Movies you love but everyone else seems to hate

[garygnu]

Let's have the flip side to this thread (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=372468).

I like Robin Hood Prince of Thieves.
There, I said it.

[pinkfreud]

I recently saw Stealth, and it wasn't half bad. Well, maybe half. But I didn't find it to be the horrendous stinker that folks had told me it was.

My husband is very fond of Howard the Duck and Hudson Hawk. He is weird in other ways, too, but I love him.

[Hogwash]

eXistenZ.

Written like this: one word. Small "e". Capital 'X'...capital 'Z'. It's new. It's from Antenna Research.

[bubastis]

Unbreakable. I've never met anyone who likes it. I was spellbound by it, maybe I just caught it on a day where I wanted to sink into a movie like this. If I watched it on a sugar-rush-I-want-an-action-movie day, I probably would have hated it too. The only problem I have with this movie is the same problem I had with Sixth Sense... It feels like the pilot for a TV show. I also loved Signs, too. Hated the Village, though, before anyone thinks I AM M.Night Shyamalan.

[saoirse]

Harry & Walter Go to New York Honest.



I'm Harry
I'm Walter
It's wonderful to be here.
We guarantee to put a smile on every face we see here
He's Walter
He's Harry
The billing Doesn't matter
A team
A set
A Pair
I'm the former
I'm the latter
We sing we dance
Wear baggy pants
And a million disguises
Light of foot
And slight of hand
Full of surprises!

See?

[Dr. Rieux]

Zardoz
Exorcist II: The Heretic
The Screaming Skull
Dances With Wolves
Batman Returns
City of Angels
What Dreams May Come
Primary Colors
Legends of the Fall
Magnolia
The Mission
Out of Africa
Return to Oz
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Tommy
Alexander
Kingdom of Heaven
Cat Pople (1982)
Conan the Destoyer
Deep Impact
The Godfather, Part III
I Heart Huckabees
Logan's Run
Futureworld
Nomads
Patch Adams
Sahara (2005)
Solaris (2002)
Sphere
Star Trek: INsurrectio
Stuart Saves His Family
Titanic
The Towering Inferno
Young Guns I & II

[pinkfreud]

Gee, I like almost all the movies that y'all have mentioned. Am I easy to please or what?

[Least Original User Name Ever]

I recently saw Stealth, and it wasn't half bad. Well, maybe half. But I didn't find it to be the horrendous stinker that folks had told me it was.

My husband is very fond of Howard the Duck and Hudson Hawk. He is weird in other ways, too, but I love him.


Your husband has my stamp of approval with Howard the Duck. That's a GREAT movie!!!

If he likes Mean Guns, we may have issues. I lurve me that movie. It's so bad, it's great.

[blinkingblinking]

Zardoz
Exorcist II: The Heretic
The Screaming Skull
Dances With Wolves
Batman Returns
City of Angels
What Dreams May Come
Primary Colors
Legends of the Fall
Magnolia
The Mission
Out of Africa
Return to Oz
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Tommy
Alexander
Kingdom of Heaven
Cat Pople (1982)
Conan the Destoyer
Deep Impact
The Godfather, Part III
I Heart Huckabees
Logan's Run
Futureworld
Nomads
Patch Adams
Sahara (2005)
Solaris (2002)
Sphere
Star Trek: INsurrectio
Stuart Saves His Family
Titanic
The Towering Inferno
Young Guns I & II

I quite like a lot of those movies and many of them are very popular including Batman Returns, Dances with Wolves(Imdb rating of 7.8/10),Out of Africa. You are including Oscar winners for Best Picture as Movies everyone else hates? his makes no sense.

[Hey, It's That Guy!]

I like Hudson Hawk, Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai, Starship Troopers, Clay Pigeons, The 13th Floor, Mystery Men, Payback, and Last Man Standing, none of which are terribly popular outside of the geekiest geek circles.

[Podkayne]

My husband and I like lots of movies that nobody else likes.

I don't understand the hate for Toys. It's so gorgeously strange.

Hudson Hawk is a riot. I think 90% of the reason that people hate it is that they are expecting one thing (Bruce Willis action movie) and get something completely . . . undescribable.

We've roped a few people into watching Our Man Flint and In Like Flint, Sixties super-spy parodies. They feature James Coburn as a secret agent—just like Hudson Hawk, come to think of it! In Hudson Hawk, he strangles people bare-handed in Rome. In In Like Flint, he speaks the dolphin language. Or maybe the dolphin thing was in Our Man Flint . . . Either way, what's not to love? Yet, of all the unfortunates who have been subjected to the Flint movies, only my mom found them funny. (The apple, she does not fall far from the tree.)

