I also like:
I also hate:
agree with these 2 picks
I’ll add:
The Excorcist
LA Confidential
Citizen Kane
ANY Kevin Smith film.. full of the most cringeworthy ‘hip’ dialogue exchanges ever written that make me want to eat my own fist
The Matrix
also even though it’s not ‘hated’ per se, Wild At Heart always seems to be thought of as one of David Lynch’s weakest films - IMO it’s by far his best
agreed. biggest load of crap on tv
amazon reviews are a fairly accurate way to gauge public opinion I’d say… they’re all basically unanimous in praising it?
I always like movies nobody else gets. Hinders me from recommending.
Watched an old b&w movie on YouTube last night; The Browning Version with Michael Redgrave, I found it so deep and moving, a human statement whose impression I will never forget…but will I recommend it to any of my RL friends? Sorry…no blood, no skin, no cars exploding. But if you like movies your friends don’t “get”, you might like it. I thought it was powerful.
I didn’t care for the pretentiousness.
Ones I didn’t like:
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. A shame, really, as I like Michel Gondry in general, and on paper the movie looks like something I’d like.
Garden State. I disliked everything in this movie. It tries to be clever, and fails. It tries to have meaningful characters, but they’re one-dimensional caricatures. An ex excitedly showed it to me, since it was so “me.” No, it wasn’t.
High Fidelity. Okay, I don’t hate it, and think it’s a fun movie, but I loathe John Cusack’s character, with whom I suppose one was supposed to identify. Similarly with Reality Bites; when it came out, it was supposed to be a great Gen X movie, and I was supposed to identify with Ethan Hawke’s character… instead, I left the movie feeling that Ben Stiller’s “sell out corporate stooge” was the only sympathetic person.
Ones I love:
The Last Boy Scout. The “sarcastic detective who learns to appreciate his new partner” action movie taken to 11. I turn my brain off and revel in the insanity.
The Way of the Gun. A mean-spirited, downbeat film where there aren’t necessarily any good guys. Great dialogue, some of the most realistic gun handling I’ve seen in a movie, and the first film where I ever saw the now-common trope of “our cell phones aren’t working” to keep the plot moving.
Somehow I managed to watch Lady in the Water without realizing that M. Night played the writer. I rather liked the movie. It was quirky and a bit oddly paced; it had its weak points, but I enjoyed it.
Then I found out he had written and directed himself playing a writer/savior, and I suffered an incapacitating bout of retroactive contact embarrassment.
Blade Runner. I really don’t understand the love for Blade Runner. Poorly written, pseudo-deep, meandering nonsense. Ridley Scott is 200% overrated.
The Sound of Music - I hope to never see it again. I hope to never hear another song from that movie.
So, you’re saying it’s not one of your favorite things?
I really liked the Lost in Space movie.
V for Vendetta is #163 on the IMDb’s list of greatest movies. It is also a transparently-plotted, sophomorically-written piece of juvenalia with awful dialogue.
My sincere apologies to any sophomores in the audience.
The genius of this movie is its ability to take the worst character cliches and make them briefly interesting (but only briefly). I really disliked it.
I hated the LOTR. Sorry, it was just one scene after another of a plucky band of maybe 6 tiny people fending off an army of thousands. I read all the books and that’s NOT the take-away message I got.
Movie that I totally loved that other people hated: Stardust. Thought it was funny, enchanting and different. I read the book first so maybe that was the reason.
I like Stardust, and have never read the book. Cute, funny, and the female lead isn’t a helpless, useless load on those around her (yeah, Buttercup, I’m looking at YOU, likewise Once Upon a Time’s version of Aurora).
Spiderman. Boring boring boring. zzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
Movies I hate that everyone else likes:
Apocalypse Now. Seemed pointless to me, an acid trip through a fantasy Vietnam with every character acting like they were also on said acid. Visually fascinating, but I couldn’t give two shits about anyone in the movie or what they were doing.
Titanic. Again, visually exquisite, but again, I just didn’t buy into the characters. Nothing they did interested me, nothing about them drew me in.
Movies I love that most people dislike:
Joe Vs the Volcano. Yes, it’s cheesy and schmaltzy, but I liked its earnestness and I enjoyed Tom Hanks’ character Joe once he’d been freed of his neuroses. He was a fun character to spend an hour and a half with.
Sahara. I felt like it was Dirk Pitt as Dirk Pitt SHOULD have been written and I absolutely loved Steve Zahn’s take on Al.
Into The Wild - Others were crying at the end and I was thinking, “Winner of the Darwin Award” for dumbass, clueless idiot.
Also, Rocky Horror Picture Show. Never understood what was/is so cool/funny about this film. Tried to watch it in a crowded bar with lots of fans - hated it. Tried to watch it at home alone - hated it. Actually met and talked to Barry Bostwick at a party and I think he was relieved I was one person who did not mention that film to him - of course, I didn’t mention it because I had never been able to sit through the whole film.
Never thought I would have to mention that I loved Lord Of The Rings trilogy…but with all the hate in this thread, sure - let me go down as saying I thought the films were brilliant and yes, I also read the books multiple times.
I made a thread a while back about movies that are not part of a franchise that should be. The Last Boy Scout is a Die Hard movie. It essentially is Die Hard 2 1/2. Bruce Willis character is foul-mouthed, wisecracking, no-nonsense detective with an itchy trigger finger and a never-say-die maverick spirit. He even has the strained relationship with wife and daughter.
I do not think The Last Boy Scout is the worst of the Die Hard Movies.
I liked Stardust a lot, and I also liked Mirror, Mirror, which got terrible reviews.
Who here will be the first to say they loved Batman and Robin?
I too totally loathed this movie, it seemed to be all about who could be the biggest loser.
Also Titanic and Avatar.