# Movies you hate but everyone else seems to love **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 20, 2006, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hate-but-everyone-else-seems-to-love/357564 "2006-05-20T20:42:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Southpaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@Southpaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southpaw)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2006, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hate-but-everyone-else-seems-to-love/357564/61 "2006-05-21T02:19:49Z")
**To Kill a Mockingbird** never did anything for me. I just don’t get why people wax rhapsotic about that movie. **ET** - The scene that got me was when the kid wouldn’t dissect the frog and let it go free. Since when do grade-schoolers do dissection? Much less on _live_ frogs? **Fargo** - Yes, I get back comedy. I just don’t like this movie. Add to that everything else by the Cohen brothers. **Shrek** - I still wonder why it won the Oscar over **Monsters Inc.**. ---
**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:** [May 21, 2006, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hate-but-everyone-else-seems-to-love/357564/62 "2006-05-21T02:23:29Z")
[QUOTE=Southpaw] **ET** - The scene that got me was when the kid wouldn’t dissect the frog and let it go free. Since when do grade-schoolers do dissection? Much less on _live_ frogs? [/QUOTE] Did ET bring it back to life somehow? I haven’t seen it but once, back when it was in theaters the first time, so maybe I’m confused. ---
**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:** [May 21, 2006, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hate-but-everyone-else-seems-to-love/357564/63 "2006-05-21T04:45:12Z")
[QUOTE=Sage Rat] Forrest Gump Everything by the Coen Brothers The Shawshank Redemption And I wasn’t impressed by The Matrix The Godfather series Brazil The Silence of the Lambs Star Wars TOS [/QUOTE] :eek: ---
**Author:** ![2MuchTrivia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/e9bcb4/32.png) [@2MuchTrivia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2MuchTrivia)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2006, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hate-but-everyone-else-seems-to-love/357564/64 "2006-05-21T07:33:52Z")
_Shawshank Redemption_ _Lethal Weapon 2,3,and 4_ _Sideways_ _Star Wars_ (all) _Men in Black 2_ _Shrek 2_ _Spider Man 2_ _Alien: Resurrection_ SR, was about revenge and stealing, not redemption. LW, was about, “jumping the shark”. Side, was just plain boring (as in I couldn’t care what happened next, I just wanted out of the theater). SW, never got into any of them. MiB, another “jumping the shark”. S2, too witty to be for children, too lame to be for adults. SM2, another “jumping the shark”. A:R, can’t decide this one (“jumping the shark”, contractual nonsense, or other). I will admit I have never walked out on a movie, and no, I do not hate sci-fi, children’s movies, or any genre in paticular. The OP was about movies YOU/I hate, that others touted as good or better than others. My list could go on as I also watch foreign (Non USA) films as well, this is my short short list of recent(ish) crap. ---
**Author:** ![2MuchTrivia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/e9bcb4/32.png) [@2MuchTrivia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2MuchTrivia)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2006, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hate-but-everyone-else-seems-to-love/357564/65 "2006-05-21T07:40:03Z")
And no, I do not hate sequels…I thought _Aliens_ was better than the first. ---
**Author:** ![KJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b2d939/32.png) [@KJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KJ)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2006, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hate-but-everyone-else-seems-to-love/357564/66 "2006-05-21T09:38:50Z")
Movies everyone likes that I hated: Lord of the Rings: A lot of dramatic music and art direction with no substance behind it. To Kill a Mockingbird: I didn’t think of it until Southpaw mentioned it, but I thought the movie didn’t live up to the book at all. End of Evangelion (anime): I had a few roommates who thought this was the most thought-provoking movie ever, but it was too artsy for me, like it was trying way too hard to look like it had a deep underlying message if you could decipher it. Movies that aren’t bad but are horribly overrated: Raising Arizona Princess Bride The Breakfast Club Ferris Beuller’s Day Off Pulp Fiction (and I loved Kill Bill) Boondock Saints ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2006, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hate-but-everyone-else-seems-to-love/357564/67 "2006-05-21T11:19:20Z")
_Dead Man Walking_: so damn smug in its assurance that you would agree with it that the death penalty was barbarous. Me, I was rooting for the worthless piece of shit that Sean Penn played to be put up against a wall and shot, with Susan Sarandon’s smirking nun alongside him. ---
