movies you think are overrated

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Rushmore
Anchorman
Titanic
Sky Captain
Snakes on a Plane
Lost in Translation
Sideways
Election
Star Wars: Episodes 1 & 2
Big Trouble in Little China
Shakespeare in Love
Naked Lunch
Catch Me if You Can
Anything by Quentin Tarantino

Titanic

I liked Titanic but I can see why most aspies would consider it "sentimental rubbish".

Matrix!

*getting stones ready*

Anything with Will Ferrell doing comedy. Sorry, but I just don't think he's funny.

LOST IN TRANSLATION!! !! !
Finding Nemo (really, any Pixar movie except The Incredibles...)
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Napoleon Dynamite
40 Year Old Virgin
American Pie
ANY 80'S TEEN MOVIE, including Ferris Beueller's Day Off and Fast Times
The Host
Pan's Labyrinth (I loved it but didn't think it to be the masterpiece many critics were calling it)
Brokeback Mountain (this from someone who loves Ang Lee's movies most of the time)
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the s**t...sorry, Sith
Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
The Bourne trilogy
Casablanca
Some Like it Hot
The Third Man
The Godfather
Rear Window (really anything by Hitchcock...none of it scares me, and I find most of it boring)
The Departed
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Maltese Falcon
Seven Samurai
Batman Begins (good, but the visuals sucked, and the action sucked, and those are what I want most from a superhero movie, especially a Batman movie, which should be a fiesta of gothic-noir visuals. It was still a great movie because of the characters and story, but it lacked what I wanted from a BATMAN movie!)
Tim Burton's Batman (sorry but the best thing about it was Danny Elfman's score. Jack Nicholson was funny as The Joker but he didn't look a thing like the Joker should have--he's too damn round. Joker's a freaky skinny scrawney scary bastard--he's not funny. Michael Keaton actually would have made a better Joker...see Beetlejuice for an example of that! A crappy plot, miscast characters, dated visuals, and awful Prince songs ruined this for me even though I normally love Tim Burton)
Blade Runner
Million Dollar Baby
Kill Bill Vol. 1 (sorry but I don't like excessive gore)
The Big Lebowski (sorry, it just didn't do it for me)
Magnolia
Any of Disney's animated movies (i.e. Little Mermaid, Lion King...sorry but I hate the songs)
Re-Animator
Over the Hedge

Some of the classic films above meant a lot to their time or did something new and different, and I can understand that. But many modern films do what they did better now, and they no longer hold up for me. I can't help not liking them.

I love The Host and Re Animator! Lol Re Animator I admit can get kind of stupid sometimes but its neat none the less, and I dont think it was meant to be realistic

What The Bleep Do We Know was definitely overrrated...

Scary Movie
American Pie
Titanic
Harry Potter
Brokeback Mountain
Chronicles of Narnia: The Lon, the Witch and the Wardrobe
The Passion of the Christ
The Da Vinci Code

I agree. I nitpicked through most of that movie, and ended up walking out about halfway through. I nitpick movies based on books too much really (on the other hand "Mystic River" was very true to the book; yay).

The Scary Movie Series (they're just too crude for my tastes)
Napoleon Dynamite (I was told that if you watched it more than once, you would like it; not true)
Chicken Little (I was dragged to see this by my family; blah, it annoyed me)
Pirates of the Caribbean 2 and 3 (The first was good, but the others I just didn't get)
The Diary of a Mad, Black Woman (Too unrealistic and sappy for me)
In the Bedroom (It's sort of close to the story, but it's not my taste)
Memoirs of a Geisha (It was good, but so long)

Oh, and I forgot The Crow (this from a goth)...then again I don't like revenge flicks. Great gothic visuals though...

I don't give a s**t about it being realistic. I just didn't like the rape by severed head scene.

The Host was ok, but Ain't It Cool News was calling it the best monster movie since Jaws. Psh...

The Jungle Book(Cartoon version)
I kind of think Mary Poppins is overrated but I still like it.
Watership Down
Prince Of Egypt
and also
Beauty And The Beast
but I like that as well although there are other films out there which I prefer.

I have a bad feeling about saying this here:

Lord of the Rings Trilogy
I fell asleep 2x in a full theatre on the last film and woke up and told my friends that I didd'nt give a sh** on an EPIC scale. Then I noticed the damn thing was moving along in slow motion.
Batman Begins
Hostel and all the "torture porn" genre
ANy Tarritino post Res. Dogs
SW Episode 2 and 3
pretty much any superhero film these days
Office Space
Good Fellas
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Casablanca
Army of Darkness

"Elizabeth"- That was one movie where I was really disappointed, as the story was really bad, with the timeline being all over the place. I don't have much hope for the sequel, "The Golden Age" about to hit the theaters, since the real Elizabeth I wore a breastplate at the most when she addrssed the troops at Tilbury.

Another movie that is overrated is Scary Movie, which was so bad that I actually walked out of the theater in the middle of it.

Scarface=most overrated movie (in American popular culture) ever.

The simpsons movie in UnderRated... Should be a 12a