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Premiere Magazine
American Beauty (1999)
Chicago (2002)
Clerks (1994)
Fantasia (1940)
Field of Dreams (1989)
Chariots of Fire (1981)
Good Will Hunting (1997)
Forrest Gump (1994)
Jules and Jim (1962)
A Beautiful Mind (2001
Monster's Ball (2001)
Moonstruck (1987)
Mystic River (2003)
Nashville (1975)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
An American in Paris (1951)
Easy Rider (1969)
The Red Shoes (1948)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Gone With the Wind (1939)
I agree with some choices (for example: 2001, Good Will Hunting, and American Beauty), haven't seen others (the Red Shoes, Jules and Jim, American in Paris) and think some are off the mark. Probably the silliest one is the attack on "Gone With the Wind." Its not a movie I enjoy, but the editors pull out the old "its racist" line which ignores the fact that, gasp, the Civil War era South and 1930s America WERE racist.
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I liked Gump and and I thought Americian Beauty was ok.
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Clerks (1994)
Fantasia (1940)
Field of Dreams (1989)
Chariots of Fire (1981)
Good Will Hunting (1997)
Forrest Gump (1994)
A Beautiful Mind (2001
Moonstruck (1987)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Easy Rider (1969)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Gone With the Wind (1939)
I like all the above!
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Clerks was good, Gump is one of my favorites, and most of the justification for many of the choices reflect that everyone who writes for that magazine should be fired and the presses sold as scrap.
Actually give me the presses. I could probably make mad bank on eBay with them.
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How did Titanic not make that list?
Holy shit, I can't sit through 30 seconds of that trainwreck.
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I think Titanic ought to have been directed by Peter Jackson. I feel he would have made it more amusing. He'd have focused on others aboard the ship besides just Rose and Jack. He'd have also put something that was uniquely him into the movie.
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Also, I think the first Batman movie is overrated as well.
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I think Titanic ought to have been directed by Peter Jackson. I feel he would have made it more amusing. He'd have focused on others aboard the ship besides just Rose and Jack. He'd have also put something that was uniquely him into the movie.
More people hitting the funnels and screws on the way down when the ship was vertical woulda been awesome. Also, geriatric slapboxing should have broken out over the dry seats in the lifeboats.
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Also, I think the first Batman movie is overrated as well.
yessssss, but the very first time i saw it I liked it. Every watching since has made it worse, while the opposite is true with batman returns.
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Philistines.
What's the criteria for "overrated"? How do you determine where a movie is rated? Who's doing the rating?
I think part of the reason some of these movies are considered overrated now is that so many subsequent movies copied or borrowed from them. I'm not particularly in love with Gone with the Wind or Wizard of Oz, but the film landscape would be drastically different if they were never made. 2001, while confusing, is probably the most influential science fiction film of the last half-century, and represents the dividing line between modern science fiction and "the oldies". It's the Watchmen of sci-films, in my opinion.
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I think part of the reason some of these movies are considered overrated now is that so many subsequent movies copied or borrowed from them.
Yeah, I think you hit the nail on the head. I can't say that's true with every movie on the list. However, I agree that a lot of classic movies that now seem cliched are viewed that way precisely because so many other films ripped them off.
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Philistines.
What's the criteria for "overrated"? How do you determine where a movie is rated? Who's doing the rating?
I think part of the reason some of these movies are considered overrated now is that so many subsequent movies copied or borrowed from them. I'm not particularly in love with Gone with the Wind or Wizard of Oz, but the film landscape would be drastically different if they were never made. 2001, while confusing, is probably the most influential science fiction film of the last half-century, and represents the dividing line between modern science fiction and "the oldies". It's the Watchmen of sci-films, in my opinion.
Too many critics don't have the attention span required to examine the influence of a film from before last summer.
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Too many critics don't have the attention span required to examine the influence of a film from before last summer.
That is quite possibly one of the smartest things I've ever heard you say. 
