They're the most extreme example of "all flash, no substance" of any movies I can think of. All the superficial stuff is great, the visual effects, the score, the acting, you can tell it's a high budget film, to say the least. But the story is hollow, and pretends to be more profound than it really is, the characters are generic and forgettable, the message is pretentious, they're just not very good movies if you care about anything beneath surface level.
@@theywouldnthavetocensormei9231 The lore is mid, the CGI is on par with a video game cut scene. I'm not even hating. I'm propping up the level of video game cut scenes. It's risen so high, they have peaked and are hard to distinguish from each other.
@@andrewwood763 for real, they're basically just saying "war is bad, and don't destroy the environment", and pretending like they deserve a Nobel Prize. It's some pretty basic shit that most people think of by the time they're 12.
10,000% agree on Blair Witch. I honestly have never understood why so many people seem to love that movie. I find it ugly and boring and have always found shaky cam/found footage annoying af.
I totally agree with you about Joker. I liked it, a fine movie. But I'll never watch it again and I never felt that I was watching a Joker origin movie.
I agree, No Way home should have made McGuire and Garfield a central part of the plot. It would have been fun to see both characters confused as to where they were. Maybe introduce Tobie before the opening credits and Andrew Garfield early in the second act.
Other than The Deer Hunter, which I personally disagree with you on, I wouldn't really call these the most overrated movies of all time, more like recent(ish) films with overzealous fanbases. Ghostbusters: Afterlife was hardly a critics' darling.
My unpopular opinion has to be The Usual Suspects, not because I think it's a bad movie, just because most people tend to rate it as the greatest thing ever, and I just think it's above average.
I'm 49 years old and to this day I still haven't met a person who says they love Avatar 1 and 2 and then I asked them to tell me what the movies are about and they don't remember so I don't know anybody who like those movies I've never met anybody who's liked it and I don't understand how those movies made as much money as they did and I think it was a money-laundering scheme where James Cameron used the promotional money to just buy tickets so we can get half of the money back for myself it was a scam that Disney and a lot of Hollywood Studios do all the time but Disney is Infamous for money-laundering the promotional money into buying tickets for sold-out theater rooms with nobody in it so that they can say that the movie is number one and they always get 50% of the money back it's a scam and that's the only thing that makes sense about Avatar wanted to
I think it's one of those things that nobody loves, but almost everyone likes enough to watch it once. Sorta like McDonald's for movies. You don't eat at McDonald's because it's the #1 thing you want if you could eat anything you want. But we all end up there every once in a while.....
Is The Blair Witch Project and the Avatar movies really overrated at this point? I don't love these movies or anything but they get bashed a lot and I would even say too much at this point. My Top 5 most overrated movies in no order. Barbie is crazy overrated, but I feel like nobody will really talk about this movie in a few years. The Dark Knight, I don't hate it but holy s@@@, some fans go overboard with acting like Ledger gave the greatest performance ever put on film and the 3rd act sucks. Titanic, great special effects but I think the love story is pretty laughable and it has a lifetime movie vibe just with a huge budget. Everything Everywhere All at Once, I didn't get the hype, it was fine but nothing that I would watch again and I don't think this will be remembered as any classic in 10 years. The Notebook is low hanging fruit when it comes to chick flicks, the characters are annoying and the story is so damn cheesy.
The biggest travesty is that The Blair Witch dethroned Mad Max as the highest grossing movie with the smallest budget. F*** that movie!!!! Also Spider-Man No Way Home did Dr Strange dirty as f***
Totally agree with Joker. That movie just did not strike me as a DC super villain film. He was not the Clown Prince of Crime. It was just another dude, angry at the system, and he's mentally ill. Just walk into any restaurant and talk with the guy who is washing the dishes for about 20 minutes. It won't be as violent, but Covid and internet conspiracies have made the dishwasher far more entertaining than that film.
