Ok we've had a gazillion and one posts about great movies, but how about movies you thought were overrated. Movies that everyone but you seems to love. Here are a few of mine.
The Usual Suspects: Haven't seen this in a while, but I remember being bored. The twist at the end was predictable, it was a simple process of elimination, and using an inductive process to figure the conventions of surprising revealations. More than that, the film was boring and lacking in any real style. Bryan Singer went on to direct the similarly bland X men.
Fight Club: Saw this the other day and it's not very good. It might be really far out when you're fourteen, but it's ideas are so jumbled and unoriginal. Yet I see it's tame banal quotes are used as signatures by pubescents across the www. There are a few interesting moments, but it's a very commercial and shallow exploration of postmodernism. It's self defeating by the mere fact that it stars Brad Pitt.
Virtually any hollywood comedy: Especially the movies of Sandler Schneider and Stiller. They rarely raise more than a smirk. Even Jim Carey's films are crap, except for a few of his less comedic roles.
The Usual Suspects: Haven't seen this in a while, but I remember being bored. The twist at the end was predictable, it was a simple process of elimination, and using an inductive process to figure the conventions of surprising revealations. More than that, the film was boring and lacking in any real style. Bryan Singer went on to direct the similarly bland X men.
Fight Club: Saw this the other day and it's not very good. It might be really far out when you're fourteen, but it's ideas are so jumbled and unoriginal. Yet I see it's tame banal quotes are used as signatures by pubescents across the www. There are a few interesting moments, but it's a very commercial and shallow exploration of postmodernism. It's self defeating by the mere fact that it stars Brad Pitt.
Virtually any hollywood comedy: Especially the movies of Sandler Schneider and Stiller. They rarely raise more than a smirk. Even Jim Carey's films are crap, except for a few of his less comedic roles.
