# Movies u loved that critics and/or the public mostly hated. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 15, 2004, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-u-loved-that-critics-and-or-the-public-mostly-hated/240090 "2004-04-15T01:48:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![START](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@START](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/START)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-u-loved-that-critics-and-or-the-public-mostly-hated/240090/1 "2004-04-15T01:48:12Z")
A partial list: Meggido Omega Code 2; good movie but did not get enough promotion. I am sure if it had been promoted it would have made a good amount of money. Critics may have discriminated because it was sponsored by a Christian cable network. Mars Attacks; I think it is a fun movie to watch and I like how many great actors were in it, including Pierce Brosnan and Jack Nicholson. Artificial Intelligence; This movie was the only movie I have seen 2wice while still in the theatres. I’m glad that each time I went alone because this movie was like an emotional roller coaster and had me a lil’ teary eyed. Jackass; This is a cool movie for when your hanging out with your friends on the weekend. Freddy Got Fingered; This movie is so crazy it’s hard not to like. I liked it when I saw it in theatres but breaking up with my girlfriend made me like it even more. When we were dating she was so offended by the movie she made me return it to the store and after she dissed me I appreciated Tom Green’s weird sense of humor 10 times more. Carrie 2; The original came out well before I graced the planet with my intelligence but I loved it after discovering it at Hollywood Video and so when part 2 came out I rushed to see it. I was not dissapointed one bit. just like in the original I was happy when the bullies got what was coming to them by supernatural forces. Jeepers Creepers 1 and 2; I don’t understand how people could say that either of these movies are not scary because they both had me on the edge of my seat. A friend of mine and I rented the first one so many times the video store guy said he would give us a copy if he could but I ended up buying one. Later I found out the director was a sex offender but I was already digging the movies so much it didn’t matter. More movies later!!! ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-u-loved-that-critics-and-or-the-public-mostly-hated/240090/2 "2004-04-15T01:52:18Z")
Death to Smoochy is the biggest one since no one I know likes it at all but I loved it. Williams and Norton were gold and I’m a sucker for dark comedies. The other would be Fight Club but that doesn’t really count much anymore since it’s become such a cult classic. Great movie. ---
**Author:** ![ITR\_champion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c67d28/32.png) [@ITR\_champion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ITR_champion)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-u-loved-that-critics-and-or-the-public-mostly-hated/240090/3 "2004-04-15T01:54:02Z")
_Mystery Men_. The first half of this movie is just damn funny. I can’t defend the second half very mcuh, but really everybody should see the first half. “I don’t recall telling you to do that.” ---
**Author:** ![Eternal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@Eternal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eternal)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-u-loved-that-critics-and-or-the-public-mostly-hated/240090/4 "2004-04-15T02:08:50Z")
I’m easily pleased by any action movie with good action and over-the-top acting. So yeah I like **Battlefield Earth** , and I don’t know how **The Patriot** (Mel Gibson) was received, but I think it’s great. I’ve also made known my affinity for **The Big Hit**. ---
**Author:** ![Pythagras](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/45deac/32.png) [@Pythagras](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pythagras)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-u-loved-that-critics-and-or-the-public-mostly-hated/240090/5 "2004-04-15T02:12:26Z")
Half Baked. Some movies just hit you as being extremly funny when you are in certain moods and at other times stupid. Half Baked is one of those. And no I do not smoke pot nor am I a “hippyish” type person. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-u-loved-that-critics-and-or-the-public-mostly-hated/240090/6 "2004-04-15T02:14:33Z")
I’ll just add seconds for _Death to Smoochy_, _The Big Hit_, and _Mystery Men_. Once upon a time, I’d have added _Joe vs. the Volcano_, but it seems to have had a renaissance in the last few years: everyone says it’s the film they love that everyone else hated. **START** , if you’re interested, Michael York wrote a book about filming _Meggido_. I got a copy of it for Christmas one year for reasons that I cannot even begin to fathom. I eventually threw mine out: Hollywood tell-all books just aren’t any fun when the author _likes_ everyone, and I’d never even heard of the movie before I got the book. Still, since you liked the film, you might find it more interesting than I did. ---
**Author:** ![Tremmie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5fc32e/32.png) [@Tremmie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tremmie)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-u-loved-that-critics-and-or-the-public-mostly-hated/240090/7 "2004-04-15T02:22:21Z")
I liked the first Scooby Doo movie. Not “watch it in the theaters” like, or even enough to rent it, but i don’t inmediately turn the channel if its on TV. ---
**Author:** ![HoldenCaulfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/22d042/32.png) [@HoldenCaulfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoldenCaulfield)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-u-loved-that-critics-and-or-the-public-mostly-hated/240090/8 "2004-04-15T02:33:48Z")
I liked the second and third Matrix installments (better than I liked the first one) and didn’t think the CG in the Smith/Neo brawl in the second was distracting at all. I also really liked Whatever It Takes, which is the best teen comedy of the late 90’s/early 2000’s era. I like most movies I see (with few exceptions) so I’m sure to think of more soon enough. ---
