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Wednesday, 16th May 2007

That little disagreement with Stephen about The Lives of Others set me thinking about all the other films I've seen that have been criminally over-rated. Here's a list off the top of my head. I've left out Pulp Fiction because I've already had a moan about it:

My Beautiful Launderette
Venus
The Conformist
Distant Voices, Still Lives
Casino Royale
Big Night
Heat
The Usual Suspects
Crimes & Misdemeanours
Gosford Park

Plus just about anything by Almodovar. There's also a movie which was so annoying that I've succeeded in erasing the title from my memory. It was about a gang of medieval engineers who dig an immense tunnel into the centre of the earth, and finally emerge in the middle of a motorway. Or something like that. It was highly praised by the critics, and it sent me into a near-coma one night at the Gate in Notting Hill.

Of course, The English Patient is in a class of its own as far as hype is concerned.

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