Most Overrated Movies

When Depp does those awful movies, he doesn't care about how bad they are, cos:

1. He knows it will make money.
2. His role will get good reviews.

Regardless of how silly Depp might appear onscreen, he entertains. It's true that he is getting typecast as a weirdo.
But he is one of the highest paid mainly because he can shoulder the success of a film.
If a studio is making money out of his role, why shouldn't he be paid a lot?

Also, he got rid of the curse of the Pirate movies.

Along with Drew, Johnny Depp used to be the one person who's films I'd take an immediate interest in. Sadly, for me, over the last 10 years this hasn't been the case, as he's been in one film after another that I've had little/no interest in:

The Tourist, Alice In Wonderland, Public Enemies, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Sweeney Todd, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Corpse Bride, Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Secret Window, Once Upon A Time In Mexico, Blow, Before Night Falls.

I now think of Johnny Depp as a friend I once had who, for one reason or another, changed. We reminisce about the good times, but they're not someone I'd choose to hang out with anymore. Hopefully, 10 years from now, he'll have made his money, secured his daughter's future and go back to taking interesting roles in, slightly, less mainstream films.

I agree I too miss Depp in smaller films... we have Tim Burton to blame for this.
But am happier to see him mor famous than Pattinson, Michael Cera, Seth Rogen, etc.

Dr. Parnassus is easily one of the most underrated films of 2009

Oh, absolutely, I couldn't agree more.

Maybe, but then it's not like 2009 was a good year. Even a muddled Gilliam film could be a top film in the year. That said, I feel that way about most years of the last decade.

TBF, that film was probably hurt by the appearance of Saint Heath. I don't know if he was bad or not, but it brought an audience and expectation that it neither deserved or wanted.

Not saying you specifically, but it's completely your fault if you go into a film like that just for him. There was so much more to it than his swan song, and just because the general public saw it for him and dismissed it for going over their heads doesn't make it a poor film by any means. It was only muddled by the replacement of Heath with 3 other people, which 1) couldn't be helped, 2) worked way better than it could have.

While I think that my opponents responses as far as Depp goes are only reinforcing my claims, I think we have reached a dead horse. I would love to know which thread you are speaking of when you mention "anti-Depp". I just started this forums and never read it. I would also like to write that I can understand how "The Godfather" could be seen as overrated simply for the fact that so many people can be heard saying "Dude, tha Godfather is a ****in awesome movie!!!" However I can't deny that the first two movies (maybe not so much the second) are very skillfully and artfully done and I can't turn away no matter how many people like it lol.

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I also agree with honey about the last decade of movies. I personally have started to do a sort of reverse time thing as far as movies go. I watch older and more obscure movies, starving for some good film, hoping to find a diamond in the rough. New movies I already know will suck so i don't even bother (seriously).

Forrest Gump (I can't believe this film was nominated for anything)
Darjeeling Ltd (maybe I am just simple but this movie was a complete waste of 90 mins of my life)
Unbearable Lightness of Being (just stupid)
District 9 (I get the whole interesting context of racism thing, but it all just felt awkward to me)

Can you elaborate these two? I gave up defending Darjeeling Ltd. long ago.

The most overrated film, in my book, are as follows, in no particular order:

The Town--fell considerably short of its potential due to overblown North End and Fenway Park heist scenes, as well as too much slip-shod, slap-happy editing by Ben Affleck and his assistant producer(s). Also, while I sympathized with Claire Keesey, the bank manager whose bank was robbed by Doug MacRay and his men, at first, I found Claire more and more annoying as the film wore on, until I lost all sympathy for her towards the end, when she lied to the Feds to cover Doug's butt, refused to break it off with him even after learning, through FBI pics, who Doug truly was. Claire also tipped Doug off to the Feds' presence in her apartment when they were literally on the virge of nabbing him and sending him to prison for a long time, where he belonged, and received stolen goods; a duffel bag full of dirty money that Doug left her before skipping town, which she donate to restore the seedy hocky rink.