We also liked Signs, although when I try to defend it, I suddenly feel like lissener, so I usually just break off in mid-sentence and say, "nevermindletsagreetodisagree."

[blinkingblinking]

My answer to the OP.

I liked Hudson Hawk. I like Bruse Willis. I was always kind of surprised that people who like Bruce do not like this movie. It is typical Bruce Willis. I think he co-wrote it or produced it or something. It was his baby and he tried for years to get it on screen.

I also liked Last Action Hero with Arnie. I thought this was a typical Arnie movie with the twist of Arnie sending himself up. Again I was surprised that Arnie fans did not like this movie.

My two choices here probably make my movie going look low brow, but I like many kinds of movies. My alltime favourite movies are Casablanca, Cyrano de Bergerac, Wild Strawberries and Cinema Paradiso.

[Otanx]

2001 A Space Odysey

I love it. Everyone else I talk to says it is too slow.

Red Dawn

Yep, crappy movie, crappy acting, but I like it anyway.

M by Fritz Lang This is a classic, but I don't know anyone else that enjoys it.

I could come up with a few more, but too early in the morning for me to be thinking.

-Otanx

[divemaster]

I don't guess a lot of people hate The Hudsucker Proxy, but most consider it way down the list of Coen Bros. movies. But that's my favorite!

I also thought The Last Action Hero was a lot of fun, but it seems to have been universally panned.

There are a lot of people who really like Starship Troopers (the book) and a lot who like Starship Troopers (the movie), but usually not both. I loved both.

[Push You Down]

I have thoroughly enjoyed every Shamalan (I know I spelled that wrong) movie. In fact I find most critiques of his movies to be beyond petty. They're not flawless by any means, but when poeple start whining about his twists being foreshadowed (where if they weren't foreshadowed he'd be clambasted for pulling them out of his ass) and picking apart little issues I just tune those people out.

[Push You Down]

I also thought The Last Action Hero was a lot of fun, but it seems to have been universally panned.




I just say this again recently.... I still like it. It's a parody of movie culture and violence. I think part of it borders on genius... When a cartoon cat detective shows up and no one bats an eye, that's fucking awesome. Its funny from a culture stand point because its a genre that doesn't really exist anymore.

[Talon Karrde]

I don't guess a lot of people hate The Hudsucker Proxy, but most consider it way down the list of Coen Bros. movies. But that's my favorite!
It's not my favorite of theirs, but it's one of theirs. I also really liked their version of Ladykillers.

[Viridiana]

I love Howard the Duck! I don't think it counts anyway because it's a cult classic.

Now, The Substitute, I have not gotten one other person to admit liking. Don't ask me why I like it, I just do. :D

[FilmGeek]

Sister Act, II. Yes, the second one.

[Nic2004]

I have all ways liked Real Men (http://http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093828/) with James Belusi and John Ritter. It is such a sublime parody of the spy guy type macho thing that I think many miss it. As far as I can tell, I may be the only one to have ever seen it. ;)

[SkipMagic]

I have all ways liked Real Men (http://http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093828/) with James Belusi and John Ritter. It is such a sublime parody of the spy guy type macho thing that I think many miss it. As far as I can tell, I may be the only one to have ever seen it. ;)
It used to be an HBO daytime staple. I enjoyed it (although, admittedly, the last time I saw it was when I was in high school), and was amused by Belusi's eventual love interest.

And I, too, liked Unbreakable. Takes an interesting and, to some degree, a more realistic view of what it'd mean to be a superhero. (The end was kinda silly, but eh.)

[Homebrew]

I didn't know people hate Stuart Saves His Family. Well then, they're wrong. It's a good glick. Maybe not high art; but it is funny and sweet.

[Ludovic]

Alien: Resurrection. Well, I wouldn't go so far as to say I love it, but it certainly is leagues ahead of Alien: 3 (may God forever curse its name.) It successfully serves up philosophical questions and action at the same time, and slightly less heavy-handedly than The Matrix. (Plus it has Winona Ryder and a proto-Firefly Betty (the best name for a ship in fiction, ever.))

[saoirse]

Red Dawn

Yep, crappy movie, crappy acting, but I like it anyway.

There are lots of movies mentioned here that I like, but this is perhaps the most misunderstood. It's freqequently derided as being right-wing propaganda, but if you're paying attention, you see it's actually very left wing.

