Overrated Films

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Having found myself with a free afternoon recently I sat down and watched Ridley Scott’s 1982 cult sci-fi masterpiece Blade Runner for the first time and to be honest I was underwhelmed. It was slow paced and not much action. Overrated even. It got me thinking about other overrated films, some massively popular with audiences and/or critics but are they really worthy of the hero worship heaped upon them?

I thought Forest Gump was overrated, as is Avatar, the Shawshank Redemption (preferred Clint in Escape From Alcatraz), Unforgiven, Fight Club, The Big Lebowski and The Blair Witch Project amongst others. I enjoyed watching most of these and some are good films but great? The Godfather and Godfather Part II are true epics but in all honesty I think I would rather spend a couple of hours watching Goodfellas or Casino.

Then there are the films that are overrated by critics for the purpose of pushing left-wing identity politics. Black Panther and the Ghostbusters reboot spring to mind. Ghostbusters gimmick was replacing a successful franchise with an all female cast whist pushing the strong independent empowered female narrative and shoehorning in social justice messaging the audiences hated but the left-wing media loved.

Outside of boardrooms in Hollywood no cunt wanted Black Panther, they just wanted a black superhero to again push ‘the message’. Yes it made $1.3Bn but I suspect a lot of that was people wanting to see what a prosperous, successful African society looked like in Wakanda rather than the real life poverty stricken stinking shitholes. To confirm its ‘overrated status’ writer and activist Shaun King ‘found the film to be a cultural moment in American Black history similar to Rosa Parks’ Montgomery bus boycott, Martin Luther King’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech, or Barack Obama being elected president’.

These are just a few of my thoughts of course and everyone will have their own opinions on if a film is overrated or even some underrated ones. As ever the floor is open to my fellow cunters for their musings.

And as for Blade Runner? A cop in a futuristic dystopian city hunting down criminals? I rewatched Dredd.

Nominated by : Liberal Liquidator

41 thoughts on “Overrated Films”

  2. I always think any James Bond film, whatever the era is vastly over-rated. Give me a good old Carry On any day – especially Screaming (“explore Avery Avenue”)

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  3. Excellent nom from LL.

    I bet that we’ve all got our list. For my money the most overrated film ever is ‘Citizen Kane’, a popular choice as best film ever by critics and academics. I think they choose it just to show how much more they are able to appreciate film as an art form than the rest of us. Personally I thik it’s a complete bore.

    MY list also includes ‘Gone With The Wind’ (marvellous Max Steiner score notwithstanding), ‘2001’, ‘Forrest Gump’, ‘La La Land’ and the ludicrously overhyped ‘Titanic’.

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    • Sorry, Ron. Can`t support the nom as it`s far too subjective.
      I will however concede that Avatar was made for the cretins that did not, and could not, comprehend the enormity of the greatest film ever made, 2001: A Space Odyssey. A bit like they had their brains sucked out by naïve rubber `aliens` in a sci-fi B-movie.
      👾👽

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  5. I like Forrest Gump for Lieutenant Dan.

    ” What’s wrong with your lip?
    Well, better tuck that in.
    Gonna get it caught on a tripwire.”

    Genius 👍

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  6. Good point. Back in the 80’s, cinemas were packed and there was genuine buzz on a new release. These days, they’re like a ghost ship. Going to the cinema these days is pointless. The amount of good films being made now are miniscule. People are sick to death of all this woke shit, remakes of stories that don’t need it, crap sequels, franchises being milked to death like a geriatric spunk donor and pandering to the paper thin feelings of trannies and weirdos.

    People watch films to escape the fuckhousery of life and to enjoy good storytelling, but when they’re being lectured by the film’s political messages and wokewanking, it’s no wonder nobody bothers these days.
    Hollyweird can’t be arsed anymore and it shows.

    Just lately, I’ve been watching the 15 minute short films on youtube of various genres, made by completely independent and largely unknown filmmakers. Most, if not all of them are way better and have more creativity in them on a low budget than the hipster cuntitude being peddled by Fiddlerwood lately. Culture is in its death twitch.

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  7. Actors are cunts and can spoil a film simply by turning up on set.

