Most Overrated Films Of All Time

First of all I would like to say how great it is to see the great Captain Jack Sparrow back on the big screen. It is a fantastic character and nobody else could have played him but the brilliant Johnny Depp. The movie had a lot more special effects than I had anticipated and certainly a lot more than the first. I don't think the story was as developed as the first's but it was still a great movie. Not the best I've seen in a while but it is certainly worth a watch.

What a MASSIVE dissapointment. The film was so drawn out and boring that it almost had me in tears watching it. I had the idea that this film was a big battle style film like the Lord of the Rings but I was sadly wrong. Colin Farrell gives the worst performance I have seen from him yet. He seemed to mumble incoherently all the way through and his supposed love for Pachahontas wasn't justified as he hardly said two words to her throghout. Christian Bale didn't make and appearance until 40 minutes or so from the end and then even HIS performance wasn't the best. The plus point to this movie was it's look. A lot of the scenery was quite rewarding to look at but this didn't have a fighting chance of making up for the rest of the rubbish. I have to admit the whole movie I just didn't grasp what it was about really, the dialogue is very messy as is the directing to go along with the terrible editing. All in all a massive, massive dissapointment, one which I can't see myself watching ever again.

Another clear-cut case of 'hype and expectation begets dissapointment'. I was looking forward to this a lot, expecting to be terrified and was sadly bored for the most part.

Let me just start off by saying a good thing about this film. And that is I can clearly see that at the time of its release, back in 1973 that this was absolutely terrifying. But almost 35 years on, and upon my first time viewing this, that scare factor isn't apparent at all. Like I said for the most part I was so bored with this film, probably because most of the film takes place away from the little girl and anything remotely scary. Now some people might say that the build up is crucial, and I can understand where those people are coming from, but instead of the so-called build up affecting me and getting me scared for what is to come I just found the moments before and between the scares just plain boring.

And yet again it leads me to beg the question; what is the big deal about this film? Do the people who think it is scary just think that because they seen it at the time? Because otherwise I can't see how anyone could be scared by this film. Some of the scenes, including the exorcism itself, are pretty shocking. And some of the foul language coming out of the little girl's mouth did throw me back. But those scenes I found to be very few and far between. Also whoever did the sound for this film, not the soundtrack but just the actual noises etc, did a fine job in creating an eerie atmosphere with and outwith the exorcism scene(s).

The Exorcist is yet another so-called "classic" that has left me dissapointed and that is ultimately extremely overrated. I may revisit this film again sometime, just to see if it affects me differently the second time round. But for now I look back on this film as being a complete bore rather than being scary. Which is a damn shame.

What a let down. This film is AVERAGE in every way possible. There are so many people who say it the best gangster film when really when you think about it, it's not one at all.

The film is way too uplifting and friendly to be a proper gangster film. There isn't an 'amazing' performance in sight, despite what people say. Costner does nothing that we haven't seen from him before, same goes for Connery. Garcia hardly says anything so his performance isn't great. The only good performance is Robert De Niro playing Capone. He is very overbearing and powerful but with regards to that, his performance is VERY out of place. The rest is all buddy-buddy and uplifting while he's very violent, it just didn't work at all.

Overall an average movie, nothing special about it what so ever. I was dissapointed.....to say the least.

Deeply controversial and some might even say the man behind this has a lot of guts to make it. And to an extent that is true. But what makes the attempt fail to pay off for Mr Moore is the fact that the film comes off in a different way than what I suspect was intended.

The film opens strongly, showing the point at which Bush was elected President. Moore narrates the whole thing, and in the earlier stages of the film (particularly the opening) his little jokes and cleverly humorous twisting of people's words works well for the film. It is interesting and thought provoking, with sometimes shocking scenes and information that most of us had no knowledge of. However after about 45 minutes this wears very thin and it just becomes a load of overblown, condescending nonsense.

Enjoyment of this film comes down to a personal taste of whether you are actually interested in the subject at hand. Anyone who likes to be involved in things of this matter will either find this entertaining and informative or they will know for a fact that some of things represented and said in this film are not true and become angry. Anyone who doesn't get involved with this kind of thing in everyday life will either be totally uninterested or will like it to begin with but then become bored. I fall into the latter catagory. I have no interest in going in-depth to what happened behind the scenes as far anything to do with Bush goes. And for the first half hour I was entertained by Moore and the things he had to say and more specifically point out. But after that I found the film became very condescending, as did, more specifically, Moore. It was as if he was secretly pointing and sniggering at the camera because we are taking in the, what is for the most part, twisted facts and just plain rubbish.

