Yahoo Lifestyle 18 "Classic" Movies Folks Hateeeeeeee With A Burning Passion (Which Is Kinda Hard To Argue With)
Reddit user Status-Ad-8495 asked the community, "What is the most overrated movie of all time in your opinion?"
Welp, people weren't afraid to share which movies were wayyyyy overhyped. Like, these folks had HELLA opinions about some pretty "classic" flicks.
So, here are some popular movies a lotttttt of people think are downright overrated:
Note: Some submissions were pulled from this Reddit thread by user u/DrRiffs.
Note: Some submissions were pulled from the BuzzFeed Community.
1.Avengers: Endgame (2019)
"Avengers: End Game. I’m sorry, I just can’t fathom why anyone would even put it in the same league as other masterpieces."
"Honestly, I thought Infinity War was much better (that might be because I don't really care for Marvel movies except for Guardians of the Galaxy and the third and fourth Thor movies). Basically, any of the Marvel movies that don't take themselves too seriously. The rest are just boring and forgettable."
2.Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
"I think opinions on Everything Everywhere All at Once have been far more mixed since the initial, 'Oh, my god this is an instant classic' response it garnered when it was first released. I appreciate its ambition and don't think it's that bad, but I found it to be a pastiche of other, better films, to the point where it loses its sense of identity."
3.The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
"It's a really good movie, but I don't think any part of it is great or exceptional (and yet it's consistently ranked as one of the best films of all time)."
"Shawshank belongs to a category of films that I can't quite figure out how to best describe. Forrest Gump, The Truman Show, and Good Will Hunting would also be on that list (Creed is a modern movie that would probably fit in there, too). I like Shawshank and many movies in that category, but I don't know why Shawshank, in particular, always rises so far above those others into 'the greatest film of all time' lists."
4.Hereditary (2018)
"I saw it in theaters, and everyone said it was supposed to be the scariest movie of the year. Nope! Half the time, I really didn't understand what was going on, but I will say the writers of Hereditary made up for the disappointment when they came out with Midsommar — now that was good."
5.Us (2019)
"Us delivers in a way that you become blinded by the, 'Wait, what?' of it all. It’s a shame because it’s an awesome movie, but it’s weak because it didn’t follow through on its own ambitiousness."
6.Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
"It didn't wrap up The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi in any sort of satisfying way, and proved that they were winging everything from the beginning and had no idea what they were doing. I was willing to give them the benefit of the doubt after the first two movies of the trilogy, but a trilogy has to make sense as a story that goes from A to B in some way, or from A to B to C to D. This whole trilogy was just basically a series of MacGuffins with occasional planet, star, moon, and space shots."
7.Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)
"You have a Leonardo DiCaprio movie based around the Charles Manson cult/murders with Quentin Tarantino directing. It had all of the ingredients to be a fantastic movie, but instead, it was an incredibly boring movie where you were always waiting for it to get good, and it never actually did."
8.Mulan (2020)
"I like the original, but I always kinda wished it was slightly more serious. The new version is, but everything in it was just worse — Mulan was born with powers instead of having to work her way up to them, which made the movie uninteresting."
9.Lady Bird (2017)
"I know people love it, but it just did nothing for me. I was 18 years old when I watched it and still kind of getting into more artistic movies, but I just couldn't help but feel like it was maybe the least realistic depiction of a coming-of-age story I had ever seen. I was fresh out of high school when I watched it. It might be due for a rewatch, but I always look back on that movie as a huge disappointment, considering how much it had been hyped up for me."
10.Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
"This movie glorifies racist stereotypes, organized crime, child marriage, and utter inauthenticity. I also hate to say this because she was utterly lovely to look at, but Audrey Hepburn’s performance is completely unbelievable. It’s a bad, bad movie."
11.It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
"I love old Christmas movies, but I can't stand It's a Wonderful Life. It's a schmaltzy, mediocre film that's somehow managed to get classified as something no one is allowed to criticize. If you want your Jimmy Stewart fix at Christmas time, I recommend watching The Shop Around the Corner instead."
12.The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
"I loved it at first, but I rewatched it recently, and it's just so...I don't know, loud. Like, there's so much yelling and screaming, and so many of those scenes go on for too long. It's like it was made by the people who write Family Guy gags."
"The scene where Leo and Jonah are on the expired quaaludes, and they are fighting in the house lasted so fucking long. I told my wife we had to watch it together because I remembered it being so good, but by the end, it was like... they could have cut 40% of the movie and made it a good flick."
13.Gravity (2013)
"The opening scene of Gravity is fucking phenomenal (like, genuinely one of the most thrilling scenes in film history). But, everything else is just Sandra Bullock failing to grab onto things."
"But did you see the shot where she's in a fetal position framed by the window like it's a womb, and her tether looks like an umbilical cord? So deep! 🤪."
14.Interstellar (2014)
"It's a really good film, but people treat it as if it’s Christopher Nolan's untouchable masterpiece (or one of the best movies ever made). When, in reality, it’s one of my least favorite Nolan films (it’s still an eight to nine rating depending on the day). The only good part about it is the visuals."
"This movie had an interesting concept and some amazing visuals and acting, but I thought the plot was pretty messy. I don't understand how it's achieved the 'flawless masterpiece' status."
15.Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)
"All of the characters had their own subplots going on, but only the Rocket/Yondu storyline interested me. They didn't feel like a team for 90% of the movie, the villain was an absolute moron (like, why would you tell your son that you killed his mother?), and the final fight was such a confusing CGI mess. I couldn't tell what was happening at any point, and only half the jokes landed for me."
16.Ghostbusters (1984)
"The original Ghostbusters — the one and only time I waited on a line for a movie and got stuck in the front row. I still don't see what the big deal is about this movie."
17.Dunkirk (2017)
"Nah, sorry, I was disappointed by it. I understand what they were going for, but I feel like they missed — they should have had a narrative with actual dialogue instead."
18.And finally, The Wizard of Oz (1939)
"I don’t know why, but I've always found something awful about The Wizard of Oz. I don’t think it’s that great."
Note: Some submissions have been edited for length and/or clarity.
