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Forum: General Movie Discussion 03-28-21
Replies: 97
Overrated movies & what to see instead
Posted By Iroquois
Re: Overrated movies & what to see instead

Kung Fury is overrated, watch Who Killed Captain Alex instead.
Forum: General Movie Discussion 03-27-21
Replies: 97
Overrated movies & what to see instead
Posted By Iroquois
Basically anything where you didn't like it as...

Basically anything where you didn't like it as much as other people did, audiences and critics alike.
Forum: General Movie Discussion 03-26-20
Replies: 97
Overrated movies & what to see instead
Posted By Iroquois
Re: Overrated movies & what to see instead

Isn't that the point of the thread, though? To take films that share a fundamental similarity but are executed in such distinctly different ways that you could make a good case for one being better...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 03-25-20
Replies: 97
Overrated movies & what to see instead
Posted By Iroquois
Re: Overrated movies & what to see instead

Personal distaste is the whole reason anything gets called overrated.
Forum: General Movie Discussion 03-17-20
Replies: 97
Overrated movies & what to see instead
Posted By Iroquois
Re: Overrated movies & what to see instead

Are you asking me if I'm serious when I say the Brazilian street-gang movie has more in common with the English street-gang movie than it does with the Japanese kids' fantasy movie with no street...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 03-16-20
Replies: 97
Overrated movies & what to see instead
Posted By Iroquois
Even in terms of mood, I'd still say City of God...

Even in terms of mood, I'd still say City of God is much more comparable to A Clockwork Orange than it is to Spirited Away (and of all the words I would use to describe City of God, "relaxing" would...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 03-12-20
Replies: 97
Overrated movies & what to see instead
Posted By Iroquois
The question comes down to why exactly you...

The question comes down to why exactly you consider a particular film overrated and why you would pick another film as an alternative (like what is the common ground between A Clockwork Orange and...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 03-05-20
Replies: 97
Overrated movies & what to see instead
Posted By Iroquois
Re: Overrated movies & what to see instead

It got here because Immortan Joe (who is implied to have been a soldier if his collection of badges is any indication so that already invokes a patriarchal institution like the military) is able to...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 03-04-20
Replies: 97
Overrated movies & what to see instead
Posted By Iroquois
Re: Overrated movies & what to see instead

I could argue the necessity of the anchorman brawl on the basis of how it's the absurdity of this extremely petty anchorman rivalry writ large, plus it has not one but two payoffs in how the Tim...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 03-04-20
Replies: 97
Overrated movies & what to see instead
Posted By Iroquois
I used to love Team America but for me it hasn't...

I used to love Team America but for me it hasn't aged too well because of its shallow both-sidesing of American interventionism and the War on Terror (which could also fit your definition of "Western...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 03-03-20
Replies: 97
Overrated movies & what to see instead
Posted By Iroquois
Re: Overrated movies & what to see instead

I feel like you'd have to make new arguments for why those are better alternatives because I remember Hardcore Henry being some extremely vapid and gimmicky nonsense that was barely worth watching...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 03-03-20
Replies: 97
Overrated movies & what to see instead
Posted By Iroquois
Re: Overrated movies & what to see instead

Regarding possible alternatives to Taxi Driver, I would arguably suggest other films that were scripted by Paul Schrader. The main one I'd suggest would be Bringing Out the Dead, which is also about...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 01-08-19
Replies: 97
Overrated movies & what to see instead
Posted By Iroquois
Re: Overrated movies & what to see instead

Yeah, the problems with the "overrated" discourse are well-noted.
Forum: General Movie Discussion 12-22-18
Replies: 97
Overrated movies & what to see instead
Posted By Iroquois
Re: Overrated movies & what to see instead

It's as if the people posting in this thread know the concept's flawed and are having fun with their answers more than anything else. At the very least, that's how I'm using it.

Speaking of which,...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 12-21-18
Replies: 97
Overrated movies & what to see instead
Posted By Iroquois
Re: Overrated movies & what to see instead

Idiocracy is overrated, see Sorry to Bother You instead.
Forum: General Movie Discussion 12-19-18
Replies: 97
Overrated movies & what to see instead
Posted By Iroquois
Re: Overrated movies & what to see instead

This is an awful lot like the format that Armond White uses for his end-of-year "Better Than" lists.