Overrated/underrated...

maestrowork · Dec 19, 2007

List overrated/underated films, TVs, filmmakers, actors, etc. (in your opinion, of course).

I'll start:

Overrated:
M. Knight Shyamalan
Hugh Grant
Will Farrell

Underrated:
Steve Carell
Alfonso Cuarón
Laura Linney

III · Dec 19, 2007

Overrated:
Nicole Kidman
Angelina Jolie
Hugh Grant
Wayans Brothers
Nicholas Cage
Tim Burton
Minnie Driver
Vince Vaughn

for starters . . .

maxmordon · Dec 19, 2007

Overrated:

Nicholas Cage
George Lucas
The Da Vinci Code
Jerry Brokenheimer
Several Spielberg films
Wide Eyes Shut
The Queen
Moulin Rouge
Tom Cruise

Underrated:

Babel
Terry Gilliam
Karel Zeman
Pressure Point (1962 film starring Bobby Darren and Sidney Poitier)
Jonathan Pryce
Christopher Lloyd

ChunkyC · Dec 19, 2007

Off the top of my head....

Overrated TV shows:

Friends
Lost
Survivor

Underrated TV shows:

Pushing Daisies (best thing on television)

Overrated movies:

Fast and the Furious
Armageddon
Gladiator

Underrated movies:

Johnny Dangerously

Overrated actors/actresses:

Jennifer Lopez
Julia Roberts (not that she's bad, she's really good, just not as good as the media make her out to be)
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Vin Diesel

Underrated actors/actresses:

Jennifer Connelly
J.K. Simmons
Geoge Clooney (he's mega-famous, yeah, but he's always fighting the pretty boy label and is a better actor than many give him credit for)

III · Dec 19, 2007

Overrated:

By virtue of the fact that he hasn't been assassinated: Bob Saget.

III · Dec 19, 2007

Underrated:

TV
Home Movies (the animated series)
It's Always Sunny in Phillidelphia
Robot Chicken
Ultimate Fighter
THE NEXT GREAT AMERICAN BAND

Movies
River's Edge
Saved!
Smoke Signals

maestrowork · Dec 19, 2007

Overrated:
Jerry Seinfeld
American Idol
Brad Pitt
Ron Howard
Jackie Chan

Underrated:
Christian Bale
Dexter
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Adult Swim

Jcomp · Dec 19, 2007

Dude, Ray, your avatar changes appearances like Clayface.

And now that my daily random Batman reference is out of the way:

Overrated:
Tarantino
Sam Jackson (sorry bro)
Crash (And I was on board with this one at first, but in hindsight, what the hell...? How're you going to try to be brutally honest and cloying at the same damn time?)

Underrated:
Daniel Day Lewis, who may well be the best film actor alive.
Forrest Whitaker
Miller's Crossing
I'll second that Alfonso Cuarón
Christopher Nolan
Matt Damon

ChunkyC · Dec 19, 2007

Overrated: Ben Affleck

Tiger · Dec 19, 2007

OR:
Charlize Theron
Julia Roberts

UR:
(The late) Jonathan Harris
Elizabeth Peña
Meg Tilly

WendyNYC · Dec 19, 2007

Over:
Angelina Jolie
American Idol
Something-That-Resembles-Dancing with the Stars-You've-Never-Heard-Of

Under:
Ricky Gervais
Friday Night Lights and the smokin' hot Kyle Chandler
HBO's now-cancelled Rome series

katiemac · Dec 19, 2007

Underrated:
Flight of the Conchords
Amy Adams (although this may change soon)

Overrated:
American Idol

maestrowork · Dec 19, 2007

Underrated:
Ed Harris
Jennifer Connelly
Natalie Portman
Ang Lee
Lawrence Fishborne

Overrated:
Halle Berry (don't get me wrong -- she's hawt... but as an actress?)
Ben Stiller
Paul Haggis
Chef Gordon

JLCwrites · Dec 19, 2007

Underrated:
Studio 60

jst5150 · Dec 19, 2007

Over:

Sandra Bullock
Julia Roberts
Leo DiCaprio
Robert Zemeckis
Sam Raimi

Under:
Stan Tucci
George Lucas
Bruce Willis
Natalie Portman
Ian Holm
Daniel Craig
Eric Bana

KTC · Dec 19, 2007

Overrated:
George Lucas (to infinity)
Quenten Tarantino (He did some ab/fab stuff...but not lately.)

UNDERRATED:
Natalie Portman
Wes Anderson
Jeremiah S. Chechik
William H. Macey
Philip Seymour Hoffman (The man is a GOD and should be treated as such)
Dermot Mulroney
Vincent Gallo (Buffalo '66 should have made him huge.)

KTC · Dec 19, 2007

UNDERRATED MOVIE:
WAYDOWNTOWN (Awesome movie)

jst5150 · Dec 19, 2007

Under:
Felicity Huffman

Over:
Tom FREAKING Cruise

Spiny Norman · Dec 19, 2007

Under: NewsRadio

Over: Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez.

maxmordon · Dec 19, 2007

Under:

Phillip Hartman (rest in peace!)

KTC · Dec 19, 2007

Underrated: Fabrizio Filippo

III · Dec 19, 2007

How did I forget my #1 overrated:

JACK BLACK!

jst5150 · Dec 19, 2007

Over:
The Departed

Under:
Smilla's Sense of Snow

childeroland · Dec 19, 2007

Overrated:
Gone Baby Gone
The Departed
Raimi's Spiderman films
the Wachowskis
Tim Kring/ Jeph Loeb
Tarantino and Rodriguez
Frank Miller films
3D CGI films
Harry Potter films
Ergo Proxy
Lost
Gladiator
American Beauty
Little Children
Spielberg's Munich and War of the Worlds
most of Tom Cruise's oeuvre
the Pirates franchise
Shymalan
the Internal Affairs trilogy
One Piece
Ehren Krueger

Underrated:
Natalie Portman
.hack franchise
Luc Besson
Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Richard Stark

ChaosTitan · Dec 19, 2007

OVER
Ben Stiller
American Idol
Reality Shows
Singers becoming Actors
Models becoming Actors
TomKat
Brangelina
TV Shows updated into Feature Films
Computer Animation

UNDER
Food Network
Unknown
Battlestar Galactica
David Morse
Adam Baldwin
Maura Tierney

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