MCW: Most Overrated Movie

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*Note: Still taking votes on mah move to France here



Our faithful stand-in, Milk River Madman, continues to host a fun meme, Movie Clip Wednesday. Go visit his place to see what other bloggers nominated for this week's theme.


Move Clip Wednesday's theme this week is The Most Overrated Movie.

Finally, a really really easy one came to mind before I even finished readin' the theme.

200 million dollars worth of Schmaltz on 'roids. Yicky sticky sentimentality. That wuz production costs alone--enough wuz spent on promotion to rebuild Atlantis, hence the overrated medallion. And yet, the thang won 11 Academy Awards. Grossed mor'n a billion (wif' a B) bucks.

Maybe the real drama wuz the engineer-trained producer /director who screeched at everyone so shockingly during the filming, that a disgruntled crew member laced his and other's soup wif' PCP. Folks took a bounce through the emergency room before returnin' to production.

Too bad, too, since the basic premise would have made a killer movie. How does some Hollywoodenhead think that throwin' two genre's together (disaster/ romance) an' stirrin' wif PC class warfare baton equals a great movie? Oh thas' right, it starred two of the beautiful young people that folks love to love. I does give this flick two thumbs UP fer special effects--really amazin' digital wizardry, set buildin' innovation an' the best ever crack-up on film ... an' the music is not bad. But, y'all, it is still overrated.


A prominent film critic left the screening an' wrote, "a hackneyed, completely derivative copy of old Hollywood romances." Filmmaker Robert Altman dubbed this movie, "the most dreadful piece of work I've ever seen in my entire life."


Of course, when the movie broke Box Office records, the oooh and ahhhing began--if the public is willing to fork out a billion to see it, why try to swim against the tide, right? Even if "the public" wuz every teen-aged girl on the planet an' not a few wistful "it coulda been me" sappy teen boys in their 50s.

Once disclaimer: iffin' I stepped on yore treasured favorite movie, I apologize in advance. I 'spect many of y'all will object to mah nomination...but it will at least make a good yak-fest.



Most Overrated Movie