    I refuse to watch anything with
    Nicolas Cage in it
    Blokes a twat.
    Or that headtheball Steven Seagull.

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    • I am no a film buff but how anyone can think that Nicholas Cge can act is beyond me.
      On the other hand, there are several Powell and Pressburger films being shown currently on tv. None of their work is anything but superb.

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      • Think it prolly helps to be Francis Ford Coppola’s nephew.

        Yet another nepo-baby with no discernable talent.

  8. Fight club was grossly overated.
    It’s all in his mind and there is no fight club. There you go you don’t have to watch it to find out the ending.
    Grab some tissue and watch Blue is the warmest colour instead . It’s not sad , it just french has teenage lesbians in it..

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  9. How could I have forgotten Frenzy among the under-rated – a textbook example of how to get rid of Kweer’s tarts – Rachel From Accounts for the potato sack.

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  10. Unforgiven.. sorry sir you are not forgiven..

    “You just shot a unarmed man”
    “He should have armed himself… if he’s going to decorate his saloon with my friend.”

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    • ” I’ve killed women and children.
      Pretty much killed everything that’s walked and crawled at one time or another.
      And I’m here to kill YOU little Bill.”

      👋👋👋

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  11. Me and the missus used to go the pictures almost every week when the kids were little.

    Proper family treat!

    Not been for years.
    I don’t like these modern multiplex cinemas.
    Shite.👎

    My dad only took me the pictures twice as a kid.
    Star wars and Sinbad, eye of the tiger.
    Both totally enjoyed.

    First time I went the pictures was with my gran to see Jungle book.
    I went bananas.

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  13. Any film that puts Dark Keys where they don’t belong is damaged and effectively overrated.

    The Darkest Hour is a very decent film shitted up by deliberately placing niğs where they don’t belong..

    There are so many other examples that I’ve been forced to watch The Great Escape and Where Eagles Dare back to back as an antidote.

    Anyway Titanic is ace as a pleasingly plump Kate Winslet gets her kit off,fuck the rest of it.

    Viva Hollywood!! the coked up cunts.

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  14. I loved blade runner, a few years ago when in LA Mrs and I braved downtown to find the Bradbury building fuck me it’s one shithole of an area loads shooting up out in the open at 8.30am. The Bradbury was splendid though, never made it to the railway station about another10 blocks away, we shit out and ran back to the hotel squealing.

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    • I’m a science fiction fan, when I started my DVD collection I was looking forward to finding films that were better than ‘Blade Runner’ and ‘Dark City’. Over the years I’ve come to realize that these are the best, there’s nothing really good enough to compare.
      Of course it depends what you like, I prefer psychological films with no explanations, some people want non-stop action.
      One thing about ‘Blade Runner’, it’s a whole lot better than boring ‘Blade Runner 2049’ where every scene is pointlessly stretched out and the whole thing lasts the best part of three hours.

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  15. I don’t watch much contemporary stuff so can’t very well comment beyond agreeing with Ron Knee about Gone With The Wind.
    A couple of pictures that it would be very difficult to overrate are Bad Day At Black Rock and The Name Of The Rose, a lesser known film of Sean Connery’s. Both epic.

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  16. I liked Munich the edge of war but it was fucked over by some ‘colourblind’ casting, why?

    Barbie was surprisingly entertaining, I’ll get mi coat

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  17. You can’t talk about Blade Runner without the ‘tears in rain monologue ‘.

    https://youtu.be/NoAzpa1x7jU?si=PrNeQJ6T84_maQhh

    Bravo!! Bravo sir!!!!👋

    I’m glad I first got to see it on my own rather than sat next to you LL,
    Spilling your fuckin popcorn everywhere and tutting, constantly going for a piss, and asking if I’d seen Ghostbusters.😁

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  21. So there you have it, basic instinct a film that has it all, suspense,drama, intrigue and a superb dutch wink from sharon stone, and why not. Barry norman film 92.

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  22. I rate Fargo very highly, not least for it’s dramatic score.

    The woodchipper scene towards the end is a classic, and something our ruling elite would benefit from, feet first.

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