Top 10 Over-rated films

Originally posted by janus77
Shawshank initially received modest critical praise, iirc, it's just that over time the inflated idea of it being some profound epic came into being and it wormed its way into the upper reaches of so many "best of all times" lists.

A movie worthy of all the attention it gets? I would say The Godfather was genuinely epic and engrossing, felt very real and was a good depiction of the inevitable chaos of a crumbling patriarchy.

It's comparing apples and oranges to me, my friend. Both excellent films (people have mentioned The Godfather as overrated, too, btw). This is why this thread is extremely irritating to me, 'cause it's so easy for people to take highly-regarded movies and say they think they are overrated, but the fact of the matter is, Shawshank has the reputation it has because it is superbly directed, written, acted, and hasn't really aged a bit despite being almost 20 years old. It is my opinion that if a movie is directed properly, it is so natural that it comes across as unassuming, and will therefore will seem overrated, but that is exactly what makes it great. So many movies these days try too hard, with shaky cams and over-the-top special effects which has altered people's expectations. I'd rather hear about Underrated Movies... hidden gems, if you will. Much more interesting and useful to me.

10.) The English Patient (1996)
9.) No Country for Old Men (2007)
8.) Clerks (1994)
7.) Things to do in Denver when your Dead (1995)
6.) Mulholland Drive (2001)
5.) O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
4.) Signs (2002)
3.) Big Daddy (1999)
2.) Click (2006)
1.) Punch-Drunk Love (2002)

Anyone who knows movies well can already tell I'm not much of an Adam Sandler fan although I did like the waterboy 😉

I haventh heard of most the movies you have mentioned so I doont think you can say they are over rated.Over rated movies are movies that are huge money makers taht did well at the box office but are not very good films such as Return OF The Jedi.It does not measure up to the greatness of its two predessors and yet some star wars fans think its the best one. 🙄

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Originally posted by Major_Lexington
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whatever,their not over rated films like you want to believe.

yeah, there are much worse out there.

Overrated films:

Slumdog Millionaire: A good movie, but not worth all the accolades and awards that it received.

The Town: A cheap, overrated, hyped-up piece of trash that, imho, is more like a feature-length soap opera than a regular movie. I admittedly liked the beginning of The Town, with the aerial and on the ground shots of Boston's Charlestown section, as well as the opening bank heist, but after that, The Town went from being okay to being just plain bad, in a matter of minutes. I also might add that The Town is clearly a rip-off of a whole bunch of better heist movies that're slapped together.

Exotic Marigold Hotel: It kind of s**ked. I didn't like it, really.

The Artist: A good, interesting movie, but a tad overrated.

Gosford Park: Blecchh! Very overrated...and dull, imo

1776: I won't even elaborate on that anymore.

Wizard of Oz: A little overrated, but a good film, nonetheless.

Fiddler On The Roof: Not that great.

Jaws: A captivating action movie that I enjoyed, but the fakery (i. e. the mannequin's leg in the water, and the way they built the shark) was rather obvious.

Top 0 is

harry pottor
Men in Black
Hide away
Spider man.

🤣 📖 Nice thread...!!!

Originally posted by Major_Lexington
10.) The English Patient (1996)
9.) No Country for Old Men (2007)
8.) Clerks (1994)
7.) Things to do in Denver when your Dead (1995)
6.) Mulholland Drive (2001)
5.) O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
4.) Signs (2002)
3.) Big Daddy (1999)
2.) Click (2006)
1.) Punch-Drunk Love (2002)

Anyone who knows movies well can already tell I'm not much of an Adam Sandler fan although I did like the waterboy 😉

Originally posted by Mr Parker
I haventh heard of most the movies you have mentioned so I doont think you can say they are over rated.Over rated movies are movies that are huge money makers taht did well at the box office but are not very good films such as Return OF The Jedi.It does not measure up to the greatness of its two predessors and yet some star wars fans think its the best one. 🙄

How have you not heard of most of those films?

And quite a few of them are critically well regarded. Movies can also be overrated without being popular hits, as long as their reputation is very positive.

Not that I agree with that list...just saying.

