Most Overrated Movie Ever

[hixofthehood]

I know! I saw about 30 minutes of that crap. That movie had all the quality of an over extended oboe solo.

[Greg Perkins]

Originally posted by Wetzel
In a side question, Cerberus the Aardvark?

Gosford Park
Chariots Of Fire
West Side Story - Good play, the adaptation sucked

Wetzel
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Nope, Cerberus, the 3 headed dog who gaurds the gates of hell

[Joe Matt]

Pearl Harbor

[Matthew936]

I agree with Titanic, Episode I, and Episode II are all overrated. But the most over hyped movie ever, The Blair Witch Project

[FotoPlasma]

Forest Gump.

If I wanted to watch Tom Hanks play a retard, I would have watched Big. Oh wait, that movie sucked, too.

Vanilla Sky and Moulin Rouge are up there, too.

[ronnie_82]

the most overrated movie is: what a woman wants, because we already know thats me lol

[Firewolf]

Originally posted by badjokeguy
anything anime is AWFUL!
u gotta go for some real movies that dont have little drawings move around pretending to be human!


bad

ooooo me getting angry!!
that WAS a bad joke indeed

but hey JLambert hit him 2ce, - for me as well

[John Bono]

Originally posted by Earl of the CC
2001

BORING!

Read the book.
Read the book.
Read the book.
Then read 2010.
Then read 2061.
Then read 3001.
Then tell me that any of them suck.

Moving on, how can you say, "any anime." There are many anime movies out there that people have never heard of that are super awesome. How many people had heard about Cowboy Bebop or .hack//sign before Williams Street brought them to light (and these are some of the greatest literary works made by man). Jeebus, man, have a little cultural awareness--this little island is 500 years ahead of us in entertainment--THEY ARE AWESOME. Granted, they have their garbage (more of it actually, do to the freeness of expression in their society vs. ours), but the good stuff is so much better. Tell me that you can watch Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' on Heavan's Door without at least once standing up and shouting, "this is awesome!"
Seriously, how could you call a small subculture in America overrepresented? How can you begin to compare any of the last ten movies you've seen to the lowliest of Ghost in the Shell, to the pinnacle of 08th MS team. Because they have the courage to expect at least part of thier audience to have a brain and think more than "ooh, flashy graphics" they are over rated?

[Firewolf]

Originally posted by John Bono

Moving on, how can you say, "any anime." There are many anime movies out there that people have never heard of that are super awesome. Tell me that you can watch Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' on Heavan's Door without at least once standing up and shouting, "this is awesome!"

I was thinking exactly of that movie
and then there's my fav.
Princess Mononoko (I KNOW i spelled that wrong)
there are others but I'm not gonna type them in here b/c
I'll end up butchering the names (I can't spell for monkey wrenches)
and they have GREAT story plots that people don't give a thought
to simply b/c 'it's a cartoon'

even if the Matrix or LotR were made of stick figures, they would
still have an AMAZING story plot.

Try to look past the "little drawings [that] move around pretending to be human" and see what the artist/writer/directer is trying to tell you through the "little drawings [that] move around pretending to be human!"

[John Bono]

I hate when people make my argument better than me...

[FAKrogoth]

Originally posted by badjokeguy
anything anime is AWFUL!
u gotta go for some real movies that dont have little drawings move around pretending to be human!


bad

Well, you apparently believe one of three things:
1) "All cartoons are for babies"
This is not a very good view to have, because it shows that you cannot think.

2) "Japanese people SUCK"
Can anyone say prejudice? As I said above, think.

3) "'Live-Action' movies must be more realistic than anime, because anime is . . . not."
Let me call something to your attention. In the movie Spiderman, the concept of gravity consisted of characters moving in a straight line, and reversing direction at the top. In contrast, Ghost in the Shell producers and animators went to shooting ranges to more accurately reproduce the effect of bullets hitting stuff. Which do you think is more realistic?


Now yes, I admit that anime does have its absolutely terrible shows (coughcoughgaogaiganchokedie), but there are some awesometastickal things that have come out of it. All I can say is:
Know what you're talking about before it's too late.

Originally posted by FAKrogoth
Well, you apparently believe one of three things:
1) "All cartoons are for babies"
This is not a very good view to have, because it shows that you cannot think.

2) "Japanese people SUCK"
Can anyone say prejudice? As I said above, think.

3) "'Live-Action' movies must be more realistic than anime, because anime is . . . not."
Let me call something to your attention. In the movie Spiderman, the concept of gravity consisted of characters moving in a straight line, and reversing direction at the top. In contrast, Ghost in the Shell producers and animators went to shooting ranges to more accurately reproduce the effect of bullets hitting stuff. Which do you think is more realistic?


Now yes, I admit that anime does have its absolutely terrible shows (coughcoughgaogaiganchokedie), but there are some awesometastickal things that have come out of it. All I can say is:
Know what you're talking about before it's too late.

Anime is awful for these reasons:

1. Pointless plots... whooohoo who cares about power ranger wannabes going after some freak monster or after some magical balls.

2. Watching anime is about the same thing as staring at a strobe light...how entertaining...No wonder Japaneese kids were always seizuring from the shows.

3. Beavis & Butthead and the Simpsons are the only cartoons that ever were good...

[SwordSerenity]

what you dont understand is that anime is an art form. regardless of what you think of it there is no right in putting down art. Art has beauty and if you object to it then so be it, but dont criticize others just because you dont like a certain thing...

[BingoTheClowno]

SwordSerenity:
Art, in general may be beauty. Although I personally like to draw anime, personally I think the shows themselves are a bit trite. I have to analyze them to figure out how to draw the chars, but other than that, anime shows are a little lame. Someone disliking Anime is not disliking the whole existence of art, just one part of it. In this case, not even the part, but how it is used.

[Wetzel]

Heh...American anime: DBZ.

Evangelion, Metropolis, Princess Mononke, Trigun

Evangelion is the only one of those three that has strobe type bits, and it is done flashing words, to induce confusion and emotion. Metropolis has some interesting metaphors for power/government/class inequity. Princess Mononke seems to not have a 'bad' guy, but two opposing forces, nature and human development. Trigun was cool, and was related to responsibility regret and remorse.

Watch them subtitled so you can get the emotion that is conveyed by the original actors, and get a more accurate translation.

When you have only seen one or two FIRST robots, does that qualify you to make generalizations about FIRST robots as a whole?


Wetzel
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Judge not in haste.