Probably the most overrated film in history

Rating: 1/10 (17 December 2003)

I gave this film 1/10; I would have scored it a perfect 0 if there was the option. I'm probably doing the film a disservice given that much, much worse films have been made. A true reflection of this film would probably be somewhere closer to 4, but I feel an obligation to counterbalance the thousands of perfect 10 scores from people who regard this as a "timeless classic." Anyone who considers Gone With the Wind a timeless classic should ignore the fact the it's an old film highly rated by emperor's-new-clothes types and ask themselves what they would think of a modern equivalent: an extraordinarily overlong film with a meandering, muddled storyline punctuated with cheesy dialog and hammy acting and done on an "epic" scale because the budget allows it (It's starting to sound like Titanic! Another zero).