# Movies everyone hates but you **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 26, 2006, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-everyone-hates-but-you/377951 "2006-10-26T05:56:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-everyone-hates-but-you/377951/61 "2006-10-26T21:33:50Z")
Onlt thing wrong with Gate was Chris Kristofferson. He brings movies down a long long way. Love Flight of the Navigator War of the Worlds both Bad Santa Let It Ride ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-everyone-hates-but-you/377951/62 "2006-10-26T21:49:36Z")
[QUOTE=OneCentStamp] I entered this thread specifically to mention this movie. Swiss cheese plot, badly miscast voice actors in spite of all the big names, yet I can’t stop watching. I love it. [/QUOTE] The thing that gets me about Titan A.E. is the audio FX. My little brother got me to rent it from Blockbuster cause he’d never seen it, and when I was watching it with him, I was like “Holy crap, the audio special effects on this are better than most actual movies!” :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-everyone-hates-but-you/377951/63 "2006-10-26T21:58:22Z")
**Daredevil** —In addition, this is, I think, one of the only roles I thought Ben Affleck did a good job in. ---
**Author:** ![Hockey\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-everyone-hates-but-you/377951/64 "2006-10-26T22:34:40Z")
It’s been said already, but **The Postman** is one of my favorite movies. Everybody I know hated it. I also loved **Waterworld**. And **True Lies** , can’t forget that one. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-everyone-hates-but-you/377951/65 "2006-10-26T22:39:45Z")
[QUOTE=gonzomax] Onlt thing wrong with Gate was Chris Kristofferson. He brings movies down a long long way. Love Flight of the Navigator War of the Worlds both Bad Santa Let It Ride [/QUOTE] Dude…Kristofferson rocks in that movie! I love him! ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-everyone-hates-but-you/377951/66 "2006-10-26T22:42:36Z")
[QUOTE=pimaspinner] It’s been said already, but **The Postman** is one of my favorite movies. Everybody I know hated it. I also loved **Waterworld**. And **True Lies** , can’t forget that one. [/QUOTE] Hell, even David Brin liked The Postman. He described the movie as being similar to having a cocker spaniel with an American flag tied to it’s wagging tail run up, jump in your lap, and slobber all over you. Messy, but fun. Personally, my favorite thing in the movie was the scene with the Postman riding on a horse, firing a Colt M1911 at the bad guys. That was just a cool scene. ---
**Author:** ![anu-la1979](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/47e85d/32.png) [@anu-la1979](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anu-la1979)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-everyone-hates-but-you/377951/67 "2006-10-26T22:50:07Z")
**Night at the Roxbury**. I don’t get why people hate this movie. I liked it when it came out (I saw it at the old $1.50 theatre on St-Catherine’s street…I think they tore it down or it closed down or something…anyway, everyone in the theatre was laughing) and I still crack up at it-esp. now that I actually live in L.A… ---
**Author:** ![Linty\_Fresh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Linty\_Fresh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linty_Fresh)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-everyone-hates-but-you/377951/68 "2006-10-26T23:00:30Z")
The one I always mention in this kind of thread is **McHale’s Navy**. OK, so it was lamer than anything. OK, so the jokes were telegraphed 50 miles away. Bruce Campbell rocked in it, Tom Arnold proved he could actually deliver a line without getting drool all over his shirt, and it had Tommy Chong. I watch this movie every time it comes on. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-everyone-hates-but-you/377951/69 "2006-10-26T23:13:02Z")
I’m not sure if most people really hated these, but most critics did: **The Ninth Gate** and **Ghost Ship**. I love them both. But I’m not the most devoted fan of “Gate”; that would surely be the author of this [55-page analysis](http://homepages.primex.co.uk/~sp00ky/misc/Ninth%20Gate/THE%20NINTH%20GATE.pdf) of the themes and symbolism the story apparently borrows from the mystical texts of Kabbalah and Tarot. Heady stuff… I also love one of Alfred Hitchcock’s most widely dismissed efforts, **Torn Curtain**. Brilliant scene of a killing in a kitchen, and effective East German atmospherics (even with obvious back-projection footage). Big thumbs up! ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-everyone-hates-but-you/377951/70 "2006-10-26T23:37:33Z")
Johnny Dangerously never was respected Mcabe and Mrs Miller was good Gong Show Movie And every single sci fi with radiated creatures like Them, Skeeters etc. ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-everyone-hates-but-you/377951/71 "2006-10-26T23:44:19Z")
[QUOTE=brickbacon] I like the movie **Ghost Dog** a lot. [/QUOTE] Me too. I think that one got all the hate from people who wanted to see a samurai movie, not a Jim Jarmusch movie. I also really liked **Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas**. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-everyone-hates-but-you/377951/72 "2006-10-26T23:47:07Z")
