youdontseeyouwant's "The Overrated List"

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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.

  1. 1.
    Aladdin (Disney Special Platinum Edition)
    by John Musker

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  2. 2.
    Atonement (Widescreen Edition)

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  3. 4.
    Brick

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  4. 5.
    Crash (Widescreen Edition)
    by Paul Haggis

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  6. 7.
    Edge of Heaven
    by Fatih Akin

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  7. 8.
    The Fifth Element
    by Luc Besson

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  8. 9.
    Flags of Our Fathers (Widescreen Edition)
    by Clint Eastwood

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  9. 10.
    Frozen River
    by Courtney Hunt

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  10. 11.
    Hard Candy
    by David Slade

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  11. 12.
    Hardcore
    by Paul Schrader

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  12. 13.
    In the Mood for Love - Criterion Collection
    by Kar Wai Wong

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  13. 14.
    Juno (Single-Disc Edition)
    by Jason Reitman

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  14. 15.
    Keane
    by Lodge Kerrigan

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  15. 17.
    La Belle Noiseuse
    by Jacques Rivette

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  16. 18.
    Little Children
    by Todd Field

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  17. 19.
    Michael Clayton
    by Tony Gilroy

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  18. 20.
    Monster's Ball
    by Marc Forster

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  19. 21.
    Napoleon Dynamite
    by Jared Hess

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  20. 23.
    Old School (Widescreen Unrated Edition)
    by Todd Phillips

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  21. 24.
    Paranoid Park

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  22. 25.
    The Reader
    by Stephen Daldry

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  23. 26.
    Revolutionary Road

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  24. 27.
    Shadows - Criterion Collection
    by John Cassavetes

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  25. 28.
    Silent Light
    by -

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  26. 29.
    Slumdog Millionaire

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  27. 30.
    Standard Operating Procedure

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  28. 31.
    Star Trek
    by J.J. Abrams

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  29. 32.
    Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
    by chan-wook park

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  30. 33.
    Syndromes and a Century
    by Apichatpong Weerasethakul

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  31. 35.
    There's Something About Mary
    by Peter Farrelly

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  32. 36.
    21 Grams
    by Alejandro González Iñárritu

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  33. 37.
    Volver
    by Pedro Almodóvar

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  34. 38.
    The Warriors - The Ultimate Director's Cut
    by Walter Hill

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Created by youdontseeyouwant on Sep 28, 2009.
 

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