My list: 10. X men First class 9. Interstellar 8. Billy elliot 7. Sound of music 6. Frozen 5. Forrest gump 4. Jaws 3. Casablanca 2. 2001 1. Dark knight
My 10 Most Overrated Movies 1. The Blair Witch Project (80 minutes of people dicking around with a camera and calling it "horror") 2. A Ghost Story (A movie that's nothing but a guy pretending to be Charlie Brown in The Great Pumpkin and standing around, plus a pointless scene where a person eats a pie for 8 minutes) 3. Avatar 1 and 2 (both enjoyable for the action and visual effects, but seriously lacking in characters and interesting plots) 4. The Witch (a family doing stuff....once in a while something horror related happens, The Lighthouse and The Northman are both infinitely better films) 5. The Deer Hunter (the first hour or so is entirely filler, it's rough to sit through until the war stuff and Russian roulette finally happens) 6. Signs (I lost brain cells from the twist, that's all I have to say) 7. Marriage Story (Blue Valentine is a far more compelling divorce movie) 8. Barbie (focuses more on messages than an interesting story, also very unfunny) 9. Bodies Bodies Bodies (one of the most irritating and obnoxious movies I ever sat through in my life) 10. Thir13en Ghosts (not well regarded by critics but the horror community LOVES it, I never understood why)
I think people like 13 Ghosts because it cuts all the BS and just shows you the fun stuff, nobody is trying to say it's the most intelligent, flawless movie ever, but it's just a lot of fun. That's what horror fans want, not everything has to try and reinvent the wheel and shove in some contrived plot twist.
@@theywouldnthavetocensormei9231 for me personally fun horror is stuff like Re-Animator, Brain Damage, Evil Dead, People Under the Stairs, Friday the 13th, Sleepaway Camp, Cabin in the Woods, etc. I don't judge people who like Thir13en Ghosts, that's great if they find it fun, it just isn't it for me, and I'm typically very easy to please when it comes to horror lol
I watch scary movies when I'm home alone with the baby, my wife watches trash reality TV like Jersey Shore when she's alone with the baby🤣🤣 he's definitely going to be a well adjusted young man when he grows up.
Totally agree about Barbarian, one of the worst horror movies I've ever seen. The first act was interesting and Bill Skarsgard is always great on screen, but then it pulls a complete bait-'n-switch and becomes embarrassingly stupid. It really wasn't even that scary, it was just depraved and disturbing. And according to some, if you don't like this piece of crap movie then you just hate women, since they have no good way of defending this garbage.
I'm somewhat less harsh about it than you or Adam, I didn't think it was *that* bad, it was at least fun to watch just because it's all over the place, and completely insane. But yea ....it's not a good movie. Lol. There's holes all over the place, it makes no sense.
I'm not a fan of Blair Witch either. But I respect it. Which is more than I can say about the dumpster fire that was Skinamarink. Fucking hate that one. But apparently some people were frightened by staring at walls for an hour and 40 minutes.
I don't think THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT is overrated. It's rotten from the audience perspective. It's not really in conversation today anymore. But it surely was a convo (short for conversation) starter back in the day when it was released with perhaps the most successful marketing campaign ever. More a product of the time it was released. Agreed with JOKER, SPIDER-MAN NO WAY HOME, GHOSTBUSTERS AFTERLIFE.
I think the main thing about TBWP is just that it was so influential, it was something that had never been done at the time. It's like how people consider all the Hitchcock classics as some of the best horror films ever made, but how often do people really watch movies like Vertigo and the original Psycho these days? Probably not often.
I think Blair Witch went from overrated to underrated, it gets a lot of hate for kicking off the found footage trend and I think that is unfair. I don't think it's a horror classic by any means, but I would give it like a 7/10.
@@BishopWalters12 eh, once you know it's just a movie with shaky footage, it loses a lot of its thump. I'm old enough to remember when it came out, and people legitimately thought it was real found footage. It's still good, I'm not trying to say it's a bad movie. It just goes from good to great if you think it's real. I think Grave Encounters is a better found footage/horror film, even knowing it's fake it's still pretty scary, and it has a really creative and interesting plot.
Spider-Man: No Way Home was okay, but not what I expected. I wanted it to deal with the aftermath of Peter being "exposed" by Mysterio, but none of that reallly factored in and his character development goes backwards. I never liked Napoleon Dynamite, but Nacho Libre is amazing, haha. (And I say this as someone with ancestors from Mexico, the cultural quirkiness doesn't bother me) Hocus Pocus is bad, agreed. Avatar is incredibly mediocre, utter yawnfest, I have no desire to watch the sequel.
