It's time to lower our collective expectations. Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for those movie moments that may be looked at as a little over-hyped by some portion of the audience.
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00:00You've been a lovely, lovely witness.
00:04Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down our picks for those movie moments
00:09that may be looked at as a little over-hyped by some portion of the audience.
00:12You wear those shoes and that wear, wear that dress, oh, kiss me.
00:20Number 10, the cue cards, Love Actually.
00:23To some, the cue card scene from Love Actually is the most romantic film moment of the last three decades.
00:28We'll get it.
00:36Oh, hi.
00:38To others, it's completely over-hyped, and rather than call it super romantic,
00:42they would call it super creepy.
00:44Remember, it's a guy telling his best friend's wife that he's in love with her,
00:47and he does it in a grand way at their house while said best friend is in the living room.
00:59There's no denying the bigness of the moment, but it doesn't take more than a second look
01:03to appreciate that the romanticness of it is overrated.
01:06Although, as far as the scene's ripeness for parody, that can't be overrated.
01:22Number 9, Always Loved You, The English Patient.
01:25The English Patient won the Academy Award for Best Picture,
01:28and the American Film Institute named it the 56th greatest love story of all time.
01:32Love, romantic love, platonic love, filial love, quite different things, really.
01:38However, with all its critical and commercial success,
01:41there are many, like Elaine Venice, who found the film rather boring.
01:46And the scene in which Kristen Scott Thomas tells Ralph Fiennes that she's always loved him
01:50reveals just how differently some people react to this film.
01:52You're wearing the thimble.
01:55Of course.
01:56You idiot.
01:58I always wear it. I've always worn it.
02:02I've always loved you.
02:04If you were invested in the movie and the story, then this would surely get the tears flowing,
02:08but it could also get the jeers going if you've already struggled to make it that
02:11far into the film without, as Elaine does, yelling at the screen.
02:15I can't do this anymore. I can't. It's too long.
02:20Quit telling your stupid story about the stupid desert and just die already.
02:27Die!
02:28Number 8. Fixer Upper, Frozen
02:31Disney Animation's Frozen was an astounding pop cultural phenomenon,
02:34but do you remember that one song the trolls sang?
02:37What's the issue, dear? Why are you holding back from such a man?
02:42Is it the clumpy way he walks?
02:44What?
02:44Or the grumpy way he talks?
02:46If not, it could be because Fixer Upper doesn't hold an icicle to the rest of the movie's soundtrack.
02:51The number's endgame is to get Anna and Kristoff together,
02:54despite acknowledging the latter's flaws.
02:56But shouldn't the singing stop once everyone finds out that Anna is already engaged?
03:01Enough! She is engaged to someone else, okay?
03:08So she's a bit of a fixer upper?
03:11That's a minor thing.
03:12Potential homewrecking aside, the whole sequence relies on a forgettable melody
03:16that's just as bland and colorless as the creatures performing it.
03:19The trolls are interchangeable, devoid of personality,
03:21and manage to troublingly declare that people don't really change.
03:25In a musical sensation that has almost zero skips,
03:28the uninspired and ordinary Fixer Upper just doesn't belong.
03:35Number 7. Viola's Audition, Shakespeare in Love
03:39Shakespeare in Love made almost 300 million dollars at the box office
03:42and received much critical acclaim.
03:44May I begin, sir?
03:47Your name?
03:49Thomas Kent. I would like to do a speech by a writer who commands the heart of every player.
03:55But to many, it will always just be the lesser film that undeservedly won Best Picture over
03:59Saving Private Ryan at the Academy Awards. We probably could have mentioned any scene
04:03from this movie and slapped the overrated tag on it.
04:06Unless I look on Sylvia in the day, there is no day for me to look upon.
04:14She is my essence.
04:17I mean, Viola's Audition is a good moment and a well-acted scene that sets the story in motion.
04:22Where'd you learn how to do that?
04:24I...
04:25Let me see you. Take off your hat.
04:27Are you Master Shakespeare?
04:28Wait there!
04:29But it isn't the US Army landing on Omaha Beach during the invasion of Normandy in World War II.
04:34Number 6. Fried Chicken Etiquette, Green Book
04:37Another controversial Best Picture winner,
04:39Green Book did make over 300 million feel-good dollars at the box office.
04:43Your name came up more than once.
04:47You've impressed several people with your innate ability to handle trouble.
04:53And that is why I called and inquired about your availability.
04:56And the fried chicken scene is one of the classic feel-good moments the film spoon-fed us.
05:00But not everyone felt so good about it, the scene or the film.
05:04I think this is the best Kentucky fried chicken I ever had.
05:08Although director Peter Farrelly consciously tried to avoid it,
05:11there are those who criticize the movie for its flagrant perpetuation of the white savior trope
05:16with the story of a bigot's redemption.
05:18So as some are laughing at Viggo Mortensen teaching Mahershala Ali about fried chicken,
05:23others are cringing.
05:24It just seems so unsanitary.
05:29Who gives a shit? Just relax and enjoy it.
05:33Number 5. The Love Scene, Avatar
05:36If there's one thing you can say about Avatar, it's that it sure did look good.