[DxZero]

There are lots of movies mentioned here that I like, but this is perhaps the most misunderstood. It's freqequently derided as being right-wing propaganda, but if you're paying attention, you see it's actually very left wing.

Well the director, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Milius , is pretty well known right-winger (despite the fact he calls himself a Zen Anarchist) if there was anything left-wing going on in that movie, it was probably unintentional.

That being said, I did enjoy it quite a bit. Just had to turn my brain off a little.

[supervenusfreak]

I am definitely with Podkayne on Toys(one of my favorite moives to watch on Christmas), and with Filmgeek on Sister Act 2 (especially the concert sequence!).

My choice? Connie and Carla. I absolutely love this movie. It is improbable, implausible, and I enjoy it very much!

[WarmNPrickly]

I agree with Unbreakable. I don't know why everyone pans it. I actually like most of the Kevin Costner Sci-Fi stuff. I know he make William Shatner look like Marlyn Brando but its Sci-Fi so I take what I can get.

[drm]

Robin Hood Prince of Theives is on my list too. There's part of me that respects Kevin Costner because he didn't even attempt to do an accent (lets be realistic here, the original Robin Hood, if he in fact existed, would not speak with a present day british accent anyhow).

Meet the Deedles (no, not Feebles). Two privileged surfers from Hawaii spend a summer in Yellowstone National Park pretending to be rangers who are trying to solve a prairie dog problem created by a man who is trying to get them (the p dogs) to dig a new geyser to create his own (bad guy) theme park. I ask you, waht's not to like?

[saoirse]

Well the director, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Milius , is pretty well known right-winger (despite the fact he calls himself a Zen Anarchist) if there was anything left-wing going on in that movie, it was probably unintentional.

That being said, I did enjoy it quite a bit. Just had to turn my brain off a little.

Well, assuming that the heroes are justified in what they're doing, I don't know how else to take the fact that they are explicitly compared to the Sandinistas and the Salvadoran FMLN. They even commit their own atrocity (okay, sort of) and have to answer the question, "What makes us different from them?"

[saoirse]

Robin Hood Prince of Theives is on my list too. There's part of me that respects Kevin Costner because he didn't even attempt to do an accent (lets be realistic here, the original Robin Hood, if he in fact existed, would not speak with a present day british accent anyhow).

I hated this movie, but I'm glad you made that point. I believe they used the Saxon/Norman angle for the story. In that case, he should have been speaking with a vaguely German accent, or in a Saxon dialect with subtitles.

[DxZero]

Well, assuming that the heroes are justified in what they're doing, I don't know how else to take the fact that they are explicitly compared to the Sandinistas and the Salvadoran FMLN. They even commit their own atrocity (okay, sort of) and have to answer the question, "What makes us different from them?"

Fair enough.

And after looking at all the films he's worked on, especially as a writer, its probably not fair to pin him down to one idealogy, at a least as far as movies go.

[Ranchoth]

I not only liked Burton's Planet of the Apes and the Star Wars prequels, but I thought the originals really weren't that great, by themselves, to begin with.

[Campion]

Drop Dead Fred (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101775/). It's just plain goofy and childish -- makes me laugh every time.

[Monstre]

Alien: Resurrection. Well, I wouldn't go so far as to say I love it, but it certainly is leagues ahead of Alien: 3 (may God forever curse its name.)
I'm with you on this one. I wouldn't put it in the most loved movie category for me, either -- but I liked it. And it's definitely way better than the Alien3 stinkfest.

For silly humor, I remember hearing that people were walking out of the theater when Ace Ventura 2: When Nature Calls came out. But I liked it -- better than the first one, as well. Especially the scene when he gets hit with the poison darts. (I can always crack up a couple of friends mimicking that scene... ;))

I also thought Last Action Hero was a pretty clever one -- Ah-nold doing a good job of ripping on himself. I liked it.

[pokey]

I didn't know people hate Stuart Saves His Family. Well then, they're wrong. It's a good glick. Maybe not high art; but it is funny and sweet.
I just love that movie. I think it got written off because it really should suck a lot more than it eventually does. It probably would have been fine if it stood on its own without the whole "movie based on an SNL sketch you're tired of" stigma. It was more a movie that only a small audience would ever really like but it's good for what it is. It's very Frankeny.

[cainxinth]

I liked The Core the first time I saw it... a second watching on cable and I realized it was as bad as everyone said it was.

[Kythereia]

I love these movies, too.

And after all, movies are supposed to be entertainment. Some entertainment is better done than the rest, but if it's entertained you, really, that's all that matters.

