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Title: overration
Post by: sphinx on February 20, 2003, 05:07:11 PM

:yabbse-thumbdown:

remember that it's a reflection of what people think the movie is, not what the movie actually is

Title: overration
Post by: RegularKarate on February 20, 2003, 06:05:13 PM

WHAT? That's not a word

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Post by: Jake_82 on February 20, 2003, 06:07:10 PM

Absolutely... I can't stand it when people originally like a movie and then change their opinion because they claim it's overrated.

Title: overration
Post by: Cecil on February 20, 2003, 06:22:18 PM

you should make a thread on cornyness too, cause i dont think people fully understand what corn is

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Post by: Victor on February 20, 2003, 06:59:53 PM

and pretention too

Title: overration
Post by: Cecil on February 20, 2003, 07:02:47 PM

Quote from: Lesterand pretention too

LOL is that a shot at me?

Title: overration
Post by: Victor on February 20, 2003, 07:31:59 PM

Quote from: cecil b. demented
Quote from: Lesterand pretention too

LOL is that a shot at me?

haha nah man. that word gets used so much its lost all meaning. most people i know who say something's pretentious are fucking pretentious as hell. at least you admit youre pretentious.

Title: overration
Post by: sphinx on February 20, 2003, 08:49:07 PM

Quote from: RegularKarateWHAT? That's not a word

i think P would argue that it is

Title: overration
Post by: Pubrick on February 20, 2003, 10:14:35 PM

it's official, in the court of hip hop:

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"Don't need no hateration, overration
In this dancery
Let's get it percolatin', while you're waitin'
So just dance for me"

Title: overration
Post by: SubstanceD on February 20, 2003, 11:08:38 PM

Movies are manipulators. It is possibel to be manipulated in believing something on the first view of a movie, but it's as easy to see through this on the second. So what the fuck am I saying. That's why someone might say they like a movie at first and then find it overrated. I guess, but then again I'm full of shit.

Title: overration
Post by: BonBon85 on February 20, 2003, 11:22:44 PM

I think people use the term overrated for one of two reasons:
A) They thought the movie was good but then it was praised so much that they got tired of hearing about it and began to dislike it.
B) It was a movie nobody had heard about and they liked it and tried to get everybody to see it and nobody did until it was critically acclaimed and then the original person doesn't seem so "hardcore underground" for having known about it so they label it "overrated."

I just think there are too many movie critics who feel they MUST look for something bad in a film, no matter what.

Title: overration
Post by: phil marlowe on February 21, 2003, 11:58:07 AM

Quote from: cbrad4dI just think there are too many movie critics who feel they MUST look for something bad in a film, no matter what.

Excactly. Soon you get to a point were you start wondering if theese people really like movies or they just like being sceptical over a movie.

Title: overration
Post by: joke08 on February 21, 2003, 01:28:07 PM

I like Ebert most of the time. I think people who are hardcore into movies are like people who are hardcore into music, like college radio DJ's, and Independent record store owners.
I usually like most movies, just out of entertainment value, but I like going over things I did or did not like about it. Mostly because I was an english major.

Title: overration
Post by: Jeremy Blackman on February 21, 2003, 01:52:01 PM

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=overration

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Post by: RegularKarate on February 21, 2003, 04:39:27 PM

Quote from: Jeremy Blackmanhttp://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=overration

Yeah... that's funny, one of the suggestions is "over-the-shoulder bombing"

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