Most Overrated Films of All Time? - Page 4

dsm · #31 10-14-2003, 09:41 PM

The 1955 Borgnine version of 'Marty' is a piece of Sh_t, no question about it.

It's too bad you didn't see the original version with Rod Steiger and Nancy Marchand first, which aired on NBC's Philco Television Playhouse in 1953. If you live in the Los Angeles area you could probably rent it at Eddie Brandt's Saturday Matinee, but it's probably too late for you. By that I mean, once a movie/story has been ruined for you by watching an inferior production the first time around, you may be hard pressed to enjoy ANY version. That's a shame.

It was the same thing with "Requiem for a Heavyweight." The Playhouse 90 television version (Live) was absolute perfection staring Jack Palance, Ed and Keenan Wynn. Then six years later in 1962 they decide to turn it into a movie and re-cast it with Anthony Quinn...geez.

oneeye13 · #32 10-14-2003, 09:42 PM

forrest gump

Rushmore · #33 10-14-2003, 09:55 PM

You're too damned old.

I have similar conversations with upstart kids about music:

"You think THAT version of "Inflammable Material" is good?! Bollocks! You should have heard Stiff Little Fingers do it on their tour right after the album came out, etc. etc..."

But I know what you mean.

Baltimore Ron · #34 10-14-2003, 11:05 PM

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I loved 2001 when I first saw it, but I saw it recently and I realize it's not quite as good when you're not on speed.

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That's funny. It's exactly how I feel about Mel Brooks' High Anxiety. Though I do confess to liking most other MB fare.

BR

dsm · #35 10-15-2003, 01:44 AM

"You're too damned old."

Holy sh_t, if I'm too old at the age of 36, then Sklansky and that Zee fellow must be considered friggin' ancient!

Whitey · #36 10-15-2003, 02:34 AM

Aceshigh7 · #37 10-15-2003, 02:37 AM

A Beautiful Mind

Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring

Platoon

nicky g · #38 10-15-2003, 05:31 AM

I was 20 or 21 I think when I saw it and hated it. I only laughed once, when Matt Dillon was trying to woo Cameron Diaz and explained that he loved working with kids with learning difficulties because "those goofy bastarrds just crack me up." That's kind of funny. All the other jokes had been so heavily trailed before (sperm in hair etc) that I can't say whether they were funny or not cos I'd already seen them a dozen times. Kingpin IS funny, though.

Rushmore · #39 10-15-2003, 09:24 AM

Fair enough.

But please don't trouble us with your Mary Pickford film festival remembrances.

elwoodblues · #40 10-15-2003, 10:47 AM

As a fellow twin-citian I would respectfully disagree about Fargo. Maybe it's because I am a transplant, but when I originally came up here from Chicago for college I remember how thick I thought the accents were and how strange some of the local verbage was (I still can't appropriately use Uff-dah in a sentence).

I think the Minnesota caricature is part of the charm of Fargo...watching it I couldn't help but be struck by how the film shows us images that your gut tells you shouldn't go together --- a pregnant female police officer investigating a bloody crime scene --- the image of a single asian man with a minnesota accent hitting on a pregnant police officer --- people who "sound" so nice and getting mixed up with people whose preferred weapon is a wood chipper. That's why I like Fargo.

~elwood