Most Overrated Movies Evar!! !

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What critic or fan favorite leaves you rolling your eyes and praying for human extinction the most?

For me, the answer is Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch.

I love the historical turning point setting--the contrast between horses and cars, six-shooters and tommy guns--but the ending is just too unbelievable.

These are hard, ruthless men coming to the realization that they don't have a place in the modern age...

Going out on your own terms, in a blaze of glory, is one thing, acting like a suicidal moron is quite another!

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Take away the special effects and you just have the same predictible nature vs. greed theme that's been done a hundred times. The alien race was too similar to Native Americans to give the movie a sci-fi feel.

Ditto on Avatar.

Anything by Will Ferrell. Comedy is not people walking around acting like an idiot. I understand character based comedy but I swear every time I hear someone say they liked the movie "Talledega Nights" or "Step Brothers" I feel like slapping them. The only way to make this man funny is to ensure that he is hated by every other character in the movie and not allowed to promote the film before it comes out.

I also hate the following actors/comedians:
Ben Stiller
Larry the Cable Guy, really anyone from the blue collar comedy tour


I know I digress from the topic of overrated movies but really if your looking forward to a movie because of one or two specific actors, please just send me your money via paypal and look up the movie on wikipedia then you can still spoil the ending for all your friends. If there was a specific movie that I had to say was over-hyped that was terrible, let's just go with "Star Wars:The Phantom Menace" or "Fanboys". (The later which ended up having such a limited run in theaters after waiting for two years that I was quite pissed I even rented.)

Avatar, absolutely.

Boys Don't Cry

Titanic

Million-Dollar Baby

Just a few that come quickly to mind, but it seems one could safely say that I find both Hillary Swank and James Cameron overrated.

I have never understood the appeal of Kubrick's "The Shining" I certainly like a lot of his films, "A Clockwork Orange" "2001" "Dr. Strangelove" etc, but I don't get the Shining.

I even watched it with the expectation that it couldn't be as bad as my mother kept insisting, but actually it was. The film is stupidly made. I can't comment on whether it is a faithful adaption of the book. I haven't read it so I can only judge it on its merits as a film.

I think casting Jack Nicholson was a very poor choice. He normally plays kind of crazy anyway and I think the character would have worked better if an actor who normally seems well balanced ends up going completely nuts. Look at Jimmy Stewart's performance in "Vertigo" That was a creepy performance. I also found the cut back to Scatman Crothers that begins with a tight close up of some tacky nude woman poster to be rather offensive. What story telling purpose did that serve? It seemed more like Kubrick was thinking "Golly, it worked really well in Clockwork Orange, I think I'll do it again!"

I will admit there are some really great visuals in the film. The dead twin sisters and the blood pouring out of the doors are very evocative images. But the over the top acting with little connection to realistic human behavior makes the film seem like an experiment in style over substance.

The Twilight movies.

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They remade that movie into an ABC special, which may be more entertaining if your main problem was Jack Nicholson's acting style. They used a large number of special effects and removed the garden maze element that I preferred in the original ending of the film to replace it with animated lawn sculptures. Also they made it into more of a happy ending than in the original film. Kubrick's style is hit or miss as the first half of clockwork orange was putting me to sleep. As they went deeper into the psychological conditioning it become more interesting to me.

i am crazy about sci/fi.....but ......2001 left me disappointed. a great beginning, an astounding middle only to be wasted by that really silly ending. what a crying shame.

loved million dollar baby.......probably because it mirrors my life experience. clint eastwood just gets better and better ala gran torino. masterful

ditto 'the shining'. bbbbboooooooorrrrrriiiiiinnnnnnngggggg.

Twilight........
Books, films, please somebody dry clean my brain........

The Hurt Locker

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The Dark Knight
Twilight movies
Titanic
Donnie Darko

Twilight movies for sure.

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Twilight series
The Dark Knight

TITANIC!! !!

The Blind Side

The Proposal

Ms. Congeniality

I think Sandra Bullock is so overrated.