My personal vote goes to A Knight's Tale.

[Diogenes the Cynic]

I find Caligula fascinating. I used to own it on video. The porn scene are boring, though.

[Sublight]

Jingle All The Way. Arnie does a great job of parodying himself as a well-meaning neighborhood loser, Phil Hartman as the superdad who's actually a creep, and Sinbad as the postal worker on the edge of snapping.

It's up there with Better Off Dead on my chart.

[MrDibble]

I not only liked Burton's Planet of the Apes <snip>, but I thought the originals really weren't that great, by themselves, to begin with.

Amen - I would re-watch Burton's version a hundred times in a row rather than watch the original again.

I really like Hudson Hawk, too. I don't think I've ever seen Bruce and not liked him (and therefore, usually the film, too. Well, except Armageddon).

Bad science aside, I really liked the Day After Tomorrow. I have no idea why.
I also really liked Soldier.
And Reign of Fire.

[ambushed]

Well, assuming that the heroes are justified in what they're doing, I don't know how else to take the fact that they are explicitly compared to the Sandinistas and the Salvadoran FMLN. They even commit their own atrocity (okay, sort of) and have to answer the question, "What makes us different from them?"Whoa, there! They commit an atrocity and that makes them leftists???

[kittenblue]

I really like Buster (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094819/) with Phil Collins. I missed seeing it in the theater because it lasted maybe a week, so I had to wait for it to come out on video. I've never heard of anyone else who has even heard of it.

Oh, and The Truth About Cats and Dogs, and The Bank, which I saw at the Cleveland Film Festival a few years back....Anthony LaPaglia is the villain, and this was before his series on TV.

[Kamino Neko]

Ignoring flicks that I love watching for the 'OMG, that's so horrible!' factor...

Seconding Howard the Duck and Burton's Planet of the Apes.

I also liked the second and third Matrix movies.

I liked the first D&D movie.

[The Big Cheese]

Waterworld with Costner. I liked it, most hated it, and it gets shit for being too expensive to make, but it's a good movie.

[Long Time First Time]

Kingpin

[jali]

I like many of the movies previously mentioned.

Unbreakable
A Knight's Tale
Buckaroo Banzai ("laugh-a now a- monkey-boy", 'wherever you go... there you are")
The Last Action Hero
Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves

I'll add a few more:

Space Camp - love this movie!
Space Truckers - just campy enough for me.
A Walk In The Clouds - really sweet story.
The Fifth Element - Fav scenes: the food cart outside his apartment and the singer's performance.
What A Girl Wants - I know it's just for teenyboppers so maybe I'm a teenybopper on the inside.

[Zsofia]

Every time I flip past Independence Day I end up watching it again. Yeah, it's silly, but I just love it!

[Dewey Finn]

The Fifth Element - Fav scenes: the food cart outside his apartment and the singer's performance.
I loved this movie. The way that the future New York City was portrayed, the comedy and Milla Jovovich's costume. It was great. I bought the DVD.

[Gangster Octopus]

I LOVE Anchorman. I know I am not alone, but there seems to be a lot more people who find it horrible.

[kelly5078]

Dune seems to be badly regarded, but my wife and I love it. And another vote for The Fifth Element, although the Ruby Rhod character grates.

[RealityChuck]

Another vote for The Last Action Hero
Ishtar
A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy -- Very misunderstood, but for a reason: people thought it was supposed to be a comedy. It's actually a tragedy.
[b]Tommy[b/] -- in the so bad it's great; Russell's humorless approach and complete lack of understanding makes it great comedy.

[Wee Bairn]

One should never be ashamed of liking Hudsucker Proxy. It is IMO one of the very best Coen films. I sometimes use this or Mystery Men as a litmus test when meeting new people- if they like these two films, I know they are probably cool to be around. HP is so full of good moments/lines-

"I don't think they hired me because they thought I was a schmo"
"44 (floors) not counting the mezzanine"
(hula hoop) "brings people together, even though it keeps them apart, spatially"
"you know, for kids"

[saoirse]

Whoa, there! They commit an atrocity and that makes them leftists???

No, but at the time the movie came out, there were news reports of left-wing atrocities (as well as the right-wing ones) being committed in Latin America. I thought that the justification they offered basically established a double standard between a native insurgency and an foreign army, very much in the insurgency's favor.

[Monstre]

The Fifth Element - Fav scenes: the food cart outside his apartment and the singer's performance.
Is this one that everybody hates? I don't know -- I haven't really heard lots of consensus about it either way.