The thing about Michael Moore is that he thinks that twisting people's words, taking things out of context and making people look worse than they really are is a smart thing to do and the fact that it's controversial will automatically get the film accepted and praised. And sadly that opinion is what most people who saw this film have. But if you look closely at this film you will see that a lot of the stuff that happens has been edited in such a way that it comes of as worse or different than it actually is. When in fact the very fact that he is doing this with the footage comes off as him thinking he is better than everyone else for simply pointing this out.

The film provides an outlet for information that most of us would never be informed of otherwise. And that's all fine if the information is all true. We are supposed to just take Moore's word for it, and he rarely provided (within the film) any evidence to back up what he is saying. And I bet if someone took the time to look up some of the stuff mentioned that the information would differ from the way it is displayed here.

As a film it is entertaining in parts, spots here and there where you are engrossed and very intruiged about what is happening on-screen. But for the most part the film isn't interesting, there isn't enough variation in what the film deals with and by about an hour in the amount of interviews, talking and just general information that is presented to you just becomes numbing and ultimately you just don't care. The films strength lies with the scenes of family members of people who died in Iraq (one scene towards the end in particular, involving the mother of someone who died in Iraq affected me quite a bit). Unfortunately for the film anything else just seems way too overdone, with too much information (without a whole lot of evidence to back it up) that it just becomes mind numbing to listen to. I may not completely disbelieve the film but I am far from believing it entirely.

Wow! What the hell happened here! Definitely a big let down after seeing the first two. And by that logic definitely the worst of the original trilogy. I am not the biggest Star Wars fan to say the least. I thought Episode IV and V were good but very, very overrated. This one brings down my opinion of the series even more.

I just thought it was plain boring. Too much of concentrating on the little, poitless things instead of the big, important things in the story. After a way dragged out race between the trees in a forrest, there is a very long scene with the Ewoks that drags out even more. These are just examples of how too many unimportant scenes are dragged out.

I did like the characters though (again). I love Harrison Ford and his character of Han Solo here was as sarcastic as ever. The rest of the cast do their job too but as I said about the other two, I really don't like Mark Hamill as Luke. He just annoyed me the whole way through; some hero!

You definitely can notice that Lucas' profits from the other two have went to his head here. He spent way too much on pointless CGI when the others were fine with there quality of special effects.

The overall reason I didn't like this one as much is that it was too slow paced, too much dragged out scenes, not enough of the talked about light-saber fights and as a whole the film was too long. This just adds to me thinking that this series is very overrated.

Maybe it's just me. Maybe I am missing something and therefore should try with all my movie-might to understand. But after seeing The Princess Bride for the first time I simply can't understand what the big deal is with it.

I think what mystified me the most about the film was whether it was supposed to be a comedy or serious (or both). If it's serious then it is just silly. Everything comes off as extremely campy, cheesy and at times cringe-worthy to watch. There was several times where I was perplexed as to what my reaction to certain things was meant to be. And if it's a comedy then in my books it isn't a very succesful one. I counted three times overall when I moderately sniggered at what was happening and was left straight faced at moments where I could tell it was supposed to have me in stitches. Whatever the film is, a comedy or a drama, in my opinion it fails pretty much completely on both counts.

Having said that there are a couple of things in the movie which I enjoyed. Most notably is the cast and array of enjoyable characters. It brings together all those caricatures of fairytale characters and the film is at least moderately succesful at making an enjoyable to watch ensemble. The second thing which I liked about the movie was the brisk pace it had. At least my perplextion or dislike for the film didn't have to go on for very long, as the film comes in at a nice 90 minute or so runtime.

The Princess Bride, to me anyway, is a film very unsure of itself. Is it a comedy? A drama? Or both? Whatever it wants to be, to me, it fails at it. It has an enjoyable cast of actors and characters though, which kept me from completely hating the film. Unfotunately that hardly keeps me from disliking it and, for me, the film is firmly on the list of the most overrated films of all time.

I was a little dissapointed with this movie. The name suggests one thing and the movie delivers another, well at least not enough. The way the movie looked seemed very strange to me, sort of old fashioned clothes and houses mixed with a modern feel, which I don't think worked very well. Viggo Mortensen seemed to hold back his performance a little and he wasn't supported very well. So if you're looking for a good violent action movie to watch, I would give this one a miss.

Okay movie but way over-hyped.