Before we get started with our picks for the most overrated movies ever made, let’s set one thing straight here: We absolutely do not hate all of these movies; in fact, many of them are quite good. Some are even classics that we recommend you watch! All we’re saying is that all of the movies on this list don’t quite live up to the ridiculously tall pedestal that society has placed them on, so don’t get too mad at us. Now let's get into it. Do you agree with our picks? Let us know, we’d love to hear what you think!

Here’s a hard-to-swallow pill: Just because Leonardo DiCaprio is in something, doesn’t mean it’s amazing. Now that we’ve gotten that out of the way, Inception as a film just does not live up to the pedestal it was put on. The story follows a thief (DiCaprio) who obtains corporate secrets through the use of military-grade dream-sharing technology. The film features a star-studded cast of Elliot Page, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Tom Hardy, and the special effects are incredible, but the plot is so convoluted that it’s just hard to keep up with what the heck is even going on throughout the movie. Next.

Top Gun is one of Tom Cruise’s most beloved films, but have you ever noticed that not much actually happens in the movie? In case you haven’t seen it, it’s about a hotshot pilot (Cruise) who gets sent to a top naval school where his reckless demeanor puts him at odds with the other pilots while he competes for the affection of love interest Charlie. And that’s...it. That’s the whole movie. It’s slow, boring, and the script is subpar. Why so many people love this movie, we’ll never know.

Drive is about a Hollywood stunt driver (Ryan Gosling) who falls in love with his neighbor Irene (Carey Mulligan) and tries to help her and her son get away from her husband who has just been released from prison. There are some redeeming qualities of the movie, including Ryan Gosling’s performance and the musical score, but ultimately we’re counting this one a flop for its mediocre storyline and over-the-top graphic violence.

If there was a scale to rank how annoying a movie is, Frozen would get a 10/10 from us just for having the world’s most overplayed soundtrack. Is there anyone alive today who doesn’t know all the lyrics to “Let it Go”? Other than that, a few critics on Rotten Tomatoes have called Frozen “uninspiring” and “boring.” It might have some cute moments in it, but at the end of the day, it is a children’s movie, after all.

It’s a Wonderful Life is a classic Christmas film from 1946 that’s considered one of the greatest ever made. The story follows George Bailey and his guardian angel, Clarence, who shows him what life would be like had he never been born after a major financial mishap leaves him feeling hopeless and dejected. SPOILERS: In the end, George learns all the ways he’s touched the lives of the people in his town. It’s all a beautiful story up until the very end, when the appreciative townspeople, along with George’s very wealthy industrialist friend, all throw in enough money to make up for the money that was initially lost. Our criticism is this: Life never works out that way. In fact, that detail is so unrealistic that, in our opinion, it distracts from the rest of the movie. Disclaimer: The movie is a classic and you should definitely still watch it.

Shakespeare in Love won Best Picture at the 71st Academy Awards, and it's a pretty widely held opinion that it was undeserving of the accolade. The movie stars Gwyneth Paltrow as Viola de Lesseps and Joseph Fiennes (the less-talented brother of Ralph Fiennes) as William Shakespeare as they begin an affair while Shakespeare goes through the process of writing Romeo and Juliet. That’s all the information you really need.

Like Shakespeare in Love, Crash was another film that earned Best Picture undeservedly, in our opinion. The story covers some heavy topics, most notably racial tension in Los Angeles, which could make for an excellent film, but it relies so heavily on stereotypes that it’s overly predictable and forced.

Yes, Audrey Hepburn is an icon, and so is her character Eliza Doolittle, the lower-class Cockney flower girl who becomes the linguistics project of an arrogant phonetics professor in high-society London. But as it stands, the movie is far too long at nearly three hours, and the color scheme is a little too ‘60s for modern tastes. Additionally, the film could’ve easily served as more of a commentary on the different socioeconomic classes in 1910s London, but it fails to do that.

