Call it overrated if you want, it's definitely a bonafide classic

I, for one, respect Fight Club (1999). One of my favorite movie of all time.

Highly rewatchable is a gpod sign of a classic. This definitely is that.

It's worth a watch only once, but once you find out the whole thing was nothing more than a dream in Edwaard Norton's head, then that's pretty much it for me

It always came across to me as one of those cult movies that, over time, just got way too popular for its own good. Back when everyone first watched it, I think people (those who weren't horrified by it, which for some reason they were) were really surprised at how good and clever it was. From the title and the little information given in the trailers, at first glance, it just looked like some sort of mindless fighting movie or something. And while Fincher was already established as a good director at the time, his name wasn't quite what it later became, I don't think, so (aside from some film buffs) most weren't having huge expectations on that front either.

Now that it's become so famous and revered, though, people seem to walk into it almost as if it's obligated to blow them away; and, if it doesn't, they get angry at the fact that it's been built up so much. Even when they don't know anything about it, they figure there must be something special to it, and that kind of thinking really sets the stage for disappointment a lot of the time.

Not to mention, the twist in the film has, since then, been done to death to the point where "maybe they're the same people" has, for years, been the go-to "theory" for every weird movie or show anyone watches. So that probably makes the film come off more predictable than it otherwise used to. Also (largely due to Fight Club) many go in already having been familiarized with Chuck Palahniuk and have expectations due to that, as well.

I dunno. I just think once a film or TV series gets popular, it just loses its magic in a whole variety of ways. It's a bit of a double-edged sword.