Overpraised Movies

[sin2beta]

i'm gonna quickly address those other movies i talk about

blair witch project (82% on rt): nothing happens in this movie, it 79 minutes of walking around,vary little character development and occasionally something scares cast but not audience because it doesn't show the scares

back to the future (97% on rt):its not a bad film but its not this end all be all of film ,its a silly family film with time travel plot, it has a few quotable lines and one or two memorable characters and most of the praise that this movie gets come from rose colored glasses

dark knight rises (87% on rt): i agree with most of what this guy says, so watch this video

For Back to the Future, I view it as one of my favorite movies, but not because it is a particularly good movie. It is good. But more than that, it embodies an entire genre of movies that existed only in the 80s. Seriously, we just don't get those movies any more (Super 8 was pretty close in that it was a love letter to these movies).

but other then what you said, what else dose it do, how dose it elevate the family & time travel films be on what it was at the time?

I don't think it does do much of anything else. It is just charming and quintessentially 80s. I do however think it covers the enjoyable by adults and kids. This helps in the nostalgia as it is not horrible when rewatched.

I always put Back to the Future in the same category as Karate Kid, Ferris Beuller, and such. There are better movies out there. For instance, Karate Kid is essentially Rocky for kids. Rocky is the better movie. But Karate Kid captures a viewer as both a kid and doesn't really disappoint as an adult. This kind of helps put it on a pedestal.

To add to my overrated movies list. I would put the Avengers down. It was a good movie. But hardly great. Personally, I think Cabin in the Woods was the better Joss Whedon movie last summer.

[burningdoom]

The Back to the Future movies are some of the greatest films ever made. And there's a lot more going on there than "just a family movie". Great sci-fi story that does a great job of connecting all the time-travel dots. Fantastic cast and acting in the film by some of the greatest of that era. Mind-blowing special effects for the time. And just enough humor injected into the action-story to keep EVERYONE interested.

[htimreimer]

The Back to the Future movies are some of the greatest films ever made. And there's a lot more going on there than "just a family movie". Great sci-fi story that does a great job of connecting all the time-travel dots. Fantastic cast and acting in the film by some of the greatest of that era. Mind-blowing special effects for the time. And just enough humor injected into the action-story to keep EVERYONE interested.

i can say that towards lot of other films but dose that make those other films deservant of the some amount of insane praise that this movie gets?

[burningdoom]

The Back to the Future movies are some of the greatest films ever made. And there's a lot more going on there than "just a family movie". Great sci-fi story that does a great job of connecting all the time-travel dots. Fantastic cast and acting in the film by some of the greatest of that era. Mind-blowing special effects for the time. And just enough humor injected into the action-story to keep EVERYONE interested.

i can say that towards lot of other films but dose that make those other films deservant of the some amount of insane praise that this movie gets?

Really? That involve time-travel?

[theflea]

The movies I think are way to overpraised are these CGI heavy movies that make billions of dollars.
These films I like to call CGI Porn.

Transformers (especially 2 & 3)
X-Men Last Stand
Avatar
Spider-Man 1 & 3
Battleship
Armageddon
Independence Day
Star Wars Episode's 1-3
Total Recall (remake)
Fast and Furious movies
GI Joe
Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull
Clash of the Titans (1 & 2)
Twilight movies

to name a few... I know people who LOVE these movies and defend these as great films. Sure some can be watched if you leave your brain at the door and think of them as your watching a silly cartoon and they are not supposed to make sense. 
 
Then there's the films that people love to death and I could never get into these films, always thought they where overrated movies. But most people include these as a great classic movie. 

The Lost Boys
Top Gun 
Pretty Woman
Dirty Dancing

I'm sure I could go on, oh and The Back to the Future Films are one of the best fun films ever made. While yes there's a few flaws in it's sequels but I can watch these over and over and still love them. Are they "family friendly" for the most part yes. But does a movie have to be not family friendly to be good? It's story is so well thought out especially the first one, the sequels you can punch a few holes into if you wanna get nit-picky. It's the characters are what really sell these movies.
And speaking of time travel, I'll watch Back to the Future 1-3 any day over that overrated Looper.

Nuff said.

[htimreimer]

most of my anger for the back to the future films comes from insane people calling it an all time classic, i'm fine with people liking the film because the movie is good but to say this bttf is an all time classic is giving it more credit than it deserves, lets move on

monster vs aliens (72% on rt) i usually stay way from modern day dreamworks animation for one reason, pop culture references, i hate pop culture references in movies because its lazy comedy and pretty much every movie they have released pass 2005/06 has relied on pop culture references when they can come up with a good joke and this is becoming a problem with animated comedys in general (except for pixar for the most part), look at the trailer and other then screaming and food puns, how much comedy is here,

[scott]

I don't know how you can say Back to the Future isn't and all-time classic.

Hell, I can't put it in the DVD player without watching them in order. That's how good they are. I can honestly say that I can't do that with any other trilogy. They flow together nearly seamlessly, there are tons of minor touches that you only catch after multiple viewings. And the whole return to the Enchantment Under the Sea Dance section in Back to the Future II, the way everything comes together in that section of the movie is amazing.

[foxhack]

I had never realized just how... synced up the movies were. Wow.

[jobocan]

I don't know how you can say Back to the Future isn't and all-time classic.

This. BttF is one of the greatest trilogies ever. It has everything. It's funny, there's exciting action scenes, the writing is great, there's some sci-fi stuff... It's all very well done, and I'd even say timeless.

Despite them never planning to make sequels in the first place, they put a lot work into the timeline stuff between the movies and there's lots of great little details everywhere, and revisiting scenes from the first one was really imaginative and quite well done (as demonstrated by the video Scott posted).

[soera]

The Saw movies really sync up well together too. Just ask Darko.

[htimreimer]

dose anyone remember that sam raimi movie drag me to hell, that movie was stupid and had an awful ending

[insektmute]

I see people occasionally mention that Drag Me to Hell is cheesy or stupid... but it's Sam Raimi. Everything he does is pretty tongue-in-cheek, and that's part of the appeal.

[htimreimer]

I see people occasionally mention that Drag Me to Hell is cheesy or stupid... but it's Sam Raimi. Everything he does is pretty tongue-in-cheek, and that's part of the appeal.

the problem is that the movie took it self a bit too serious for the tongue-in-cheek moments like the nosebleed scene to work

[insektmute]

I dunno about that. Even Evil Dead II and Army of Darkness have that kind of ping-ponging between seriousness ("the book awoke something... dark in the woods") and slapstick stupidity. I think those serious moments are why the comedic elements work - it legitimizes them instead of turning the entire thing into an Adam Sandler movie.