Most Overrated Films Of All Time

[Uncle Spielberg]

Go watch the end again. They were super advaned robots , the end product of the evolution of AI from the 2000 since David lay at the bottom of the ocean after the apocalypse. The ending was hardly feel good to me, bitter sweet. The boy only had his mother for 24 hours.

The super advanced robots at the end could finally bring the boy what he wanted and what he wanted to hear after 2000 years of AI development.

The ending wrapped up the 2 hours before perfectly. I say again if you thought they were Aliens you didn't get it.

 

[m20gull]

American Beauty.

Total mindless Wank.

Avoided Titanic as it had a "This films sucks" kind of gloss/aura around it.

As a forty-something near-divorcee I totally connect with American Beauty - not at all mindless.

Titanic, wouldn't touch it with a barge pole

My nomination - Matrix Re-loaded, I'm still grumpy about the rental fee. £3.75!

 

[alan partridge]

Titanic, wouldn't touch it with a barge pole

Bet they wished they'd had a barge pole on the titanic!

 

[beorhthelm]

Go watch the end again. They were super advaned robots , the end product of the evolution of AI from the 2000 since David lay at the bottom of the ocean after the apocalypse. The ending was hardly feel good to me, bitter sweet. The boy only had his mother for 24 hours.

The super advanced robots at the end could finally bring the boy what he wanted and what he wanted to hear after 2000 years of AI development.

The ending wrapped up the 2 hours before perfectly. I say again if you thought they were Aliens you didn't get it.

i'll watch it later. But being robots is just dumb and makes the ending even crapper as far as im concerned. Why would an AI bother to evolve physically, and if so why end up looking like aliens and not somthing more practical?

My interpretation of the end was that its the boys imagination - his AI had developed to the point where he was able to dream and create his own idea of reality.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

They didn't look like aliens to me. They were his evolved family. After sinking to the bottom of the ocean, the earth was destroyed, or at least all humanity by the apocalypse. These robots discovered David, brought him to life and read his mind as he was the last AI contact with humans.

They in turn could grant him his wish with the lock of hair and there you have the ending.

I don't think it was his imagination.

 

[dougdeep]

The '83 cup final replay was well overated, although Manure don't seem to agree.

 

[alan partridge]

They didn't look like aliens to me. They were his evolved family. After sinking to the bottom of the ocean, the earth was destroyed, or at least all humanity by the apocalypse. These robots discovered David, brought him to life and read his mind as he was the last AI contact with humans.

They in turn could grant him his wish with the lock of hair and there you have the ending.

I don't think it was his imagination.

Exactly how I read it too. Don't see why that makes it crap though? Thought it was a fairly good development of the plot and the old, robots evolving idea.

 

[king Wombat]

All this stuff about AI is missing the point.

The film was self indulgent beyond belief
The plot was dull as f***
The ending dragged on and on, could have wrapped it up an hour previously with ease.

It was one of the most pretentious films I have ever seen - I studied film and media studies at Uni a few years ago so I have seen a few..

 

[Bob!]

The '83 cup final replay was well overated, although Manure don't seem to agree.

Agree, I totally ignore that one now

The first game was so much better.

We ended up sharing the Cup after that one, didn't we?

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Oh well if you studied films that must mean your right. I suppose students lambast Spielberg because he is the most successful director of all time. I suppose he has not made a good film has he.

And surely if it was the most pretentious film you have seen he must have got pretty close to how Kubrick would have directed it !.

 

[Theatre of Trees]

Saving Private Ryan

The first 25 minutes of that film is the greatest cinema in the history of cinema , fact. Nothing has come close since or before. The rest as a whole is a 8.5 / 10 with an incredible finish as well.

The first 25 minutes is possibly the most realistic portrayal of war Hollywood has ever placed on screen the remainder of the film is the usual sentimental rubbish that has been associated with every war film ever made. Band of Brothers was much better because they had to stick to the real life story of the battalion rather than a story contrived by a Hollywood director.

Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels is unbelievably shite and responsible for thousands of piss poor British imitators.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

All the Lord of the Rings films

*dives for cover*

Not the worst films ever, just the most overrated.

In terms of completely shit films, anyone who's ever seen Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls will have trouble finding anything to top it.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Oh I don't know I found it quite funny when Jim Carrey came out of the Rhino's arse.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

I suspect 2001: A Space Odyssey is probably the film equivalent of Stephen Hawking's Brief History of Time, in that nobody particularly enjoyed it or understood it, but watched it just so they could say they had, and sound like an expert at dinner parties.

Incidentally, do people still have dinner parties other than in Nescafe ads?

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels is a complete fraud. Crap plot, fake dialogue, patent cockernee cash-in. Cynical in the extreme.

 

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Gladiator - I tried to see why people say it's so great but I was bored to tears after 10 minutes.

 

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And also Goodfellas - is there actually a story behind all that gratititous, needless violence?

 

[m20gull]

And also Goodfellas - is there actually a story behind all that gratititous, needless violence?

Yes there is, a very simple one. But what's wrong with the gratuitous violence?

 

[king Wombat]

Oh well if you studied films that must mean your right. I suppose students lambast Spielberg because he is the most successful director of all time. I suppose he has not made a good film has he.

And surely if it was the most pretentious film you have seen he must have got pretty close to how Kubrick would have directed it !.

steady on china, all I'm saying is that I've seen a lot of 'arty' 'well made' films.

I've got nothing against spielberg and think he does what he does very well. Kubrick is also one of my favourite directors - however i would say the last couple of films that kubrick did ie eyes wide shut and AI were bloody awful.

 

[eastlondonseagull]

Shawshank bloody Redemption. Rubbish.