# 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")
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### Author:  [@well\_he\_s\_back](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/well_he_s_back)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2012, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-overrated-movie/623133/161 "2012-05-29T20:14:33Z")
infovore - your post, and this thread, really drives home to me how there simply is no accounting for taste. and I must just accept that different people like different things. In the arts there are no objective criteria we can agree on, apparently.
(re your post - Princess Bride, yep boring; Christmas Story, ok but over praised; The Dark Knight - too long, I disliked every scene Ledger wasn’t in; Titanic - meh.)
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### Author:  [@punch\_line\_loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/punch_line_loser)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2012, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-overrated-movie/623133/162 "2012-05-29T20:59:01Z")
I hated **Inglorious Basterds**. I felt as though my intelligence was being insulted.
Also the original **Star Wars** trilogy. Isn’t it weird how people can complain about inconsistencies in the Bible but if you use the same tactics to poke holes in Star Wars you get ostracized even worse?
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### Author:  [@dolphinboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dolphinboy)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2012, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-overrated-movie/623133/163 "2012-05-29T21:09:09Z")
> [@Becky2844](#):
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> Avatar. _Cocoon_ did the “melding” better. I thought Avatar was more for kids—who don’t read.
+1
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### Author:  [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2012, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-overrated-movie/623133/164 "2012-05-29T21:15:45Z")
I declare war on everybody in this thread. 😛
Well, except those people brave enough to mention _The Princess Bride_. 😃
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### Author:  [@Valgard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valgard)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2012, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-overrated-movie/623133/165 "2012-05-29T21:47:59Z")
**The Matrix** , which wasn’t absolutely awful but it led to part 2 and then finally part 3 which is I think the worst movie I’ve ever sat through and I saw it in Imax. That was like having to read the world’s worst book in BIG TYPE.
People just love love LOVED those films. The actors played their parts like they were convinced they were in the Bestest Movie Ever, and people seemed convinced that there was a MESSAGE, man.
6+ hours of crappy cyberpunk story built on 15 minutes of interesting idea/dark everything/trust nothing/bulletcam.
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### Author:  [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2012, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-overrated-movie/623133/166 "2012-05-29T21:55:29Z")
> [@Valgard](#):
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> **The Matrix** , which wasn’t absolutely awful but it led to part 2 and then finally part 3 which is I think the worst movie I’ve ever sat through and I saw it in Imax. That was like having to read the world’s worst book in BIG TYPE.
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> People just love love LOVED those films. The actors played their parts like they were convinced they were in the Bestest Movie Ever, and people seemed convinced that there was a MESSAGE, man.
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> 6+ hours of crappy cyberpunk story built on 15 minutes of interesting idea/dark everything/trust nothing/bulletcam.
I found the commercials so stupid I couldn’t bring myself to see them, even when they came on TV.
to make up for it I’ve watched Ground Hog Day over and over.
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### Author:  [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2012, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-overrated-movie/623133/167 "2012-05-29T21:56:38Z")
> [@The\_Raven](#):
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> Did I miss someone posting Napoleon Dynamite? What a letdown that movie was…
That was a movie? I thought it was a 2 hr ad for the cartoon.
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### Author:  [@Rampant\_Coypu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rampant_Coypu)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2012, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-overrated-movie/623133/168 "2012-05-30T06:58:56Z")
> [@NDP](#):
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> Most people have a favorable opinion of **Caddyshack** based on its memorable comic bits and funny lines. What most people overlook–or forget–is that there are a lot of dead spots between the comic bits and funny lines.
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> It’s definitely a movie that’s gotten a good reputation despite the fact that its production was an Exhibit “A” example of executive meddling. Screenwriter Doug Kenney wrote the film as basically a coming-of-age story with some outrageous comedy mixed in. The focus was going to be on the kids with the roles played by Bill Murray, Chevy Chase, and Rodney Dangerfield to be nothing more than short cameo appearances. However, by the time producer Jon Peters and the studio intervened, the coming-of-age elements were mostly chucked in favor of more broad comedy (in particular, Murray’s ongoing war the the gopher). As a result, the movie is rather sloppily paced and plotted to say the least.
If you wanna see a movie with the class warfare themes presented much more clearly by talented young actors and Bill Murray playing a one percenter who endorses REAL class warfare while being bound by his obligations as a wealthy man, watch _Rushmore_.
I know a few people who were in this movie. Totally captures the spirit of inner-loop Houston, though it was originally planned to be set on the East Coast as people would not believe the innerloopers were like this. Trust me, we are; And Wes Anderson an Owen Wilson captured it perfectly. And smooth move to make Max a working class Jew. This was not planned until they met Jason Schwartzman.
Best movie ever made in Texas.
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### Author:  [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2012, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-overrated-movie/623133/169 "2012-05-30T07:08:33Z")
> [@Rampant\_Coypu](#):
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> If you wanna see a movie with the class warfare themes presented much more clearly by talented young actors and Bill Murray playing a one percenter who endorses REAL class warfare while being bound by his obligations as a wealthy man, watch _Rushmore_.
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> I know a few people who were in this movie. Totally captures the spirit of inner-loop Houston, though it was originally planned to be set on the East Coast as people would not believe the innerloopers were like this. Trust me, we are; And Wes Anderson an Owen Wilson captured it perfectly. And smooth move to make Max a working class Jew. This was not planned until they met Jason Schwartzman.
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> Best movie ever made in Texas.
I’m not going to disagree with you on **Rushmore**. I’ve seen it and loved it.
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### Author:  [@Enlightening\_Meditation](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enlightening_Meditation)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2012, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-overrated-movie/623133/170 "2012-05-30T07:33:18Z")
> [@puddleglum](#):
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> **Inglorious Basterds** was insultingly dumb. None of it made any sense. I can not fathom how that got nominated for anything except a Razzy.
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I hated Inglorious Basterds. I felt as though my intelligence was being insulted.
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_Inglorious Basterds_ is a cowboys and indians spaghetti western type plot film thrown into a zeitgeist of WWII / Allies vs Axis. It’s not meant to insult or be insultingly dumb. I also think IB is overrated (nominated for 8 oscars), but not near the same extent as, say, _Blair Witch Project_ or _The English Patient_.
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