# Films you love but others don't "get" in the same way **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 23, 2003, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-you-love-but-others-dont-get-in-the-same-way/220579 "2003-12-23T02:26:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Tuco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tuco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuco)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2004, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-you-love-but-others-dont-get-in-the-same-way/220579/121 "2004-01-01T18:56:36Z")
Danny DeVito’s Renaissance Man, can’t find anyone else who likes it that much, but I love it for some reason. ---
**Author:** ![Raymond\_Luxury\_Yacht](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raymond_luxury_yacht/32/4099_2.png) [@Raymond\_Luxury\_Yacht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raymond_Luxury_Yacht)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2004, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-you-love-but-others-dont-get-in-the-same-way/220579/122 "2004-01-01T23:06:22Z")
I am dumbfounded by some of the movies that have been mentioned: **The Royal Tennenbaums** - a rating of 7.6 on imdb, plus it received an oscar nomination for best screenplay. **Brazil** - 7.8, #172 all time on imdb. **Blade Runner** - 8.1, #87. **The Big Lebowski** - 7.7, #220. **Amadeus** - 8.3, #74 **Boogie Nights** - 7.6, oscar nomination for best screenplay. **Miller’s Crossing** - 7.8, #200. **Airplane!** - 7.7. **The Full Monty** - 7.3, oscar nominations for best director, best picture, and best screenplay. **Dr. Strangelove** - 8.6, #13. I understand that anyone who mentioned any of the above did so because people within their own circle don’t _get_ them. However, if the movie in question is universally hailed by critics and movie lovers worldwide, I’m not sure that it belongs in this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2004, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-you-love-but-others-dont-get-in-the-same-way/220579/123 "2004-01-01T23:46:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Number Six \* > \*\* > As for the Harrison Ford / Ridley Scott disagreement over _Blade Runner_: > > [spoiler]If you accept Scott’s explanation that Deckard is himself a blade runner, it would still make sense for Ford to believe that Deckard was human while playing him. If Deckard believes himself to be human, Ford believing this would lead to a more effective portrayal. > > My favored interpretation is that in the theatrical version, Deckard is human, in the Director’s cut, he’s a blade runner being covertly operated by Lt. Castillo.[/spoiler] > > \*\* I believe that you mean _replicant_. Deckard _is_ a Blade Runner. ---
**Author:** ![Kaitlyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/73ab20/32.png) [@Kaitlyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaitlyn)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2004, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-you-love-but-others-dont-get-in-the-same-way/220579/124 "2004-01-02T03:26:38Z")
Doh! You are correct. ---
**Author:** ![Kaitlyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/73ab20/32.png) [@Kaitlyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaitlyn)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2004, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-you-love-but-others-dont-get-in-the-same-way/220579/125 "2004-01-02T06:04:48Z")
Doh! You are correct. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2004, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-you-love-but-others-dont-get-in-the-same-way/220579/126 "2004-01-02T06:29:44Z")
I thought **Red Dirt** was somewhat hypnotic. Apparently no one else on the planet has even seen it. ---
**Author:** ![jlrepka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/22d042/32.png) [@jlrepka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jlrepka)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-you-love-but-others-dont-get-in-the-same-way/220579/127 "2004-01-03T00:24:03Z")
Hero (1992) Great cast, silly but warm-hearted. Hollywood is good at presenting us with golden heroes and villains who are pure evil. So good that we seem to see the world that way now. Good and Evil exist in the world, but they are within us, within all of us. This movie acknowleges that, and suggests that people don’t have to be saints to do good things for people… * * * ---
**Author:** ![Mearl\_Dox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@Mearl\_Dox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mearl_Dox)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-you-love-but-others-dont-get-in-the-same-way/220579/128 "2004-01-03T02:21:31Z")
Movies mentioned that I liked/loved: **Brazil, The Fisher King, Battle Royale** (my Japanese class watched this as an end-of-semester treat) **, Amadeus,** and **Dr. Strangelove**. I think **Brazil** at least fits the idea of the Op for me… although lots of people like it, I imagine they like it for different reasons depending on the viewer. I’m always a little taken aback to see it on comedy lists. Sure, it has comedy trappings and a surreal setting, but any movie that made me cry half an hour after watching it is no comedy in my book. A movie I’ve loved since childhood is **Supergirl**. I think it was my first introduction to comic book characters in general, I was pretty young when it came out. I must have watched that movie a million times. It’s probably horrible, but I can’t tell–I see it through the rose tinted glasses of nostalgia. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![TWOTfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9de053/32.png) [@TWOTfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWOTfan)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-you-love-but-others-dont-get-in-the-same-way/220579/129 "2004-01-03T03:20:10Z")
“Live Nude Girls” – which one reviewer correctly said was more a “My Dinner with Five Andreas”. > **[Live Nude Girls (1995) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113674/)** > > Live Nude Girls: Directed by Julianna Lavin. With Dana Delany, Kim Cattrall, Cynthia Stevenson, Laila Robins. Four women get together for a bachelorette party. ---
**Author:** ![Stainz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Stainz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stainz)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-you-love-but-others-dont-get-in-the-same-way/220579/130 "2004-01-04T22:07:19Z")
Diner Interview With A Vampire Very Bad Things I know there are more, but those ones popped into my head first. ---
**Author:** ![Tanaqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@Tanaqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tanaqui)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-you-love-but-others-dont-get-in-the-same-way/220579/131 "2004-01-04T23:17:10Z")
Dogma. I know it was fairly well recieved, but there are a large amount of people who criticize it, even those who liked Kevin Smith’s earlier films. But it’s one of my favorite movies. I like what it says about religion; I like that I can’t really figure out _what_ exactly it’s trying to say; and I like that it’s funny as hell. And to me, it’s deeper than a lot of reviewers seem to think. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-you-love-but-others-dont-get-in-the-same-way/220579.md?page=6)