Topic: Overrated?

[The Bournemouth Red]

Is there a film/TV show/song that everyone raves about and declares to be the best thing ever made, but you think is bog average at best?

I'll throw in Donnie Darko, just didn't press any buttons for me.

[ToneLa]

Most stuff really, even stuff I really like, once social media gets a hold of it it's like so hyped and talked about, there's not much perspective to its actual quality anymore

Basically you just trust your own judgement. That's all it becomes in the end anyway. Unless you become one of those bores who changes their opinion just to feel included

I mean, like fuck am I gonna watch Tiger King

[killer-heels]

Citizen Kane and Black Panther.

[Hedley Lamarr]

I'm a big Paul Thomas Anderson fan but I think Magnolia is vastly overrated, it's a distant last in Anderson's filmography as far as I'm concerned, both Hard Eight and especially Punch Drunk Love are better.  It's horrible, manipulative drek.

[Coat Of Arms]

Anything Marvel. Predictable CGI fests.

TV wise probably the Sopranos.

[Crosby Nick]

I think it’s my current mood of not really enjoying anything at the moment but recently forked out for Disney Plus and watched Soul with the kids and having heard lots of good things about it was expecting something really good and it just felt a bit ‘meh’. But I think that might just be me at the moment.

[AndyMuller]

RAWK Drafts.

[El Lobo]

I think it’s my current mood of not really enjoying anything at the moment but recently forked out for Disney Plus and watched Soul with the kids and having heard lots of good things about it was expecting something really good and it just felt a bit ‘meh’. But I think that might just be me at the moment.

Thought that was excellent but in the same vain I was pretty underwhelmed by Onward

[Crosby Nick]

Thought that was excellent but in the same vain I was pretty underwhelmed by Onward

They’ve gone a bit overboard with films about death!

[Red_Mist]

A couple of people recommended Schitt’s Creek to us. Watched the first one and was underwhelmed to say the least. Apparently it’s a grower though and we shouldn’t judge it by episode 1.

Peaky Blinders was another. Lasted about 20 minutes.

Never seen more than about a minute of Game of Thrones, but I’m almost certain that would be another.

[AndyMuller]

Only Fools & Horses.

[Jono69]

A couple of people recommended Schitt’s Creek to us. Watched the first one and was underwhelmed to say the least. Apparently it’s a grower though and we shouldn’t judge it by episode 1.

Peaky Blinders was another. Lasted about 20 minutes.

Never seen more than about a minute of Game of Thrones, but I’m almost certain that would be another.

Same with us , we watched the first episode but then haven't bothered since

Mrs Brown's boys is another

[Hedley Lamarr]

I got through about three episodes of Peaky Blinders that was enough for me.

[El Lobo]

Mrs Brown's boys is another

Who the fuck rates that?

[AndyMuller]

Queen - Just, why?

[Crosby Nick]

Who the fuck rates that?

Beat me to it. It must get big ratings though. Mainly with people who’s TV remotes are broken.

[rob1966]

I got through about three episodes of Peaky Blinders that was enough for me.

Same here, got bored with it.

Blair Witch Project, steaming pile of overhyped shite

[liverbloke]

doctor who (yeh i know it's a kids show)

any tv series that involves 'super heroes' ffs grow up

this thread - well overrated 

my way by sinatra - the song is basically about a guy who did everything 'his' way not giving a shit about anybody else - well fuck de whoop de whoop if we all acted that way then we'd be a selfish bunch of twats

shameless the tv series

saving private ryan - schmulchy american jingoism shite

james bond movies - all of them pretty awful

yeh come on you lot i'm ready for yers - i'm carrying a bike chain and also got a sock with a snooker ball in and i've painted my face like braveheart and i've tattooed evol and etah on my knuckles, well that's how they read to me

[Ray K]

I don't understand even remotely the love for Scott Pilgrim vs the World. I don't get what's so fucking great about Ramona that's she's worth fighting over, and Scott himself is a blank canvas. And once you get through the first couple of fights it gets very repetitive.

I also think Michael Clayton is an actively bad film with zero believable characters. I started shouting at the screen when Tilda Swinton's character screwed herself over at the end: 'You're supposed to be a smart lawyer, how can you not tell that Clooney is recording this conversation?!'

[Hazell]

I don't understand even remotely the love for Scott Pilgrim vs the World. I don't get what's so fucking great about Ramona that's she's worth fighting over, and Scott himself is a blank canvas. And once you get through the first couple of fights it gets very repetitive.

I also think Michael Clayton is an actively bad film with zero believable characters. I started shouting at the screen when Tilda Swinton's character screwed herself over at the end: 'You're supposed to be a smart lawyer, how can you not tell that Clooney is recording this conversation?!'

Heresy! Michael Clayton is one of my favourite films, I absolutely love it.

Scott Pilgrim I can understand, but I like that film too, both comedically and for the various pop culture references, but even without those, at the very least it's still stylistically interesting.

