most overrated movie of all time

[martin mike]

When Harry Met Sally is my pick. what's yours?

[elleng]

1. HA!

[martin mike]

3. the only good/funny scene in the movie was at the football game

where Billy Crystal is telling Bruno Kirby about the sad state of his life while they both do The Wave.

[stopbush]

2. Ordinary People

with Little Miss Sunshine a close second.

[ailsagirl]

9. loved Ordinary People

I have to say, however, I thought MTM did not do a very good acting job-- I just kept seeing Mary Richards

But Timothy Hutton, Judd Hirsch, and Donald Sutherland were superb

And not bad for a directorial debut (Redford)!

[TexasBushwhacker]

56. I loved it too

Actually I thought MTM was good. She was a professional housewife, wearing the right clothes, marrying a "good catch", but not really capable of loving anyone.

[ailsagirl]

69. She was good in that respect

I was thinking about the ending when she was getting her suitcase out of the closet, then she dissolved in tears. But to me it wasn't poignant or moving at all-- it felt like she was MTM mugging. In fact, a few people in the audience snickered, I recall.

But still-- one of my favorites.

[TexasBushwhacker]

84. I'm with you on that

That was a poor choice by Redford. I don't think her character would have crumbled into tears. She would have packed her bags with icy efficiency.

[Throd]

4. I don't know about all time, but for recent times I nominate "Avatar".

[NightWatcher]

11. And Disney is making a sequel as well as an Avatar Land in Animal Kingdom

"Oh, I can't wait to go to Avatar Land at Disney", said no one ever.

[yallerdawg]

13. "Avatar" was a stone cold ripoff.

For me, "Out of Africa" will always be the most overrated movie of all time. It is unwatchable.

[Wounded Bear]

17. Was my first thought, too...

[JonLP24]

5. The English Patient

Or Citizen Kane.

[ailsagirl]

8. The English Patient was sooooo boring

I nominate Titanic

And I thought When Harry Met Sally was insipid

[JonLP24]

60. I feel the same way as Elaine

https://m.

[Laffy Kat]

65. I so agree with Elaine about TEP...

Would rather stick needles in my eyes rather than sit through that movie again!

[femmocrat]

24. I loved The English Patient!

LOL It is one of my favorites. After seeing the movie, I bought and read the book.

My vote goes to "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" which was a bunch of drunken yelling, IMO.

[Paladin]

47. I thought "The English Patient" was great.

But it never, ever fails to turn up on DU "Most Hated Movies Of All Time" lists.

[Orrex]

106. Heh.

These lists are usually a chance for hipsters to flash their hipster cred by showing how much smarter they are than critics and audiences.

Of course, my selection is entirely correct and valid, but everyone else is a hipster.

[Paladin]

107. Good take on the situation. (nt)

[oswaldactedalone]

51. Definitely Citizen Kane

Most overrated movie of all time.

[shenmue]

63. Me too

[CanSocDem]

90. It's a great movie.

To this day, one of the best depictions of the of the spirit of American capitalism. Greed, excess, social and judicial power and the ultimate power of public values.

It's been a while since I've seen it so I might be "mis-remembering it"....


.

[TexasBushwhacker]

55. Not fond of the English Patient even though I normally like Ralph Fiennes

Actually I'm not fond of movies about adulterers in general. I didn't like Bridges of Madison County either.

[pressbox69]

104. No Rosebuds

for you.

[Beaverhausen]

6. Pulp Fiction

[martin mike]

18. oh HELL yeah!!!

I was so glad when Schindler's List beat that piece of dung for Best Picture!

[cemaphonic]

77. Forrest Gump won that year

speaking of overrated movies.

[3catwoman3]

79. Forrest Gump...

...required waaaaaaaaaaaay to much willing suspension of disbelief.

[XemaSab]

37. This is the correct choice

[pinboy3niner]

50. The 'Kill Bill' movies were worse

They just made me think "Kill me. Kill me now!"

[TexasBushwhacker]

57. Kill Bill would have been better if it was just one tight film

I like Pulp Fiction though. HATED The Hateful 8.

