# "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:** 6
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-im-going-to-say-it-i-actually-liked/582546/101 "2011-05-21T01:19:32Z")
> [@Michael\_of\_Lucan](#): > > I want to confess now. I am a male heterosexual, but I prefer romantic films with happy endings to thrillers or horror films.. Same here. I’m a big, hairy guy whose wife describes him to strangers as “scary looking” and I like romantic comedies. > [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > I like ABBA. No apologies! ABBA is brilliant pop music! > [@gwendee](#): > > I also, despite thinking I don’t like Russell Brand, really liked the **Arthur** remake. I saw it last night and plan to buy the DVD. He was a howl, and Greta Gerwig was very cute. One hell of a lot more attractive than Liza Minnelli. **Arthur:** _What was that?_ **Susan:** \* That was a French kiss.\* **Arthur:** _Was it? The French surrendered. That kiss was decidedly German._ > [@Mann\_Slaughter](#): > > And… Disco music! :eek: > Especially these: > > [Dr. Buzzard’s Original Savannah Band - Cherchez La Femme](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cm_YzVFpmlc) Disco, like everything else in life, followed [Sturgeon’s Law](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_Law). The portion that involved August Darnell was in the 10%. I spent the late Seventies building discos and recording studios, and while disco produced some genuine musical abominations, it also produced some excellent pop music that you could dance to. > [@Critical1](#): > > the last action hero, > that movie was pure spoof/satire from beginning to end. Saw it several times in the theater. > [@pancakes3](#): > > i like “Fired Up”. it’s hilarious. **rachelellogram** , you _have_ to see this movie. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-im-going-to-say-it-i-actually-liked/582546/102 "2011-05-21T01:21:44Z")
Some of mine have been taken: The recent War of the Worlds Disco The movie Judge Dredd Predator 2 (much better than the first one) Lady Gaga (she has millions of fans but here this fits) The recent GI Joe movie The comic strip Blondie All these and more are enjoyed by me unironically. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-im-going-to-say-it-i-actually-liked/582546/103 "2011-05-21T01:35:45Z")
Battlestar Galactica’s finale? Loved it. Hudson Hawk? Loved it. Waterworld? I don’t regret watching it, I may do so again some day. I don’t get the Kevin Costner hate in general, he’s been in more than a few very good movies. I also love Lynch’s Dune and I quite like John Harrison’s versions of Dune and Children of Dune as well. And I really like . . . Highlander: Endgame. I liked the series too, as well as the original film. I mean, c’mon, it’s Clancy Brown. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-im-going-to-say-it-i-actually-liked/582546/104 "2011-05-21T01:39:32Z")
I liked both [North](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110687/combined), and [Nothing But Trouble](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102558/combined). Though it has been many years since I saw them, I may change my mind on rewatching. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-im-going-to-say-it-i-actually-liked/582546/105 "2011-05-21T01:44:09Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > I love the movie, _Caligula_. Wow…that’s a hard one to top. I like the movie Congo and the music of Jimmy Horton. ---
**Author:** ![AtomicDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac91a4/32.png) [@AtomicDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AtomicDog)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-im-going-to-say-it-i-actually-liked/582546/106 "2011-05-21T01:57:30Z")
I loved, _loved_ _ **LOVED** _ “Mars Attacks!” Ack! Ack! Ackack! Ack! ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-im-going-to-say-it-i-actually-liked/582546/107 "2011-05-21T02:07:19Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > Jar Jar Binks is the most underrated character in all of Star Wars. troll! (j/k) ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-im-going-to-say-it-i-actually-liked/582546/108 "2011-05-21T02:32:12Z")
Huh, I like a lot of things mentioned in this thread too, including **Titanic** (people only apologize for this because the minority naysayers are loudmouths that have given the impression that it’s a joke and very much hated. Titanic haters are like the Teabaggers of movies, trying to make everyone think a wrong-headed minority opinion is the majority opinion.) **The Last Action Hero** (a very funny, very well-done satire) The **Arthur** remake (To hell with the Rotten Tomatoes score, I thought it was funny and sweet; I thought Russell Brand, Helen Mirren and Greta Gerwig were all terrific; I was happy that it doesn’t contain any gross-out/toilet/humiliation humor like Bridesmaids some movies that are supposedly funny; and I don’t really give a damn if it’s a remake a “beloved” old film because I like Russell Brand more than Dudley Moore, I like Helen Mirren as much as John Gielgud, and I like Greta Gerwig a billion times more than Liza Minnelli) **Mars Attacks!** (Ack indeed! This movie is so bent and so hilarious to me) Plus The War of the Worlds remake, Sucker Punch (not more than Inception though!), Ishtar, Disco (the soundtrack to Looking For Mr. Goodbar is amazing), Joe vs. the Volcano, ABBA, Reign of Fire, the Matrix sequels and some others. Not mentioned yet: [Angel Eyes](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0225071/). This movie was released at the wrong time and promoted so badly the marketing department should have all been shot. It was released at the beginning of the “J Lo” frenzy when it started to become fashionable to bash Jennifer Lopez (this was even before Ben Affleck and Gigli), and it was promoted as a “Sixth Sense”-type mystery with a twist. What it is, is a deeply moving heart-of-an-indie unusual love story about two broken people who find each other. Simple as that. It’s a beautiful-hearted film, and deserved much much better. ---
