I'm well past the generation that ought to be into it, and it's one of my favourite movies of all time. (I'm guessing we're around the same age, if John Hughes.) I don't know if I can explain its appeal beyond it being one of the few mainstream movies I've ever seen where people choose the collective good over individualist values. :) And also, in general, I like films of that era.
Conversely, I don't know how anyone likes 99.9% of the comedy movies that come out these days. The Hangover exemplifies everything that is bad about the contemporary zeitgeist. People kept telling me it was hilarious so I watched the first one and I couldn't imagine anyone who wasn't a 10-year-old boy thinking it was funny.
I'm a tad younger than the John Hughes Era (I was in Kindergarden when Breakfast Club (my fave) came out). But I had a brother who was a Senior in Highschool and therefore, I hung around and idolized his friends, music, films, and became an "80s baby". That's what they called me when it was nearing the Millennium, I was a teenager and clubbing on New Wave, Synth-Pop or '80s' night. Older people which were my friend but always a decade older used to say "You are 18 and know this music and these bands better than we do and we grew up to it.... shouldn't you be into Alanis Morrissette, Greenday, Nirvana, Nine Inch Nails and other very now/90s stuff
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my two big "why?????2 films have to be Gladiator and Avatar. I don't consider myself a film snob or anything as i love films of pretty much any genre and budget but two, I just cannot see what the big deal was about them.
Just thought of two more that I think are way overrated: Independence Day -zzzzzzzzzzzzzz Shawshank Redemption (runs and hides!)
EDITED cuz I wrote this when half awake and the typos crawled through every sentence...cinematixyzJune 5 2013, 09:38:01 UTC
You should have told us that so we coulda put them in the post. I feel ya about Independence Day but personally love Shawshank...I guess because though not normally a Stephan King fan, I ADORED three of the four novellas in the book 'Different Seasons' (which looking back on it, my father bought for me which is weird on many levels). It had Shawshank (titled "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption", if memory serves), "The Body" (turned into 'Stand by me'), and "Apt Pupil" which was AMAZING but the movie wasn't....it did not hold up to the story at all..the story was creepy, ghoulish, and horrid...the film apple-pied some sections...most people don't even know a film version of "Apt Pupil" exists...I do because like with 'Redemption', I loved the novella and had to go see it when it came out..it was outta theaters like a week or two later. The fourth story in the book I didn't like so I don't recall it's name even
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Re: EDITED cuz I wrote this when half awake and the typos crawled through every sentence...vampyresheepJune 5 2013, 21:55:05 UTC
I guess I missed your post asking for suggestions of over-rated films - not been on here a great deal recently, with holidays and such!
I know I am in the minority regarding Shawshank Redemption. When i finally got to see it, after so much praise, I was just *shrug*. Mainly the length of the film - how a short story could end up being over two hours long on film! And overall, its just a little too feelgood for my liking, with the prison not feeling as harsh as it should be from the description. I actually quite like the novella, as I used to be a big Stephen King fan, so maybe its just that the film depiction is not the same as how I'd visualised it in my head.
I pictured something similar in my head so I wasn't disappointed. But you know how most people say "The book is better than the movie". I find this mostly true EXCEPT in the case of Novellas
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OTOH, I bet that in about 20 more years, people will look at the John Hughes films and wonder what the hell we were all smoking.
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Conversely, I don't know how anyone likes 99.9% of the comedy movies that come out these days. The Hangover exemplifies everything that is bad about the contemporary zeitgeist. People kept telling me it was hilarious so I watched the first one and I couldn't imagine anyone who wasn't a 10-year-old boy thinking it was funny.
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I don't consider myself a film snob or anything as i love films of pretty much any genre and budget but two, I just cannot see what the big deal was about them.
Just thought of two more that I think are way overrated:
Independence Day -zzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Shawshank Redemption (runs and hides!)
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I know I am in the minority regarding Shawshank Redemption. When i finally got to see it, after so much praise, I was just *shrug*. Mainly the length of the film - how a short story could end up being over two hours long on film!
And overall, its just a little too feelgood for my liking, with the prison not feeling as harsh as it should be from the description. I actually quite like the novella, as I used to be a big Stephen King fan, so maybe its just that the film depiction is not the same as how I'd visualised it in my head.
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