@BrutalPandaX2 @Emerald_Scott @The_Gaming_Baby I was making a point that there is a clear difference between a highly rated film that not many people know about and a highly rated one that has amassed a lot of hype---the latter makes people have high expectations of it, and when these expectations are not met, that is when people tend to call a film overrated.
@The_Gaming_Baby Overrated film? No, I feel it deserved the critical acclaim it garnered. There was no hype for it; not many people knew about it even after it released, so it wasn't the same as when a film gets high ratings and so much hype. District 9 was a sleeper hit and one of the best sci-fi films in recent memory.
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