We love movies and it’s that time of year again—the time when movies are extra special.
It’s awards season!
The one thing that’s always examined in awards season, is seasons past.
Everyone loves to discuss the movies that failed to live up to the hype.
Redditor hootyowlscissors wanted to discuss all movies where the hype just didn’t add up.
They asked:
“What is the most massively overrated film of all time and why?”
Reddit was quick to respond…
Reese couldn’t make it work…
“Water for elephants. The book was really good but the movie barely told the story.” ~ Icy_Gap6980
“I LOVE Reese Witherspoon but I find she often doesn’t have chemistry with men in her movies.”
“She plays characters where it works anyways, but I can’t think of anything where she really amazing chemistry with a costar.” ~ ingenfara
“I loved the movie, but heard that people who read the book (which I still haven’t) wouldn’t have liked it.”
“The same thing was true about ‘The Firm.’”
“I had read the book and saw it in the theater with a friend who hadn’t.”
“She thought it was one of the best movies she’d ever seen, and I said ‘That’s not in the book!’”
“So many times, the man in front of me turned around and told me to shut up.” ~ notthesedays
The Oscar Upset!!
“Shakespeare in Love. And it beat Saving Private Ryan for best picture FFS…” ~ Millerzeit
“I used to think the same but the real winner should have been life is beautiful.”
“Saving Private Ryan is a masterpiece but life is beautiful is cinema perfection.”
The character is amazing and the things he did for his son.”
“Ugh i cry every time i see it because through all that nonsense his son never got to see the brutality of it and he got his tank.” ~ crazymo121
“Yes Shakespeare in love was operated.”
“But for comedy I think it good.”
“Geoffrey Rush’s role he played was just great.”
“I think if some one besides Gweneth was cast, it might have been much better.”
“Could not stand Saving Private Ryan, but one of my husband’s favorites.” ~ happyhappy2986
press stop…
“Crash. Pure pandering, shi**y script, one-dimensional characters, the whole shebang that should not have even been nominated for crap.” ~freebird12g
The Blue People…
“HOLY S**T NO ONE STILL LIKES AVATAR STOP TALKING ABOUT IT!!”
“Now it’s overHATED.” ~ devilthedankdawg
“Seriously, it’s an ok movie.”
“It has good but not crazy good reviews, and that’s totally fair.”
“But Saying it’s ferngully/Pocahontas/Dances with Wolves doesn’t make you smart, you are just repeating the same thing said by every person ever.”
“It just got an insane amount of money because of the spectacle of it and how much word of mouth it had to.”
“And, yeah, to give credit to Avatar, it looks FANTASTIC. It still looks a lot better than a lot of CGI today!” ~ Lucienofthelight
But it has Sandra…
“Bird box.” ~ Loooooooooppp
“The book was very good in my opinion.”
“I watched the movie and it made me so mad. Horrible movie.” ~ FrenchMushr00m
“This movie always annoyed me, the ending was so convenient and there was no catharsis or lessons learned, as well the monsters ability was never shown.”
“I thought the movie would have been much better it had ended with her after accepting responsibility and love for the adopted child and taking the boat down the rapids.”
“She would elect not to wear a mask to protect the children.”
“She would inadvertently see a monster and then ‘witness’ her child and adopted child die in the rapids, and she is so ridden with grief she kills herself.”
“The children would not actually have died and they would find the sanctuary.”
“I feel like that would have given the movie a meaning and an edge that was missing.” ~ OHFUGGYEAHBUDS
Poor Arnold…
“I digress, the most underrated film of all time is Conan the Barbarian circa 1981.” ~ FinancialArtichoke75
“I liked that film but got mocked by my classmates for having it on DVD, so I lied, and I said it was a porno and the label read Conan as a diversion.”
“And then I didn’t get mocked.”
“Anyway, what I really came to say was that the question was about overrated films, and you replied about underrated films.” ~ Kriskao
Nonsense…
“I have two:”
“The Purge movies.”
“Not only is the premise mind numbingly illogical with so so many ramifications, but I find it really hard to believe that the entire country would go on killing sprees instead of stealing s**t and doing drugs.”
“Paranormal Activity. Oh no, the chair suddenly moved after a half hour of nothing else happening!” ~ Yuiopy78
“It was a way to ‘stir up the hornets nest’ if that makes sense.”
“They wanted to justify the first purge so they could repeat it annually.”
“They wouldn’t have been able to do so if crime was low on that specific night so they used mercs instigate some violence.”
“The ‘concept’ of the purge is that overall it would decrease crime and homelessness since everyone would be releasing their anger on purge night and ultimately targeting homeless people.”
“Great movie concept, illogical as f**k though.”
“Later in the series we find out the purge does nothing towards crime and poverty and I just an excuse for rich people to go bats**t crazy.” ~ inframeWS
“Let it Go… Let it Go…”
“Frozen. I liked the idea of two female leads for a Disney Princess movie, but I feel the execution was off the mark.”
“The Hans twist was predictable and the way Elsa freezes Anna’s heart to trigger an ‘impending death’ was just stupid.”
“Olaf was also annoying and I did not find his love of Summer endearing.” ~ TelemachusTheYoung
Not THAT movie!
“The English Patient. I almost got thrown out of the theater at one point for screaming ‘just f**king die already!’” ~ 12altoids34
“I used to ask people what movie they hated that everyone else seems to love.”
“It was one of my favorite questions to get to know someone.”
“I eventually had to modify it to say ‘what movie do you hate that everyone you know loves, but it can’t be The English Patient’ because literally everyone hated it.” ~ crankyweasels
Lost in Space…
“Gravity. Everyone raved on it and how amazing it was.”
“I once described the entire film to someone in 10 seconds.” ~ sfkf8486
“If you watched it in theatres, it was amazing.”
“If you watched it at home it sucked.”
“Everything amazing about it was atmosphere and immersion.” ~ Ardentpause
In the end art is subjective.
There are a few movies on this list I really liked.
Except for The English Patient.
When I think about the six hours I wasted… sorry three hours, it just felt like six.
Anybody feel the need to add to the list?