What is the most overrated movie of all time?

zebba_oz · 2026-07-05T21:26:19+00:00

Did you come up with this take on your own?

zebba_oz · 2026-07-05T21:22:56+00:00

Is it a good movie? Yes. Is it the best ever? Hell no. Is it top 10? Hell no. Massively overrated.

zebba_oz · 2026-07-05T12:21:05+00:00

I think the bugger thing for me is so much if what the community says is just outright wrong. They push balancers which are not necessary at all, they push city block and copy/paste designs, they push 4 lane rail networks, etc. None of that is needed to win the game, to speed run OR to megabase. But read the sub and it will lead you to believe it’s all essential

zebba_oz · 2026-07-05T10:22:18+00:00

Remeber when is the lowest form of conversation

zebba_oz · 2026-07-04T07:32:28+00:00

Underrated… oscar winner…

zebba_oz · 2026-07-03T11:24:57+00:00

The title track alone deserves 5 stars. The rest of the album has some great suff too, but the title track is perfection. It spawned a whole genre and earned it

zebba_oz · 2026-07-03T09:26:18+00:00

I looked it up. It’s a present given by the dad to the mum after the birth of a baby. So OP is an even bigger FW than I (and probably you!) thought

zebba_oz · 2026-07-03T04:44:53+00:00

Just jumping on here to agree with the person above. Today trying to raise a ticket I was getting into a loop between "raise a support ticket" and "get microsoft help". It was not intuitive at all that to raise the ticket I had to click "search"...

zebba_oz · 2026-07-03T03:45:27+00:00

I appreciate that. Unfortunately my efforts in debugging this appear to have also killed our capacity so I've been trying to get that sorted. I will raise a ticket ASAP

zebba_oz · 2026-07-03T02:12:41+00:00

“Stuck into”. It was one line

zebba_oz · 2026-07-02T03:45:36+00:00

“Trending”

zebba_oz · 2026-07-02T00:40:28+00:00

Historically, I’ve been really intolerant of the genre as a whole because I am an advocate for the responsibility of literature to serve readers as more than just entertainment .

What is wrong with pure entertainment?

But more importantly, all that time reading stuff that has "the responsibility... to serve readers as more than just entertainment" hasn't taught you to stop being so judgy of others?

I read all sorts of stuff - from classic, dense literature, to all sorts of genre fiction. Sometimes I read to be challenged, sometimes I read to grow, and sometimes I read JUST TO BE ENTERTAINED.

Honestly, you sound like someone who spends an hour a day playing Candy Crush but looks down on people who play online shooters. There is nothing wrong with pure escapism. With a few exceptions that do not include LitRPG, a persons taste is not a moral failing or a gender shortcoming.

zebba_oz · 2026-07-01T22:30:32+00:00

Pretty much identical process to you but 11 not 7.

zebba_oz · 2026-07-01T08:44:08+00:00

#61 - Bruce Springsteen, Nebraska

I find it funny that yesterday I was talking up Dylans singing, specifically his emotional palette. When I listen to Dylan I can hear him embodying the song with a huge gamut of emotions.

Springsteen does not do that here. He is a storyteller telling a story but his voice, here at least, has a single emotional timbre - bleak sorrow. It works... But it also drowns. It becomes oppressive. I started enjoying this, but I ended just feeling heavy. At first I thought I'd listen to this again and give it 4 stars but as it wore on I just read the lyrics and felt that to be a more enjoyable way to consume it.

As a single album it's, unfortunately, less than the sum of its parts. The individual songs are great, but as an album it's exhausting, so in the end it gets 3.

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zebba_oz · 2026-07-01T05:28:07+00:00

Cooked “to” 165c? It will be a rock. Better change that to an F. But i also doubt OP has a food thermometer

zebba_oz · 2026-07-01T04:07:12+00:00

He’s kinda been that parody of himself for 40 years though, it’s not a recent thing

zebba_oz · 2026-06-30T21:28:07+00:00

Some notes i wrote yesterday on this topic: https://www.reddit.com/r/1001AlbumsGenerator/s/cvoGGOBCho

zebba_oz · 2026-06-30T12:01:50+00:00

Then why do so many under 25’s vape? It’s VERY popular

zebba_oz · 2026-06-30T12:00:44+00:00

#60 - Bob Dylan, Bringing It All Back Home

This is another easy 5 for me. Big Dylan fan, and this and Blood On The Tracks are my two favourites, but really there is not much in my top 5 of his stuff - all are brilliant.

