Most Overrated Movie of the 21st Century (So Far)

[Doug the Dem]

For me, the answer is beyond easy: Paranormal Activity, or, as I call it, Parannoying INACTIVITY! C'mon, admit it: nothing even APPROACHING "scary" happens till the final 30 seconds. (The Blair Witch Project was even more of a snoozefest, but it was released before 2000.)

What pos film would YOU choose?

[Liberal Jesus Freak]

1. The Martian.

I've slept through it at least four times. Hubby loves it

[NRaleighLiberal]

5. we didn't make it half way through

[unblock]

6. We really liked it. Of course, mrs. unblock read the book first

And loved it from the first line ("well, I'm basically fucked&quot

Also, I got to see a premiere before it officially opened because one of our business partners was indirectly involved in financing the movie. That was pretty cool.

It actually very much felt like a high-tech version of cast away, with just enough humor thrown in, but few people seem to agree with me.

[irisblue]

7. I watched the DVD tonight, munching popcorn.

I did like the book & it's ending much bettet then the popcorn flick.

[Xolodno]

39. That's a given.... the book is always better.

Much like some evangelical people I know said "Did you see Mel Gibsons, the Passion???!!!"

Yeah, it was a crummy movie. I liked the book better. The look on their faces.....PRICELESS!!!!!!

[irisblue]

41. James Caveziel, until late in the movie, was easy on the eyes.

😍

[exboyfil]

51. Then it turned into Torture Porn

I always wonder about my grandma seeing it. She had probably never seen an R rated movie in her life. I never got much feedback from her, but I do know that Passion plays often get pretty bloody.

[Persisted]

93. "I don't watch snuff films." I always say that if someone asks if I've seen it.nt

[Liberal Jesus Freak]

8. Hubby read the book first, too.

And he wants to be your new best friend

[unblock]

12. Haha

Unfortunately that premiere thing might be a one-off....

[alphafemale]

89. I also did the book. Well audiobook.

I was in a public place.

(On a table donating plasma actually)

And at that first line I really did laugh and snort a bit.

It was really funny at places. But you could also tell tell the author knew science even if the science was highly improbable...he made it sound....maybe....just a little....possible.

[unblock]

90. It was well-researched at least.

So the parts he cared to make realistic were quite plausible. Then in some places he said to hell with it and went for drama instead.

Like the storm at the beginning that causes the whole mess in the first place, that just doesn't happen on mars. But it's a story, after all. A bit of dramatic license is fine.

Star Trek had some cool science and technology in it, some of which was so realistic it's actually here (communicators = cell phones). Then they had to go and have a transporter and faster than light travel. It's all good.

[Doug the Dem]

91. Mars doesn't have Sandstorms???

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92. Dust storms certainly happen. Just not with that intensity

With such a thin atmosphere it's essentially impossible for a dust storm to cause anything like that kind of damage and strand an astronaut.

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/the-fact-and-fiction-of-martian-dust-storms

[Doug the Dem]

98. National Geographic Clip 1:43 Long

Also, you should look up the story of Mariner 9. (Yes, I am a space nerd!)

[unblock]

99. Yes, they look very impressive

But they peak out around 60 mph and with the force of a atmosphere that's only about 1% of ours iirc.

Nasa has specifically said the opening sequence of the Martian was unrealistic. The author knew this and agreed but went for drama.

[ProfessorGAC]

108. I'm With You, UB

The winds would to be 1000 mph to begin to do damage like in that movie

[Doug the Dem]

112. Okay, I Give!

Maybe I was thinking about Neptune. (Sean Spicer provided this excuse.)

[Duppers]

85. Loved it.

Hubs, a nasa physicist, pointed out all the errors, but enjoyed it nonetheless. We re-watched a few times actually. Matt Damon is a fav of ours.


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[Proud liberal 80]

2. Avatar

[IrishEyes]

10. I was just going to say that.

Avatar was really not that great. I didn't like it.

[Xolodno]

24. Yeap.

Disney's Pocahontas toon movie goes to toon movie in space.

[hunter]

34. Yep.

[Codeine]

25. I could not understand the reaction to that one.

Sheer fucking garbage from start to finish. Noble Savage nonsense.

[Docreed2003]

27. Thread winner!!!!

Unoriginal story...over the top CGI...and it blows my mind that people are drooling at the mouth for a sequel to this!

