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Today we're going to run down a list of the five most overrated films of all time.

Now, this is the definitive list there can be no argument no discussion

we should turn off comments on YouTube because this list is so verifiably correct

that there's really nothing to talk about. Now one thing to remember as we proceed is this

overrated does not mean bad. So I'm not saying that the films on this list are

bad. Some of them are, but not all of them. Overrated just means that they aren't as good as people make them out to be.

Their reputation is greater than the actual product on the screen.

So let's begin. Number five, Shawshank Redemption. Now this is not a bad film.

It is in fact, it's a pretty good film.

But it has gained the reputation of a cinematic masterpiece

mostly because millennials grew up watching the movie on TNT

where it aired approximately 46 times a week and Shawshank is a it's a fine story

it's a well-told story but it's also incredibly cliched over-wrought quite cheesy

extremely predictable every character is a walking

archetype, every story beat can be seen from a mile away. The movie doesn't do anything new or

different with the prison drama format except sanitize it.

So Shawshank is to prison movies what Remember the Titans is to football movies.

They're both massively overrated, not even the best versions of their particular sub-genra,

much less are they in the conversation for the greatest movies of all time?

My biggest problem though with Shawshank is that the inmates are all the nicest,

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