What Are the Most Over-Rated Movies of All Time?

[Kilgore Trout]

What are the most over-rated moveis of all time. This can include movies that were overly popular, overly critically aclaimed, overly hyped, overly awarded, etc.

This doesn't mean they are necessarily bad movies, but not deserving of their reputation.

Mine would be:

Scarface
No Country for Old Men
Memento
Dog Day Afternoon
Twelve Monkeys

I don't think any of these are bad, and are actually watchable, but they're mediocre at best.

 

[J Bryson]

Forrest Gump
Annie Hall
The Blair Witch Project

 

[Trey of Diamonds]

Of those listed so far I only disagree with Scarface. On my list are:

Godfather (All of them)
Full Metal Jacket
Any movie with Leslie Nielson in it

 

[J Bryson]

I forgot Gone With The Wind. God, what a disaster of a movie that was for me.

 

[3.14]

exorsist

 

[YmirGF]

Any Star Wars movie
Anything from the brothers Marx
Brokeback Mountain
Crash
Mystic River

 

[Watchmen]

My Big Fat Greek Wedding

 

[J Bryson]

My Big Fat Greek Wedding

Oh, yeah, that was just ridiculous.

 

[Phasmid]

What are the most over-rated moveis of all time.

Anything by Quentin Tarrentino (sp?)

 

[Quagmire]

Citizen Kane, often voted the best movie ever made. I never got that.

 

[Watchmen]

Citizen Kane, often voted the best movie ever made. I never got that.

It's for its technical achievements. It revolutionized how films are made.

 

[McBell]

Star Trek: First Contact

"You will pay for the whole seat, but will only use the edge."
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[rojse]

Titanic.

 

[Yes Man]

300....

 

[J Bryson]

Titanic.

Oh, totally. To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, it would take a heart of stone not to laugh at the death of Jack.

 

[McBell]

ALL of the High School Musical Movies

Anything else with Zack Effron

 

[McBell]

Titanic.

yet Titanic was still loads better than Message In A Bottle.

 

[Trey of Diamonds]

Anything else with Zack Effron

But I liked Hairspray.

 

[Quagmire]

It's for its technical achievements. It revolutionized how films are made.

Ah. So it's probably better appreciated by the people in the industry itself (or educated movie buffs) than by the average viewer.

 

[rojse]

Ah. So it's probably better appreciated by the people in the industry itself (or educated movie buffs) than by the average viewer.

I wonder how often this "revolutionary cinema techniques" phrase is used to defend otherwise lacklustre movies.