Oh I have a couple and I'd be happy to justify all of them but just for the sake of listing them, here they are -
1) Jean-Luc Godard is the most overrated filmmaker the world has ever seen, closely followed by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu. When I think of the films I've hated more than any other, the 3 films that immediately come to mind are Film Socialism, Babel, 21 Grams.
2) There Will Be Blood is a better film than both Citizen Kane and the Godfather.
3) The Clockwork Orange is a polemic, self-righteous, obnoxiously ham-handed satire that possesses all of Kubrick's worst traits as a director. It doesn't even compare to the compassionate maturity of Barry Lyndon or the narrative ambition of 2001.
4) Coppola's Apocalypse Now doesn't hold a candle to Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line, a genuine masterpiece of filmmaking and his The Conversation is a needless attempt at replicating Antonioni's masterful Blow up.
5) The original Star Wars film is the textbook example of all spectacle and no depth.
6) Steven Spielberg's best decade as a filmmaker were the 2000s where he make 2 of his greatest films - A.I. Artificial Intelligence and Munich - the former being an immortal masterpiece that stands, in my opinion, among the greatest achievements of the cinematic medium and the latter being the first definitive post-9/11 film (Btw Minority Report was also a great film).
7) Harmony Korine's Spring Breakers was one of the best and most under appreciated films of 2012, a cinematic pop song about all that defines the modern era.
There are several others but I shall leave it at that for the time being,
1) Jean-Luc Godard is the most overrated filmmaker the world has ever seen, closely followed by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu. When I think of the films I've hated more than any other, the 3 films that immediately come to mind are Film Socialism, Babel, 21 Grams.
2) There Will Be Blood is a better film than both Citizen Kane and the Godfather.
3) The Clockwork Orange is a polemic, self-righteous, obnoxiously ham-handed satire that possesses all of Kubrick's worst traits as a director. It doesn't even compare to the compassionate maturity of Barry Lyndon or the narrative ambition of 2001.
4) Coppola's Apocalypse Now doesn't hold a candle to Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line, a genuine masterpiece of filmmaking and his The Conversation is a needless attempt at replicating Antonioni's masterful Blow up.
5) The original Star Wars film is the textbook example of all spectacle and no depth.
6) Steven Spielberg's best decade as a filmmaker were the 2000s where he make 2 of his greatest films - A.I. Artificial Intelligence and Munich - the former being an immortal masterpiece that stands, in my opinion, among the greatest achievements of the cinematic medium and the latter being the first definitive post-9/11 film (Btw Minority Report was also a great film).
7) Harmony Korine's Spring Breakers was one of the best and most under appreciated films of 2012, a cinematic pop song about all that defines the modern era.
There are several others but I shall leave it at that for the time being,