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Most overrated movie of all time


Some people think the IMO ridiculous complicated plot is genius. I just think it is stupid and ridiculous. Of course that must mean I'm not intelligent enough to get it.

I think this movie is like the "Emperor's New Clothes". Only real special people can see the genius so everyone wants to be one of the real special people and they all act like they get it too. (I'm guessing that no more than half the people who read this will get my reference to The Emperor's new clothes.)

Mediocre movie 6.0 IMO and it's OK if people like it. Of course more people that visit this board like it then don't so I'm guessing that 9 out of 10 here will disagree with me. It would be nice to hear from both sides on this.

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Most over-rated IMDB Topic #8

Topics which should no longer be permitted on IMDB. It's for your own good. You think they make you look witty and insightful. Instead, they make you look shallow, thoughtless, and judgmental:

1) I am so brilliant that I paid for a movie and walked out after .... minutes.
2) This movie steals from ...
3) The worst movie of the year/decade/ever.
4) ... {actor/actress} is so ugly and can't act despite their awards. They don't fit the role because he/she's not as hot as the actor/actress I love.
5) I am prescient. I predicted this movie was going to be the worst film ever made (even worse than The Hottie and the Nottie;), then I watched it. It was waaaaaay worse than I expected.
6) The critics are all paid studio sycophants, except this blog {myblog} who agrees with me.
7) Please check out my review at {myblog} which explains how bad this movie is to all of you people who are too stupid to recognize it. {No, I'm not the same person as the previous thread, even though we misspell the exact same words.}
8) What is the most overrated movie of all time? {hint: for the right answer, you are on its message board.}
9) The IMDB ratings system is a joke. I can't believe this is rated 8.5 -- it shouldn't be higher than 8.2
10) I'm not criticizing the movie, I just want to know how they wasted $140 million on this high school film project.
11) I tried to like this critically acclaimed, award winning movie, but it $vcked. Why do all of those idiot critics and fanboys always disagree with me?
12)I have watched ten thousand movies so none of you know as much as I do -- this movie was garbage.
13) Plot holes all over the place which are explained, but I couldn't bother to pay attention. {P.S. Don't waste your time explaining them to me, I don't really care.}
14) This scene at the thirty minute point was physically impossible, which destroyed my suspension of disbelief. Ruins the entire movie for me.
15) This film is bigoted because there are no characters with blond colored nose hairs.
16)This film is clearly homophobic because my gaydar tells me that all the villains are homosexuals even though the film doesn't say so.
17) {Generic Statement}, "Discuss."
18)I have a serious question. I promise I'm not trolling. I want to know -- what kind of person enjoys this much stupidity crammed into two and a half hours?
19)Anyone that can't work out the ending, or thinks this movie is complicated, MUST be an idiot....!
20) This movie has no plot. All that occurs is a series of catastrophic events which lead to more catastrophic events, until they are finally resolved in a conclusion.
21) This movie was so predictable -- when his lover turned out to be an alien invader hyped up on Ritalin,I had predicted that in the first five minutes.
22) You guys are all sheeples, blindly listening to the reviews planted by the entertainment industrial complex which tells you how to think. Instead, listen to me: Baaaa!
23) This movie is unoriginal, lame American/Hollywood tripe. The only good movie ever is this beautiful French film which you won't enjoy because lazy Americans can't read and watch movies at the same time. [I saw that. It's just a woman staring in a mirror for three hours.][Yeah, but she was naked ... and French!]
24) Did the action pick up after I fell asleep?
25) I expected the movie to be about _____, but it was not. Therefore the movie was awful.


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It is a dumb film.

The whole dream thing is not dramatic at all.

That's because you could have a dream where it seems like you're there for a million years, but then you wake up and had an hour nap.

There was nothing like in The Matrix where trauma in the matrix actually creates trauma in your body. So, these people just had annoying and traumatizing dreams, but they will wake up and things will be fine.

Meaningless.

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Thank you. It wasn't a HORRIBLE film but it just annoys me that some people act like it is the best movie ever made.

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Its only overrated on IMDb.

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So Rotten Tomatoes and Netflix have it rated more appropriately?

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Metacritic has it at 74/100 which is about right imho

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Thanks Africa. That's a bit high for my taste but at least within reason.

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You just made a long winded generic reply to my specific annoyance with this film. This is my first post about inception. I saw it right when it came out so I held my tongue a long time. Inception is boring and makes no sense. I didn't say it was horrible. I give it a 6.0 that is well above my rating for Cat in the Hat. I truly believe that some people convince themselves that it is intelligent because it is so complicated. If you like it great. I know many people do like it, but treat me as an actual interested party who believes what I say wrong or not. I'm not trolling if I were doing that I would have done that so long ago.

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