Top 20 Overrated Films of the Decade
Here we are. I actually have a little time to do this so here we go. Everyone has their own opinions on overrates/underrated. These are my personal opinions. This is not in the order of which I like these films. In fact my number 2 is my favorite on the list. Some of these movies I cannot stand, some are ok and some are quite good but all of them are overrated in my opinion.
20. Walk the Line (2005)
This could be the most uninteresting biopic I have ever seen. The other biopic on this list which is much higher is a much worse film but at least it was more interesting. Johnny Cash did not have a boring life but this film seems to think he did. I am not faulting the performances. Joaquin Pheonix is really great and Reese Witherspoon does a nice job here to (although not in the slightest sense Oscar worthy. I know it was a horrible year for actresses but seriously, this could be the most pointless acting Oscar ever to be given out).James Mangold did nothing with this story to make it original or interesting. It plays as a mediocre TV movie. And yet so many people loved it. I am a Johnny Cash fan but I was no more interested in whoc he was as a person after seeing this. It just made me want to take the time to read a biography.
19. The Rules of Attraction (2003)
I was pretty excited about seeing this based on its reputation and I loathed it. I will admit that the film nailed its tone down but there is nothing of interest going on within this film. It is trying way too hard to be something of cultural relevance and while I guess it succeeded in its undying quest to become a college age cult film, it did not succeed with me. Director Roger Avary tries way too hard with his camera techniques in a film which has absolutely no substance to support them which in turn draws even more attention to the gimmicky camerawork. I just hate this and don't get the college age appeal to it at all or the cult status it has attained.
18. Man on Wire (2008)
This is easily one of my favorites on the list. I do really like this documentary. But the greatest of its kind in the last 10 years like some claim? Absolutely not. Personally I think this unfairly dominated the documentary competition last year and shoved aside two films that I would pick any day of the week over this which are Dear Zachary and Encounters at the End of the World. If you want a tightly plotted documentary, The Thin Blue Line blows this out of the water. Man on Wire is expertly crafted and contains a really incredible and endlessly entertaining man at its center, but to me it is merely a good documentary and not the masterpiece others believe it to be.
17. Million Dollar Baby (2004)
I really like Million Dollar Baby. It may have permanently traumatized me and I'll never see it again but I enjoyed it all the same. I get that people love how classic it is. Eastwood's output this decade has been both remarkable and completely unprecedented. Who saw this coming? But for me, this is just too universally considered to be in like the Top 10 greatest films of the decade and I think too many people agree on this one. It is a great film, easily the best on this list but it is admittedly a bit too sentimental for me at times and it reveals itself to be manipulative which is pretty bad since every film you watch is manipulative. If you can feel it amidst the onslaught of film manipulation there is a problem. Its great but there are far too many films that do not get enough recognition and this is one of those that is eating up the spotlight for others.
16. Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
Here is another film I liked and do admire for a lot of reasons. However, when the awards circuit basically picked this film in like November to be the shut out contender for the Oscars last year we all had to deal with about 4 months of Slumdog hype and craze which culiminated in its Best Picture win. By month 2 I was Slumdogged out. Hell I'm still suffering from the Slumdog after effects. It just got to be so annoying. I hate when any film runs away with the Oscar season months ahead of time. Its not the films fault by any means. But by paying such close attention to the awards season every year, it meant I was attacked by this film on a daily basis. I actually think it is a better filim than The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Frost/Nixon (although the latter was my personal fav of the 5 last year) but neither of those films invaded my life so fully as this one. Very very few films deserve that much constant attention in the awards season and this was not one of them.
15. Spider Man 2 (2004)
I used to love Spider Man 2. And then Spider Man 3 came out and destroyed this entire franchise for me. Everything I hated about that film carried over to the previous two. It became like a friend that you have for a while and then they start to annoy you and pretty soon you cannot remember why you liked them and all you see are their flaws. That is exactly what happened with me and this film. I still really love the Doc Oc stuff. I do think it does its job well. But the film just annoys me now. I can't help it. The whole series is just whiny and the whole thing just feels so scripted. It does not help that Tobey Maguire just annoys the shit out of me now. Basically I just got sick of this and think its a bit overrated now although I do get the appeal. For me though...nah.
