
    Color out of space
    Mandy
    Mr Cage is very variable

    "Cage is a good actor in good movies, and an almost indispensable actor in bad ones."
    — Roger Ebert on Drive Angry

    Cracked.com once pitched the theory that he is attempting some sort of experiment where he takes only the best and worst films offered to him, and absolutely nothing in between.


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    #724
    Quantum Erasure
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    It's a very different film, ...it's a different shark!


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    #725
    Stevieluvsye
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    Good will hunting was an absolute pile of fcuking brilliance


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    #726
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    Stevieluvsye wrote: »
    Good will hunting was an absolute pile of fcuking brilliance

    Now there is a film I haven't seen. Funny the ones that slipped under my radar.


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    #727
    Stevieluvsye
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,907 ✭✭✭Stevieluvsye


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Now there is a film I haven't seen. Funny the ones that slipped under my radar.

    Watch it. Just watch it. Actually, it never seems to be mentioned amongst the greats, which imo t most definitly is


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    #728
    Stevieluvsye
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,907 ✭✭✭Stevieluvsye


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Now there is a film I haven't seen. Funny the ones that slipped under my radar.

    For the record, i had this pre-conception that the film was about some chap called will who went out hunting until i was looked at oddly and explained the characters name was will hunting. Robin Williams is brilliant in it as are all of the main cast


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    #729
    joeguevara
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    Stevieluvsye wrote: »
    For the record, i had this pre-conception that the film was about some chap called will who went out hunting until i was looked at oddly and explained the characters name was will hunting. Robin Williams is brilliant in it as are all of the main cast

    Haha I remember my parents coming to see me and my brother in university and as a treat take us to the cinema. My brother suggested good will hunting. I remember protesting that I was not going to see some fcucking davy Crockett wannabe shooting armadillos. Never let forget it.


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    #730
    Capt. Autumn
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    Critically acclaimed films that I didn't get:

    Mulholland Drive
    The Road to Perdition
    The Big Lebowski
    The Royal Tenenbaums
    Whitnail and I
    Million Dollar Baby

    I'd sooner french kiss a Covid addled Arlene Foster than sit through any of these again.


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    #731
    blueser
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    Blade Runner (both)
    Inception
    Withnail and I
    Joker


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    #732
    Ash.J.Williams
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    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    Rambo was generic rubbish.

    First Blood is a good film. The first one is very different, like the Aliens series.

    When sly puts his heart and soul into a movie it’s great when they do well it’s kerching then a lazy franchise begins!

    One of the bravest men in Hollywood, wrote rocky without a pot to piss in, and inisted he was the main part which was hard to pitch as a nobody


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    #733
    dvdman1
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    py2006 wrote: »
    I've a mate who didn't like E.T when he saw it as kid and he's an 80s kid!!! I mean the guy has no soul or heart.

    I hated et as a kid..sooo boring, its only when i watched it as an adult did i like it..haha


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    #734
    Tony EH
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    Ash.J.Williams wrote: »
    When sly puts his heart and soul into a movie it’s great when they do well it’s kerching then a lazy franchise begins!

    One of the bravest men in Hollywood, wrote rocky without a pot to piss in, and inisted he was the main part which was hard to pitch as a nobody

    Simply wouldn't happen these days. But in the 70's, studios were more willing to take a punt on an outsider.

    Funny to think though that all Stallone had to his credit before 'Rocky' was a porno, a few bit parts, 'The Lords of Flatbush' and 'Death Race 2000'.

    Hardly a sterling career up to that point.

    He's been in some absolutely godawful shite though.


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    #735
    dvdman1
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    Necro wrote: »
    Casablanca for me. Only watched it recently as I have an aversion to B&W movies but my God is it poor. Two blokes in a bar smoking and talking for the most part. Don't understand why it's held in such high regard at all at all.

    get outta that garden...casablanca is a classic, always enjoy watching it over a holiday with a glass of spirits


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    #736
    [Deleted User]
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    Gremlins II

    My Little Pony - the latest movie.


