Most Overrated Movies

Burn baby, burn.

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aww. I figured it was bound to happen. A'lot of people I meet can't understand how I could possibly dislike that movie...but it's just so mean spirited.

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I can understand why you didn't like the film, you are a witch therefore not human and in need of a good stake burning. Of course I'm kidding, except for the part about understanding how you could dislike the film, taste is different with each person, thankfully, can you imagine if we all liked the same thing. Of course the film gets a 5/5 from me, but just because you don't like it I'm not going to get all offended, and I'm pretty sure mark posted that picture without any malice, at least I hope he did.

No worries, I'm all for a good spirited ribbing. That does seem to get to a'lot of people though. I'm still working on why it's a great movie, so until then I don't like it haha.

Decent, but I don't think Armageddon was overrated. Most critics and film goers took it for the piece of crap that it was. It DID get overwhelmingly bad reviews.

here's my list:

10- Scarface
9 - The Last Picture Show
8 - Terminator
7 - Saw
6 - Star Wars IV: A New Hope (I'm not hating on Star Wars so don't flame me, but it was overrated. the series was better when George Lucas wasn't directing.)
5 - Titanic
4 - Milk
3 - Jerry Maguire
2 - A Clockwork Orange
1 - the Incredibles

OMG

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Ditto, plus #6, but no biggie.

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Plus, The Incredibles was average and is, indeed, overrrated by many.

The Terminator overated? This movie revolutionized special effects as many of James Camerons movies have. Maybe an overated love story!LoL!

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The Incredibles? Obviously overrated pour moi.

Or critically recognized films that we don't hold in high esteem. That's too long I reckon.

I don't usually mind overrated but yes people will nitpick. I didn't much care for The Dark Knight but I loved Batman Begins. Too many side plots going on in The Dark Knight. The Two Face/Harvey Dent thing never really interested me and I tend to dislike Hannibal Lector-like super villains and The Joker was certainly one. I dislike how they are all knowing and seeing. It was my same complaint against No Country For Old Men. As far as the Joker goes I prefered Nicholson's in the original Batman. I also hated how they did away with The Scarecrow. I thought the first film was stylish and a great revisiting of the Batman hero, but The Dark Knight was just too much.

OH and my answer of course is Jaws, which I think someone has already mentioned.

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that's sooo true, i was reading through this thread months ago and everybody was complaining about Citizen Kane so much that i almost got it in my head that it was a bad movie until i actually saw it and was blown away completely, now it's in my Top 30 maybe (that's a very general statement but you get the point) i absolutely loved it so i've been avoiding this thread pretty much until now because there's so much untrustworthiness in here >.>

I would love to blast the AFI's lists, but that would be endless.

I'm going to stop referring to IMDb's Top 250 or the Bottom 100.

"The Quick and the Dead" was horrible. Nothing in the movie made any sense. There was no plot and the acting by some very fine veteran actors was mediocre at best. 2 thumbs down. If I had a third hand it would be 3 thumbs down.

But that is just my humble opinion.

I'm changing my answer to Reservoir Dogs, shouldn't have been R, should have been PG at the most.

Also, American Pie : The Book of Love - which I believe appeared on AFI's top 100.

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The Quick and the Dead was great.

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Goodfellas-never got into it, and all this "best ganster movie of all time" the way it is often labeled seems laughable to say the least.

Fight Club- was never a big fan of the whole experience. Although i really respect and love all the other Fincher movies.

American Beauty- ugh!

Edward Scissorhands- Burton has made better movies than this. namely: Big Fish, Sweeney Todd.

Shampoo- it still amazes me that not only this piece of utter gabage is on Empire's top 500 list, but also is considered Ashby's greatest movie..weird that another one of his movies (The Last Detail) is on my personal top 10 list of favorite movies of all time.

Brokeback Mountain- probably just the fact that it's a love between 2 homosexual/bisexual men..other than that there's really nothing special about this...had it been a story of 2 heterosexuals, i think no one would have been interested.

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Amadeus, my god i hate that movie.