# Movies Everybody Else Likes Which You Hate...And Vice-Versa **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 1, 2012, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-everybody-else-likes-which-you-hate-and-vice-versa/639572 "2012-11-01T15:51:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2012, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-everybody-else-likes-which-you-hate-and-vice-versa/639572/41 "2012-11-01T20:38:27Z")
_Titanic_ and _Avatar_. Recently, _Taken_. Saw it on cable a few weeks ago after all my friends raved about it and thought it was terrible. And, perennially: _It’s a Wonderful Life._ ---
**Author:** ![lisiate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f05b48/32.png) [@lisiate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisiate)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2012, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-everybody-else-likes-which-you-hate-and-vice-versa/639572/42 "2012-11-01T20:44:12Z")
I’ll take **Airk’s** _Water World_ and add in _The Postman_, which I think is a pretty good post-apocalyptic movie as well. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2012, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-everybody-else-likes-which-you-hate-and-vice-versa/639572/43 "2012-11-01T21:06:11Z")
> [@Greekfreak](#): > > **The Big Lebowski**. Just an utter piece of shit, in my opinion. And I like most of the actors in it, but I gave it a chance and have never liked it. Bingo. Do not get the love. I’ll volunteer **Scarface** , which is a giant, steaming pile of excrement. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2012, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-everybody-else-likes-which-you-hate-and-vice-versa/639572/44 "2012-11-01T21:45:25Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > Now, **Xanadu** …well, it’s not as bad as everyone thinks it is. 😃 A lissome blonde, and ELO music? That was more than enough for me. 🙂 I didn’t like **Kill Bill Vol. 1**. Just don’t care for all the violence, over-the-top or not. Also, **The Descendants** (the recent George Clooney movie that got rave reviews). I found it awesomely tedious, and any character development was opaque. ---
**Author:** ![Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/bc8723/32.png) [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unauthorized_Cinnamon)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2012, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-everybody-else-likes-which-you-hate-and-vice-versa/639572/45 "2012-11-01T21:47:09Z")
I know all Janeites hate the movie **Mansfield Park** , starring Frances O’Connor as Fanny. And I realize that it departs from the character of Fanny in the book by miles and leagues and light years. But damn it, I like movie-Fanny better, and I really enjoyed the movie all around. I also saw **Let the Right One In** with dubbing, and I liked it just fine. (I often dislike captions because it distracts me from the visual element of the movie and it discloses information before the plot catches up.) ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2012, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-everybody-else-likes-which-you-hate-and-vice-versa/639572/46 "2012-11-01T21:52:07Z")
The first thing that comes to mind is that the only M. Night Shyamalan movie I ever really liked was **Unbreakable** , and I absolutely HATED **The Six Sense**. Most people I’ve encountered have the reverse opinions. ETA: Seriously, if you don’t like Shyamalan’s work, and haven’t seen **Unbreakable** , check it out. IMO, it’s his only movie worth a damn. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2012, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-everybody-else-likes-which-you-hate-and-vice-versa/639572/47 "2012-11-01T22:01:10Z")
Alien 3 \> Aliens I do not like Moulin Rouge one tiny iota. Awful awful movie (and I love musicals so it’s not that). I will 2nd voltaire’s assessment above, but I would never actually recommend Unbreakable. It was a serviceable movie, better than the 6th sense, but I would never say go out and watch it. ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2012, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-everybody-else-likes-which-you-hate-and-vice-versa/639572/48 "2012-11-01T22:13:13Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > Alien 3 \> Aliens > > I do not like Moulin Rouge one tiny iota. Awful awful movie (and I love musicals so it’s not that). > > I will 2nd voltaire’s assessment above, but I would never actually recommend Unbreakable. It was a serviceable movie, better than the 6th sense, but I would never say go out and watch it. Well, the ending might have left a little bit to be desired, but I’m not one of those people who demand completely resolved and satisfying endings, as long as the journey was worth it. They should have set it up for a sequel, IMO. ---
