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Re: Overrated movies
Posted By: Howard, on host 209.86.37.160
Date: Thursday, August 10, 2000, at 15:20:31
In Reply To: Overrated movies posted by Ferrick on Thursday, August 10, 2000, at 08:00:25:

> Least favorite movie is a tough one. Does that mean it was bad? If so, it might fall into an entertaining movie if it is so bad. I guess it would have to make you cringe to be a least favorite. I can think of quite a few of those.
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> Now, overrated movies are probably easier for me to come up with, even though many people seem to disagree with me on it. That's ok though. Over the last few years, I would have to say that Jerry Maguire and The Rock are the two most overrated movies, IMO. I have no idea how Jerry M. was nominated for best picture (I did think the football scenes were some of the most realistic ones in film) since I didn't care for the characters at all. And this was before I began to loathe Renee Z. as an actress. And the Rock was a tired old premise with an unnecessary car chase thrown in so you could see the scenery in San Francisco.
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> Fer"7 bucks, I'd rather be hit in the head with a b"rick
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> > I think my least favorite movie has to be The Care Bears Movie. That movie frightened me when I was young, confused me when I was a little older, and bores me now.
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> > Tied with this for least favorite is Stepmom. I don't like any of the characters, and the mom's choice at the end made absolutely no sense whatsoever. I also think it was really phony that she and the stepmom WARNING: STUFF FOLLOWS THAT MAY BE CONSIDERED SPOILERS hated each other bitterly throughout the entire movie but then for the last four seconds loved each other dearly. That was stupid.
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> > -eric "Boy howdy." sleator
> > Thu 10 Aug A.D. 2000

My least favorite dud of a worst movie remains the Mission Impossible mess. I refuse to watch dud II, because dud I was so bad.

My favorite so far is still Casablanca.

Which reminds me of something. (What did you expect?)
The other day at DollyWood, we ate in a 1950's movie-theme restaurant. There on the wall were large pictures and Laural and Hardy, the Marx Brothers, Abbott and Costella, Charlie Chaplin, and Buster Keaton. I thought about all these really funny people and actors like Bogart, Gable, Mae West, John Wayne, Marilyn, William Boyd, Lucy and others. There is some good talent around now, but nobody will ever replace stars like that.
Howard