Top 10 Most Overrated Films
10.  The Breakfast Club.   The Breakfast Club is a John Hughes film, and everything that implies.  Random dance numbers,  Molly Ringwald, bad filmmaking, etc.  No one has ever successfully explained why she makes out with Judd Nelson at the end, and no one ever will.
9.  Enemy At the Gates.  EATG is not all bad.  The set is awesome, the acting is OK, and the story is really good.  What bothers me is that whenever Hollywood does a historical piece, the characters are always WAY too knowledgeable about what's going on in their time.  Take for example the character who just happens to have an epiphany and realize that socialism is wrong.  "It doesn't have anything to do with the plot, it's just that socialism is wrong and we should probably mention that somewhere in our film, since there are socialists in it."  Also, Bob Hoskins' Khrushchev looks 70 years old.  Khrushchev wasn't even 50 in WWII.  I'm just saying.
8.  The Patriot.  Yeah, the Patriot is bad.  First of all, it suffers from the same problems that Enemy at the Gates had.  Mel Gibson's character knows way too much about what all the other generals are doing, and his words sound like they were taken right out of a history book.   Not everyone knew everything that was going on in the Revolutionary War.  Most people didn't know crap about John Locke or Adam Smith or any of the stuff they taught us in high school. Mel Gibson should stick to what he's good at: being a lethal weapon and crucifying people.
7.  Gladiator.   Is this really anything but an action movie with good graphics?  When Gladiator won Best Picture, I lost faith in the awards.  Those stupid flashbacks are annoying, by the way.
6.  Good Will Hunting.
5.  Donnie Darko.  All the makings of a good movie with all the nonsensical plots of a bad one.  Unfortunately, most people don't think the plot out and realize it doesn't make sense, or they just watch it with director's commentary and don't realize that what he's saying doesn't make any sense, or they just have bad taste in movies.
4.  Boondock Saints. 
"THERE WAS A FIREFIGHT!!!!"  Yeah, no shit.  Look at all the bulletholes.  Is this really why you're a detective?  Because you can look at about a million bullet holes and shout, "There was a firefight"?  I've found other cases you can probably solve, since you're such an astute observer and all.
"THERE WERE MICE!!!"
"THERE USED TO BE TWO LARGE BUILDINGS!!!"
3.  The Shawshank Redemption.  The Spanish call this film, "Predict-hable" and the Goth kids call it, "shitty."  To be fair, Shawshank Redemption does something that most films don't do: appeals to the blind.  Ray Charles could have easily followed this movie, since it babies its audience with voice-overs for an hour and a half.  As if I wouldn't be able to follow the simple plot otherwise.  Then, to compensate, they fill it with all these sappy, melodramatic visuals like the guy dancing in the rain.  I'm done talking about this movie.  I want a Reese's. 
The characters of The Shawshank Redemption look on confused, as Morgan Freeman narrarates the entire film to them.
2.. High Fidelity. You know what I love?  Watching John Cusak whine at me for 2 hours.  I loooove it.  They should make more movies where it's just John Cusak whining for 2 hours.  Hey, I've got an idea for one:  John Cusak laments his relationships with his other 5 girlfriends - you know, thumb, index, middle, ring, and pinky - then over the course of the film somehow encounters all 5 of them.  Massive hilarity will ensue.  I've even come up with a title:
1.  Goodfellas. "Whoa, I can do a dolly zoom.  This is a amazing.  Why don't I do it in the middle of a scene.  WHOOAAAA."  This movie is laid with voice-overs, which isn't necessarily bad, except that half-way through the movie his wife  does one.  Who's telling the story now?  She doesn't even get to keep doing them.  She just does one crappy line.  Between that, the dolly zoom, the kitchen steadi-cam, and a host of other crappy stuff, this film is really just a compilation of techniques someone read out of a film textbook.  Why so many people love it is beyond me.
So those are the 10 most overrated films of all time.  Just talking about them has made me so pissed that I'm gonna go punch my roommate.  He's sleeping right now, but whatever.  I'll just jump in my bed and pretend to be asleep and hel'll be all confused.  Sucker.
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