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In Reply to: Most Overrated/Most Unerrated of All Time? posted by highendman on December 13, 2001 at 12:44:14:
I'm amazed at how many people think Silence of the Lambs is a good film when I had so much trouble just trying to pay attention. I guess I've just seen too many shocking, low-budget gorefests for me to take an overdone major studio release seriously.Underrated: Rollerball
Special Mention: Wild, Wild West--I guess I just didn't take the original show seriously enough to be annoyed by this admittedly not so great, but not (IMHO) horrible film either. I did find it entertaining when just considered as an entity unto itself. I know I'm in a 1% minority on this film, however.
Todd
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"West" was a fun romp, nice fodder after hard day 's work. Not embarassingly overripe. The violence against empowered wheelchair bound (not handicapped was surprisingly risky bordering on bad taste but refreshingly NOT POLcorrect.
Now "Way of the Gun" was unhyped and forgotton most modern "western"
My pick for 1 of 5 best of 2000. - K. AAron CNAOPOBNy
...pretentious and silly peace of ... fill the blank. I had to make three or four attempts to even cover about 80% of it.
If you didn't like this you must be nuts!
I liked Silence of the Lambs, but found it a little unsettling that they gave it the Oscar for Best Picture.That's a reflection of our society. Do we really want to be giving an Oscar to a film that depicts such subject manner?
Sign of the Times. Perhaps in the 50's the movie would have never been made or been banned. Societal evolution or deterioration?
... "Silence of the Lambs" was intense, suspensful and brilliantly filmed, IMHO. For the record, I don't believe in banning movies or books for controversial content; films have ratings to inform the public about the appropriateness of subject matter and a policy enforcing age restrictions.As for the Academy, members only rarely deign to give controversial topics the level of attention deserved (i.e., in the major categories the coveted Oscar usually goes to the most mainstream material), so I don't believe that the film industry can be seriously viewed as an accurate barometer of social decline. To the contrary, entertainment is often the scape goat for other failings (i.e., social, parental, political, economic, etc.) endemic in an overpopulated contemporary society; films are a reflection of the marketplace, not the other way around.
AuPh
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