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What are some of the most overrated movies you've seen that you really disliked for one reason or another (i'm thinking of movies highly recommended by others or that won academy awards)? I'll start...
Titanic
Forest Gump
The Color Purple
There's Something About Mary (one of the worst)
Gone With the Wind
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Titanic . . . definitely.
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The English Patient and Dr. Zhivago. (My pet peeve is condoning adultery)
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I think all of the Lord of the Rings movies are overrated. I don't think Gone With the Wind is overrated but I think that the character of Scarlett O'Hara is. She is my least favorite in that movie. Titanic was definitely overrated. I couldn't stand that one either.
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I think all of the Lord of the Rings movies are overrated. I don't think Gone With the Wind is overrated but I think that the character of Scarlett O'Hara is. She is my least favorite in that movie. Titanic was definitely overrated. I couldn't stand that one either. Yes, I definitely agree with you about Scarlett. Her character is the very thing that destroys the literary value of the work. You can't have the heroine be a completely unsympathetic figure. There is nothing tragic about Scarlett. By the end, when Rhett says, "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn!" I said, "Finally! Good riddance evil woman!" Joe
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The newest version of "War of the Worlds" with Tom Cruise.
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I'm with Nathen, but I had read the books several times before I saw the movies...and read them after too. As a movie it was well made and depicted the novel as well as it could in its medium.
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I've fallen asleep every time I tried watching "Gone with the Wind"...I don't know if it's over rated.
"Citizen Kane" is over rated in my opinion.
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Citizen Kane is one of the only movies I couldn't make it through.
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Me too! I went to sleep.
"High School Musical" is slightly over rated too. It is good, but not as good as they make it to be. I've seen too many of the great musicals to be very impressed.
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I just can't get into Lord of the Rings. Maybe it is the Hobbits hairy feet. It grosses me out. Also I think they could have ended the last movie about 5 times before it actually ended.
Scarlett is one of the worst heroines. So many people talk about how she changed in the movie but she didn't! She was cruel and selfish in the beginning and cold and selfish in the end. Melanie is my favorite character.
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Lord of The Rings.
It is probably just me, but while watching it I began to think all the characters looked aline. Would it have been so bad to make one of them a red-head, another wear a bright green shirt, or have corn-rows or something? After a while, all the little buggers looked the same to me and I was getting confused. I fell asleep watching it.
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Hobbit feet do take some getting used to, and you're right about the endings. That was the consequence of weaving multiple plots together and resolving them at different points (retaining most of the main plot lines from Tolkien).
The way the movie was constructed was by a non-Classical approach; rather than having one beginning, middle, and end, there were beginnings, middles, and ends which led to other beginnings. They call one of those small parts a sequence. It was similar to how the book was constructed and the only way to replicate a touch of the breadth of the original.
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Anything by Michael Moore.
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