# 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:  [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2012, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-overrated-movie/623133/61 "2012-05-26T16:16:16Z")
_The Godfather_.
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### Author:  [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2012, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-overrated-movie/623133/62 "2012-05-26T16:17:36Z")
Avatar followed closely by Independence Day. Almost walked out on both of them in the theater.
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### Author:  [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2012, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-overrated-movie/623133/63 "2012-05-26T16:42:41Z")
1. Avatar
2. Avatar
3. Titanic
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### Author:  [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2012, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-overrated-movie/623133/64 "2012-05-26T16:50:13Z")
_ **Scarface** _ - granted, I love it, but it is not a good movie in almost every possible way. It’s poorly written, directed, and edited. The plot is ludicrous. It’s a three-hour exploitation flick.
Runner-up: _ **Gladiator** _ - a good, gory action flick (which I like), but Best Picture, seriously?! If this movie is a standard-bearer for the Academy, then _ **Rambo** _ and _ **Predator** _ were criminally overlooked.
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### Author:  [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2012, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-overrated-movie/623133/65 "2012-05-26T16:57:28Z")
_The English Patient._
I win.
What an unadulterated piece of crap. Two hours and 42 minutes of my life I’ll never get back. And I counted every one of them
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### Author:  [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2012, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-overrated-movie/623133/66 "2012-05-26T16:59:58Z")
**The Dark Knight**. Superhero movies should be action movies, and Nolan cannot direct action. It’s not a bad movie–Ledger’s performance is amazing–but it’s very overrated, as was **Inception**.
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### Author:  [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2012, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-overrated-movie/623133/67 "2012-05-26T17:07:49Z")
_Pulp Fiction_. I saw this at the local second run theatre for $2.00 and thought that I’d overpaid.
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### Author:  [@poker\_in\_the\_rear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/poker_in_the_rear)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2012, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-overrated-movie/623133/68 "2012-05-26T17:34:15Z")
> [@Superdude](#):
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> _The Godfather_.
It insists upon itself? 🙂
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### Author:  [@toofs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toofs)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2012, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-overrated-movie/623133/69 "2012-05-26T18:11:42Z")
> [@zamboniracer](#):
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> _Pulp Fiction_. I saw this at the local second run theatre for $2.00 and thought that I’d overpaid.
Shame on you. That is a great fuckin’ movie.
_Titanic_ can eat a dick.
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### Author:  [@The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Peyote_Coyote)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2012, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-overrated-movie/623133/70 "2012-05-26T18:44:47Z")
_Reservoir Dogs._
Totally unbelievable. You’re in a group of thieves who have just pulled a job in which at least one cop and probably several bystanders have died and yet you’ll waste time in a warehouse spouting what Tarantino believes is cute dialogue. I think not. Mr. Pink is the worst. If I had the swag, I would be on my way to some country that doesn’t have extradition to the US so fast it would violate Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity. There is no way I would hang around waiting for a bunch of angry cops to show up.
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### Author:  [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2012, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-overrated-movie/623133/71 "2012-05-26T18:54:44Z")
> [@The\_Peyote\_Coyote](#):
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> _Reservoir Dogs._
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> Totally unbelievable. You’re in a group of thieves who have just pulled a job in which at least one cop and probably several bystanders have died and yet you’ll waste time in a warehouse spouting what Tarantino believes is cute dialogue. I think not. Mr. Pink is the worst. If I had the swag, I would be on my way to some country that doesn’t have extradition to the US so fast it would violate Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity. There is no way I would hang around waiting for a bunch of angry cops to show up.
Yeah. Difficult to believe that a bunch of experienced, career criminals would adhere to “stick to the plan” after _everything else_ went wrong.
It’s like a broken play in football: if the defense has exactly countered the called play, you _don’t_ keep running your route, you break off and improvise.
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### Author:  [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2012, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-overrated-movie/623133/72 "2012-05-26T19:17:38Z")
I’m just going with the most recent overrated movie I’ve seen… Drive. Now, don’t get me wrong. I loves me some retro film action in almost anything. But this piece of drivel was boring (lots of driving, but none of the interesting variety), the plot was shallow (not that you expect a lot from this genre, but the way it was hyped, I was expecting exposition like the cinematic equivalent of War and Peace) and the dialog was non-existent and God awful. What a monosyllabic moron. There’s no relationship between the main characters or the viewer. There’s just nothing interesting at all going on, not even Mr. Gosling’s muted good looks. I hated it and would’ve stomped up and down on the DVD if we hadn’t have rented it from Redbox. Ugh.
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### Author:  [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2012, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-overrated-movie/623133/73 "2012-05-26T20:25:19Z")
I will agree with both _American Beauty_ and _Lost in Translation_
Completely underwhelmed by both
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### Author:  [@luv2draw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/luv2draw)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2012, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-overrated-movie/623133/74 "2012-05-26T20:49:33Z")
Forrest Gump.
Don’t know what I hate more–this movie specifically or Tom Hanks in general.
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### Author:  [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2012, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-overrated-movie/623133/75 "2012-05-27T00:32:48Z")
> [@poker\_in\_the\_rear](#):
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> It insists upon itself? 🙂
I thought about including that line, but I don’t know for sure that it does. I’ve never been able to watch more than 45-60 minutes into it before either falling asleep or changing the channel.
I _will_ say that it strikes me as pretentious, and it seems like it’s in love with itself.
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### Author:  [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2012, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-overrated-movie/623133/76 "2012-05-27T00:46:07Z")
I don’t like to claim that anything is over or underrated because everyone has such different tastes…
but if there was one movie where I just absolutely could not understand why people loved it so much, it would have to be The Blair Witch Project.
But I just don’t understand any of those “documentary/found footage” type movies, and why people like them. I guess my suspension of disbelief isn’t high enough. It especially baffles me that even to this day I meet people who believe the footage was real.
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### Author:  [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2012, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-overrated-movie/623133/77 "2012-05-27T01:24:00Z")
I’m torn between American Beauty and Titanic, but I think Titanic wins because I did watch the former all the way to the end.
No, American Beauty wins because it was morally loathsome, whereas Titanic was merely obvious sentimental dreck.
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### Author:  [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2012, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-overrated-movie/623133/78 "2012-05-27T02:41:00Z")
Another vote for Lost in Translation. God that movie is dull. It’s very meta in a way: the director makes you live though the ennui that the characters do, by boring the crap out of you.
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### Author:  [@Max\_the\_Immortal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_the_Immortal)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2012, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-overrated-movie/623133/79 "2012-05-27T02:50:14Z")
_A Fish Called Wanda_. I actually had to look it up online to confirm that it tried to be a comedy; it certainly wasn’t apparent from the movie itself. Some of the scenes had me wondering whether they wanted me to laugh directly at so-and-so’s funny antics, or at the fact that he’s trying to be funny and is instead not even a little bit funny.
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### Author:  [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2012, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-overrated-movie/623133/80 "2012-05-27T03:18:53Z")
Saving Private Ryan
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