10 Movies That Seriously Don't Deserve Their Critical Acclaim

10. Titanic

It's hard to imagine that, before Titanic was released, a number of prominent Hollywood insiders were certain that James Cameron's epic would be a huge flop. Of course, Titanic was a huge box office smash, leading critics to gush over the "tender love story" and describe the film as "profoundly human in its sources and longings." The truth, which few reviewers at the time seemed willing to acknowledge, is that there was nothing profound about the tacked on love story - centred around the hackneyed, overdone concept of love transcending social barriers - while secondary characters were reduced to crude, cartoonish stereotypes. On top of that, a few eagle-eyed film buffs realised that many of the scenes in Titanic looked awfully familiar, and upon comparison with other classic Titanic-related movies such as A Night To Remember noted that they appeared to be nearly shot for shot reworkings, adding a whiff of plagiarism to an already questionably cliched movie...