most overrated movies?

Walpknut said:
I didn't like one of the 3 main plotlines = Everything in the present parts sucks.
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The problem is that the dr Manhattan plotline, while the isolated parts are awesome, eventually waded heavily into silk spectre and nite owls boring bog of boring. So to a certain extent I think 2/3 of the movie sucks.
 
Juza The Cloud said:
Going off Hass's overHated, I like John Carter. It wasn't marketed well at all and kind of flew under the collective radar of audiences. Leaving off "of Mars " was problematic as John Carter is kinda vague. But it was classic pulp escapism.
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I wouldn't say John Carter is "overhated". I mean, the movie is a bit of a cult movie and very often appears in lists of "underrated" scifi movies.
 
Hassknecht said:
I wouldn't say John Carter is "overhated". I mean, the movie is a bit of a cult movie and very often appears in lists of "underrated" scifi movies.
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It defined a lot of tropes in the genre so it looks derivative.
 
I haven't seen John Carter nor I have any interest in doing it, but it is not hated, at least not in a massive fashion, it was extremely overlooked because Who the fuck is John Carter and why is the movie just some asshole's name? Marketing was pretty poor.
 
Hassknecht said:
I recently rewatched the Indiana Jones movies, and I gotta say, Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is not really all that worse than Temple Of Doom. KOTCS gets a lot of hate for its use of "aliens", annoying side characters and super silly scenes like nuking the fridge, but honestly, Temple Of Doom is just as bad. You have Short Round and Willie, two of the most annoying characters in cinematic history, ridiculous scenes like sailing out of a plane in a lifeboat, and it had magic stones and shit. Indiana Jones movies always had some supernatural or mystical element to them, so the interdimensional aliens in Crystal Skull aren't that bad.
Granted, Crystal Skull was worse in terms of silly content quantity-wise, and overuse of CGI to add cute gophers and monkeys and stuff, but in general I don't think it deserves all the hate. Well, it deserves as much hate as Temple Of Doom, really.
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Thank you, that's what I've been saying. I actually prefer it over Temple.

TorontRayne said:
Overhated hmmmm? Watchmen. Don't know what people hate about that movie.
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I know I hate the ending. Otherwise it was okay. I'm not especially keen on watching it again, I would rather re-read the comic book.

Walpknut said:
If superhero movies aren't about stupid one liners and exploshuns with boring composition and photography they are just no good man.
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Snyder literally changed the ending to a giant "exploshun".

Walpknut said:
Watchment is one of the most influential comics of all time
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Which has zero relevance for judging the movie. There are other films based on highly influental comics. For some reason I don't see anyone gushing about the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen film. Neither have I seen anyone defend the Super Mario Bros. movie with "Super Mario Bros. is one of the most influential video games of all time."
 
Because the League of Extraordinary Gentlement didn't actually adapt anything from the original comics while Watchmen is as close an adaptation of the visual novel as we can get and Graves is bitching about elements present in the original comic. I mean it just takes a bit of actually taking the individual context of each movie to see why it's not the same.
 
I like the Watchmen movie a lot... it's my favourite Comic Book adaptation next to the Dark Knight.
 
Walpknut said:
Because the League of Extraordinary Gentlement didn't actually adapt anything from the original comics while Watchmen is as close an adaptation of the visual novel as we can get and Graves is bitching about elements present in the original comic. I mean it just takes a bit of actually taking the individual context of each movie to see why it's not the same.
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It's probably the best adaption we were gonna get but that doesn't necessarily mean the movie does it justice. The comic book was a groundbreaking masterpiece in pretty much every aspect. Can you honestly say the same about the movie? I know I can't.
I really didn't understand the decision to give everyone superhuman strength and have them punch through walls and break bones without any effort.
 
They don't punch through walls. They break bones because they spent their time doing that while being vigilantes. Action is kept grounded except for Dr Manhattan's powers, obviously. It doesn't fully make it justice but it's a solid adaptation and good movie by itself. The change to the squid being synthetized into the Dr Manhattan defamation plan was the best option to keep a coherent flow in the movie while keeping the spirit of Ozymandias' plan and it not being 5 hours long.
 
Walpknut said:
They don't punch through walls.
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Walpknut said:
Look at that wall. It's thin. One of those wood screens. Not concrete, ypu could punch through that too...
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Not if I broke all my fingers punching the edge off a tiled wall first. There are also tiles on the other side of the wall he punches through. I also highly doubt a non-superpowered human is able to casually underhand-throw a grown-ass man three meters. Said grown-ass man also still fights after being thrown into two tables and breaking a marble counter-top with his head and upper body.
I mean at some point even you will have to realize you're making excuses for something you like.
 
At some point you'll have to realize you are grasping a straws to criticize something. "Normal people couldn't fight liek that", both combatants are highly trained, one of them was doing Government missions a few days prior and the other is obssesed with becoming the pinacle of human performance so...

Also you are now also criticizing stuff that happened in the comic. Wanna state how Vedit catching the bullet is too stupid? Go for the comic.
 
Trying to find the gif of Dan punching through his wall in Roseanne. Sadness.
 
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