14. Transformers (2007)
I iknow that this is not considered to be good. It represents the overwhelming populist side of this list. Its popularity means it cannot be ignored. It sucks. Obviously. The effects are really incredible though. I will be the first one to say that I was pretty amazed by them at points. But still the film is completely overrated as something that the mass population has latched on to for whatever reason.
13. Twilight (2008)
Here we have the other end of the populist spectrum. I watched this with my best friend when we discovered that we each had a morbid curiosity about the pop culture phenomenon but refused to watch it alone. So we got together and watched it and laughed and had a great time. I won't go into all of the reasons it sucks. It has single handedly made vampires lame, it simply a bad film, with a bad story, with cardboard characters whose one emotion is to brood and the entire series acts as a horrible horrible horrible sexist and unhealthy story for young girls to be consuming on such a mass scale. So yeah...its overrated.
12. A Beautiful Mind (2001)
I don't hate this. Its just so forgettable though. The best thing about it is James Horner's score which is beautiful and has comforted me many times in the years since seeing the film. Its idiotic but not surprising that this won Best Picture. Basically it was the year of Mulholland Drive and the fact that this was the film named as the Best Picture of the Year is pretty upsetting to me. Mulholland Drive was not nominated for Best Picture (unsurprisingly) but the Academy could not ignore Lynch's masterful direction of the film and he was nominated for Best Director....and lost.....to Ron.....Howard.....for A Beautiful Mind....let us think about this, agree that this snub is the perfect representation of what the Oscars are, and now understand why this film is placed on the list.
11. Hero (2002)
I don't know if I need to see this again or what. But people are obsessed with this. Completely obsessed. A lot of people think this is in the tops for the decade. Did I miss something? Yes the visuals are great but I was completely underwhelmed by this film. I don't even know what to say about it but I just did not like it.
10. Super Size Me (2004)
Did you know that if you eat McDonald's for a month that it is bad for you? Because I had no idea. Note the sarcasm. I admit that this documentary is important for the changes it brought in the McDonalds' industry. It is a documantries greatest dream. However, I hate Morgan Spurlock, I hate his gimmicks, I hate his arrogance, I hate his self congratulatory nature and I hate his massive ego on display here in his insistence of being a part of a ridiculous gimmick all so he can be in the spotlight. And then he got his own show where he got to be in the spotlight. Good for you Morgan Spurlock; you let audiences know that McDonalds is evil; a hard feat indeed. To me this was as despicable as what reality show contestants do for money. Self torture in exchange for fame. Fuck this movie.
9. 300 (2007)
Visually very appealing, clearly an extremely creative film with a lot of care put into it and faithful to the source material. Why is it overrated then? Because nothing is going on in this movie. I almost think this should not have been adapted by anyone ever because it work within the graphic novel but it fails to have the substance to sustain itself on the big screen. All I saw was a lot of slow motion, lots of blood, lots of yelling and an occasional sex scene. Sorry but I need a little thing called substance in the films I watch. You can have all of these things as long as it means something. But all this did was make me want to go back to the source material.
8. Inside Man (2006)
A lot of film critics have a special place for this in their hearts. I feel like the respect people have for it has grown in the 3 years since its release. This film was insufferable. It was too heavy handed, I hated the free jazz score, I found myself actively disliking this and being utterly bored with it at the same time. The performances are fine and Jodie Foster was the only redeeming factor in this film. Other than that, this stunk and nobody else seems to think so.