Tim Burton’s movies have quite the cult following, and The Nightmare Before Christmas is of no exception there. It’s weird and creepy...but that’s pretty much it. You can skip this one, because we don't fully understand the diehard fandom surrounding it, to be honest. There are far better Halloween and Christmas movies out there, respectively.

The Blair Witch Project is beloved for being the original found-footage horror film, but just because it was the first doesn't mean all the praise is necessarily justified. The story follows three film students in the late ‘90s as they try to document their trek to the fictional town of Blair, Maryland to discover the truth about the curse of the Blair Witch. The film’s production was incredibly low-budget, and let’s just say, it shows. And with no jump scares to speak of, we found it dull and not all that scary, quite frankly.

All of the movies starring the iconic ‘80s Brat Pack are the same. Sorry, but it’s true. It’s the same group of young actors playing the same roles about the same things. In The Breakfast Club, a group of high school kids from different social cliques are forced to come together in detention and see eye-to-eye with one another. It’s a combination of being both unoriginal and also not holding up very well in today's world.

Like The Breakfast Club, Mean Girls is yet another reincarnation of every other teen coming-of-age movie that has been made about 100 times. The acting relies on clichés and over-the-top stereotypes, and years later, the jokes just aren’t that funny anymore. And we definitely didn’t need a Mean Girls 2 or a Broadway musical adaptation, that’s for sure!

12 Angry Men is a classic film that tells the story of 12 jurors who deliberate whether the defendant in a criminal case should be convicted or acquitted, forcing them to question their own moral codes. The entire movie takes place on one set for all but three minutes. That being said, it may be a classic, but it certainly isn't the most interesting thing one could spend their time watching. One critic on Rotten Tomatoes wrote accordingly, “It was so hard not to fall asleep while watching this.”

Get Out is a culturally significant film with good acting performances that touches on the important topic of racial inequality, but at the end of the day, it’s just not that scary as a horror film and the ending is quite predictable. Sorry, Jordan Peele!

The 2018 film A Star is Born, starring Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper, is the fourth retelling of the same story that was written in 1937. It’s essentially the exact same formula as in the earlier films with little improvement and mediocre musical performances. It’s boring and the second act drags on for what seems like ages.

Don’t get us wrong, La La Land is a cute heartfelt film that's worth a watch, but was it deserving of the amount of praise that it got? Definitely not. The movie serves as an homage to the classic old Hollywood-style musical, but the plot is boring and the dance numbers are mediocre at best. Not to mention, Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone are not singers, and it shows. For a film that received a record-breaking number of Golden Globe Awards and a nomination for Best Picture, you’d expect a bit more.

Dances With Wolves was the Best Picture winner at the 63rd Academy Awards, but there are a lot of things wrong with it. The movie is about an injured Civil War soldier who gets taken in by the Lakota people and ultimately ends up becoming their protector. We won’t get into all the reasons Twitter would go after this film today, but historians have also called it out for being wildly historically inaccurate.

Les Misérables is a 2012 musical based off of the classic Victor Hugo novel of the same name, published in 1862. The film boasts a star-studded cast including the likes of Anne Hathaway, Hugh Jackman, and Russel Crowe, and it managed to earn a whole host of awards and nominations at the Oscars, the Golden Globes, and the British Academy Film Awards. The film was undoubtedly beloved by many, but there are also many things worthy of criticism. We’ll let Todd McCarthy of the Hollywood Reporter sum it up for you:

“As the enduring success of this properly has shown, there are large, emotionally susceptible segments of the population ready to swallow this sort of thing, but that doesn’t mean it’s good.”

Let’s set one thing straight here: Tom Hanks is an incredible, beloved actor and he does a great job of portraying the title character. However, the movie as a whole? Quite overrated, if you ask us. The movie won a host of awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Visual Effects, but it’s far less groundbreaking than culture has made us believe, and to be honest, not much actually happens throughout the movie other than one dull story after another.

