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RE: The most overhyped film you've ever seen? - 28/4/2008 7:50:03 PM   
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The Departed....no doubt about it.


I'll agree with you here...one of Scorsese's worst.

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RE: The most overhyped film you've ever seen? - 28/4/2008 8:50:00 PM   
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RE: The most overhyped film you've ever seen? - 28/4/2008 9:49:21 PM   
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 The Shining and A Clockwork Orange.

Did not like either and they're both regarded as classics. Thought it must be a Kubrick thing but i liked Full Metal Jacket and love Dr Strangelove

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RE: The most overhyped film you've ever seen? - 28/4/2008 9:54:05 PM   
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Terminator
Titanic
Aliens
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Eyes Wide Shut
Ocean 11
Kill Bill

Oooohh...Tech noir is gonna kick your ass.


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RE: The most overhyped film you've ever seen? - 29/4/2008 3:24:34 PM   
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RE: The most overhyped film you've ever seen? - 22/1/2009 5:34:08 PM   
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RE: The most overhyped film you've ever seen? - 22/1/2009 5:39:29 PM   
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 I would guess its been mentioned before but Snakes on a Plane, while fufilling its title obligations, fell far short of the sheer awesome we were assured would be on display.

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RE: The most overhyped film you've ever seen? - 22/1/2009 5:46:54 PM   
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 Maybe it's not been mentioned but i'll stick by my guns form a previous thread and say that No Country for Old Men although not bad was a big disappointment for me.

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RE: The most overhyped film you've ever seen? - 22/1/2009 6:01:23 PM   
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Oh, and this one.






Agreed. Scarface can actually fuck right off.


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RE: The most overhyped film you've ever seen? - 22/1/2009 9:15:28 PM   
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Miami Vice - looked incredible but utterly tedious. Still remember Empires review stating the big action set piece was as good as Heat. Lies.
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Texas Chainsaw Massacre - how do people enjoy this?
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RE: The most overhyped film you've ever seen? - 22/1/2009 10:42:25 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Mardybum

Deer Hunter
The Big Lebowski - its not funny!
Miami Vice - looked incredible but utterly tedious. Still remember Empires review stating the big action set piece was as good as Heat. Lies.
Apocalypse Now
Texas Chainsaw Massacre - how do people enjoy this?
Transformers




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RE: The most overhyped film you've ever seen? - 22/1/2009 10:45:13 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Mardybum

Deer Hunter
The Big Lebowski - its not funny!
Miami Vice - looked incredible but utterly tedious. Still remember Empires review stating the big action set piece was as good as Heat. Lies.
Apocalypse Now
Texas Chainsaw Massacre - how do people enjoy this?
Transformers




THANK YOU!!


I'd agree with that one.

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RE: The most overhyped film you've ever seen? - 22/1/2009 10:59:35 PM   
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One movie instantly pops into my head - The Matrix. For some reason, I have never really understood all the fuss about it.

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RE: The most overhyped film you've ever seen? - 22/1/2009 11:08:04 PM   
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 The Shining
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RE: The most overhyped film you've ever seen? - 22/1/2009 11:44:23 PM   
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RE: The most overhyped film you've ever seen? - 23/1/2009 9:35:25 AM   
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 The one, the only....

Phantom Meance.

Avatar will start to pick up some serious hype by the end of the year too.

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RE: The most overhyped film you've ever seen? - 23/1/2009 9:36:56 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Tech_Noir

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ORIGINAL: Spengler


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ORIGINAL: Mardybum

Deer Hunter
The Big Lebowski - its not funny!
Miami Vice - looked incredible but utterly tedious. Still remember Empires review stating the big action set piece was as good as Heat. Lies.
Apocalypse Now
Texas Chainsaw Massacre - how do people enjoy this?
Transformers




THANK YOU!!


I'd agree with that one.


I feel sick

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RE: The most overhyped film you've ever seen? - 23/1/2009 9:39:56 AM   
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RE: The most overhyped film you've ever seen? - 23/1/2009 9:47:52 AM   
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Pulp Fiction
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
The Exorcist

And as somebody already mentioned, Snakes on a Plane.  Godawful, dull, and take L Jackson out of the equation and you have a direct to DVD ultra flop, like it's DVD spinoff counterparts, ie Snakes on a Train.

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RE: The most overhyped film you've ever seen? - 23/1/2009 1:51:48 PM   
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 Spiderman 3 been mentioned yet??

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RE: The most overhyped film you've ever seen? - 23/1/2009 2:02:39 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Swoz_MK

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ORIGINAL: Tech_Noir

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ORIGINAL: Spengler


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ORIGINAL: Mardybum

Deer Hunter
The Big Lebowski - its not funny!
Miami Vice - looked incredible but utterly tedious. Still remember Empires review stating the big action set piece was as good as Heat. Lies.
Apocalypse Now
Texas Chainsaw Massacre - how do people enjoy this?
Transformers




THANK YOU!!


