PREMIERE's Top 20 Overrated Movies of All Time

2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
A BEAUTIFUL MIND
AMERICAN BEAUTY
AN AMERICAN IN PARIS
CHARIOTS OF FIRE
CHICAGO
CLERKS
EASY RIDER
FANTASIA
FIELD OF DREAMS
FORREST GUMP
GONE WITH THE WIND
GOOD WILL HUNTING
JULES & JIM
MOONSTRUCK
MONSTER'S BALL
MYSTIC RIVER
NASHVILLE
THE RED SHOES
THE WIZARD OF OZ

Opinions on the list?

These shouldn't been on the list
Where's the Matrix

Wow.

What's underrated? Road House? Kickboxer? You Got Served? :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

I always thought Road House was a good film

2001, overrated? Over my dead body!

Who does these lists anyway "so called experts" i think we know more than them

I think I speak for everybody when Isay this: Fuck Premire Magazine.

Hell, many films on here don't get ENOUGH credit! Look at "An American in Paris" usually looked at as the film that screwed Singin' in the Rain out of an Oscar a year later (Remeer that both films were musicals staring Gene Kelly) which isn't true. It's a tried and true musical, solid as a rock with one of the greatest soundtracks ever and one of the greatest things captured in celuloid: The Whole "American in Paris" ballet.

You definitely speak for me.

Here are the following which I've seen and believe shouldn't be on the list:

A BEAUTIFUL MIND
FIELD OF DREAMS
FORREST GUMP
GONE WITH THE WIND
GOOD WILL HUNTING
THE WIZARD OF OZ

It's both pathetic and idiotic when these people come in (especially magazines) and decide which pieces are good, and which are crap. I prime example would be "100 Most Awesomly Bad Songs" which was playing on VH1 about a year or so ago. Some of those songs were horrible, and should have been on, but there were many which should have been pulled. Number one on the list was Jefferson Starship's "We Built this City": a classic 80's hit. Another classic which made the list was Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire" (which is definitely a great song) along with Chicago's "You're the Inspiration". Instead of acknowledging some of these classics in a negative light, "artists" today should be embracing them and taking some fucking notes! The same goes for movies.

Without giving reasons for such choices, such a list is invalid. That would go for a Best list too.

As it is, without any elaboration on such a list, as to why they chose them, it seems controversy for the sake of it, without much thought.

Chicago was never rated all that highly in the first place outside of Oscar ceremonies (I loved it); and I agree with Mystic River, though that isn't as overrated as Million Dollar Baby. Both are trite films full of genre clichés neither Eastwood's direction nor Paul Haggis' script can avoid. Satisfying for those who can handle predictable melodrama. Forrest Gump, along weith The Shawshank Redemption of the same year (1994), always verges on being overrated. Both are films that could easily disappoint when hyped up too much. I need to see the former again soon, to reinforce (or change) this opinion. Fantasia (1940) is a phenomenon.

Mick

I always thought that AMERICAN BEAUTY was underrated. And where's TITANIC?

It is a decent list, I would take issue with some. Field of Dreams was way overrated, as is anything with Kevin Kostner.

I thought Forrest Gump and American Beauty was good
And the Wizard of Oz is classic
I guess you should try watching it with the Pnk Floyd album
It's real cool

Id like to have seen these on there

LOTR: Two Towers
LOTR: ROTK
Titanic
Braveheart
Dances with Wolves

Chicago I could agree with, but American Beauty?! 2001?! Some overrated films I've seen include Donnie Darko, the two Spider-Man films, Tim Burton's Batman films, and the original Friday the 13th. (The last of which is really just a well-intentioned rip-off, in terms of style, of the superior Halloween set in the woods). Now, that is not to say I don't enjoy or thoroughly dislike any of these films however.

I agree with:

A BEAUTIFUL MIND
AMERICAN BEAUTY
CHICAGO
MONSTER'S BALL


I'm not saying they're bad, just overrated. And I have to agree, Roadhouse is an excellent film!

what no scarface