[exboyfil]

50. Three sequels - God help us

Avatar II,III, and IV.

[sweetloukillbot]

30. So much this.

[exboyfil]

46. Yes

I am a big science fiction fan, and for some reason I only recently saw it. It is the ultimate Mighty Whitey film. The human, who has absolutely no experience with a sophisticated culture that has adapted to its environment, is the best at everything. It would have been so much better if he needed to be protected from his environment as he gradually learned to just survive, but he used his knowledge of the humans to aid in the native's conflict (which he did). He should have been like an adviser and backed the play of one of the natives in their fight. Not be the greatest ever seen. Also way too one dimensional with the villain.

[yallerdawg]

3. "Star Wars: The Force Awakens"

Millennium Falcon. Han Solo. Death Star. Same old evil Man in Black.

Shit.

Pay for an original script, please!

Now, "Rogue One" is one of the best 'Star Wars' movies ever! So much more heart!

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

11. Yep.

It was incredibly dumb, the fight seen in the forest went on three times as long as needed or as made sense, I could not buy any number of the things you were supposed to just go along with, like the girl who'd worked as a scavenger her whole life and could fly the ship without any training? Or that it would start right up after sitting out there for how many decades?

It was so stupid that I have no intention of watching any of the others.

Same thing happened with episode I. I couldn't believe that a seven year old kid, which is exactly how old that kid looked, could possibly be such a skilled pilot. While I've mercifully forgotten any plot details, I remember leaving the theater knowing I'd totally wasted my time and that there was no point in seeing the next two movies.

[exboyfil]

48. My daughter likes it

but it might be, on further reflection, even worse than the 2nd and 3rd prequel movies (which is saying something).

Rogue One was far superior and is the third best Star Wars movie ever made (after Empire and New Hope).

[Orrex]

110. The Force Awakens works better if you accept that it's a soft reboot

Pretty much every criticism I've read about it is as cliche and hackneyed as the hackneyed cliches that the critics presume to criticize about it.

It delivered exactly what it promised

[bagelsforbreakfast]

4. I take it you didn't see AVATAR in 3d? I'd agree if not n/m

[customerserviceguy]

15. I did like Avatar in 3D

That kept me awake, waiting for stuff to look like it was going to hit me in the face!

[Squinch]

9. Inception.

[Doug the Dem]

16. Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

I loved that movie!

[Squinch]

17. I know a lot of people loved it. I found it to be just two hours in which all the

dialog served no purpose other than to explain the internal rules of the movie, and the internal rules of the movie changed every time they needed a little action.

At the end, the two people I was with and I were saying, "Oh, jeez. Look. It's another dimension."

I do really adore Joseph Gordon-Levitt, though.

[Lunabell]

13. Deadpool

A big fucking yawn fest for me.

[Baitball Blogger]

14. I'll trade you The Grey for Deadpool

I had to notch down to the level of a prepubescent kid in order to get into it, but, I enjoyed the interplay between characters in the Deadpool.

[Iggo]

63. Best Marvel superhero film in years.

Maybe ever.

[wyldwolf]

114. I particularly liked how it acknowledged International Women's Day

[Orrex]

18. Guardians of the Galaxy

Probably its sequel as well, though I haven't yet bothered to endure it.

[Codeine]

26. I'm a total comics nerd and I still haven't seen that.

It's just toyification gone wild.

[Orrex]

45. Likewise a comics nerd here

Saw the first one and almost couldn't stand it. Not looking forward to the crew's introduction to the Avengers et al.

[IronLionZion]

19. I love the differing viewpoints on this thread!

For me it was Moonlight. People claimed it was robbed of an Oscar so I decided to check it out. I rented it from Netflix and couldn't make it through half. It just wasn't for me.

I have no interest in watching Lala land or Manchester by the sea either, for different reasons.

[mitch96]

42. I have no interest in watching Lala land

I watched it with anticipation for the good part to start.. waited, waited, waited.... and it was over.
meh..... no big deal.

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[Doug the Dem]

62. Actually, Moonlight WON the Oscar for Best Picture

Perhaps you meant one of the actors in it was robbed?

[IronLionZion]

70. I didn't watch the oscars, don't have cable service

But I kept hearing that Moonlight got robbed of some award so I decided too see it.

