Most Overrated Movies of All Time

[NinjaIsAwesome]

Star Wars - Wasn't great, Story loophole and bad acting
Se7en - simply painful to watch

 

[oldbag]

Slumdog - contrived awfulness - arch villain demands a sandwich.

 

[ElliorR]

Talking of Danny Boyle...

The Olympics opening ceremony. It was crap.

 

[Vonhelmet]

Slumdog - contrived awfulness - arch villain demands a sandwich.

I thought it was an intereating concept to begin with: the idea of your knowledge being the sum total of your past experiences. It didn't really go anywhere interesting with that, though.

 

[Nitefly]

I thought Slumdog was a great film, literally cheered at the ending... in my flat

 

[matt0r]

The bladerunner hate in here makes me cry. But the first film that comes to mind for me is napoleon dynamite. All the performances just seemed so forced and it just seemed like it was the writer's in jokes with his friends on screen. I just felt very separated from what i was watching if that makes sense, i suppose comedy is a big divider.

Plenty of films listed in here that i love, so horses for courses and all that.

 

[JBod]

Bladerunner
The Watchmen

 

[The Running Man]

Okay ill say it shawshank redemption sure decent move. 9.2 rating by 800,00 people tells me it is well overrated.

 

[NinjaIsAwesome]

Okay ill say it shawshank redemption sure decent move. 9.2 rating by 800,00 people tells me it is well overrated.

Its okay once, Decent story but when people go on and on about how you HAVE to see it. Just ruins it.

 

[The Running Man]

Its a good film with strong all round appeal to many audiences. Does this make it the best film ever¿

 

[Rroff]

Just about every Hitchcock movie. Everyone tells me how big of a deal it is, but meh - most are badly paced, almost all are cliche, really bad special effects, completely not for me.

To be fair hitchcock movies were pretty ground breaking at their time, obviously don't stand up so well these days.

 

[matt0r]

Its a good film with strong all round appeal to many audiences. Does this make it the best film ever¿

no it makes it the most popular on a website. Im a fan, but there are a bunch of films that will come out this year that will pull in million's of dollars does that make them all amazing must see, nope. Just popular films

 

[Sean_UK]

For me the most recent has to be Avatar, looks great yes but as for the rest...

 

[The Running Man]

9.2 isn't just popular though. It means people are giving it a 10/10 or 9 minimum really.

 

[Fire_fly]

I agree with Titanic, Avatar and The Lord of the Rings films.

My own personal choice of overrated films at the moment is all of the Superhero films that we have been deluged with for the past several years.

 

[NinjaIsAwesome]

I'm Very curious on what the hobbit will be like after all this hype. All 3 of them

 

[cm1179]

If you want to get your overrated rage on, watch The Big Lebowski and O Brother Where Art Thou.

can't stand the big lebowski but i really like o brother where art thou

 

[Robosapien]

Debbie Does Dallas.

 

[atpbx]

Its a good film with strong all round appeal to many audiences. Does this make it the best film ever¿

Ive tried a couple of times to watch it, its just......... boring.

I can't agree with a lot of the films listed by people here, but the Shawshank Redemption is the most overrated movie all time bar none.

Its almost as if people are afraid to say anything bad about it for fear of the film appreciation credentials being called into question.

 

[Vonhelmet]

It's obviously overrated because there is no one best film. Any film in the top 20 or so could be argued to be the best, probably more.