# "All right, I'm going to say it...I actually LIKED..." **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 20, 2011, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-im-going-to-say-it-i-actually-liked/582546 "2011-05-20T06:32:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Dietrich\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@Dietrich\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dietrich_K)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-im-going-to-say-it-i-actually-liked/582546/61 "2011-05-20T16:07:18Z")
I might well have this thing won, as I actually really liked _RV_, despite my inner comedic snob direly warning me against doing so. Also, though I’m certainly no fan of most chick flicks and romcoms, I must confess a deep inherent weakness for _The Devil Wears Prada_, _Green Card_, and, yes, _Pretty Woman_. In addition, I find both Julia Roberts and Sarah Jessica Parker exceptionally sexy (and not in the least horse-y), and I find Gwyneth Paltrow stunningly beautiful and not at all annoying. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-im-going-to-say-it-i-actually-liked/582546/62 "2011-05-20T16:13:21Z")
I love the movie, _Caligula_. ---
**Author:** ![Nathan\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/47e85d/32.png) [@Nathan\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nathan_S)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-im-going-to-say-it-i-actually-liked/582546/63 "2011-05-20T16:21:43Z")
The two Matrix sequels. They get a lot of hate here and, I admit, they aren’t as good as the first one. I didn’t like 'em at first viewing. I was baffled and befuddled after seeing _Reloaded_ the first time. However, they have grown on me quite a bit since then. , ---
**Author:** ![Claire\_Beauchamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ec9cab/32.png) [@Claire\_Beauchamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claire_Beauchamp)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-im-going-to-say-it-i-actually-liked/582546/64 "2011-05-20T16:30:34Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > Everybody Loves Raymond. > I win. Nope. Very funny show. Only saw it in syndication, and was surprised at how much it made me laugh. > [@Sitnam](#): > > Joe vs. The Volcano Yeah. I have the DVD. Here’s my entry: _Ishtar._ “No sir, no sir, we did NOT shoot at two Americans in the desert.” “The roof of the emir’s palace is gold, but the people have never seen a refrigerator.” And for the guys who are posting because they like a “girl movie” and make reference to their “man card …” Oh please. I get SO tired of this meme. Liking a good movie that happens to have a romantic theme or lack car explosions is not a betrayal of your gender; it’s a sign that you are a fully adult human with, you know, feelings and stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Stowed\_Bob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stowed_bob/32/3312_2.png) [@Stowed\_Bob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stowed_Bob)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-im-going-to-say-it-i-actually-liked/582546/65 "2011-05-20T17:07:12Z")
Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk. On the OP’s choice, it took me a year of reading on and off to finish Tommyknockers. It was my first Stephen King book and I hadn’t heard the backlash for the book. All I knew was King was a popular author and I wanted to love him like everyone else. Oddly, what irked me most was his lack of proper chapters. I always liked to finish reading a chapter, so I lost alot of sleep and got extremely frustrated by that. Only years later did I realize those numbered breaks littered throughout the chapter served that very purpose. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-im-going-to-say-it-i-actually-liked/582546/66 "2011-05-20T17:54:16Z")
I like: - Barry Manilow - Disco music. - “My Heart Must Go On” (and _Titanic_, for that matter) - “Candle in the Wind” (but not the Princess Di version–that’s too bad even for me!) - The USA Network “Swamp Thing” TV series from the early 90s Oh, and I loved _Hannibal_. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-im-going-to-say-it-i-actually-liked/582546/67 "2011-05-20T18:08:50Z")
I STILL like _Bring it On, with Kirsten Dunst. :eek:_ I have good memories of watching it as a teenager and loving the dorky-but-hot male love interest. But if it’s any consolation, I hate myself for liking it. ---
**Author:** ![chizzuk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@chizzuk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chizzuk)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-im-going-to-say-it-i-actually-liked/582546/68 "2011-05-20T18:35:16Z")
OP, I liked the Left Behind series, too. I’m not Christian, but I read the first one just to see what it was like and got hooked. I would race to the library whenever they’d inform me that the next one I’d put on hold had come in. I liked the _War of the Worlds_ with Tom Cruise that everyone else thought sucked. I’ve seen _The Day After Tomorrow_ five times. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-im-going-to-say-it-i-actually-liked/582546/69 "2011-05-20T18:42:23Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > Er, um… I kinda like Shania Twain’s music… I’m so embarrassed… I like her music, too, at least some of it. I have her album “Up”. I play the pop disc, not the country disc. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-im-going-to-say-it-i-actually-liked/582546/70 "2011-05-20T18:44:54Z")