**Author:** ![tomcar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tomcar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomcar)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2012, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-everybody-else-likes-which-you-hate-and-vice-versa/639572/49 "2012-11-01T22:22:22Z")
> [@grude](#): > > The Shawshank Redemption- > > WTF is the love this movie gets? Ok it was good, but not that good. Is it the rape thing? Because it was brave enough to deal with male rape? > > The protag literally has no character growth, he just realizes his best shot is manipulation and escape. It was Morgan Freeman’s narration, that made that movie. Take out the narration and you have a pretty good prison movie, Freeman takes it to another level. Red: “I wish I could tell you that Andy fought the good fight, and the Sisters let him be. I wish I could tell you that - but prison is no fairy-tale world. He never said who did it, but we all knew. Things went on like that for awhile - prison life consists of routine, and then more routine. Every so often, Andy would show up with fresh bruises. The Sisters kept at him - sometimes he was able to fight 'em off, sometimes not. And that’s how it went for Andy - that was his routine. I do believe those first two years were the worst for him, and I also believe that if things had gone on that way, this place would have got the best of him.” I think Ray Liota’s narration also helped Goodfellas alot. That was a fantastic movie that became a legend. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2012, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-everybody-else-likes-which-you-hate-and-vice-versa/639572/50 "2012-11-01T22:25:07Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > For movies I love that others don’t like so much: **Mars Attacks**. Yeah, objectively speaking it was probably total crap. But I saw it on a date with a cute geeky girl, and it was a fun date, so I loved the movie. > [@Airk](#): > > I didn’t dislike Water World. 😉 > [@hogarth](#): > > I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I like the movie **Congo**. I defy you to find a better movie where the heroes shoot killer apes with a makeshift laser gun next to an exploding volcano. > > It was so good, they made a pinball machine out of it! “Amy, good gorilla!” I love and own these movies. Mars Attacks is the perfect genre parody. Waterworld was just awesome. Towards the end when Amy runs in between the gorillas advancing towards the people and she chatises the gorillas saying, “Bad gorilla. Bad gorilla.” my eyes get all watery. I also love and own Phenomenon and Michael with John Travolta. All my friends say those movies are the suck. ---
**Author:** ![PookahMacPhellimey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pookahmacphellimey/32/3175_2.png) [@PookahMacPhellimey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PookahMacPhellimey)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2012, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-everybody-else-likes-which-you-hate-and-vice-versa/639572/51 "2012-11-01T22:32:32Z")
> [@Poysyn](#): > > In Bruges - I usually like darkly comic movies, but I didn’t like this one at all… You’re my new best friend. I hated this one with a passion and have never found anyone who agrees. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_the\_Immortal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Max\_the\_Immortal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_the_Immortal)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2012, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-everybody-else-likes-which-you-hate-and-vice-versa/639572/52 "2012-11-01T22:44:56Z")
I couldn’t get into any of the Stanley Kubrick films I’ve seen. _Dr. Strangelove_ in particular seemed to fall short of its reputation, but I suspect that the [Seinfeld is Unfunny](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeinfeldIsUnfunny) phenomenon is at play. > [@Larry\_Borgia](#): > > Can I do a TV show? I nominate “Big Bang Theory.” I haven’t seen a ton of it, but what I have seen is nothing but shrill unpleasant nerd stereotypes shouting at each other, with not a joke to be heard. That’s probably the _most_ fashionable-to-deride show on the air today. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2012, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-everybody-else-likes-which-you-hate-and-vice-versa/639572/53 "2012-11-01T23:14:55Z")
The **Harry Potter** movies and those ridiculous **Twilight** films. Also the HBO **True Blood** series. **Citizen Kane** I agree about **The Descendants** and was gob-smacked when it was nominated for best film. ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2012, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-everybody-else-likes-which-you-hate-and-vice-versa/639572/54 "2012-11-01T23:27:04Z")