Terminator 2, John Conner was super annoying. No Way Home plot was horrible. I was younger when the first Avatar released, so I thought it was great because of the visuals.
You and I will probably be in the minority but I agree with you on Terminator 2. I loved it as a kid, I still like it overall, but I don't hold it as this masterpiece like some people do. John is annoying, I get a little burned out on Sarah being so miserable and pissed off.
The most overrated films I've seen is The Crying Game, Tropic Thunder, Wonder Woman, American Beauty, and Black Panther. I don't see why people think Tropic Thunder is so hilarious. It had one funny scene where Robert Downey Jr tells Ben Stiller's character "You Don't Go Full Retarded". The rest of Tropic is full lame dick jokes and over acting.
Of the movies I've seen that you mentioned, I agree 💯. I didn't even finish watching the Barbarian or Joker. But I disagree with you on Hocus Pocus. That movie is gold 😜
Barbarian is..... something. I definitely enjoyed watching it, just because its bat shit insane, but when you really dissect it from a critical point of view, it's a mess.
I turned it off as soon as I saw what was in the basement. Then I read the synopsis and ending ....ewww. I don't need to see that lol@@theywouldnthavetocensormei9231
Adam is way off on Hocus Pocus, I don't think anyone is talking about it like it's the greatest movie ever made but it's a damn fun movie and reminds us 90s kids that things were so much better during that decade.
a movie i would pick is ..The Batman .So much hype it was a skinny kid beating everyone up and a bore .But it was shot well it just didnt feel like Batman to me ...Stay well
For me, Super Troopers is extremely overrated. I have no idea how it can be rated 7.0 on Imdb. Amateurish unfunny trash in every way. It's like teenagers made the movie. It should be no higher than 4.5 compared to similar movies of equal quality.
I don't think Broken Lizard's humor is for everyone, I personally think they're amazing, I love all of their movies, even the weaker ones like Puddle Cruiser and Beerfest. Super Troopers is probably their best if you ask me, Slammin' Salmon is also great, and people who don't like the humor of Super Troopers that much might like Slammin' Salmon a little more.
@@theywouldnthavetocensormei9231 Same here, I agree with you on it's an acquired taste but I love those guys and Club Dread met be my favorite with Super Troopers as a close 2nd.
Terminator 2 and aliens are both overrated to me. I respect the technical aspects but just can't engage with the story and characters. Both feel like an updated versions with bigger budgets of the 1st movie.
Wow I agree 100% on all the movies you are saying or overhyped holy shit I actually didn't think I would agree I figured you might get maybe 5 out of 10 that I would agree with but no you are correct all of the movies you mentioned especially Spider-Man no way home as overhyped bulshit
I'm always mad that you don’t have at least 150,000 subs.
Jar Jar Binks turned down a role in Avatar, saying it was just too racist.
The Avatar movies are so forgettable and down right boring.
Agreed. People are sheep and like things because other people do.
They're the most extreme example of "all flash, no substance" of any movies I can think of. All the superficial stuff is great, the visual effects, the score, the acting, you can tell it's a high budget film, to say the least. But the story is hollow, and pretends to be more profound than it really is, the characters are generic and forgettable, the message is pretentious, they're just not very good movies if you care about anything beneath surface level.
@@theywouldnthavetocensormei9231 The lore is mid, the CGI is on par with a video game cut scene. I'm not even hating. I'm propping up the level of video game cut scenes. It's risen so high, they have peaked and are hard to distinguish from each other.
@@andrewwood763 for real, they're basically just saying "war is bad, and don't destroy the environment", and pretending like they deserve a Nobel Prize. It's some pretty basic shit that most people think of by the time they're 12.
@@andrewwood763 hell even a lot of Pixar kids movies have deeper messages than that.
10,000% agree on Blair Witch. I honestly have never understood why so many people seem to love that movie. I find it ugly and boring and have always found shaky cam/found footage annoying af.