**Author:** ![Fair\_Rarity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fair_rarity/32/153_2.png) [@Fair\_Rarity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fair_Rarity)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-im-going-to-say-it-i-actually-liked/582546/109 "2011-05-21T02:39:51Z")
I liked the Star Wars prequels and Jedi is my favorite of the original trilogy. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-im-going-to-say-it-i-actually-liked/582546/110 "2011-05-21T03:05:48Z")
**Tremors.** I’ve never seen the sequels, but the first one was a pretty solid monster movie. And even as a kid I knew it was basically just a glorified b-flick, but it was also so much fun. And the scene where Reba McIntire and Michael Gross as the survivalists kill the monster by pumping it with a shitload of ammo was fuckin’ awesome. ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-im-going-to-say-it-i-actually-liked/582546/111 "2011-05-21T03:18:55Z")
I don’t much like firearms, but there was something breathtaking about how Reba handled her various guns; you could tell she wasn’t acting & had been doing it all her life. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-im-going-to-say-it-i-actually-liked/582546/112 "2011-05-21T03:33:16Z")
> [@joebuck20](#): > > **Tremors.** I’ve never seen the sequels, but the first one was a pretty solid monster movie. And even as a kid I knew it was basically just a glorified b-flick, but it was also so much fun. And the scene where Reba McIntire and Michael Gross as the survivalists kill the monster by pumping it with a shitload of ammo was fuckin’ awesome. There is no need to apologize for this at all. **Tremors** was great! Solid B-movie cheese. “Broke into the wrong god-damn rec room, didn’t you?” ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-im-going-to-say-it-i-actually-liked/582546/113 "2011-05-21T04:56:49Z")
Yeah, I don’t know anybody who doesn’t like **Tremors**. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-im-going-to-say-it-i-actually-liked/582546/114 "2011-05-21T05:37:30Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > _Freddy Got Fingered_. Loved it. Yeah, I’m that guy. +1 There’s another one of us out here on the boards, too, I recently found out. My enjoyment of the film may have a little to do with the fact that I’ve never seen or heard of Tom Green before the movie, so experienced with no expectations whatsoever. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-im-going-to-say-it-i-actually-liked/582546/115 "2011-05-21T05:39:44Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > I like ABBA. There’s never any need to apologize for ABBA. They’re great. And I don’t mean that in some sort of ironic post-modern way; they’re a solid band with a great ear for melody and pop music. I honestly don’t know many songwriters who don’t like them. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-im-going-to-say-it-i-actually-liked/582546/116 "2011-05-21T05:48:39Z")
> [@Idle\_Thoughts](#): > > I’ll start. > > You know what, SDMB? I LIKED Stephen King’s _The Tommyknockers_! Yeah!.. The book or the movie? I enjoyed the book. ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-im-going-to-say-it-i-actually-liked/582546/117 "2011-05-21T06:53:43Z")
> [@Typo\_Knig](#): > > I liked Star Trek Enterprise. Yes, I’m the audient. Oh no, you’re not alone. I’ve never seen the series in its entirety, though, but only choice picked parts, so maybe I just got to see the good ones. And at least it never transformed its captain and first lieutenant into giant lizards who then hooked up and produced a litter of little baby lizards. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-im-going-to-say-it-i-actually-liked/582546/118 "2011-05-21T07:56:10Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > Everybody Loves Raymond. > I win. Me too. Great writers on that show. And _Star Trek Voyager_ (well, except for the episode where Janeway and Paris became giant slugs . . . and mated). And speaking of \*Voyager, \*I actually liked Neelix. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-im-going-to-say-it-i-actually-liked/582546/119 "2011-05-21T08:30:11Z")
> [@CandidGamera](#): > > Hudson Hawk. Guilty. > [@BrotherCadfael](#): > > I occasionally watch the tween shows on Nick and Disney. Some of them (eg: iCarly) are quite good. Guilty again. In my defense, my kids rule the TV during the day. But it is rather good for a kid sitcom. > [@JohnT](#): > > Speilberg’s _War of the Worlds_. Loved it. > [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > 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. Despite the contrived love story, I thought it was a gripping and immersive experience. I couldn’t help but be sucked in in every way. I’ll admit, I kinda have a thing for Kate Winslet. For my own contribution, I offer: \*\*The Green Hornet \*\*(2011)… it cracked my shit up. As funny as I find Seth Rogen, Jay Chou as Kato was awesome and totally stole every scene. Not to mention the Black Beauty (souped up '64 / '65 Chrysler Imperial) was absolutely drool-worthy. and… \*\*Powder \*\*(1995)… the story of a bullied albino kid who has the ability to manipulate electromagnetic fields. My wife and I loved this flick, not sure why it was a critical flop. Then there’s… **I Love You to Death** … Again, another one that just I just giggle or laugh out loud all the way through. Am I crazy? ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-im-going-to-say-it-i-actually-liked/582546/120 "2011-05-21T09:29:52Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > \*\*Powder \*\*(1995)… the story of a bullied albino kid who has the ability to manipulate electromagnetic fields. My wife and I loved this flick, not sure why it was a critical flop. I recall there was talk about the director being an alleged pedophile, and people perhaps imagined related themes or images in the film. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-im-going-to-say-it-i-actually-liked/582546.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-im-going-to-say-it-i-actually-liked/582546.md?page=7)