15 Overhyped Movies You Wish You'd Not Watched
13. Bird Box
Bird Box really made an impact on the cultural conversation. It became the most-watched film on Netflix at the time, and it also caused controversy after people started doing a challenge based on the film - trying to do ordinary things while blindfolded. Inevitably, quite a few people hurt themselves in the process.
As for why the film became so talked about? That's a harder question to answer because, simply put, Bird Box is terrible. The premise is certainly intriguing, but it's wasted on an emotionless and under-plotted sci-fi thriller that's hampered by laughably bad writing all the way through. The waste of many great actors didn't help either.
It really is a waste of time and it would be far more advisable to watch the A Quiet Place films instead. Those movies are themselves flawed, yet they are certainly far superior to Bird Box.