Houston's Most Overrated Movies.

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

Houston is 'bout stuck on stupid.

Why is it that the only black guy that can review movies worth a damn is Odell?

Between Houstonboi and Armond White, they are setting black opinion on film back at least 100 years.

I deplore you to do better for our race.

 

[nflman2033]

"Paranormal Activity 2 broke the record for biggest midnight gross for an R-rated movie with $6.3 million beating previous Watchmen with $4.6 million and broke the record for biggest opening for a horror movie of all time."


seriously?

Yeah, but Katie is so fucking hot I don't give a shit I'll watch 3 too.

 

[nflman2033]

Thanks for your patience guys My first movie may cause a stir(mainly a groan from nflman)

Rear Window



Accolades:

IMDB Top 250 : 22
AFI's 100 Movies: 42
Nukleopatra's favorite movies #1 (srs?)
A Tasty Burger's favorite movies #51
Dell's Good, Bad & Ugly Movie Reviews: 10/10

Yikes!


spoilers.......



Among his most popular films, to me this is the odd one out for Mr. Hitchcock.
As far as directing goes, he's known for working around restrictions and getting his point across with the odds against him. Seems like with this one though, he was a little lazy. Just threw in a heat wave to cover things. It can explain the people keeping their windows open, but not how oblivious these characters were, and how unrealistic it all was. If Stewart is gonna blatantly spy on people with his huge window wide open, could he at least turn off the lights at night time?

For being a Hitchcock film, this movie was severely lacking in suspense. I think one of the main reasons is because of how easy Stewart has it in this film. He can peak into these peoples apartments with too much ease. Also it's kind of ruined by the fact that he's doing it all day long, I wish there was more of a challenge for him. For example if there was only a small window of time every day that he could do this. Or if he had to take extra steps to be more secretive about it. It's hard to feel any suspense when the main character is relaxing on cruise control....literally with his feet up.


What puzzles me most is how people can consider this a top tier film of his, some even saying it's his best. When you look at movies like Pyscho and Vertigo, they're layered with multiples themes, plot twist, and complex characters. And not just those two, I'd also include North by Northwest, Notorious(my personal favorite) and Dial M for Murder even. Rear Window is plain compared to these films. Characters come on screen, and they leave. Nothing really changes or stands out, and there's not too much under the surface.
Before you start to say that I missed key points of this film, trust me I didn't. For example the fact that the people he was spying on mirrored what him and his girlfriend were going through. Makes sense, it's just not that entertaining.


Redeemable factor: Grace Kelly. On top of her game in this, completely saves the movie.

No argument from me, I don't even think rear window cracks my top 10 Hitchcock films, in fact I know it doesn't.

 

[Houston]

Between Houstonboi and Armond White, they are setting black opinion on film back at least 100 years.

I deplore you to do better for our race.

You're setting the MMA crew back a few months, prior to the March Madness era.


You almost had a point earlier until you mentioned Fight Club which was one of the first movies brought up in the thread.

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

You're setting the MMA crew back a few months, prior to the March Madness era.


You almost had a point earlier until you mentioned Fight Club which was one of the first movies brought up in the thread.

And what continued post Fight Club, was 5 pages of malarkey and blatant trolling.

And then we see Rear Window?

F-.

 

[FirstTimer]

Animal House
Caddyshack

The Dark Knight

:smh:

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

Houston is 'bout stuck on stupid.

Why is it that the only black guy that can review movies worth a damn is Odell?

Between Houstonboi and Armond White, they are setting black opinion on film back at least 100 years.

I deplore you to do better for our race.

Larry is a charcoal briquette?

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

Larry is a charcoal briquette?

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

M'fer waits 13 pages to respond to his own topic, and comes at us with some TCM bullshit.

Next up, some silent movie from the vaudville era that jeffx saw on his first date.

 

[MvP]

M'fer waits 13 pages to respond to his own topic, and comes at us with some TCM bullshit.

Next up, some silent movie from the vaudville era that jeffx saw on his first date.

This is Houston we're talking about. His favorite musical artist is Nick Drake for christ's sake.

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

M'fer waits 13 pages to respond to his own topic, and comes at us with some TCM bullshit.

Next up, some silent movie from the vaudville era that jeffx saw on his first date.

Next up for Houston...

 

[Houston]

So much hate, so uncalled for



Edit-lol at MVP.

 

[Rivers17ncsu]

Yeah, but Katie is so fucking hot I don't give a shit I'll watch 3 too.

Her hottness can even make up for the atrociousness those movies are. Though everyone seems to think #3 is the best one of the bunch, which isn't hard to do. I'll probably just watch it for fucks sake since I've already wasted three hours on the first two.

