# Favorites That Everybody Else Hates **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 12, 2005, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorites-that-everybody-else-hates/284384 "2005-01-12T14:08:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2005, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorites-that-everybody-else-hates/284384/61 "2005-01-13T02:56:12Z")
Good call on **Blair Witch** I found it one of the most _effective_ horror fils for quite some time. Mind you I saw it for the first time on DVD one afternoon before going out for a 3-day hike. šŸ˜ƒ **Armageddon** is one of my ā€˜guilty pleasureā€™ films. Lots of flaws, loud & dumb but its the perfect film for when Iā€™m in the mood for that kind of thing. **Con Air** falls into the same category. **Evolution** for a laugh. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2005, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorites-that-everybody-else-hates/284384/62 "2005-01-13T04:19:20Z")
I laughed until my sides hurt when I saw \*\* Joe Dirt \*\*. \ ---
**Author:** ![Achren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/898d66/32.png) [@Achren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achren)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2005, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorites-that-everybody-else-hates/284384/63 "2005-01-13T04:30:43Z")
> [@RikWriter](#): > > Joe Vs the Volcano. What can I say? I know it beat you over the head with its point, but I LIKED the point. > > Clean Slate. Dana Carvey at his finest, I laugh my ass off every time I watch it. I love those movies. I happened to catch Clean Slate on tv one day, and though it was a movie I donā€™t think I wouldā€™ve seen in the theatres, I enjoyed it far more than I thought I shouldā€™ve. (Joe vs the Volcano - $5 at Circuit City!) ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2005, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorites-that-everybody-else-hates/284384/64 "2005-01-13T13:14:19Z")
> [@MacSpon](#): > > **Drop Dead Fred**. I love Drop Dead Fred! ā€œItā€™s the Mega-Bitch!ā€ ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2005, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorites-that-everybody-else-hates/284384/65 "2005-01-13T17:54:27Z")
**Top Secret** is one of my favorite comedies. I loved all of the inside jokes about war and espionage movies, and a lot of the throwaway lines are a riot. I recently listened to the commentary from Jim Abrams and the Zucker Brothers, who really didnā€™t seem to think much of the film themselves. ---
**Author:** ![Mal\_Adroit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df788c/32.png) [@Mal\_Adroit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mal_Adroit)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2005, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorites-that-everybody-else-hates/284384/66 "2005-01-13T18:41:50Z")
One here for _Island of Dr. Moreau._ Will never understand why this great melodrama gets slagged- itā€™s like people forget itā€™s _supposed_ to be over the top! Itā€™s a story about a guy who turned animals into men, fah cryin out loud. Performances are great, script is intelligent and suspenseful, and John Frankenheimer directed it like a bastard. (You no lika film if actors dressed up as animal/human hybrids? Then donā€™a bother us with a review of its execution.) ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2005, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorites-that-everybody-else-hates/284384/67 "2005-01-13T19:00:42Z")
Iā€™m a great fan of John Normanā€™s Gor novels ā€“ I consider them a great if flawed achievement in writing ā€“ and I also liked Attack of the Clones ā€¦ probably my fave of the Star Wars movies. ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2005, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorites-that-everybody-else-hates/284384/68 "2005-01-13T19:10:47Z")
I kind of like the movie **The Road to Wellville**. It could be better than it is, the book is 500 times better, and the only performances I really like are Anthony Hopkinsā€™s Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and Dana Carveyā€™s George Kellogg, but it has a certain charm. Maybe itā€™s the fact that itā€™s a period piece (it takes place in 1907), I donā€™t know. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2005, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorites-that-everybody-else-hates/284384/69 "2005-01-13T19:42:57Z")
I loved **Greg The Bunny**. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2005, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorites-that-everybody-else-hates/284384/70 "2005-01-13T20:22:46Z")
> [@Evil Captor](#): > > Iā€™m a great fan of John Normanā€™s Gor novels ā€“ I consider them a great if flawed achievement in writing ā€“ and I also liked Attack of the Clones ā€¦ probably my fave of the Star Wars movies. I have said in other threads that I enjoyed the first 5, maybe six Gor novels. I could have lived without all the slave nonsense, but it was enjoyable otherwise. After that though, it was pure crap. I dunno if everyone else hate them, but the early releases of The Desstroyer are pure gold. The ones with both Murphy and Sapir writing. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2005, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorites-that-everybody-else-hates/284384/71 "2005-01-14T02:19:18Z")
I like Andrew Lloyd Webber, and Sarah Brightmanā€™s singing. I mean, Iā€™m not going theyā€™re the second coming(s) of Mozart or anything, but itā€™s nice music. Alsoā€¦ -Tim Burtonā€™s _Planet of the Apes_. (Actually, I liked it better than the original. And I liked the makeups, to boot.) -The _Punisher_ movies. Though I mostly like the first one for Dolph Lundgren, and little elseā€¦he brought in a ā€œDoc Holidayā€ vibe that really clicked. And the recent version wasnā€™t _great_, and could have been _better_, but it was OK. -_Resident Evil: Apocalypse_. -I forgetā€¦did everyone else hate _Daredevil_? Itā€™s the only movie I liked Ben Affleckā€™s performance in. And the heresy of heresiesā€¦I liked the dubbed, slightly reedited version of the anime _Escaflowne_ that aired on Fox. It just seemed to work better. (They even left the blood in. Before they cancelled it for no reason, at least. :mad: ) ---
