Most overrated supposed-to-be-smart movie?

[Jack of Arcades]

Lock Stock is a stupid movie. It's a very good stupid movie, one of my favorites.

[PokerFink]

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What's with all the Eternal Sunshine bashing? I thought it was one of the best films of last year. Cool, unique plot structure, great acting, great dialogue, funny as hell at times...what's not to like?


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Absolutely. Sunshine was, perhaps, the best film of the year. Original, well written, well acted for the most part (especially Winslet), excellent directing, excellent editing. But a lot of people have a hard time understanding it, so they might not like it. It's hard to follow if you aren't paying attention. But if you know films, you appreciate how awesome it is.

As for Usual Suspects and American Beauty, I cannot possibly see how one cannot like these. If you think some of the dialogue in AB is overdone (such as the bag scene) then fine, but most of the movie isn't like that. AB is one of the best written, best acted and best directed movies in a while.

[durron597]

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The category is contemporary mainstream movies that are supposed to be smart, edgy and artsy. Which one is most overrated? My pick is The Matrix (but Donnie Darko is close).

/twang

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Tie between Adaptation and Vanilla Sky. Ugh.

[NiceCatch]

I've learned two things from this thread:
1) People don't understand what a "supposed to be smart/deep/etc" movie is. Examples: Lost in Translation, American Beauty (only one cited), Garden State, The Suicide Club (japanese), 2001: A Space Odyssey, Eyes Wide Shut, to name a few. BTW, those movies all rule.
Movies that do NOT fall into this category: Matrix (pure sci-fi, and it ruled), Lock Stock (action/comedy, and it ruled), to name a couple.
2) People on this thread have bad taste.

[hoopsie44]

I'm glad you cleared that up for us.

[Eric Draven]

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I've learned two things from this thread:
1) People don't understand what a "supposed to be smart/deep/etc" movie is. Examples: Lost in Translation, American Beauty (only one cited), Garden State, The Suicide Club (japanese), 2001: A Space Odyssey, Eyes Wide Shut, to name a few. BTW, those movies all rule.
Movies that do NOT fall into this category: Matrix (pure sci-fi, and it ruled), Lock Stock (action/comedy, and it ruled), to name a couple.
2) People on this thread have bad taste.

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Agree 100%

[Your Mom]

Eyes Wide Shut is really dumb, but there are lots of nice boobs to look at.

[NiceCatch]

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Eyes Wide Shut is really dumb, but there are lots of nice boobs to look at.

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Dude. You should see the french version.

BTW, you are wrong.

The movie happens to be based on a novella by some long-dead Austrian, I believe. Interestingly, in the novella, much of what occurs is part of a dream sequence. If you pay attention to the good Doctor's surroundings in the movie, you will notice many dream-ish things. There are many visuals in the movie that add to the mystique and aura of the film. And no, I'm not talking about strippers.

[Hiding]

eyes wide shut......crap movie, great nudity
thin red line...4 hours of my life gone forever

[touchfaith]

A Beautiful Mind


I win.