Top 20 most overrated movies of all time

[Cameraman Jenn]

Just an FYI, SRD sent me a link to the "This Day All Cods Die" photo link and joked that he should use that as his jacket photo. He's seen it and LOVED IT.

[Loredoctor]

Just an FYI, SRD sent me a link to the "This Day All Cods Die" photo link and joked that he should use that as his jacket photo. He's seen it and LOVED IT.

THANK YOU!

[Usivius]

Yes, Holy Grail is NOT overrated. It is fantastic!

and this:

I cannot follow or even stand The Adventures of Baron Von Munchausen, or however it's spelled. It's supposed to be a "cult" fav, but I just don't get it...

sadly, I really enjoy this movie. I'm not sure why people don't "get it" ... there really is no mystery behind it. It is purely about the joys of fantasy, the benefits of release from the 'real world' and the joys of a child's mind...
Great movie.
Flop, yes, but a large part of that has to do the the absolutely horrendous press and mangling of stories coming out of the production. It was a mess and not Terry's fault and then there was absolutely no promotion for it. It never had a chance...

[Fist and Faith]

Some of you are sick, sick bastards!!!! Is there no decency left in the world???? HOW CAN YOU NOT LOVE HOLY GRAIL!!!!!

Well, here's a little bit of fun for those who know what the hell they're talking about!!!!!

MORTICIAN: Bring out your dead!
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Bring out your dead!
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Bring out your dead!
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Bring out your dead!
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Bring out your dead!
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Bring out your dead!
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Bring out your dead!
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Bring out your dead!
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Bring out your dead!
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Bring out your dead!
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Bring out your dead!
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Bring out your dead!

CUSTOMER: Here's one -- nine pence.

DEAD PERSON: I'm not dead!

MORTICIAN: What?

CUSTOMER: Nothing -- here's your nine pence.

DEAD PERSON: I'm not dead!

MORTICIAN: Here -- he says he's not dead!

CUSTOMER: Yes, he is.

DEAD PERSON: I'm not!

MORTICIAN: He isn't.

CUSTOMER: Well, he will be soon, he's very ill.

DEAD PERSON: I'm getting better!

CUSTOMER: No, you're not -- you'll be stone dead in a moment.

MORTICIAN: Oh, I can't take him like that -- it's against regulations.

DEAD PERSON: I don't want to go in the cart!

CUSTOMER: Oh, don't be such a baby.

MORTICIAN: I can't take him...

DEAD PERSON: I feel fine!

CUSTOMER: Oh, do us a favor...

MORTICIAN: I can't.

CUSTOMER: Well, can you hang around a couple of minutes? He won't be long.

MORTICIAN: Naaah, I got to go on to Robinson's -- they've lost nine today.

CUSTOMER: Well, when is your next round?

MORTICIAN: Thursday.

DEAD PERSON: I think I'll go for a walk.

CUSTOMER: You're not fooling anyone y'know. Look, isn't there something you can do?

DEAD PERSON: I feel happy... I feel happy.

[whop]

CUSTOMER: Ah, thanks very much.

MORTICIAN: Not at all. See you on Thursday.

CUSTOMER: Right.

[clop clop]

ARTHUR: Old woman!

DENNIS: Man!

ARTHUR: Old Man, sorry. What knight live in that castle over there?

DENNIS: I'm thirty seven.

ARTHUR: What?

DENNIS: I'm thirty seven -- I'm not old!

ARTHUR: Well, I can't just call you `Man'.

DENNIS: Well, you could say `Dennis'.

ARTHUR: Well, I didn't know you were called `Dennis.'

DENNIS: Well, you didn't bother to find out, did you?

ARTHUR: I did say sorry about the `old woman,' but from the behind you looked--

DENNIS: What I object to is you automatically treat me like an inferior!

ARTHUR: Well, I AM king...

DENNIS: Oh king, eh, very nice. An' how'd you get that, eh? By exploitin' the workers -- by 'angin' on to outdated imperialist dogma which perpetuates the economic an' social differences in our society! If there's ever going to be any progress--

WOMAN: Dennis, there's some lovely filth down here. Oh -- how d'you do?

