you realize that the dark knight is the 2nd one in the series

How do we define overrated? If it's a movie that was extremely successful, but was pretty average as a film I would say Blair Witch Project and Avatar are on that list.

For movies that are on a lot of people's top 20 list/ top 100 list, whatever (looking on imdb's top 250) I would go with the second two Lord of the Rings movies, early David Fincher films like Seven and Fight Club and Nolan's Inception.

This post was edited by Kadderly on Aug 22 2013 02:36pm

Citizen Kane.

It is hailed as the greatest film of all time. The fact that it is so highly rated means that it has the most potential for overrated-ness.

And it wasn't even as good as Gone with the Wind which was made 2 years earlier.

just because your trying to convey that life is suffering, there no need to make your audience suffer through 3 hours of the same bandits attack villagers defend over and over and over and over and over and over again.

sanjuro, yojimbo, and rashumon were much much much better films.

This post was edited by Ylem122 on Aug 22 2013 10:56pm

A movie can be good for someone and bad for another so there is not really overrated movies

Okay, some more. Some of these are mentioned a lot already, but what ever

The Hobbit
I don't remember much from reading it, since that was about 12-13 years ago. But I remember I loved it. The movie, however, was awful. There was no real structure - just one thing after another - the character building was completely weak and unmotivated, the whole thing just seemed aimless. I thought it was a terrible movie, and I can't believe that the Hobbit is going to have as much movie air time as Lord of the Rings, when it had only about 1/10 the page coverage.

Avengers
I enjoyed it. It was a fun thriller that wasn't too ambitious for its writing, so it achieved exactly what it meant to. But I definitely don't think it's the greatest comic movie adaptation in the universe, which some people claim. There are definitely far stronger comic-based movies out there than that.

Avatar
Although it would be cool if our planet had a massive collective life-form network of floppy junction-penises to connect us to it.

Empire Strikes Back
Yeah I said it! Come at me mother fucker! It was a solid, well structured movie. But it gets far too much credit for the twist at the end. That wasn't the greatest twist in movie history, as it is often referred to, just the first really shocking twist in a movie with lots of cgi lasers and publicity.

Pirates of the Caribbean
I don't know what it is about this movie that everyone loves so much. I thought it was just meh. Certainly not deserving of a trilogy.

might have been different if you had no prior knowledge, sat in a theatre in 1980 watching it for the first time.

there are four of them bro

One of the best movies of all times. imo.