Don’t get us wrong, Titanic is a great film. It had the most impressive special effects of the late ‘90s, great performances from Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, and managed to make even the manliest of men cry. But here’s why it doesn’t live up to the hype: It’s way too long (three and a half hours), the story moves slowly, and most importantly, Jack could've fit on that dang piece of wood at the end!

We’ll give Rocky’s producers this: The soundtrack and Sylvester Stallone’s performance are both great, but there were plenty of movies at the Academy Awards that year that deserved Best Picture. The Rocky franchise acts like it was the first movie to ever depict a sports underdog story, when it simply was not. At the end of the day it's a film franchise that frat boys love, and nothing more. Now please, for the love of God, stop making these movies.

Keanu Reeves is quite possibly the most beloved actor alive today, but honestly The Matrix franchise really doesn’t hold up. The point of the movie is to encourage the viewer to look at the world a little differently through a simulated world, but they could’ve done that with a single short story...an entire movie franchise was not necessary. There are definitely some cool special effects and iconic scenes, but considering how many times they’ve been reenacted in other forms of media, it’s just not that cool anymore.

Quentin Tarantino is an overrated director. There, we said it. His movies are over-the-top gross and sensationalized, and the storylines are often lacking. Nowhere is this more clear cut than in his 1994 cult classic Pulp Fiction, which like many of the films on this list, features an A-list cast. The movie tells three main interrelated stories with different protagonists that are not in chronological order. Sorry Quentin, but just because something is weird, doesn’t mean it’s good.

If you haven’t seen the rest of the Marvel franchise, then Endgame isn’t going to make a lot of sense to you. If you’re in it just for the beautiful visual effects and impressive CGI, then have at it, but it's not really possible to watch the movie as a standalone and fully understand what’s going on. YouTube movie critic Alachia Queen had this to say about the film:

“The entire tone of the film felt like a eulogy to the MCU and relied too heavily on weepy-eyed nostalgia and fan service to carry it to the end.”

We get it: A cute little kid befriends an alien who gets stuck on Earth and then has to help him get back to his home planet. It’s the perfect recipe for a Best Picture nomination, which it received at the 55th Academy Awards in 1983. But watching it today feels...campy and corny to say the least.

The Godfather is one of Hollywood’s greatest successes, and it does a lot of things right - namely, Marlon Brando’s incredible performance. But the movie hasn’t held up quite as well as hardcore fans might make you believe, and it's been criticized for lackluster performances from the rest of the cast in comparison to Brando’s outstanding performance. That being said, you should still see the film.

Okay, look, we understand the cultural significance of The Wizard of Oz, but you can’t argue with the fact that it just doesn’t hold up today. The “special effects” are cheesy beyond belief, the acting is mediocre, the characters are annoying, and honestly, it’s been referenced so many times in the last 80 years that it’s lost the magic it once had.

Avatar became the highest-grossing movie of all time when it came out in 2009, and while the movie indisputably has some of the most incredible CGI and visual effects of its time, the storyline isn’t exactly original. In fact, it’s been done time and time again. Luckily for those who are actually fans of the film, there are multiple sequels in the works as of 2021, although given the lack of original plot in the first movie, we’re not really sure what they’re planning to do in the sequels...

Like every other movie made during the 1940s, Casablanca’s premise revolves around World War II, so we’re already off to a creative start. (That's sarcasm.) The movie tells the story of Rick, an American ex-pat who must choose between his love for his ex-lover named Ilsa, or helping Ilsa and her husband escape the Vichy-controlled city of Casablanca to continue the fight against the Germans. While the movie is widely regarded as a masterpiece, there are still many who disagree. One MTV critic called the film “melodramatic” and another rogue critic on Rotten Tomatoes asserts that “everyone just pretends to like this movie.” Others have called the movie “slow and boring.”

When adjusted for inflation, Gone With the Wind is the highest-grossing film of all time and is considered one of the greatest films ever made. There are a lot of problems with it. Firstly, it glorifies the Antebellum South, which obviously hasn’t aged well. It’s also boring and melodramatic. Not to mention, the movie is almost four hours long, and what grown adult has time for that? And finally, in the words of one brave critic named Patrick F on Rotten Tomatoes: “The most overrated movie of all time, it’s nothing more than a wildly inaccurate harlequin romance novel. The acting is fine, but the material is awful.” Ouch.

