# most overrated movie
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-overrated-movie/623133
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [May 26, 2012, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-overrated-movie/623133 "2012-05-26T02:26:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2012, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-overrated-movie/623133/1 "2012-05-26T02:26:50Z")
since I’m the OP, I get to set the rules.
you get one choice. Don’t list your top three, or tell us the five you have been tossing about in your brain. Just give us a title, and a reason if you care to.
My choice.
**Goodfellas**
I know this will bring howls of protest, but it really isn’t that good of a movie. It’s longevity has been helped in large part by the quotability of the movie.
What do you mean I’m funny?
Now go home and get your fuckin’ shinebox.
Jimmy was the kind of guy that rooted for bad guys in the movies.
I’m an average nobody… get to live the rest of my life like a schnook.
A decent mobster movie, sure, but not an 8.8 out of 10 good, and not number 16 on the top 250 movies of all time good.
Every time I watch it, it appeals to me less and less. The final act, with Henry being chased by the helicopter and running around making meatballs and cutting cocaine, while trying to sell guns to Jimmy just falls flat compared to the rest of the movie. And Ray Liotta never worked for me as the main character, Henry Hill.
That’s enough. I’ll let others name their choice.
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### Author:  [@Red\_Barchetta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Barchetta)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2012, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-overrated-movie/623133/2 "2012-05-26T02:32:18Z")
Loved Goodfellas.
I submit **Lord of the Rings** –all of them–which bored me to tears. I realize this may be a problem with the source material. Love **Game of Thrones** though.
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### Author:  [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2012, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-overrated-movie/623133/3 "2012-05-26T02:33:05Z")
Titanic
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### Author:  [@rsat3acr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rsat3acr)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2012, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-overrated-movie/623133/4 "2012-05-26T02:40:54Z")
Being There.
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### Author:  [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2012, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-overrated-movie/623133/5 "2012-05-26T02:47:12Z")
Last Tango in Paris. Mike Royko wrote a column about how he hated Brando’s character. My take on it was neither as well reasoned or well written. I just found it depressing, and worse, boring.
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### Author:  [@SykoSkotty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SykoSkotty)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2012, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-overrated-movie/623133/6 "2012-05-26T02:50:00Z")
> [@congodwarf](#):
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> Titanic
This. So freaking This.
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### Author:  [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2012, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-overrated-movie/623133/7 "2012-05-26T02:54:38Z")
Yep. Titanic it is.
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### Author:  [@MichaelEmouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MichaelEmouse)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2012, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-overrated-movie/623133/8 "2012-05-26T02:57:19Z")
Before reading any of the replies, I thought “Titanic”.
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### Author:  [@cain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cain)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2012, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-overrated-movie/623133/9 "2012-05-26T03:06:07Z")
_Inception_
A mediocre picture. I’m generally fond of Nolan’s more cerebral approach to story but the flat-characters and exposition-laden dialog made for a dull experience – I don’t care if the city of Paris folded in half.
Let’s not forget the motive: “we’re going to go into a dream within a dream within a dream to plant an idea, so then this evil energy company will use its political muscle to allow me to see my kids. Too bad no one in the future has invented video conferencing technology. If only we had Skype. Too bad there’s no way the father-in-law I’m on good terms with could bring my children here to France for a vacation. Nope, gotta plunge myself into the Matrix – er, dream world.”
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### Author:  [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2012, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-overrated-movie/623133/10 "2012-05-26T03:13:41Z")
**Synecdoche, New York**
Couldn’t wait to see it. Then, couldn’t wait for it to end.
mmm
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### Author:  [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MPB_in_Salt_Lake)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2012, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-overrated-movie/623133/11 "2012-05-26T03:16:17Z")
_Lost In Translation_
(This comes from someone whose favorite movie of all time is _Caddyshack_ and who thinks that Bill Murray is one of the best comedic actors in the past 50 years)
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### Author:  [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2012, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-overrated-movie/623133/12 "2012-05-26T03:20:05Z")
Just saw The Avengers and would have to add it to this list.
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### Author:  [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2012, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-overrated-movie/623133/13 "2012-05-26T03:25:41Z")
> [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](#):
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> _Lost In Translation_
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> (This comes from someone whose favorite movie of all time is _Caddyshack_ and who thinks that Bill Murray is one of the best comedic actors in the past 50 years)
I hated Lost in Translation. A lot.
But Forrest Gump was worse. What a glurgy piece of shit.
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### Author:  [@Sudden\_Kestrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sudden_Kestrel)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2012, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-overrated-movie/623133/14 "2012-05-26T03:25:51Z")
Leaving Las Vegazzzzz…
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### Author:  [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2012, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-overrated-movie/623133/15 "2012-05-26T03:31:44Z")
Crash. Total piece of treacly obvious shit, that sucked off LA all the way to Best Picture.
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### Author:  [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2012, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-overrated-movie/623133/16 "2012-05-26T03:34:10Z")
Eraserhead.
Just plain tedious.
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### Author:  [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2012, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-overrated-movie/623133/17 "2012-05-26T03:51:40Z")
I apologize for being a picky stick in the mud, but threads like this always make me ask…
OVERRATED BY WHOM???
By the critics? By the public at large? By the Academy Awards voters? By your circle of friends? By SDMB regulars?
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2012, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-overrated-movie/623133/18 "2012-05-26T03:55:09Z")
_On the Waterfront_
I felt it presented its message in an overbearing way and I thought the acting was hammy.
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2012, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-overrated-movie/623133/19 "2012-05-26T03:56:12Z")
> [@astorian](#):
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> I apologize for being a picky stick in the mud, but threads like this always make me ask…
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> OVERRATED BY WHOM???
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> By the critics? By the public at large? By the Academy Awards voters? By your circle of friends? By SDMB regulars?
Any of the above. Pick your own standard and explain it.
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2012, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-overrated-movie/623133/20 "2012-05-26T04:00:29Z")
_Titanic_ and _Forrest Gump_ never bothered me. I never expected them to be serious movies so I wasn’t disappointed. I went to see them expecting them to be good entertainment and they worked fine on that level. They’re good movies in the same way that _Raiders of the Lost Ark_ is a good movie.
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