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

158 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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  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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    • Greatest western ever. Masterpiece.
      But then, that`s just an opinion.
      Imagine if we all liked the same thing? – like gen-Z all liking Ed (gingersnap) Sheeran and B-bouncy – now that is a very very sad indictment on the state of humanity.
      I rest my fuckin` case, m`lud.

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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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      • You are quite right, LL, well almost.

        I went to see the original Jaws ( not any of the predictable sequels or rip-off) and thought it was great, especially the music score.

        The entire audience was holding it’s breath on the ‘wife’s Thanksgiving roast/floating jetty’ scene, when a little voice piped up

        “It’s OK Mum, you can look now! It’s gone”

    • my dad took me to see sinbad as well, remember being unable to discuss it with him later as he slept all the way through it, as he did with every film he took me to see

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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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      • Hiya Mis. Yes, it’s a top film and on the strength of that I tried the book. Hard work and I didn’t finish it which doesn’t often happen. For you it might come in handy if ever you were on your way to Buxton and got stuck in a snowdrift for three days. Not to read but because it would come in handy lighting a fire with the old furniture.

  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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    • i`m a jock, this is the fucking snp being cunts again. they already had the money as it was devolved but took it away so they could blame westminster and now giving it back so they look the good guys. they really are a bunch of cunts. but then so are my fellow scots for being thick as fuck and voting the vile anti english racist cunts in

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      • had a barbeque a few years ago and my mate gav brought buckfast, gave some to my sons girlfriend to try who fancies herself as a wine connoisseur. the look on her face was priceless especially when gav shouted ” don`t spit it on the grun wumen spit it back in the boatle”

  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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  23. Gone with the wind, a film for women of a certain vintage, who would like to think that they would have kept hold of Clarke Gable. “Frankly my dear, you’re a boring bitch”
    Agree about 2001, A space oddessy , truly groundbreaking.
    Disagree about Citizen Kane, not because of my high brownness but nobody had seen this young dynamic type of take on movies made before it.
    Love the The Third Man also and A touch of Evil and , okay Im a fan of the Orson.
    Biggest load of shit ever made yet made billions is that Star Wars load of obee wan kenobi bollocks from start to finish and I went to it when first released.

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  25. I think films (and music) peaked in the 70’s :
    Rollerball – prescient warning about corporations and the coliseum re-enactment.
    Deliverance and Badlands – Americana at it’s finest from the so called flyover states.
    Jaws – that opening sequence with bell (buoy) tolling.
    The Godfather Pt 1 – classic, Clemenza showing how to make to-may-ta soss, a scene copied in Goodfellas, personal touches see ?
    One flew over the cuckoos nest – exhilaration and pathos, great acting from all.
    The Exorcist – cinematic debut of mushy peas on the world stage.

    I could go on but I won’t.

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  26. The last film I saw at the talkies was Dunkirk.
    I won`t expand on how much I detested it on these hallowed pages in case my brain implodes, save to say, one of my favourite quotes re the movie was when a [Dunkirk] veteran was asked if he`d enjoyed it. “Well, it was a lot louder than actually being there,” he replied.

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    • With you on Dunkirk Sam.
      Overrated pile of historically inaccurate bollocks.
      Particularly laughable was the scene where an officer is asked how many men were on the beach. “40,000” he replied. At which point the camera panned round to a beach with about 3 dozen extras on it,
      And why they never cut the scene of the burning spitfire whose propeller was held on by a broom handle, I’ll never know.
      Perhaps they thought they could take the audience for cunts, which they did.
      The 1958 version was far superior.

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    • We could debate until the end of time, sir.
      Tombstone – ALL magnificent performances esp. Kilmer.
      Kostner version (Wyatt Burp) – shite.
      Magnificent 7 – Re-told Jap story (but OK).
      Spaghetti Westers – ALL magic.
      See how personal it gets ? …
      Suggestion: Watch Dark Star – its the spawn of the Alien franchise — Which should have stopped at Alien.

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      • Hey Sam,

        As you so correctly pointed out in an earlier post, it’s all subjective. And subjective is by its very nature is personal.

        Disagreements over the subjective don’t have to be hostile or confrontational.

  28. I’ve never got past 15 minutes of Blade Runner despite enjoying the novella Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? some 45 years ago. I’m not one for classics, they’re just films like any other as far as I’m concerned. 2001 bored me rigid but, again, I enjoyed the book. I started reading 1984 about 3 years ago but can’t bring myself to read the last 40 pages or so. Why read about it when you can live it?

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    • Good point, Moggs.
      Orwell got it completely right except for the year – he was 40 years out. Welcome to 2024. Big Brother. Newspeak. Perfect dystopia followed by nuclear Armageddon.

      Revelation 6:8 …
      And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him.

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  29. Unless a film is utterly shite I will usually give it another go at a later date. I think with Blade Runner I have just never liked Harrison Ford as an actor with the exception of Indiana Jones and I heard only the other day that Tom Selleck turned the role down because of other commitments. They could have had his tach start twitching when the Holy Grail was close or sensing some Nazis nearby.

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  30. Mean Streets the film by Scorcesse , was said to have launched the De Niro to greatness.
    Cunt of a film, and I wanted to shoot him in the face, the minute he opened he’s thick cunt mouth throughout the movie.
    Taxi Driver, ” Yah, I am looking back at You, you cunt you”

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