There's nothing inherently wrong with Back to the Future. It's a tightly scripted, well-made comedy featuring spectacular performances from leads Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd. However, man viewers aren't content to allow it to be "just" a movie. Instead, they see Back to the Future as the opening salvo of a franchise that included two sequels and an animated series. The issue? Said further projects suffered from diminishing creative returns, which in-turn led to the initial film being a wee bit overrated.

Jaws is often hailed a suspenseful masterpiece, since the titular shark was barely seen in full over the course of the film, with music and shots of a lone fin used instead. However, this wasn't actually a stylistic choice, but rather one made because the animatronic shark was malfunctioning. While this suspense works upon first viewing of the film, when the moments come in surprise and the eventual shark reveal is a big moment, it loses its luster upon later viewings, making the film feel a bit overrated.

If people weren't upset with us before, they certainly are now, but just hear us out: Star Wars AKA Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope is without doubt one of the most important films ever released. It launched arguably the most beloved media franchise in history, and completely redefined the concept of a Hollywood blockbuster. However the movie itself isn't great. There are continuity goofs, boom mics in picture, and a story that's cut and paste of other films. It's in an entertaining package, and certainly an enjoyable watch, but just a tad overrated.

The Lord of the Rings films are a stunning cinematic achievement. Filmed over one long production cycle, the Peter Jackson-directed trilogy used groundbreaking (for the time) special effects to reproduce J.R.R . Tolkien's Middle Earth in a way fee thought possible. However, these technical achievements masked the fact that the films played somewhat loosely with the novel's plots, cutting out and condensing numerous major subplots and characters.

When Scream was released in 1996, the film was lauded as a post-modern horror masterpiece. It was filled with sarcastic humor, fourth wall references to horror movie cliches, and a twist killer reveal that - no pun intended - skewered both typical horror films and fans who loved them. However, on repeat viewings, the film (while enjoyable) loses much of its bite. The jokes fall flatter, and the twist loses its edge when they've been seen multiple times.

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is the best known installment of the long-running Star Trek film and television franchise, with moments like William Shatner's Kirk bellowing the name of Ricardo Montalban's "KHAAAAAAN" or Spock (Leonard Nimoy)'s death scene being well known even to non-fans of the franchise. However, the film is arguably the least-Star Trek-like entry in the series, abandoning many elements of the series style and ideals.

Kevin Smith's famous black and white independent comedy is arguably better remembered for the way it was made - Smith maxed out his credit cards to self-finance the film's $28,000 budget - the fact that it was  shot in black & white. and it's alarming amount of profanity. However, underneath all that, the film's plot is paper-thin, and the humor is quite niche, likely making it overrated to many viewers.

Spider-Man 2 is hailed by some as the greatest comic book/super hero movie ever made, and we're really not sure why? Alfred Molina is game as Doctor Octopus, and Tobey Maguire once again shines as the title hero, but overall the film's plot meanders without the spark of either the first Sam Raimi Spider-Man film or the later Marvel films.

Christopher Nolan's trilogy of Batman films, highlighted by 2008's The Dark Knight, has been wildly critically acclaimed. Now, some of that acclaim was certainly earned, especially that accolades (including a posthumous Academy Award)  given to Heath Ledger for his performance of the Joker. However, we can't help but think that at least some of the roses thrown to the film (and Nolan's whole trilogy) were partially because these "serious" films followed the campy and critically derided Batman Forever and Batman & Robin.

Cameron Crowe's Almost Famous - a fictionalized account of Crowe's real life story as a teenaged journalist working for Rolling Stone magazine in the 1970s - is a very good film. However, the nostalgia-goggles of Gen-Xers who saw themselves who saw themselves in the rock-obsessed William Miller character have elevated the film to a status well beyond its actual content.