# "Am I the only one who liked this movie?" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 29, 2003, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-liked-this-movie/178291 "2003-05-29T15:59:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![godzillatemple](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/49beb7/32.png) [@godzillatemple](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/godzillatemple)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-liked-this-movie/178291/101 "2003-06-24T00:41:30Z")
I also really enjoyed _Joe vs. the Volcano_. Funnily enough, though, I loathed _Sleepless in Seattle_… Barry ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-liked-this-movie/178291/102 "2003-06-24T00:44:53Z")
_Ghost Ship_. I love spooky mysterious ghost stories, ocean liners, and the music was gorgeous. ---
**Author:** ![Atreyu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@Atreyu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atreyu)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-liked-this-movie/178291/103 "2003-06-24T00:53:55Z")
I’ve yet to hear another person tell me that they liked _Time Bandits_. I’ve loved it since I was a kid, and own the Criterion Collection DVD. ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-liked-this-movie/178291/104 "2003-06-24T01:04:33Z")
I liked **The Haunting**. Not the old classic, I _loved_ that. I mean the new kitschy Catherine Zeta Jones one. I know it was a desecration of the book and the plot was completely idiotic, but house was extraordinary and the movie had some truly funny moments. Each time they showed that portrait of Hugh Crane on the top of the stairs I collapsed with mirth and felt I’d gotten my money’s worth. Really. ---
**Author:** ![Zander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecb155/32.png) [@Zander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zander)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-liked-this-movie/178291/105 "2003-06-24T01:28:07Z")
This is the greatest thread. I’m always the only one in whatever group sees the movie that can always -kind of- like every movie. **Waterworld** I saw it at a Cinema Drafthouse, so was a little drunk… **The Frighteners** **Zorro, the Gay Blade** I can’t understand why people don’t like this. **The Pest** I will acknowledge that it’s not the most expertly crafted movie, but I did think it was very funny. **Flash Gordon** **Death to Smoochy** **Body Parts** Jeff Fahey has a murderers arm transplanted when he loses his own arm-- murders ensue… **The Devil’s Own** **Toys** with Robin Williams **The 1966 Batman movie** I only include this because I’m a comic geek and all other comic geeks seem to hate the 60s Batman **Dante’s Peak** All of my friends hated it. **Signs** This one got good reviews (I think) but so many people seem to hate it. And it’s a little snotty, but I thought **Shrek** was okay, but WAAAY overrated. Maybe I need to see it again. ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-liked-this-movie/178291/106 "2003-06-24T07:15:43Z")
The Island of Dr. Moreau, with Marlon Brando and Val Kilmer. ---
**Author:** ![Grousser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9d8465/32.png) [@Grousser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grousser)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-liked-this-movie/178291/107 "2003-06-24T07:31:53Z")
**Killer Klowns from Outer Space** has been one of my guilty pleasures of all times. What an original and brave concept! Brave, because I recognize that someone has to have guts to develop a film like that! Also, **Top Secret** is a jewel of spoof-genre exaggerations. And **The Last Action Hero** seemed kinda cute to me, only that it was shaded by the refined force of “Purple Rose of Cairo”. ---
**Author:** ![Grousser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9d8465/32.png) [@Grousser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grousser)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-liked-this-movie/178291/108 "2003-06-24T07:34:36Z")
Aah forgot to mention **From Dusk Till Dawn**. “Aaargh!!, it’s stupid, it’s grotesque, it’s kinda sick!!!”… “Ehem… that’s precisely why I liked it!” ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-liked-this-movie/178291/109 "2003-06-24T07:39:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Atreyu \* > **I’ve yet to hear another person tell me that they liked _Time Bandits_.** You’re not alone anymore, **Atreyu**. I’m here. ---
**Author:** ![And\_that\_s\_the\_bottom\_line](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df788c/32.png) [@And\_that\_s\_the\_bottom\_line](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/And_that_s_the_bottom_line)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-liked-this-movie/178291/110 "2003-06-24T09:55:18Z")
For me I’d have to say **Waterworld** and **Final Destination 2**. Sure **Waterworld** went on for another 40 minutes after the movie should have ended and it wasn’t the greatest, but I did enjoy it and did not think it was quite the stinker everyone seemed to think it was. Alot of critics panned **Final Destination 2** , but I thought the killings in the movie were some of the most graphic ones I’ve ever seen and quite inventive. The writer(s)/director obviously had alot of fun coming up with them. Sorry if that sounds a little morbid, but it was just a fun horror flick after all. ---
**Author:** ![Lazlo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lazlo/32/9678_2.png) [@Lazlo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lazlo)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-liked-this-movie/178291/111 "2003-06-24T10:26:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Guinastasia \* > \*\*_Ghost Ship_. I love spooky mysterious ghost stories, ocean liners, and the music was gorgeous. \*\* I liked this movie a lot too. However, I have one suggestion to anyone who decides to watch it. Rent the DVD and start it on Chapter 3. The first two scenes give you too much info on the history of the ship. ---
**Author:** ![And\_that\_s\_the\_bottom\_line](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df788c/32.png) [@And\_that\_s\_the\_bottom\_line](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/And_that_s_the_bottom_line)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-liked-this-movie/178291/112 "2003-06-24T10:30:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lazlo \* > \*\*I liked this movie a lot too. > > However, I have one suggestion to anyone who