Massively overrated and or underrated

[chris chunt]

Just thought of this while watching Michael Palin on BBC 2 .
The dead parrot sketch !
Ha ha ha ha !
Not .

Who do you think is average at best whilst everyone else thinks is genius ? .......
Here's mine

Monty python .
Michael Jackson .
Prince the pop singer . Or squiggle as he's sometimes called .

( BTW anybody putting Jagger / Richards in here will have a fatwa issued against them )

[Quackerson]

George Clooney - he has been acting in tv shows and movies since the early 1980s. He has been in a total of 4 things I have liked AS movies, all of those were ensemble casts and even when Clooney was the one of the lead co-stars in those movies he was far from the best/most effective actor in them.

While I don't think there have been an abundance of people calling Clooney a genius, the general perception out there is that Clooney is an A-List movie star: even in terms of just box office, George Clooney movies on the whole aren't particularly profitable (much less particularly good).

[chris chunt]

Star Wars .
The first film wasn't so bad ,basically a western in space , but recent ones are a bore fest and for nerds only .

[chris chunt]

Apple I phones .
Standing in a que all night to pick up the latest version only for a new one to come out 3 months later and apple themselves to say the one you bought was badly thought through .

All a ploy get you to buy a new one .

I just buy Android .
XTC desire in this instance .

You're only paying for the label .

[tamsmith]

Originally Posted by chris chunt

Apple I phones .
Standing in a que all night to pick up the latest version only for a new one to come out 3 months later and apple themselves to say the one you bought was badly thought through .

All a ploy get you to buy a new one .

I just buy Android .
XTC desire in this instance .

You're only paying for the label .

Totally agree with you. But they were on the verge of being gone 20 years ago. Windows was the only thing on the block. Steve Jobs kind of changed them around a little.

[Jack Tripper]

Originally Posted by chris chunt

Star Wars .
The first film wasn't so bad ,basically a western in space , but recent ones are a bore fest and for nerds only .

I feel the same, except for Rogue One. I thought Rogue One was amazing and it was exactly what I (personally) wanted out of the franchise.

[Cousin Eddie]

Originally Posted by Jack Tripper

I feel the same, except for Rogue One. I thought Rogue One was amazing and it was exactly what I (personally) wanted out of the franchise.

Rogue One was just a ripoff of Star Wars with terrible acting and ridiculously overdone battle scenes. Terrible movie

[CallMeMaybe]

Cirque Du Soleil

Totally agree with the Gal Gadot gripe above and the Star Wars comment.

[Quackerson]

Originally Posted by chris chunt

Star Wars .
The first film wasn't so bad ,basically a western in space , but recent ones are a bore fest and for nerds only .

I was 7 when the first Star Wars came out in 1977. I saw it in the theater and thought it was neat.

I was never nearly as ga-ga over it as a lot of my chums back then were, though. I liked The Empire Strikes Back, Return Of The Jedi a little less so. I think part of it was with Empire Strikes it was...what, 1980? So, I was 10 years old and could still get into it. By the time Return came out, I was 13 and looking for different things from movies.

I was growing up, but Star Wars wasn't.

I saw...was it The Phantom Menace? In 1997, or 1998? The one with Jar Jar Binks? Jar Jar Binks was perhaps the most egregious example in the film of why it didn't work, but I didn't care about the rest of the flick, either. I saw the other 2 prequels on video, and it was a case of diminishing returns for me.

Didn't bother to see The Force Awakens in the theater. Only saw it fairly recently at home. I thought it was certainly a step up from the late 1990s/early 2000s prequels, and it was a fun viewing. Found I didn't really care much about any of the new characters save for the girl Rey (whom I actually thought was well-portrayed) and the plot was basically a rehash of A New Hope. Rouge One was a bit bland and pointless. Haven't seen the most recent one, which I probably will at some point down the line if only for the Rey storyline.

However, if another Star Wars movie is never made again I won't feel any sense of loss over it.

[movieman88]

Originally Posted by chris chunt

Star Wars .
The first film wasn't so bad ,basically a western in space , but recent ones are a bore fest and for nerds only .

I don't see what is nerdy about the darker gritty warfare take from Rogue One.