[CraigDS]

A couple of people recommended Schitt’s Creek to us. Watched the first one and was underwhelmed to say the least. Apparently it’s a grower though and we shouldn’t judge it by episode 1.

Peaky Blinders was another. Lasted about 20 minutes.

Never seen more than about a minute of Game of Thrones, but I’m almost certain that would be another.

Not one to make quick judgements then? 

[Red_Mist]

Not one to make quick judgements then? 

20 mins was more than enough for Peaky B.

[RedSince86]

Outlander, my other half loves it and i think it's crap.

Another show she loves, The Crown, i don't get the fuss for it.

Being a huge Sci-Fan, i just could not get into Babylon 5, just everything about it looked like 1% of a Star Trek show budget.

[TepidT2O]

I got through about three episodes of Peaky Blinders that was enough for me.

It’s not just me then....

Did the first series... just never got enthusiastic about it ..

And it was the same feeling I had after 20 minutes.. it didn’t change

[Qston]

Same here, got bored with it.

Blair Witch Project, steaming pile of overhyped shite

And we have a bingo. Utterly shite. And people were scared by it. Weirdos.

Downton Abbey - oh do fuck off

[rob1966]

And we have a bingo. Utterly shite. And people were scared by it. Weirdos.

Downton Abbey - oh do fuck off

I just wanted Heather to die as soon as possible.

[Dr. Beaker]

The Green Mile.

[Zlen]

Breaking Bad.

To have that steaming pile of one 'deus ex machina' per episode compared to Sopranos or The Wire is an insult to sanity and reason.

[jillcwhomever]

I feel quite a few of the big American show are overrated. I tried Breaking Bad, The Wire and a couple of those super hero type shows. They did nothing for me. I liked Peaky Blinders though. 

[Dr. Beaker]

Bruce Springsteen.
All James Bond movies.
Queen.
Madonna.
Citizen Kane.
Phil Collins.

[Lastrador]

The Deer Hunter, couldn't stand it.

[Bread]

A Clockwork Orange. Or just Stanley Kubrick's entire filmography to be perfectly honest, but A Clockwork Orange in particular stands out.

I'm just gonna go ahead and say it; The Beatles. People have often cried blasphemy at me, particularly since I'm Scouse but fuck it, I think their music is shit.

[UntouchableLuis]

I'm not much of a film man really.

TV wise I'd go Mad Men and The Wire. I guess it's hard to say they're over-rated as it comes down to personal taste but I found Mad Men very slow and boring and I just couldn't get into The Wire at all - gave it 3 episodes but wasn't invested.

I love the Sopranos, thought Breaking Bad was mostly great and same with Game of Thrones (taking away the debacle of the final season)

[UntouchableLuis]

I think it’s my current mood of not really enjoying anything at the moment but recently forked out for Disney Plus and watched Soul with the kids and having heard lots of good things about it was expecting something really good and it just felt a bit ‘meh’. But I think that might just be me at the moment.

I thought it was poor as well. Totally convoluted plot, tried way too hard.

[CornerFlag]

Only Fools & Horses, Seinfeld, Downton Abbey, Glee, The Sopranos, The Wire, The Apprentice, most of CSI/NCIS-type shows...

The Beatles, the Libertines, the Strokes, Oasis, Radiohead, Suede, The Smiths, Janis Joplin, Bob Dylan, Adele, Pearl Jam, Joy Division, Pink Floyd...

Any of the Harry Potter/LOTR books (but I do enjoy the film adaptations), literally anything by Quentin Tarantino (self-indulgent wankfests), Lost In Translation, Star Wars (all of them), most Oscar winners actually, Love Actually, The Breakfast Club, Goodfellas...

I'm sure there's a ton more I'm forgetting.

[Gerry Attrick]

Every single Harry Potter film, all of the Lord of the Rings films and Game of Thrones.

[Schmidt]

Black Panther - I can understand it being popular given the lack of black superhero movies preceding it but critically I don't see how it's one of (the?) highest rated of them all.
Gogglebox - It's a struggle to even stay in the room when it's on, lots of obnoxious people exaggerating how obnoxious they are for the cameras and people apparently loving it.
2001: A Space Odyssey - Might've been great if you saw it when it first came out but boring as fuck now.

[joe buck]

The irishman- zzzzzzzzzzz

[TepidT2O]

The Deer Hunter, couldn't stand it.

I passed out in the wedding scene.. I came back round and it was still going ....  duuuullllll

[liverbloke]

I passed out in the wedding scene.. I came back round and it was still going ....  duuuullllll

you missed the best bit - you'll have to go back and watch it again 

yeh deffo harry fucking potter - shite

the kill bill movies - tarantino is a college student film maker obsessed with ultra violence
you only ever hear people say 'wow did you see how he cut that guy in 2' or 'the sexy chick with the sword' or 'the way he was cool then just shot him through the head' meh

bohemian rhapsody - really over-blown good vibrations rip off - it's okay but not the genius grandiose mini-operetta that it's lauded to be
the best bit is the rock bit at the end (and i like freddy and queen)