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Started by Reverend Savage? in Chit-Chat

Ok,

Having convincingly proven that Nirvana were overrated, lets turn our attention to movies.

What would be your best, worse, overrated and so bad it’s good? Here’s some to get the ball rolling.

Best
Once upon a time in the west

Worst
Any police academy/porkys/american pie type stuff
Overrated
City of God

So bad its good
Trancers

Ok. Shoot me down :eek:

Posted on Fri, 25 April 2003 at 14:00

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#1

Tree wrote:

Best:
Big Lebowski

Worst:
8 Mile

Overrated:
Signs

Posted on Fri, 25 April 2003 at 14:20

#2

Tree wrote:

So Bad It’s Good:
Death Race 2000

Posted on Fri, 25 April 2003 at 14:20

#3

Reverend Savage? wrote:

Title: movies

Wow,

Big lebowski - great film. Not seen 8 Mile or Signs (and won’t bother now). Death race is a cult classic. Cool choices.:D

Posted on Fri, 25 April 2003 at 14:23

#4

Citizen Erased wrote:

Title: Re: Movies

30seconds wrote:

Best
Once upon a time in the west

And out on DVD next month! That’s definitely my favourite western.

Signs is truly dreadful. Saw Blue Crush recently, and that rocked, as did ‘The Recruit (although would take Kate Bosworth over Colin Farrell any day). Hopefully will see Phone Booth tomorrow, and X-Men 2 next week! With Nightcrawler (hooray) but no Gambit (boo).

Posted on Fri, 25 April 2003 at 14:35

#5

Reverend Savage? wrote:

Title: Once upon a time

Hey citizen,

Fantastic news. Searched for it for ages and thought that it would never come out.

What’s your ‘so bad it’s good’?

Posted on Fri, 25 April 2003 at 14:56

#6

Citizen Erased wrote:

Not sure - am thinking and will let you know.

Posted on Fri, 25 April 2003 at 15:02

#7

rocking roxy wrote:

worst movie ever: vannilla sky!

Posted on Fri, 25 April 2003 at 16:02

#8

Reverend Savage? wrote:

Title: Vanilla sky

Did I read somewhere that Vanilla sky is a remake? Is the original any good?

Posted on Fri, 25 April 2003 at 16:07

#9

Tree wrote:

It’s a Remake, most think it Improved on the Spanish Original… You spend the Whole film hating Tom Cruise’s character so the Film doesn’t work very Well.

Posted on Fri, 25 April 2003 at 16:18

#10

RobbyVDH wrote:

Title: Re: Vanilla sky

30seconds wrote:

Did I read somewhere that Vanilla sky is a remake? Is the original any good?

Vanilla Sky is the worst movie I have ever seen in my life… absolute crap, I can not believe I gave money to see that nonsense :mad:

Posted on Fri, 25 April 2003 at 16:30

#11

Dermot (The Derm) wrote:

I think American Beauty is really over rated. Not that its awful or anything - just over rated.

Posted on Fri, 25 April 2003 at 18:23

#12

hoochalobster (Sarah) Super Moderator wrote:

Best: Today it’s Stand By Me, I’ve been thinking about River Phoenix.

Worst: The Haunting (remake, original was great), pretty much anything in the recent teen flick genre.

Overrated: The Exorcist - though I agree with Dermot that American Beauty really wasn’t all that.

So bad it’s good: I laughed my butt off all the way through Lost In Space, unlike the rest of the cinema goers who were busy thinking of things their money would have been better spent on.

Posted on Fri, 25 April 2003 at 18:44

#13

Shra-Mee wrote:

Best:

Magnolia
American Beauty
and Flash Gordon (this is real trash!)

Posted on Fri, 25 April 2003 at 23:39

#14

rock action wrote:

ah i love Flash Gordon! u gotta watch it for wot it is…
Big Lebowski - great film
Last good film i saw was Pi - definitely worth the watch

Posted on Mon, 28 April 2003 at 18:16

#15

prisonbreaker wrote:

best; reservoir dogs, fight club, the insider,…
worst: too much to typ
overrated:moulin rouge I hate musicals !!!!!!!!!

Posted on Mon, 28 April 2003 at 18:56

#16

donVutz wrote:

best:
natural born killers

worst:
can’t choose between men in black and independence day. i go for id, i was heaviely drunk seeing mib.

so bad it’s good:
KILLER KLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE!!!
I love that movie, and i’m probably the only idiot in germany who payed over 10 € for the tape knowing how bad the movie is.

