# Movies that everyones loves...except you **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 6, 2001, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-everyones-loves-except-you/64576 "2001-05-06T23:42:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![even\_sven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dfb087/32.png) [@even\_sven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/even_sven)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2001, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-everyones-loves-except-you/64576/41 "2001-05-07T08:12:17Z")
\*\* Fight Club \*\* Everyone said “Oh no, really, this isn’t just a soak in a blood-sweat-and-semen filled testosterone bath…it’s got a moral! It’s deep!” I watched it. It was a soak in a testosterone bath, with a few characters that would seem deep to a high school sophmore (wow…he like…goes to support groups…that is so about the state of masculinity…man). Of course there was a crudely executed “plot twist” at the end, where we are all supposed to see what they were actually saying and go home thinking deep thoughts. That somehow made up for the hour and a half of violence we just subjected ourselves to. The whole damn movie was an excuse for itself. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2001, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-everyones-loves-except-you/64576/42 "2001-05-07T09:06:36Z")
Hey, don’t you go dissin’ violence, **even sven**. I’ve seen the Matrix 27 times… you don’t want a piece of this action! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_H](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a5b964/32.png) [@Bill\_H](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_H)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2001, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-everyones-loves-except-you/64576/43 "2001-05-07T09:19:34Z")
(I started to write this post with a description of what I hated about each of these movies, but realized each description was the same: idiotic plot, terrible acting, poor direction, basically everything that could be wrong was) Matrix Crouching Crap, Hidden Hamburgers Blair Witch Project Good Will Hunting Fight Club Dances With Wolves ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2001, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-everyones-loves-except-you/64576/44 "2001-05-07T12:20:11Z")
**The Mummy**. I saw it when it came out and I didn’t _hate_ it, but I didn’t love it. It was terribly slow for the first hour, and then I thought it was an **Indiana Jones** rip-off. But then, I doubt you can film any movie in Egypt without it looking like an Indiana Jones rip-off. But I digress. Now, all my friends are going estatic about **The Mummy II** and I can’t see the big deal. I’ll probably go and see it, but I’m not hoping for much. Another one I hate, HATE, is **Austin Powers 2**. What a piece of crap. ---
**Author:** ![LateComer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b5ac83/32.png) [@LateComer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LateComer)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2001, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-everyones-loves-except-you/64576/45 "2001-05-07T12:52:04Z")
**Leaving Las Vegas.** That was the most boring, worthless piece of crap I ever saw. Guy drinks. Treats hooker like crap but she likes him anyway. He still tries to kill himself by drinking (are there no bridges or high buildings in Las Vegas?) Hooker gets beat up. Guy dies. What’s the point? Oh, and my wife also hates **It’s a Wonderful Life** , despite the fact that she is a crazy Christmas nut. She hates Jimmy Stewart, which is odd as we now live in Jimmy Stewart’s birthplace, Indiana, PA, and she could probably be stoned if word ever got out. ---
**Author:** ![Who\_me\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/958977/32.png) [@Who\_me\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Who_me_1)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2001, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-everyones-loves-except-you/64576/46 "2001-05-07T13:13:45Z")
It would be much easier for me to list the movies I didn’t hate than to list the ones I did. I personally think 90% of all movies released suck. 90% of the rest are just “not very good”, and the remaining 1% of all movies released are actually good. Needless to say, I don’t go to see movies often. I base my personal evaluations on movies I eventually see on cable. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2001, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-everyones-loves-except-you/64576/47 "2001-05-07T13:30:00Z")
I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought _Sleepless in Seattle_ was a mediocre movie. But my personal all-time can’t-stand-this-movie-that-everyone-else-loved is **The Big Chill**. It doesn’t matter whether you evaluate it on its own, or compare it with Sayles’ _Secaucus 7_ (IIRC, I saw _Chill_ first); it’s a piece of dreck either way. A bunch of former movers and shakers in the antiwar movement have somehow stayed in loose touch while becoming movers and shakers in the machine they used to rail against: Yippies, Yuppies, what’s the difference, right? They’ve all (except the druggie and the dead guy) done the Jerry Rubin number, and are about as lovable as him. Meanwhile, whatever they were pissed at each other about, fifteen years earlier, they’re _still_ pissed at each other about, only more so. Time has done nothing to improve the attitude of any of these serpents toward any of the others. When the only two remotely sympathetic characters - in a movie whose entire focus is the characters and their interrelationships - are the airhead and the druggie, you know you’re in trouble. Not to mention that if any of these characters had two dimensions, it would be an improvement. Everybody can be captured by a catch-phrase, whether it’s The TV Star or The Druggie. The only redeeming feature about this movie is the soundtrack. And now that we can all burn our own custom CDs, you gotta say so-what to that as well. ---
**Author:** ![doomraisin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d78d45/32.png) [@doomraisin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doomraisin)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2001, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-everyones-loves-except-you/64576/48 "2001-05-07T13:31:46Z")
“Field of Dreams.” Shallow, manipulative claptrap. ---