[Tikki]

7. Those mafia movies...all and any of them.

I did like Married To the Mob, a bit.


Tikki

[Laffy Kat]

14. I walked out of "The Godfather". Yes, I did.

I can understand that it was a great movie, just bored me to death, though.

[Tikki]

15. That is exactly how I feel about those movies.

They are not heroes. They're somewhat organized ...whoopee!! so is my sock drawer.


Tikki

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

45. Agree

I watched II in a packed theater and really bored.

[Brother Buzz]

23. Whoa, Get Shorty was a mafia movie....

and it's on my short list for one the most entertaining films ever. Be Cool wasn't half bad, either.

I was sad Elmore Leonard died before he could write more Chili Palmer novels.

[Patiod]

89. One of my favorites.

I love Elmore. At least he inspired Justified before he left us.

[OriginalGeek]

97. “If work was a good thing, the rich would have it all and not let you do it.” — Elmore Leonard

another vote of love for Elmore Leonard.

I read somewhere that Walton Goggins would like to continue the character of Boyd Crowder in some fashion and it frustrates me greatly that I have no position of influence to encourage that line of thinking. If he could get Timothy Olyphant on board I would have to sell my house and donate the proceeds to whatever kickstarter/fundraiser it took to make it happen.

Or perhaps an email in support of the project. But it would be one hell of an enthusiastic email.

[Enrique]

10. i'm not going to say mine

i'll just say it's on 8 people's top ten on the other thread.

[True Dough]

41. Not The Shawshank Redemption!!!

Say it ain't so!

[NightWatcher]

12. Any Woody Allen movie, It's a Wonderful Life, Titanic, or Citizen Snooze

[ailsagirl]

70. I must confess I loved Play it Again Sam

and Annie Hall-- but not any others

[lame54]

71. Even his bad ones are overrated?...

I don't think you are reviewing the movies

[JonLP24]

73. I loved Whatever Works with Larry David

Probably my favorite Woody Allen film.

[Liberal_in_LA]

88. Totally agree about woody allen movies

[First Speaker]

16. Earth--the "Boy And His Tractor" movie from Stalinist days...

...it's still on some people's all-time best lists. Have they ever *seen* it...?

[Wolf Frankula]

19. La Dolce Vita

A bunch of Italian film types sitting around swilling Scotch. Not because they like it, because it's expensive and they want to show they can afford it. The 'Hollywood Sex Symbol' doing the most boring strip tease ever. Paparazzi swarming over everything and everyone. Fellini was never so boring.

Wolf

[jmowreader]

20. The Graduate. Contest is over.

This might have been a good movie the year it came out. I was four then. In 2016 everything about this movie is fucked-up - imagine the lawsuits that would happen if someone found out his business partner's son was screwing his wife - and that is a major part of this movie.

In second place: Breakfast at Tiffany's, the heartwarming tale of a beautiful young lady who is too stupid to realize she's being used as a Mafia courier. Bonus points for the racism inherent in casting the whitest man in Hollywood as Japanese.

Third prize has to go to Boyhood. On the surface it's an interesting concept: follow an average person through his 12 school years. Scratch the surface and you realize: So fucking what? An average person's childhood isn't interesting to anyone but that person, and sometimes it's not even interesting to him.

Fourth, fifth and sixth places: Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy. Put them in any order you like. Riddle me this, Batman: Explain in less than a thousand words, preferably without pointing at a shipping container full of comic books, why Heath Ledger's Joker was the way he was. Just being a total choad isn't strong enough, and that's the only explanation that makes sense to me. (These films also point out why DC's movies suck: the only people who are going to understand them are serious comic book geeks.)

Seventh place: Forrest Gump. I just can't freaking stand anything about this movie. Nuff said.

Eighth through tenth places are, in no specific order, the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Those could have been pretty damn good if they'd have left all the hobbit shit on the cutting room floor and stuck to Aragorn and Legolas' story arc.

[stopbush]

26. Agree about the Hobbit scenes in the Ring.

Boring and sappy.

[yallerdawg]

27. What?

The "hobbitses" are the point of the movie!