ARTHUR: How do you do, good lady. I am Arthur, King of the Britons. Who's castle is that?

WOMAN: King of the who?

ARTHUR: The Britons.

WOMAN: Who are the Britons?

ARTHUR: Well, we all are. we're all Britons and I am your king.

WOMAN: I didn't know we had a king. I thought we were an autonomous collective.

DENNIS: You're fooling yourself. We're living in a dictatorship. A self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working classes--

WOMAN: Oh there you go, bringing class into it again.

DENNIS: That's what it's all about if only people would--

ARTHUR: Please, please good people. I am in haste. Who lives in that castle?

WOMAN: No one lives there.

ARTHUR: Then who is your lord?

WOMAN: We don't have a lord.

ARTHUR: What?

DENNIS: I told you. We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week.

ARTHUR: Yes.

DENNIS: But all the decision of that officer have to be ratified at a special biweekly meeting.

ARTHUR: Yes, I see.

DENNIS: By a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs,--

ARTHUR: Be quiet!

DENNIS: --but by a two-thirds majority in the case of more--

ARTHUR: Be quiet! I order you to be quiet!

WOMAN: Order, eh -- who does he think he is?

ARTHUR: I am your king!

WOMAN: Well, I didn't vote for you.

ARTHUR: You don't vote for kings.

WOMAN: Well, 'ow did you become king then?

ARTHUR: The Lady of the Lake, [angels sing] her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water signifying by Divine Providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. [singing stops] That is why I am your king!

DENNIS: Listen -- strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

ARTHUR: Be quiet!

DENNIS: Well you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!

ARTHUR: Shut up!

DENNIS: I mean, if I went around sayin' I was an empereror just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me they'd put me away!

ARTHUR: Shut up! Will you shut up!

DENNIS: Ah, now we see the violence inherent in the system.

ARTHUR: Shut up!

DENNIS: Oh! Come and see the violence inherent in the system! HELP! HELP! I'm being repressed!

ARTHUR: Bloody peasant!

DENNIS: Oh, what a give away. Did you hear that, did you hear that, eh? That's what I'm on about -- did you see him repressing me, you saw it didn't you?

GUARD #1: Halt! Who goes there?

ARTHUR: It is I, Arthur, son of Uther Pendragon, from the castle of Camelot. King of the Britons, defeator of the Saxons, sovereign of all England!

GUARD #1: Pull the other one!

ARTHUR: I am. And this my trusty servant Patsy. We have ridden the length and breadth of the land in search of knights who will join me in my court of Camelot. I must speak with your lord and master.

GUARD #1: What, ridden on a horse?

ARTHUR: Yes!

GUARD #1: You're using coconuts!

ARTHUR: What?

GUARD #1: You've got two empty halves of coconut and you're bangin' 'em together.

ARTHUR: So? We have ridden since the snows of winter covered this land, through the kingdom of Mercea, through--

GUARD #1: Where'd you get the coconut?

ARTHUR: We found them.

GUARD #1: Found them? In Mercea? The coconut's tropical!

ARTHUR: What do you mean?

GUARD #1: Well, this is a temperate zone.

ARTHUR: The swallow may fly south with the sun or the house martin or the plumber may seek warmer climes in winter yet these are not strangers to our land.

GUARD #1: Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?

ARTHUR: Not at all, they could be carried.

GUARD #1: What -- a swallow carrying a coconut?

ARTHUR: It could grip it by the husk!

GUARD #1: It's not a question of where he grips it! It's a simple question of weight ratios! A five ounce bird could not carry a 1 pound coconut.

ARTHUR: Well, it doesn't matter. Will you go and tell your master that Arthur from the Court of Camelot is here.

GUARD #1: Listen, in order to maintain air-speed velocity, a swallow needs to beat its wings 43 times every second, right?

ARTHUR: Please!

GUARD #1: Am I right?

ARTHUR: I'm not interested!

GUARD #2: It could be carried by an African swallow!

GUARD #1: Oh, yeah, an African swallow maybe, but not a European swallow, that's my point.

