Most overrated films...

[Brahmsian]

Forrest Gump

[DarkAngel]

1994 best picture oscar - Forrest Gump

Never understood the raves this movie received, Tom Hanks tried something slightly new and different as a character......but I failed to connect with this work

(Brahmsian read my mind!)

[Brahmsian]

(Brahmsian read my mind!)

Yes, I have special powers! 

[Brahmsian]

You know, I actually really liked Forrest Gump when it first came out, and saw it in the theatre.  However, I find it hasn't aged well, and on the repeated viewings, found it hokey.

[Brian]

You know, I actually really liked Forrest Gump when it first came out, and saw it in the theatre.  However, I find it hasn't aged well, and on the repeated viewings, found it hokey.

With you there. I liked Gump a lot the first time I saw it; the second time, I hated it so much I felt embarrassed watching it.

[CD]

Capote = Philip Seymour Hoffman doing a funny voice.

[vandermolen]

The Piano

Plenty (an absurd title for such an empty film!)

[offbeat]

Pulp Fiction - pretentious and boring 

[Brian]

Capote = Philip Seymour Hoffman doing a funny voice.

And there's that scene where his eyeballs twitch back and forth. I've always wondered how he did that.

[CD]

I had a neighbor who did it (probably compulsively) all the time. I refused to make eye contact whenever I talked to her.

[Daverz]

Capote = Philip Seymour Hoffman doing a funny voice.

There were two Capote films made at nearly the same time dealing with pretty much the same material.  The other had Toby Jones as Capote.  One of them, however, was rather subdued, and the other was over-the-top.  I can't remember which was which, but I'll let you guess which film I think was more in tune with the original material and more fun.

[CD]

The other is Infamous IIRC. I'd be willing to see that. Capote was dull as hell though (and this is coming from someone who likes Antonioni!).

[vandermolen]

Pulp Fiction - pretentious and boring 

Agreed.

[RJR]

If they gave Oscars for 'Best Lesbian Sex Scene', then Mulholland Dr. would certainly come up on top! 

I used to bicycle up and down Mulholland Drive with my two brothers, aunt and uncle. We never saw cheerleaders standing up in the back of a convertible pass us by. Bad timing, I guess. The film was intended to be a long, drawn out mini-series. Mr. Lynch just cut and pasted this and that and everything else and made it into a feature film. I guess he liked the lesbian love scenes the best. I really thought it might be a thriller in the Raymond Chandler style. Boy, was I wrong.

[KevinP]

Star Wars. I liked it when it first came out, but I grew up.
Avatar
People talk about pulp is if it were something of the past and has nostogia value now...

[Satzaroo]

"Winter's Bone" got nominated for best picture? It's insipid and filled with long patches of backwoods mumbling. And half the time, I wasn't sure who's related to whom.

Likewise, "The Fighter" is a mediocre contender at best, and Christian Bale's over-the-top freakishness is baleful.

[knight66]

Anything by Woody Allen after his initial self hating splurge. Especially any film where he places himself at the centre of it in a relationship with a woman half his age.

Death in Venice: I fell for this film when it first came out. But I don't think it has weatherd well and the ponderous, self indulgent prettyness of it now makes me grind my teeth.

Pulp Fiction and subsequent film by Tarantino right up to Inglorious Bastards. Another self indulgent film maker.

Mike

[Wendell_E]

"Winter's Bone" got nominated for best picture? It's insipid and filled with long patches of backwoods mumbling. And half the time, I wasn't sure who's related to whom.

In the backwoods, the whole "not sure who's related to whom" thing is actually pretty common.   

[Brian]

Pulp Fiction and subsequent film by Tarantino right up to Inglorious Bastards. Another self indulgent film maker.

...but excluding Jackie Brown. Probably the least well-known Tarantino film, precisely because it's the best.

[mc ukrneal]

...but excluding Jackie Brown. Probably the least well-known Tarantino film, precisely because it's the best.

I agree. I think Jackie Brown is the only film of his I like to watch.

Another vote for Mulholland Drive as well. I don't know why people like it so much.