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if it ever recieved one positive review, then The Wedding Singer is over-rated.

Critically Under-rated: Fire in the Sky. One critic wrote that he did not like any of the characters, basically because there was no babyface hero.

Well excuse the writters for trying to make an honest portrayal of the people involved in this true story.

another wrote that only the last 15 minutes of the movie were any good. (that happens to be the climax). i cant believe a fucking moron like that could be a film crittic. he probably gave S.W.A.T. excellent reviews.

I think Boondock Saints is incredibly over rated. It's so damn predictable and, just, a crap movie.

I also think that whilst its good, I think fight club is also overrated.

Another overrated film is Mystic River. I considered walking out of that film halfway through...it was crap!


American physco is very underrated...I think that film is awesome. Christian Bale's narration at the start is awesome, and the way he describes music is brilliant!
I can't say enough about how good batman begins was. Granted, it is praised alot, but why the hell was that not nominated for an oscar for best movie of the year. Its the best action flick (if not better) than Terminator 2.

over-rated: Dazed and Confused.

The Stoned Age is a lesser known, yet better and funnier movie.

No way. Dazed and Confused is brilliant.

Over-rated would be Garden State and Wedding Crashers.

Naw, just saw Boondock Saints. Fuckin' awesome.

Willem Dafoe 4 God.

Johnny Depp. Over-rated.

adam sandler is general is over-rated

Overrated:
Crash - Agree with whoever else brought it up, just overly corny.

The following two are from college student perspective:
Boondock Saints: Everyone in college seems to rank this as one of their favorite films, which is fine I suppose as you can like what you want but just annoys me. I have also made a "Tool Test" based off of this. If the following three things are your favorite Movie, Tv Show and Stand Up Comic you are most likely a tool. The test being for Boondock Saints, Family Guy and Dane Cook.

Donnie Darko: A movie I really enjoyed, but again just ranked to high by some folks.

Underrated-

Rocky V
Waiting...

Underrated - Almost Famous

How about movies that got all the hype and then actually delivered?

I find a lot of horror movies to be underrated as actual films.

The Thing and The Mist were both great paranoia films, as was 30 Days of Night this year as well. I enjoyed the shit out of them.
The Descent as well
28 Weeks Later is way underrated, since I feel it is close to if not on par with the original.
Sunshine is excellent and way underrated
Cronenberg's The Fly
They work as films and are actually quite well developed and character based, as well as dealing with issues and having depth. Rare for the genre.

Lucky Number Slevin is way underrated, as is American Psycho.
The Prestige doesn't seem to get enough credit, nor does Thank You For Smoking or History of Violence
Most old time Westerns don't get much love and the genre is full of amazing movies.

Groundhog Day was a great call. Dirty Work is an underrated comedy.
One of the more underrated comedies ever is The Burbs. Amazing comedy, amazing work by Hanks and the rest of the cast. Really when Hanks was coming into his own as an actor but still in his comedic phase, like in Big and Turner and Hooch.
This movie is also one of the first ever dark comedies. I love it.

Some action movies are underrated, like Robocop, where others are overrated, like Bourne Ultimatum. I thought Bourne Ultimatum was so outrageously overrated. It was praised as something amazing, and it was essentially the same thing again for the 3rd time.

Out of all of Tarontino's films, it seems that the only one that doesn't get any credit is Jackie Brown. It gets no love. I think it's amazing. It's on par with the others to me. It may not be as good as Pulp Fiction, but it's so underappreciated and underexposed that it becomes dearer to me.
It's also llinear, and not a flashback or stylistic movie like his other 3 that show off trickery and all kinds of gags.
This is just linear storytelling at it's best, and it's him showing that he can tell a story through without doing gags.
I also love the story, the dialouge and the characters. Robert Forrestor and Pam Grier are genius in this.
Tarontino doesn't get enough credit for this, where some of his other films perhaps get too much credit, as amazing as they are.

Can't think of any more off the top of my head right now, but I could go on all day for underrated movies out there.

Oh btw KillerWolf, the first Batman is still a masterpeice

Tarantino is the personification of overrated. All his movies are crap bar none.

I think Tarantino films are good because they do a great job telling a story with characters like you've never seen, as well as paying homage to past cinema. That said, I think QT himself is way overrated, and there should be mandatory editing on his stuff not done by him.

Yea he's overrated, but he's rated incredibly high. That said, I think he's still amazing.

I felt Planet Terror was superior to Death Proof in Grindhouse. The second half of Death Proof killed it

Robert Rodriguez is underrated

So you're one of those "I'll make a ridiculously cuntish sweeping statement to make friends and influence people" kinda guys eh, twatburger

Say what homo?

Weren't you banned?

and your dilusional.

How do I find out what has been critically overrated/underrated? I will be honest I have only seen the 40 Year Old Virgin as far as Judd Apatow flicks go. Are they really all that different from one another?

The Movie I consider the most overated movie of all time------

Scarface

agreed. Good, but overrated as fuck

Whoa, whoa, whoa, as overrated as Boondock Saints may or may not be, let's not group it with Dane Cook.

I agree with Jeritron. I'm going to go with one overrated and one underrated from Quentin Tarantino. Jackie Brown was an absolutely great movie. I don't know how it is not more known than it is. Until I actually researched the movie, I had no clue it even existed.

Reservoir Dogs is terribly overrated, in my opinion. Maybe I got myself too worked up with the hype, but aside from a few humerous moments, and the like, it's just not a great movie. It seems that everything happens out of time. I'm not talking about the non-linear storytelling, but rather just how things seem to happen without significant dramatic impact. There are some shades of greatness, though, such as Steve Buschemi and the opening scene in the diner, but that's about it. The ending also irks me, too.

The Usual Suspects is way overrated, in my opinion.

Napoleon Dynamite was a movie I absolutely hated. It's just not funny. "Gosh!" My God, I'm in stitches. I'll give it some credit for some amusing scenes. I loved the way Napoleon acted when he was on the phone, and Rex Kwon Do might be the best modern martial art ever. People quoting Napoleon Dynamite just got so annoying. "Tina, come get some ham!" is not a funny line. I'm so glad that movie has disappeared into nothingness. Realistic awkwardness can be funny, but these characters were just mechanically awkward to the point where it was unrealistic.

A comedy I feel is underrated, is National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1. It was just sitting in my video collection one day (I think an uncle gave it to me as a present), and I thought it looked like a stupid buddy-cop movie. I then actually looked at the cover, was pleasantly amused, and then popped it in, and watched with my friend. We were laughing like crazy. Some of the jokes are so corny and predictable, and the movie suffers from the occasional bout of "Scary Movie" syndrome (where a movie thinks lifting a scene from a movie and copying it exactly makes it funny if the scene appears in a comedy), but there are moments that are genuinely funny.

I have a sentimental attachment to it, seeing as it felt like a personal discovery at the time, however. I mean, it's way funnier than any Adam Sandler movie I have ever seen. Then again, Schindler's List was funnier than any Adam Sandler movie I've ever seen.

There are a lot of overrated movies, or alleged "classics" that have let me down. I think it's important to get to a movie before the hype sets in.

Grandma's Boy is Mad underrated

Good point, still true for some cases. Surprised I didn't mention Fight Club, just never overly enjoyed the movie, but everyone else watches it like its porn cause they jizz all over it so much.

I found Juno to be VERY overrated.