Matt Walsh Ranks The Top 5 Most OVERRATED Films
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This is the definitive list of the 5 most overrated films of all time, and it's a list that can be no argument, no discussion, and no debate. This list is so verifiably correct that there's really nothing to talk about.
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we're rolling yeah today we're going to run down a list of the five most overrated films of all
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time now this is the definitive list there can be no argument no discussion we should turn off
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comments on youtube because this list is so verifiably correct that there's really nothing
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to talk about now one thing to remember as we proceed is this overrated does not mean bad so
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i'm not saying that the films on this list are bad some of them are but not all of them overrated
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just means that they aren't as good as people make them out to be their reputation is greater
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than the actual product on the screen so uh let's begin number five shawshank redemption now this is
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not a bad film it is in fact it's a pretty good film but it has gained the reputation of a cinematic
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masterpiece mostly because millennials grew up watching the movie on tnt where it aired approximately
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46 times a week and shawshank is a it's a fine story uh it's a well-told story but it's also
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incredibly cliched overwrought quite cheesy extremely predictable every character is a walking archetype
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uh every story beat can be seen from a mile away the movie doesn't do anything new or different with
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the prison drama format except sanitize it so shawshank is to prison movies what remember the
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titans is to football movies they're both massively overrated uh not even the best versions of their
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particular sub-genre much less are they in the conversation for the greatest movies of all time
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my biggest problem though with shawshank is that the inmates are all the nicest most decent human
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beings you could ever meet minus the two who are rapists it's your world boss all the rest of them
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are kind sensitive friendly souls they hang out they play board games they go to the library they start
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a book club they run a lemonade stand out front uh not all that actually happens in the movie but
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it could have happened so if not for the evil warden and the couple of rapists shawshank actually
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seems like not a bad place to spend time like it's not even clear why tim robbins wants to escape so
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badly so and that takes away from a lot of the drama uh and the tension number four toy story now again
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a good film for what it is it's one of the best kids movies in the last three decades it's just not
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good enough to warrant three sequels with a fourth on the way no my main problem with toy story is uh
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the villain sid who's like the supposedly evil child living next door in the first toy story film
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but what is sid's great crime like what did he do wrong he he takes apart his toys and reassembles them
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this makes him a bad person he didn't know the toys were alive so how could you blame him for that
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he thought they were inanimate objects how can we blame him for his treatment of inanimate objects
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like if it turns out that my chair is actually alive am i suddenly a scumbag for sitting on it
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all these years so in fact sid is arguably a more sympathetic character than andy sid is creative
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he takes old toys and turns them into into like new shapes and interesting creatures meanwhile andy
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forms very unhealthy fixations on his toys never does anything interesting or creative with them
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and like there's nothing wrong with a child having a toy but it's like it's a bit overboard
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okay you're a little bit too old to be this attached to your toys andy well whatever right i mean
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it is it's just it's time to grow up so it may seem unfair for me to rate toy story as overrated
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just for this reason but this is my list and i'll do what i want like i said we're not talking about
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it your comments are not welcome i don't care what you think this is this is just the truth uh number
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three the dark knight now once again good film it just isn't the masterpiece that people make it
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out to be without heath ledger's great performance this movie wouldn't be remembered for anything in
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particular like take keith ledger out of it what does anyone remember about this movie who cares
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about this movie except for that it's great by batman movie standards but it's not great as a piece of
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cinema and i thought my jokes were bad for example how does the joker wire an entire hospital with
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enough explosives to demolish it in 15 seconds without anyone noticing how this is a working hospital
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people are in it 24 hours a day seven days a week how did you you wired the whole thing it's not even
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just like one part of it explodes the whole thing is taken down now get ready for the ball now the
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movie hopes that you won't notice that problem because you'll be distracted by like the moment in
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the hospital when joker shows up in two faces room wearing a surgical mask and isn't noticed by two
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face until he takes the mask off but even with the mask on you can still tell that he has white face paint
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and black paint around his eyes so how did two face the criminal genius not notice that well
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maybe it's because two face isn't a criminal genius in this he's a villain for about a half a scene
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and then he's dead it's like christopher nolan forgot to include two face they're about to put the