Oh, and everybody roots for and sympathizes with Doug when he thumbs his law at the cops and at the Feds, and then ends up skipping town to Florida. Nothing like making a career criminal who's an armed robber, a felon and wanted fugitive a loveable rogue requiring sympathy..eh.

Gosford Park--Too slow, and way overrated. Not worth Best Picture award.

Crash--Sort of cheesy--not worth the Best picture.

The American--Ugh! I, my family and the other people in the theatre were pretty much slumped down in their chairs, falling asleep.

Casinos--Way overrated...and boring. It was playing as a double feature along with Goodfellas, and I couldn't watch more than ten minutes of it.

Slumdog Millionaire--A good film, but overrated. It wasn't worth the Academy Award for the Best Picture of the Year, imho.

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I completely agree with all 3 of these, especially The Town. It infuriated me to see how many people gave it such rave reviews. Ben Affleck is a terrible actor and he ruined the movie for me.

Some more overrated movies, in my humble opinion:

There Will Be Blood - Although Daniel Day Lewis was undeniably amazing, the movie as a whole was very boring and a bit full of itself.

Gone With The Wind -- I know this is supposed to be one the all-time greats, but I just couldn't get into it.

The Godfather -- I feel like many people feel obligated to claim that they love this movie, but I'll just come and say it - I didn't enjoy it much.

The King's Speech -- When I finally watched this movie, I got the feeling that its sole purpose was win a damn Oscar. It was so formulaic and cliche.

Avatar!

Here are my over rated movies (based mostly on imdb's Top 250 -list)

The Departed: Since when have only big names made a good moovie?! Hated the mediocre plot combined with the unadventurous ending.

Now Country for Old Men: See above! (Ending... what ending? The movie just stops)

One flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: It was lamely ok but far from all time bests. Maybe the end spoiled it too (for me).

Toy Story 3: Can't see how this is better than Wall-E and loads of other (animation) movies. One of the worst animations (plot) in few years.

American beauty: Really? Is there something I didn't get?

Slumdog Millionare: It was nice. But no that good.

City of god: Just not as great as I expected.

Pan's Labyrinth: When u get the distracting parts out of it, there ain't too much left. Visually nice though.

Have to agree about The Town. I was hoping so much more.

I wouldn't go as far as calling As Good As It Gets overrated.

Rain Man - Hoffman put in a performance of pure brilliance but for me the rest of the film plodded along and was wholly unsatisfying.

The Dark Knight - Incredible performance from Ledger. The film overall, however, is good but not that good.

Anchorman - People rave about this and I just do not get why. Will Ferrell can be great (i.e. Stranger Than Fiction) but this was just unfunny. Applegate also gives a performance completely devoid of emotion.

No Country for Old Men - Another of those where I have to put emphasis on overrated. It's a brilliant film up until the ending, but it just petered out.

I can see your point on all of these but....

Why The Dark Knight?!?!?! Please elaborate if you will - I can see how one wouldn't label it as a perfect/flawless film, but labeling it as "overrated" is...is...criminal!

Like I said, it's a good film, if not a great one. But I would label it as overrated because a lot of people do rate it as flawless, which it isn't - not in my eyes. I know it's been said, but I do think Ledger's death clouded some people's judgement a little bit.

Agreed. I finally did watch The Dark Knight not too long ago and it was much better than I had expected, since I did not enjoy Batman Begins. A lot of people rank it as the greatest super hero film ever and a top ten masterpiece. For me, it was very good, but there's still better films, in the super hero genre and even within the Batman franchise.

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That's messed up, IMO. Regardless of Heath Ledger's death, "The Dark Knight" still stands as a brilliant film. Every actor in that movie put on a great performance (except for maybe Maggie Gyllenhaal, but she wasn't in it too much thankfully) - you've got Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Gary *effing* Oldman, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman - all of these people had a hand in making "The Dark Knight" a great film. In addition, Christopher Nolan wrote an incredible script...

What you're suggesting is, that if Ledger was still with us, then "The Dark Knight" would not be considered a movie of such high caliber; I call bulls**t.

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