Overrated nonsense ( I want my money back.).

by paulcrawford32 | created - 19 Jun 2011 | updated - 20 Jun 2011 | Public
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1. Titanic (1997)

PG-13 | 194 min | Drama, Romance

75 Metascore

A seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic.

Director: James Cameron | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates

Votes: 1,280,115 | Gross: $659.33M

Overblown, melodramatic claptrap, terrible script, wasted actors, soppy romance.

2. The Queen (2006)

PG-13 | 103 min | Biography, Drama

90 Metascore

After the death of Princess Diana, Queen Elizabeth II struggles with her reaction to a sequence of events nobody could have predicted.

Director: Stephen Frears | Stars: Helen Mirren, Michael Sheen, James Cromwell, Alex Jennings

Votes: 115,976 | Gross: $56.44M

Glossed over nonsense about a tax dodging hag with delusions of integrity.

3. The King's Speech (2010)

R | 118 min | Biography, Drama, History

88 Metascore

The story of King George VI, his unexpected ascension to the throne of the British Empire in 1936, and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch overcome his stammer.

Director: Tom Hooper | Stars: Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter, Derek Jacobi

Votes: 707,863 | Gross: $138.80M

More nonsensical rubbish only this time the tax-dodging thief has a slight speech impediment. Boo Hoo. Contrary to the films portrayal, no one cared what he had to say during the war, they got that mixed up with Winston Churchill.

4. Munich (2005)

R | 164 min | Action, Drama, History

74 Metascore

After the Black September capture and massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics, five men are chosen to eliminate the people responsible for that fateful day.

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Marie-Josée Croze, Ciarán Hinds

Votes: 238,247 | Gross: $47.40M

Pseudo-political garbage which cant make it's mind up where it's morals are or if morality is even has a part to play... in a movie about revenge, violence, duty and... morality.

5. Avatar (2009)

PG-13 | 162 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

83 Metascore

A paraplegic Marine dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission becomes torn between following his orders and protecting the world he feels is his home.

Director: James Cameron | Stars: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Rodriguez

Votes: 1,386,209 | Gross: $760.51M

And this highly unobtainable substance is called....."Unobtainium".... really? Kevin Costner called, he wants the script for Dances with Wolves back.

6. 127 Hours (2010)

R | 94 min | Biography, Drama

82 Metascore

A mountain climber becomes trapped under a boulder while canyoneering alone near Moab, Utah and resorts to desperate measures in order to survive.

Director: Danny Boyle | Stars: James Franco, Amber Tamblyn, Kate Mara, Sean Bott

Votes: 401,323 | Gross: $18.34M

For the love of God please just cut your arm off already your boring the life out of me.

7. Chicago (2002)

PG-13 | 113 min | Comedy, Crime, Musical

81 Metascore

Two death-row murderesses develop a fierce rivalry while competing for publicity, celebrity, and a sleazy lawyer's attention.

Director: Rob Marshall | Stars: Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Richard Gere, Taye Diggs

Votes: 243,328 | Gross: $170.69M

This campy, ridiculous piece of rubbish beat out Gangs of New York, LOTR: The Two Towers AND The Pianist to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards 2003. Somebody owed somebody a BIG favor.

8. Simon Birch (1998)

PG | 114 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

39 Metascore

A young boy with stunted growth is convinced that God has a great purpose for him.

Director: Mark Steven Johnson | Stars: Ian Michael Smith, Joseph Mazzello, Ashley Judd, Oliver Platt

Votes: 22,207 | Gross: $18.25M

Nobody wants to be lectured Simon, just go away please.

9. Troy (2004)

R | 163 min | Adventure, Drama

56 Metascore

An adaptation of Homer's great epic, the film follows the assault on Troy by the united Greek forces and chronicles the fates of the men involved.

