Overrated Movies (or "Why Does Everyone Like Tyler Durden?")

Brokeback Mountain was overrated by the concensus of critics. Imagine an interracial hetereosexual couple. Or just a plain jane heterosexual couple. Then ask how great a "love" story it was.

Crash was overrated by critics I respect, as well as the academy. "A histrionic assemblage of contrivances and monologues that made me pine for Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing".

Equilibrium was overrated by GFF. Worse acting than the last three Star Wars movies combined, without the badass special FX.

I'll pick apart y'all lists later

Double Post:

Originally Posted by JazzFlight

Pretty much anything Spielberg's done for the past 5 years.

A.I., Minority Report, The Terminal, War of the Worlds...

BLECH. He could put a still-frame image of elephant dung onscreen for an hour and a half and the critics would give him 4 stars.

(I haven't seen Munich. It looked different than the other tripe he's been doing lately, so maybe it was good.)

Munich was lesser, high-minded Speilberg (like Amistad and A.I.). Noble, but lacking the lucid intensity of Saving Private Ryan and Schindler's List.

Spielberg DID have a shot of triceritops dung onscreen for a minute or so in Jurassic Park, remember?

In case you haven't heard, Spielberg history of popular, sentimental, and excitable filmmaking has created a backlash amongst the pointy-headed professionals of film criticism. Some defend even his worst stuff to the hilt (Armond White). Others thought even Schindler's List was kiddified.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

And THAT scene was ruined by the fact that no one was skilled enough to USE THEIR FEET!

Christ.

There's nowhere I can't reach.