In your opinion, what is the most overrated movie/movies?
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Won a thousand Academy Awards, too. 
Another thing Night To Remember had in its favor is that it was an hour & ten minutes shorter!
...to those that loved the movie was to remind them Rose killed Jack.
If she gets in the lifeboat like he asked her to, he would have been on the door. He spotted the floating door & she survived perched on it. So, if she's in the lifeboat, he's on the door & they both survive.
You wouldn't believe the illogical games the fans played to try to explain away that simple observation.
Orange. I didn't like it.
I detest them all and they're overrated, IMHO.
Like Elaine in Seinfeld, The English Patient really grinds my gears for some reason. 
direction.
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I have my kevlar undies on!
But it was a Civil War soap opera. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I agree with you. Citizen Kane------the only thing I even remember for it was ROSEBUD being the sled. It was show in my college Humanities class. The rest of those two movies were not memorable to me. Two out of three were forgettable, my friend. It's the first one with the story and the color in the second half made it memorable to me. Sorry for my ramble. Thank you Coventina for sharing.
They treat the whole thing as "just a dream" and I really hated that.
Plus, nothing in the movie matched what I had imagined in my head from reading the books.
Regarding "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory": It horrified me as a kid. Sure, I hate bratty kids, but I don't feel they deserve the death penalty! Geez!
Citizen Kane was a movie I also watched in college!
I get that it was a cautionary tale about the delusions that wealth brings.....but somehow it just didn't move me.
see it. Thanks , RandySF.
have been weak. . Thank you Permanut.
Perfect examples: Annie Hall and Manhattan.
Example:
Hard to Be a God (2013)
Critical response
Reception in the Russian media was mixed. While some critics praised German's vision, others, especially in sci-fi themed media, were critical of his handling of source material.
However, Hard to Be a God received acclaim from English-language critics. Review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes reports that 95% of critics gave the film a positive review, based on 42 reviews with an average rating of 9/10. The site's consensus reads: "A sci-fi epic with palpable connections to the present, Hard to Be a God caps director Aleksei German's brilliant filmography with a final masterpiece". Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, reports the film has a score of 93 based on 13 reviews.
Peter Bradshaw in The Guardian newspaper gave it five out of five, calling it: "awe-inspiring in its own monumentally mad way" and "beautiful, brilliant and bizarre". Ignatiy Vishnevetsky of The A.V. Club likened it to Orson Welles' Chimes at Midnight, naming German as "probably the most important Russian filmmaker to remain more or less completely unknown in the United States." He praised the "grotesque and deranged" medieval sci-fi film as "first and foremost a vision of human misery, brutality, and ignorance." The location manager and sometimes film blogger Shane Scott-Travis included the film in his list "25 most beautiful films of the 21st century" (ranking it the 17th) in the website of film bloggers Taste of Cinema.
Hard to Be a God (Aleksei German)
https://www.sensesofcinema.com/2017/soviet-cinema/hard-to-be-a-god/
Hope in Despair, and Beauty in Revulsion: Trudno byt bogom (Aleksei German, 2013)
Labeled as one of the biggest perfectionists among his peers, Russian film director Aleksei Yuryevich German is one of the most significant and influential figures in the history of the Soviet cinema of the late 20th century. Uncompromising and innovative throughout his career, German, in his philosophically rigorous works, kept testing the potentialities of film aesthetics to grapple with the conundrums of the collective psyche, vanishing memories, and ethical dilemmas and paradoxes of the totalitarian regime. Due not only to the multiple obstacles created by Soviet censorship, but also to his now legendary slow and laborious work methods, the Russian director created only five thematically and aesthetically distinctive films. Trudno byt bogom (Hard to Be a God, 2013) can be regarded as his magnum opus.
German first began thinking about an adaptation of the well-known science-fiction novel under the same title written by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky even prior to his directorial debut with Proverka na Dorogakh (Trial on the Road, 1968). Having started to develop a script (in consultation with Boris Strugatsky) in the late 1960s, he had to abandon the project because of the toughened censorship apparatus in the aftermath of the deteriorating political situation after Russia’s invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. Soviet censors considered the project politically inappropriate. It took two decades, before Hard to be a God went into production again, only to be interrupted once more by the major political changes marked by the collapse of the Communist system and democratisation of Russia as well as German’s hesitations after he learned of a filmic adaptation of the Strugatsky brothers’ novel being undertaken by another filmmaker, Peter Fleischmann. German returned to the project in 2000 and worked on the film till the end of his life. Sadly, the director passed away in 2013, before completing the final stages of sound editing. It was then that German’s family members—his widow and creative partner Svetlana Karmalita as well as his son, film director Aleksei German Jr.—finalised the post-production process posthumously.
A plot of Hard to be a God appears to be rather distinct from German’s previous films. Whereas all his earlier films were set in Soviet Russia, the action of Hard to be a God takes place in Arkanar, an imaginary Earth-like planet whose inhabitants recall terrestrials before they had advanced to the Renaissance era. The principle character is a historian, played here by Russian comedian and popular TV host Leonid Yarmolnik, one of a group of people sent from the future planet Earth for an undercover operation to inspect the development of Arkanar’s medieval society. He disguises his earthly origins by acquiring an alien identity: Don Rumata, “an illegitimate son of Goran, a local pagan god who was born from the god’s mouth.”.
In order to succeed, the visitors must assimilate with the local “barbarians”, and thus, they are strictly prohibited from using their advanced skills and superior knowledge as this might alter the natural development of the planet’s history. The present of Arkanar is determined by a rising authoritarian regime, referred to as “the Greys” and ruled by Don Reba, who leads a ruthless campaign against educated people. Eventually, enraged by the Greys’ killing of his lover Ari, Rumata breaks the rules of conduct and launches a pitiless massacre, only to find out that after the Greys have been defeated, “the Blacks”, an even more oppressive and belligerent religious group, take power.
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I know that's a personal failing on my part!
I'm just no good when it comes to that.
I tried to watch Andrei Rublev once, and I can say I know it's a great film, but I couldn't finish it.
I'm just such a wimp.
I have seen the Odessa Steps sequence, in the same class I saw Citizen Kane, actually!
I will have to sit down and watch the entire film someday.
I know it's a masterpiece, and I might be able to handle it....
on the steps and land. 
have chosen another actor. Thanks, RandySF.