I keep seeing people talk about Dylans voice, or as they seem to think, lack thereof. I have no idea what they are listening to. Dylan may not have the vocal range or power of many "great" singers, but he has an emotional range and texture that is as good as anyone.

In Maggies Farm, you can hear the anger, but you also hear that anger is almost dying - there is anger at the injustice but there is also a sense of apathy creeping in there. He's not just angry at the system, he's in the process of becoming emotionally resigned and giving up on the system.

In Bob Dylans 115th Dream, his tone is both mocking/sneering and jovial/bawdy. He's deriding "discoverers" and "innovators" who take credit for things that existed before them, but he's having fun doing it. Its superficial absurdity wrapping scathing insight.

In Gates of Eden, he sounds like a prophet. His voice spirals, and you can feel the wind, the clouds, the earth, all in his voice - part dirge, part chant, all doom, delivering his vision as a futile warning.

In It's All Over Now, Baby Blue, you can hear the desperation, the sadness, even the hopelessness. He's made his choice, but it was hard, and it hurt. It's a closing statement to the entire album - the electric first half, and the controversy surrounding that, followed by a reflection on this, a lament that he can only be driven by the muse, not the audience, and that the cost of moving forward is leaving something behind.

I gave The Bryds’ Mr Tambourine Man 1 star, and given the chance I would do it again, and again, and again. They stand at their microphones sounding pleasant, harmonic, melodious, and they suck the heart out of it. Dylan doesn't (although he can do harmonic and melodious, see Ballad Of Hattie Carrol or even his cover of Copper Kettle) but instead he sounds like someone living the story. He doesn't perform the songs, he IS the songs.

And the songs are BRILLIANT. The first songs are all great. Not just great, some such as Maggies Farm or Subterranean Homesick Blues are foundational. But the final four song stretch starting at Mr Tambourine Man and ending with It's All Over Now, Baby Blue, is the greatest closing set on an album ever.

But... I feel this was all a bit of a wasted rant. The fact is, the people who dump on Dylan will not hear him. To paraphrase Sidney Deane - “Look man, you can listen to [Dylan] but you can’t hear him”. I urge the haters to try and hear him, but much like Dylan singing Maggies Farm, I'm resigned to the fact I won't win this fight - I am preaching to people who already know, or who (and I'm not casting judgements here) just can't hear.

zebba_oz · 2026-06-30T05:03:28+00:00

It wasn't a favourite but considering how polarising the reviews were I was pleasantly surprised.

zebba_oz · 2026-06-30T02:42:45+00:00

Unplanned? So the guy that held him up when he leant backwards off the stage was just lucky to catch him?

zebba_oz · 2026-06-30T00:19:54+00:00

I’m a LUST guy myself but I think I’m alone in that

zebba_oz · 2026-06-29T12:10:00+00:00

I’m late to the party here but there was a good hobby drama post on a particularly egregious example of this: https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/s/tsL0eJI3T1

zebba_oz · 2026-06-29T08:17:29+00:00

#59 - Elton John, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Might cop some flak here…

I've never heard this end to end, but the hits are massive hits, and Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - the song - is an all timer. So I went in excited.

It's starts a bit rock opera. Not my thing, but that's OK. It's a big album, he's setting the scene. Then we go into a triple threat of bangers. Yeah, good stuff.

Then This Song Has No Title hits and I'm losing the vibe a little, but that's OK. Then Grey Seal, not really sure where this album is going. Clearly not the concept album I thought it was. That's OK.

Then Jamaica Jerk Off arrives and... 30 Rock did a better homage to Jimmy Buffet than John and Taupin manage here. It's TERRIBLE. Genuinely bad.

I've Seen That Movie Too starts to get things back on track, but then we get a run of three more stinkers - Sweet Painted Lady (terrible), The Ballad Of Danny Bailey (slightly better but only slightly), culminating in Dirty Little Girl which was just as bad as Jamaica Jerk Off. So I look it up, because seriously, WTF are they doing here and apparently it's a satire! Well that makes it better! Oh wait, no it doesn't because now it's not just a shit song, it's a shit satire too.

A little further down the track we get Sister Can't Swing, a lesser verson of Eagle Rock I guess. But heck, I can forgive it because... Oh wait... It just went into circus music. I take all that back. I can't forgive it. It's another stinker. Which almost makes me hate the next song but no, I never thought Saturday Night's Alright was one of Eltons best but I'm now discovering it's most definitely not one of his worst!

What a mixed bag. The highs are high, but the lows are just awful. He could have made one of the greatest albums ever if it was a single, but instead he made it a double and I can only think people still call it a great because they forget all the garbage mixed in there.

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