Director: Wolfgang Petersen | Stars: Brad Pitt, Eric Bana, Orlando Bloom, Julian Glover

Votes: 570,332 | Gross: $133.38M

Where to begin. No Gods in battle, Achilles and Patrocles were lovers, not cousins, Achilles didnt fall in love with his concubine, the war lasted 10 years not an hour and ahalf, Agammenon DID NOT die and so on. Brad Pitt was awful and Brian Cox acted like he was on cocaine the whole way through this piece of utter pants.

10. Hostel (2005)

R | 94 min | Horror

55 Metascore

Three backpackers head to a Slovak city that promises to meet their hedonistic expectations, with no idea of the hell that awaits them.

Director: Eli Roth | Stars: Jay Hernandez, Derek Richardson, Eythor Gudjonsson, Barbara Nedeljakova

Votes: 190,939 | Gross: $47.33M

Stupid gore porn for pubescent morons.

11. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)

R | 107 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

67 Metascore

Eddy persuades his three pals to pool money for a vital poker game against a powerful local mobster, Hatchet Harry. Eddy loses, after which Harry gives him a week to pay back 500,000 pounds.

Director: Guy Ritchie | Stars: Jason Flemyng, Dexter Fletcher, Nick Moran, Jason Statham

Votes: 616,202 | Gross: $3.90M

Cockney tripe. Stupid plot, bad jokes, awful performances (especially from Vinnie Jones) and direction akin to a monkey holding a disposable camera.

12. The Reader (2008)

R | 124 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

58 Metascore

Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial.

Director: Stephen Daldry | Stars: Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, Bruno Ganz, Jeanette Hain

Votes: 259,811 | Gross: $34.19M

Snore-fest.

13. Lost in Translation (2003)

R | 102 min | Comedy, Drama

91 Metascore

A faded movie star and a neglected young woman form an unlikely bond after crossing paths in Tokyo.

Director: Sofia Coppola | Stars: Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Giovanni Ribisi, Anna Faris

Votes: 488,808 | Gross: $44.59M

What did he say at the end? what did he say? Who cares.

14. Monsters (2010)

R | 94 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

63 Metascore

Six years after Earth has suffered an alien invasion, a cynical journalist agrees to escort a shaken American tourist through an infected zone in Mexico to the safety of the U.S. border.

Director: Gareth Edwards | Stars: Scoot McNairy, Whitney Able, Mario Zuniga Benavides, Annalee Jefferies

Votes: 97,625 | Gross: $0.24M

Two unlikable, non-descript card-board cut-outs mill about for two hours. Oh, there are monsters in the film too. Pants.

15. Knocked Up (2007)

R | 129 min | Comedy, Romance

85 Metascore

For fun-loving party animal Ben Stone, the last thing he ever expected was for his one-night stand to show up on his doorstep eight weeks later to tell him she's pregnant with his child.

Director: Judd Apatow | Stars: Seth Rogen, Katherine Heigl, Paul Rudd, Leslie Mann

Votes: 384,552 | Gross: $148.73M

Over-weight idiot gets self absorbed control freak pregnant. Not funny, just tragic.

16. Pretty Woman (1990)

R | 119 min | Comedy, Romance

51 Metascore

A man in a legal but hurtful business needs an escort for some social events, and hires a beautiful prostitute he meets... only to fall in love.

Director: Garry Marshall | Stars: Richard Gere, Julia Roberts, Jason Alexander, Laura San Giacomo

Votes: 362,114 | Gross: $178.41M

Humorless business man who is always busy doing business gets taught how to love life by a hooker. Hokely dokely. Afterwards he gets taught how to treat women right by Ted Bundy and how to respect other cultures by Hitler.

17. Inglourious Basterds (2009)

R | 153 min | Adventure, Drama, War

69 Metascore

In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a plan to assassinate Nazi leaders by a group of Jewish U.S. soldiers coincides with a theatre owner's vengeful plans for the same.

Director: Quentin Tarantino | Stars: Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Eli Roth, Mélanie Laurent

Votes: 1,583,625 | Gross: $120.54M

Why was it called this? They weren't even in it that much? Despite brilliant performances from Waltz and Fassbender, I kept waiting on something awesome and Tarantinoesque to happen. It didnt.