[QUOTE=Kalhoun] I liked this movie. I’m a big Andy Garcia fan. [/QUOTE] I love this movie and can quote from almost any scene in it. I believe that I am, however, the only person who liked **The English Patient**. ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-everyone-hates-but-you/377951/73 "2006-10-27T00:01:41Z")
Of other movies already mentioned by others, I also liked _True Lies_, but that was a pretty big hit movie. Unless you mean, disliked by many cinesnobs? Similarly I rather enjoyed _The Postman_ and _Waterworld_, though I did find both of them a bit overwrought. [QUOTE=vivalostwages] I believe that I am, however, the only person who liked **The English Patient**.[/QUOTEIs that the sensation of my hair moving back from getting whooshed? It did win the Oscar for Best Picture in 1996?.. Plus, I thought it was one of the most moving films I have ever seen. You might as well throw _Moulin Rouge!_ in the ring, then, for a love-it-or-hate-it movie (which I totally loved), as well as Baz Luhrmann’s earlier _Romeo+Juliet_. For some reason I can’t find too many other people who liked _Dark City_ as much as I did, but its IMDB rating is a healthy 7.7 so clearly I’m not alone, just hanging out with a declasse crowd. (Fortunately my wife liked the movie!) How about _Beavis and Butthead Do America_? That’s one I can’t seem to get _anybody_ to watch with me, even the ones who will watch _Dumb and Dumber_. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-everyone-hates-but-you/377951/74 "2006-10-27T00:28:36Z")
It must be an unbelievable coincidence that the only three people on the planet who liked 1967’s _Casino Royale_ are posters on the SDMB. And I thought _Mars Attacks!_ was brilliant. ---
**Author:** ![Talon\_Karrde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Talon\_Karrde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Talon_Karrde)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-everyone-hates-but-you/377951/75 "2006-10-27T01:58:42Z")
I really liked the Cohen brothers’ remake of The Ladykillers. I also liked Intolerable Cruelty. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-everyone-hates-but-you/377951/76 "2006-10-27T02:14:17Z")
[QUOTE=lissener] Plus, [1941] dealt with a phase of WW2 few people care about. [/QUOTE] Plus plus, it’s probably the only movie to pay tribute to legendary General “Vinegar” Joe Stilwell (played by Robert Stack), and _definitely_ the only movie where _Laverne and Shirley_’s Lenny and Squiggy pull a cameo as Bill Mauldin’s Willie and Joe. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-everyone-hates-but-you/377951/77 "2006-10-27T02:18:17Z")
Btw, did anybody else not totally hate _Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion_? I can think of worse ways to spend an hour and a half than making goggle-eyes at Mira Sorvino and Lisa Kudrow. “You’re the Mary!” “No _you’re_ the Mary. I’m the _Rhoda,_ I’m the Jewish one.” ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-everyone-hates-but-you/377951/78 "2006-10-27T02:24:35Z")
[QUOTE=robardin] How about _Beavis and Butthead Do America_? That’s one I can’t seem to get _anybody_ to watch with me, even the ones who will watch _Dumb and Dumber_. [/QUOTE] I love that movie, and my roomie and I just watched it the other night. Great stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-everyone-hates-but-you/377951/79 "2006-10-27T02:24:52Z")
_Freddy Got Fingered._ This movie is comic genius. I have never laughed so hard at anying on a screen except for a few Mr. Show sketches. It’s disgusting, perverted, immature, puerile, and horrific, but damned if it isn’t hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-everyone-hates-but-you/377951/80 "2006-10-27T02:27:09Z")
[QUOTE=robardin] Of other movies already mentioned by others, I also liked _True Lies_, but that was a pretty big hit movie. Unless you mean, disliked by many cinesnobs? Similarly I rather enjoyed _The Postman_ and _Waterworld_, though I did find both of them a bit overwrought. [QUOTE=vivalostwages] I believe that I am, however, the only person who liked **The English Patient**. [/QUOTEIs that the sensation of my hair moving back from getting whooshed? It did win the Oscar for Best Picture in 1996?.. Plus, I thought it was one of the most moving films I have ever seen. You might as well throw _Moulin Rouge!_ in the ring, then, for a love-it-or-hate-it movie (which I totally loved), as well as Baz Luhrmann’s earlier _Romeo+Juliet_. For some reason I can’t find too many other people who liked _Dark City_ as much as I did, but its IMDB rating is a healthy 7.7 so clearly I’m not alone, just hanging out with a declasse crowd. (Fortunately my wife liked the movie!) How about _Beavis and Butthead Do America_? That’s one I can’t seem to get _anybody_ to watch with me, even the ones who will watch _Dumb and Dumber_.[/QUOTE] Yes, EP did win Best Picture, but I still remember the cries of outrage about that. Anyway, we’re not alone. And hey…I own copies of **Beavis…** and **Dumb and Dumber** and would happily watch them again. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-everyone-hates-but-you/377951.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-everyone-hates-but-you/377951.md?page=5)