Juno
Whilst many movies deserve the Oscars and adulation that come their way there are so many films that you look at and think what the hell are they all seeing that I'm not? Oh and there are quite a few.
It's hard to believe that movies such as Chicago and Titanic scooped the Best Picture Oscar when classics of cinema such as Citizen Kane, Psycho and Brief Encounter failed to win the industry's most coveted award.
So I got on my high horse and took a look at some of the movies that I think are soooooo over-rated.
Juno: I appreciate that I will probably get hung drawn and quartered for including this Oscar darling Juno but I hated it and it was definitely the most over-hyped movie of 2008 a Best Picture Oscar nomination what!
The film tries too hard to try and represent the youth of today with this too-hip script and pseudo-witty dialogue that if you heard someone speak it you would just think what the hell - FYI no one talks like that.
But the major downfall of this movie is the way that the issue of unwanted pregnancy and finding an adoptive family is handled depicting finding a suitable family, handing over the child and getting on with her life was a stroll in the park.
This only glorifies the idea of a teenage, unwanted pregnancy suggesting that this is a very easy solution. On release it was compared to 2007's Little Miss Sunshine, it's not a patch on it lacking all of its heart.
The Blair Witch Project: I will probably get it in the neck for this too. Widely regarded as one of the best independent movies ever made the American horror flick was just sooo boring.
While the idea behind the film is good the poor execution of that idea makes me think that I watched a different film when others say that it scared them to death.
The laboured plot and boring 2D characters drag the film out and by the time the climax comes along you really don't care it the cast live or die and long slow horrible death, which pretty much describes the experience had watching it.</p>
Titanic: Come on let's face it the only reason that the girlies love it is because Leo is looking a little bit hot but in reality it's a story that we all know the end too, the ship was always going to sink.
While there is nothing in particularly wrong with the film the eleven Oscars that it picked up seem a bit much, especially Best Picture when it came up against the likes of As Good As It Gets and the very stylish LA Confidential.
While the cast was undeniably impressive that gave good performances did they really deliver turns that deserved all the Oscar attention or were they just so so? And just how caught up did the Academy get in the hype and grandeur of a movie that is really mediocre?
Chicago: With my pet hates of Catherine Zeta Jones and Richard Gere together in one movie this was never going to be a winner but Best Picture what was the Academy thinking? And never being a fan of the musical this hasn't exactly won me over.
It was Rob Marshall's first feature film and you really can tell as he made the whole film feel fake and a bit too brassy and it looked like filmed stage play, which I'm sure wasn't the desired intention.
The story is lack lustre and is just one big excuse to make a musical number and from a film that brings us 'all that jazz' even they aren't memorable.
Take a look at Mamma Mia that's the way to do a musical; don't take yourself seriously, have a load of fun, oh and a decent plot and likeable characters usually helps.
Shakespeare In Love: Now while I have nothing against this movie, it’s a good take on Romeo and Juliet but a Best Picture Oscar win… what?
Bear in mind that Shakespeare in Love saw off competition from Saving Private Ryan and The Thin Red Line to take that Best Picture prize.
Now 1998 was a vintage year for movies with the likes of The Big Lebowski and American History X not many of us are talking about the performances for Gwyneth Paltrow and Joseph Fiennes.
I really could go on all day about the other overrated movies but here are just a few others where the praise went a little over the top: A Beautiful Mind, Moulin Rouge, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Andie MacDowell just can't act, The Matrix, Alien, Easy Rider and Apocalypse Now, while I'm a fan of war movies there really are better Platoon for example.
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