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movie out you know it's like a week and the movie's gonna come out and someone says well we forgot we're
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gonna put two face in this thing oh yeah then they gotta go back and they just add two face in
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and you can just take two face out and it doesn't change anything in the movie at all
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harvey i'm sorry but my biggest issue is the end when joker somehow wires two boats two ferries with
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uh explosives again nobody knows how he did this and then the passengers on each boat are told that
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they have to press a button and blow the other boat up before uh their own boat explodes and one of the
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boats is full of convicted criminals right and then of course all the criminals band together and decide to
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do the right thing and not blow up the other boat they said okay come on guys let's do the right
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come on folks hey fellas come on let's let's do the right thing here because we all know that
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criminals are renowned for their humanity and generosity and lack of self-interest maybe these
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were all inmates uh you know from shawshank like maybe that they just so happen to be the nicest
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criminals ever happen to be on this boat so the movie just didn't have the courage of its convictions
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that's what i didn't like about let me ask you something what if there was someone out there who
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kept a log of every single thing you did every minute of the day i think that'd be pretty creepy
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well what if i told you that's exactly what happens every time you go online your internet provider like
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at&t or verizon is allowed to store logs of every website you've ever visited and can legally sell
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number two uh marvel movies all of them the whole marvel movie canon they are all overrated because
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they're all rated as being at least better than cinematic slop which is what they are all are
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okay all they're all bad like every single marvel movie is bad there's never been a good one i hate to
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tell you the original iron man is really really great so the original guardian of the galaxy was
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a real breath of fresh air ant-man is wildly underrated to me doctor strange 2016 again
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enjoyable and thor ragnarok is just pure silly the marvel superhero franchise started out with like
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silly dumb movies that were silly and dumb but at least kind of fun in a very brainless
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bordering on mind numbing way but then as the films kept getting churned out they got longer and longer
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and more redundant and lazier like by the end of this whole run each movie is six and a half hours
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long and it's but it's the same like somehow every movie is the same as the last one but longer
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aside from that the movies have no stakes in this problem became more pronounced as they started adding
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multiple universes and so on until there were so many realities and so many universes that nothing that
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happened in any particular universe matters anymore you can kill off somebody in one universe there's an
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infinite supply of new versions to replace them so who gives a then at that point see what i mean
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not very bright you know in the old days a superhero was fighting a villain who wanted to you know maybe
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take over a city or something but then it's like okay now they're they want to destroy a whole planet and
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then they're going to destroy a whole galaxy and then eventually he's like he's going to destroy the
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whole universe except that that doesn't even matter because this is one universe of a trillion and so
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who cares about this universe but the writing was so bad and so lazy that even the threat of universal
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destruction wasn't enough to create any real emotional investment in the story number one the most
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overrated film of all time is star wars oh it's fine it's decent it's not deserving of the worshipful
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praise it receives and it certainly does not warrant the 10 billion trillion films and shows and everything
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else that came after them it's not true the original star wars movies were solid b movies
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that's impossible the acting's pretty poor especially by mark hamill really really bad acting
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the script is is kind of cheesy and derivative in parts and i say derivative not because oh
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you know everything after star wars is ripping it off so i'm just used to it
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no even star wars when it came out was derivative of sci-fi that had come before it
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like it actually was not doing anything all that new and and you know but that's fine darth vader is
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a 12 year old boy's idea of a scary villain like he's not actually menacing and he doesn't create
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real tension like if i'm in a room and darth vader walks in i'm not gonna be that scared like i'm sorry
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i'm not that scared you got the again again with the cape the first thing i'm thinking is like why are
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you wearing it you're a dork already because you're walking around in a cape you don't need to have the
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cape on and uh and i'm just not like i'm not that scary sorry anton chigur walks in i'm scared okay
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a bunch of 12 year old boys watch those movies when they came out in the 70s and 80s
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and and love them which is understandable but then they grew up and they insisted that the movies are
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still as great as they remember them being when they were 12 and that's the problem nothing is as
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good as you thought it was when you were 12 okay you were 12 okay all right you think you can do this
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to me and star wars is the same way now you all need to grow up and realize that the answer is never