Most Overrated Film

Scarface

Rain Man.

Everything Everywhere All at Once

Mother

on the 2022 list:

top 25:

overrated

Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

Mulholland Drive!!!!!

Close-Up

Meshes of the Afternoon

Do the Right Thing!!!!

Most overrated of the top 25 winner:

Tie: Mulholland Drive and Do the Right Thing.

Out of Africa, one of the most overrated movies to ever exist.

American Beauty

Barbie.

The Shining is a terrible film, a ponderous bore and critics did not like it when it was released.

I don't remember anyone really loving it at the time, I can't believe anyone likes it.

Scream

R8 The Shining is excellent and truly very scary.

[quote]Out of Africa, one of the most overrated movies to ever exist

The Academy in the 80s and early 90s really did enjoy the luscious historical dramas.

Chariots Of Fire, Ghandi, Out of Africa, Amadeus, The Last Emperor, Driving Miss Daisy, Dances With Wolves.

Forrest Gump.

Best Picture Academy Award Winner "Crash."

It only got the nod because Ernest Borgnine and other old farts in Hollywood were pissed "Brokeback Mountain" was in contention for best picture.

R13 beat me to it. Dammit!

I think The Shining is kind of magnificent and very creepy.

I don't like treacle unless it's populist Frank Capra level. Big budget, "luscious historical dramas", and epic war dramas, always fail when they have treacle, or camp. I walked out of The English Patient, for example.

I was going to say Crash but then I thought about it. It hasn’t held up. You barely see it on cable, or hear about Gen z streaming it. It’s lost all cultural currency. While the film that should have actually won, Brokeback, is permanently a part of the cultural zeitgeist.

I don't think Saltburn should be on the list. It's a really divisive film, and even those who adore the movie think of it more as entertaining trash than actual art.

From the list, I picked ET because I've always found the character creepy and off-putting. But the real answer is the ponderous bore that is Jeanne Dielman.

Avatar

Anything Godfather.

Titanic is dreck that’s somewhat salvaged by some great special effects

Forrest Gump

Forrest Gump, though I did vote for Titanic. I thought some of the special effects were terrible (the passengers strolling on the decks) and the story from after the ship hit the iceberg was ludicrous.

Movies like Out Of Africa and The English Patient aren't for everyone. Out Of Africa isn't at all overrated. What makes a very good movie instead of an all-time classic is Robert Redford. Totally miscast.

CRUISING

R20 Not only is that false, Godfather 1 and 2 are amongst top 10 greatest films of all time, easily.

M’s entire filmography.

There's nothing more heinous on OP's list that Frozen.

I'd say Mother!, Roma, The Revenant, Inherent Vice, Poor Things, The Favourite, Licorice Pizza, and especially The Irishman and were all really horrible and overrated.

The English Patient

R28 - Case in point:

OP, that’s a pretty unusual list you’ve got there. *It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World? Frozen? Saltburn?* I don’t think anyone’s really talking about these films, much less calling them "overrated."

Anything with Leonardo DiCrapio in it.

R28 = Elaine Benes.

"It's Mad, Mad, Mad, Etc." Over-blown, over-played, excruciating slapstick, with Ethel Merman yowling like Shelley Winters!

Titanic and Avatar. I've never seen them and never will. "But they're good movies!" I'm sure they are but the more likely anything is marketed and hyped the less interest I have in it.

So now we know Kathryn Bigelow is a dyke.

LOL Kathryn Bigelow is older than my mom.

Any movie by Wes Anderson.

R33, yes, Mad Mad World is all that, I agree. I don’t get how it ended up on a list of ‘overrated’ movies when it’s not really even ‘rated’ these days.

[quote]Mad Mad World is all that, I agree. I don’t get how it ended up on a list of ‘overrated’ movies when it’s not really even ‘rated’ these days

I don’t know, a lot of people still seem to like it

Avatar is interesting as it's a film that was absolutely huge but has no presence since. It has no memes. No-one says "remember when we saw Avatar?" No-one says "remember that actor from Avatar?". Or "remember that scene from Avatar?".

It's so completely forgettable it's like a lesson in how to make a forgettable film.

If they made Mad Mad etc World today it'd be a franchise. Every couple of years a new "Mad" would be added, and Brad and Clooney would return to race around the globe in more exotic locals with a rotating assortment of stand-up comics in character roles and like The Rock

[quote] Avatar is interesting as it's a film that was absolutely huge but has no presence since.

Yes, I agree, and it seems like that's true of nearly every "best film" winner of the last 20 years.

As Good As It Gets. I’m halfway through it right now. What dreck.

2001, A Space Odyssey.

Come to think of it, just about any Kubrick movie.

Avatar is one of those films that overly relies on its spectacularness but a weak storyline. It has no heart. It was cool seeing it in 3D. In retrospect it is just a big Hollywood flick of cutting edge technology. It’s like one big video game with an above average in story narrative.

R45 Ask anyone about Avatar's "narrative" and they'll not be able to answer. I'm yet to meet anyone who's seen it more than once.

I have not seen 1/2 these films and I have no interest in seeing Titanic or Saltburn or It's a Mad, Mad,Mad World.

Vivien Leigh is the only good thing about the Gone with the 😴

R37. Moonrise Kingdom and The Grand Budapest Hotel are favorites of mine. Certainly not among the greatest movies ever, but charming nonetheless.

It's a Mad, Mad,Mad World is a fun madcap movie which is given a much higher significance than it's worth primarily for all the star power. I see it as 3 hours of mostly cameos. It's easily the most overrated film listed by OP.

R44 No! The first AI in movie history.

R44 Daisy, Daisy give me your answer do. I'm tormenting you now. Kubrick was a genius and ahead of his time.

R50, this one's for you 🤣😝.

Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles owns this thread.

I love Jeanne Dielman, I find it hypnotic. But your milage may vary.

[quote] I love Jeanne Dielman, I find it hypnotic. But your milage may vary.

Not to mention our spelling of “mileage.”

Good Will Hunting

Schindler's List...Ponderous, hackneyed drivel.

Most of the Best Picture winners of the 80s

Princess Bride...it's twee and annoying

The Lord of the Rings...just so long and boring and fan boy-y

Clue...why do so many GenX and Millennials love this stupid movie?

How is Mother! overrated?

A tiny handful of people think it's great.

Like 12 nerds.

I agree wih Avatar, a snooze fest despite the hype.

Another vote for "The Irishman." What an endless, ponderous, hammy, lazy, predictable bore, packed with clichés and silly CGI gimmickry.