most overrated movie of all time

[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.