Citizen Kane is considered one of the greatest movies but doesn't connect well with many people today.
3000 Miles to Graceland received terrible reviews but is quite hilarious.
Yea I change my answer, Citizen Kane is often ranked # 1 of all time, and isn't even good. I know not a soul who likes it. They get too many points for new technology and such. Gone with the Wind is old but people like it. CK is just dull.
Why do people keep listing highly rated acclaimed movies as underrated (and vice versa)?
Good question. Although what if you think its the best of all time and didn't even win best picture? Although we have to decide what constitutes underrated? What if a movie bombed at Box office but got its due later on? Of course in speaking of Office Space for one.
Overrated: Oppenheimer. Too long. Too much just talking. No action. No characters I could really care about. Distracting soundtrack.
Underrated: Tremors (1990) with Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward. It only made $16M at the box office.
The sequels have been awful, but the original had suspense, great characters and dialogue, comedy, action, and some great one-liners.
"Running's not a plan. Running is what you do when your plan fails!"
"Broke in the wrong ?!$%$ rec room, you ?!%$%"
"D#mn it, Valentine, you never plan ahead, you never take the long view, I mean here it is Monday and I’m already thinking of Wednesday… It is Monday right?”
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The best thing about "Forest Gump" was the underrated Robin Wright. The movie was actually about her character... Jenny. Forest was a fantasy side show.
Jaws is a good movie! I just think it's been vastly overrated.
the thing about Jaws is that no one who saw it when it came out on the big screen ever felt quite the same about swimming in the ocean ever again. not saying I didn't or don't go in the ocean, just that it has never been the same. it probably didn't have that same effect on later generations and on the small screen
Why do people keep listing highly rated acclaimed movies as underrated (and vice versa)?
Good question. Although what if you think its the best of all time and didn't even win best picture? Although we have to decide what constitutes underrated? What if a movie bombed at Box office but got its due later on? Of course in speaking of Office Space for one.
For me determining the most underrated and overrated was pretty simple - on letterboxd '8 1/2' has an average rating of 4.3 and I have it a 1. It's often considered one of the top 10 movies ever (director's poll of sight and sound had it at #6 this year). No movie with a higher average rating have I rated so low. I'd think to even qualify as most overrated, it would have to have a rating of at least 4 on letterboxd (yet people are throwing out movies as low as low 3's). Someone said Thor Love and Thunder, one of the most critically panned "blockbuster" movies of recent memory, with average user ratings on letterboxd being a 2.5. How could that movie be the most overrated? You could think it's the very worst movie of all time, but certainly there would still be another movie more overrated.
Baywatch (2017) I rated a 4/5, with the average user rating being a 2.2 - most over the average rating I have ever rated a movie. Others have listed movies with average ratings above 4.0, with many critics considering them to be the best ever. How could they possible be considered the most underrated? Jaws is widely considered one of the most influential films ever - no cinephile would bat an eye to someone considering it the best ever. Per 'they shoot pictures, don't they', it's the 92nd highest regarded movie ever. I'd think anything in the top 1000 would be disqualified as possibly being the most underrated, as anything on it is widely considered great. For the record, Jaws is my favorite movie of 1975.
Good question. Although what if you think its the best of all time and didn't even win best picture? Although we have to decide what constitutes underrated? What if a movie bombed at Box office but got its due later on? Of course in speaking of Office Space for one.
For me determining the most underrated and overrated was pretty simple - on letterboxd '8 1/2' has an average rating of 4.3 and I have it a 1. It's often considered one of the top 10 movies ever (director's poll of sight and sound had it at #6 this year). No movie with a higher average rating have I rated so low. I'd think to even qualify as most overrated, it would have to have a rating of at least 4 on letterboxd (yet people are throwing out movies as low as low 3's). Someone said Thor Love and Thunder, one of the most critically panned "blockbuster" movies of recent memory, with average user ratings on letterboxd being a 2.5. How could that movie be the most overrated? You could think it's the very worst movie of all time, but certainly there would still be another movie more overrated.
Baywatch (2017) I rated a 4/5, with the average user rating being a 2.2 - most over the average rating I have ever rated a movie. Others have listed movies with average ratings above 4.0, with many critics considering them to be the best ever. How could they possible be considered the most underrated? Jaws is widely considered one of the most influential films ever - no cinephile would bat an eye to someone considering it the best ever. Per 'they shoot pictures, don't they', it's the 92nd highest regarded movie ever. I'd think anything in the top 1000 would be disqualified as possibly being the most underrated, as anything on it is widely considered great. For the record, Jaws is my favorite movie of 1975.
Fun fact and relevant to this forum. Jaws (which should have easily won best picture) was the first movie I recall seeing with some decent memory. My dad finished a 162 mile ultra the day before, but promised he would take us to the shark movie. So he did, and he got sick as a dog when Quint ate it (or vice versa). Was it the scene or the ultra I don't know.
Jaws is a perfect movie, great dialogue, unique animal/horror movie at the time, insanely scary in a most visceral way, changed society. No movie has even built suspense and doom in such a visceral way. All with a rookie director and a fake shark.