10 Movies People Only Dislike Because They’re Popular

4. Avatar

In early 2010 you couldn't move for Avatar. It was like being stranded on its alien planet of Pandora, but instead of thick vegetation and deadly creatures there was endless chatter about its action and people online contemplating suicide over its beauty. Although it's not held the world's gaze in the following years like Star Wars or Jurassic Park did, James Cameron's epic space romance fantasy action eco-message was, for about six months, a total phenomenon. But by the end there was a lot of hate swarming around. When the film passed $1 billion at the box office its fans cheered. When it passed $2 billion those same people groaned. In the time of its cinema run Avatar had gone from sci-fi masterpiece to bloated CGI extravaganza. It'd be easy to chalk it up to that same old anger at having a film that felt so personal become so big, but we're on a totally different scale here. Provoking the cine-hipster inside all of us, Avatar's unfathomable popularity eventually reached the point where no one but its absolutly biggest fan could say it warranted the praise. That it was a fun (if over-long) movie didn't matter; it just didn't deserve to be this popular. Cue a barrage of people thinking they were the first person to notice some Dances With Wolves similarities.