My pick: The Silence of the Lambs
Literally never got the hype, it’s an aggressively mid movie. Not scary. No deeper message. Just a snoozefest of a movie.
Bonus Pick: The Godfather
Although I did like the movie, I didn’t think it was top tier like its commonly placed. There’s a ton of pro-AmeriKKKan propaganda and undertones in it as well.
Bonus bonus pick: The Matrix
I can see why people enjoyed it, the themes are interesting first time around. I just found the action scenes and Keanu Reeves character incredibly cringy. Kind of ruined it for me.
Alright Hexbear what are the most overrated movies in your opinion? Feel free to call me an uncultured pleb in the comments too.
the deer hunter. ultimate lib movie about how we waged the vietnam war but we feel bad about it and didn’t they deserve it just a little bit? really gross.
I like young christopher walken’s performance quite a bit but it also ends on a scene where all the characters gather round a table and sing ‘god bless america’
yuck
It also does the thing where it depicts crimes done by the US as being done by the US’s enemies. The NVA did not slaughter entire villages (including children) and definitely not just because. There were extrajudicial mass killings of reactionaries, spies, and collaborators, but never My Lai type shit the US and its allies were doing.
yes!!! it’s real atrocity propaganda bullshit
That’s interesting bc I always saw this movie as a depiction of how the US imperialist war machine destroyed young men and American communities. I thought the singing scene was bitterly ironic. Been a long time since I saw it now but I recall it as an anti war movie
I think your read on it was right…which is part of why the movie makes me so mad. It does put a lot of effort to depict how fighting in Vietnam destroyed these men, but it also validates the supposed reasons americans were there in the first place by depicting the viet cong as murdering civilians for actually no reason at all. The obsession with death instilled in these men throughout the movie are shown to originate from the vietnamese(seen through the famous russian roulette scenes)…not the American military
The singing scene has a quality of
dissent after everything that came before it imo
Hm, very interesting. I saw it when I was much younger so maybe I was less critical of the VC depiction than I would be now.
After reading your comment I found this extremely in-depth article about the making of the film and the controversies which surrounded it and a lot of your criticisms seem to have been made around its release, it was a good read:
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2008/03/warmovies200803