http://www.spout.com/films/Swingers/93403/default.aspxI thought I wouldn't like participating in this group at first because it get's frustrating complaining about movies, but I can't seem to hold myself back.
Puhnner, you asked me to list some of my overrated movies, referring to my definition of overrated by ratio. Well I'm not sure if this is going by the same criteria, but I've come up with a list from another source. I also rate movies at the website movielens. It will give you recommendations based on your ratings and whatnot. It also gives some interesting statistics. For one, it tells me which movies I have rated the lowest compared to the average rating on their site. So I have looked at that list and picked several of them. The thing about this method is that I am not using what my impression of the ammount of acclaim a movie has received for the ratio but rather what the ammount of acclaim a website thinks a movie has based on the votes from it's users. Some of these movies I have not seen for a long time, so my feelings about them are not as immediate in my memory, but maybe it will give some dicussion.
I Am Sam
Shrek
The Cooler
Crash (2005)
In America
Selena
Million Dollar Baby
The Wedding Singer
Chungking Express
The Lion King
Empire Records
Anything Else
Meet The Parents
True Lies
Breathless
The Nutty Professor (1996)
Bad Boys II
Jules and Jim
Open Water
Whale Rider
American Pie
Toy Story
10 Things I Hate About You
Swingers
Grand Canyon
Ruthless People
Happy, Texas
What the #$*! Do We Know?!
Bandits
A Fish Called Wanda
The Whole Nine Yards
High Fidelity
Men In Black II
Vanilla Sky
E.T.
The Game
The Truman Show
Liar Liar
Fahrenheit 9/11
Collateral
Meet the Fockers
Field of Dreams
Lawrence of Arabia
Big Daddy
The Graduate
Haiku Tunnel
Alien Vs. Predator
Arlington Road
La Femme Nikita
Gladiator
The Motorcycle Diaries
Also, I have added the movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind to the overrated list for this group.
I also want to say I often hope my list in this area will stay short. Many of these movies I have had an impression from the start that I would not like it. I usually have a good sense ahead of time about what movies I will like more or less. I can't tell exactly how much I will like a movie, but I'm usually pretty close on the general range of how much I may like it. Most of these movies I was coerced into seeing. Some of you may argue that the fact that I told myself I didn't want to see it in the first place may have had an effect on how much I liked it. Such as if I go in telling myself I won't like it, I'll probably find more reasons not to like it. That may be true to some extent, but not enough to really effect my decision that much.
Go ahead and ask me about these selections and make a list of your own using whatever criteria you feel is appropriate.