# 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:** 5
**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 15, 2005, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorites-that-everybody-else-hates/284384/81 "2005-01-15T04:47:36Z")
> [@Ranchoth](#): > > Forgot about _Digimon_…did you catch Season 3? Even better than the first two seasons, I thought. (I never could get into Season 4, though.) Yes, but I didn’t like season three. It was too slow and too violent. And the two interesting characters, Juri and Impmon, were abandoned mid-story and never did get a decent summary. I really did like Frontier better, and it was pretty bland. ---
**Author:** ![kung\_fu\_lola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f4b2a3/32.png) [@kung\_fu\_lola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kung_fu_lola)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorites-that-everybody-else-hates/284384/82 "2005-01-15T06:08:40Z")
I love those horrible pulpy **Buffy The Vampire Slayer** novels. **Child Of The Hunt** , **The Book Of Fours** and **Blood And Fog** are my favourites. I also count **Goblet Of Fire** as my favourite Harry Potter book (so far). I loved **Madonna** ’s movie **Swept Away** , and pretty much anything she’s ever done musically. Other awful B movies I love: **Rip It Off** , **The Monster Squad** , **Taboo** and **Cruel Intentions**. All of these opinions have resulted in me being mocked at one point or another. This is why I mostly keep them to myself IRL, and then scream them all over the SDMB when I am safely anonymous. ---
**Author:** ![VarlosZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d78d45/32.png) [@VarlosZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VarlosZ)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorites-that-everybody-else-hates/284384/83 "2005-01-15T08:26:07Z")
**Drumline**. It doesn’t cover any new ground, but I don’t see why it got such bad reviews – seems like a more or less competent example of the genre (it’s a sports movie, basically), with lots of impressive marching band footage as a bonus. ---
**Author:** ![Loopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loopus/32/15343_2.png) [@Loopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopus)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorites-that-everybody-else-hates/284384/84 "2005-01-15T08:50:56Z")
I don’t watch _Star Trek: Enterprise_ very often, and the few episodes I’ve seen have been rather lackluster. But I absolutely _love_ the theme song, which I understand many fans hate for some reason. ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 8:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorites-that-everybody-else-hates/284384/85 "2005-01-15T08:53:09Z")
My husband loves Joe Dirt, and keeps making excuses as to why he likes it so much, even though I keep telling him, look, it’s okay, you like what you like! Don’t be ashamed! As for me, well… I love all the cutest, most sugary sweet bubblegummy anime and their corresponding soundtracks. I learned all the words to the opening of Magical Girl Pretty Sammy and all the Card Captor Sakura songs. I am listening right now to “Only One Number One” from the Digi Charat series, and I’m belting it out. If nothing else is on, I seek out **Friends** reruns. I like **Who’s the Boss** , even though I do find it incredibly cheesy and don’t like Tony Danza - it still makes me laugh like a donkey. Oh, and the **Fresh Prince of Bel Air**. I own \*\*Ferris Bueller’s Day Off \*\* on DVD, despite the fact that it still plays reguarly on cable. I love **The Wedding Singer**. I own \*\*Empire Records \*\* and laugh my ass off at it regularly. I’m sure there are plenty more that I’m just unaware I should be ashamed of 😉 And I’m not ashamed of my list! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![rorty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b2d939/32.png) [@rorty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rorty)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorites-that-everybody-else-hates/284384/86 "2005-01-15T10:37:33Z")
I have a thing for superhero movies. Even the universally panned ones. Like **Daredevil**. ---
**Author:** ![rorty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b2d939/32.png) [@rorty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rorty)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorites-that-everybody-else-hates/284384/87 "2005-01-15T10:39:10Z")
Oh yeah, and I always thoughts **Voyager** was the best Star Trek series. /Awaits the all consuming flames. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorites-that-everybody-else-hates/284384/88 "2005-01-15T15:17:21Z")
> [@rorty](#): > > I have a thing for superhero movies. Even the universally panned ones. > > Like **Daredevil**. I enjoyed Daredevil. It wasn’t as good as Spiderman, but I enjoyed it. Now that I think about it, I enjoyed Van Helsing FAR more than seems the norm. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorites-that-everybody-else-hates/284384/89 "2005-01-15T15:38:09Z")
Gremlins 2 - Great fun. from the gargoyle gremlin making a Batman symbol as he escapes, to Christopher Lee proclaiming “I already have rabies”, to the Floor Show. Happy Gilmore - I just love the fight scene where Bob Barker stomps Happy into the ground. Last Action hero - A movie that makes fun of itself and does so quite well. I like when Arnold proclaims a “kinder gentler” movie in which he will only kill 1,000 (?) people. I also liked the shocked response when he punches the car and his hand gives - not the car. Demolition Man - Not great cinema, but Simon Phoenix was such fun to watch - a real baddie, just because. No “issues”, no unhappy childhood, he’s just bad and really enjoys it. Beavis and Butthead, and Ren and Stimpy - Nobody else in the house can stand them. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorites-that-everybody-else-hates/284384/90 "2005-01-15T16:00:01Z")