I totally agree with you about Joker. I liked it, a fine movie. But I'll never watch it again and I never felt that I was watching a Joker origin movie.
I agree, No Way home should have made McGuire and Garfield a central part of the plot. It would have been fun to see both characters confused as to where they were. Maybe introduce Tobie before the opening credits and Andrew Garfield early in the second act.
agreed.
Other than The Deer Hunter, which I personally disagree with you on, I wouldn't really call these the most overrated movies of all time, more like recent(ish) films with overzealous fanbases. Ghostbusters: Afterlife was hardly a critics' darling.
My unpopular opinion has to be The Usual Suspects, not because I think it's a bad movie, just because most people tend to rate it as the greatest thing ever, and I just think it's above average.
Titanic
Avatar
Napolean Dynamite
Blade Runner
I'm 49 years old and to this day I still haven't met a person who says they love Avatar 1 and 2 and then I asked them to tell me what the movies are about and they don't remember so I don't know anybody who like those movies I've never met anybody who's liked it and I don't understand how those movies made as much money as they did and I think it was a money-laundering scheme where James Cameron used the promotional money to just buy tickets so we can get half of the money back for myself it was a scam that Disney and a lot of Hollywood Studios do all the time but Disney is Infamous for money-laundering the promotional money into buying tickets for sold-out theater rooms with nobody in it so that they can say that the movie is number one and they always get 50% of the money back it's a scam and that's the only thing that makes sense about Avatar wanted to
I think it's one of those things that nobody loves, but almost everyone likes enough to watch it once. Sorta like McDonald's for movies. You don't eat at McDonald's because it's the #1 thing you want if you could eat anything you want. But we all end up there every once in a while.....
Is The Blair Witch Project and the Avatar movies really overrated at this point? I don't love these movies or anything but they get bashed a lot and I would even say too much at this point.
My Top 5 most overrated movies in no order.
Barbie is crazy overrated, but I feel like nobody will really talk about this movie in a few years.
The Dark Knight, I don't hate it but holy s@@@, some fans go overboard with acting like Ledger gave the greatest performance ever put on film and the 3rd act sucks.
Titanic, great special effects but I think the love story is pretty laughable and it has a lifetime movie vibe just with a huge
budget.
Everything Everywhere All at Once, I didn't get the hype, it was fine but nothing that I would watch again and I don't think this will be remembered as any classic in 10 years.
The Notebook is low hanging fruit when it comes to chick flicks, the characters are annoying and the story is so damn cheesy.
The biggest travesty is that The Blair Witch dethroned Mad Max as the highest grossing movie with the smallest budget. F*** that movie!!!! Also Spider-Man No Way Home did Dr Strange dirty as f***
Totally agree with Joker. That movie just did not strike me as a DC super villain film. He was not the Clown Prince of Crime. It was just another dude, angry at the system, and he's mentally ill. Just walk into any restaurant and talk with the guy who is washing the dishes for about 20 minutes. It won't be as violent, but Covid and internet conspiracies have made the dishwasher far more entertaining than that film.
I love your interactions with your wife, Lindsey(hope I spelled it correct)….hope your family is doing well🥰🥰🥰🥰
I FUCKING LOVE NAPOLEON DYNAMITE! I laugh so much. I disagree but it’s your opinion no harm in having one lol
My list:
10. X men First class
9. Interstellar
8. Billy elliot
7. Sound of music
6. Frozen
5. Forrest gump
4. Jaws
3. Casablanca
2. 2001
1. Dark knight
My 10 Most Overrated Movies
1. The Blair Witch Project (80 minutes of people dicking around with a camera and calling it "horror")
2. A Ghost Story (A movie that's nothing but a guy pretending to be Charlie Brown in The Great Pumpkin and standing around, plus a pointless scene where a person eats a pie for 8 minutes)
3. Avatar 1 and 2 (both enjoyable for the action and visual effects, but seriously lacking in characters and interesting plots)
4. The Witch (a family doing stuff....once in a while something horror related happens, The Lighthouse and The Northman are both infinitely better films)
5. The Deer Hunter (the first hour or so is entirely filler, it's rough to sit through until the war stuff and Russian roulette finally happens)
6. Signs (I lost brain cells from the twist, that's all I have to say)
7. Marriage Story (Blue Valentine is a far more compelling divorce movie)
8. Barbie (focuses more on messages than an interesting story, also very unfunny)
9. Bodies Bodies Bodies (one of the most irritating and obnoxious movies I ever sat through in my life)
10. Thir13en Ghosts (not well regarded by critics but the horror community LOVES it, I never understood why)
I think people like 13 Ghosts because it cuts all the BS and just shows you the fun stuff, nobody is trying to say it's the most intelligent, flawless movie ever, but it's just a lot of fun. That's what horror fans want, not everything has to try and reinvent the wheel and shove in some contrived plot twist.