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2006, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hate-but-everyone-else-seems-to-love/357564/68 "2006-05-21T11:41:37Z")
[QUOTE=mamboman] I’ll second the _Lord Of The Rings Trilogy_ Was there are story in there anywhere? mm [/QUOTE] 😕 Oh, I get it. Ha ha! Good one! ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2006, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hate-but-everyone-else-seems-to-love/357564/69 "2006-05-21T12:05:23Z")
[QUOTE=Talon Karrde] :eek: [/QUOTE] Well, going through them… My reaction to Forrest Gump: If I wanted to watch real life for three hours, I can just sit on my back porch. Why should I want to watch some guy live the most made up life ever just for the sake of getting a big ‘And that’s life’? I know what life is, thank you, and it didn’t require me to go to Vietnam, catch Nickson at it, and marry a woman with AIDS. I just turned on the news. Coen Brothers: Two hours of making fun of how stupid rural/vietnam vets/anarchists/rich people/whoever are. Sure your stories might be good, but still fuck you. Yeah, people have intrinsicacies that can be annoying or “quaint” to your world view, but frankly I just think that revelling in for your own amusement is just being an ass. Shawshank Redemption: ? I’m not sure I ever saw a point in the movie. Guy goes to a jail, runs around for two hours as he is chased by some guys who want to rape him, while crying to Morgan Freeman about how he is really really innocent. …well okay? Where is the story? The character doesn’t advance, he wasn’t a bad guy he wasn’t weak and strengthened up to the rapist dudes but rather stayed at about the same level for the length of the movie, and who cares if he gets free? He was innocent. The whole movie seemed to have very little point beyond showing how awful life would be for a white collar guy in jail–well great, but “WASPs in Jail” isn’t a real reason for a movie going experience. The Matrix: Well most of the cool scenes, and the entire feel of the film, was stolen from Oshii Mamoru’s Ghost in the Shell, which I had already seen. So watching them _again_ just wasn’t the rush it was to American audiences. And then I though that they entirely wasted their story. They had a whole “other” world that they could introduce over the course of the movie, letting hints through one by one to build up to some sort of amazing revelation. But instead they just hand us the whole Matrix backstory on a platter fifteen minutes into the movie and leave us with nothing else but action sequences for the rest of the film. All of which–as said–I had already seen elsewhere. The Godfather: Guy enters into the mafia and does “bad things.” This was a suprise? I guess I’m just not nice enough a person to be impressed by leaving horse heads in people’s sheets or killing your own brother. Otherwise the movies are just watching a family going about it’s life for six hours…which like Forrest Gump, I get enough of without going to a movie theater. Brazil: Dunno. I think it was like 1984 done with neon-lights and girls in feathers. It just didn’t jive for me. Everything else by Gilliam I’ve been fine with. Silence of the Lambs: I can come up with darker, smarter, scarier, and most importantly more realistic psychos than Thomas Harris can. Simply, Anthony Hopkins, rather than scaring me, just made me think of all the ways that his character was infeasible given human psychology. The original Star Wars: Eh, it was nice action ride I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2006, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hate-but-everyone-else-seems-to-love/357564/70 "2006-05-21T12:22:31Z")
[QUOTE=Sage Rat] … Silence of the Lambs: I can come up with darker, smarter, scarier, and most importantly more realistic psychos than Thomas Harris can… [/QUOTE] That’s funny. My problem with the Hopkins character is that by being a smart and scary psycho murderer he isn’t realistic at all. When I think of serial murderers I think of pathetic specimens like Jeffrey Dahmer. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2006, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hate-but-everyone-else-seems-to-love/357564/71 "2006-05-21T12:33:39Z")
[QUOTE=Laughing Lagomorph] That’s funny. My problem with the Hopkins character is that by being a smart and scary psycho murderer he isn’t realistic at all. When I think of serial murderers I think of pathetic specimens like Jeffrey Dahmer. [/QUOTE] Well, true. But one still could come up with such a fellow and have it realistic. I’m sure the one doctor who ran the Hotel of Death in Chicago was no mental slouch. ---
**Author:** ![mike1dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@mike1dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mike1dog)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2006, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hate-but-everyone-else-seems-to-love/357564/72 "2006-05-21T12:40:57Z")
There’s a movie I absolutely despise that some people seem to think is the greatest movie ever made, and that’s **Donnie Darko.** People seem to think I hated it because I didn’t understand it. Not true. I hated it because it was awful. ---