I'd agree with that one.


I feel sick



Don't worry, there's just not enough Eddie Murphy fat suits or Adam Sandler for them



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RE: The most overhyped film you've ever seen? - 23/1/2009 3:20:01 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Swoz_MK

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ORIGINAL: Tech_Noir

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ORIGINAL: Spengler


quote:

ORIGINAL: Mardybum

Deer Hunter
The Big Lebowski - its not funny!
Miami Vice - looked incredible but utterly tedious. Still remember Empires review stating the big action set piece was as good as Heat. Lies.
Apocalypse Now
Texas Chainsaw Massacre - how do people enjoy this?
Transformers




THANK YOU!!



I'd agree with that one.



I feel sick



Don't worry, there's just not enough Eddie Murphy fat suits or Adam Sandler for them


What? Huh?  Are those people saying not one bit of that film is funny? Crazy madness!


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RE: The most overhyped film you've ever seen? - 23/1/2009 4:05:44 PM   
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 Donnie Darko - So bad.
Apocalypse Now - Dull, dull, dull, dull....
Moulin Rouge  - Hate it with a passion. Also I wanna punch Ewan in the face.
Planet Terror - What a load of crap! Can't believe Josh Brolin is in it.

P.S. I love King Kong, Little Miss Sunshine and Titanic.

Oh! How could I forget No Country for Old Men, one of the most dissapointing films EVER. Javier did well with the American accent but that's it. Josh Brolin was waaaaaaaay better.


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RE: The most overhyped film you've ever seen? - 23/1/2009 4:55:40 PM   
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RE: The most overhyped film you've ever seen? - 23/1/2009 5:23:45 PM   
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Spiderman 3 been mentioned yet??

If not then it fully deserves to have been. I want Sam Raimi to give me back the hours of my life he took and wasted.

Also, Pulp Fiction. I don't get it. I've seen it twice and it's an okay film, but I really can't figure out the big deal. Actually that kind of goes for all Tarantino films, but Pulp Fiction in particular for being hugely underwhelming after it was very hyped up to me.

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RE: The most overhyped film you've ever seen? - 23/1/2009 5:52:33 PM   
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If not then it fully deserves to have been. I want Sam Raimi to give me back the hours of my life he took and wasted.


Exactly what I thought when I seen it, really overcrowded with villains in a film that just lost direction of where it was wanting to go. Venom was a really wasted opportunity.

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Also, Pulp Fiction. I don't get it. I've seen it twice and it's an okay film, but I really can't figure out the big deal. Actually that kind of goes for all Tarantino films, but Pulp Fiction in particular for being hugely underwhelming after it was very hyped up to me.


 Just when I was starting to like you, Pulp Fiction is an amazing film. It has inspired so many films since. It takes it place in my top 10 of all time and it always will.

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RE: The most overhyped film you've ever seen? - 23/1/2009 10:46:42 PM   
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I have to state that Mamma Mia is probably the most over-hyped pile of crap ever released.

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RE: The most overhyped film you've ever seen? - 24/1/2009 12:29:08 AM   
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Atonement.
All the Star Wars prequels
X-Men 3
Spiderman 3 (can't remember the hype for 2 but I was at uni at the time and probably stoned)

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RE: The most overhyped film you've ever seen? - 24/1/2009 4:28:56 PM   
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If not then it fully deserves to have been. I want Sam Raimi to give me back the hours of my life he took and wasted.


Exactly what I thought when I seen it, really overcrowded with villains in a film that just lost direction of where it was wanting to go. Venom was a really wasted opportunity.

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Also, Pulp Fiction. I don't get it. I've seen it twice and it's an okay film, but I really can't figure out the big deal. Actually that kind of goes for all Tarantino films, but Pulp Fiction in particular for being hugely underwhelming after it was very hyped up to me.


 Just when I was starting to like you, Pulp Fiction is an amazing film. It has inspired so many films since. It takes it place in my top 10 of all time and it always will.


A general dislike of Pulp Fiction is quite common on Empire, it always has been.  I woud say it divides forumers 50/50... always hotly debated when discussed.

I get it, I just think it's a poor film, which hit a note at the right time.  I think a lot of people were drawn into the furore and hype surrounding it, and it became more of a fashion statement than piece of quality cinema.  Quotable lines and 'cool' career bolstering is pretty much all it amounts to in my eyes.

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RE: The most overhyped film you've ever seen? - 24/1/2009 6:04:23 PM   
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You sure these were James Cameron films you were watching?


Yes. The whole Terminator franchise is one big tiresome Jesus Christ (John Connor) allegory.

Oh... and then you have this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFrufPxjwX0

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The Matrix is the most overhyped film I've ever seen, off the top of my head.


I can't even get all the way through The Matrix. It's boring.


Your opinion annoys me because it is so wrong


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