The Godfather.
Avatar followed closely by Independence Day. Almost walked out on both of them in the theater.
- Avatar
- Avatar
- Titanic
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.
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
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.
Pulp Fiction. I saw this at the local second run theatre for $2.00 and thought that I’d overpaid.
It insists upon itself? 
Shame on you. That is a great fuckin’ movie.
Titanic can eat a dick.
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.
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.
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.
I will agree with both American Beauty and Lost in Translation
Completely underwhelmed by both
Forrest Gump.
Don’t know what I hate more–this movie specifically or Tom Hanks in general.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Saving Private Ryan