Films you love but others don't "get" in the same way

Danny DeVito’s Renaissance Man, can’t find anyone else who likes it that much, but I love it for some reason.

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.

I believe that you mean replicant. Deckard is a Blade Runner.

Doh! You are correct.

Doh! You are correct.

I thought Red Dirt was somewhat hypnotic. Apparently no one else on the planet has even seen it.

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…


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. :slight_smile:

“Live Nude Girls” – which one reviewer correctly said was more a “My Dinner with Five Andreas”.

Diner

Interview With A Vampire

Very Bad Things

I know there are more, but those ones popped into my head first.

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.