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    #737
    Patrick2010
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    I know it’s already been mentioned but never got how It’s a wonderful life became a classic Christmas film


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    #738
    dvdman1
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    Patrick2010 wrote: »
    I know it’s already been mentioned but never got how It’s a wonderful life became a classic Christmas film

    Because it captures whats important at Christmas, family, people in your life, community and how being a good person can touch so many lives.. when jimmy stewart is dead the ghost shows him how life is so much worse without him.....i think its an amazing movie, i think ill go off and cry a bit now .....


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    #739
    joeguevara
    Registered Users Posts: 8,052 ✭✭✭joeguevara


    dvdman1 wrote: »
    Because it captures whats important at Christmas, family, people in your life, community and how being a good person can touch so many lives.. when jimmy stewart is dead the ghost shows him how life is so much worse without him.....i think its an amazing movie, i think ill go off and cry a bit now .....

    I prefer Scrooged.


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    #740
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    Ace Ventura Pet Detective 2 & 3


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    #741
    Capt'n Midnight
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    dvdman1 wrote: »
    Because it captures whats important at Christmas, family, people in your life, community and how being a good person can touch so many lives.. when jimmy stewart is dead the ghost shows him how life is so much worse without him.....i think its an amazing movie, i think ill go off and cry a bit now .....
    The money was lost by someone who obviously wasn't up to the very simple task of taking it from A to B.

    The savings and loan is still deep in the red. All they did was borrow from Peter to pay Paul to get past one missed payment. And now they have more debts and their customers have more debts.

    Mr Potter got that money so is cash flush and in a much better position to tighten the screws.


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    #742
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    Avatar. Pure sh1te. And I'm a big sci fi fan.


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    #743
    [Deleted User]
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    Peggy Sue got Married

    featuring Nicholas Cage and ??


    Muriel's Wedding

    Ruthless People


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    #744
    is_that_so
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    whisky_galore wrote: »
    Birth Of A Nation hasn't aged well.
    It was never going to. Even by 1916 it was scorned as material. It's still got some very good cinematic value to it and is more of a thing to study than to enjoy.


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    dvdman1
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    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    The money was lost by someone who obviously wasn't up to the very simple task of taking it from A to B.

    The savings and loan is still deep in the red. All they did was borrow from Peter to pay Paul to get past one missed payment. And now they have more debts and their customers have more debts.

    Mr Potter got that money so is cash flush and in a much better position to tighten the screws.

    Haha...the money was stolen between A and B to destroy the savings & loan pesky potter stole it........good will always triumph in the end, ....yeeeh!


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    #746
    joeguevara
    Registered Users Posts: 8,052 ✭✭✭joeguevara


    I was trying to think of this film for ages and always was bewildered at the praise everyone was giving it. Crash. The film about racism where different people surprised and both disgusted you. It had an amazing cast with Thandie Newton one of the most beautiful women in the world and Matt Dillon who rocked Something about Mary. But it was such a paint by numbers by reverse film with style and symbolism trumping skill and acting. Epic fail for me.


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    #747
    quickbeam
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    Crash was okay and definitely better (IMO) than the pile of turd film they all said should have won the Oscar instead - Brokeback Mountain.


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    #748
    RandomViewer
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Ace Ventura Pet Detective 2 & 3

    Didn't know there was a 3


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    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Peggy Sue got Married

    featuring Nicholas Cage and ??


    Muriel's Wedding

    Ruthless People

    Muriel's Wedding gets better with age, IMO. Just rewatched it recently, still so funny and sad and bathed in pathos.


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    I was thinking about why I love the films I do. Arrival is one of my favourites and it's because it resonates on an emotional level with me. Gone with the Wind, Requiem, Brokeback, Bridges of Madison County. They all affect me.
    If they didn't connect with me in that way I'm not sure I'd think much of them, Arrival in particular.


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    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    I was thinking about why I love the films I do. Arrival is one of my favourites and it's because it resonates on an emotional level with me. Gone with the Wind, Requiem, Brokeback, Bridges of Madison County. They all affect me.
    If they didn't connect with me in that way I'm not sure I'd think much of them, Arrival in particular.

    Yes, it's not a prerequisite for me but heart features in many of the films I like. And I'm not talking soppiness, which I hate.

    A recentish film that I avoided on its release because I'm put off by hype was Call Me By Your Name. I watched it recently and could not believe how much I loved it. Absolutely mesmerising. I firmly believe it's a modern classic.


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