The 20 Most Overrated Movies of All Time

Premiere Magazine ^ | December 12, 2006 | various

[MikefromOhio]

Missed that one too :)

The wife tried to bribe me into watching Chicago, but I was on midnight shift at the time so I was asleep within 10 minutes of that movie starting :)

[lesser_satan]

-Independence Day (what a piece of crap)
-Anything Robert Altmann was ever involved with

[G-Bob]

Some on this thread are forgetting the question.

For something to be "overrated" it has to by highly rated to begin with.

Titanic (it won an Oscar for best movie) has to be near the top of my list. Great special effects but a horrible movie.

Nashville is one of those films that critics liked but it's an awful movie.

[Xenalyte]

Liked "Super Troopers," did ya?

Put "Beerfest" on your list. It's a new fave of ours!

[Xenalyte]

Also, Gangs of New York was very overrated.

Any piece of celluloid featuring that girl Leonardo DiCaprio should be glad to be overrated.

[MikefromOhio]

heh ok :)

I already saw my one movie of the year so I'm having to wait for it....

[lesser_satan]

I couldn't force myself to sit through all of Fargo, but Raising Arizona is one of my all-time faves.

[Xenalyte]

OMG, if I hear another actor/Rennie buddy of mine enthuse about "Moulin Rouge," I swear I will projectile-hurl.

I've never even seen it, but their raves fill me with distrust and a desire to avoid the alleged film in question.

[Xenalyte]

The "Green Berets" with John Wayne and the little Dondi-type kid and the ending where the sun sets in the east?

I have never seen it, but I understand it to be a marvel of suckitude.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Citizen Kane. Not a bad movie, especially for its day, but hardly The Greatest Film of All Time.

[loreldan]

1. The Graduate - almost every top 100 (or whatever) movie list puts this movie near the top. It's gotta be one of the stupidest movies EVER!

2. Chicago - I lasted about 10 minutes through Chicago and I fell asleep; my wife turned it off a few minutes later. And 'All That Jazz' is annoyingly stupid, yet every preview and promotion for that movie played that song over and over.

[Xenalyte]

"Titanic" is a triumph of marketing. That girl Leonardo DiCaprio is calculated to appeal to teenage chicks who find him non-threatening, possibly because the average teenage chick has more testosterone than he ever will.

I hated hated HATED "Titanic."

But a friend posed a question: if a) an actual guy had been cast in the Jack part, and b) there were no such animal as Celine Dion, would the movie still suck?

[mhking]

Titanic, Solaris, the Psycho remake and JFK immediately come to mind.

(and someone above slammed Glengarry Glen Ross -- that is actually one of my favorite films of all time. Some of the crew on that film referred to is as "Death of a F---in' Salesman", thanks to the language, but it is by far one of my favorite films. Then again, if you saw my list of favorites, you'd raise your eyebrow...)

[Holicheese]

Please note my tag line since October!!

[SamAdams76]

I disagree about Fargo. It is probably the greatest film ever made. Pulp Fiction was great but it was marred by that overdose scene (where the woman had blood coming out of her nose and the guy had to jump start her heart with a needle). That ruined the movie for me. Quentin Quarintino is good at ruining great movies. In Reservoir Dogs, that police torture scene ruined that movie as well. Totally unnecessary.

[Mr. Blonde]

The Big Lebowski

That's just like your opinion man.


In all honesty it did take me about three viewings before I thought it was one of the funniest things I had ever seen. It takes a while to get over the fact that the plot is practically meaningless.

My overrated list (from looking at IMDB's top 250) is
Citizen Kane
Leon
Donnie Darko
Finding Neverland
and finally I hate Super Troopers.

[loreldan]

That's about how long I lasted through Chicago too. My wife even stopped watching a few minutes after I fell asleep.

[Echo Talon]

LOL! like i said... Hate. ;)

[MikefromOhio]

Mine didn't.

I think she even went to see the play when it was in Columbus....

[Holicheese]

I have to disagree with you on some of those.
Loved Super Troopers, Donnie Darko and really like Citizen Kane.