Another one who enjoyed **Last Action Hero**. I think it sank more because it was promoted as a straight film, instead of being promoted as the parody it was. I’m also very fond of **The Great Race** and **Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines**. Very silly. Great fun, and very campy, but still… **Adventures in Babysitting** is another film that’s not really like anything else, but still great fun. I’m also fond of romance novels. I’ve never gotten into regencies, but the contemporary ones can be fun. Mental popcorn. Of course I don’t actually **buy** them. My mother has a subscription and I borrow 'em when she’s done with 'em. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorites-that-everybody-else-hates/284384/91 "2005-01-15T18:04:32Z")
I agree with so many here… ---
**Author:** ![shy\_guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@shy\_guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shy_guy)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorites-that-everybody-else-hates/284384/92 "2005-01-15T18:27:22Z")
I love Digimon and Buffy novels, too. And Daredevil. I also _love_ the first season of Power Rangers. I also like Power Rangers in Space and Power Rangers: Lost Galaxy. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorites-that-everybody-else-hates/284384/93 "2005-01-15T20:10:34Z")
> [@Made in Macau](#): > > Hijack - Big Bad Voodoo Lou - check out Trojan Records boxsets. They’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. Continuing the 'jack, thank you! $10 for a triple-CD box set of this stuff sounds great, and if you meant $10 for _2_ triple-CD box sets, even better! Where did you get them? Online, or elsewhere? ---
**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 16, 2005, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorites-that-everybody-else-hates/284384/94 "2005-01-16T01:05:04Z")
> [@OtakuLoki](#): > > I’m also fond of romance novels. I’ve never gotten into regencies, but the contemporary ones can be fun. Mental popcorn. Of course I don’t actually **buy** them. My mother has a subscription and I borrow 'em when she’s done with 'em. 😃 That’s another thing I love about them. So bad you can subscribe to them as if they were magazines. I buy mine at thrift stores and then donate them right back as soon as I’m done. What I love more is that I might be able to come up with a thesis or independent study program based on them. It feels so wonderfully irreverent to be able to do that. ---
**Author:** ![Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunshine_and_Smiles)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2005, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorites-that-everybody-else-hates/284384/95 "2005-01-16T02:07:20Z")
> [@vibrotronica](#): > > And you should check out Toots and the Maytals, if you don’t already know them. Get one of the greatest hits albums and not the awful recent comeback album with all of the guest stars. I really liked the recent comeback album! I particularly enjoyed the appearance of Jeff Beck on 5446 and Ben Harper on Love Gonna Walk Out On Me. It’s good music! ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2005, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorites-that-everybody-else-hates/284384/96 "2005-01-16T02:14:30Z")
I like Howard the Duck. I like Repo Man. I like Kung Pow: Enter the Fist. Yes, I have the DVD’s. ---
**Author:** ![START](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@START](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/START)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2005, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorites-that-everybody-else-hates/284384/97 "2005-01-16T02:16:06Z")
> [@Steve MB](#): > > The opposite number of “Slaughtering Sacred Cows of Entertainment” – What movie, book, author, or television series that is usually held up as a model of worthless drek do you admire or love? > > My first example would be _The Last Action Hero_, which I see as a clever parody and tribute (managing to be both at once is a good trick) to the action-movie genre. Movies: Mars Attacks Freddy Got Fingered Megiddo; Omega Code 2 Jeepers Creepers 1 and 2 Carrie 2; The Rage ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2005, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorites-that-everybody-else-hates/284384/98 "2005-01-16T11:57:26Z")
I never hear much love for **The Great White Hype** , which I happen to think is one of the funniest movies ever. I proudly own **A Night at the Roxbury**. Also glad to have **Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man** in my collection. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2005, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorites-that-everybody-else-hates/284384/99 "2005-01-16T18:27:15Z")
> [@START](#): > > Megiddo; Omega Code 2 Megiddo OC2 wasn’t bad, Now if you’d said Omega Code ONE!!! _L_ In that line, I’ll add the 1970s THIEF IN THE NIGHT (Rapture-AntiChrist) series. In another vein, Dan Ackroyd’s NOTHING BUT TROUBLE is totally hilarious- especially the scene with Digital Underground. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2005, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorites-that-everybody-else-hates/284384/100 "2005-01-16T18:35:50Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > I loved that movie. It made me laugh really hard. > > Um, so did **Dodgeball**. Seconded, I thought Ben Stiller was hilarious. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorites-that-everybody-else-hates/284384.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorites-that-everybody-else-hates/284384.md?page=6)