youdontseeyouwant's "The Overrated List"
I used to maintain a list here of my least favorite films, but I started to find it boring after a while. Much more interesting than a list of simply bad movies is a list "overrated" ones, whether they’re classics that feel like less than meets the eye or contemporary favorites caught up in unwarranted waves of hype. I’m putting this list together by checking my own scores against films typically lauded by the usual respected sources (Roger Ebert’s The Great Movies and year-end Top 10s, the various AFI lists, the Academy Awards, etc) not as a way of taking easy shots at movies I don’t like (which is basically what the older list was) but rather to measure my tastes against the accepted film canons.
Will be updating over time, but I encourage others to play along.
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