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

Great soundtracks are not great movies. These eight have the votes, the box office and the playlists. The movies themselves? Let's talk.

#1 is the one your film-school friend will unfollow you over.

1. 8
   Dirty Dancing (1987)7.2

   Iconic lift, flimsy movie wrapped around it.

   A reported $4.5M budget turned into $214.6M worldwide, which is legit impressive. Strip out the finale and that 7.2 score is mostly Swayze's footwork plus nostalgia.
2. 7
   Trap (2024)3.6

   A killer premise that runs out of ideas mid-setlist.

   174,466 IMDb votes, a 3.6 movie.guru score and a C+ CinemaScore. Josh Hartnett is having a blast. The audience walking out was not.
3. 6
   Elvis (2022)7.5

   Austin Butler is electric. The movie around him is a blender.

   Baz Luhrmann edits like the reported $85M budget was paid per cut. Metacritic gave it a 64, and Tom Hanks's accent is its own subplot.
4. 5
   8 Mile (2002)6.1

   One great final battle and a lot of waiting around.

   356,554 IMDb votes for a 6.1 movie.guru score. Eminem feels real on screen. The story between the battles is a gray parking lot.
5. 4
   Pitch Perfect (2012)7.4

   One great riff-off, then it's a cappella homework.

   A 7.4 movie.guru score, but movie guru's take is 6.6. Rebel Wilson steals every scene, and the plot is thinner than a pitch pipe.
6. 3
   Walk the Line (2005)8.4

   Two great performances trapped in the most standard biopic ever.

   Phoenix and Witherspoon earn it. The 8.4 movie.guru score doesn't. Metacritic 72, and every beat lands exactly where you guessed it would.
7. 2
   Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)7.0

   Live Aid is great. Everything before it is a Wikipedia skim.

   $911M worldwide and an A CinemaScore, but Metacritic gave it a 49 and critics beat only 37% of movies. Fans heard the songs. Critics watched the movie.
8. 1
   La La Land (2016)8.5

   Beautiful to look at, nowhere near the masterpiece people claim.

   782,677 IMDb votes and an 8.5 movie.guru score, but movie guru's take is 7.0. Gosling lectures everyone about jazz, and the singing is merely fine.

$1,439 says you're humming #1's theme song while you type the angry comment.

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