10 Classic Movies People Wrongly Call Overrated

9. Fargo

The Coen Brothers are definitely an acquired taste and their films consistently elicit love or hate it responses, but it’s undeniable that since their debut Blood Simple in 1984 through films like The Big Lebowski, O Brother, Where art Thou? and No Country For Old Men, the familial directing duo have crafted a truly unique body of work characterised by stunning cinematography, quirky but real characters, witty dialogue and genre mash-ups and Fargo, embodying all these Coen Brother idiosyncrasies, is up there with their best movies.

The dark comedy of errors has been accused of essentially transplanting a violent crime drama to what people seem to consider a wholly unrealistic setting – America’s Upper Midwest where it’s presumably too cold and normal for such violence to take place. But that’s the magic of Fargo: it throws ordinary people into extraordinary situations and shows their irrational reactions when things inevitably unravel.

And despite what the naysayers claim, Fargo the TV show is just as good.