@@theywouldnthavetocensormei9231 for me personally fun horror is stuff like Re-Animator, Brain Damage, Evil Dead, People Under the Stairs, Friday the 13th, Sleepaway Camp, Cabin in the Woods, etc. I don't judge people who like Thir13en Ghosts, that's great if they find it fun, it just isn't it for me, and I'm typically very easy to please when it comes to horror lol
Spending time in different rooms is like the best marriage :P I watch horror in my livingroom, and the wife watches true crime in her livingroom 😂
I watch scary movies when I'm home alone with the baby, my wife watches trash reality TV like Jersey Shore when she's alone with the baby🤣🤣 he's definitely going to be a well adjusted young man when he grows up.
Thank you for ripping Barbarian a new one. I had it on my worst of 2022.
As I type this, the kids from Avatar 2 are being captured yet AGAIN
Totally agree about Barbarian, one of the worst horror movies I've ever seen. The first act was interesting and Bill Skarsgard is always great on screen, but then it pulls a complete bait-'n-switch and becomes embarrassingly stupid. It really wasn't even that scary, it was just depraved and disturbing. And according to some, if you don't like this piece of crap movie then you just hate women, since they have no good way of defending this garbage.
I'm somewhat less harsh about it than you or Adam, I didn't think it was *that* bad, it was at least fun to watch just because it's all over the place, and completely insane. But yea ....it's not a good movie. Lol. There's holes all over the place, it makes no sense.
I'm not a fan of Blair Witch either. But I respect it. Which is more than I can say about the dumpster fire that was Skinamarink. Fucking hate that one. But apparently some people were frightened by staring at walls for an hour and 40 minutes.
I don't think THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT is overrated. It's rotten from the audience perspective. It's not really in conversation today anymore. But it surely was a convo (short for conversation) starter back in the day when it was released with perhaps the most successful marketing campaign ever. More a product of the time it was released.
Agreed with JOKER, SPIDER-MAN NO WAY HOME, GHOSTBUSTERS AFTERLIFE.
I think the main thing about TBWP is just that it was so influential, it was something that had never been done at the time. It's like how people consider all the Hitchcock classics as some of the best horror films ever made, but how often do people really watch movies like Vertigo and the original Psycho these days? Probably not often.
@@theywouldnthavetocensormei9231 Agreed.
I think Blair Witch went from overrated to underrated, it gets a lot of hate for kicking off the found footage trend and I think that is unfair. I don't think it's a horror classic by any means, but I would give it like a 7/10.
@@BishopWalters12 eh, once you know it's just a movie with shaky footage, it loses a lot of its thump. I'm old enough to remember when it came out, and people legitimately thought it was real found footage. It's still good, I'm not trying to say it's a bad movie. It just goes from good to great if you think it's real. I think Grave Encounters is a better found footage/horror film, even knowing it's fake it's still pretty scary, and it has a really creative and interesting plot.
E.T and Inception
Spider-Man: No Way Home was okay, but not what I expected. I wanted it to deal with the aftermath of Peter being "exposed" by Mysterio, but none of that reallly factored in and his character development goes backwards.
I never liked Napoleon Dynamite, but Nacho Libre is amazing, haha. (And I say this as someone with ancestors from Mexico, the cultural quirkiness doesn't bother me)
Hocus Pocus is bad, agreed.
Avatar is incredibly mediocre, utter yawnfest, I have no desire to watch the sequel.
