The 10 Most Overrated Films of the Decade

The Tree of Life - thread closed!

Boyhood and Blue Valentine OWN this thread. Boring as fuck breeder drama.

LOVED Blue Valentine.....

Birdman most of all. That director is a pathetic hack. He should be permanently banned from making films. The film by Greta Gerwig with the Irish girl who spends all her time bitching at her mother (Lady Bug? ). The Social network was crap too.

Spotlight kind of stunk for a feature film. Very overrated.

The Wife

What was so great about Get Out? Seriously, I thought it was okay, but fell apart the last 20 minutes. Many are now declaring it the best of the decade. wtf?

Magic Mike XXL was a gem of a movie. I didn't think it would be much before I saw it, but seriously the characters and dialogue were excellent. I recommend it.

Birdman was PAINFUL. Just boring. A simplistic metaphor stretched into a movie.

Spotlight was good - for a TV movie.

Get Out had one unique plot point. Otherwise a made for TV horror film,

Birdman was PAINFUL. Just boring. A simplistic metaphor stretched into a movie.

Spotlight was good - for a TV movie.

Get Out had one unique plot point. Otherwise a made for TV horror film,

Interstellar should be on the list as well.

I don't understand why Magic Mike XXL is on the list either. Its Metacritic score is only 60/5.6, hardly a critics' darling.

BTW I hated Under the Skin. I get why the director did what he did artistically (after all one of my favorite films ever is Goddard's Alphaville) but I found the film extremely boring to watch. And I didn't buy the change of tone at the end. It's one of those films you probably love if you enjoy the mood it represents. I didn't which is actually a little shame since I truly appreciate the film's originality. And kudos to Scarlett Johansson for appearing in a film with a man sporting a boner. I'll probably give the film another chance at some point. I started listen to the audiobook of the novel some time ago but the world it represents feels so bleak from the start I only lasted for 5 minutes.

I'm happy he called out that piece of shit Paddington 2.

"Inception" - YES!! The most overrated piece of crap in the past 10 years or so.

Add to that everything David Fincher directed post-"Zodiac."

And everything by David O. Russell with his fuckpi... erm, "muse" JLaw.

Paddington 2 is still at 100% at Rotten Tomatoes but its Metacritic score is only 88. Must say I've wondered why every critic seemed to love the film when it came out since I was fairly certain it can't be that perfect. But I assume it's technically perfect and everything about it *just works* so there's no need to dislike it.

The King's Speech,

Green Book

Spotlight

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[quote] I'm happy he called out that piece of shit Paddington 2.

You sound like a crazy person.

Who gets THAT angry at a children's film?

Every film with Saoirse Ronan is overrated, especially that Lady Bitch movie.

Oh and that lez movie Carol was so overrated. MEH!!! And ROMA and all of Scorsese's films in the 2010s.

Under the Skin is a very good if not great movie. Would definitely see the director's next work.

Margaret is also excellent. This same critic used to be at entertainment weekly and had some odd pics. Very thirsty and click bait oriented. Also none of these movies are overrated - they're just rated. They weren't awarded Oscars or even hyped up. Margaret for instance was almost impossible to find. And The Master got a mixed reception.

CMBYN owns this thread.

Sorry, but Avengers End Game. I wanted 3 hour movie to come to a end.

R16, Paddington 2 is not just another kids' film. Rotten Tomatoes declared it to be the best reviewed film in the site's history. Obviously when something is pretty much declared to be close to perfection it then better live up to the expectations. I doubt people are pissed at the film itself but at the notion of being expected to view it as something super awesome. And when it's not well...

Paddington 2 is a masterpiece. A joyous caper for children, but also more rich and complex and dark than it has any need to be. It invites us to imagine the world as we’d like it to be, rather than how it is. And anybody who thinks that it is overrated - especially a critic who thought Joker to be the film of the year - can fuck right off.

And yes - Interstellar should have been included on this. I’d forgotten how contrived and dreadful that was.

The magic mike movies are dull as dishwater. Spotlight, i saw on a plane, was the most BORING pretentious pile of crap. Same goes for CMBYN.

No Get Out? Of course not, too soon. But in a decade or so, when political tensions aren’t quite so high, people will finally be scratching their heads over the praise it received.

I'd love to see a list of movies some of you liked. You seem so dismissive of everything.

Get out was stupid and corny as fuck. Same with US. Just dumb and I called the twist in the beginning.

R27 How clever you are. Regale us with more of your specialness.

R28 Don't be mad at me because you fall for stupid shit.

I LOVED Paddington 2. Had a warm and fuzzy feeling as the credits rolled.

I didn’t get the big deal about Black Panther at all.

I like movies about newspaper reporters, etc. and I enjoyed Spotlight. I also enjoyed The Social Network because it was merciless in showing what a piece of shit Zuckerberg was from a very early age. People don't change. He's still "that guy." Get Out was fun if a bit heavy-handed. It was satire. And frankly it was unique. Cheeky. But yes, over-hyped. I agree with most of the other choices on here.

