A list of 10 Acclaimed Movies That Are Now Hated By Everybody (3 of 3)

Avatar

A movie that stayed at the top of the list of highest-grossing movies of all time for close to a decade, and had groundbreaking visual effects and storytelling, quite a lot of people these days would agree that they never really liked the movie even back then.

Most of the time when a flashy movie hits the screens, the actual quality of the story gets drowned out by the sheer grandeur and scale of it. The movie was a phenomenon back then, and it is still today.

On its way to becoming a cultural phenomenon, the movie earned well over $2 billion worldwide, a record that smashed Titanic’s box office record, ultimately endings its total collections at nearly $2.8 billion. Also, the movie was a success at the Academy Awards as well, earning the Oscars for Cinematography, Art Direction, and Visual Effects.

However, quite the same way The Phantom Menace is treated now,  Avatar is also shown more as a visual effects spectacle rather than it being a great movie, thanks to the advancement in technology that has taken place now.

There are a ton of spectacles available now – all impressive, and so it really takes a lot of it than just spectacle for a movie to earn critical acclaim and the hearts of the audiences. Currently, Avatar is criticized for its lack of originality and for displaying the same white savior trope all over again.

That said, we are more than excited to see how the sequel performs, especially since it’s been over a decade since the first installment came out.

Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace

People hating prequels is nothing new. However, the kind of prequel hate Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace received was so strong that it led the child actor Jake Lloyd to quit acting for good, as he was bullied immensely following the movie’s release. In fact, Attack of the Clones and The Phantom Menace are often cited as the worst of the Star Wars movies by most of the people, which actually makes the reviews and critical reception this flick received quite an intriguing case.

Way back when the system of online ticketing didn’t exist, there was so much anticipation and excitement around the Star Wars prequel that cinema lovers lined up in long queues just in the hope of getting a ticket for the first-day shows.

The flick wasn’t really received as a masterpiece like the previous installments, the official critical acclaim was titled towards a lenient view for nostalgia, and this led to a lot of reviews and opinions focusing more on the good sides of the movie as much as possible. This resulted in the flick earning itself an A- at CinemaScore, while it also led the popular film critic Roger Ebert calling it “an astonishing achievement in imaginative cinema”.

While it may have been so in 1999, time and the advancement of technology have really taken away much of that grand spectacle and pathbreaking visual effects that the movie generated, leaving behind only the criticism of poor storyline, character development, and actors.

The modern reviews of this movie will not take the nostalgia as a positive sign, and the public perception around prequels currently actually says a lot about how the reception for this flick is going to be right now.

Sausage Party

Sausage Party has a kind of humor that will be only appreciated by acquired taste, and this fact was the major reason why the movie was critically acclaimed upon its release, while most people nowadays will simply hate this movie.

The majority of the critical acclaim that the flick earned was because of its unique nature and the crude sense of humor that is presented in the animated medium, with some even saying that the ending of the movie was a masterpiece that should be seen by everybody.

However, once all that hype surrounding it died down, years later one finds that it is nothing but a polarizing comedy that will have strong contrasting reception that tilts towards negativity, depending on who you are listening to. It scored a solid 83% on Rotten Tomatoes, but that score is nowhere close to what people believe about the movie in the current scenario. While people would agree that it is indeed a unique style of filmmaking, that unique style isn’t entertaining according to most of the people nowadays.

Another reason that made people go for disliking the movie to hating it is the fact that a lot of animators who were hired to work on this movie were given extremely poor working conditions and some were even blacklisted for complaining to work overtime without getting any extra pay! This dispute was solved only recently.

American Hustle

This movie is perhaps the most bizarre of all, and it rightly deserves the number one spot on our list. American Hustle received a critical acclamation that has been very rarely seen before. The movie earned itself a score of 92% on Rotten Tomatoes, a solid 90 on Metacritic, Oscar nominations for all the leading cast, and a nomination for Best Picture as well!

However, this is where it gets interesting. The movie won almost next to nothing at any of the major awards show except for the Golden Globe, while registering an unwanted record in its name – a record for getting the most Oscar nominations and winning nothing, which led to a lot of questions as to how acclaimed movies such as this one fails so miserably at the awards.

The drastic fall of the movie has continued, and nowadays, almost everybody hates it for a variety of reasons. While some say it’s way too long, others call it a confusing and quite a sloppy movie. Perhaps a genuine flick that was overhyped, the movie is no longer considered a good movie, which is a sad thing given the kind of subject matter it deals with.