8 Overrated Movies of the 2010s. Fight Me. I Brought Numbers.

Millions of IMDb votes don't make a movie good. They make it famous. These eight got the fame, and the numbers quietly disagree.

The last one has 1.69 million defenders. They're all about to be mad.

1. 8
   Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)4.0

   A billion dollars bought a mermaid and zero momentum.

   Reported budget of $410.6M, worldwide gross of $1.05B, 32% on Rotten Tomatoes. Box office isn't profit, and it definitely isn't proof. Jack Sparrow feels like a side dish in his own meal.
2. 7
   Suicide Squad (2016)3.4

   The trailer was better than the movie, and everyone knows it.

   768,522 IMDb votes, a 3.4 movie.guru score, 26% on Rotten Tomatoes. Opening crowds gave it a B+ CinemaScore, then spent years making memes instead of rewatching it.
3. 6
   Lucy (2014)4.0

   Big idea, small brain. Paying audiences noticed first.

   Critics liked it more than you'd think: 67% on Rotten Tomatoes. Audiences handed it a C+ CinemaScore. When the crowd is harsher than the critics, the movie lost the room.
4. 5
   Venom (2018)4.5

   A fun mess is still a mess. Sorry, Tom Hardy.

   Critics rated it above just 13% of movies, audiences above 56%. $856M worldwide. Tom Hardy commits to the bit way harder than the script commits to anything.
5. 4
   Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)3.8

   Everyone saw it. Almost nobody defends it out loud.

   800,801 IMDb votes, a 3.8 movie.guru score, a $250M reported budget. Jesse Eisenberg plays Lex Luthor like a caffeinated startup pitch, and somehow that's the lively part.
6. 3
   Passengers (2016)4.2

   A creepy premise wearing a rom-com costume.

   IMDb fans gave it 7.0. Critics gave it 30% on Rotten Tomatoes and a 41 on Metacritic. The first-act choice is the whole movie, and the movie pretends it isn't.
7. 2
   The Great Gatsby (2013)5.2

   Gorgeous party, hollow guest list. Accidentally faithful to the book.

   IMDb says 7.2. The movie.guru score says 5.2, below the 5.5 median. Baz Luhrmann spent a reported $105M to $190M on confetti and misplaced the heartbreak.
8. 1
   Shutter Island (2010)6.2

   Good movie. Not an 8.2. Not even close.

   1,691,744 IMDb votes at 8.2. The movie.guru score is 6.2: solid, not sacred. Opening crowds gave it a C+ CinemaScore. The internet treats it like Scorsese's masterpiece. It isn't.

$847 says the Shutter Island defenders reach the comments before the Batman v Superman defenders, and they type longer paragraphs.

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