Most overrated film you have ever seen.

[The Infamous Scamola]

Mine would probably have to be "Life is beutiful".
I know a lot of people love that film especially in my home country (Italy), but after being told how great of a movie it was and after actually seeing it I was kinda dissapointed.

Dont get me wrong, I dont think it's a bad movie, it's just that I thought it was a bit anticlimactic, especially for a film that won best foreign film and was nominated for
best directing (among other things) at the Oscars.

So the question is: what is the most overrated film you have ever seen?

 

[Baby Tea]

Donny Darko.
All these people talk about how deep and amazing it is, and it wasn't either of those things.
It was bland, boring, and pretentious.

 

[Wazaki]

Donny Darko.

Hmm, DD is one of my top movies of all time.
I'd have to say almost any Will Ferrell movie. He was great in SNL and some movies, but mostly all his movies are overrated.

 

[Inverse Skies]

Watchmen. I had no interest in it but one of my friends was interested in going so I went along. I'm glad I don't have much interest in movies at all because that one wasn't that great.

 

[Straitjacketeering]

Talledega nights.

 

[laikenf]

Donny Darko.
All these people talk about how deep and amazing it is, and it wasn't either of those things.
It was bland, boring, and pretentious.

Totally agree with you. I remember the first (and only) time I watched it was because my whife was watching it one morning and I decided to join her. I didn't even know what movie it was, all I was thinking was "what the fuck is this?". I managed to sit through the whole thing (still not knowing what the hell we where watching, she didn't know either). It was only later that day when I spoke to a friend of mine and started ranting about waisting my time with a stupid movie that I discovered that such movie was the beloved Donny Darko. Don't belive the hype, that was all I can think of.

 

[Obsessive_Monkey]

Quarantine and Cloverfield.. great idea with the camera's.. but after a while it seriously gives me a headache and the lighting in Quarantine was shocking.. i understand they wanted it like that.. but what's the point of a movie when you can barely see what's happening.

 

[SmilingKitsune]

Titanic, I didn't see what all the hubub was about.

 

[Gamine]

Err..Slumdog?



i havent even seen it.lol, but i think the hype would kill it for me

 

[Emmitt_Nervend]

There Will Be Blood. It was so long and so boring. It was like watching a documentary only I wasn't learning anything.

 

[Hamster at Dawn]

Withnail & I. I just didn't find it funny.

 

[Sebdeas]

Titanic easily, 11 oscars and a worldwide boxoffice of $1,8 billion for that piece of crap?

 

[Cowabungaa]

Titanic easily, 11 oscars and a worldwide boxoffice of $1,8 billion for that piece of crap?

Agreed, but maybe it's because I'm an emotional rock and I don't respond well to tear-fests. And Titanic is clearly a tear-fest.

 

[Scary_Bob]

2001 A space odyssey bored me to tears. I can appreciate it as a technical accomplishment with some great music, but I have no incentive to ever watch it again certainly.

 

[PedroSteckecilo]

Titanic easily, 11 oscars and a worldwide boxoffice of $1,8 billion for that piece of crap?

Agreed, but maybe it's because I'm an emotional rock and I don't respond well to tear-fests. And Titanic is clearly a tear-fest.

Titanic, were it a novel and not a film, would be a drug store Romance Novel and nobody except lonely housewives and "Smart Bitches who love Trashy Novels" would have heard of it.

Titanic was only successful because it was a cheesy romance novel plot turned into a film with a mega budget.

 

[RedRingRico]

2001 A space odyssey bored me to tears. I can appreciate it as a technical accomplishment with some great music, but I have no incentive to ever watch it again certainly.

This, this, this. I had to watch it for a media class, it felt like I'd been there for six hours just watching the intro section with the chimp panorama.

 

[traceur_]

Quantum of solace, they hyped that movie up so much. I reckon Daniel Craig is the the best james bond but they give him crappy roles.

 

[NeedAUserName]

I have to say, I can't stand the Mission Impossible trilogy. Although admittedly after the first I though it was a bit of a joke, if the missions impossible how has he now done it three times?

 

[Doomhammer828]

Watchmen and 300
tie between these two