TV/Movies Megathread

[celedhring]

This is a very solid list of the 10 most overrated films:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/10767345/10-most-overrated-films-of-all-time.html

Even though I won't argue any of the films listed (thrice I have tried and failed to finish The Double Life of Veronique), I think that calling them "the 10 most overrated films of all time", is overrating their overratedness.

[Grey Fox]

Except Skyfall. Skyfall is awesome action.

[The Brain]

Surely Star Wars should be on any such list.

[celedhring]

Surely Star Wars should be on any such list.

Hardly. Even if one thinks the films aren't that good themselves, they are some of the most influential films of all time.

Actually I think Star Wars suffers from the "Seinfeld isn't that funny anymore" syndrome, where they have been copied and imitated so much that they don't look as groundbreaking as they were when they came out.

[Grey Fox]

But that's the thing with the Original Trilogy Star Wars, they are bad movies that are groundbreaking.

[Sheilbh]

Even though I won't argue any of the films listed (thrice I have tried and failed to finish The Double Life of Veronique), I think that calling them "the 10 most overrated films of all time", is overrating their overratedness.

Such is the internet

[The Brain]

Surely Star Wars should be on any such list.

Hardly. Even if one thinks the films aren't that good themselves, they are some of the most influential films of all time.

Actually I think Star Wars suffers from the "Seinfeld isn't that funny anymore" syndrome, where they have been copied and imitated so much that they don't look as groundbreaking as they were when they came out.

Hitler was great for Jews because he had a huge influence on them? OK.

[viper37]

Do you think in three hundred years there'll be movies and TV shows about a cabal of telegenic Jews who control international finance?

Anything's possible

[Capetan Mihali]

This is a very solid list of the 10 most overrated films:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/10767345/10-most-overrated-films-of-all-time.html

I like the recommendation to see "Fat City" for a boxing movie.   I saw it quite a while ago, but I remember it being very good -- John Huston directing, Stacy Keach and a very young Jeff Bridges (and the under-used Susan Tyrell) playing the leads.  It's a good book, too.

[Eddie Teach]

Except Skyfall. Skyfall is awesome action.

But that's the thing with the Original Trilogy Star Wars, they are bad movies that are groundbreaking.

Skyfall was the one the guy got right. Well, that and Million Dollar Baby.

Inception and The Departed were both good movies. While it's still possible for a good movie to be ridiculously overrated(see Shawshank Redemption) neither of them have that great a rep.

[Razgovory]

I wouldn't say that Star Wars is bad but it if causes idiots to dress up in shiny white plastic it must be overrated.

[Queequeg]

This is a very solid list of the 10 most overrated films:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/10767345/10-most-overrated-films-of-all-time.html

I thought you liked Videodrome?

[Eddie Teach]

I wouldn't say that Star Wars is bad but it if causes idiots to dress up in shiny white plastic it must be overrated.

Anything halfway decent causes goofballs to dress up in costumes nowadays.

[Sheilbh]

I thought you liked Videodrome?

I do

[Ideologue]

It's neat, but I think there's a good case for Videodrome being overrated.  It's certainly a step down from Scanners.