It looks like Mahershalla Ali won best supporting actor too

I don't know. There was some issue and people were upset

[TexasBushwhacker]

81. They accidently announce La La Land as the winner

There was a mix up with the envelopes. The mistake was quickly corrected, but it was certainly embarrassing.

[Doug the Dem]

87. Holy Shit, You're Right!

I'd completely forgotten about that.

[JCMach1]

71. Moonlight was just Meh.

Rather than nuanced, I found it full of stereotypes.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

20. The Dark Knight

It's not awful, but it sure doesn't deserve all the acclaim it got as supposedly being so groundbreaking. I found it to be mediocre, tedious with bland uninspired characters and a jumbled plot.

[Initech]

21. Frozen!!!!!

Ugh, dear god if I hear "Do you want to build a snowman" one more time I'm going to get out my portable heater!

[Persisted]

94. Let it go. nt

[Initech]

22. Birdman is another one.

Most overrated best picture winner ever. I also hated "The Revenant".

[metroins]

31. Both awful nt

[Neema]

35. Oh jesus I hated Birdman.

I'm not sure which I hated more, the movie or the soundtrack. But both together, ugh.

[unblock]

77. i rather enjoyed the revenant.

i'll agree it's at least somewhat overrated because by the time i saw it it seemed like i was supposed to think it was the best movie ever, and it clearly wasn't, but i still found it to be a quite good movie.

plus, it seems every time i see dicaprio i have to revise my estimation of his acting ability upward. i really keep wanting to think of him as an overrated heartthrob but then i see him in another movie and damn, he actually can act, unlike most leading hollywood men.

[JDC]

103. I agree on both. I hated those movies. Seriously.

[Oneironaut]

23. Idiocracy (2006)

I get the satire. The movie as a whole is garbage. There's an entire pretentious fan base around the movie which pretends that liking this movie is an intelligence test. The movie was honestly not funny and boring. It became a self-parody in a way.

Fury (2014) gets an honorable mention. That movie was just bizarre, in that it didn't have a plot. It consisted of a tank rolling around for 2 hours. All of the interactions (especially the cringey scene where that one soldier went to have sex with that girl) felt forced or off. The ending was just plain bullshit. If you've seen the movie, you know what I'm talking about. I don't get the love for this movie - it was a wannabe "Saving Private Ryan" with no depth and cheesy characters.

[Ron Obvious]

32. I rather enjoyed Idiocracy

But it looked and felt very rushed and unfinished. It might be one of those rare films that would benefit from a remake, though I suspect no studio would back it the next time around either for fear of offending sponsors.

[pansypoo53219]

59. i forgave the cheese factor. i watch dr who. it was basically a live cartoon.

idocracy had a message. i wish i could say titanic......same director tho.

[cos dem]

37. The scary thing about Idiocracy. The first time I saw it, it came off as rather far-fetched.

Now, it seems more like a documentary from the future.

[Doodley]

52. Exactly. It was very perceptive.

[Orrex]

109. OH MY GOD THANK YOU!

I hate that film, and I hate the fact that its name is whispered with snarky reverence every time someone somewhere does something stupid.

The film is only worth watching for as long as it takes to explain the joke, which is maybe 14 seconds, tops.

[Mme. Defarge]

28. I really hated Arrival

Very pretentious and self-important, imo. And those huge black pickles in the sky at the end were too much.

[AgadorSparticus]

65. I like the concepts but i think it could have been done better.

The actress that plays the lead was very blah to me. She didn't do very much for her role.

[alarimer]

72. I did too!

Oh my god, it was completely incomprehensible. Maybe it was that I was tired and not as engaged as I could have been. Or that I usually cannot watch anything with my full attention anymore.

Still it was overrated.

[AgadorSparticus]

106. It wasn't you. It was a first rate bomb. And to add insult to injury, it won an Academy Award!

[Ron Obvious]

29. I rather liked Paranormal Activity

But I suspect I wouldn't have enjoyed it in the cinema. The way to watch it is at home, alone in a house that creaks in the wind.

The scares were subtle up until the end. The girl just standing there, staring at her boyfriend in the bed for hours was quite disconcerting I thought.

[Doug the Dem]

116. I watched it at home, alone, at night

My house doesn't creek, but the movie still stank. (Apologies for the late reply. )

[metroins]

33. Birdman

Biggest piece of crap I've ever seen.

Mad max was bad too, but birdman was trash.