How us "little people" doing right impact all the big things in the world!

LOTR's movie trilogy is underrated if anything!!!

[stopbush]

35. The Hobbits stay in their shire while the men and elves do the heavy lifting.

So, we get 4 Hobbits who take up the cause. While men, women, elves and dwarfs are being slaughtered by the thousands, 99.999% of Hobbits lie sleeping in their beds. The 4 who join the quest get a few cuts and bruises, but none of them pay the ultimate price.

Hobbits. Who needs em?

[catnhatnh]

39. Pic-a-pack, Reynold's Wrap, Wheaties and Trix

They hid behind the lines....

Only trust an elf or troll as far as you can throw 'em....

[Iggo]

78. Smoke a joint, toke a joint, pop the mescaline-oh.

[Beaverhausen]

33. Sorry I disagree with all of your choices except Boyhood

But to each his own of course

[Gidney N Cloyd]

53. re The Graduate: why would there be lawsuits?

[jmowreader]

54. They'd think of something

[Trailrider1951]

21. Forrest Gump

I LOVE Tom Hanks, and even he couldn't polish that turd.

[Upthevibe]

22. Birdman! I can't believe this ridiculous movie won the Oscar. Also, Avatar N/T

[femmocrat]

25. I couldn't get through the first 10-15 min. of Birdman.

No idea if it got better, because I thought it was horrible.

[handmade34]

64. loved Birdman

maybe because of all of its extreme weirdness

[Tommy_Carcetti]

94. I can think of 6-7 movies that should have gotten Best Picture over Birdman.

It was just too self-indulgent for my taste and forgettable in terms of story.

[Skittles]

43. agreed

pure dreck

[Iris]

101. Yep.

[uriel1972]

28. I would have to say...

Any Matrix movie. The sad fact is I had a lecturer who treated it as some sort of documentory.

[hibbing]

32. hahaha...that was the first one that came to my mind

It was on the tv the other night and I watched about 15 minutes of, it was bad when it was released and it does not hold up to the mirror of time well.

Peace

[Auggie]

29. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

[lastlib]

30. Gone With The Wind

eom

[mythology]

40. This is my answer

With a movie like Citizen Kane, I was bored by it, but recognize the artistry and how the cinematography influenced things. I have no idea what people see in Gone With the Wind.

[Marthe48]

66. Read the book, watched the film 3 times

I finally understood one thing- Scarlett lost the life she was intended to have, thought she was going to have, and instead of remaining the entitled girl, became a strong, tough woman.

[Mendocino]

31. Scarface

[TexasBushwhacker]

85. I always wanted to get one of those clickable counters

And count how many times he says fuck.

[sharp_stick]

92. We used to drink

everytime he said fuck. I don't think any of us ever remembered the ending of the movie.

[TexasBushwhacker]

100. Unless you used thimbles, that could be dangerous!

The Big Lebowski too.

[rurallib]

34. Blair Witch Project

good gravy that was horrible and so shaky it almost made me puke

[martin mike]

44. that's my #2

with Paranormal Activity coming in third. both films bored the SHIT out of me! (and a couple of people DID puke in the theater I saw TBWP in.)

[mopinko]

52. oh yeah. witches? i thought there was an artist loose in the woods.

in art school, we would call that- site specific found object sculpture.
i thought they were cool.

[pinboy3niner]

36. The Neighbor, the Vacuum, and the Hammering

It's a good mystery, but not THAT good.

[Ron Obvious]

38. Star Wars

For reasons I've gone into before...

[Sherman A1]

102. Agreed

It was a cute little story, but nothing beyond that in my opinion.

[True Dough]

42. Groundhog Day

Just couldn't get into it. Lost in Translation a close second.

[ghostsinthemachine]

46. 2 Bill Murray movies

Rushmore and Lost in Translation. Insomniacs dream movies.

[sarge43]

48. 2001: A Space Odyssey n/t

[Paladin]

49. "Inglorious Basterds" is the first one that pops up for me.

Tarantino has done a lot better work.

[Sherman A1]

103. That was one I simply could not stand

I found it a complete waste of money and time.

