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? asked in Entertainment & MusicMovies · 5 years ago

What are some overrated films, in your opinion?

Whether it's because you hated them, or even if you thought there were decent but just didn't deserve the high praise they got, what are some of the most overrated shows in your opinion?

These are some that I find very overrated:

The Hunger Games films, Fast and Furious films, Harry Potter films, Avatar, The Hurt Locker (Did NOT deserve an Oscar), and Titanic

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    5 years ago
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    The entire Iron Man trilogy, Frozen, Divergent

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Listed with the most overrated at the top.

    1. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

    2. Citizen Kane (1942)

    3. Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

    4. A Clockwork Orange (1971)

    5. The Great Dictator (1940)

    6. Harold and Maud (1971)

    7. Top Hat (1935)

    8. The Shining (1980)

    9. The Matrix (1999)

    10. Casablanca (1942)

    11. Psycho (1960)

    12. Sherlock, Jr. (1928)

    13. La Strada (1954)

    14. The Seventh Seal (1957)

    15. Rashomon (1950)

    16. His Girl Friday (1940)

    17. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

    18. Modern Times (1936)

    19. It Happened One Night (1934)

    10. 2001 a Space Odyssey (1968)

  • 5 years ago

    I don't really think of things as overrated. It implies that you think people are wrong for loving a movie/book/show, and since art is subjective, there's really no such thing as wrongly loving something. That being said, there are certainly popular films that I personally dislike. (Even though I'm not too picky generally) I agree with you on all of yours, except Titanic. I have very mixed feelings about it. Anyway, I guess I'll talk about Disney/Pixar first. I really despise The Little Mermaid in particular. Sleeping Beauty, Cars, Finding Nemo, Monsters Inc, Mulan, Hercules, Tarzan, Pocahontas, all are blech. Other ones would be:

    -Forrest Gump

    -A lot of Spielberg movies like Saving Private Ryan and Close Encounters of the Third Kind (E.T. is an exception though, I do love that movie, mostly from nostalgia. Schindler's List is pretty good too)

    -The Usual Suspects

    -Citizen Kane

    -Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

    -My Neighbor Totoro (I'm a huge Ghibli freak but I think this movie is highly meh compared to the others)

    -Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Indeed, most westerns. Ugh)

    -Annie Hall

    There are more, those are ones that come to mind pretty quickly.

    Edit: Oh yeah, aside from Home Alone, which is awesome, I'm not big on John Hughes movies. Ferris Bueller especially. Ugh, I want to slap that kid in the face.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    5 years ago

    Many best picture winners, such as Forrest Gump, Slumdog Millionaire, Crash, Unforgiven, The Sound of Music, American Beauty, The King's Speech, Shakespeare in Love and The Artist

    Avatar

    Shawshank Redemption

    Pretty in Pink and Sixteen Candles

    Up

    The French Connection

    Strangers on a Train

    Harry Potter and Hunger Games

    Double Indemnity

    Old School

    Babel

    Life of Pi

    Mission Impossible 3

    Aliens

    Swingers

    Goonies

    Chinatown

    Garden State

    The Crying Game

    Frozen

    Les Miserables

    Pacific Rim

    Snowpiercer

    The Imitation Game

    The Martian

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  • 5 years ago

    Crash 2004

    The Last Emperor

    The Seventh Seal

    Casino Royale

    The Thing 1982

  • 5 years ago

    Titanic

  • The
    Lv 5
    5 years ago

    Frozen

    Fast and furious

    Divergent

    The maze runner

    Star wars (the one that just came out)

    I believe the 5th wave is also going to be one

  • 5 years ago

    I agree with all of your suggestions but I'd also have to add the Star Wars series.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    5 years ago

    star wars enjoyable but overated

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    YOURE AN UGLY LOSER

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