snauty on 14/1/2009 at 17:35
Quote Posted by Jason Moyer
Totally random overrated filth - constant mis-use of the word emo to refer to top-40 glam-goth shit. I can't be the only person on the planet wondering how the hell emo went from being associated with Rites of Spring and the various Ian McKaye bands to faggy goth-pop and bad new wave haircuts.
:D
damn right. emo's a 'do nowadays.
Matthew on 16/1/2009 at 17:19
Quote Posted by Tocky
Aguilera has a fantastic voice and knows jack all shit what to do with it.
I fully agree with this.
vurt on 17/1/2009 at 21:03
Quote Posted by Harvester
Terry Gilliam's Brazil. I don't know if I'd call it overrated, I'd say that I just don't understand what's brilliant, funny or moving about it.
I've tried watching Brazil at least a few times and i must agree, i usually love movies with these kind of themes, but i really can't find anything to like here.
Memento, Spiderman and the Harry Potter movies are good examples of really overrated movies imo.
Radiohead. "Alternativte" elevator music, it's so bland i want to throw up.
Nicker on 17/1/2009 at 21:30
Things that are over-hyped get sort of set up for failure. In an anthology of Sci-Fi stories I read, one was singled out as being written by the next Shakespeare (whom some might say is already overrated). If the editor had avoided such hyperbole I might have simply enjoyed the story. Instead of being blown away I was hugely dissappointed - unfair to the author.
On the other hand, a case fully deserving of contempt was the movie "The Host" which was lauded as a revoultion in horror and the cream of Korean film making. The preview (as previews are want to do (talk about overrating)) made it look like a taut, heart pounder. More like a bunch of first year film students were mistakenly given someone else's budget to make a film they wrote on the set.
I actually ended up fast forwarding through the grueling "human interest" bits, hoping that the merely passable (but inexplicable) monster would devour the entire, annoying family (and the producers). Not refreshing, not moving, not funny, not terrifying. Not much of a movie. Genius ratings at Rotten Tomatoes and MetaCritic though.
Fringe on 17/1/2009 at 21:30
Would mentioning Harry Potter in general just be a bit too twee for this thread?
I've heard that the later books get better, but why should I feel compelled to go on when the first book is just an amalgamation of every Marty-Stuism the Internet's ever seen?
Yes, yes, kid--I'm sure that you're a superstar, talented at sports you've never tried, and world famous before you ever do anything, but just need to be whisked away to a magic secret wizard academy - where everybody but the cardboard villains fawn over you - before you can prove it.
Stitch on 17/1/2009 at 21:59
While I'd argue the Harry Potter series comes into its own with books two and especially three, the last couple volumes are so ridiculously bad I'd suggest just skipping it all entirely and reading something else.
june gloom on 17/1/2009 at 23:04
Dan Brown. If someone tells you that a Dan Brown novel is the best book they ever read they're probably not lying.
Stitch on 17/1/2009 at 23:27
hahaha oh god yes
Back us up on this one Scots
N'Al on 17/1/2009 at 23:31
This one doesn't really require backup though, does it?
I mean, it's a given.
Tocky on 18/1/2009 at 04:20
I just watched "The Outlaw Josey Wales". Again. Why in hell doesn't anybody write a western or, better yet, a story of the middle ages along the lines of this is how harsh shit was and yet some people kept thier values close to the vest and survived to pass it on because bygod they were heroes and the only reason we aren't eating each other and throwing excrement at each other like monkeys right now is because they gave a damn.
I sometimes feel the only way I'm going to read shit that goes to the heart of the matter is to write it myself. Damn near everything is overrated lately and I'm not sure who it is but somebody is due an ass kicking.