Posted on Mon, 28 April 2003 at 20:02

#17

Barbie wrote:

Best;
Fight Club and anything with winona ryder

Worst;
anything with gwyneth paltrow

so bad it’s good;
crossroads! yay for britney

all films are so overrated nowadays. i think it’s really sad
I love american beauty though

Posted on Mon, 28 April 2003 at 20:24

#18

Lenny wrote:

So Bad it Good:
xXx

What a waste of time - but I still tell everyone to go see it just to prove how shite it is

Posted on Mon, 28 April 2003 at 20:25

#19

Egon Spengler wrote:

Best-Clerks
Worst-Anything with Adam fucking Sadler
Most Overrated-Blair Witch

Posted on Tue, 29 April 2003 at 22:03

#20

kandi wrote:

Best: American Beauty

Worst: Max (danish- really, really, really bad, I fell asleep in the cinema and so did 3 others)

Overrated: A beatiful mind

So bad its good:
any 80´s splatter movie

Posted on Wed, 30 April 2003 at 08:27

#21

Alan wrote:

Best: Momento

Worst: Any major Hollywood flick

So bad it’s good: Dawn of the Dead…”When hell is full, the dead will walk the Earth”

Classic! :D

Posted on Wed, 30 April 2003 at 09:08

#22

dano wrote:

Dawn of the dead is great! Sure, it’s not aged too great but it’s got more tension than any of the recent glut of crap horror flicks!

For me the all time great movie is Jaws, fair enough the shark looks dated but the script and performances are amazing!

Posted on Wed, 30 April 2003 at 12:58

#23

Alan wrote:

dano wrote:

Dawn of the dead is great! Sure, it’s not aged too great but it’s got more tension than any of the recent glut of crap horror flicks!

Yeah, the whole 70’s consumerism angle is great. I think the zombies in that film (greyish faces, bright red “blood”) are scarier than other more recent zombies that are mutiliated and decayed (i.e. films that have a bigger budgets).

The flannel-shirt redneck zombies in “Dawn of the Dead” are cool too. Very weird film, full of tension. Great stuff.

Posted on Wed, 30 April 2003 at 13:05

#24

Citizen Erased wrote:

Dawn of the Dead was moderately good (IMHO ;)), but I preferred the first one (and really wasn’t bothered by Day of the Dead). I heard a rumour about a fourth one though, anyone else know anything?

And, although I can’t help it, am I setting myself up for a disappointment by looking forward to Mad Max:Fury Road?

Saw Adaptation yesterday - quite good, but a bit poncey and overlong - got crap at the end.

Still,

X MEN 2 on Friday! Can’t wait!

Posted on Wed, 30 April 2003 at 13:26

#25

Alan wrote:

Citizen Erased wrote:

Dawn of the Dead was moderately good (IMHO ;)), but I preferred the first one (and really wasn’t bothered by Day of the Dead). I heard a rumour about a fourth one though, anyone else know anything?

The first one is okay, a little too claustraphobic for my liking. The scenes that they newly recorded for it (the recent box-set version) are great though. Especially the scene where the recently deceased car crash family come back to life, and proceed to eat the father (who didn’t come back to life ‘cso his head was gone). I like that sort of thing. :o:

As for a fourth film, I haven’t heard anything besides rumours. And the rumours have been going for a long time!

:cool:

Posted on Wed, 30 April 2003 at 13:35

#26

dano wrote:

There was talk of a film based around the events of Dawn, it was meant to be about a group of the shooting rednecks who ended up surrounded by zombies, it wouldn’t have been Romero who made it though, as this was pitched at the time Romero was attached to Resident Evil.

I was never a big fan of Night of the Dead, original cut or otherwise, and the 92 remake was terrible. I read an article yesterday that a proposed remake of Dawn has been greenlighted by the studio..it’s going to be shit!

Posted on Wed, 30 April 2003 at 19:03

#27

Alan wrote:

A remake of Dawn just would not work, it would be horrible.

The fact the original was so low budget, and filmed in the 70’s, made the film what it was. A remake would totally miss the point.

Why do they continually make re-makes of classics? Why not make re-makes of films that were shit but had potential?

Or would that make too much sense? :rolleyes:

Posted on Thu, 1 May 2003 at 08:14

#28

dano wrote:

I don’t know why they do it..chronic lack of originality I guess! My blood went cold when I heard they were remaking the Italian Job in America. Didn’t they learn from the failure that was Get Carter?!

There’s so many stories out there that are crying out to be made into movies, personally I’d like to see proper versions of Day of the Triffids.. something along the lines of the tv series which was scary as hell.

I still can’t think of what woudl pass as my shittest film of all time, although the most overrated I can think of recently has to be the Matrix.

Posted on Thu, 1 May 2003 at 12:27

#29

Citizen Erased wrote:

Alan wrote:

Why do they continually make re-makes of classics? Why not make re-makes of films that were shit but had potential?

This is a very good point. Remaking Star Wars would be pointless. Remaking (or at least re-editing) Episodes 1 & 2 would be quite good.

Posted on Fri, 2 May 2003 at 10:21

#30

ianrauk wrote:

Title: movies

best: One Flew Over The Cockoos Nest
Worst: Minority Report
Overrated: Bridget Jones Diary (complete poo)

And so bad it’s so good: Freddy Got Fingered

Posted on Fri, 2 May 2003 at 15:29

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