> [@Greekfreak](#): > > **The Big Lebowski**. Just an utter piece of shit, in my opinion. And I like most of the actors in it, but I gave it a chance and have never liked it. > > **Memento, Inception, Insomnia, just about any Christopher Nolan film**. Perfect examples of people saying “You just didn’t understand it.” Oh no, I understood it, I just thought it was crap on so many levels. Yeah, those. Plus _American Beauty_. More personally, _The Wild Bunch_. I like Westerns, I like violence, but I’ve started this movie a dozen times and never finished it. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2012, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-everybody-else-likes-which-you-hate-and-vice-versa/639572/55 "2012-11-01T23:35:55Z")
Mars Attacks! is perfect for what it was trying to be. It is one of Burton’s absolute best. I don’t understand why people don’t like it, really. It’s like a much, much better version of Independence Day (which is also kind of a parody of the genre, although, I believe unintentional). Congo is a very good and frightening movie. I didn’t even know people hated it. Waterworld is ok… my dad was fascinated with it and took us to the theater like 3 times I think to see it… over and over. So I kind of hate it for that reason. But I’ll never forget, “SMOKERS!!!” ---
**Author:** ![Steophan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steophan/32/9595_2.png) [@Steophan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steophan)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2012, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-everybody-else-likes-which-you-hate-and-vice-versa/639572/56 "2012-11-02T00:22:09Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > As a reverse, me and seemingly four other people on the planet liked Nicholas Cage in **The Weather Man**. I think I’m the only person who genuinely loves **Season Of The Witch**. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2012, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-everybody-else-likes-which-you-hate-and-vice-versa/639572/57 "2012-11-02T00:48:14Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > As a reverse, me and seemingly four other people on the planet liked Nicholas Cage in **The Weather Man**. Not to be confused with Nick Cage in _The Wicker Man_. ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2012, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-everybody-else-likes-which-you-hate-and-vice-versa/639572/58 "2012-11-02T00:51:28Z")
> [@Palo\_Verde](#): > > **Avatar** I watch the first 3/4 and just felt that I knew exactly how it would end, and it wasn’t that interesting. I still don’t see what all the fuss is about. I never saw the last quarter of it, and have no desire to. I hated Avatar too. The admittedly spectacular visuals did NOT make up for cardboard-cutout characters and the cliche-storm “plot” that basically served as an excuse to slam the viewer in the face with the “humans are evil” anvil. Didn’t much care for Titanic, either. With so many interesting REAL people on that ship, all we saw were two self-centered adolescents in rut. ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2012, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-everybody-else-likes-which-you-hate-and-vice-versa/639572/59 "2012-11-02T00:55:03Z")
> [@voltaire](#): > > The first thing that comes to mind is that the only M. Night Shyamalan movie I ever really liked was **Unbreakable** , and I absolutely HATED **The Six Sense**. Most people I’ve encountered have the reverse opinions. > > ETA: Seriously, if you don’t like Shyamalan’s work, and haven’t seen **Unbreakable** , check it out. IMO, it’s his only movie worth a damn. I liked both. I also liked “The Village”, but was bored stiff by “Lady in the Water” (my husband’s opinions on the latter two are the inverse of mine). We agreed that “The Happening” was awful. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2012, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-everybody-else-likes-which-you-hate-and-vice-versa/639572/60 "2012-11-02T01:02:50Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > Alien 3 \> Aliens Agree. > [@drewtwo99](#): > > Mars Attacks! is perfect for what it was trying to be. It is one of Burton’s absolute best. Agree again. You are wise, **drewtwo99**. Oh…wait… > [@drewtwo99](#): > > Congo is a very good and frightening movie. I didn’t even know people hated it. Well, you lost me there. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-everybody-else-likes-which-you-hate-and-vice-versa/639572.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-everybody-else-likes-which-you-hate-and-vice-versa/639572.md?page=4)