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post #16 of 204
6/14/09 at 2:55pm
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Originally Posted by DocHolliday View Post
How can you not love the robot owl?



And then he gave that inspiring speech at the end of the fourth quarter? Yeah, that was awesome.



I was a LOTR geek from day one, so I'm really biased about these movies.

The whole Little Miss Sunshine from the OP is a good example of a movie that didn't get any appreciation, then got appreciated, then was set up with TOO high an expectation. It failed right out of the gate with me.

I quit subscribing to Entertainment Weekly because I knew too much about a movie before it was even released.
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post #17 of 204
6/14/09 at 3:03pm
Sideways
Crash
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post #18 of 204
6/14/09 at 3:04pm
I'm surprised about the responses that include Shawshank.
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post #19 of 204
6/14/09 at 3:06pm
IMDB's Top 250.
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post #20 of 204
6/14/09 at 3:09pm
Any Julia Roberts movie.
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post #21 of 204
6/14/09 at 3:09pm
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Originally Posted by musicguy View Post
Little Miss Sunshine - Meanders, boring, predictable, cutesy but not cute

+1

Taxi Driver
Crash (One of these worst movies I have ever seen)
Atonement
All Tarantino and almost all Woody Allen movies
Peyton Place
Scenes From a Marriage
Syriana
Amarcord
La Strada
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post #22 of 204
6/14/09 at 3:11pm
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Syriana

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Blair Witch
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post #23 of 204
6/14/09 at 3:15pm
i might get a lot of shit for this: lord of the rings. all of them. boring, overwrought, one dimensional and lacked depth.
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post #24 of 204
6/14/09 at 4:29pm
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Originally Posted by Baron View Post
Knocked Up was totally stupid, I agree. Juno too. Little Miss Sunshine for sure. Also:

Wedding Crashers - about 20% funny ad 80% corny or boring

Mystic River - generally, Clint Eastwood directed movies and Sean Penn performances are often overrated (not always) but this one was a double whammy.

Actually, most movies suck and I could spend way too much time with this list, so I'll stop.

+1
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post #25 of 204
6/14/09 at 4:30pm
Blood diamonds - or whatever it was called- with Leonardo Di Caprio. It was like the script was written using only crappy newspaper accounts of the problems in Africa. A stupid, predictable and superficial movie that may actually have won an oscar or two.

Also the Unforgiven. Its was a perfectly entertaining movie but hardly a great one.
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post #26 of 204
6/14/09 at 4:33pm
Unforgiven
Gladiator
True Grit
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post #27 of 204
6/14/09 at 4:51pm
All of these pale in comparison to the over-appreciation of Star Wars.
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post #28 of 204
6/14/09 at 4:54pm
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Originally Posted by mr monty View Post
Unforgiven
Gladiator
True Grit

We agree on the first two but True Grit? You hurt me Mr Monty. The public hanging scene where Mattie says to the gibbering idiot who was praising the Judges sense of duty, "who knows whats in a mans heart" alone makes this movie as good as any Eastwood megaphone your message movie.
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post #29 of 204
6/14/09 at 5:41pm
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Originally Posted by Tokyo Slim View Post
All of these pale in comparison to the over-appreciation of Star Wars.

It blew my mind when I was 9, but it's not aged well at all.
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post #30 of 204
6/14/09 at 5:41pm
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Originally Posted by Tokyo Slim View Post
All of these pale in comparison to the over-appreciation of Star Wars.

I'd pick Empire as the most over-rated of the original trilogy.
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