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
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:
Daredevil—In addition, this is, I think, one of the only roles I thought Ben Affleck did a good job in.
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.
Dude…Kristofferson rocks in that movie! I love him!
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.
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…
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.
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 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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
I really liked the Cohen brothers’ remake of The Ladykillers. I also liked Intolerable Cruelty.
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.
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.”
I love that movie, and my roomie and I just watched it the other night. Great stuff.
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.
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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.
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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.