10. Mean Streets
9. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
8. Forrest Gump
7. Scarface
6. The Breakfast Club
5. Gone With the Wind
4. It’s a Wonderful Life
3. The Dark Knight
2. Citizen Kane
1. The Shawshank Redemption
Variety: Most overrated films of all time
>7. Scarface
>6. The Breakfast Club
i like these.
>3. The Dark Knight
>1. The Shawshank Redemption
Big crowd pleaser films, how could you dislike them.
If you remove 2. and 5. it would be a decent list.
They said disgusting racism was the reason Gone with the Wind was overrated, not anything related to the film being bad
It must piss those people off to no end that Gone with the Wind was the first film to have an academy award given to a black actress. No matter how much they screech about the supposed racism of the movie it's too important to the history of black acting to ever completely bury.
They will memoryhole it and rewrite history if they feel like it lmao
>. Gone With the Wind
>4. It’s a Wonderful Life
both genuinely great movies and deserving their reputation
let me guess, most overrated films of all time
>classic movies with male protagonists
and underrated
>feminist boring social commentary by female directors
I agree with the rest but Scarface essentially perfected De Palma's formula, it's easily his best
De Palma's Hitchwiener movies > De Palma's gangster movies
It's great but critics were pretty negative on it when it was first released. It shouldn't make the list based on that alone.
Mostly correct, Spielberg is an utter hack. Orson Welles was a genius tho, don't think they have the attention span he requires.
Honestly not a bad list
Mean Streets is lesser Scorcese
ET is lesser Spielberg
Gump is just plain bad
Scarface is...fine but really stuck around in the public consciousness
Gone with the Wind is good...but not even in top 5 films of 1939 (tbf was a strong year)
It's a wonderful life just seems to be the standard Christmas movie
I disagree with The Breakfast Club, The Dark Knight, Citizen Kane, and Shawkshank. Those movies are all classics that are endlessly rewatchable
I've never cared for ET. It's not horrible I just don't like dramas where the main characters are children. Something like Sandlot where it's a light hearted coming of age movie is fine. Just my preference.
Agreed on Scarface. Takes itself way too seriously. I don't mind serious crime movies or campy crime movies but it feels like it's trying to do both. Al Pacino's fricking unhinged performance is the only redeeming quality.
>It's a wonderful life just seems to be the standard Christmas movie
It's not though. It has almost nothing to do with Christmas. It's about the value of selflessness and developing meaningful relationships with people. It's one of the sweetest and most sincere movies you'll ever see.
>It has almost nothing to do with Christmas. It's about the value of selflessness
Anon...
>I don't mind serious crime movies or campy crime movies but it feels like it's trying to do both
that's De Palma for you, but I like the melodramatic approach in it and the score is great
The score is great. It's just kind of jarring how intense certain scenes are only for them to have something cartoonish to the point of humor happen in the very next scene over and over. Just not my thing.
>It's about the value of selflessness and developing meaningful relationships with people. It's one of the sweetest and most sincere movies you'll ever see.
ergo it is lost on Cinemaphile
It's less that it's lost on Cinemaphile than that it's lost on the sort of subhumans that write for bird-cage liner rags like Variety.
>Cheesy as frick and simplistic
>LOTR
>Pulp Fiction
dare i say based
A multi generational look at 20 years of a man's experiences with the best and worst of existence about the intrinsic value of human life isn't what I would call "simplistic". Also Adam West's Batman is cheesy, don't conflate cheese with Stewart's sincerity. People just don't act like that in movies anymore.
i was quoting this moron
>People just don't act like that in movies anymore.
Is Oppenheimer not sincere?
Is Avatar 2 not sincere?
by definition this should be disney/marvel slop
>black panther
>captain marvel
>the little mudshark
>any modern star wars
etc.
all multi-hundred MILLION dollar flops literally buying "rave reviews" despite being the worst fricking things put to screen this century
I've never heard anyone call those great movies though. In fact I never even hear people talk about them except on the internet.
Not that anon but Black Panther was on the imdb top ten list for a while and comic book nerds proclaimed it to be the best capeshit movie ever. Captain Marvel and Little Mermaid got middling reviews from critics and audiences.
I dont really know how imdb ratings work but comic book nerds aren't really a great barometer for quality.
mean streets - if anything it's underrated
et - they are right, it's shit
forrest gump - it's shit
scarface - turboshit even
breakfast club - haven't seen it
gone with the wind - it's shit
it's a wonderful life - it's okay, 6/10. Definitely overrated. Cheesy as frick and simplistic
dark knight - it's shit
citizen kane - it's overrated but it's great
shawshank redemption - just okay. Very standard movie, nothing special. Definitely overrated
they are almost spot on.
All I need to know about your opinions are you haven’t even seen the breakfast club it’s not some obscure French film from 1923 it was a highly popular Hollywood production with the brat pack and John Hughes
You’re probably too young to post here even
TLDR you’re a gayolla
Goteem
Mean Streets was one of Scorsese's earliest movies there would always be problems with it regardless
Good list but these need to be on here too.
>Lord of the Rings - Fellowship of the Ring
>2001: A Space Odyssey
>Pulp Fiction
>Vertigo
>Come and See
>Get Out
>Saving Private Ryan
>Schindler’s List
>Moonlight
Bait
All reddit trash
2001 is not overrated, but it is overexposed to plebs
I know this is probably bait, but Saving Private Ryan is genuinely mediocre. I rewatched it recently and realized the only good part was when they got to the beach
It’s not bait, if i was baiting i’d put something good like Persona on there
>2001: A Space Odyssey
>Pulp Fiction
>Vertigo
>Come and See
Filtered hard. Rest is correct tho
Vertigo is lame and I have no idea why it's considered his best.
Rear Window, NbNW and Psycho are kino, but that one over-explains everything and takes me out every time there's an exposition scene.
>2001: A Space Odyssey
My general feeling is that this is far more popular with film makers and other artists than the public. It's massively influential even if the man on the street will watch it once at most.
It's a boring piece of shit
2001: A Space Odyssey is probably the only movie that deserves to be called the best movie of all time. It's a unique experience and there's nothing else like it in any other art forms.
Agree with all but Moonlight, 2001, and Come and See deserve their reputations.
>Verification not required
These are all decent /good films
Shawshank is the only one that’s overrrated I guess .
Replace It's a Wonderful Life with Maltese Falcon
weren't you supposed to get this sort of dumb, inflammatory headline/article out of your system in your student newspaper days?
There should be two lists: overrated by cinephiles and overrated by plebs.
by cinephiles you have Citizen Kane of Vertigo, by plebs Shawshank and 12 Angry Men.
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Not an egregious or disagreeable list though I do really like a couple of those.
>Mean Streets
In what way is that film overrated? It's probably one of Scorcese's least talked-about films to this day
I agree with them all except for Breakfast Club, Wonderful Life, Gone with the Wind, and Shawshank.
>10. Mean Streets
definitely in the Scorsese's top 5.
most people don't care about that movie, so it's very far from being overrated
>9. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
basically a kid's movie, but still one of Spielberg's best. A bit overrated, but less than many others
>8. Forrest Gump
I don't hate it, but yeah
>7. Scarface
kinda overrated
>6. The Breakfast Club
I've never heard of anyone listing it among the best films ever
>5. Gone With the Wind
I'm ok with it
>4. It’s a Wonderful Life
very classic crowd pleaser, I don't have strong opinions about it
>3. The Dark Knight
Totally
>2. Citizen Kane
I find it a bit boring, but it's still an incredibly important movie
>1. The Shawshank Redemption
far from being the best movie ever, but it's a very well made film that it's always comfy to rewatch.