Most Overrated Movies of All Time

['Harry]

TDK//TDKR - So much fuss, but oh so average.

Avatar - Visuals are great, story is beyond ****.

LOTR - Great effort, but some scenes really killed it for me. The whole Sam/Frodo going through Mordor bored me to tears. Plus the homo erotic edge to their characters was naff.

80's films - This era of film making hasn't aged well. Generalized I know, but look at the films of that decade Terminator/Predetor/Goodfellas etc etc none of aged well, all have massive plot holes.

Rocky Horror Picture Show - I can't describe in words how much I hate this trash.

 

[McBain]

Tarantino made Deathproof. It's about a stunt driver who kills people by wrecking his car. It's complete rubbish.
Rodriguez made Planet Terror. It's about a zombie invasion and is shallow, shlocky nonsense. But entertaining if that's your thing.

The pair were called Grindhouse.

Deathproof, my god, so bad.

 

[MCMLX]

Not the film so much as the hype surrounding it.
I was 18 or 19 when Alien was released and went to see it after I heard all the stuff about how scary etc the film was and came away decidedly unimpressed.A good film but I felt not as good as it was made out to be at the time.

 

[blueshift]

This thread is annoying.

Agreed

 

[gothic_hobbit]

The Fast And The Furious series of movies.

 

[Armitage Shanks]

Hurt Locker- Watched this fairly soon after watching the excellent series generation kill and it suffered very badly in any kind of comparison

Pulp fiction- overrated pretentious drivel. Like most Tarantino films. Interesting enough I like 'kill bill' which many people dislike. Found it very entertaining as it doesn't take itself too seriously. Its fun trash.

 

[Lartyconshayo]

I realise saying this on a computer forum is asking for trouble but...

Lord of the Rings

I just don't get it. I don't get the obsession. Good films, yes but I wouldn't watch them again.

Watched once never again. The Hobbit trilogy is even more awful. Overlong pointless waste of time.

That said I still feel my back getting up when people say godfather is a bad movie.

 

[Robosapien]

inception - seems to be very highly rated. it was ok, but not anything special. it was billed as a really complicated, clever story but was very simple, and beyond the concept, it wasn't much of anything else.

winner

 

[arc@css]

Godfather.

 

[jcr]

Avatar

 

[robgmun]

The Fast And The Furious series of movies.

except for 5, 5 was actually pretty damn good! Then it turn to crap again with 6

 

[AGD]

Pulp Fiction. Shallow and dull.

 

[ExRayTed]

Pulp Fiction. Shallow and dull.

I understand this is your opinion.

This is mine - it was neither.

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. Over-rated tosh. There was no 'film' in the film - just a series of pretty backdrops and effects

 

[aardvark]

i recently watched Sunshine for the first time - some people seem to rate it highly but i thought it was crap. Sure it 'looked' great but i couldn't suspend my disbelief with the moronic 'physics'.

 

[G-MAN2004]

Slumdog Millionaire.
Every super hero film apart from BB, Dark Knight and Dark Knight Rises.

 

[Converge]

Gravity.

 

[Robosapien]

Gravity.

Holy mother of god how did this not jump out of the recesses of my mind screaming at the top of it's rotten voice "It's me!" in conjunction with a fluorescent sign pointing at it so vividly fluorescent that new colours are invented to draw the requisite attention to the words which read "I am overrated!"

I applaude your superior focus on reality and recent media. Well played sir, well played. This film was so massively overrated it was ridiculous.

 

[beachBOYken]

Some of the movies in here are great that people are suggesting, everyone's got there opinion but what the hell!

 

[cm1179]

the matrix
the big lebowski
being john malkovich

 

[Kosmiche]

I will say Reservoir Dogs.

Its just a OK film imo.