The Official Most Overrated & Underrated Movies of Ever Thread

[Ayo]

I'll start. Most overrated. The list is not weighted. In no particular order.

1. The Avengers
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to be honest this is the reason for me even creating this thread. Movie was cheesy as hell. Maybe Chris Nolan and the Dark Knight and X-Men First Class killed this kind of superhero movie for me. But then again probably not - since I still enjoy Spiderman 2.

2. 2001: A Space Odyssey
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I understand that this one is about the visuals. And you're supposed to get some sort of deep meaning and interpret it on your own. I call hogwash. Much better Kubrick films out there.

3. Chinatown
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Supposedly this and Back to the Future are the most perfect scripts ever written in Hollywood. I've seen it 2 or 3 times in the last 10 years. Hoping the next time I'll like it more. I get it....it does a bunch of technical things right. It's a good story. But in the end ITS A FIGHT OVER WATER. It was boring. Ya ya water represents purity, there's a love triangle or two thrown in there, a few twists and turns. But I found myself asking the whole time...is this really it?

4. Avatar
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It's Pocohantas, Dances with Wolves, Ferngully and pretty much any white guy vs alien movie ever created. The colonialism story is old and tired. The 3D was distracting. Yes. I saw it in the movie theater right when it first came out. I hated it then and I hate it now. One of those movies that you can only watch once because you're going to get absolutely NOTHING out of a second viewing. Unless you're into pretty pictures.

5. LA Confidential
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Took me about 3 or 4 attempts to sit through a complete viewing of this movie. The scenes with guns are cool. But everything else is boring. It's kind of like - here...let me bore you to death for 30 minutes and then here comes an action scene. Rinse and repeat. Rinse and repeat.

Notable mentions:

Scarface Extremely entertaining movie with a lot of quotables. I mean how many times do you find yourself rooting for a scumbag like Tony? But it's not a masterpiece like people claim. The last two are low budget cult favorites that I enjoy...but don't get why their considered so great - Evil Dead and Easy Rider.


I just have TWO for Underrated

1. Before the Knows your Dead.
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No explanation needed. Watch it.

2. MOON.
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Much more enjoyable of a watch than 2001: A Space Odyssey. Unless you consider "2001" a piece of art. You fukking hipster.

 

[Street Knowledge]

Scarface is easily the most overrated movie ever

Cosign space odessey. I TRIED to like it, I really did, but it's probably the most boring movie of all time

 

[Ayo]

Cosign space odessey. I TRIED to like it, I really did, but it's probably the most boring movie of all time

You literally sit around and wait for shyt to happen the whole time. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing. MOON made you wait for shyt to happen, had beautiful visuals but was enjoyable to watch. In fact I'm going to add that to my underrated list.

 

[mr x]

You literally sit around and wait for shyt to happen the whole time. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing. MOON made you wait for shyt to happen, had beautiful visuals but was enjoyable to watch. In fact I'm going to add that to my underrated list.

I gotta cosign this sentiment with 2001. I like kubrick, and like you said it's about the visuals. But it's lacking in story, and the long shots are a bit too much. It's something they should've been playing at the planetarium for school kids to watch.

I've seen Clockwork Orange, Full metal Jacket, Spartacus, The Killing, Dr strangelove and Lolita, and enjoyed all of them over 2001

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

Movies i think are overrated not bad but overrated:

The deer hunter- besides the classic vietnam scenes, its very long and uneventful.

Blade Runner- another very uneventful , boring movie. It looks awesome tho way ahead of its time just a snoozefest.

Apocalypse now- could never get into this movie, just puts me to sleep.

American beauty- just never saw what was so great about this movie, its watchable but not best pic worthy.

Lost in translation- another movie that is just way overrated, not much happening here.

 

[mr x]

Blade Runner- another very uneventful , boring movie. It looks awesome tho way ahead of its time just a snoozefest.

Maybe I gotta give this movie another try, but I wasn't feeling it.

Apocalypse now- could never get into this movie, just puts me to sleep.

this one here is on point. The only interesting part was Brando's character, but you got to wait until the very end, and it still wasn't worth it.

 

[Prez2032]

Overrated-Spike Lee movies (1986-1992)

U get caught up in the moment because they're SPIKE LEE Joints, then you look back at them as an adult and see how sophomoric they actually were. Then when u realize how good Malcolm X could have been and what it was. Still would have traded in Singleton for Spike on that film.

 

[mr x]

Overrated-Spike Lee movies (1986-1992)

U get caught up in the moment because they're SPIKE LEE Joints, then you look back at them as an adult and see how sophomoric they actually were. Then when u realize how good Malcolm X could have been and what it was. Still would have traded in Singleton for Spike on that film.

how do you think Norman Jewison(who was attached to direct) would've done?
his previous films that have racial themes include The Hurricane, and In The Heat of The Night, and A Soldier's Story (in case you didn't know)

 

[bangbreh]

scarface is probably THE most overrated movie in history.
underrated, i'll have to think about that one.

 

[MidniteJay]

Audition (Takashi Miike)

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Verdict: Overrated

- All that movie did was make me feel uncomfortable. I liked nothing about it. It remains today a movie I can't even rate on a 1 to 5 scale. Sometimes I hate that nikka, Miike.

 

[Pool_Shark]

At anyone hating on Scarface. Gets watched once a month at the gym

Overrated
The Godfather 1&2- Nothing to special, decent movie book is better

A Bronx Tale: Theres a few scenes I like but it was

Underrated

John Carter: I had a way better time watching this than Avatar. The reason for him having superpowers was also refreshing. Ignore my thoughts on the mafia shyt and trust me check this out.

 

[StatUS]

At anyone hating on Scarface. Gets watched once a month at the gym

Overrated
The Godfather 1&2- Nothing to special, decent movie book is better

A Bronx Tale: Theres a few scenes I like but it was

Underrated

John Carter: I had a way better time watching this than Avatar. The reason for him having superpowers was also refreshing. Ignore my thoughts on the mafia shyt and trust me check this out.

 

[Bruce LeRoy]

Overrated

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo- outside of the music and acting didn't think it was really all that better or an improvement from the foreign one.


Underrated

The Salton Sea- Val Kilmer as a down on his luck meth head/police informant. The characters are what makes the movie what it is.

 

[Conz]

overrated - Scarface, Blade Runner, the piece of dogshyt Wedding Crashers, Hurt Locker

underrated - i have no idea, id just list really obscure comedies

 

[xXMASHERXx]

Overrated - There Will be Blood

Underrated - Moon