7. Garden State (2004)
This picture captures perfectly why I hate this movie. I used to love Garden State. I was young and stupid back then. It has become this sort of indie fav to a ton of people, mostly (but not all) people who don’t watch good indie films. Nothing in this rings true. Its just a series of poorly constructed scenes that are trying too hard to crate awkward but oh so accurate moments. The Natalie Portman character is completely obnoxious and really is just a complete fabrication of the dream girl and has no substance. Zach Braff is probably my least favorite actor working today. I would rather watch 5 movies with Ryan Reynolds back to back than watch 1 episode of Scrubs. Basically the film is false indie. And it sucks. Oh and lets not forget about the soundtrack with its annoying Postal Service songs, a Simon and Garfunkel song that I unfortunately cannot listen to at all now (thanks a lot, used to be one of my favs) and for making Nick Drake popular to the mainstream which is ridiculous because people should have known who he was already. God do I hate this.
6. Ray (2004)
How was this nominated for Best Picture? Mediocre at best. AT BEST. Yeah there is a great performance smack dab in the middle of it all but honestly this was just pretty bad. I don’t even remember it that well but I remember saying to myself that it was pretty bad.
5. Napoleon Dynamite (2004)
This is probably my least favorite film on the list. I just fucking hate this movie with all my heart. But ironically I have slightly more respect for it than Garden State because at least this film nails down a specific tone that is kind of hard to define or place. Other than that everything it so caricatured and so dependent on the eccentricities of the world. I don’t so much mind that because other great films might function on that but I have two problems with the film. The first is that the film is very mean spirited. The entire film wants us to laugh AT this character and not with him and its cruel. No wonder this struck such a cord with people. The film just seems to be looking down on its protagonist and it felt awkward and condescending to me. My second complaint about the film has to do with the fact that it’s not funny at all. This type of humor is nauseatingly unfunny. The brother? Not funny. Pedro? Not funny. Uncle Rico? Not funny. Napoleon? Not funny. Let’s not even get into the fact that I had to listen to fucking people quote this film nonstop for years. Years. Old people, young people, it never ended. Can you tell I think this is an overwhelmingly terrible piece of shit? The only reason I have stuff above it is because very few people think that this is the greatest film of all time.
4. The Boondock Saints (2000)
Ok so I’m not a guy and I know this was not made for me but that’s not even the issue. The issue is that there are so many other films in this crime genre out there, undiscovered ones by popular audiences and this is the one that becomes a pop culture phenomenon? The saddest thing might be that I think there could be people who like this that think its obscure. If I have to see one more Boondock Saints poster on someone’s wall….This movie reeks of shit. Its dreadful. Willem Dafoe is fantastic in it and if the film were just him then I would legitimately like this but its not so I hate it. Good God is this what’s cool? This is overblown and overrated in every way.
3. Crash (2005)
We all know why this is on the list; the infamous snub. And just the fact that it won Best Picture to begin with. Seriously? It’s not a bad film by any means but it throws the issues in your face without even reaching for subtlety at any point. In one way I get it because most film goers actually NEED the issues thrown on their face and the issues are too important to risk people not getting it. But it’s a problem when all I see is me being preached at to the point where I cannot concentrate on the all around fantastic performances by the ensemble cast. I loved the story with the blacksmith. I really did. It moved me greatly. But the rest of this film is way too overblown, overstuffed and unsubtle to really make its point with dignity.
2. The Dark Knight (2008)
I really do like this film; easily my favorite on the list. I saw it on opening night at midnight and everything. Actually I did with my Number 1 as well. Huh. I admit that this is an important film in the standard it has set for others of its kind. There is a lot of really fantastic stuff going on in this. Not to mention Heath Ledger’s incredible performance. But the whole months long freak out going on here for this to be nominated for Best Picture and THEN the months long freak out when it wasn’t and THEN the claims that it was the best film of 2008 and THEN the claims that it is the best film of the decade and THEN those other fucking people who actually think this is one of the greatest films of all time. I’m getting so frustrated just writing this. A good film to be sure, even a great one in large chunks but frankly the last act was extremely mediocre and I hated the way they handled Two Face towards the end. I just cannot deal with the extreme claims from that this is the greatest film ever, both from people who don’t watch a lot of films or from the people who do because frankly it was coming from all directions. I did not even think this was in the Top 20 best films I saw LAST YEAR. Nolan’s best? No. His most important? Yes I will give the film that. It is important. It really is. But it’s just not the greatest thing ever committed to celluloid. It’s just not.
1. Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (2003)
The reason this is number 1 and not The Dark Knight is because while both have the same stupid status in the film world, I really like said film and I actually don’t like this. For the record I am obsessed (OBSESSED) with both Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers. I have seen the extended cuts of them probably about 40 times put together. Everything interesting that was going on in the first two films, seemed not interesting anymore. The action scenes did not excite me, I did not care about the characters anymore and it seemed much more stretched out than the other two. I’m really not sure what happened here. Then there were the 20 endings. The parts that I felt worked were the beginning with Gollum, the climax at Mount Doom, the scene when Pippin sings and when Frodo leaves at the end with Gandalf and Bilbo. Not only this but I have seen it on top of Best Films of the Decade lists aplenty, even Greatest Films of all Time lists. Just like The Dark Knight, this is not one of the greatest films of all time. The most frustrating thing about this one is that the first two films in the series are vastly superior and are not ranked in the same way this one is (although their acclaim is still massive). Right now there is a poll going on for people who watch At the Movies in which they vote on their favorite films of the decade and we get to see what the top 10 are every week. Right now number 1 is Return of the King and number 2 is The Dark Knight. Top 2 films of the entire decade. The entire decade!!?? I’m sorry but no.
20. Walk the Line (2005)
This could be the most uninteresting biopic I have ever seen. The other biopic on this list which is much higher is a much worse film but at least it was more interesting. Johnny Cash did not have a boring life but this film seems to think he did. I am not faulting the performances. Joaquin Pheonix is really great and Reese Witherspoon does a nice job here to (although not in the slightest sense Oscar worthy. I know it was a horrible year for actresses but seriously, this could be the most pointless acting Oscar ever to be given out).James Mangold did nothing with this story to make it original or interesting. It plays as a mediocre TV movie. And yet so many people loved it. I am a Johnny Cash fan but I was no more interested in whoc he was as a person after seeing this. It just made me want to take the time to read a biography.
19. The Rules of Attraction (2003)
I was pretty excited about seeing this based on its reputation and I loathed it. I will admit that the film nailed its tone down but there is nothing of interest going on within this film. It is trying way too hard to be something of cultural relevance and while I guess it succeeded in its undying quest to become a college age cult film, it did not succeed with me. Director Roger Avary tries way too hard with his camera techniques in a film which has absolutely no substance to support them which in turn draws even more attention to the gimmicky camerawork. I just hate this and don't get the college age appeal to it at all or the cult status it has attained.
18. Man on Wire (2008)
This is easily one of my favorites on the list. I do really like this documentary. But the greatest of its kind in the last 10 years like some claim? Absolutely not. Personally I think this unfairly dominated the documentary competition last year and shoved aside two films that I would pick any day of the week over this which are Dear Zachary and Encounters at the End of the World. If you want a tightly plotted documentary, The Thin Blue Line blows this out of the water. Man on Wire is expertly crafted and contains a really incredible and endlessly entertaining man at its center, but to me it is merely a good documentary and not the masterpiece others believe it to be.
17. Million Dollar Baby (2004)
I really like Million Dollar Baby. It may have permanently traumatized me and I'll never see it again but I enjoyed it all the same. I get that people love how classic it is. Eastwood's output this decade has been both remarkable and completely unprecedented. Who saw this coming? But for me, this is just too universally considered to be in like the Top 10 greatest films of the decade and I think too many people agree on this one. It is a great film, easily the best on this list but it is admittedly a bit too sentimental for me at times and it reveals itself to be manipulative which is pretty bad since every film you watch is manipulative. If you can feel it amidst the onslaught of film manipulation there is a problem. Its great but there are far too many films that do not get enough recognition and this is one of those that is eating up the spotlight for others.
16. Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
Here is another film I liked and do admire for a lot of reasons. However, when the awards circuit basically picked this film in like November to be the shut out contender for the Oscars last year we all had to deal with about 4 months of Slumdog hype and craze which culiminated in its Best Picture win. By month 2 I was Slumdogged out. Hell I'm still suffering from the Slumdog after effects. It just got to be so annoying. I hate when any film runs away with the Oscar season months ahead of time. Its not the films fault by any means. But by paying such close attention to the awards season every year, it meant I was attacked by this film on a daily basis. I actually think it is a better filim than The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Frost/Nixon (although the latter was my personal fav of the 5 last year) but neither of those films invaded my life so fully as this one. Very very few films deserve that much constant attention in the awards season and this was not one of them.
15. Spider Man 2 (2004)
I used to love Spider Man 2. And then Spider Man 3 came out and destroyed this entire franchise for me. Everything I hated about that film carried over to the previous two. It became like a friend that you have for a while and then they start to annoy you and pretty soon you cannot remember why you liked them and all you see are their flaws. That is exactly what happened with me and this film. I still really love the Doc Oc stuff. I do think it does its job well. But the film just annoys me now. I can't help it. The whole series is just whiny and the whole thing just feels so scripted. It does not help that Tobey Maguire just annoys the shit out of me now. Basically I just got sick of this and think its a bit overrated now although I do get the appeal. For me though...nah.
14. Transformers (2007)
I iknow that this is not considered to be good. It represents the overwhelming populist side of this list. Its popularity means it cannot be ignored. It sucks. Obviously. The effects are really incredible though. I will be the first one to say that I was pretty amazed by them at points. But still the film is completely overrated as something that the mass population has latched on to for whatever reason.
13. Twilight (2008)
Here we have the other end of the populist spectrum. I watched this with my best friend when we discovered that we each had a morbid curiosity about the pop culture phenomenon but refused to watch it alone. So we got together and watched it and laughed and had a great time. I won't go into all of the reasons it sucks. It has single handedly made vampires lame, it simply a bad film, with a bad story, with cardboard characters whose one emotion is to brood and the entire series acts as a horrible horrible horrible sexist and unhealthy story for young girls to be consuming on such a mass scale. So yeah...its overrated.
12. A Beautiful Mind (2001)
I don't hate this. Its just so forgettable though. The best thing about it is James Horner's score which is beautiful and has comforted me many times in the years since seeing the film. Its idiotic but not surprising that this won Best Picture. Basically it was the year of Mulholland Drive and the fact that this was the film named as the Best Picture of the Year is pretty upsetting to me. Mulholland Drive was not nominated for Best Picture (unsurprisingly) but the Academy could not ignore Lynch's masterful direction of the film and he was nominated for Best Director....and lost.....to Ron.....Howard.....for A Beautiful Mind....let us think about this, agree that this snub is the perfect representation of what the Oscars are, and now understand why this film is placed on the list.
11. Hero (2002)
I don't know if I need to see this again or what. But people are obsessed with this. Completely obsessed. A lot of people think this is in the tops for the decade. Did I miss something? Yes the visuals are great but I was completely underwhelmed by this film. I don't even know what to say about it but I just did not like it.
10. Super Size Me (2004)
Did you know that if you eat McDonald's for a month that it is bad for you? Because I had no idea. Note the sarcasm. I admit that this documentary is important for the changes it brought in the McDonalds' industry. It is a documantries greatest dream. However, I hate Morgan Spurlock, I hate his gimmicks, I hate his arrogance, I hate his self congratulatory nature and I hate his massive ego on display here in his insistence of being a part of a ridiculous gimmick all so he can be in the spotlight. And then he got his own show where he got to be in the spotlight. Good for you Morgan Spurlock; you let audiences know that McDonalds is evil; a hard feat indeed. To me this was as despicable as what reality show contestants do for money. Self torture in exchange for fame. Fuck this movie.
