History YMMV / OutOfAfrica

* HypeBacklash: The film routinely makes it to the "top 5 most undeserved Best Pictures" lists.

* ValuesDissonance:
** Hard to imagine now; while not at all dismissive of the natives, the film (following the memoir) is still an elegy to African colonialism through the travails of an unfortunate European baroness and other dignified colonists.
** When it was released, it was celebrated as a great, adventurous romance and a fantastic story, with raving reviews and great box office results to match, showered with awards from all sides. Nowadays, it's seen as one of the blandest Best Picture Academy Award winners ''ever'', to the point where it is derided as a "soap opera win".

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The Oscar-winning score by Music/JohnBarry.

* ValuesDissonance: Hard to imagine now; while not at all dismissive of the natives, the film (following the memoir) is still an elegy to African colonialism through the travails of an unfortunate European baroness and other dignified colonists.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The Oscar winning score by Music/JohnBarry.

* ValuesDissonance: The film won the UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for Best Picture. Hard to imagine now: while not at all dismissive of the natives, the film (following the memoir) is still an elegy to African colonialism through the travails of an unfortunate European baroness and other dignified colonists.

* AwardSnub: The film received eleven UsefulNotesAcademyAward nominations and won seven, but Creator/RobertRedford wasn't nominated for Best Actor.

* EndingFatigue: The last half-hour has more goodbyes than most TV {{series final}}es.

* EndingFatigue: The last half-hour has more goodbyes than most TV [[SeriesFinale series finales]].

* ValuesDissonance: Thirty-five years ago Out of Africa won the Oscar for Best Picture. Hard to imagine now: while not at all dismissive of the natives, the film (following the memoir) is still an elegy to African colonialism through the travails of an unfortunate European baroness and other dignified colonists.

* ValuesDissonance: Thirty-five years ago Out of Africa won the Oscar for Best Picture. Hard to imagine now – the film (following the memoir) is an elegy to African colonialism through the travails of an unfortunate European baroness and other dignified colonists, with scarcely a thought for the people they colonised.

* EndingFatigue: The last half-hour has more goodbyes than most TV [[SeriesFinale series finales]].

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The Oscar winning score by JohnBarry.

* TearJerker: Karen's departure from Africa.

* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming:

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: The Oscar winning score by JohnBarry.
* TearJerker
** [[spoiler: Karen's departure from Africa.]]

* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming

When I asked my father if this movie was a terrible movie, he said "Let me put it this way: If you asked me if I wanted to watch it, I would say 'just shoot me'. First I thought I was going to die. Then I hoped I would die."

When I asked him what he thought of the fact that Tv Tropes compared Casablanca and Gone With The Wind with this movie, he said: "Gone With The Wind was an interesting movie, Casablanca was a great movie, Out of Africa was something Jack Bauer wouldn't do to his worst enemies. [[spoiler: If the Chinese had made Jack Bauer watch Out of Africa, he would have broken."]]