**Author:** ![START](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@START](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/START)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-u-loved-that-critics-and-or-the-public-mostly-hated/240090/9 "2004-04-15T02:34:54Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > I’ll just add seconds for _Death to Smoochy_, _The Big Hit_, and _Mystery Men_. Once upon a time, I’d have added _Joe vs. the Volcano_, but it seems to have had a renaissance in the last few years: everyone says it’s the film they love that everyone else hated. > > **START** , if you’re interested, Michael York wrote a book about filming _Meggido_. I got a copy of it for Christmas one year for reasons that I cannot even begin to fathom. I eventually threw mine out: Hollywood tell-all books just aren’t any fun when the author _likes_ everyone, and I’d never even heard of the movie before I got the book. Still, since you liked the film, you might find it more interesting than I did. Thanx…got any links where I could check it out. Prices, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-u-loved-that-critics-and-or-the-public-mostly-hated/240090/10 "2004-04-15T02:43:12Z")
I also like Half Baked- one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen was Bob Saget standing up and saying “I’ve sucked dick for coke!” Bob Saget!! I also really like The Cable Guy and have seen it many times. Yes, they say Jim Carrey is a big ham, yadda yadda… but I love him. I even had a dream about a month ago where we (Jim and I) were talking and I told him “I know the critics panned it, but I think The Cable Guy is sooooo funny!” I also really enjoyed Ace Ventura Pet Detective, I and II. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-u-loved-that-critics-and-or-the-public-mostly-hated/240090/11 "2004-04-15T02:52:57Z")
Sylvester Stallone’s “Oscar” made almost all the critics’ Ten Worst lists, and it hardly made a dime at the box office… but I thought it was hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![dangergene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@dangergene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangergene)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-u-loved-that-critics-and-or-the-public-mostly-hated/240090/12 "2004-04-15T02:56:49Z")
> [@HoldenCaulfield](#): > > I like most movies I see (with few exceptions) so I’m sure to think of more soon enough. I’m very much the same way. I seem to like most of the moviers I see (hence my -somewhat laughable- claims that KillBill, Xmen2 and Hellboy are the greatest films ever made! Yes, I know there are much better films, even I think so, but I did enjoy them enough to decide they were MY idea of greatest films ever.). uh… flame on! (oh, and **Holden** unfortunately I didn’t enjoy Matrix 2 and 3, but that’s not what this thread is about, so I’ll leave it at that). ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-u-loved-that-critics-and-or-the-public-mostly-hated/240090/13 "2004-04-15T02:58:09Z")
> [@START](#): > > Thanx…got any links where I could check it out. Prices, etc. Sorry, no. I looked around on the Web, checked Amazon, but I don’t see anything. I got the first one as a gift, no idea where the relative who bought it for me got it. ---
**Author:** ![START](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@START](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/START)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-u-loved-that-critics-and-or-the-public-mostly-hated/240090/14 "2004-04-15T03:13:28Z")
Let me add “Unbreakable” because the people I saw it with came out of the theatre saying it was “boring” but I thought it was great. ---
**Author:** ![START](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@START](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/START)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-u-loved-that-critics-and-or-the-public-mostly-hated/240090/15 "2004-04-15T08:28:10Z")
I should stop replying to my own post but I just keep thinking of movies I liked alot and so many people hated this time it is “Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure” the entire series of movies. Great rentals for lazy saturday nights and I cannot forget about “Back to the future 4” I think it was 4 anyway, whichever one where they went into the wild west. ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-u-loved-that-critics-and-or-the-public-mostly-hated/240090/16 "2004-04-15T10:07:22Z")
> [@START](#): > > I should stop replying to my own post but I just keep thinking of movies I liked alot and so many people hated this time it is “Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure” the entire series of movies. Great rentals for lazy saturday nights and I cannot forget about “Back to the future 4” I think it was 4 anyway, whichever one where they went into the wild west. There were only three Back to the Future movies. BTW, were you channelling Prince when you wrote the thread title? ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-u-loved-that-critics-and-or-the-public-mostly-hated/240090/17 "2004-04-15T10:17:37Z")
**Gangs of New York**. I don’t know why I love it so much, but I just do. I’ve seen it twice in the theater, and many times more on DVD, and I still can’t get enough of it. The thing is, I’m well aware of all it’s flaws (the two leads, the pacing, the innacuracies), and I can understand why nobody seems to like it… and yet I can’t take my eyes off it. ---
**Author:** ![jinty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dbc845/32.png) [@jinty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jinty)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-u-loved-that-critics-and-or-the-public-mostly-hated/240090/18 "2004-04-15T12:26:04Z")
I’ll put in a vote for Waterworld. (Even in a thread like this, I’m expecting brickbats!) I don’t care about what it cost I don’t care about the 2-d characters I don’t care about the hokey environmental message I don’t care that it’s just Mad Max 2 On Water I don’t care whether Costner was a good lead or not I just like the set-pieces, the overall attractiveness of a largely blue film, and some interesting side-moments like the descent to the sunken city with the nuclear sub embedded in a skyscraper. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-u-loved-that-critics-and-or-the-public-mostly-hated/240090/19 "2004-04-15T12:28:13Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Sylvester Stallone’s “Oscar” made almost all the critics’ Ten Worst lists, and it hardly made a dime at the box office… but I thought it was hilarious. Second this. It could have been better directed, but the film worked quite nicely. My top choice, of course, is **Ishtar**. A nice, funny film. I also liked Woody Allen’s **A Midsummers Night Sex Comedy** much more than critics, who got the mistaken impression it was a comedy (it was a deeply sad film, concluding that all relationships are doomed to failure). ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-u-loved-that-critics-and-or-the-public-mostly-hated/240090/20 "2004-04-15T13:18:45Z")
_Mystery Men_, _Zoolander_, _Baseketball_ … but most of all _Hudson Hawk_. I judge people by whether or not they like _Hudson Hawk_. If they think it’s no good, then they’re not someone I’d want to watch movies with. It’s just so… fun. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-u-loved-that-critics-and-or-the-public-mostly-hated/240090.md?page=2)