9. 300 (2007)
Visually very appealing, clearly an extremely creative film with a lot of care put into it and faithful to the source material. Why is it overrated then? Because nothing is going on in this movie. I almost think this should not have been adapted by anyone ever because it work within the graphic novel but it fails to have the substance to sustain itself on the big screen. All I saw was a lot of slow motion, lots of blood, lots of yelling and an occasional sex scene. Sorry but I need a little thing called substance in the films I watch. You can have all of these things as long as it means something. But all this did was make me want to go back to the source material.
8. Inside Man (2006)
A lot of film critics have a special place for this in their hearts. I feel like the respect people have for it has grown in the 3 years since its release. This film was insufferable. It was too heavy handed, I hated the free jazz score, I found myself actively disliking this and being utterly bored with it at the same time. The performances are fine and Jodie Foster was the only redeeming factor in this film. Other than that, this stunk and nobody else seems to think so.
7. Garden State (2004)
This picture captures perfectly why I hate this movie. I used to love Garden State. I was young and stupid back then. It has become this sort of indie fav to a ton of people, mostly (but not all) people who don’t watch good indie films. Nothing in this rings true. Its just a series of poorly constructed scenes that are trying too hard to crate awkward but oh so accurate moments. The Natalie Portman character is completely obnoxious and really is just a complete fabrication of the dream girl and has no substance. Zach Braff is probably my least favorite actor working today. I would rather watch 5 movies with Ryan Reynolds back to back than watch 1 episode of Scrubs. Basically the film is false indie. And it sucks. Oh and lets not forget about the soundtrack with its annoying Postal Service songs, a Simon and Garfunkel song that I unfortunately cannot listen to at all now (thanks a lot, used to be one of my favs) and for making Nick Drake popular to the mainstream which is ridiculous because people should have known who he was already. God do I hate this.
6. Ray (2004)
How was this nominated for Best Picture? Mediocre at best. AT BEST. Yeah there is a great performance smack dab in the middle of it all but honestly this was just pretty bad. I don’t even remember it that well but I remember saying to myself that it was pretty bad.
5. Napoleon Dynamite (2004)
This is probably my least favorite film on the list. I just fucking hate this movie with all my heart. But ironically I have slightly more respect for it than Garden State because at least this film nails down a specific tone that is kind of hard to define or place. Other than that everything it so caricatured and so dependent on the eccentricities of the world. I don’t so much mind that because other great films might function on that but I have two problems with the film. The first is that the film is very mean spirited. The entire film wants us to laugh AT this character and not with him and its cruel. No wonder this struck such a cord with people. The film just seems to be looking down on its protagonist and it felt awkward and condescending to me. My second complaint about the film has to do with the fact that it’s not funny at all. This type of humor is nauseatingly unfunny. The brother? Not funny. Pedro? Not funny. Uncle Rico? Not funny. Napoleon? Not funny. Let’s not even get into the fact that I had to listen to fucking people quote this film nonstop for years. Years. Old people, young people, it never ended. Can you tell I think this is an overwhelmingly terrible piece of shit? The only reason I have stuff above it is because very few people think that this is the greatest film of all time.
4. The Boondock Saints (2000)
Ok so I’m not a guy and I know this was not made for me but that’s not even the issue. The issue is that there are so many other films in this crime genre out there, undiscovered ones by popular audiences and this is the one that becomes a pop culture phenomenon? The saddest thing might be that I think there could be people who like this that think its obscure. If I have to see one more Boondock Saints poster on someone’s wall….This movie reeks of shit. Its dreadful. Willem Dafoe is fantastic in it and if the film were just him then I would legitimately like this but its not so I hate it. Good God is this what’s cool? This is overblown and overrated in every way.