**Author:** ![don\_Jaime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b4bc9f/32.png) [@don\_Jaime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_Jaime)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2005, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorites-that-everybody-else-hates/284384/72 "2005-01-14T04:48:21Z")
I never did catch the chopped-up _Escaflowne_, but I did like the first couple of seasons of _Digimon: Digital Monsters_. Much better than I expected. While weā€™re on the subject of substandard Japanese entertainment, Iā€™m embarassed to admit I like the _Negima/Magister Negi Maho_ books. I watch too many cartoons. Most are good. I canā€™t justify _Chalk Zone_, though. Itā€™s sufficiently weird I can treat it like a Williams Street show, but at core itā€™s pretty silly. Ben Kingsley has another good unknown movie floating around out there called _Without a Clue_, where he plays that brilliant detective, Dr. John Watson. Only he doesnā€™t want anyone to know heā€™s a brilliant detective, so he creates a character named ā€œSherlock Holmesā€ and hires hack actor Michael Caine to play him. Funnier than it has any right to be. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2005, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorites-that-everybody-else-hates/284384/73 "2005-01-14T08:30:42Z")
> [@don Jaime](#): > > I never did catch the chopped-up _Escaflowne_, but I did like the first couple of seasons of _Digimon: Digital Monsters_. Much better than I expected. Forgot about _Digimon_ā€¦did you catch Season 3? Even better than the first two seasons, I thought. (I never could get into Season 4, though.) ---
**Author:** ![Made\_in\_Macau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eada6e/32.png) [@Made\_in\_Macau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Made_in_Macau)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2005, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorites-that-everybody-else-hates/284384/74 "2005-01-14T08:54:19Z")
Hijack - Big Bad Voodoo Lou - check out Trojan Records boxsets. Theyā€™ve recently released a whole series of triple cd boxes of their material based on themes - Rocksteady, British Hits, Ska, etc. I just got 2 boxsets for 15 quid - around $10? The Upsetters, Toots, Dave and Ansell Collins, Desmond Dekker etc etc Absolutely wonderful. Sorry for the 'jack. ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2005, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorites-that-everybody-else-hates/284384/75 "2005-01-14T09:41:17Z")
I like Dolph Lundgren movies, especially **Red Scorpion** and **Universal Soldier** : {reanimated Vietnam vet made super-soldier by glowing green serum holds up necklace of severed ears} ā€œIā€™m all earsā€. Oh yeah, and **Robot Ninja** is the greatest name for a movie ever. ---
**Author:** ![Rucksinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/898d66/32.png) [@Rucksinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rucksinator)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorites-that-everybody-else-hates/284384/76 "2005-01-15T00:05:20Z")
Movies that I love but I hear get slammed all the time: \*\*Hudson Hawk Underworld Not Another Teen Movie \*\* On Preview(I have dialup and didnā€™t check for awhile): Nobody should be ashamed for loving **Joe Dirt**. Itā€™s one of those movies that, if I come across it while flipping through channels, I have to watch the rest of the way through, even though Iā€™ve seen it a dozen times. Iā€™ll ditto **Top Secret** , too ---
**Author:** ![Roadfood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9fc348/32.png) [@Roadfood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roadfood)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorites-that-everybody-else-hates/284384/77 "2005-01-15T00:31:13Z")
> [@Spudo](#): > > I really like the movie _Starship Troopers_. Hey, me too. And so does my wife. But all our friends think weā€™re nuts. ---
**Author:** ![Roadfood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9fc348/32.png) [@Roadfood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roadfood)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorites-that-everybody-else-hates/284384/78 "2005-01-15T00:35:15Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > The internet crowd loves to hate **Forrest Gump**. (and it seems every single poster who trashes it has to throw out the words ā€œmanipulativeā€ and ā€œtreacleā€ā€“cā€™mon, give me an original opinion). I disliked it because everyone he ever cared about (with one exception that I canā€™t even remember now) is dead by the end of the movie. Is that original enough? I swear, Iā€™m the only person in the world who noticed that about that movie. ---
**Author:** ![Roadfood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9fc348/32.png) [@Roadfood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roadfood)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorites-that-everybody-else-hates/284384/79 "2005-01-15T00:48:13Z")
Iā€™m the only person in the world (ok, maybe one of a few people) who think Timothy Daltonā€™s Bond was great, a close second to Conneryā€™s. He did a superb job with two lousy scripts, but most people (including the producers) blamed him rather than the writing. If heā€™d been given a chance to do _Goldeneye_, They wouldnā€™t have even thought about bringing in Brosnan. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Purl_McKnittington)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorites-that-everybody-else-hates/284384/80 "2005-01-15T00:57:14Z")
I like romance novels. Iā€™ve read all kinds, but I mostly love historicals, especially Regencies and Westerns. I know theyā€™re bad; I love them for the badness. I draw the line at Danielle Steele, however. Eventually the badness reaches a point where you just canā€™t laugh at it anymore because you pity the author. I read them to laugh _at_ them, though, so I donā€™t know if this particular love counts. I liked a lot of the movies already mentioned ā€“ _Dances with Wolves_, _Shakespeare in Love_ (though _Elizabeth_ was much better), Tim Burtonā€™s _Planet of the Apes_, _Forrest Gump_, _The Road to Wellville_, Adam Sandler movies, Ben Stiller movies, and many more. I think a lot of people are looking for art in every movie they see, rather than just entertainment. They can co-exist, but you donā€™t need one to have the other. Just because something isnā€™t art doesnā€™t mean itā€™s crap. My favorite Shakespeare play is _Titus Andronicus_. (Ha HA. Dare anyone to top that.) The movie based on it, _Titus_, starring Anthony Hopkins, was quite good as well. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorites-that-everybody-else-hates/284384.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorites-that-everybody-else-hates/284384.md?page=5)