In any event, it left me rather unimpressed the first time I watched it. I think I expected it to be something else. It seemed kind of goofy at the time.

Upon repeat viewings, I noticed more about how it was put together than I did before. And it grew on me, as I found more things in it to appreciate. I really like it, now. :)

[Biffy the Elephant Shrew]

Yeah, I thought Fifth Element was very well liked. I luuurve it myself, including the Prince Ruby Rhod character.

[Push You Down]

Red Dawn being one of my favorite movies.. I am hard pressed to remember.. When do the Wolverines ever commit something that could be called an atrocity?

[Push You Down]

Oh... do you mean when they kill the mayor's kid who has been spying on them?

[saoirse]

Oh... do you mean when they kill the mayor's kid who has been spying on them?

That's the one. That was a little bit of anti-intellectualism. The mayor's kid was a smart guy, President of the Student Council, and all. Our heroes were football players, led by the Quarterback, of course.

[Push You Down]

The kid was a spy!
I think it had as much to do with class as it did with anti-intellectualism. He's the rich preppy kid whose dad is the mayor. Where clearly the other characters are lower to middle class.

And really only Swayze was a jock. The other kids were just kids. Swayze and Sheen's dad just taught them how to hunt and live off the land, making them a bit more prepared then the others.

Originally the story was more Lord of the Flies with really the only remaining aspect of that in the finished product is C Thomas Howell's character. He goes from naive first time hunter to cold blooded freedom fighter who ultimately sacrifices himself for no gain.

[Anaamika]

I didn't know some of these were hated! Count me in as liking:

Matrix 2 & 3
Alien 4
Ace Ventura 2
Planet of the Apes (this was hated?)
The first D&D...didn't love it, but it wasn't as bad as they said.
Kingpin (another :confused: )
Fifth Element

[Tracy Lord]

Branagh's "Love's Labour's Lost" from a few years ago, the one he reimagined as a 1930's musical. I thought it was a perfect concept for the play (which itself is silly, over-the-top, and spends as much time on verbal dexterity as it does plot or even characterization), and the execution was delightful.

[Ludovic]

D+D, paradoxically to me, is not only one of the worst movies I've ever seen, but is also under-rated (which should put my estimation of others' opinions of it right around that of Manos, Hands of Fate.) It's graphics were pretty good for the time period, although since eclisped.

Give me the ROD!

[tashikitten]

Get Crazy. I try to watch it every New Year's Eve. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085551/

Starship Troopers is a guilty pleasure.

Hysterical, starring such luminaries as the Hudson Brothers, Julie Newmar and Richard Kiel. I bought this one on DVD as soon as it was released. I know it's awful, but I laugh out loud adore it.

[gonzomax]

I liked Heavens Gate except for the worst move you can make in a movie. kris kristoferson.This guy shouldnt even be allowed to watch a movie. But the movie was beautiful and interesting to me. Like Howard the Duck ,Original Little shop of Horrors. Fifth Element, Dune and Tremors, Arachniphobia, 8 legged freaks.

[jsgoddess]

"you know, for kids"

I was in a meeting once and I was doodling on a notebook. Someone asked me what I was drawing and I flipped the page to a big circle and said, "You know, for kids." No one had a clue, but no one seemed to want to admit they didn't have a clue. It was a brilliant moment.

And then I started laughing and ruined it.

[gonzomax]

Forgot Repo Man

[Drake Tungsten]

I don't know why, but Reign of Fire is inexplicably one of my favorite action movies and Matthew McConaughey play the coolest-looking action hero ever.

[jsgoddess]

Forgot Repo Man

Let's go get sushi and not pay!

[lissener]

I just say this again recently.... I still like it. It's a parody of movie culture and violence. I think part of it borders on genius... When a cartoon cat detective shows up and no one bats an eye, that's fucking awesome. Its funny from a culture stand point because its a genre that doesn't really exist anymore.
The Last Action Hero is a brilliant, brilliant movie that never takes a wrong step. One of my very favorite "overlooked" movies, along with My Giant and Made in Heaven.

[ACC_Expat]

I do not mean to insinuate that my choice is a flawless flick (indeed the reason I love watching and talking about it is because of its flaws and "could have beens"), but darn it, I'm fond of Attack of the Clones.

[KJ]

I'm one of th 50% that enjoyed Napoleon Dynamite. It's not a riotus comedy, and some parts of it are even kind of depressing, but it captured the "small Mormon town in the middle of nowhere" feeling perfectly.