18. Juno (2007)

PG-13 | 96 min | Comedy, Drama

81 Metascore

Faced with an unplanned pregnancy, an offbeat young woman makes a selfless decision regarding the unborn child.

Director: Jason Reitman | Stars: Elliot Page, Michael Cera, Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman

Votes: 549,145 | Gross: $143.50M

Ellen page plays an absolute brat in need of serious parenting in this long, boring suburban opera in which not alot happens and none of the characters really care about the outcome.

19. Cloverfield (2008)

PG-13 | 85 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

64 Metascore

A group of friends venture deep into the streets of New York on a rescue mission during a rampaging monster attack.

Director: Matt Reeves | Stars: Mike Vogel, Jessica Lucas, Lizzy Caplan, T.J. Miller

Votes: 420,588 | Gross: $80.05M

Shakey hand camera! Shakey hand camera! Garbage.

20. Clash of the Titans (2010)

PG-13 | 106 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

39 Metascore

Perseus, a demigod and the son of Zeus, battles the minions of Hades and the Underworld in order to stop them from conquering Olympus and Earth.

Director: Louis Leterrier | Stars: Sam Worthington, Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Jason Flemyng

Votes: 292,701 | Gross: $163.21M

Voldermort relocates to ancient Greece to pick on an Australian orphan in this awful adaption of a terrific myth. Badly cast, badly scripted, badly directed. Oh badly acted too. "Calm your storm".....what?

21. E.T. (1982)

PG | 115 min | Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi

92 Metascore

A troubled child summons the courage to help a friendly alien escape from Earth and return to his home planet.

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore, Peter Coyote, Dee Wallace

Votes: 437,415 | Gross: $435.11M

Manipulative garbage, if im not gonna cry Im not gonna cry, stop trying so hard Mr Spelberg. Remake used the title Simon Birch.

22. Million Dollar Baby (2004)

PG-13 | 132 min | Drama, Sport

86 Metascore

Frankie, an ill-tempered old coach, reluctantly agrees to train aspiring boxer Maggie. Impressed with her determination and talent, he helps her become the best and the two soon form a close bond.

Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Hilary Swank, Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Jay Baruchel

Votes: 721,640 | Gross: $100.49M

Crippity crap-tastic lifetime tv special. Eastwood grunts, Freeman dispenses advice in soothing tones, Swank has a hard time with life in general. Makes Rocky V look like Rocky I.

23. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)

PG-13 | 166 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance

70 Metascore

Tells the story of Benjamin Button, a man who starts aging backwards with consequences.

Director: David Fincher | Stars: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swinton, Julia Ormond

Votes: 695,578 | Gross: $127.51M

Overly long bore-fest all used to build up tension for when Brad Pitt will be handsome and can look cool on a motor-bike. Dross.

24. The Social Network (2010)

PG-13 | 120 min | Biography, Drama

95 Metascore

As Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg creates the social networking site that would become known as Facebook, he is sued by the twins who claimed he stole their idea and by the co-founder who was later squeezed out of the business.

Director: David Fincher | Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake, Rooney Mara

Votes: 758,523 | Gross: $96.96M

Over-privileged and over-stimulated rich-kids fight it out to see who gets how many millions of dollars to add to the many millions they already have. Overrated in the truest sense of the word there is not one likable character. The dialogue is quirky and empty of sentiment (sorkin), and it plays like an overly long 90210 meets the Gilmore Girls. Pure tripe.

25. Moulin Rouge! (2001)

PG-13 | 127 min | Drama, Musical, Romance

66 Metascore

A poor Bohemian poet in 1890s Paris falls for a beautiful courtesan and nightclub star coveted by a jealous duke.

Director: Baz Luhrmann | Stars: Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, John Leguizamo, Jim Broadbent

Votes: 299,301 | Gross: $57.39M

Bad renditions of ok songs wrapped up in a glittery sop filled pastry of pretentious rubbish. Tries to hard to be "different" and is just cripplingly bad. Acting is dreadful. Direction by the cast of Glee.



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