**Author:** ![plasticbryan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/6a8cbe/32.png) [@plasticbryan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plasticbryan)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2001, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-everyones-loves-except-you/64576/49 "2001-05-07T16:07:25Z")
Anything that involves Woody Allen. I’ve sat through a few of his movies at the bequest of my friends and each time I come away thinking, “Wow! That guy is the biggest whiner in the history of whiners. Didn’t I see this plot in his last movie.!” Another quick turnoff is Billy Crystal. I enjoy (not love, or hate) him as a stand up, but his movies all seem to suck. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2001, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-everyones-loves-except-you/64576/50 "2001-05-07T17:24:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by pesch \* > **In fact, including Shrek and after seeing Spy Kids, it’s the children’s movies that are rockin’ adults this year as well.** \ How is _Spy Kids_ for adults alone? I’m interested in seeing it with my wife (the son’s too young for any movies), but while all the reviews say it’s a great family movie for adults and kids, they neveer mention how the movie stands up as adults-only entertainment. Any tips here? \ As to the OP: if we’re only counting movies actually seen, then I’d give it to _Titanic._ Aside from the niftyness of watching James Cameron recycle his action shots 2/3rds of the way through the movie, it was a bore. If we’re talking about popular movies that I avoided seeing because I knew I wouldn’t like them, it’s a much longer list, topped by _American Beauty_. ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2001, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-everyones-loves-except-you/64576/51 "2001-05-07T17:50:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dlgirl \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by mangeorge \* > > \*\*The one with “mini me” in it. I hated it so much I can’t even remember the title. > > Peace, > > mangeorge \*\* > > Ewww, me too. > > Funny, I guess I don’t like much…😃 \*\* I did an IMDB search. It was the 1st Austin Powers movie, _The Spy Who Shagged Me_. “It sucked the big green one”, to use a contemporary phrase. And they even made a sequel? Go figger. Peace, mangeorge ---
**Author:** ![Protesilaus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Protesilaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Protesilaus)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2001, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-everyones-loves-except-you/64576/52 "2001-05-07T17:59:11Z")
It was the [sequel](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0145660). The first was [_Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery_](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0118655). ---
**Author:** ![Medievalist2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e19adc/32.png) [@Medievalist2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Medievalist2)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2001, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-everyones-loves-except-you/64576/53 "2001-05-07T18:47:48Z")
Star Wars and all its sequels - I hate science fiction It’s a Wonderful Life - Bedford Falls took almost everything away from George Bailey, and they hardly ever gave anything in return Forrest Gump - I hate anti-intellectual movies ---
**Author:** ![Outrider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9d8465/32.png) [@Outrider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Outrider)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2001, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-everyones-loves-except-you/64576/54 "2001-05-07T19:28:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Medievalist2 \* > \*\*Forrest Gump - I hate anti-intellectual movies \*\* Interesting, a lot of people dislike **Forrest Gump** and **Good Will Hunting**. Perhaps it’s because they’re _both_ anti-intellectual? My views on them are that they aren’t great movies, but they are very _well-made_, which is what rescues them from mediocrity. ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2001, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-everyones-loves-except-you/64576/55 "2001-05-07T22:17:30Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Medievalist2 > **Forrest Gump - I hate anti-intellectual movies** Yeah, interesting. I’ve never seen the movie. Now I’m going to have to rent it, just to see what’s so anti-intellectual about it. Do you have the same disdain for anti-doofus movies? Peace, mangeorge ---
**Author:** ![eunoia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eunoia/32/97_2.png) [@eunoia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eunoia)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2001, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-everyones-loves-except-you/64576/56 "2001-05-08T01:52:33Z")
As Good As It Gets is a work of pure genius! Any director who can convince an Academy Award-winning actress to do a totally gratuitous wet t-shirt scene should get a special Oscar. One I hated was **Citizen Kane**. A gazillionaire newspaper magnate is unable to make a star out of his talentless girlfriend? In the United States? Puh-leese! Let the fireworks begin. ---
**Author:** ![Spoonbender](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spoonbender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoonbender)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2001, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-everyones-loves-except-you/64576/57 "2001-05-08T01:52:36Z")
**The Godfather** - Boring **Titanic** - Melodramatic, inane **It’s a Wonderful Life** - Mushy, inane **Gladiator** - Boring, ordinary **Shakespeare In Love** - Pretentious **2001** - Boring, pretentious **Austin Powers 2** - Unfunny, juvenile **There’s Something About Mary** - Juvenile, unfunny **The Wizard of Oz** - Silly, juvenile Just to put this all in perspective: even though I hated The Godfather, I loved Goodfellas and Pulp Fiction. I hated Gladiator, but loved Raiders of the Lost Ark. Hated Shakespeare in Love, love Shakespeare. Hated Austin Powers and There’s Something About Mary, but loved South Park. And yes, I am fully prepared to get stoned for dissing Godfather, Wizard of Oz and 2001. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![kniz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@kniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kniz)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2001, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-everyones-loves-except-you/64576/58 "2001-05-08T03:58:31Z")
Steel Magnolias and Dumb, Dumber, Dumbest (or whatever) I actually thought Carey should have been banned from making more movies after that. ---
**Author:** ![Rmat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85e7bf/32.png) [@Rmat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rmat)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2001, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-everyones-loves-except-you/64576/59 "2001-05-08T04:30:51Z")
I love baseball, and I love cinema, but there are precious few good baseball movies. Most agree with that general assessment, but many then offer up Field of Dreams as a notable exception. Sure, it’s better than The Babe Ruth Story starring William Bendix, but please! Even an otherwise good movie can be ruined by a single dreadful, painful scene, and that’s certainly the case in Field of Dreams when the nit-wit playing the wife of the Costner character surrenders to her social radical impulse at the public meeting held in the local HS gymnasium. And then, just when one thinks the worst piece of acting in American movie history has mercifully concluded, she takes her ineptitude into a nearby corridor and continues her annoying ninny act. Bull Durham it wasn’t. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2001, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-everyones-loves-except-you/64576/60 "2001-05-08T08:58:42Z")
> [@](#): > > Star Wars and all its sequels - I hate science fiction Oh, come on, tell me those Star Destroyers don’t look cool as hell. (By the way, Star Wars is “space opera”… science fiction is much more preachy and anal :D) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-everyones-loves-except-you/64576.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-everyones-loves-except-you/64576.md?page=4)