05:40That was pretty impressive.
05:44I would have been screwed if you hadn't come along.
05:46But despite what fashion magazines have been telling us for decades, looks aren't everything.
05:51We also need some substance, and on that front, Avatar fails to provide much.
05:55And you may choose a woman.
05:59We have many fine women.
06:01The story itself isn't anything we didn't see in films like Pocahontas and Dances with Wolves.
06:06And speaking of no substance, the Jake and Neytiri love scene might be a fan favorite,
06:10but this overrated moment is superficial at best,
06:13as the characters never truly get to know each other.
06:15This version of the played-out, star-crossed lovers trope is as deep as an Oreo-thin cookie,
06:20and as believable as anyone who tells you that they can eat just one.
06:29Number 4. Opening Scene, Crash
06:32Crash is one of those movies that you either love or you hate.
06:35I think we miss that touch so much that we crash into each other just so we can feel something.
06:44You guys okay?
06:47I think he hit his head.
06:48You either applauded when it won Best Picture at the Academy Awards,
06:51or you thought it was one of the biggest miscarriages of justice the movie world has ever seen.
06:55Which brings us to the film's opening scene.
06:58Crash begins with a car crash, a thought-provoking monologue,
07:01and some blatant bigotry that sets the stage for the interconnected stories that will follow.
07:05It's her fault.
07:06She do this!
07:07My fault?
07:07Ma'am, you really need to wait in your vehicle.
07:10My fault?
07:10Stop in the middle of the street!
07:12Mexicans don't know how to drive.
07:13She brake too fast!
07:15I brake too fast?
07:17I brake too fast.
07:18I'm sorry, you don't see my brake light.
07:20Or at least, that's how it was presented by proponents of the film.
07:23But really, looking at it now?
07:25The scene begins with a two-on-the-nose car crash,
07:28a preachy monologue,
07:29and stereotypical racial slurs that forego nuance for an easy audience reaction.
07:33Officer, can you please write down your report?
07:35How shocked I am to be hit by an agent driver.
07:37Number three, the makeover.
07:39She's All That.
07:40It's one of the most talked about, emulated,
07:42and parodied Team Roncom scenes the last 30 years.
07:45You really never wear makeup?
07:47No, my mom died before I was old enough for this stuff.
07:50I'm sorry.
07:52It was a long time ago, I mean.
07:53Ugly duckling Lainey Boggs gets a makeover,
07:56and is transformed into the beautiful swan, Lainey Boggs.
07:59We could get into the whole thing about how the scene perpetuates harmful and superficial ideas,
08:03Gentlemen, may I present the new, not improved, but different, Lainey Boggs.
08:13But putting that aside, even taking the scene at face value,
08:16its overratedness can be described in six simple words.
08:19Lainey was hot before the makeover.
08:21The transformation was less ugly duckling to swan,
08:24and more pretty swan to swan with her glasses off and her hair done.
08:28You ready?
08:29Yeah.
08:31Number two, Falling Rose Petals.
08:33American Beauty.
08:34It's maybe the most famous scene from American Beauty,
08:37and an iconic visual that we see in movie clip montages all the time.
08:42I've been waiting for you.
08:44Kevin Spacey's grown up character fantasizes about the high school aged Mina Suvari,
08:48seeing her lying naked on a bed of rose petals as more fall from above.
08:52It's the weirdest thing.
08:55I feel like I've been in a coma for about 20 years, and I'm just now waking up.
09:01Given all the allegations that have come out about Spacey,
09:03this scene feels extra creepy.
09:05But regardless of who the actor is,
09:07the stunning beauty of the scene feels overdone given the age difference between the characters.
09:11There's also the plastic bag monologue that's a bit, nay, a lot pretentious.
09:16Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,
09:26I feel like I can't take it.
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09:44Number one, Mona Lisa Takes the Stand, My Cousin Vinny.
09:48Marissa Tomei memorably took home the 1992 Oscar for her role in My Cousin Vinny.
09:52Your Honor, the defense calls as its first witness, Ms. Mona Lisa Vito.
09:57Many called it a surprise win, but others called it undeserved.
10:00Rumors even developed that suggested Tomei's name had been said by mistake.
10:04There was no such error, but she did defeat a lineup of
10:07veteran actresses who all appeared more likely to win.
10:09Mona Lisa's testimony is certainly a pivotal moment of the movie,
10:12and Tomei does a fine job delivering it.
10:14Would you like me to explain?
10:16I would love to hear this.
10:19So would I.
10:20When you stack this against Miranda Richardson's meltdown and damage,
10:24or Judy Davis' phone call in Husbands and Wives, it doesn't seem to hold up.
10:27It may be an award-winning scene,
10:29but it's often remembered more for the external controversy than for the monologue itself.
10:33There were only two other cars made in America that had positive traction,
10:37an independent rear suspension, and enough power to make these marks.
10:41One was the Corvette, which could never be confused with the Buick Skylark.
10:46Do we miss any major overrated scenes?
10:48What moments on our list do you think don't deserve the overrated tag?
10:51Let us know in the comments.
10:52Honesty is overrated, man. Hey, that's in the Bible. Old Testament.
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