Overrated , overhyped films
by pat_bateman_87 | created - 03 Jun 2011 | updated - 26 Jun 2012 | Publicmovies that have more hype attached to them than substance ... movies that make u say gimme my 2 hours back !!!
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1. Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
R | 120 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A teenager from the slums of Mumbai becomes a contestant on the show 'Kaun Banega Crorepati?' When interrogated under suspicion of cheating, he revisits his past, revealing how he had all the answers.
Directors: Danny Boyle, Loveleen Tandan | Stars: Dev Patel, Freida Pinto, Saurabh Shukla, Anil Kapoor
Votes: 878,104 | Gross: $141.32M
for me the most overrated movie of the recent past ... so grossly overrated that it even went on to win n oscar!!!! ... cliched plot - rags to riches story , getting back with ur childhood crush - well how many times have we seen this in movies and still y did this get n oscar ... oh i know to get the attention of 1 billion ppl in india to the OSCARS .... well atleast a few of us here have stopped following the oscars now !!!!
2. Avatar (2009)
PG-13 | 162 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
A paraplegic Marine dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission becomes torn between following his orders and protecting the world he feels is his home.
Director: James Cameron | Stars: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Rodriguez
Votes: 1,387,078 | Gross: $760.51M
300 million in budget for a 'visually amazing' experience ... honestly it was just that nothing else .... heck if i wanted a visual experience i might as well go to an art gallery .... sad part abt it is it grossed more than what it took so james cameron is goin to go on another spending spree and make part two ... well i aint gonna waste anotehr 3 hrs on it !!!
3. The Hangover (2009)
R | 100 min | Comedy
Three buddies wake up from a bachelor party in Las Vegas, with no memory of the previous night and the bachelor missing. They make their way around the city in order to find their friend before his wedding.
Director: Todd Phillips | Stars: Zach Galifianakis, Bradley Cooper, Justin Bartha, Ed Helms
Votes: 846,943 | Gross: $277.32M
now why this is included in the list is because its good no doubt but not great to merit a 7.9 .... guys doing crazy stunts while drunk .... how bout givin jackass series n 8 too !!!
4. Knocked Up (2007)
R | 129 min | Comedy, Romance
For fun-loving party animal Ben Stone, the last thing he ever expected was for his one-night stand to show up on his doorstep eight weeks later to tell him she's pregnant with his child.
Director: Judd Apatow | Stars: Seth Rogen, Katherine Heigl, Paul Rudd, Leslie Mann
Votes: 384,791 | Gross: $148.73M
dunno how ppl find seth rogen funny let alone stand his movies .... for me the worst kinda torture - going to a stand up comedy featurin set rogen , adam sandler and a special appearance by rob schneider ... i wudn wish this on my worst of enemies !!!
5. Transformers (2007)
PG-13 | 144 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
An ancient struggle between two Cybertronian races, the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons, comes to Earth, with a clue to the ultimate power held by a teenager.
Director: Michael Bay | Stars: Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson
Votes: 675,119 | Gross: $319.25M
typical micheal bay film - Baam . boom , swish , help { girl screaming } , guy saving the day and a dialogue{maybe } ... then again baam,boom and repeat the above !!!!
6. Titanic (1997)
PG-13 | 194 min | Drama, Romance
A seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic.
Director: James Cameron | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates
Votes: 1,281,266 | Gross: $659.33M
again good but way overrated to win 11 oscars .... only good part abt the movie bought di caprio into the limelight if ppl missed his btr performances earlier in basketball diaries and gilbert grape !!!
7. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
PG | 115 min | Action, Adventure
In 1936, archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the U.S. government to find the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis can obtain its awesome powers.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman, John Rhys-Davies
Votes: 1,037,256 | Gross: $248.16M
modern larger than life hero ..... nothing can stop indiana jones ... pity if it were true could have sent speilberg and harrison ford to fight terrorism !!!!
8. Kick-Ass (2010)
R | 117 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Dave Lizewski is an unnoticed high school student and comic book fan who one day decides to become a superhero, even though he has no powers, training or meaningful reason to do so.
Director: Matthew Vaughn | Stars: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Nicolas Cage, Chloë Grace Moretz, Garrett M. Brown
Votes: 593,641 | Gross: $48.07M
walked out half way through ... cudn take it !!!
9. Face/Off (1997)
R | 138 min | Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
To foil a terrorist plot, FBI agent Sean Archer assumes the identity of the criminal Castor Troy who murdered his son through facial transplant surgery, but the crook wakes up prematurely and vows revenge.
Director: John Woo | Stars: John Travolta, Nicolas Cage, Joan Allen, Alessandro Nivola
Votes: 401,076 | Gross: $112.23M
one of the many movies of john woo's failed transition !!!
10. Casablanca (1942)
PG | 102 min | Drama, Romance, War
A cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains
Votes: 606,302 | Gross: $1.02M
i know im gonna get some stick for this but n movie doesn justify all the lavish praise ... just didn appeal to me tat much
11. Up (2009)
PG | 96 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
78-year-old Carl Fredricksen travels to Paradise Falls in his house equipped with balloons, inadvertently taking a young stowaway.
Directors: Pete Docter, Bob Peterson | Stars: Edward Asner, Jordan Nagai, John Ratzenberger, Christopher Plummer
Votes: 1,125,655 | Gross: $293.00M
only putting it here coz its good but bot oscar worthy .... can think of a lot other animations that were btr .... pixar keeps gettin this done coz their characters end up being -'cute' .... for me another movie called 'mary and max' was btr and that never even got a mention at the oscars !!!
12. The Sixth Sense (1999)
PG-13 | 107 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Malcolm Crowe, a child psychologist, starts treating a young boy, Cole, who encounters dead people and convinces him to help them. In turn, Cole helps Malcolm reconcile with his estranged wife.
Director: M. Night Shyamalan | Stars: Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette, Olivia Williams
Votes: 1,051,880 | Gross: $293.51M
spoiler - i see dead ppl , i see dead ppl , i see dead ppl , ur dead too - end of story ...... goin by shyamalan's movie guess he had a job of telling scary stories to kids below 10 years of age at summer camps !!!
13. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)
PG-13 | 94 min | Comedy
In the 1970s, an anchorman's stint as San Diego's top-rated newsreader is challenged when an ambitious newswoman becomes his co-anchor.
Director: Adam McKay | Stars: Will Ferrell, Christina Applegate, Steve Carell, Paul Rudd
Votes: 378,743 | Gross: $85.29M
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