Most Overrated Movies Evar!! !

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The most overrated movies ever made are movies catered towards a teenage audience. If you ask a 16-year-old girl what her favorite movie is, it's almost certainly gonna be overrated.

I agree with Ruveyn...The Hurt Locker was an excellent movie.

Cloverfield

Pulp Fiction

An American Werewolf in London

Speed

Face/Off

The Shawshank Redemption

Scarface

Animal House

The Royal Tenenbaums

Dances with Wolves

Chicago

Duplicity

American Beauty

As Good as it Gets

There are too many awful films to list, so I am going to apply the tag "overrated" only to films that won the Best Picture Oscar when they didn't deserve it. (This is, of course, a highly subjective assessment).

I would include:

An American in Paris (beat A Streetcar Named Desire)
Around the World in Eighty Days (over Giant, The King and I and The Ten Commandments)
A Beautiful Mind (full of errors, yet it won over Gosford Park, In the Bedroom and Moulin Rouge)
Braveheart (I would have chosen Sense and Sensibility. Even Apollo 13 or Il Postino)
Broadway Melody (yawn)
Cavalcade (further yawn)
Cimarron (yawn, again)
Dances with Wolves (over Goodfellas)
The Departed (the least of the nominees. Even Little Miss Sunshine would have been a better choice)
Driving Miss Daisy (over Born on the Fourth of July, Dead Poets Society, Field of Dreams and My Left Foot)
Forrest Gump (Shawshank Redemption was robbed. Don't get me started...)
Gigi (beat Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)
How Green was my Valley (over Citizen Kane?! Really?!)
Kramer vs. Kramer (two words: Apocalypse Now)
Oliver! (The Lion in Winter? 2001: A Space Odyssey (which wasn't nominated))
Ordinary People (over Raging Bull, (sigh))
Shakespeare in Love (Elizabeth, Life is Beautiful and Saving Private Ryan were all more worthy)
Titanic ('nuf said)

I would have a tough time deciding between Titanic and Forrest Gump, but I will give the nod to Titanic because the sheer volume of its wins amount to greater overrating!

Avatar (2009 film)
Titanic
The Hurt Locker
Fight Club
300
Paranormal Activity
Shakespeare in love
Forrest Gump
Kill Bill 1
Kill Bill 2
Easy Rider
Batman (1989 film)

Why do you think that?

many reasons. the #1 reason being that the plot is stupid and EVERYONE in my school loves it and won't stop talking about it. it is almost as talked about as twilight

Titanic and Twishite.

Donnie Darko and The Boondock Saints are arguably the most overrated movies in the last ten/eleven years.

Avatar

Fight Club (though i do like the movie)

How is the plot stupid? The plot is insanely original and mindf**king.

I can think of quite a few movies that are overrated:
Twilight -- Enough already! Edward vs. Jacob -- who cares?!
The Shrek franchise -- At first, I though it was cute, but now I think they're milking it. He got married, he had kids, what more do you want?
The Land Before Time -- How many more of these can they make?! How many adventures can you have when you're five, or whatever?
Farce movies -- These are just stupid.
Anything with Miley Cyrus, Lindsay Lohan, or any other teen star -- Just get sick of seeing their faces everywhere.
I'm sure some of you will agree.

Well. the plot is okay. But it isn't all that mindf**king. However. I do have to say that the book defined a whole generation of adult males pretty accurately. I also have to say that the movie was one of the best adaptations to a book i have ever seen.

The plot really isn't that mindf**king, although the movie is still great. I prefer the book, personally.

Any films nominated for Best Picture by the Oscars (w/ a few exceptions)
Pixar films
All things Star Wars!! !
Shrek films
99.99% of all Independent Films
Any films based on any superhero comicbooks

there ya go

hahahahaha i would disagree with 99.99 percent of independent films, only because most of the population is unaware of eighty percent of a vast array of independent films, and lets not forget about the multitude of independently made porno.

i just didn't like it just how some stupid people hate inception