Top 10 overrated movies of all time! (actress, Ben Affleck, director, music)

[Katzpur]

Originally Posted by Felix C

Saving Private Ryan

Agreed.

[Pawporri]

Originally Posted by jtur88

OK,, I went back through the year by year list of nominees for best picture Oscar, and listed the first ten klinkers I came to:

Inception
Avatar
Slumdog Millionaire
Brokeback Mountain
Lord of the Rings
Seabiscuit
Gladiator
Saving Private Ryan
Braveheart
Forrest Gump

Agree completely on Broke & Slum (fell asleep on both). Didn't see Inception. Loved Gladiator & Seabiscuit, especially performance of Jeff Bridges. The rest were so-so. LOR Triligy was a masterpiece.

[onceahogalwaysahog]

Titanic, not a bad movie but overhyped to death

[skel1977]

I think Saving Private Ryan was a masterpiece. It doesent have the same feel to it after watching it again but the first 20 minutes were amazing to me. I also love slum dog millionaire and think its fantastic.
Ill agree with inception though. That movie was a piece of crap
Avatar was ok but its definitley overated. You can not call a movie great if its boring to watch a second time.
Lord of the Rings. Greatest trilogy EVER!

[TurcoLoco]

OK, I might as well come up with my own list. I will exclude the explanation/justification though.
Again, I am not saying I disliked any of them, heck there are some I really enjoyed but I do feel they were way too overrated/hyped up for the movie that they were/are:
- Titanic
- Pulp Fiction
- The Fight Club
- Slumdog Millionaire
- Black Swan
- Brokeback Mountain
- Matrix
- ScarFace
- Avatar
- A Rebel Without a Cause

Reserves that deserve mentioning:
- Chicago
- The Notebook
- Crash
- The Pianist
- Twillight (series)
- Inception
- King Kong (last one especially)

*PS. Bold ones are the movies I actually like and enjoyed.

Final note: If you are saying a movie is overrated because you read and liked the book version better (duh) or because you didn't like the movie therefore it is automatically overrated, do me a favor and go jump in front of a moving bus or something.

[Radical347]

I'm not going to bother coming up with 2-10, but in my opinion #1 is Toy Story 3.

[KatieGal]

I am an old movie buff so some of the movies on my list might go back a ways.

#1, Grouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. A glossy kung fu movie. I have seen it once, when I was a teenager. I expected so much, and found so little.

#2, Modern Times, it pales in comparison to City Lights.

#3, Last Tango in Paris; I still don't get it.

#4; On The Town; Watch Singin' in the Rain instead.

#5; Psycho; Hitchcock did many that were better, some far better.

#6; Gladiator; Sorry, it wasn't that good.

#7; Giant; Too long with not enough substance to sustain it.

#8; 2001 A Space Odyssey; I don't get this one either.

#9; Easy Rider; Nope, couldn't see the appeal.

[picklejuice]

Gone with the Wind.

[Fatty MacButter]

I've never thought much of Stalag 17. Like, they couldn't decide if it was going to be a corny movie or a serious movie, so they went with a mostly corny hybrid. The POW camp seemed more like a Parks & Recreation camp. Of course, Hogan's Heroes picked up the theme and had a nice run on TV.

[Kevroqs]

Some I find overrated:

Harry Potter
Twilight
Cars
Toy Story 3
The one Batman movie (with Arnold Schwarzenegger and George Clooney)