[Borges]

Aesthetics is ALWAYS a matter of opinion. Many films are lauded as "great" that I would have to be paid to watch. "Great" usually means that a herd of sheeplike critics have concurred that a film is great.

Relativsm! :-) Well of course it's a matter of opinion but there are standards agreed upon by a grat many critics and scholars. What 'overpraised' films would you say fall into this category? Citizen Kane? 8 /12, 2001? Those are some usual suspects. Just curious