ever watch a movie that everyone raves about and just think "wtf?!"

[billbuckner]

Fortunately, your opinion does not count.

It's the only one that counts

[overkill94]

So many movies mentioned here make me want to punch a baby. High Fidelity? Swingers? Lost in Translation? Okay, I'll admit I wasn't crazy about Lost in Translation when I saw it in the theaters, but it turned into one of my top 50 movies or so - it's a staple every time I visit Japan for work.

I wonder how many of these critically-acclaimed schlocky movies would get less crap if they weren't so recognized. Crash, Forrest Gump, Titanic, etc. I really liked all of them for various reasons although I don't recognize them as all-time classics.

[JudeBaldo]

Can't believe I missed this one on my overrated list. Forrest Gump is the absolute epitome of overrated.


As for Coen Bros. movies, I think I've flat out loved them all except for Burn After Reading, which was merely okay. Fargo is way up there on my all-time movies list. Loved that one a lot. Honestly, I think that True Grit is one of their weaker efforts. Raising Arizona is another all-time great.

I agree with Fargo. I love love that movie. I thought it was hilarious and the characters were so well acted and written.

[Bodhizefa]

I agree with Fargo. I love love that movie. I thought it was hilarious and the characters were so well acted and written.

Fargo seems like a fairly polarizing film. I've never come across someone who kindof likes it or kindof dislikes it. It's either love or hate. I'd be very interested to know what it is about a film that gives it that polarization in the audience's response.

[onejayhawk]

Fargo seems like a fairly polarizing film. I've never come across someone who kindof likes it or kindof dislikes it. It's either love or hate. I'd be very interested to know what it is about a film that gives it that polarization in the audience's response.

Have now.

My wife loved it. I was meh. She goes for domestic violence movies AKA Lifetime Movie Channel.

J

[johnnya24]

Fargo seems like a fairly polarizing film. I've never come across someone who kindof likes it or kindof dislikes it. It's either love or hate. I'd be very interested to know what it is about a film that gives it that polarization in the audience's response.

Yeah ... also one of my favourites. For me it's the combination of music and cinematography that gives Fargo it's unique feel ... in addition to the wonderfully rich characters, and an amazing cast. The contrast between McDormand's quirky calculating calm and Macey and Buscemi's disintegration into panic is brilliant.

[JudeBaldo]

Yeah ... also one of my favourites. For me it's the combination of music and cinematography that gives Fargo it's unique feel ... in addition to the wonderfully rich characters, and an amazing cast. The contrast between McDormand's quirky calculating calm and Macey and Buscemi's disintegration into panic is brilliant.

Right ... plus the whole pregnant police chief tracking two "no good for nuthins'" was pretty damn cool. There were also so many stories being woven together and they executed it really well.

[Friarfan]

Here are my top overrated movies of all time:
1. Fletch ---- F*cking terrible in every way.
2. Fletch ---- So f*cking terrible in every way it deserves mention twice. wuss.

You obviously don't understand the appeal of Joe Don Baker

[mjl]

as for the imdb bottom 100, note that a large portion of the movies on that list (most of the pre-2000 movies, anyway) are only known now as episodes of MST3K, so I am not convinced that they're necessarily the worst but they're the best-known worst.

Inception was decent but it's not top 10 all-time good (as per imdb) or anywhere close to it.

on the other hand, I liked Hudson Hawk, so take my opinions with a grain of salt.

[Gregg]

Right ... plus the whole pregnant police chief tracking two "no good for nuthins'" was pretty damn cool. There were also so many stories being woven together and they executed it really well.

Yep, her puking on the side of road in the begining of the movie set the stage.

Buccemi (sp?) through clinched teeth: You shot me in the face! Classic.

McDermont's "Kind of funny lookin hey" Classic.

Hmm...I think it is time for another viewing. About #5 or 6 I would guess.

[Wonderboy]

McDermont's "Kind of funny lookin hey" Classic.

Oh man, you left out the lead up to that line!

Officer Olson: Mr. Mohra?
Mr. Mohra: Yeah.

Officer Olson: Officer Olson.
Mr. Mohra: Yeah, right-o. So I'm tendin' bar down there at Ecklund and Swedlin's last Tuesday and this little guy's drinkin' and he says, 'So where can a guy find some action? I'm goin' crazy out there at the lake.' And I says, 'What kinda action?' And he says, 'Woman action, what do I look like?' And I says, 'Well, what do I look like, I don't arrange that kinda thing,' and he says, 'But I'm goin' crazy out there at the lake,' and I says, 'Yeah, but this ain't that kinda place.'

Officer Olson: Uh huh.
Mr. Mohra: He says, 'Oh, so I get it, so you think I'm some kinda jerk for askin',' only he don't use the word jerk.

Officer Olson: I understand.
Mr. Mohra: Then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who thought he was a jerk is dead now. So I don't say nothin'. He says, 'What do ya think about that?' And I says, 'Well, that don't sound like too good a deal for him, then.'

Officer Olson: You got that right.
Mr. Mohra: Yeah. He says, 'Yeah, that guy's dead and I don't mean of old age.' And then he says, 'Geez, I'm goin' crazy out there at the lake.'

Officer Olson: White Bear Lake?
Mr. Mohra: Yeah, well, at Ecklund and Swedlin, that's closer to Moose Lake, so I made that assumption.

Officer Olson: Oh, sure.
Mr. Mohra: Anyway, he was drinkin' at the bar, so I don't think a whole great deal of it, but then Mrs. Mohra, she heard about the homicides down here and thought I should call it in, so I called it in.
(pause) End of story.

For about a year whenever my wife and I ended a conversation, we said, "End of story."

[onejayhawk]

I just rewatched another movie a lot of people dont get, Raising Arizona. Nicolas Cage does a great deadpan as a reformed felon, and a, then, little known John Goodman steals the show as an escaped con, who takes over his life. He basically recreated the part in The Big Lebowski, but this is the original.

Some people do not get the irony in this one. I think it is a scream.

J

[Fresno Bob]

"A Handmaids Tale" was better as a movie I think...I liked the book ending of Jaws better than the movie ending though..

[Gregg]

"A Handmaids Tale" was better as a movie I think...I liked the book ending of Jaws better than the movie ending though..

Did the shark win?

[Fresno Bob]

Did the shark win?

let's just say the ending is much much more undetermined than in the movie...