Overrated:
Anything Tarantino except Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs. I like his colorful style of moviemaking, but as
@vellavu mentioned, very little of the dialogue contributes to anything and many of the scenes don't make sense. In Kill Bill we spend at least five minutes on a shot of the Bride's
feet and in Part 2, after what feels like an hour long conversation with Bill, we don't even get the badass fight we were promised -- rather, she gives him the Five Point Exploding Heart technique or whatever it was called, he takes six steps, drops the c-bomb, and
dies.
Kubrick's 2001 and Full Metal Jacket. 2001 is a bunch of boring hogwash; not sure why this is considered such a cinematic landmark by anyone except special effects enthusiasts. FMJ's first half is good, but after R. Lee Ermey and Vincent D'Onofrio are killed off the film loses its initial momentum. Even Adam Baldwin can't liven things up.
Not too big a fan of the original Alien, either. Too slow and not scary. Aliens, on the other hand, is much
much better.
The 1978 Dawn of the Dead. I honestly liked the 2004 version more (I hated the running zombies, but I was willing to overlook that because the story was actually interesting). In Romero's film, the zombies are portrayed almost comically; I burst into laughter during that early sequence where Peter and Roger are running through the mall collecting items and the corny music is playing on the loudspeakers... Only part I liked were the biker gang. Night of the Living Dead was better, despite the cheesier-looking effects, and because the zombies were actually scary.
The Dark Knight Rises: Too slow and unmoving. Couldn't take Bane that seriously, either.
Birdman: Slow, stilted, tonally dim... the cast did a good job, and props to the director and cinematographer, but I never got caught up in the story and totally missed the overall point of it.
Gravity: An hour and a half of Sandra Bullock floating through space. Oh, and George Clooney shows up, too.
Fargo: Why this one is considered 'an American classic' absolutely blows my mind. I didn't find it funny at all, and the murder story was too cut and paste for me to take it seriously. Frances McDormand is a good actress, but her character was extremely one-dimensional; the only characters I enjoyed most were the pair of crooks played by Steve Buscemi and Peter Stormare.
Animal House: Not as funny as it's purported to be.
Hollywoodland: Good cast, not much else.
The Untouchables: Same as above. Andy Garcia and Robert De Niro are wasted beyond belief. Sean Connery steals the show.
