A movie you hate that everyone else loves?

dirty dancing

grease

sound of music

...i hate musicals.

American Hustle

the early Woody Allen comedies - they have not aged well at all

Big Fish. Glorifies an absent father.

agip wrote:

the early Woody Allen comedies - they have not aged well at all

Well we certainly know woody Allen does not like things that age at all.

Agreed. The Anchorman movies. Also Titanic.

Without limits

of course - what was I thinking.

The Chris Nolan batman movies. I really love movies...but those are crap. I do not understand the adulation people have for Nolan. Boring, dull, uninspired, poorly plotted, monotone, frustrating, overdirected, cliche ridden garbage.

but the production values are excellent.

Napoleon Dynamite is probably my favorite movie. I just think the characters are hillarious.

Movies I hate:

Field of Dreams

Avatar

All the superhero movie (Batman, Spiderman, the Avengers, Capt America, Ironman, Fan 4)

Shawshank Redemption

Seinfeld has a laugh track.

Toy story. All of them. I'm sorry.

Fight Club

Inception

Train spotting

Memento

Mulholland Drive

Inland Empire

Most everything else by David Lynch

Q Tarantino movies

Big Lebowski. Something is wrong with Jeff Bridge's mouth or jaw and I cannot stand to watch him. In lebowski he literally chews on a sip white russian for minutes. It is disgusting.

12 Years a Slave

Pan's Labyrinth

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Big Lebowski (Goodman's character is insufferable)

The Tree of Life

Nebraska

I would add "Inside Llewyn Davis" but I think only critics and not actual people liked it.

Scarface, it's a giant pile of crap that bros love

My big three:

Shawshank- It's an alright movie, but people praise it like Yahweh produced it, Jesus directed, and Buddha did the screenplay. The fandom and blind worship is off-putting.

The Departed- Not even in the same realm of Scorsese's best films. Doesn't really emphasize the classic Scorsese theme of humanizing awful people. The characters weren't really dynamic either.

A Clockwork Orange- I like a lot of Kubrick, but not this one. Hasn't aged well either.

That Bill Murray movie where he runs around Tokyo doing kayoke with some chick that is married to a photographer. I forgot what it's called but people seem to like it while I just don't get it.

Same thing with other recent Bill Murray movies. There's another one where is a submarine captain or something and another where is is part of a crazy family. I think Ben Stiller is in that one two.

Nebraska.

Tim Bits wrote:

Napoleon Dynamite is probably my favorite movie. I just think the characters are hillarious.

Movies I hate:

Field of Dreams

Avatar

All the superhero movie (Batman, Spiderman, the Avengers, Capt America, Ironman, Fan 4)

Shawshank Redemption

I was going to say "Shawshank Redemption," but apparently there actually is at least one other person who hates it.

There are many popular films that I dislike (including virtually all superhero films and the great majority of "action" films), but "Shawshank Redemption" seems almost universally loved by those who have chosen to express their views about the film in public. I really wanted to like the film, if only because I wanted to be able to agree with good-hearted people who adore it, but I simply haven't been able to give it an honest thumbs-up. I understand that some people claim that the film has some interesting elements, including an underlying ambiguity about the culpability of the main character Andy, but I suspect that they are seeing something in the underlying work by Stephen King rather than the movie itself, which doesn't seem much inclined to subtlety or ambiguity. (I find the voice-over narration especially annoying. Unlike, for example, Scorsese's use of voice-over narration in films like "Taxi Driver," "Goodfellas," and "Casino," the voice-over narration in "Shawshank" just seems ham-handed and lazy, spoon-feeding the audience about the characters and the plot.)