3. Crash (2005)
We all know why this is on the list; the infamous snub. And just the fact that it won Best Picture to begin with. Seriously? It’s not a bad film by any means but it throws the issues in your face without even reaching for subtlety at any point. In one way I get it because most film goers actually NEED the issues thrown on their face and the issues are too important to risk people not getting it. But it’s a problem when all I see is me being preached at to the point where I cannot concentrate on the all around fantastic performances by the ensemble cast. I loved the story with the blacksmith. I really did. It moved me greatly. But the rest of this film is way too overblown, overstuffed and unsubtle to really make its point with dignity.
2. The Dark Knight (2008)
I really do like this film; easily my favorite on the list. I saw it on opening night at midnight and everything. Actually I did with my Number 1 as well. Huh. I admit that this is an important film in the standard it has set for others of its kind. There is a lot of really fantastic stuff going on in this. Not to mention Heath Ledger’s incredible performance. But the whole months long freak out going on here for this to be nominated for Best Picture and THEN the months long freak out when it wasn’t and THEN the claims that it was the best film of 2008 and THEN the claims that it is the best film of the decade and THEN those other fucking people who actually think this is one of the greatest films of all time. I’m getting so frustrated just writing this. A good film to be sure, even a great one in large chunks but frankly the last act was extremely mediocre and I hated the way they handled Two Face towards the end. I just cannot deal with the extreme claims from that this is the greatest film ever, both from people who don’t watch a lot of films or from the people who do because frankly it was coming from all directions. I did not even think this was in the Top 20 best films I saw LAST YEAR. Nolan’s best? No. His most important? Yes I will give the film that. It is important. It really is. But it’s just not the greatest thing ever committed to celluloid. It’s just not.
1. Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (2003)
The reason this is number 1 and not The Dark Knight is because while both have the same stupid status in the film world, I really like said film and I actually don’t like this. For the record I am obsessed (OBSESSED) with both Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers. I have seen the extended cuts of them probably about 40 times put together. Everything interesting that was going on in the first two films, seemed not interesting anymore. The action scenes did not excite me, I did not care about the characters anymore and it seemed much more stretched out than the other two. I’m really not sure what happened here. Then there were the 20 endings. The parts that I felt worked were the beginning with Gollum, the climax at Mount Doom, the scene when Pippin sings and when Frodo leaves at the end with Gandalf and Bilbo. Not only this but I have seen it on top of Best Films of the Decade lists aplenty, even Greatest Films of all Time lists. Just like The Dark Knight, this is not one of the greatest films of all time. The most frustrating thing about this one is that the first two films in the series are vastly superior and are not ranked in the same way this one is (although their acclaim is still massive). Right now there is a poll going on for people who watch At the Movies in which they vote on their favorite films of the decade and we get to see what the top 10 are every week. Right now number 1 is Return of the King and number 2 is The Dark Knight. Top 2 films of the entire decade. The entire decade!!?? I’m sorry but no.
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By the way I really enjoyed your Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus review. I enjoyed the trailer but was a little worried by how CGI heavy it was. It felt distracting even within the trailer. I'm still excited to see it though because of Terry Gilliam. : )
I think I even liked Man on Wire less than you did. I didn't really get anything out of it, and considering it was hardly 90 minutes, I was never really entertained. I also agree with the Inside Man, which was a smart heist film, but way too long in my opinion, and the pay off was less than satisfactory.
I do disagree with both Million Dollar Baby and The Dark Knight, but I doubt you would be too angry over that because it seems that those were your two favorites on the list.
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i agree with you on Man on Wire. I loved the main guy though. its just that in documentaries, tight "plots" are not what I am looking for. I'm way more into documentaries that just observe. and the filmmakers creating a plot out of that is natural but I want a documentary when I watch a documentary and not a heist film of sorts.
I literally thought Inside Man would never end. I was shocked when it did!
definitely not angry with the disagreement on those two films. you are right, I think they are without a doubt the two best on the list and I like them as well : )
I at least did like the main guy from Man on Wire. He was awesome at the Oscars (I think it was the Oscars) when he did is magic trick on stage. Very intriguing personality.
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