10 Movies People Only Dislike Because They’re Popular

7. The Artist

"Oh my goodness, you just have to see The Artist," said everybody at the start of 2011. "Oh my goodness, this movie could win Best Picture. Have you seen it yet?" said everybody as awards season kicked off. "Oh yeah, that film. Never actually saw it." said everyone a couple of months after it won the highest honour in Hollywood. The Artist is the only film from this current decade that was the completely deserving recipient of the Best Picture Oscar (in case you're curious, our picks for the other years would have been Her, Lincoln and The Social Network) and yet it's become something of a curio - the exact thing it was before - with the classic over-rated statement popping up more than is justified. It's the sort of film that so succinctly sells itself that it's easy to overlook that its technical choices are in direct parallel with its narrative ones. Yes, it's a silent movie, but it's more than that; it's about the destruction of this type of cinema and changing times. What happened to The Artist is a mix of the popular throw-away nature of The Avengers, Forrest Gump's obvious sentimentality and Gravity's horror of seeing something niche become mainstream. People who hadn't seen it assumed it was popular based on nostalgia, while those who had didn't like how it had been consumed by the masses.