My pick: The Silence of the Lambs
Literally never got the hype, it’s an aggressively mid movie. Not scary. No deeper message. Just a snoozefest of a movie.
Bonus Pick: The Godfather
Although I did like the movie, I didn’t think it was top tier like its commonly placed. There’s a ton of pro-AmeriKKKan propaganda and undertones in it as well.
Bonus bonus pick: The Matrix
I can see why people enjoyed it, the themes are interesting first time around. I just found the action scenes and Keanu Reeves character incredibly cringy. Kind of ruined it for me.
Alright Hexbear what are the most overrated movies in your opinion? Feel free to call me an uncultured pleb in the comments too.
Nolan loves himself way too much, he thinks he’s the best director ever and every shot has to be Epic, and every line has to be Epic, and every character Epic. It blew my mind the first time I watched it because I was 14 and had never thought about themes before. Half of the dialogue in the Dark Knight is just characters stating the themes allowed, like “oooh chaos vs order, oooh the Joker thinks people are all bad but he’s wrong”.
Actually that brings up something I’ve not thought of before, which is that Batman does nothing to prove the Joker wrong. The big push against his ideology is when the people on the boats refuse to blow each other up, but Batman has nothing to do with that. He spends the entire movie being an Ubermensch and fighting people, then the Joker’s ideology is defeated and Batman’s just like “yeah I guess you’re wrong, not that I had done anything to prove my investment in you being wrong.”
There are plenty of good elements to the movie, it’s not a catastrophe of filmmaking, but I just hate Nolan and everything he stands for.