I'll second:
Return to Oz: A Bad Movie, but one that's fun to watch.
Titanic
Toys
The Star Wars prequels*
The Matrix sequels*
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
Mystery Men

*a 50/50 mixture of really awesome parts and really lame dialogue.

I also like:
Tomb Raider (18% on Rotten Tomatoes)
The second Austin Powers movie (but not the third one)
Nothing but Trouble (13% on Rotten Tomatoes, but one of my favorite movies. It's so quirky and weird, with so many great quotes.)
The Brady Bunch movie, and A Very Brady Sequel (which got 38% on Rotten Tomatoes)
Coneheads (26% on Rotten Tomatoes)

And finally, my deepest, darkest secret that I never share with anybody, a movie that got 0% on Rotten Tomatoes and which is universally hated by every Doper who has mentioned it:
It's Pat. The movie.
I'm serious. I don't care what anyone says, I laugh every time I see that movie.

[gonzomax]

And Eddie and The Crusers and Streets of Fire

[Linty Fresh]

I LOVE Anchorman. I know I am not alone, but there seems to be a lot more people who find it horrible.

Oooh, seconded! Mrs. Fresh and I quote from this movie constantly. She says that I'm quite the dullard, and I call her a smelly pirate hooker. Then I ask her if she got her clothes at the toilet store. The winter nights just fly by.

My own choices?

I love McHale's Navy with Tom Arnold and The Pest. They're just so wonderfully goofy.

I'm not sure if I should include Straight To Hell, because I don't think enough people have seen it to make it widely hated.

I'm happy to say that I used to include Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in this category, but it was on IFC about a month back, and I could not even get through it, the movie sucked so badly. Needless to say, I was tremendously relieved.

[GargoyleWB]

The Pirate Movie
The Cutting Edge
Ice Pirates

I have no shame :)

[jsgoddess]

One of my very favorite "overlooked" movies, along with My Giant

The one with Gheorghe Muresan? God, did I ever bawl at that movie. Right there. In the theater. Hysterical sobs. It had been a long day.

I've never dared watch it again, though my husband tried to reassure me that it was okay and that Gheorghe Muresan didn't really have giantism so he wasn't going to die!

Not one of my finer moments.

[Mirror Image egamI rorriM]

I love National Treasure, and all of M. Night Shyamalan's stuff. I'm excited about seeing his new movie, even though I have no idea what it's about, really.

[Anaamika]

I'll second:
Return to Oz: A Bad Movie, but one that's fun to watch.
The Star Wars prequels*

The second Austin Powers movie (but not the third one)

You can add me to these, too. I love Return to Oz. I like it better than the first one. I don't love the Star Wars prequels, but there's lots of good parts, and plus it's Ewan McGregor and Liam Neeson and how could I not love them.

I also like the 2nd Austin Powers. The third one, they changed his whole personality and added a stoopid villain. He should have had sex with what's her name. They went and got...i dunno, cowardly. And I wanted to kill the Dutchman. Sorry, gum. But you should be angry, too. :)

Oh yeah....she let her subscription lapse, didn't she? Oh well.

[saoirse]

The kid was a spy!
I think it had as much to do with class as it did with anti-intellectualism. He's the rich preppy kid whose dad is the mayor. Where clearly the other characters are lower to middle class.

And really only Swayze was a jock. The other kids were just kids. Swayze and Sheen's dad just taught them how to hunt and live off the land, making them a bit more prepared then the others.

Originally the story was more Lord of the Flies with really the only remaining aspect of that in the finished product is C Thomas Howell's character. He goes from naive first time hunter to cold blooded freedom fighter who ultimately sacrifices himself for no gain.

But why was that guy the spy? It's not that he didn't deserve it in the context of the movie, it's why the movie set that particular situation up that way. You're right about the class angle, though. That was definitely there, but bear in mind that class often (but not always ��—see It Happened One Night) used as a stalking horse for anti-intellectualism.
Actually, now that you mention it, I'm wondering if there isn't a streak of Maoism in it. I'll have to hunt down a copy and watch it again.

[Ranchoth]

Another one from me...the G.I. Joe movie. (The animated one, that is.)

And I actually liked the "Cobra-La" idea...I dunno, for an organization like Cobra and it's leaders, it's secret origin had to be a bit wild and over-the-top, in my book.

[Hey, It's That Guy!]

National Treasure was awesome, as were The Mummy, The Mummy Returns, and especially The Librarian: Quest For the Spear!

