Person 1: ".....[blah blah blah] Moonstruck...."Person 2: "Oh, Moonstruck! I love that movie, it's one of my alltime favorites!"
And I don't really remember too much about Moonstruck, so I'm always a little baffled by it, but I accept it's one of those movies that people really love that did nothing for me.
The other movie where this happens a lot: The Big Lebowski.
― Casuistry (casuistry), Monday, 4 December 2006 01:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 4 December 2006 06:58 (seventeen years ago) link
I finally saw Chicago last summer, and was positively surprised, it was actually better than its reviews suggested.
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 4 December 2006 07:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 4 December 2006 07:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Allyzay is cool: with Blue n White, with Eli Manning, with NY Giants (Allyzay Ei, Monday, 4 December 2006 16:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― Allyzay is cool: with Blue n White, with Eli Manning, with NY Giants (Allyzay Ei, Monday, 4 December 2006 16:17 (seventeen years ago) link
So what's your point -- that it's not true, or just that it's not interesting? If the latter, I can respect that, but if the former, then you're just wrong.
("Random lonely hearts", whatever -- what cross-section would work for you, then?)
and that somehow box office popularity is actually a qualifier for being "overrated"
From what I can tell, the list is a hodgepodge of critical and popular/box-office favorites, no? I mean, it's a mess, but it's certainly not calibrating solely on "box office popularity" (though I'm not sure that you were saying that).
And again, if you're arguing that there aren't a lot of people who rate Forrest Gump, A Beautiful Mind, etc. highly, then you're wrong. If you're arguing that those people are somehow irrelevant, then I might like to know who it is you would consider relevant.
― lurker #2421 (lurker #2421.1), Monday, 4 December 2006 17:46 (seventeen years ago) link
But if you ask "who gives a crap about Forrest Gump?", then you kinda forfeit the right to wring your hands about it if you get a truthful answer to that question.
― lurker #2421 (lurker #2421.1), Monday, 4 December 2006 17:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Monday, 4 December 2006 17:56 (seventeen years ago) link
Results 1 - 10 of about 250,000 for american beauty. Results 1 - 10 of about 199,000 for shawshank redemption.Results 1 - 10 of about 197,000 for beautiful mind.Results 1 - 10 of about 186,000 for pretty woman.Results 1 - 10 of about 163,000 for clerks.Results 1 - 10 of about 133,000 for forrest gump.Results 1 - 10 of about 10,500 for moonstruck.
― lurker #2421 (lurker #2421.1), Monday, 4 December 2006 18:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― deep space nine (deep space nine), Monday, 4 December 2006 18:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 4 December 2006 18:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― Joshua Babcock (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 00:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― Casuistry (casuistry), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 14:49 (seventeen years ago) link