[roscoeroscoe]

36. This is easy, I am surprised it has slipped from your 'hate' list...

Interstellar.

Oh man, what a mess. He is what, rooting around in a cornfield and finds an underground NASA launch facility? Where the offices aren't completely fried to a cinder when the craft launches, the last booster, with that huge craft tucked into the nose? Are you kidding me? Off through a wormhole, whatever blah blah yech.

And I love science fiction. The Martian, just needed better music. Fantastic book, (remember it was a first novel) and well done film. Good stuff.

[Initech]

44. Yes!!! I hated that movie!

[exboyfil]

49. I still can't understand the love for it

Especially some scientists talking about the scientific accuracy of the film. I thought The Martian was a great flick on the other hand.

[Oneironaut]

84. I really liked Interstellar, but I agree. That made no sense.

Even worse, the world agrees to lie that the moon landing was a hoax, but humans have invented the technology to travel into the outer solar system and create worm holes? Yeaaahhhh...

[Doug the Dem]

111. This thread is not about a list

It's about the ONE film of the 21st century you feel was most overrated.

[stopbush]

38. La La Land

[red dog 1]

40. The Hurt Locker (2008)

It won 6 Oscars, including Best Picture & Best Director (Kathryn Bigelow)
But it was a POS, imo, and was EXTREMELY overrated.


Also overrated was Pineapple Express (2008)
Co-produced & co-written by Judd Apatow, one of my favorite writer-producer-directors
who wrote, directed & produced "The 40-Year-Old-Virgin" and earned six Emmy nominations for The Larry Sanders Show...He also co-wrote & co-produced "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story"
But even Judd Apatow couldn't save "Pineapple Express", although James Franco was very good as pot dealer Saul Silver.
(I don't consider Pineapple Express a POS, because it has some very funny scenes, but it was overrated)

btw, "Walk Hard" starring John C. Reilly, was praised by critics, including Roger Ebert, but only made a little over $20 million, which was less than the $35 million it cost to make.
Pineapple Express, on the other hand, got poor reviews by movie critics, but made over $100 million (so far) while it's budget was only $27 million.....Go figure!

[Doug the Dem]

113. I'll grant that The Hurt Locker was overrated as to its Authenticity

But I still enjoyed it as a movie.

[mitch96]

43. Nocturnal Animals.

Kept wondering, WTF?? I did not care for the movie although I like the actors.. One thing it did do was sparked a 1 hr conversation with my date on WHY we did not like it and how weird and difficult it was to follow.. The after movie conversation was better than the movie!!
YMMV.
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[Initech]

47. Another one: Walk The Line

OK so of all the stories you could pick about Johnny Cash, you pick the one where he was a dick and abused drugs and alcohol and then went to rehab? And then the ending was a total cop out. It just fades to black and there's a screen that says "Johnny Cash and June Carter toured the world until 2002.". That's it??????

[BeyondGeography]

53. There Will Be Blood

Hopelessly contrived. I hate it when I can see actors acting. The Times rates it the film of the century so far, and I don't care. I had a hard time staying awake; Paul Dano looking like he was trying not to laugh at DDL's accent kept it only barely entertaining.

[Initech]

58. The last 20 minutes of that movie made it worth sitting through the other 2 hours.

Otherwise I agree. "DRAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINAGE ELI!!!!!!!!"

[BeyondGeography]

61. Lol...I agree, but what a slog it was

About an hour in I was thinking, "can somebody please fall down an air shaft again?"

[Initech]

67. I love when they parodied the ending on South Park.

It was the episode where Wendy and Cartman get into a debate on breast cancer, and Wendy wants to fight Cartman and Cartman tries to weasel out of it. And Wendy beats the crap out of Cartman, and Mr. Garrison and Mr. Mackie try to intervene, and Wendy yells "I'm finished!!!!".

[NobodyHere]

73. Somebody drank your milkshake didn't they?

[BeyondGeography]

74. I was crying along with Eli by then

[samnsara]

54. hubby and i were the only ones in the theater during...

..blair witch and we laughed the whole time and yelled stuff at 'Heather'

[pansypoo53219]

60. ALMOST when i was much younger & my cousin saw superman 2. we were 2nd from the last row

in a 1/2 filled theater & we kept making comments & made some guys our age behind us laugh.

[Initech]

66. "Nothing's happening, nothing's happening. It's over. A lot of people in the audience look pissed!"

