Questionable Films in IMDb's Top 250

Shining a flashlight at a marauding dinosaur will go down as one of the all-time dumbest scenes in movie history. Another ridiculously overrated entry by the world's most overrated director. It must have been incredibly difficult for Steve to not throw a couple of aliens in it for good measure. *beep* you all for that colossal waste of time. Better than Leonard Part 6 though.

3/10

Hipsters everywhere. Cringeworthy. Pretty unique concept but the brand of humor made me want to egg someone's house. I suspect that my testosterone level is too high to really enjoy this. That awkward vegan drama kid you went to high school with will love it.

4/10

Oh look, another superhero movie. Robert Downey Jr. does a decent job playing... Robert Downey Jr. Everyone else is laughably unconvincing. Also this movie makes Thor look grossly incompetent. We've got a demi-god superhero who doubles as a eunuch. Back to the drawing board, nerds.

4/10

Some sloppy-ass film making right here!

4/10

Har har! There is a lot of "artistry" going on here, but I just found the storyline nauseating. Gloria Swanson's character made Amon Goeth look like Porky Pig. This entire movie was grueling to watch and unpleasantly meandering. I respect it, but I also hate it.

4/10

Expose yourself to a neutral/mildly unpleasant stimuli, and then immediately repeat said exposure over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again. This is what it feels like when I watch Groundhog Day. *beep* off, Ned.

4/10

Not necessarily bad, but... boring. Long action scenes put me to sleep. See: The Avengers. Desert settings also put me to sleep. The ending was... beyond ridiculous. What the hell was that? At least The Last Crusade had Sean Connery in it.

4/10

My own version of being detained at Guantanamo Bay. I can't watch this moronic movie without thinking "herp derp, this is stupid". Maybe casting Ellen DeGeneres wasn't the best idea after all. Pixar's making a sequel to this, because Pixar can't come up with any original ideas anymore and they only seem to resort to making sequels now.

4/10

I'm not a Pixar hater, but this movie never really connected with me on a personal level like the others, and while it's not nearly as bad as Finding Nemo, I was still underwhelmed. I don't see what all the fuss is about.

5/10

Seemed like a poorly disguised attempt to show off Marilyn Monroe's assets. Don't kid yourself: she's no Anita Ekburg. Talking like a 6 year old isn't sexy unless you're Woody Allen. Crossdressing to escape from the mob is uhh... pretty cool I guess. Still, it's marketed as a comedy and I don't think I laughed once. I can respect how "progressive" it was for its time, but my attention kept drifting... elsewhere...

5/10

An erect penis, a self-immolation & an orgy with underage boys. What the *beep* did I just watch? Ingmar Bergman's effort here reminds me of something sung by Prince, or maybe a Quentin Tarantino film. Sometimes you need somebody else to reel you back in a bit before you make something that gives everyone schizophrenia.

5/10

I feel like this movie is highly rated because those who are movie fanatics can relate with the main character, and IMDB is full of movie fanatics. If you're able to distance yourself from that, I think you'll realize that this is an overly-sentimental piece of garbage. There are beautiful scenes in it. There are more scenes that leave you scratching your head and slapping your balls. This really shouldn't be in the top 250.

5/10

I'm not the biggest fan of kids' movies I suppose. Seeing this for the first time in my twenties probably doesn't help the cause. The dialogue was stupid. Every single main character annoyed the *beep* out of me at least once, with Teddy Duchamp annoying me once about every 5 minutes. The train scene where he stands in front of it drove me nuts. Get the *beep* out of here. I was rooting for Kiefer Sutherland in the end. Perhaps that makes me a bad person. I don't know. Perhaps if I had first seen this as a 13 year old, I'd feel better about it.

5/10

James Cameron taking over for Ridley Scott? What could possibly go wrong? He removed the horror elements and replaced them with cookie-cutter Michael Bay Disney moments. The little girl screams were torture. Shoutout to Bill Paxton for one of the WORST acting performances I've ever seen. Michael Biehn plays the same character he always plays. Are you guys even trying? How did this joke make the top 250?

5/10

The Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head montage brutally murdered my entire family. What a spectacular amount of cheese this movie possessed. Watch The Sting instead.

5/10

Reminds me of Eraserhead, except it's twice as long, half as entertaining, and ten times more ambiguous. Truly profound, and it might be one of those films that requires repeat viewings.

5/10

This is one of the only movies I've ever seen on IMDB that doesn't have a full synopsis on the site. Do you know why? Nobody can figure how what the *beep* happened. I don't feel like watching this movie 8 more times just to figure out the entire extent of this thing. They bit off more than they could chew.

5/10

Artistic flair? Plenty of it. Entertainment value? I looked really hard but simply couldn't find it. Fellini isn't for everyone, and that includes me apparently. La Dolce Vita was hard to watch as well. La Strada was more coherent.

5/10

Perhaps I lack a soul?

Damn hipsters.

5/10

I think this franchise is embarrassingly overrated. Empire Strikes Back was an achievement. A New Hope was a halfway decent action movie, albeit slightly formulaic and generic in my opinion. Episode 6 was unbearable. This movie was doomed from the start. Empire Strikes Back makes Return of the Jedi completely anticlimactic.

5/10

Requiem for a Dream came later, but I feel like that film made the point way more effectively.

5/10

I really hate this word, but this thing was "pretentious". My interpretation of this movie is overshadowed by the belief that Kubrick just wanted to ejaculate all over his audience. Upon further examination, you can see the message "Look what I can do, I bet no other director can pull this off" written in his spunk. Great job Stanley, you're awesome. Self-indulgence in cinematic form. This was less of a film, and more of a National Geographic episode. The first 15 minutes were gorillas beating each other and having sex. I want my 3 hours back.

5/10

I admire that this film never goes over the top within the basic storyline and presentation. It was all rather subtle. Maybe too subtle. Maybe so subtle that I completely missed the parts where people are supposed to get emotionally attached. Did I watch the same movie? There was nothing "intensely touching" about this story. Certainly not the worst movie of all-time, but not one of the best 250 films ever either.

5/10

The Great Dictator & City Lights were good. Modern Times was great. This was dull. 68 minutes long and the entire thing can be condensed down into 15 minutes if you really wanted to. Really impressive for 1921 but it hasn't aged nearly as well as some of his others.

5/10

Spectacular for its time.

88 years later, it's a bit of a snoozefest. This logic is completely unfair. That's why I've buried it at the bottom of this list. Nobody's reading any of this anyway.

5/10