Overrated movies

People who downgrade the Godfather are engaging in Teenybopper behavior

 

My lack of interest in the Godfather movies has zero to do with 'Tennybopper behavior' and just complete and total lack of interest in the genre.


TFK

 

This short attention span younger generation that is growing up now find it incredibly boring. 20 years from now only old timers will consider it great. Just like 'Gone With The Wind' for decades was considered THE GOAT and now is merely top 50.

 

Gone WIth The Wind is not that great of a movie. It was good for it's time but it has not aged well, unlike the Godfather.

 

Taxi Driver omg is it ever overrated...also lost in translation aka lost in aimless boredom...

 

Anybody who thinks Taxi Driver is overrated needs to check into an asylum.

 

It's a bore homey ...from my recollection I'd give it 4/10

 

You so crazy.

 

Taxi Driver is phenomenal

 

crazy like the wind...wind with amazing taste in movies just to be clear

 

phenomenal it's a movie about a loner pedophile following around some little whore..that's it..no pay off either..they don't even fuck

 

It's an absolute classic

He's not a pedophile, either

 

Only............. it's not.

 

I would have been to young to see Taxi Driver when it first came out. I suspect if i was of age i would have really thought it was excellent.

Saw it many years ago but didn't really thing it anything crazy special. I don't know if the hype colored my perception or expectations though. The "are you talking to me scene" truely is a classic imo.

 

It's about 5 times greater than Shawshank

 

What this hoe sai...d...

but then again I didn't see The Godfather I and II till sometime in the 90's and I still think it's the greatest films ever made...

 

"Me? ... I'm hip..."

"Buddy, you don't look hip"

 

Taxi Driver is the most underwhelming "classic" I've ever seen. Years ago, I vowed to watch a few classics that I hadn't previously seen; Dog Day, Chinatown, And Justice For All, and Taxi Driver. I was impressed by all of them, except for fuckin Taxi Driver. Overrated as FUCK movie!

 

you tell em X I'm driving so can't elaborate

 

"... And Justice For All" is not a classic film by any stretch of the imagination... It's not in the discussion... It is a 3 star type of film... Entertaining, decent, nothing more

"Taxi Driver" is an amazing film... A deep film...

 

It's a mediocre movie that would have been a POS if not Deniro being in his prime.

 

uh, no

It is a stunning film with great direction and a great story based on Dostoyevsky

It was chosen for preservation by the Library Of Congress for it's artistic and cultural significance and was named on the AFI's 100 Greatest Films list ... so this is hardly a fringe opinion on my part

 

Whatever clever people mean when they call something a 'perfectly realized piece of work' I'm pretty sure it applies to Taxi Driver.

 

This right hurrrr^

 

Notes From The Underground? I've been meaning to read that.

 

The status of this movie outstrips its artistic value.


The only two good acting performances are Duval and Cazale and the plot has two many holes in it, that, if it were any other movie, people would be slicing through it with a machete...

A masterpiece-work-of-art?
Not likely.

The same people who rave about The Godfather also rave about The Sopranos (another above-average series but a classic example of people buying into something because the media/culture effect has told them 'this is the way it is')

 

It's a pretty heavy read... depressing... great literature, but depressing... Russian

 

what drivel

 

There're some pure mad dimebars talking heavy PISH in this thread, so there is