 

[RosettaStoned]

Zoolander is the same as Talladega Nights....fucking retarded, it is way better than Talladega Nights though. And every movie posted I think is overrated, not looking for shock value whatsoever.

Jesus you're the worst. Just stop posting.

 

[Rivers17ncsu]

Jesus you're the worst. Just stop posting.

:mayweather:

 

[Houston]

M'fer waits 13 pages to respond to his own topic, and comes at us with some TCM bullshit.

TCM? :nope: I watched Rear Window on Cinemax.

 

[dell71]

Threads like this are just dumb as fuck, because people just throw out movies for shock value...overrated movie threads harbor the troll in all of us.

People are throwing out movies with no rating at all...I mean, Into the Wild? Who in the hell thinks about that flick for more than a minute after its over, to which, the extent is "damn, that nigga was dumb!"

Into the Wild
IMDB: 8.2/10 - #148 all time
RottenTomatoes: 82% (critics), 90% (audience)
Roger Ebert: 4 Stars
American Film Institute (AFI) put it on their annual list of the year's 10 best films
VSN's 100 Greatest Movies: #59

No sir, I did not name any movie for shock value.

that is because of the set up of how movies are rated on IMDB. Shawshank is a movie that appeals to a wide variety of people, so while it may not be the best movie of all time it is a movie liked by the most amount of demographics.

you want to view IMDB, look at The Godfather which used to be #1 is #2 and there is mass amount of audiences that won't watch it due to violence.

You forgot one other major contributing factor to The Godfather dropping from the top spot: Batman fanboys. When The Dark Knight came out 2 major things happened on IMDB. First, loads of people all jumped on gave it a 10. Second, in an effort to make sure it got the top spot (which it did for a while), many of those same folks gave The Godfather a 1. Read more about it:

How The Dark Knight helped The Shawshank Redemption

Thanks for your patience guys My first movie may cause a stir(mainly a groan from nflman)

Rear Window



Accolades:

IMDB Top 250 : 22
AFI's 100 Movies: 42
Nukleopatra's favorite movies #1 (srs?)
A Tasty Burger's favorite movies #51
Dell's Good, Bad & Ugly Movie Reviews: 10/10

Yikes!


spoilers.......



Among his most popular films, to me this is the odd one out for Mr. Hitchcock.
As far as directing goes, he's known for working around restrictions and getting his point across with the odds against him. Seems like with this one though, he was a little lazy. Just threw in a heat wave to cover things. It can explain the people keeping their windows open, but not how oblivious these characters were, and how unrealistic it all was. If Stewart is gonna blatantly spy on people with his huge window wide open, could he at least turn off the lights at night time?

For being a Hitchcock film, this movie was severely lacking in suspense. I think one of the main reasons is because of how easy Stewart has it in this film. He can peak into these peoples apartments with too much ease. Also it's kind of ruined by the fact that he's doing it all day long, I wish there was more of a challenge for him. For example if there was only a small window of time every day that he could do this. Or if he had to take extra steps to be more secretive about it. It's hard to feel any suspense when the main character is relaxing on cruise control....literally with his feet up.


What puzzles me most is how people can consider this a top tier film of his, some even saying it's his best. When you look at movies like Pyscho and Vertigo, they're layered with multiples themes, plot twist, and complex characters. And not just those two, I'd also include North by Northwest, Notorious(my personal favorite) and Dial M for Murder even. Rear Window is plain compared to these films. Characters come on screen, and they leave. Nothing really changes or stands out, and there's not too much under the surface.
Before you start to say that I missed key points of this film, trust me I didn't. For example the fact that the people he was spying on mirrored what him and his girlfriend were going through. Makes sense, it's just not that entertaining.


Redeemable factor: Grace Kelly. On top of her game in this, completely saves the movie.

Good stuff. Don't think it's Hitch's best, but I still love it. Whether you like it or not, I hope we can all agree it's way better than the unofficial remake "Disturbia."

 

[nflman2033]

I could never forget Batman Fan boys

and back to Rear Window
not only is it better than Disturbia, its better than the Rear Window Remake, and better than a lot of movies out there, but its not a top 100 movie as it is ranked

my top 10 Hitchcock films

1. Psycho
2. Vertigo
3. Rope
4. Strangers on a Train
5. Dial M for Murder
6. North by Northwest
7. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
8. The Birds
9. Shadow of a Doubt
10. Marnie

I suppose I could make a case to slot Rear Window over Marnie, but I think Marnie is Underrated vs Rear Window being overrated.

 

[Spidey]

Jesus, Rivers has just about the worst taste in movies I have seen. With one or two exceptions, I am about 100% in disagreement with every pick.

 

[nflman2033]

Jesus, Rivers has just about the worst taste in movies I have seen. With one or two exceptions, I am about 100% in disagreement with every pick.

that's how I feel about Warner2BruceTD