I agree with Napoleon Dynamite & I blame high school sophomores for it’s unjustified popularity.
@Michael_Huntington I can understand why you would say Slumdog Millionaire & District 9, even though I loved both of them (I saw them long after the buzz died, so I was able to just sit & enjoy & not have clouded judgement) But I would argue that Wall-E doesn’t deserve to be listed here. I want to avoid a useless shouting match (it’s just a movie after all), so I will just say, please re-visit the movie in 5 years & hopefully you will see what it was that I saw in the movie – a remarkable & personal story about the human condition & I’m not talking about the obvious one (large, lazy people destroying the Earth) I’m talking about the human condition that is told through Wall-E.
Another obvious addition to this list – The Hangover. I will admit, I didn’t see all of it – I got up & left after the first 10 minutes. I hated The Hangover with a deeply rooted anger/passion. Just knowing there is a sequel coming next year makes me want to burn down every cinema in the country & gladly do the time for it. (I won’t, so this is not a confession that needs to be exhibit A in a trail against me if there happens to be a cinematic arsonists.)
Lastly…about this Avatar thing- I know James Cameron shelved the project 10 years ago because the tech. ‘wasn’t there yet’. I call bullcrap on this. A great movie doesn’t need great tech. to make it work. You either tell an incredible story or you don’t. The fact that he sat on it’s story, even after Fern Gully came out 18 years ago, Pocahontas came out 15 years ago & Atlantis coming out 9 years ago. To watch the release of those movies & still stick with the story, is just lazy & greedy. It proves he relied on the ‘tech.’ to sell the movie & not the story. So that’s allwogianae, oops,slipped off my soap box there for a second. That’s all I got to say. :) Thanks for listening.
(new comment from @Symbeline, I have to respond) Yes, agreed… but if you take out the first 14 minutes & the last 7 minutes… you have an alright movie. :) Altogether, it was a bit dreadful.