[Tracy Lord]

Oooh, National Treasure! I loved that one! I thought it was a perfect example of a "smart" action movie -- none of the characters were stupider than they should have been (even the FBI guys were completely on top of things), they all had their own agendas even when they were working together, the whole script was very deftly done. Plus shit blew up and the hero and heroine fell for each others' brains. Good choice!

[congodwarf]

I also like Caligula and agree that the porn bits were boring.




I think I've admitted this once before




Leonard Part 6

[Freudian_Slip]

Anchorman was pretty funny, IMHO. I could see how it would be irritating to some, though.

The partner Slip salivates over Dune - it is pretty breathtaking from a cinematographic perspective.

The Cell. Lousy plot, creepy, J to the LO. But eye candy? You betcha. Watched it two times in a row on a long flight :D

Not sure if I LOVED Ishtar, but finally saw it the other night. It wasn't nearly the steaming pile that people made it out to be when it first came out - I've seen far worse!

Xanadu, Phantom of the Paradise, Can't Stop the Music (although they've achieved cult status, so I guess I'm safe? :rolleyes: )

One more - The Apple. For those who are fans of "bad musicals", this is the musical for you. Set in 1994, done in 1980, lots of prism tape, and a plot that gets stranger and stranger. The day they released it on DVD was a VERY happy day in the Slip household. The night I saw it at the mightnight show on the big screen was indescribable :D .

[Hamadryad]

Loved "The Last Action Hero." It's my opinion (OPINION) that people who didn't like it were trying to watch it as an action movie/fantasy, but it was actually parody pretty much from beginning to end. Arnold and the kid driving away from a chase scene, and then, through their rear window, watching a car fly up a ramp and explode (and being able to figure what the camera angle would be if I were just watching THAT movie) and the kid and Arnold casually conversing. I dunno; made me laugh my balls off. (Ovaries out?)

There's this movie called "Kuffs." It has Christian Slater, Bruce Boxleitner, Milla Jovovich ... Hubman and I find it fucking hilarious. I have yet to meet another human being who a) has seen it and b) liked it.

[BadBadger]

I too like quite a few of those mentioned so far. I would also add Fantastic Four to the mix. I have a dvd rental service and generally pop them into the out tray at work. Someone asked me what I was watching last night (dvd in tray was a giveaway). I said Deadwood episodes. It was in fact Doom. And I enjoyed it. :o

How about A Knights Tale with Heath ledger? I absolutely love that film. Does that qualify?

[Edward The Head]

But why was that guy the spy?

IIRC wasn't it because he had gone back to town, gotten caught and they made him swallow a bug so he would lead them back to the others? Why he couldn't have either said something or not gone back for a few days I don't know.

I liked National Treasure, it was a fun movie. I also like Freddy Got Fingered, at least I think that's the name of the Tom Green movie that everyone hates, I think I laughed through the whole thing.

[saoirse]

IIRC wasn't it because he had gone back to town, gotten caught and they made him swallow a bug so he would lead them back to the others? Why he couldn't have either said something or not gone back for a few days I don't know.

I was actually talking about the reason the scriptwriter decided to make the spy and the smart guy the same person.

[Push You Down]

But that kid isn't presentd as "the smart guy" he's given very little characterization at all. And what little he gets is "preppy kid" not "the smart kid."

[mrklutz]

There's this movie called "Kuffs." It has Christian Slater, Bruce Boxleitner, Milla Jovovich ... Hubman and I find it fucking hilarious. I have yet to meet another human being who a) has seen it and b) liked it.
My favorite bit in that movie was the "okay, we've established that you can add and he can subtract" line in the standoff.

[MrDibble]

This post in another thread
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=7424977&postcount=10
reminded me of another - I really, really like Aeon Flux, from the styling to the acting. I could give a flying stuff for the cartoon, though...

[Knorf]

Not sure whether I love it, but I did very much like Eyes Wide Shut. In lists of hated or walked out of or most overrated movies, this movie is ubiquitous.

I thought Unbreakable was pretty great, too.

And Hudsucker Proxy is one of my favorite Coen brothers films.

[Lemur866]

I think some people are cheating a bit.

Unbreakable, The Hudsucker Proxy, Buckaroo Banzai, The Fifth Element and some of these other quirky comedies are not universally hated movies, nor even particularly disliked movies. Likewise, decent movies that nevertheless don't live up to their hype, like the Star Wars prequels, don't belong either. Of course you can find people who dislike any movie, and no movie will appeal to everyone.

I mean, you could say you liked Citizen Kane, and justify it because all your stoner friends thought it sucked, but does that really belong on a list of "Movies you love but everyone else seems to hate"?