[Upthevibe]

68. That's hysterical I've never seen Family Guy...I know I'd love it!n/t

[WhiteTara]

55. Interstellar nt

[unblock]

78. i was certainly very disappointed with that one...

[WhiteTara]

83. Bored silly here.

[beveeheart]

56. LaLa Land

Hated it!

[Mike Nelson]

57. Another vote for...

...AVATAR. Not sure they were overrated, but any recent film with SUPERMAN and/or BATMAN. They need some humor - not all dark stuff. But comic relief doesn't mean all-out comedy, either, witness the Johnny Depp DARK SHADOWS. Put the dark stuff back where it belongs... or just stop torturing us with these revisions.

[AgadorSparticus]

64. The English Patient. What a snoozer!!

[TexasBushwhacker]

80. 1996 - not 21st century

But I didn't like it either.

[Persisted]

95. All right Elaine.

[AgadorSparticus]

105. Hahahaha!!! I completely forgot about this! Still so funny! Thanks!

[Danmel]

69. Gravity

Alternately bored me to tears and gave me motion sickness.
NY husband did enjoy seeing Sandra Bullock in her underwear.

[unblock]

79. not sure any sandra bullock movie can be overrated because my expectations are so low

but yeah. pretty lame.

[Doug the Dem]

86. what man wouldn't?

[irisblue]

101. I did like Clooney pulling out the bottle of vodka,

Otherwise....ahhhh

[OriginalGeek]

75. Guardians of the Galaxy 2

is NOT on this list. Just saw it yesterday and it's the best movie since GotG 1. Probably even better than 1 and most other movies in the last several years at least.

I don't, however, understand all the Birdman hate in this thread. I thought it was great.

I despised Blair Witch so much I wanted my money back and I figured Paranormal Activity would be very similar so I never bothered to see it and don't plan to.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

96. I watched LIFE the day

There wasn't any in that movie. Lots of trivial excitement and doom. Nothing interesting. Entirely predictable.

[LonePirate]

76. The Artist, Slumdog Millionaire, Gangs of New York

[TexasBushwhacker]

82. Awww, I loved Slumdog Millionaire n/t

[applegirl]

88. Melancholia

God it was so boring! I can't believe it got nominated for best movie at the Oscars!

[NobodyHere]

97. Anything directed by Christopher Nolan

[politicat]

100. Over-hyped, or over-rated?

They're different.

Overhyped: Anything associated with Michael Bey or Zach Snyder. They have powerful hype machines behind them, and their multi-hundred million production budgets mean a lot of people around the world get to have a year or two of salary (so yay for that) but their scripts are boring or nonsensical (WTF do cosplaying medieval recreators have to do with giant space robots??!?), the effects are technically fabulous but repetitive, and they can't hire talent. Without the hype machine and the effects, neither would be trusted with a six figure indie budget.

Overrated: The horrors that are Twilight and its filed off the serial numbers copy, 50 Shades. That universe (50 Shades is so clearly a copy that it's not reasonable to call it a separate ficton) is fractally awful. The closer you look, the worse it gets. And yet, for as little critical approval as they got, they got far too much credit. (I also throw any Left Behind attempts and the Atlas Shrugged attempt into this basket.) They're so bad that the Razzies need a new category - the Justified Fahrenheit 451 award. These are an example of the desert that is female-oriented film -- there is so little that even awkward, pointless, overtly abusive attempts have an audience.

[LW1977]

102. That Michael Bay Benghaaaaaaaziiiiiiiiiiiiiiii movie!

Edit, I thought the question was "underrated movie", that would go to V is For Vendetta..

[JDC]

104. Where the Wild Things Are

Pure shit

[Awsi Dooger]

107. Pulp Fiction

Deserves a vote in every century forever. I don't care when it was made. Hard to believe it was made.

I'll never forgive the so-called friends who took me to see that movie in Las Vegas.

[Doug the Dem]

115. Overrated Movie, Overrated Director

In fact, the ONLY active director more overrated than Tarantino is David Lynch.

[Cha]

117. I liked Pulp Fiction..

Not a big fan of Quentin's per se, though.. if that helps.

And, I don't care for David Lynch.

Not sure I should even be in this thread.. I only see movies when they get to Netflix. Sorry!

[femmocrat]

118. "Birdman"

I couldn't get past about 10 minutes of it. It won 4 Oscars!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2562232/