8 Overrated Biopics Everyone Pretends to Love. No Matter What You Tell Me, You Can't Change My Mind.

True stories, big stars, millions of votes. These eight got all the love. The numbers say they got a little too much of it.

The last one has over a million fans, and every one of them is mad.

1. 8
   Public Enemies (2009)5.4

   Depp versus Bale should've been a heavyweight fight. It wasn't.

   Michael Mann, Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, a reported $80 to 100M budget, and it lands a 5.4 movie.guru score. That's below the 5.5 median.
2. 7
   Blow (2001)6.7

   Johnny Depp in a great wig is not a classic.

   IMDb voters gave it 7.5. Metacritic gave it 52. That gap is a guy quoting the poster at a party, not a great movie.
3. 6
   The Greatest Showman (2017)7.0

   Great soundtrack. Thin movie. Those are two different things.

   $472 million worldwide and a Metacritic 48. People bought the songs and skipped past the story. Guru's Take: 5.6.
4. 5
   The Blind Side (2009)7.4

   A crowd-pleaser the crowd should've questioned harder.

   A+ CinemaScore, $256 million domestic, Metacritic 53. The audience cheered, the critics shrugged. Guru's Take is 5.9, and that's being polite.
5. 4
   Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)7.0

   The concert scenes rock. The rest is a Wikipedia skim.

   $911 million worldwide, 656,505 IMDb votes, Metacritic 49. The most impressive number attached to this movie is the box office, not the movie.
6. 3
   Hachi: A Dog's Tale (2009)7.4

   It's a great dog. It's an average movie.

   IMDb 8.1 from 349,825 votes, Rotten Tomatoes 64. You're rating your own tears, not the filmmaking. Lasse Hallström knows exactly which button to press.
7. 2
   The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)7.8

   Will Smith carries it. The script just keeps piling on.

   633,922 IMDb votes and an 8.0 rating, but Metacritic 64. Critics saw a solid drama. The internet saw a motivational poster. Guru's Take: 6.9.
8. 1
   A Beautiful Mind (2001)8.1

   Over a million votes for a movie that's merely good.

   1,067,147 IMDb votes and an 8.2 rating. Rotten Tomatoes 74, Metacritic 72. Russell Crowe is strong, Ron Howard plays it safe. Guru's Take: 6.8.

$347.89 says the first comment defends A Beautiful Mind and the second one defends the dog.

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