I will agree especially with Avengers:End Game. Maybe if I was 12? And Roma? God, I was so pissed off after I watched it. I mean. All I read about, heard about was Roma, and it was boring as fuck. Really.

You can slap me if you want to but anything with Ryan Gosling is shit. LaLaLand? Really? Blue Valentine? He's boring. And I do not thing his beady eyes and lantern jaw are hot. He looks like he drools when he's asleep.

Margaret is a flawed masterpiece. It is definitely too long, and yet I don’t know what could have been cut. But it’s definitely worth seeing. I wouldn’t call it overrated.

Silver Linings Playbook. Contrived af.

Tom Hanks has been in some real shit messes in the past decade. Cloud Atlas? Saving Mr.Banks? In fact with the exception of Bridge of Spies and The Post, this decade has not been a friend to old Tom.

HAWT!

Anything directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu, starting with The Revenant

Both Paddingtons are very good. I too can't wait to see 3what is next from the director of Under The Skin. What is taking so long? If you make a movie about male strippers full frontal nudity is a must. I do not go along with crowds. I loved La La Land....

Agree with R1, THE TREE OF LIFE. So hyped, so important, so significant, such a milestone. So boring. So confusing, so purposeless.

The Shape of Water

Agree with R35, SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK.

The romance between the leads was forced. The story contrived. The age difference between Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper made her look like is daughter. It would have been more believable if the leads were closer in age.

I agree about the Master, Inception and Birdman. I don't think I finished the last one. I haven't seen the rest on the list.

The Conjuring

It was pretty looking and well acted, I will give it that. But when it came to the story, it was the same as every other haunted house/possession horror movie ever made. I didn't get all the fuss because I felt like it had already been done 10,000 times before and had been done much better.

Ohhh, BIRDMAN, another movie about show business made for show business people to celebrate being show business. Agree with R43.

I disagree with The Master. It’s a great film.

I understand if Tree of Life is on your overrated list, even though I loved it. To each his own. It is a part of preserving the impressions of growing up in different times and parts of the world, and how fleeting our lives are compared to everything. I know it's impossible to capture everyone's experience, but this attempt was wonderful to me.

Based on some of the comments above, I'll have to crack open the Paddington 2 DVD that I got for Christmas, from a relative who gifted me the first Paddington DVD last Christmas, after I made the mistake of having that one on Netflix in the background at Thanksgiving.

What is so "pretentious" about a straightforward investigative journalism drama like "Spotlight," R24?

Totally agree about Skyfall. The most nonsensical plot ever.

GREEN BOOK.

Ahem.

Oh, and Three Billboards as well.

I might have liked “Margaret” if it had starred another actress as the lead character. Three hours of Sookie Stackhouse was more than I could handle.

Under The Skin and Blue Velvet by Lynch seem like cousins thematically. The same creepy and disorienting descent into a nightmare world.

R4 I hate that director. The only watchable movie he did was that one with DiCaprio and only because DiCaprio was genuinely compelling in it.

Us

Midsommar

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

And that's just for this year....

R42 Until Lawrence's character said that she had been married to her dead husband for 5 years, I thought she was supposed to be 19 or 20.

R55 I thought US (and Get Out) would work better as episodes of an anthology series than as full-length films.

Call Me By Your Name

I don't care how much you old queens jerk off to that Timothy twink, it's a movie for fraus.

R31 Same. I couldn't make it pass the first 15 minutes I was so bored. Same with la la land. Just awful. R48 From the minute it started it just felt like the film had an air of this is an important film, a serious film, an expose. And everyone was ACTING. Especially Rachel whatever her name is. It just made me laugh. Torture. And the writing sounded like research.

1005 agree about Three Billboards and I liked both films the director had done before...

Revolutionary Road, that movie with Kate Winslet and Leo. Ugh. Now Michael Shannon was great, but otherwise it was just so fucking depressing and boring at the same time.

The previous decade made me hate new movies altogether.

The decade that’s about to end made me hate movies altogether.

I'm going to include The Irishman, because it was from debunked source material but portrayed it as gospel, had ridiculous CGI effects that failed to make its actors look any younger, and was really, really boring.

The Shape of Water: derivative nonsense, ridiculous "romance." Silver Linings Playbook/A Star is Born: Cooper is a most unconvincing romantic lead. The Two Popes: boring trivia about "religion". Boyhood: so dull. The Revenent: What's the point?

I think the CGI worked on Pacino a d Pesci but looked ridiculous on De Niro.

Hard to believe Shape of Water is a Best Picture winner.

THE REVENANT - Like WILEY COYOTE in a roadrunner cartoon. Beat him, freeze him, drown him, bears bite him, yet he keeps getting up. Why didn't they throw a beehive down his pants and put a grenade in his backpack.

BIRDMAN - what is the film about?

AUGUST OSAGE COUNTY - This is a good movie if you want to take a nap.