Terminator 2, John Conner was super annoying. No Way Home plot was horrible. I was younger when the first Avatar released, so I thought it was great because of the visuals.
You and I will probably be in the minority but I agree with you on Terminator 2. I loved it as a kid, I still like it overall, but I don't hold it as this masterpiece like some people do. John is annoying, I get a little burned out on Sarah being so miserable and pissed off.
The most overrated films I've seen is The Crying Game, Tropic Thunder, Wonder Woman, American Beauty, and Black Panther. I don't see why people think Tropic Thunder is so hilarious. It had one funny scene where Robert Downey Jr tells Ben Stiller's character "You Don't Go Full Retarded". The rest of Tropic is full lame dick jokes and over acting.
Totally agree on Tropic Thunder. The RDJ scenes are the only great parts.
Of the movies I've seen that you mentioned, I agree 💯. I didn't even finish watching the Barbarian or Joker. But I disagree with you on Hocus Pocus. That movie is gold 😜
Barbarian is..... something. I definitely enjoyed watching it, just because its bat shit insane, but when you really dissect it from a critical point of view, it's a mess.
I turned it off as soon as I saw what was in the basement. Then I read the synopsis and ending ....ewww. I don't need to see that lol@@theywouldnthavetocensormei9231
Adam is way off on Hocus Pocus, I don't think anyone is talking about it like it's the greatest movie ever made but it's a damn fun movie and reminds us 90s kids that things were so much better during that decade.
a movie i would pick is ..The Batman .So much hype it was a skinny kid beating everyone up and a bore .But it was shot well it just didnt feel like Batman to me ...Stay well
I hated Barbarian.
Here are some movies I find overrated: titanic, the avengers, wolf of Wall Street, 21 jump street, and war of the world 2005.
I can agree with all of these. I'm still gonna rewatch No Way Home, next week though lol
Oh my gosh dude, Matilda and Hocus Pocus would be on my list too.
Frozen is overrated imo, like how can it not be, it was way bigger than it had any right to be 😂
Avatar is the most overrated franchise ever.
I agree Barbarian wasn't good
For me, Super Troopers is extremely overrated. I have no idea how it can be rated 7.0 on Imdb. Amateurish unfunny trash in every way. It's like teenagers made the movie. It should be no higher than 4.5 compared to similar movies of equal quality.
I hated Barbarian on my first watch through but after 3x I like it! I can't explain why? I just like it! 😂
I'm glad that worked for you but most people won't bother to rewatch a movie they didn't enjoy the first time THREE MORE times! LOL
I don't think Broken Lizard's humor is for everyone, I personally think they're amazing, I love all of their movies, even the weaker ones like Puddle Cruiser and Beerfest. Super Troopers is probably their best if you ask me, Slammin' Salmon is also great, and people who don't like the humor of Super Troopers that much might like Slammin' Salmon a little more.
@@theywouldnthavetocensormei9231 Same here, I agree with you on it's an acquired taste but I love those guys and Club Dread met be my favorite with Super Troopers as a close 2nd.
Dear hunter 2: Deer Hunt Harder is much better. Instead of the Russian roulette scene they have a game of Twister on a minefield.
I really liked Matilda, but I understand where you're coming from.
No Way Home’s plot is nonsensical. It’s a carnival ride. Blair Witch Project is a waste of time with no redeeming quality. LOL
Avatar is the same movie as the animated film Fern Gully
Memories of murder is so overrated man, went in waiting for to get interesting lol. 4/10 for me 😢
Avatar is a cult!😂
Napoleon dynamite is an amazing movie worst opinions Adams had so far
All Avatar did was make fun of Native Americans, with the white dude saving everything. And the Hangover so trash
Four minutes in… “What are you saying???” Please… get to the point. Love you. But please…
Terminator 2 and aliens are both overrated to me. I respect the technical aspects but just can't engage with the story and characters. Both feel like an updated versions with bigger budgets of the 1st movie.
Wow I agree 100% on all the movies you are saying or overhyped holy shit I actually didn't think I would agree I figured you might get maybe 5 out of 10 that I would agree with but no you are correct all of the movies you mentioned especially Spider-Man no way home as overhyped bulshit