decides to watch it. Rent the DVD and start it on Chapter 3. The first two scenes give you too much info on the history of the ship. \*\* The first two scenes are still pretty cool scenes. If you do skip ahead I’d recommend going back and watching them. ---
**Author:** ![godzillatemple](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/49beb7/32.png) [@godzillatemple](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/godzillatemple)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-liked-this-movie/178291/113 "2003-06-24T14:08:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Atreyu \* > \*\*I’ve yet to hear another person tell me that they liked _Time Bandits_. I’ve loved it since I was a kid, and own the Criterion Collection DVD. \*\* Waitaminnit… You mean there are people who **don’t** like _Time Bandits_? Ya learn something new every day… Barry (who was so happy when the Criterion Collection version came out that he squealed like a little girlie-girl) ---
**Author:** ![Another\_Stranger\_Me](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dfb087/32.png) [@Another\_Stranger\_Me](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Another_Stranger_Me)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-liked-this-movie/178291/114 "2003-06-24T14:26:46Z")
**Ludovic** already brought it up, but I always get crap from my friends about liking Costner’s **Postman**. What can I say, it’s my favorite “guilty pleasure” movie. I also liked **Idle Hands** , but probably only because I think Seth Green is really funny. ---
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-liked-this-movie/178291/115 "2003-06-24T16:24:21Z")
**Evil Captor** , that third movie of yours would be [Kronos](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0050610), starring the incomparable Jeff Morrow, the lovely Barbara Lawrence, and Morris Ankrum playing his usual role of Gruff Authority Figure. Pretty cool movie, actually. ---
**Author:** ![Scupper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Scupper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scupper)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-liked-this-movie/178291/116 "2003-06-24T16:48:12Z")
**Halloween 4** : I was surprised at some of the really nifty, creepy devices in this movie. Particularly the way they almost but not quite parodied the fact that the serial killer always catches up to the victims even though he walks and they run. At one point, they are speeding away from town in a pickup truck and Michael Myers basically just steps out of the darkness and into the bed of the truck. It was surreal. **Time Bandits** : I can’t believe anyone could dislike this movie. How can you not love David Warner as “Evil?” > [@](#): > > God isn’t interested in technology. He knows nothing of the potential of the microchip or the silicon revolution. Look how he spends his time: forty-three species of parrots! Nipples for men! **From Beyond** : Stuart Gordon’s second (I think) go at an H.P. Lovecraft adaptation. Crazy and perverted, but really, really creepy. Not as good as **Dagon** , but better than **Re-Animator**. > [@](#): > > IT bit his head off like a GINGER-BREAD MAN! I also found **Exorcist III** damned scary. It pretty much got ignored due to the fact that **Exorcist II** was crap. ---
**Author:** ![Lazlo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lazlo/32/9678_2.png) [@Lazlo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lazlo)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-liked-this-movie/178291/117 "2003-06-24T22:38:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by And that’s the bottom line \* > \*\*The first two scenes are still pretty cool scenes. If you do skip ahead I’d recommend going back and watching them. \*\* I agree, they are good. They’re just in the wrong place in the movie. Definitely watch them when you’re done with the movie. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2003, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-liked-this-movie/178291/118 "2003-06-25T16:09:15Z")
I think the problem with **Time Bandits** is that those who don’t like it don’t understand the humor. Same for the two **The Gods Must Be Crazy** movies, the ones that don’t like them seem to be the ones who don’t understand them. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2003, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-liked-this-movie/178291/119 "2003-06-29T08:07:47Z")
I liked **Volcano**. I don’t expect other people to like it, unless they live in LA, but if you do, well, how can you not love a movie wherein one of Angelyne’s billboards crashes to the ground, and Dennis Woodruff’s car is borne away on a sea of lava? Also, Ebert completely misinterpreted one of the scenes. There’s a hardheaded firefighter, who is dubbed “Mark Fuhrman” by a homeboy. “Fuhrman” tells him to clear out, but homeboy stands his ground and says, “You block this street, you save the neighborhood, right?” Fuhrman’s silence is his acceptance of homeboy’s assistance in moving a firetruck; the flow of lava is indeed blocked, which couldn’t have happened without that extra muscle. Ebert saw that as needless exposition, like the filmmakers assumed that the audience had to be _told_ that moving the truck was crucial. I don’t see it that way. What I heard was the subtext of “You wanna be a dick or you wanna let me help out?” If you live in LA and you’re used to both racial tension and friction between city workers and civilians, especially in lower-income communities, then it’s a tight little scene. What I **did** have a problem with was the idea that a firetruck, or any one object, really, could stop the flow of lava. But I just saw **Volcano** as one of those movies like **ID4** , where you just pay your six bucks, check your knowledge of even grade-six science at the door, and let yourself be entertained. Sheesh. ---
**Author:** ![Eolbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d07c76/32.png) [@Eolbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eolbo)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2003, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-liked-this-movie/178291/120 "2003-06-29T13:28:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dr. Rieux \* > \*\***Exorcist II: The Heretic > Zardoz** > > What can I say–I’m a John Boorman fan. \*\* Ah Zardoz! I love Zardoz! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-liked-this-movie/178291.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-liked-this-movie/178291.md?page=7)