Waxy.org has a wonderful post about the Amazon.com Knee-Jerk Contrarian Game:

Here’s a fun game… First, look up the most popular and critically-acclaimed books, movies, and music on Amazon. Click on “Customer Reviews,” and sort them by “Lowest Rating First.” Hilarity ensues! It’s the Amazon.com Knee-Jerk Contrarian Game! [Waxy.org]

Some of the ones listed are hysterical. Here’s one as an example:

John Coltrane, “A Love Supreme”

• “Coltrane’s A Love Supreme is the most overhyped jazz album in history. It is music? Maybe. But I find it to be unlistenable, despite several efforts to find something good in it.”
• “The first number is torture if you like melodic music. There’s no connection between the phasing and the rhythm. Again, is this supposed to be clever?”
• “Nobody will care about the technical achievements of these guys in 100 years.”
• “I think about Kenny G., for instance. His rythmic session is much more regular, whereas Coltrane’s session seems sometimes to loose the beat.”

Here’s my contribution: West Side Story

• I left this movie with the feeling of fairness what i mean by this is this movie was obviously given toooooooo much credit and really deserved LITTLE.I felt this movie was a rip off of REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE.The knife fight sequence even the backround music that went with it,oh and casting natalie wood,as i was watching this movie,scences of REBEL kept flashing in my mind. i would have enjoyed this movie if it was ORGINAL!ENOUGH SAID!
• The singing [stinks] and the characters barely talk. It is about a…girl who cares more about her evil lover than her brother….. It’s a really terrible plot not worth spending to see
• There are several old movie musicals that hold up … this isn’t one! Some of the music is good, though enormously derivative, hence the one star. Two scenes have some life in them still: the ‘officer krupke’ song and ‘america’. Everything else is tedious, unreal, awful, sappy … and it’s full of 35-year-old ‘teenagers’, this movie needs a remake: with a changed ending, the loss of a few songs, better choreography (it’s so bad now … I don’t understand my memory of it being exciting, at the time it came out …), and more reality: a better re-creation of that time … the directors did not have an eye for their own time at all!