GUARD #2: Oh, yeah, I agree with that...

ARTHUR: Will you ask your master if he wants to join my court at Camelot?!

GUARD #1: But then of course African swallows are not migratory.

GUARD #2: Oh, yeah...

GUARD #1: So they couldn't bring a coconut back anyway...

GUARD #2: Wait a minute -- supposing two swallows carried it together?

GUARD #1: No, they'd have to have it on a line.

GUARD #2: Well, simple! They'd just use a standard creeper!

GUARD #1: What, held under the dorsal guiding feathers?

GUARD #2: Well, why not?

[Usivius]

[Cameraman Jenn]

Thanks for the morning chuckles Fist. I loves me some Grail.

[Loredoctor]

Shrek. Pop-culture references aren't funny.

[Cameraman Jenn]

Never had any desire to see Shrek so have still refrained....

By the way, Lore, Nice work on the "This Day All Cods Die." I tried to find the original email he sent with that pic but it looks like it was to my old work email address which is no longer accessible. Sorry dude. I know he said something about it being brilliant.

[Loredoctor]

Never had any desire to see Shrek so have still refrained....

By the way, Lore, Nice work on the "This Day All Cods Die." I tried to find the original email he sent with that pic but it looks like it was to my old work email address which is no longer accessible. Sorry dude. I know he said something about it being brilliant.

You really made my day by telling me, Jenn. I appreciate that alot. You're a great KW member.

[Cameraman Jenn]

I honestly had no idea a KW member made that. First time I saw it was in email from the man. I had sent him the stills that we pulled from his stint as Higgins O'Higgins and joked that he should use one of the stills as his new jacket photo and he replied with something along the lines of, "I was thinking of using this for my new jacket photo." He followed that up with some complimentary things about the witty title play. I told him he SHOULD use that. It's great.

[Loredoctor]

I honestly had no idea a KW member made that. First time I saw it was in email from the man. I had sent him the stills that we pulled from his stint as Higgins O'Higgins and joked that he should use one of the stills as his new jacket photo and he replied with something along the lines of, "I was thinking of using this for my new jacket photo." He followed that up with some complimentary things about the witty title play. I told him he SHOULD use that. It's great.

*Bows* Thankyou, dear.

[Cameraman Jenn]

You are welcome. I would also venture to guess that Romeo probably was the one who brought it to SRD's attention in the first place.

[Damelon]

As I recall, we watched Holy Grail at Danlo's house during Elohimfest.

One of my favorites.

[Cameraman Jenn]

Come Back Here I'll Bite Your Legs Off!

[Damelon]

Oh, wicked, bad, naughty Zoot!

[Fist and Faith]

As I recall, we watched Holy Grail at Danlo's house during Elohimfest.

Yes!! And the best laugh I got that weekend was from you! We were driving all over the place that one day, but couldn't stop anywhere because of the fire hazards. (Very dry.) Finally, danlo pulled over in some rest area. When we pulled alongside his car, he said, "You know what?" And you said, "If we built this large wooden badger!"
I still crack up!!!

[Damelon]

It seemed like the right words for the occasion.

[matrixman]

Nice to hear that SRD liked your parody, Lore!

I liked Shrek, though on second viewing some of its humour did seem a bit flat. Still, I think of the film as a clever commentary on fantasy cliches. But I skipped Shrek 2. I was burned out on sequels at the time.

[Avatar]

Fist. I'm gonna have to go home and watch Holy Grail.

--A

[matrixman]

Black Christmas is another film I think is way overrated. It's a Canadian-made horror flick from 1974 and it is apparently some kind of "classic" of the genre. Its supporters boast that it really invented the modern horror slash genre, as it pre-dated John Carpenter's Halloween. Well, big friggin' deal Black Christmas was only scary in the sheer amount of boredom it inspired in this viewer. I caught this flick on late night TV a couple of years ago and I could not believe how insipid it was. I kept watching the movie just to see if it might actually get moving before the end. Nope, didn't happen.

I came across this movie again just today as I was browsing for DVDs, which triggered my memory of how lame it was.