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andrewjackson · #26 Post by **andrewjackson** » Tue Sep 30, 2008 9:56 am

I agree with the English Patient/Out of Africa comments that others have made.

But my #1 is Terms of Endearment.

That's the only movie I ever fell asleep in the theater while watching. I later tried to watch it on video and the same thing happened. Twice.

My #2 most over-rated is Dune, the David Lynch screen version. "most over-rated" being a relative scale, of course. Even if people gave it a 1 out of 10 that's way, way, way, way too high. There is no number low enough to give it that would not be over-rating it.

TheCalvinator24 · #27 Post by **TheCalvinator24** » Tue Sep 30, 2008 10:10 am

Lost in Translation
American Beauty
Fight Club (although this is subject to change—I think I need to watch it again)
Taxi Driver (absolutely HATED it)
The Graduate

tanstaafl2 · #28 Post by **tanstaafl2** » Tue Sep 30, 2008 11:18 am

mntetn wrote:Others may disagree, but I think "No Country for Old Men" is the most overrated film of recent time. Whether of all time is another matter, since that's a long time.

Just watched "No Country" last night (and stayed up much too late doing so). It was OK for about the first 2/3's of the movie and then it just seemed to go completely off the rails. I am still confused.

I know the Mexican drug guys got the El Paso location from Carla Jeans mother but how do they find the motel? And we spend most of the movie following Brolin around and then the final shoot out happens off camera?!?!?!?! What gives?

Was Bardem working for one side of the drug deal gone bad and the other mexicans for the other side? Was Bardem in the motel room at the end when Woodrow went in there?

And who the heck were Woody and Red stapler guy supposed to be? Hell, he is even listed only as "Man who hires Wells".

I kind of understand the very end with the auto accident and not knowing if Bardem kills Carla Jean and Woodrow retiring (sorry, I always seem to see Jones as Woodrow now, especially in a western) but all the stuff before that pretty much ruined it for me. It was as if they needed to chop about 20 minutes out of the film and picked the worst possible places to do it!