With new movies coming out every week, some of them are bound to be great, but here are 11 totally overrated movies from the past 15 years.
The Departed
Martin Scorcese’s The Departed featured an all-star ensemble cast, but it felt a little too much like a clunky wannabe of Japanese film Infernal Affairs.
The Descendants
The Descendants gave us Shailene Woodley, but it can never give us 135 minutes of our life back.
Slumdog Millionaire
Danny Boyle’s 2008 film Slumdog Millionaire was nominated for 10 Oscars, but it was a self-indulgent movie about all the things Boyle has done for British film.
Avatar
Avatar was a pretty James Cameron film with a very, very high pricetag. It did inspire some cool Halloween costumes, though.
Million Dollar Baby
Anything with Clint Eastwood is bound to be a hit, right? And Million Dollar Baby, a boxing movie, was defintiely a hit. (Puns totally intended.) But it feels a little old before its time, a classic at the ready.
Inception
We’ve seen Inception 18 times and we’re still not sure what parts were real life and what was a dream. And is the top still spinning? Does that mean everything’s okay? WHAT HAPPENED HERE?
Blue Is The Warmest Color
A critical darling for featuring a lesbian romance at the core of the story, Blue Is The Warmest Color had potential. Then it becamse a sex-fest that was more than a little confused.
Gravity
Gravity was a beautifully shot film, but that fire extinguisher thing? Wall-E and Eve did it better.
Blue Valentine
Michelle Williams is great. Ryan Gosling is great. Blue Valentine, a film where they were supposed to be great together, was just…not great.
Drive
Drive proved one thing: Ryan Gosling doesn’t have to talk to be hot. Which is good since he had about 10 lines in the whole film.
The Hurt Locker
The Hurt Locker won 6 Academy Awards for a repetitive motif about war. One of those Oscars went to Kathryn Bigelow for Best Director, and that was great.