Oldboy Director Park Chan-wook’s List of 10 Most Overrated Films of All-Time

I watch Full Metal Jacket for the boot camp scenes. He's on to something there. I wouldn't call the Vietnam war portion a dud, but it does lag behind other Vietnam movies in comparison. Definitely not overrated though.

I'm disappointed in myself though, because I haven't watched the other movies enough to judge his criticisms.

all media is derivative…I haven’t seen much (any) German expressionism but dark city is a movie that has stuck with me for decades and I’ve only watched it once.

I can’t say that about any other movie most likely

Thin Red Line is your typical Malick masturbating to himself, thinking he’s God’s gift to humanity but it sucks

Natural Born Killers sucks too, I hate that movie

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I watch Full Metal Jacket for the boot camp scenes. He's on to something there. I wouldn't call the Vietnam war portion a dud, but it does lag behind other Vietnam movies in comparison. Definitely not overrated though.

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The first half of Full Metal Jacket is so great that I actually do think it compensates for the lackluster second part, and keeps the film from
being overrated.

I think Park was still a film critic at the time. He made 2 small movies that didn't hit (and are regarded as not good though I haven't seen them) then became a critic before directing his breakthrough JSA in 2000.

He's one of my favorite living directors. I just rewatched Stoker last night.

I absolutely love this director's work, but I don't agree with much on this list.

He published this 10 in 1999. I can't i.agine he would include Lost Highway, NBK, or Dark City on such a list now. NBK's reputation has waned. Dark City feels barely remembered by most. Lost Highway is the forgotten child among Lynch's acclaimed films.

No blurbs for the three foreign films?

Hana-bi's English name is Fireworks. It's a pretty cool Japanese police/crime drama. It must have been a much bigger deal in Korea than it was here.

Same with the Big Blue, an earlier Luc Besson film I've never seen, and have never heard people talk about.

Chungking Express is an incredibly important film in the context of 90s world cinema, but the director released an even more important one in 2000, In the Mood for Love.

It'd be cool to see a more recent version of this list. More directors should agree to publish such things. It's fun content. I feel like only Tarantino and Soderbergh regularly do stuff like this.

You know what movie is vastly overrated? Old Boy

I've only seen Full Metal Jacket, Psycho, Thin Red Line, Citizen Kane, and Natural Born Killers. Agree with all but Psycho. Only one I didn't enjoy too much was Natural Born Killers. Yall can go ahead and downvote me, but I don't get the love at all for that movie.

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I watch Full Metal Jacket for the boot camp scenes. He's on to something there

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Some of the best lines are from that second part. It's not as intense as the boot camp part, but it's still incredibly good.

I'm right there with him about NBK, though. It's a perfect example of 90's degenerate mind rot. I think Oliver Stone would have been really happy if it had inspired scores of copycat killing sprees. 'It makes you want to kill somebody' is a comment I heard more than once. It was one of those movies that a lot of my friends liked, but I hated.

Yeah, well, what does this guy know? Oldboy was good, sure, but Stoker? And has any movie been more pretentious than Snowpiercer? Glass houses, man, glass houses.