[Paladin]

108. I thought it was damn near blasphemous, dicking around with WWII history like that. (nt)

[Sherman A1]

109. Blasphemous perhaps

lousy movie, most definitely.

[TexasBushwhacker]

58. The Exorcist and Rosemary's Baby

I don't believe in all that possession, exorcism, Satan, etc so they just weren't scary to me.

[sharp_stick]

59. Good Will Hunting

I absolutely hated everything about that movie especially Robin Williams reading chapter headings from a Psych 101 textbook.

[GoCubsGo]

61. Saturday Night Fever

I was in high school when it came out. My parents forbade my siblings and I to go see it, because it was R-rated. My older sister and I went and saw it anyway. It was one of the most disappointing movies I ever saw. I never could see what all the hype was about. My punishment for disobeying my parents was to have to sit through that movie for an hour and a half.

[Skittles]

75. I didn't like it either

I thought everyone in it seemed like a caricature

[Major Nikon]

62. Joe Dirt 2

[Missn-Hitch]

80. LOL! Cheers.

[Marthe48]

67. Bonnie and Clyde

Just watched it for the first time the other night. I wanted to see Gene Wilder as the undertaker. I knew I wouldn't like it, and I didn't. Although the milk joke was funny. The first time

[Sanity Claws]

68. Being There

I thought there was nothing there.

[WinkyDink]

72. These are all the nominees and winners for "Best Picture". Pick yer poison!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Picture

[JonLP24]

74. Definitely Rocky and The Deer Hunter

[3catwoman3]

81. The Deer Hunter totally sucked.

I couldn't wait for it to end. If I hadn't been with someone, I would have left.

[JonLP24]

83. Some scenes would go on forever

I swear they showed the entire wedding and the entire drive to the mountains, stopping and pulling over, etc.

[RandySF]

76. ET

[3catwoman3]

82. Many worthy contenders here.

I absolutely detested Terms of Endearment. I kept thinking, "Die already!"

[jalan48]

86. Rocky

Because white fighters couldn't win the heavy weight championship in the real world they had to make a movie where it happened. Sylvester Stallone is the worst.

[Wolf Frankula]

87. Rocky Loses in the First Movie

That's the best. They went downhill after that.

Wolf

[jalan48]

91. Oh good. I forgot about that.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

93. I found The Dark Knight to be quite overrated.

The story to me felt incredibly clunky and scattershot, and most of the characters came off superficial. Heath Ledger did an okay job as the Joker but even that was magnified due to his untimely death.

But people rave about it as a classic. I just didn't see it.

[Orrex]

105. Tim Burton's awful "Batman" was much worse and is chronically over-praised

I saw it in the theater the day after its premiere, and I hated almost every frame of it. Horrible in every possible way: casting (other than Keaton & Nicholson, perhaps), story, cinematography, music, effects, etc. All of it terrible.

Yet people have been heaping praise on for decades as if it isn't close to unwatchable.

[martin mike]

110. I didn't buy Michael Keaton as Batman

sorry, I know many people who say they were skeptical but were 'won over' by MK's performance. I wasn't one of them. and I'm not a fan of Tim Burton in general.

[Orrex]

111. Agree completely

Keaton definitely didn't "win me over," but I found his performance credible if not particularly memorable.

Also not a fan of Burton in general.

[LanternWaste]

95. The Matrix. Very good CGI tech without a movie to lend itself to.

The Matrix. Very good CGI tech without a movie to lend itself to.

"It's kind of a letdown when a movie begins by redefining the nature of reality, and ends with a shoot-out..." (R. Ebert)

[trackfan]

96. 2001: A Space Odyssey

Honorable mention to The Deer Hunter and Gone With the Wind.

[lunatica]

98. "Love is never having to say you're sorry"

Love story with Ryan O'Neal and Ali MacGraw. It shows why neither one of them ever made it in the movies.

[JCMach1]

99. Princess Bride

I know that's going to catch flak, but hey very, very overrated...

[hamsterjill]

112. Thank you. I hated that damn movie.

n/t