The Most Underrated or Overrated Games/Movies Thread

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I like to think that there are two sorts of movies: "movies", and amusement park rides.

Movies are good when they are able to deliver a solid story, and get you to feel the characters.

Amusement Park Rides are movies like the Expendables, and Transformers. They deliver adrenaline rushing action packed scenes, and are often guilty pleasures of the audience, because there's not much else, but it's still so damn mind blowing amazing.

You'll occasionally come across a movie which can blend the two, and create the best of both worlds, but I don't like to begrudge a movie if it "realizes" it is trying to be an action-packed amusement ride, and not some deep story-driven show. I respect it when movies do that, and hate it when movies try to be something they "aren't".

Being from Taiwan you're probably familiar with Hong Kong action movies right? Movies like The Killer, A Better Tomorrow, Hard-Boiled, City on Fire etc., which have some of the best action ever filmed plus a deep, involving story. Or games like the Metal Gear Solid series which not only ooze with style but have mindblowingly good writing, fleshed out characters and emotionally involving plots (I just completed MGS3 for the first time last night - unbelievable game; I have a pretty bad case of the notorious post-game depression right now). These are the games that will be remembered 50 years from now, not the countless 90 minute entertainment fixes.

EDIT: What a coincidence me and wolfmaster both mentioned MGS. I agree it is a bit overrated but all of the games have an average score of 9.5 on IMDB and they are regarded as classics so I think it's only underrated by impatient douchebags that skip half the cutscenes and then complain about the story making no sense and the characters being goofy and weird.