A movie you hate that everyone else loves?

Banjo wrote:

Silver Linings Playbook.

Totally stupid and unbelievable. Robert DeNiro must have really needed the work.

It was bad and gave runners a bad image, but JL running was nice to see.

Any Peter Jackson movie (Meet the Feebles, the other ones...)

Any Sam Raimi movie (Evil Dead, Spiderman, etc...)

My Dinner with Andre

Dead Poets Society

Platoon

Twins

clerks sucked. Low budget POS with stoner/slacker humor.

mallrats too

Mustang wrote:

Fight Club

Inception

Train spotting

Memento

Mulholland Drive

Inland Empire

Most everything else by David Lynch

Q Tarantino movies

Inland Empire in no way qualifies as a movie everyone loves.

Just curious: what are some of your favorite movies?

apocalypse now

bored me out of my freaking mind. literally the only movie i've watched that i've disliked - i'm really easy to please. this was just so hyped up so i was hoping it would be some super intense action-packed thriller but it was just so freaking boring

Size nine shoe wrote:

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.

Ah, shit. Now you've ruined my 6th watching of it.

im not ron burgundy wrote:

Anchorman

Or any other Will Farrell movie for that matter.

Juno.

kasjdfksajf wrote:

apocalypse now

bored me out of my freaking mind. literally the only movie i've watched that i've disliked - i'm really easy to please. this was just so hyped up so i was hoping it would be some super intense action-packed thriller but it was just so freaking boring

Apocalypse Now might be critically acclaimed, but it isn't universally loved. In fact, I don't know anyone that would name that movie as one of their favorites.

If you were expecting to see endless battle scenes then I'm sure it was disappointing. It is a brilliant movie with a deep message.

uioer wrote:

kasjdfksajf wrote:

apocalypse now

bored me out of my freaking mind. literally the only movie i've watched that i've disliked - i'm really easy to please. this was just so hyped up so i was hoping it would be some super intense action-packed thriller but it was just so freaking boring

Apocalypse Now might be critically acclaimed, but it isn't universally loved. In fact, I don't know anyone that would name that movie as one of their favorites.

nikeman wrote:

The Matrix

Dances with Wolves

Inception

The Big Lebowski

Pulp Fiction

any scene with Samuel L Jackson in it

said the man who dates 12 year olds

This...it's freaking horrible.

wasn't that funny wrote:

Big Lebowski.

kasjdfksajf wrote:

apocalypse now

bored me out of my freaking mind. literally the only movie i've watched that i've disliked - i'm really easy to please. this was just so hyped up so i was hoping it would be some super intense action-packed thriller but it was just so freaking boring

JFC

daneer naneer wrote:

Mustang wrote:

Fight Club

Inception

Train spotting

Memento

Mulholland Drive

Inland Empire

Most everything else by David Lynch

Q Tarantino movies

Inland Empire in no way qualifies as a movie everyone loves.

Just curious: what are some of your favorite movies?

daneer,

You’re right. A number of movie critics gave Inland Empire high scores, calling it one of the best movies of the decade, but it did poorly at the box office. Same could be said about Mulholland Drive and possibly Memento.

You can see from my list I’m not a fan of non-linear narrative styles.

Some of my favorites?

Count of Monte Cristo (2002 version with Caviezel)

No Way Out

Chinatown

Treasure of the Sierra Madre

A Face in the Crowd

On the Waterfront

Truman Show

Most Hitchcock movies

I also liked Shawshank and Big Lebowski.

The comments about Shawshank and Lebowski are interesting, everyone seems to love or hate them.

A Girl with a Dragon Tattoo - saw the Swedish version. I admit I have not read the books. The Vanger mystery seemed way too complicated and confusing. Too many characters & the movie went along too fast to allow you time to learn about each character. Probably it was a book first. I've heard the American version is much better.

Trollhunter - blah, My wife liked it & she normally hates Scandinavian movies (minus Teddy Bear & Headhunters)

Star Wars - Great movie for it's time. But why are people still watching it?

*probably because it was a book first

Crash, The English Patient, Napoleon Dynamite, Old School