10 Classic Movies People Wrongly Call Overrated

2. Pulp Fiction

There’s a reason why Pulp Fiction has been hailed one of the most influential films of the 1990s and it’s probably its very influence and the horde of copycat movies it spawned attempting (but often failing) to cash in on its post-modern self-knowing that contribute to it being simultaneously lambasted as one of the decade’s most overrated films.

But it’s important to remember that Pulp Fiction’s cool cleverness and self-referential tone, however hackneyed those techniques might have since become in both Quentin Tarantino’s own oeuvre and the wider industry, was truly refreshing back then, coming at a time when cinema screens were dominated by formulaic romantic comedies, lacklustre blockbuster action flicks and John Grisham adaptations.

It shook up an industry that was in dire need of something new. It’s a film made by a film buff for film buffs and remains the definitive post-modern movie today, and for that reason it deserves all the praise it gets.