help out - what is a movie you find to be overrated? i can think of many, but i'll start out with just one...
I say - Fight Club
Hexit says - Batman Begins
Jonii-Gakou says - Godfather Trilogy
irthepwn says - The Hangover
benitogallego says - Avatar
Cenaris says - Donnie Darko
memorypalace says - The Shawshank Redemption
zimeta08 says - Watchmen and 300
Capn-Chaos says - Forrest Gump and Titanic
I add - Pulp Fiction
ComicBookArtFiend says - Moulin Rouge, ET, Matrix, Metropolis and Empire Strikes Back
SWHalo2 says - Napolean Dynamite
TheAmoebic - How To Train Your Dragon
Pyro-The-Maniac says - Citizen Kane
Weidel says - Cloverfield
jhwood9 says - The Blair Witch Project
Mr-Greeley says - Scarface
perezmig577 says - Reservoir Dogs
Arnie-Sketch says - Saw series
CaptainUnobservant says - Tropic Thunder and Superbad
Redcavalier says - Star Trek (Abrams)
mdavidct says - Juno, Traffic, Ocean's Eleven and Erin Brockovich
Beerovich says - Harry Potter series
Arnie-Sketch adds again and says - The Big Lebowski
midnightheist says - The Dark Knight and Shrek
VivaJimmy says - The Boondock Saints
MyronStanley says - Wall-E, Up, Pirates of the Caribbean, Million Dollar Baby, Mystic River and Alice in Wonderland (tb)
strongstuff says - Top Gun
CousinWalter says - Kill Bill
hangemhigh13 says - Clockwork Orange
DeadBilly27 says - The Terminator, T2, Aliens, No Country For Old Men, Borat, Grindhouse and 2001: A Space Oddysey
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A recent ultra overrated film is The Hurt Locker.
Its has NO PLOT.
It's just a bomb squad driving around Iraq... doing stuff.
But you know what, Pulp Fiction has no plot when you think about it, but it at least had cool characters and memorable dialogue, not the Hurt locker though, it's just some normal-ass dudes in a bomb squad talking about stuff.
No action either, there's a tense moment or two... and then it just turns out to be no big deal:
'Hey I think some kid is dead! Wait he's not.. nevermind!'
'Oh no some snipers, let's shoot them... okay we've shot them. Neat.'
'The insurgents went that a-way let's go chase them... we've lost them... some guy got shot... stuff.'
Let's recap:
Normal-ass dues in a bomb squad talking about stuff, making no big deals. Thrilling?
SO I THINK TO MYSELF! Wait, maybe this is like a documentary it's supposed to show the situation, the stress, the mundaneness and the stress of Iraq right now, maybe it psychological and shit! Well guess what! It's totally unrealistic, veterans have complained that that's not how patrols, operations or bomb defusing missions happen at all.
Boring & pointless.
But if there IS a movie that absolutely not deserve so much rating, it's Avatar!
While I can understand that many people love its universe, well... except that... It's all about technical, CGI, 3D... and nothing more, just look at the story : Avatar = Sci-Fi Pocahontas.
Waaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy over-rated imo.