thankfully its initial acclaim has faded

Both do it much better.

thats how it got nominated for those oscars...

http://uk.rottentomatoes.com/m/requiem_for_a_dream/

i do think it is overrated though - great visuals/ editing / music but quite an unintelligent film in many ways

I literally just cringed at the thought of the film. I feel a little bit sick now.

not liking it - fair enough. but how you could call it one of the worst films...?

mainly.

other overrated nonsesense - north by northwest, amelie, american history x, kill bill, being john malkovich and any film involving simon pegg.

and rightly so.

Although i can see why it is so popular

it can certainly come across as a pretentious mess, but i'd think it impossible that someone could watch it and not have some kind of powerful reaction.

it's just Ghandi swearing. I don't think Heat is hugely acclaimed.

I have to say, it's one of my favourite films ever, but i'm constantly dissapointed by anything else ive seen him do.

...and its my idea!

and every other shitty production-line wankfest from the "golden" era of Hollywood. That era has so much to answer for in terms of retrograde film-making.

Agree re Tarantino films, especially Kill Bill...also, O Brother Where Art Thou? I generally love the Coen brothers but that left me completely cold.

AWFUL, AWFUL film

is actually a good film.

I'm going to watch it now in fact.

They're all about eye candy and colour not fighting technique or plot. It's just 'look at ziyi zhang or gong li, aren't they beautiful?' and 'look at michelle yeoh, isn't she dignified?' I grew up watching martial arts films and the ones people rate now are terrible. I didn't even get through House of Flying Daggers. These films are for people who aren't really into martial arts. Crouching Tiger is dull too. Zatoichi is one of the few good ones because it doesn't take itself so seriously as others and it was comedic plus Beat Takeshi is damn ace. Also Curse of The Golden flower was shit like a sort of aping of Ran without the skill, wit and plot.

um big lebowski really isn't minute to minute amazing. I think cult film geeks jut get a bit carried away because they can pretend to be funny by repeating all the phrases and lines. It was funny in parts and John Goodman owns it acting-wise.

There are loads of overrated films like Mulholland Drive for one.

it's good!

was pretty good and interesting. i've always wanted to learn more about the McCarthy witch trials. I thought it was cleverly constructed, of course it had an agenda and was very anti-McCarthy and one sided but I enjoyed where the film took me which for a black and white film starring clooney is pretty good. My only bugbear was the woman singing throughout.

i thought everyone except dim-witted thugs overcome with moronity knew that it was 2 and a bit hours of hammy camposity?

i absolutely adore it, btw