Overrated?

more like underrated

EXTREMELY! This movie is a window of what is wrong with people these days. First of all, I will admit there have been times where I wanted to just leave it all behind and move into the Superior National Forrest in northeast Minnesota near Canada, (where I am from). It even looks quite like Alaska with the boreal forest. But running never solves a thing because you cannot run from yourself, your problems, or the world's. That is what being mature is all about.

Life is unfair, and you have to deal with it on it's terms, not run like a little p*ssy into a way of life you have NO IDEA how to live, as his death so perfectly proves. To hold this character up, or Holden Caulfield for that matter, is asinine. This 8th grade interpretation of Henry David Thoreau was nauseating.

I couldn't stand good will hunting - pretentious claptrap - I enjoyed this - but bear in mind - ratings are very subjective - if you enjoy a film - does it matter if everyone else does too?

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Not at all overrated. I enjoyed this movie much more than all the movies you listed. No movie is perfect. In the movies on your list I enjoyed them all too I can find more to fault in them than Into the Wild. All these movies were entertaining and kept my interest.

The film was beautiful to look at. It seems to be very controversial which usually gives it a high rating too. It had very high production values. The story was true (As true as Hollywood movies get anyway) and very emotional.
A very powerful film. Great acting.

Yes, it's very overrated. The film itself isn't THAT bad but it's too long and quite inaccurate.

He was in wilderness during summertime, living in a damn bus, had a rifle and river full of fish nearby. He starved to death not knowing that there was a cable bridge just few minutes walk away. That's pathetic.

The film makes him as some sort of magical hipster who is smart, charismatic and has admirable back to nature philosophy but the truth was entirely different.
His 30kg weight after 3 months in nature tells it all, around same weight as average holocaust survivor. That's rather ironic since it tells us about his alienation from nature rather than the opposite.

The film is a big romanticized lie. I gave it 4/10...

Here's interesting article about McCandless:
http://www.adn.com/article/20130920/beatification-chris-mccandless-thieving-poacher-saint

He had most likely robbed the nearby cabin of food and then vandalized it.

No that overrated, but not that good either; I gave it 6/10
Of those eight movies you show us, I think 12 years a slave is much more overrated (6/10), and also Rush doesn't belong into the TOP250
Anyhow, in my point of view, there's no extremely overrated movie as Fight Club, and I looooove Brad Pitt. But if you want to talk about movies that loses plot and ended up with a cruios and "cool" twist, I'll say again: that's the most overrated movie ever, beating Birdman, Spotlight, Argo, The departed, Inception, Forest Gump, etc.

anyhow, we can talk about underrated movies, that will help us a lot more: The Judge (2014), The Railway Man (with Firth on it), Aint them bodies saints, The boxer (1997), Inherent Vice!, and In the name of the father, a movie that it's aaaaall the way better than Shawshank Redemption, but it has many irish men on it.

Last but not least, 8.2 also has El secreto de sus ojos (i'm argentinian) or, The secret in their eyes. If some of the people from the northside of the world thinks that a guy who had it all until his twenties (also usd24k saved) and leave it behind, generates a "climax"... you must read some argentinian modern history and rewatch Campanella's (whom, as Penn, has a controversial politic point of view of his country) masterpiece again