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American Beauty (1999)
Chicago (2002)
Fantasia (1940)
Field of Dreams (1989)
Chariots of Fire (1981)
Forrest Gump (1994)
Jules and Jim (1962)
A Beautiful Mind (2001
Monster's Ball (2001)
Moonstruck (1987)
Mystic River (2003)
Nashville (1975)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
An American in Paris (1951)
The Red Shoes (1948)
Gone With the Wind (1939)
I removed the ones I disagreed with. I mean, come on...2001? That easily one of the best movies ever created. The rest of those? Meh...
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How the hell is FANTASIA overrated? You had dancing hippos! Walking brooms! And Chernabog from the Night on Bald Mountain sequence is BAD ASS!
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I think part of the reason some of these movies are considered overrated now is that so many subsequent movies copied or borrowed from them.
Yeah, I think you hit the nail on the head. I can't say that's true with every movie on the list. However, I agree that a lot of classic movies that now seem cliched are viewed that way precisely because so many other films ripped them off.
Too many TV shows have ripped off these movies too.
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Premiere Magazine
American Beauty (1999)
Chicago (2002)
Clerks (1994)
Fantasia (1940)
Field of Dreams (1989)
Chariots of Fire (1981)
Good Will Hunting (1997)
Forrest Gump (1994)
Jules and Jim (1962)
A Beautiful Mind (2001
Monster's Ball (2001)
Moonstruck (1987)
Mystic River (2003)
Nashville (1975)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
An American in Paris (1951)
Easy Rider (1969)
The Red Shoes (1948)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Gone With the Wind (1939)
I agree with some choices (for example: 2001, Good Will Hunting, and American Beauty), haven't seen others (the Red Shoes, Jules and Jim, American in Paris) and think some are off the mark.
Probably the silliest one is the attack on "Gone With the Wind." Its not a movie I enjoy, but the editors pull out the old "its racist" line which ignores the fact that, gasp, the Civil War era South and 1930s America WERE racist.
I'm surprised the Grinch with Jim Carrey isn't on there. Totally bastardized everything good about the classic.
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Indeed. I got more enjoyment over a 30-minute animated piece than that overblown crapfest. And how novel of Ron Howard to also showcase that Christmas has been commercialized! No one has ever, EVER, done that before.
Feh!
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I'm surprised the Grinch with Jim Carrey isn't on there. Totally bastardized everything good about the classic.
I would presume the Grinch isn't there because its a list of "overrated" movies, not "movies that are generally recognized as sheer crap."
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Gump shouldn't be on that list. Other than that, it's spot on.
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Gump shouldn't be on that list.
Yes it should. Every right minded individual knows that Pulp Fiction was the TRUE Best Picture that year.
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Pulp Fiction is a terrific movie!
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Which is why, in a perfect world, it would've won best picture.
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I likes Pulp Fiction, but The Shawshank Redemption was an even better film that year.
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It was a good year for film.
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I likes Pulp Fiction, but The Shawshank Redemption was an even better film that year.
Correct...
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I likes Pulp Fiction, but The Shawshank Redemption was an even better film that year.
Correct...
I wouldn't know. I went ahead and, y'know, read the novella it's based on.
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I wouldn't know. I went ahead and, y'know, read the novella it's based on.
Yeah, somehow I don't think you're going to blow anyone away by mentioning you've read a 100 page Stephen King story...
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I likes Pulp Fiction, but The Shawshank Redemption was an even better film that year.
Correct...
I wouldn't know. I went ahead and, y'know, read the novella it's based on.
Oh WOW! You mean...you read....a BOOK?!! That's so cool of you! I mean, damn, that just makes you a faux-intellectual! I wish I wasn't one of the sheep that watched movies, and instead, read short stories so I, too, could be like "I read the book...", and then people would listen to my opinion because being I had read a book meant I had some authority on the subject. MAN! That would make me a hit with the women. Damn. You're so cool, and not at all pretentious, Snarf...
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...whilst eating buttered scones with mater and playing the grand piano.
LMAO!!
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I wouldn't know. I went ahead and, y'know, read the novella it's based on.
Yeah, somehow I don't think you're going to blow anyone away by mentioning you've read a 100 page Stephen King story...
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You're so cool, and not at all pretentious, Snarf...
Pro, for Halloween, had you dressed up as the pot or the kettle?
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Cutting. No wonder Nowhereman gimps you out on a daily basis...
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