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RE: Overrated "masterpieces"

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In Reply to: RE: Overrated "masterpieces" posted by Doug Flynn on November 11, 2012 at 18:29:29

Blade Runner - I have literally tried 5 times to watch this snoozefest and keep shutting it off 20 minutes in.

Vertigo - This is now the #1 movie in the 110+ year history of world cinema according to Sight and Sound magazine. Seriously?

The Shawshank Redemption - OK, I'll Look past the typically maudlin and overwrought Steven King story, replete with Morgan Freeman narration. Can't get past this though: A wrongly-accused man digs a hole in his prison cell wall. The large hole remains undetected for 20 years because it's covered by a movie poster. Riiiiight....

Citizen Kane - This is now the #2 movie in the 110+ year history of world cinema according to Sight and Sound magazine. Seriously?

Twelve Angry Men, To Kill a Mockingbird, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - These sanctimonious "message movies" seem to be gaining a following amongst today's teens. Are they showing them in high school social studies classes? I don't know. But whatever the reason, they are all vastly overrated.

The Star Wars Trilogy, Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Ark, ET: The Extraterrestrial, etc. - These and many more cheesy 1970s and 1980s popular entertainments have been "re-evaluated" as being significant to American culture. I'm not necessarily saying they're all bad, just badly overrated.

Anything by Kubrick, but especially The Shining and 2001: A Space Odyssey - Even serious critics are reading far too much into these Kubrick films; assigning them "deep meaning" that clearly Kubrick never intended.

Touch of Evil - Charlton Heston plays a Mexican cop. I repeat, Charlton Heston plays a Mexican cop.

The Searchers - Don't get me wrong. It's good. But it also frequently cited as the best western ever made. Deeply flawed, badly dated and containing some of Ford's most cringe-worthy attempts at comic relief.

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