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Overrated/ Underrated movies

posted October 11, 2006 - 8:05pm
Overrated/ Underrated movies

We all have movies that we absolutely love that others hate, and vice versa. For instance, I love "Flight of the Navigator." It is a little known kids movie from back in the day where a kid is on a spaceship with an alien that has Pee Wee Herman as a voice...its a bad ass movie. Also, "Boondock Saints" has become a cult classic film. Absolutely bad ass. So here, are my Top 5 Most Overrated and Underrated Films.

OVERRATED

5. Bambi - Way too sad for a Disney movie. Not only that, but the whole movie is about sex. Not convinced? I'll prove it. Exhibit A...lead character name is Bambi. Obvious stripper/porno name. Exhibit B...Friends names. Flower is another term for vagina. Thumper is a term of a guy who is humping a vagina. Exhibit C...Twiterpatted. Obvious term for humping someone's brains out.

4. Talledega Nights - Look...anyone who knows me, knows how big of a Will Ferrell fan I am. But every since Old School and Anchorman, I look for A LOT out of a Will Ferrell movie. This movie just did not have me rolling like Anchorman did.

3. Sherlock the Undercover Dog - Now, very few people have really ever seen it...however, Ben Eroen (U of R grad, and fellow bench sitter on the baseball team) plays Sherlock's sidekick. But, with a name like this, you would expect a lot more bad assy-ness out of the film. Nevertheless, it fails to bring home the bacon.

2. Gone With The Wind - Would be number one easily if not for the complete disdain I hold for number one. This movie sucks. For all the hoopla it gets from old people, there is really only one line in it that anyone knows. And everybody knows it..."Frankly, my dear, I don't give a flying f--k." Or some variation.

1. The Ring - WORST FU--ING FILM EVER!!! I'm hearing all this talk...The Ring was so good...you gotta see The Ring...The Ring is so scary! So, I rent the damn thing. Terrible. No scary parts whatsoever. A big terribly deformed monster could have walked into the room when I watched it and I would have just fallen asleep.

Now let me put this into context. I hate watching scary movies. To this day I can't watch the movie Scream because I saw it in the theater when I was like 11 and had to walk home, alone, in the dark afterward and was FU--ING FREAKED out for like a month. So, I am a little bitch when it comes to scary movies...but The Ring, stupid. However, the porno remake "The Cock Ring" was very scary.

UNDERRATED

5. Just One of the Guys - I've talked about this one before. Chick dresses as guy to try to prove women can be good writers and then falls in love with a guy and has to show him her titties to prove she's a chick. Classic line in this movie is after the booby unvailing...the guy says, "Where do you get off having tits?" Classic.

4. Swordfish - Bad ass nearly all the way through. Whether its the sick 360 shot when the chick runs out and blows up and all the ball bearings go shooting everywhere, or Hugh Jackman getting a blow job and trying to crack the Department of Defense code before he gets shot and killed, or the surprise reveal of Halle Berry's titties. Totally bad ass movie.

3. So I Married an Axe Murderer - Just the scenes with Mike Myers as the Scottish father is enough to make anyone pee their pants. "Head, get up and get the paper...if you can. Haulin' that gargantuan cranium about. I'm serious, it's like Sputnik...spherical but quite pointy in parts. Now that was offside wasn't it. He'll be crying himself to sleep tonight on his huge pillow."

2. Rushmore - One of the funniest movies ever. A lot of people don't get this movie along with the other exestential type movies like "The Royal Tenenbaum's" and "Life Aquatic" and so on. But this movie is hilarious.

1. F--k My Dirty S--t Hole, The Movie - Honestly...I can't believe they turned that book into a movie. (Not my joke but probably my favorite joke of all time. Thank you David Cross for this one.)

Your turn! What are your most overrated/underrated movies ever?


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Just as an aside about the

Just as an aside about the Blaire Witch Project... Yes, looking back it was the lamest movie ever. But when I saw it, I had watched a Sci/Fi Channel Documentary about how it was real. So when I saw the movie, I thought the whole thing was real, not just some stoned-dudes sending no-name actors into the wild and scaring them with weird noises. Imagine, if you can, what it would have been like to watch that movie thinking it really happened. I was terrified!!! But then when I found out it was fake, I decidedly hated it.

Over/underrated

Hmmm, I'll have to think about my list; till then, my comments on other people's: * Rear Window, Rushmore: Neither of these are underrated. Rear Window is one of the most respected and loved films of all time; it's probably on every critic's top-10 list and it's very well-liked by movie fans. Rushmore certainly didn't get a wide exposure in theaters, but that's typical for a quirky indie film. It was very well received by critics, and got high marks (which I think it definitely deserved). I loved Rushmore's soundtrack, too--less known tracks by some well-known bands of the day. * Talladega Nights: Haven't seen it; some critics love it, others were lukewarm. I don't care for Will Ferrell, personally; never thought he was that funny even on SNL. * Fuck My Dirty Shit Hole, The Movie: WTF?! Never heard of this one, this is the actual title of a movie? Maybe I'll hunt it down. * So I Married an Axe Murderer: "Looka that head! It's got its own weather system!" I love this one, I'd definitely agree it was overlooked and underappreciated. Mike Myers' Scottish schtick is great, and Nancy Travis is a very sweet and sexy and appealing. The bizarre beat poetry is a plus.

Are you implying what I think you're infering?

I listened to a nationally syndicated radio show that made it sound like "Old School" was a cinematic masterpiece of comedy. So, I rented it- 2 hours of my life that I'll never get back. I don't remember laughing once. I haven't seen Anchorman or Talledega, but the way you contrasted ...School and Talledega...(which you say is overrated),it sounds as if you liked Old School. I think that's the overrated movie.

Mine

Overrated - Blair Witch. C'mon two guys with a Sony Handi-cam make a cinematic masterpiece? Yeah right! Tell that chick to get me my steakburger and a milkshake pronto. Stupid movie these guys wrote after 5 bongs hits, in my opinion. "Hey dude you know what would be really scary?" Underrated - Rear Window. I love this movie. Grace Kelly, Jimmy Stewart and Perry Mason/Ironside all in the same movie. Classic. Just the mere fact that 99.9% of the movie takes place in an apartment and it is still entertaining should be enought to watch it. Hitchcock is the best.

Cavy disagrees

Ok this was Steve's post, not me, Cavy's. I completelt disagree with talladega night, i thought that movie was hilarious. your a buttmunching shithead, steve.

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