In 1979 Elton John released his album “Victim of Love”. It’s generally considered his worst album. Most Elton John fans hate it. iTunes doesn’t even carry it. Well, I really like it. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-im-going-to-say-it-i-actually-liked/582546/71 "2011-05-20T18:50:16Z")
I like Glen Campbell’s music up to about 1970, and Neil Diamond up to about 1972. > [@UncleRojelio](#): > > I liked _The Postman_. Book, or movie? The book is really pretty good. ---
**Author:** ![Critical1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Critical1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical1)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-im-going-to-say-it-i-actually-liked/582546/72 "2011-05-20T19:00:37Z")
the last action hero, that movie was pure spoof/satire from beginning to end. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-im-going-to-say-it-i-actually-liked/582546/73 "2011-05-20T19:02:53Z")
> [@Death\_of\_Rats](#): > > _Megaforce_. > > The vehicles, the flying, rocket shooting motorcycles, the satin jumpsuits, the bad one-liners, Barry Bostwick’s [del]mane[/del] hair. It is the ultimate cheese fest. I’m pretty frustrated that I haven’t been able to watch this thing all the way through. I’ve been able to watch the action scenes on youtube, but I want to watch the whole movie. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Tyger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Silver\_Tyger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Tyger)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-im-going-to-say-it-i-actually-liked/582546/74 "2011-05-20T19:05:46Z")
The Super Mario Brothers movie. I don’t know why so many people see it as an atrocity. ---
**Author:** ![cosmosdan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@cosmosdan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cosmosdan)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-im-going-to-say-it-i-actually-liked/582546/75 "2011-05-20T19:08:25Z")
I like the theme from Golden Girls. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-im-going-to-say-it-i-actually-liked/582546/76 "2011-05-20T19:15:35Z")
> [@Claire\_Beauchamp](#): > > _Ishtar._ Tellin’ the truth is dangerous business when you play the accordion in a rock 'n roll band. (I need to rewatch this - I have many fond memories of recovering from a massive hangover on Sunday morning with my roommates watching this movie.) ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-im-going-to-say-it-i-actually-liked/582546/77 "2011-05-20T19:20:25Z")
I like _Titanic_ — and I am not ashamed to admit it! I cried when I saw it in the theater. I thought it was a great piece of movie-making and if I could, I’d watch it right now (if I could stand to re-watch that scene in the lower decks with the mother and the children. BOO HOO!). And Leonardo DiCaprio was cute. ---
**Author:** ![pancakes3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ba9def/32.png) [@pancakes3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pancakes3)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-im-going-to-say-it-i-actually-liked/582546/78 "2011-05-20T19:20:31Z")
> [@Sr\_Siete](#): > > I’ve watched the new “karate Kid” movie, the one with Jackie Chan and Will Smith’s kid, and, oh dear Lord forgive me, I think it’s good. It’s… fine, I’ll say it… wait… wait… it’s… it’s better than the original! > > There. You can ban me from the SMDB. I’ll understand. this is the only one i take offense to. i like “Fired Up”. it’s hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-im-going-to-say-it-i-actually-liked/582546/79 "2011-05-20T19:28:47Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > Basically if I see a movie on a date, I’m gonna like it. I therefore really liked Mars Attacks! and Wild Wild West. And the third movie you liked was…? -Joe, generous ---
**Author:** ![pbbth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@pbbth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pbbth)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-im-going-to-say-it-i-actually-liked/582546/80 "2011-05-20T19:33:33Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Did you like the Last Airbender movie? Actually that one I didn’t see because I just don’t like the Last Airbender series. It didn’t do anything for me so I felt no need to see the movie. I might rent it though just to see what MNS did with it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-im-going-to-say-it-i-actually-liked/582546.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-im-going-to-say-it-i-actually-liked/582546.md?page=5)