What are your top 10 most overrated movies?

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Timoteo77
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Re: What are your top 10 most overrated movies?

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Agree with you on Gran Torino, (horrible acting) but Clockwork Orange is a true classic.

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in no order:

Once
Hero
Into the Wild
Howls Moving Castle
Beginners
500 days of Summer
North by Northwest
Anatomy of a Murder
Chicago
V for Vendetta

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American Beauty
Amelie
Black Swan
The Dark Knight Rises
Forrest Gump
L.A. Confidential
The Matrix
Slumdog Millionaire
Toy Story 3
Up


People overrating movies for dubious reasons isn't anything new, but these entries into IMDb's Top 250 seem particularly absurd. Of course, that list is pretty much worthless anyway.

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1. 8½
(tie)
1.It's a Wonderful Life
3. Grapes of Wrath
4. American Beauty
5. Taxi Driver
6. Citizen Kane
7.The Big Lebowski
8. Toy Story 3
9. The Good the Bad and the Ugly
10. City of God

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Re: What are your top 10 most overrated movies?

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This uses the collection by ppinonochio of the IMDB Top 250, which includes some films that used to be on the list but no longer are.

10. Vertigo (1958)
9. The Avengers (2012)
8. The Artist (2011)
7. Gandhi (1982)
6. The Graduate (1967)
5. The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
4. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
3. The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
2. The Green Mile (1999)
1. Ed Wood (1994)

I actually like Vertigo and tolerate The Avengers - these two are merely severely overrated in my opinion. The other eight, I don't much understand the acclaim (or, at least, cultural acclaim, since this is the IMDB list.)

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Going off IMDb's Top 250:

1. Inception
2. Forrest Gump
3. Apocalypse Now
4. Saving Private Ryan
5. The Departed
6. WALL-E
7. Braveheart
8. Grave of the Fireflies
9. Heat
10. Casino

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1.The Tree of Life (2011)
2.There Will Be Blood (2007)
3.Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)
4.Goodfellas (1990)
5.I'm Not There (2007)
6.Into the Wild (2007)
7.Reservoir Dogs (1992)
8.Half Nelson (2006)
9.The Big Lebowski (1998)
10.WALL·E (2008)

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Shawshank Redemption
Ben Hur
Gone With the Wind
Super 8
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Schindler's List
Wizard of Oz
Children of Men
Clockwork Orange

2 others that aren't generally as highly rated as those above, but that I really didn't care for:
The Lovely Bones
Insidious


I also find the Star Wars franchise to be woefully overrated

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Is it common for most contentious rankings to be of stuff you dont like rather than do like? Out of my top 50 most contentious I only have two that I like more than the average and they're at number 48 (Polar Express) and 50 (Apocalypto)!
Realise I'm waaaaaay behind most other folk as I've only ranked 215 films so far but here's my top 10 with the difference between my tier and the average:
Fight Club (1999) 6.67
Persona (1966) 6.62
Peeping Tom (1960) 6.16
Nosferatu (1922) 5.53
Night of the Living Dead (1968) 5.45
Whisper of the Heart (1995) 5.22
Ran (1985) 5.17
Le Cercle rouge (1970) 5.15
Short Cuts (1993) 5.11
Hud (1963) 5.06

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