Greatest and Favorite MoviesLook: There are hundred of thousands of movies out there for you to watch. All we're saying is that these are the ones you should put at the top of your list.
April 11, 2022 36.6k votes 3.2k voters 38.2k views
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Vote up the alleged movie masterpieces that left you saying "meh."
We've all had the experience - you sit down with a bowl of popcorn, eager to watch a movie that's been talked up by everyone you know. Maybe it's the latest summer blockbuster, maybe it's a beloved nostalgic classic that you never actually watched as a kid. Either way, a couple hours later the credits roll, and you're left saying, "Wait a sec, that's it? What was all the fuss about?"
Some of these universally beloved films just might not hit the same if you didn't grow up watching them as a kid. Others may have been groundbreaking when they were initially released, but a rewatch decades later illuminates some gaping plot holes and less than stellar writing. In any event, many found that these hugely popular movies are actually pretty overrated. Did your favorite movie make the list?
I love musicals and I hated La La Land. Maybe because neither of the mains were especially musically talented. Also, the white man saving jazz was a bit much.
Everyone went INSANE for [Avatar] when it came out and I have no idea why, and [I] do not understand how it became the highest grossing movie of all time. It is an irredeemably horrible movie. The characters are all one-dimensional. The story is a predictable and simplified rip off of a number of other films. The world has no complexity to it. It’s riddled with plot holes. The whole thing was basically a bloated tech demo. An absolute waste of 3 hours. Also they have sex with the animals.
I never watch anything [Nicholas Sparks]. Dude can't write any other plot. Someone is dying, or just died and romance[s] are slow and obvious love-hate crap. He writes like a 10 year old with with 20 hashtags on an [Instagram] post.
Not to mention the romantic take on Alzheimer's disease. It was really romantic when my grandfather woke up and told the woman he had been married to for almost 60 years "I don't know who you are but you'd better leave before my wife sees you." And even more romantic when a couple of months later he chased her through the house with a kitchen knife, was put into a nursing home and then died alone of [pneumonia]... My husband knows not to bring up this movie. I don't just not like it, I hate it.
Me too! I've never met anyone else who feels this way. There was a skit on America's Funniest Home Videos with alien Gumbies that abducted humans -- it absolutely terrified me as a small child and I hated Gumby ever since.