Originally posted by Addyrew
Top 0 is

harry pottor
Men in Black
Hide away
Spider man.

excellent post with an excellent list. 💃 👆 👆 🤘 🤘

I love the Harry Potter films but yeah I would say because they made so many damn sequals they have earned the reputation for being over rated.They should have quit while they were ahead and stopped after four IMO.Havent heard of Hideaway but got you nailed it on Men In Black And Spiderman.

Those two movies are easily in the top five list for the most over rated movies ever in history.Spiderman would never have made the money it did at the box office if he wasnt such an extremely populer characer or gotten any good reviews like it did.Once you look at the movie objectively,you can see how horrible a film it really is.It looked like it was written by some five year old kid.

It was horribly written and betrayed the csource material and angered millions of fans which is why they are rebooting the movie.This one looks a lot more loyal to the comicbook and hopefully it will do for spiderman what Batman Begins did for Batman.

Originally posted by Bardock42
How have you not heard of most of those films?

And quite a few of them are critically well regarded. Movies can also be overrated without being popular hits, as long as their reputation is very positive.

Not that I agree with that list...just saying.

first three films and Clerks I have heard of but never heard of those others except Signs and that one shouldnt even be listed because as i recall it didnt get good reviews and I dont recall it doing very well at the box office which is no surprise since it was so god awful horrible even with Mel Gibson in it.Why on earth he would pick a monstrocity like that to do is beyond me. 😆

Originally posted by Mr Parker
Spiderman would never have made the money it did at the box office if he wasnt such an extremely populer characer or gotten any good reviews like it did.Once you look at the movie objectively,you can see how horrible a film it really is.It looked like it was written by some five year old kid.

It was horribly written and betrayed the csource material and angered millions of fans which is why they are rebooting the movie.This one looks a lot more loyal to the comicbook and hopefully it will do for spiderman what Batman Begins did for Batman. [/B]

You're trying to put a negative twist to Spiderman by stating ALL THE POSITIVE points of why it did so well in the first place.

Objectively the story did suffer however IMO Spidey was the first movie that proved a live-action superhero could effectively be brought to the big screen & be credible enough.
At least give Raimi & crew enough credit for that.

Originally posted by Esau Cairn
You're trying to put a negative twist to Spiderman by stating ALL THE POSITIVE points of why it did so well in the first place.

Objectively the story did suffer however IMO Spidey was the first movie that proved a live-action superhero could effectively be brought to the big screen & be credible enough.
At least give Raimi & crew enough credit for that.

Oh yeah,I'll give them credit for THAT much.They did do SOME right things when they made it.Like for instance,Im sad to see that the actress that played Petes mom in sm1 isnt returning and that JK SIMMONS probably wont as Jonah either in the next one.

I heard that he isnt in this new one which is fine by me.I want them to get the origin story RIGHT this time and if that means deleting screentime to the other supporting characters like Jonah and Robbie and thats what it takes to get it right which might just be the case,then Im all for it obviously.as long as they are in the second one is what counts and is important.

Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

Edward scissorhands

Fear and loathing in las vegas

E.T

Blade Runner

Monty Python movies

Brazil

Donnie Darko

The Hangover

Casino

Originally posted by jinXed by JaNx
Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

Fear and loathing in las vegas

TCM is widely regarded by the population as being trash. But it's an excellent film. Good acting by unknowns. Cinematography was a rusty nail which suited the plot perfectly. The soundtrack was used with items commonly found on a farm (pans tins ect.)
And the characters were the perfect inbred psychos that no film has ever matched since. Tobes best film. Underated more like it.

Fear and Loathing was a masterpiece.

Originally posted by Mr Parker

the biggest laughable one on there by far though is Star Wars a new hope. Try Return Of The Jedi and you WOULD be accurate.

oh and Batman Begins and The Dark Knight are the only decent batman movies that have been made. 😆

while were talking about overated films,you can add spiderman 1 and two there as well. 🙄

I think the Batman Begins & the Dark Knight are good, but in my opinion, just not as phenominel as many people say. You may disagree if you want. Watching The Dark Knight recently though, I like it more now.

Well, I quite liked the first 2 spider-man fuilms. Spider-man 2 was amazing! I actually perfer it to the Dark Knight. I actually think spider-man 3 is very underrated. Sure; it's the weekest of the 3, but it's not terrible. I quite enjoyed it.