Probably because those viewers are jealous people, or just plain stupid. I really have no idea why this brilliant piece of art has such a low rating.
Just the other night I looked at The Royal Tenenbaums and couldn't believe my eyes when I found that it was rated over a 7 on this site. Completely incompetent critics, obviously.
DotC deserves a 7 or more. My compliments to all those involved.
Not to get on your case but this movie wasn't ridiculously underrated! I can see where it was VERY forgettable. I didn't hate it nor love it. It goes under "the movie's I've seen with Chevy Chase" belt. I would say a 4 rating was well deserved. Maybe a 4.5 being fair. Frankly, it wasn't funny. As simple as that. It did surpass the humor of "Modern Problems" I will give it that(minus Dabney Colman's pre Dr. Phil esk character.)
Hey, there is a cult for every film I hope (minus most of today's crap.) I have one myself. True Identity with Lenny Henry and Frank Langella (1991)
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While I don't think that 'Deal of the Century' is a brilliant piece of filmmaking, I can't understand either why the hell it has such a low rating.
I mean, I know it's a flawed comedy. Yet it's much better than tons of duller, meaningless, generic and amateurish flicks. Yet, somehow they got a way higher rating.
Unlike most Hollywood flicks, this comedy is not only a time-waster. It tries to explore one of the main problems of the modern world in a comical way (The military-industrial complex) and its dreadful consequences.
I mean how come some crappy and thoroughly UNfunny movies about "nothing" (Paul Blart: Mall Cop, Land of the Lost, The House Bunny, Bride Wars, amongst MANY others) have been rated higher? Is people that stupid, or it's just that the only people who voted are right-wing extremists or/and Lockheed Martin execs?
IMO the movie at least deserves a 6/10. It's flawed, but no more than any of the aformentioned movies, that's for sure. At least Friedkin had the guts to speak against the most dangerous, vicious and amoral activity that exists in today's world. An activity that believe it or not is basically legal!
I mean, is bad to buy a bit of pot but it's OK to sell weapons of mass destruction that eventually are gonna be used against innocent people??? WTF? C'mon!
7/10
its a major piece o'crap -- as is your ridiculous rant.
What the $%*& is a Chinese Downhill?!?
The film's only redeeming feature was the miniature work and optical compositing, which was extremely well done for the time. It's notoriously difficult to make pristine fictional aircraft look realistic in a bright daylight sky. The VFX guys did a great job pulling it off.
The story, however, the premise and the script were absolutely awful. Acting was wretched, the story was pathetic, and for a "comedy" it was remarkably un-funny. Clearly a film meant to poke fun at the Reagan administration which (contrary to liberal bed-wetters' paranoid and unjustified fears), managed to destroy the evil empire of the USSR without firing a shot. So that aspect of the film also fell flat.
VFX get 9 out of ten. The rest gets a 1.
Yes, it's a very funny movie. It's a great parody of the government contractors who make weapons.
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