Overrated/Underrated Geek Media

[Deset Gled]

I guess I'm the odd one out here who really liked The Departed. Lots of good acting all around, good script. The cinematography wasn't groundbreaking in any way, but it was solid.

It may be worth noting that I normally don't care much for gangster or mafia type films. I found little enjoyment in Goodfellas, Casino, Scarface, etc. I can appreciate that they're good movies, I just don't like them. The Departed, The Outfit, and early Guy Richie stuff are a few of the outliers I enjoy.

 

[payn]

It’s a good movie but far from the best of that year or Scorsese’s career. But AMPAS likes to recognize icons that have been overlooked, so it was a good excuse to get Marty his Oscar. Not to mention all the heavy hitters in the cast out there lobbying for it.

Kinda like Dicaprio for The Revenant, a fair to good movie in which he excelled at chewing the scenery.

I have a good The Revenant story. I went to see it with my ex-wife and we chose a weeknight screening. It was winter in MInnesota so pretty cold like the movie. The theater dialed down the thermostat and it was freaking freezing in there. People started putting on coats inside!

As a building automation guy if I had to hazard a guess the auto schedule system was set to go cold at night but too dumb to account for daylight savings so the heat set point was dropping too early. Staff likely had no way to adjust it.

Anyways it ended up being a rather interactive experience feeling the cold while watching the film.

 

[Golden age Superhero]

Overrated: Jim Morrison and the Doors. Just not that great a performer. All of his songs sound the same to me.

 

[TiQuinn]

Overrated: Jim Morrison and the Doors. Just not that great a performer. All of his songs sound the same to me.

I can see that one. It's not that I dislike their work, but I remember listening to their compilation album years ago, and there isn't a lot of variety there.

 

[Ryujin]

Overrated: Jim Morrison and the Doors. Just not that great a performer. All of his songs sound the same to me.

That's something a lot of music is prone to. It all sounds the same, when taken as a whole, but was very different from what almost everyone was doing at the time. The same thing applies to movies and TV shows; what was incredibly progressive, at the time, seems backward now.

 

[Argyle King]

Overrated: anime... pretty much all of it, with a few notable exceptions. I'm not even convinced that the people who like some if actually do; I think they're just expected to like it to be part of the in-crowd.

Underrated: The Barbie Movie
A lot of the narrative surrounding critique of the movie focused on gender stuff and arguments over what exactly counts as "woke." While it was still deemed a good (and very successful movie,) I think there are a lot of great things about the movie (from nuanced writing about complex issues to strong narrative structure to filmography) that don't get enough credit. It's a solid film that's even better than most people realize.

 

[Clint_L]

Overrated: Jim Morrison and the Doors. Just not that great a performer. All of his songs sound the same to me.

Can't really argue, and I like The Doors. Most of Morrison's lyrics are high school poetry level. He's still iconic - what a frontman!

 

[Clint_L]

Overrated: anime... pretty much all of it, with a few notable exceptions. I'm not even convinced that the people who like some if actually do; I think they're just expected to like it to be part of the in-crowd.

This is hard to take seriously. First, it makes me doubt that you actually know much anime - if you are familiar with even just Miyazaki's work and dismiss it out of hand, then...yeah. Everyone's entitled to their opinion, I guess.

Secondly, doubting the sincerity of anime's fans and essentially calling them poseurs is deeply unfair, and to me reads like "I don't understand this thing so the people who say they do must be lying." Not cool, in any genre.

I don't get opera. But that doesn't make its fans liars. Dismissing an entire genre...yeesh.

Underrated: The Barbie Movie
A lot of the narrative surrounding critique of the movie focused on gender stuff and arguments over what exactly counts as "woke." While it was still deemed a good (and very successful movie,) I think there are a lot of great things about the movie (from nuanced writing about complex issues to strong narrative structure to filmography) that don't get enough credit. It's a solid film that's even better than most people realize.

I think it's a great film (Gerwig only makes great films) that, for me, was slightly undone by the America Ferrara speech, which I found too on the nose and rehearsed (i.e. people don't really talk like that, at least not impromptu), but is the highlight of the movie for a whole lot of other folks. So what do I know? That's about my only mild criticism of the entire movie, anyway. I wouldn't call it underrated because it is incredibly acclaimed, both popularly and critically.

Her best film is Lady Bird but you can't really call a film that sits at 99% on RT underrated. I teach it in my Year 1 classes - it pairs really well with the novel The Great Gatsby.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

The Departed, The Outfit, and early Guy Richie stuff are a few of the outliers I enjoy.

Guy Ritchie and his cocaine dealer are one of my favorite directors. I love the energy and the scuzzy criminals bouncing off each other. The Netflix Gentlemen series was a recent delight.

 

[Argyle King]

This is hard to take seriously. First, it makes me doubt that you actually know much anime - if you are familiar with even just Miyazaki's work and dismiss it out of hand, then...yeah. Everyone's entitled to their opinion, I guess.

Secondly, doubting the sincerity of anime's fans and essentially calling them poseurs is deeply unfair, and to me reads like "I don't understand this thing so the people who say they do much be lying." Not cool, in any genre.

I don't get opera. But that doesn't make its fans liars. Dismissing an entire genre...yeesh.
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Looking at my last post, I didn't realize that autocorrect had butchered some of it.

There are some anime shows that I'm not convinced people actually like, but I don't feel that applies to all of them.

However, generally speaking, my own subjective tastes have rarely found anime enjoyable. There have been a rare few that I've enjoyed. Overall, I just don't get it. Mostly, that's due to some of the common anime tropes overlapping with things that tend to be storytelling pet peeves of mine.

I think it's a great film (Gerwig only makes great films) that, for me, was slightly undone by the America Ferrara speech, which I found too on the nose and rehearsed (i.e. people don't really talk like that, at least not impromptu), but is the highlight of the movie for a whole lot of other folks. so what do I know. That's about my only mild criticism of the entire movie, anyway. I wouldn't call it underrated because it is incredibly acclaimed, both popularly and critically.

Her best film is Lady Bird but you can't really call a film that sits at 99% on RT underrated. I teach it in my Year 1 classes - it pairs really well with the novel The Great Gatsby.

I feel it's underrated in the sense that so much focus was put on one aspect of the film that so many other good things about it were largely ignored.