Top 10 Most Overrated Films of the-elite Era10. American History X (1999)Sure it's a decent film, but it is commonly put on lists of the greatest films of the contemporary era. Is it really that good? I mean
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the kid dies in the end so how can you be happy with that
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9. Titanic (1997)TL;DW. Jimbo says almost 100% accurate? Who cares! You didn't watch
Avatar because it was realistic.
8. Spiderman 2 (2004)I've never seen this, but if you have, you're probably a sheeple person who only saw it because your friends in high school or middle school made you.
7. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)A valiant effort at completing the trilogy, but it just fell short of the expectations from it's first two. Comparable to
The Godfather III in that it's a fair movie standalone, but just couldn't live up to the hype of being the 3rd after 2 masterpieces.
6. Shakespeare in Love (1998)Pretty much an all round troll movie.
5. The Matrix (1999)
It's funny how everyone thinks Keanu Reeves is a bad actor, and then everyone always faps over his performance in this film. It wasn't that good. I mean sure, it was a very decent Hollywood acting performance, but it wasn't on the elite level of a Daniel Day Lewis or Shia LeBeouf. Aside from acting, the storyline & special effects weren't great either, but it's still regarded as one of the finest of the generation.
4. Gladiator (2000)It's not a very good movie. There really is no plot. It's just Russell Crowe fighting gladiators and stuff. It's about as interesting as watching a 3 hour regular season sporting event; which we all love, but there are 82 games per year. Certainly not worthwhile to be immortalized as a Best Picture and mega-grosser. The Roman set and cinematography makes it look quite good, but if you compare it to
Ben-Hur from 40 years earlier, it completely pales in comparison. On top of this, it contributed to the extremely troll run of Crowe (Gladiator) > Hanks (Cast Away) and then Washington (Training Day) > Crowe (A Beautiful Mind) for Oscar Best Actors, pretty much jewing out Hanks from his 3rd Oscar for Best Actor and giving it to Denzel Washington. What a crock!
3. The Hangover (2009)It's not funny. All the humor pieces are extremely textbook. OH, HIS SUNBURN HURTS. OH, HE FOUND A BABY. OH, HE MARRIED A STRIPPER. I mean what is this... Jersey Shore? Queue Alecboy to rant about just how boring The Hangover is. I could literally have written all the funny bits in this movie when I was 11 years old; except I couldn't have because I'm not a mindless sheep who thinks things are funny when they're not. I just saw the trailer for The Hangover 2 and there's a monkey walking around with "the wolfpack." That's supposed to be funny? And yet I know plenty of people who actually would think that's funny. Cue an incoming suicide.
2. There Will Be Blood (2007)I've never seen it but I hear it's really good, so in order to make this an effective troll list, it belongs here.
1. The Dark Knight (2008)Let's go over why people like this movie;
-good acting
-good special effects
-unique story
Acting? Maggie Gyllenhaal is enough to put anyone on perma-lifetilt. On top of this, Heath Ledger is no better than he should have been. He did a fine portrayal of The Joker, but could you have expected any less? If some hack was in there, we'd all be complaining about the acting job, so it's not even like Heath did better than would have been necessary. So in other words, it was completely average. And this seems to be the basis for its high acclaim.
Special effects? Are there transforming robots? No! Are there aliens shooting up garbage dumps in South Africa? No! Are there blue people running around a planet with floating mountains? HELL NO. THE SPECIAL EFFECTS SUCK.
Storyline? "OMG LOL THE GUY WAS GOOD BUT THEN HE BECAME BAD AND NOW THEYRE JUST GONNA PRETEND HE WAS GOOD ALL ALONG FLIP A COIN OLOL." Wow nice movie.
0. Inception (2010)"omg the t0p wuz sp1nning!!!
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