[jsgoddess]

Of course you can find people who dislike any movie, and no movie will appeal to everyone.

That's true. How about from the list of IMDb's Bottom 100 (http://imdb.com/chart/bottom). Anyone love any of these movies?

(I've never seen any of them.)

[Webner]

Waterworld with Costner. I liked it, most hated it, and it gets shit for being too expensive to make, but it's a good movie.

Seconded. I think this movie is fascinating. I love the depictions of how humans would survive stranded on the sea, the different societies they make, the way they use old things. There are a few corny moments, but overall it is well made. Some sets, like the "Smoker" boat and the peaceful village are awesome.

[Push You Down]

From the bottom 100

House of the Dead (2003)
Leonard Part 6 (1987)
The Garbage Pail Kids Movie (1987)
Rhinestone (1984)

Are four very beloved movies of mine.

[eTard]

I know I'm going to take some heat for this... however let me first say that I'm in agreement with the majority of the movies mentioned here. Everyone should have a little "cheese" once in a while.

I'm SHOCKED that I read through this whole thread and am the first person to mention the greatest movie of all time... Orgazmo. A movie that combines the most outrageous aspects of the Porn Industry, Mormonism, and Comic Book Superheroes?? What's not to love!!??

And sign me up for Hudson Hawk, Better Off Dead... and add Angus.

[Dr. Rieux]

I'll see your Waterworld and raise you The Postman (Of course, I've never read the book).
And how could I forget the funniest comedy of the '60s, Casino Royale?

[Dr. Rieux]

I quite like a lot of those movies and many of them are very popular including Batman Returns, Dances with Wolves(Imdb rating of 7.8/10),Out of Africa. You are including Oscar winners for Best Picture as Movies everyone else hates? his makes no sense.
A lot of people say that BR is wose than the first Burton Batman--IMHO, it's much better. (Jack Nicholson wasn't around to steal the movie from Batman.)
I've seen a lot of hate expressd toward DWW, mostly from the anti-Costner folks.
In the past, on this board, some of the more uptight PC types have expressed hatred toward Out of Africa on political as well as artistic grounds.

[Push You Down]

I'll see your Waterworld and raise you The Postman (Of course, I've never read the book).



I like Waterworld....But I really LOVE The Postman.

[Homebrew]

That's true. How about from the list of IMDb's Bottom 100 (http://imdb.com/chart/bottom). Anyone love any of these movies?

(I've never seen any of them.)
19. 2.0 Son of the Mask (2005)

I think this movie is unfairly panned. I can't say I loved it; but I did find it mildly entertaining.

[Dewey Finn]

And sign me up for Hudson Hawk, Better Off Dead... and add Angus.
Yes, but this is supposed to be about movies everyone else seems to hate, and who, aside from a barbarian, could hate Better Off Dead? It's one of Savage Steve Holland's best three films.

[Push You Down]

Those three are of course "Better Off Dead" "One Crazy Summer" and "How I Got Into College"...

[YaWanna]

That's true. How about from the list of IMDb's Bottom 100 (http://imdb.com/chart/bottom). Anyone love any of these movies?

(I've never seen any of them.)

(Me, either.)

My pick would be Joe versus the Volcano. And, no, it's not because of Tom Hanks & Meg Ryan; or should I say, I'm not one of those sappy people that would like anything they are in together. I just find that movie hysterically funny & quotable.

[Tracy Lord]

Perusing the IMDB list:

I though "SpiceWorld" was kicky, often clever, and always fun. Musicals have an edge on the "so bad they're good" field, I think.

And one I just spotted sitting atop my DVD player: "Surf Ninjas". 1993. Starring Leslie Nielsen, Tone Loc, a young Rob Schneider, and several teen stars of the Karate Kid school of Nickelodeon-style stardom. Not only is the "ninjas + surfing" concept still as AWESOMELY RADICAL as it was in the early '90s, but the script, acting and design are so (intentionally) over-the-top that it's really, um, good.

"Kwantsu! They love this word! It must mean, like, 'free beer' or something."

[gonzomax]

(Me, either.)

My pick would be Joe versus the Volcano. And, no, it's not because of Tom Hanks & Meg Ryan; or should I say, I'm not one of those sappy people that would like anything they are in together. I just find that movie hysterically funny & quotable.
Actually the beginning when he has that horrible job is very well done. What could be more depressing.It feels like some jobs.

[Critical Mass]

I thought Lost in Translation was a fantastic movie. It received a great deal of critical praise too.

But try to suggest that it's a good movie and be prepared to be shot down more often than not.