A movie you hate that everyone else loves?

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The God's Must Be Crazy .

Gravity.

Brutal movie. Disobeys laws of physics, awful dialogue. Bleh.

Shawshank and or Fight Club.

These are actually pretty good movies, but what got me to hating them is the fact that when you ask any male under the age of 50 what their favorite movie is, 9 times out of 10 they'll name either one of these films.

Not anything about the quality of the movie making, but I remember hating a movie called Short Cuts that Robert Altman directed many years ago, largely just because it seemed every decent character ended up sc*****d in some major way, and every scummy character ended up OK.

I actually liked it a lot, but surprised nobody's mentioned Lost in Translation yet, as that seemed like a polarizing movie among my friends and family at the time. (I believe Sophia Coppola in general is one of those love her or hate her kind of directors?)

To correct myself, I see now Hokarunner did refer to Lost in Translation as a non-fav, just not by name.And, looking at Rottentomatoes, Short Cuts was rated 94% by critics. Forgot it was THAT well thought of.

CU Fan 13 wrote:

Not anything about the quality of the movie making, but I remember hating a movie called Short Cuts that Robert Altman directed many years ago, largely just because it seemed every decent character ended up sc*****d in some major way, and every scummy character ended up OK.

I actually liked it a lot, but surprised nobody's mentioned Lost in Translation yet, as that seemed like a polarizing movie among my friends and family at the time. (I believe Sophia Coppola in general is one of those love her or hate her kind of directors?)

game of thrones

Shrek

The Social Network

Nearly every Tarantino flick

Blazing Saddles

Glengarry Glen Ross

2001: A Space Odyssey

no country for old men is an awful awful movie

Rocky

The Shawshank Redemption.

Over-romanticized view of prison life. The last third of the film seems like they are at a summer camp. Don't think too much about them as murderers and "hardened" criminals. They mostly all develop hearts of gold. Great job of manipulation by the director, however.

Any movies with Tom Hanks in it.

The Graduate. The most overrated movie of all time, and there isn't really a close second.

Critical Thinking is pretty much on target. "The Graduate" is actually quite bad, and if you feel sorry for ANYONE in that movie, it should be Mrs. Robinson.

Hokarunner wrote:

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.

The first movie you are thinking of with Bill Murray is 'Lost in Translation' and the girl is Scarlett Johansson before she was really famous.

The second movie you are thinking of is 'The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou'. Ben Stiller is not in that ovie. You are thinking of the Wes Anderson film made right before it called 'The Royal Tenenbaus'

I am personally not a fan of any of those movies. In fact, I would go so far as to say that wes Anderson's films are without merit.

Raising Arizona

There was a similar thread like this one not too long ago, and I know "Breakfast at Tiffany's" was mentioned. Bluck. That movie should be universally hated if only for Mickey Rooney's awfaul, stereotyped characterization of the Japanese.

I'm going Disney here and saying "The Lion King." It was a Hamlet rip-off with animals in the jungle.

I like The Graduate, very much. You have to watch knowing the joke is on Benjamin and Elaine. They are destined to end up like their parents.

As Good as it Gets

Any Jim Carrey movie.