tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post115361188669078739..comments2024-03-27T16:39:43.522+00:00Comments on Liberal England: The ten most overrated filmsJonathan Calderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00730157683743989696noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-18454034352428967952012-08-16T14:51:42.442+01:002012-08-16T14:51:42.442+01:00You forgot Avatar....nice graphics and a storyline...You forgot Avatar....nice graphics and a storyline that plagiarised FerngullyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-1156994734273182202006-08-31T04:25:00.000+01:002006-08-31T04:25:00.000+01:00I completely agree with you about 'Gone With the W...I completely agree with you about 'Gone With the Wind'. I still can't believe that that film won an award. Stilted, artificial characters and dialogue. It is a shame so many good actors were wasted in it.<BR/><BR/>Most of Hitchcock's films are overrated. His photography was brilliant, but his characterizations are shallow, and plots often contrived. The women in his films are pretty dumb & helpless. With the exception of Thelma Ritter.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-1154344027312202782006-07-31T12:07:00.000+01:002006-07-31T12:07:00.000+01:00Hmmm, I have a soft-spot for the Titfield Thunderb...Hmmm, I have a soft-spot for the Titfield Thunderbolt, but then I had an obsession with trains as a child. Apparently I used to have bad dreams, and always burst into tears during the film, when the original train comes off the track and is destroyed...<BR/><BR/>I think that the single most over-rated, and simultaneously awful film, is <I>2001: A Space Odyssey</I>. It remains the only film after which I have said, "I want those two and a half hours of my lifeback" and <I>really</I> meant it.<BR/><BR/>DKDevil's Kitchenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13832949569501846730noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-1153686063561536442006-07-23T21:21:00.000+01:002006-07-23T21:21:00.000+01:00You are right on the bit with Gone With The Wind. ...You are right on the bit with Gone With The Wind. It is way too long and the glorification of the Old South is sickening...Larry Gambonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04965037776214596919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-1153666590442952782006-07-23T15:56:00.000+01:002006-07-23T15:56:00.000+01:00Hi , I agree with you regarding Gone With the Wind...Hi , I agree with you regarding Gone With the Wind.<BR/><BR/>But Chariots of Fire and the Italian Job are OK with me. <BR/><BR/>And Mary Poppins is still one of my favourite children's films. (That's the Disney version. The Soviet version is an acquired taste)Onlinefocus Teamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04380208481112766609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-1153653116587051032006-07-23T12:11:00.000+01:002006-07-23T12:11:00.000+01:00You missed Titanic...And the Lord of the Rings (at...You missed Titanic...<BR/>And the Lord of the Rings (at least the first one- didn't bother watching the others...).<BR/>Oh, and The Matrix (certainly the last three) is probably a contender...Tristanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15395992764678278326noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-1153636575300589462006-07-23T07:36:00.000+01:002006-07-23T07:36:00.000+01:00Slightly disturbingly, I've seen all but one or tw...Slightly disturbingly, I've seen all but one or two of these - given that I've only seen half of this week's fashionable Channel 4 50 or Radio Times 25.<BR/><BR/>I'd pretty much agree with you in all but one case (though the music does help Chariots of Fire, and the Liberator Songbook helps Mary Poppins). I have a feeling I watched Genevieve twice because my Dad had raved about it, and still the only details I remember are Westminster Bridge at the end (Seven Days to Noon; much better) and them driving past a police box…<BR/><BR/>I do always find The Italian Job thoroughly entertaining, though. <I>Nobody's</I> a believable character here, least of all Noel Coward, but surely that's the root of why they're amusing? It cheers me up when I watch it.<BR/><BR/>I'd agree on its incipient Thatcherism, despite that. I can't watch it now without thinking of a Rory Bremner standup routine from about 1996 on the Tory Cabinet as squabblers in the coach about to go over the cliff, singing Self-Preservation Society as Kenneth Clarke.<BR/><BR/>Off the top of my head, I'd pick Alfie as a disappointing movie people had recommended to me, with Michael Caine; a comedy about a charmer where the main character's off-putting and it's more depressing than funny. I might say the same about Withnail and I (and without any methodical thought, If… springs to mind as too up itself even for the '60s, and GoodFellas and Taxi Driver as just unpleasant).Alex Wilcockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03364653159038708678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-1153613656597942482006-07-23T01:14:00.000+01:002006-07-23T01:14:00.000+01:00I've only seen a few of those, but agree on Blair ...I've only seen a few of those, but agree on Blair Witch, Richard Curtis and Gone With the Wind. I've only seen the end of the latter, and found the Rhett Butler line disappointing due to the choice of emphasis.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com