Whew! Venting on the internet is highly underrated!

“I don’t hate Titanic as much as some, so it doesn’t quite make my list. But a LOT of people have told me it belongs high on this list. Should it have been the highest-grossing film of all time? Probably not. But I’ve seen much much worse…”

I guess this should have been “a list of 11 movies that a lot of people like and possibly won awards that i am not as fond of as popular opinion is”

Seriously, if anyone has said field of dreams is/was the best baseball movie of all time it’s because that person is uncultured or an idiot and you should have stopped basing your list on such opinions immediately.

Oh and you tried to read way too much into shawshank. It’s an emotional masterpiece, not a metaphor. You don’t “get it” you “feel it”.

White I disagree about “Eternal Sunshine” (which I loved), I definitely agree that Pulp Fiction is wildly overrated. Fargo as well. If I were re-writing this story today, I’d probably include Avatar on the list (though it seems to have many people already knocking it, despite its box-office success)…

@Weave… Can’t agree with you on that… I love Citizen Kane. Not the best film of all time, but considering when it was made, it was innovative in many ways. Roger Ebert has an entire DVD commentary what explains and discusses all the ways the movie broke with filmmaking at the time…

@Rnaw… Hmmm. I hadn’t considered Wizard of Oz, but it’s definitely close if not deserving of being one of the most over-rated movies

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: Most of this movie so boring that by the end I wanted to shove a railroad spike through my brain. The bulk the film consists of just the deconstruction of their memories by the extreme overuse of Hollywood special effects… for like an hour and a half! I just kept checking the clock to see when this dreadful and trite piece of garbage would end. Fortunately for my sanity, it did end. Eventually.

Fight Club: The first half of this movie was so terribly boring that I couldn’t even watch it all the way through on my first sitting. Later, when I finally mustered the fortitude to watch the whole thing, it turned out to be one of the biggest letdowns in movie history. Ooooh, it was all in his mind! Yeah, real original. No one has EVER thought of THAT before. And has Brad Pitt ever been anything but an unbelievably annoying d-bag? Seriously?

Pulp Fiction: For starters, you can’t put Bruce Willis in a movie and actually expect him to be able to act. The guy has been nothing but a total hack since Moonlighting, as the only character he seems to be able to play is himself: just a big, dumb guy. Toss the mildly-comical-but-mostly-just-irritating Travolta and Jackson into the ridiculous plot, and you have one hell of a stupid movie. The only reason that Pulp Fiction got the attention it received was because of the acclaim from Reservoir Dogs (the only thing Tarantino ever did that was worth a damn, IMO). Good soundtrack, though.

Kill Bill 1 & 2: (see Pulp Fiction, above).

Fargo: Okay, I must have really missed something when I saw this, because I didn’t find it interesting or funny in the slightest. It’s the kind of film you watched with friends, and then afterwards everyone just shrugged and forgot about it. Oh, and by the way, everyone I’ve known from the upper Midwest was horrified by the mockery of the accent. Just shameful. What is so good about this movie, exactly? It’s a mediocre crime drama that tried way too hard to be quirky.

There are other films that I didn’t include because while they may have won more awards than they deserved (like these awards aren’t all just BS anyway), they don’t actually show up on that many serious critics’ lists as truly being great movies. Call it the “Titanic syndrome”: popular as hell, but not taken as seriously by true movie aficionados, and so therefore not really as overrated as the trendy choices I have mentioned.

And I think “American Beauty” should replace “Field of Dreams”. At least baseball redeems is a little less asinine than neglecting your family to live out your adolescent fantasies (as a middle-aged father) redeems.

I don’t think any movie on this list is overrated, I just think that every other movie is underrated.

I seriously don’t think Dirty Dancing should be on this list, but not because I think it’s a great movie (it’s not). It’s actually extremely mediocre and excessively romantic, yet I’ve seen it dozens of times and loved each and every minute of it simply because it is excessively romantic. C’mon now, it’s a romantic guilty pleasure movie that’s better than the average. It makes you swoon and feel all warm and fuzzy inside. And, lest you forget: Patrick Swayze.

Besides, I’ve never heard anyone mention it in the same company as any of the other movies you’ve listed as one of “the greats.” It received mediocre to bad reviews when it came out, and it’s nowhere near IMDB’s Top 250 (not that that means anything, because that list is full of WTFs).