**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2006, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hate-but-everyone-else-seems-to-love/357564/73 "2006-05-21T12:42:50Z")
Another vote for Pulp Fiction. I thought it STUNK. And may I add The Village? It had a decent premise, but was very poorly excecuted. ---
**Author:** ![KSO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@KSO](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KSO)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2006, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hate-but-everyone-else-seems-to-love/357564/74 "2006-05-21T12:55:56Z")
Wedding Crashers. Didn’t hate it but don’t see what all the hype is about. Definitely some very funny scenes, but as a movie, I didn’t think it held together very well. I watched the “uncorked” version instead of the original version so maybe that was the problem. There’s a scene very early in the movie that goes on for what seemed to be hours–cutting back and forth among various receptions where they’re getting their pictures taken with the couples, and eating cake, and drinking champagne, ad nauseum. It was like the director wasn’t sure we got the premise of the movie, even though there was a deadly dull expository scene early on where Vince Vaughn explained exactly what the premise was. I also thought the character played by the dude from Alias was so over the top that it just irritated me. ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2006, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hate-but-everyone-else-seems-to-love/357564/75 "2006-05-21T13:09:58Z")
**When Harry Fucked Sally** Aside from the fake orgasm scene, this movie makes me want to take a cruise missile to the television. If there’s an actress I hate more than Gwyneth Paltrow, it may be Meg Ryan. Two bleeding hours of Meg’s treacly America’s Sweetheart schtick while Billy Crystal does the only fucking thing he knows how to do (which is be Billy Crystal, the insufferably smug neo-Borcht-belt smartalec) in her vicinity, and I want to scream “God damn you all to heeelllllll”… ---
**Author:** ![threeorange](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@threeorange](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/threeorange)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2006, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hate-but-everyone-else-seems-to-love/357564/76 "2006-05-21T13:13:30Z")
What, no hatred for **Moulin Rouge**? ---
**Author:** ![Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt.Ridley_s_Shooting_Party)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2006, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hate-but-everyone-else-seems-to-love/357564/77 "2006-05-21T13:17:28Z")
**Withnail and I** is, in a word, shit. It isn’t funny. At all. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2006, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hate-but-everyone-else-seems-to-love/357564/78 "2006-05-21T13:34:29Z")
_Gone With The Wind_ _The Big Lebowski_ _American Beauty_ _Sin City_ Anything by Kevin Smith Anything by Quentin Tarantino ---
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2006, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hate-but-everyone-else-seems-to-love/357564/79 "2006-05-21T13:38:16Z")
[QUOTE=KSO] Wedding Crashers. Didn’t hate it but don’t see what all the hype is about. Definitely some very funny scenes, but as a movie, I didn’t think it held together very well. I watched the “uncorked” version instead of the original version so maybe that was the problem. There’s a scene very early in the movie that goes on for what seemed to be hours–cutting back and forth among various receptions where they’re getting their pictures taken with the couples, and eating cake, and drinking champagne, ad nauseum. It was like the director wasn’t sure we got the premise of the movie, even though there was a deadly dull expository scene early on where Vince Vaughn explained exactly what the premise was. I also thought the character played by the dude from Alias was so over the top that it just irritated me. [/QUOTE] I just saw this too, only it was the original version. I was similarly underwhelmed. Several of the supporting characters were too over the top, including the boyfriend and the artist brother. ---
**Author:** ![blueserge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@blueserge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blueserge)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2006, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hate-but-everyone-else-seems-to-love/357564/80 "2006-05-21T13:51:39Z")
[QUOTE=threeorange] What, no hatred for **Moulin Rouge**? [/QUOTE] I love _Moulin Rouge_, while readily acknowledging it’s not for all tastes. It’s far from a perfect movie, but it’s unique. The story is thin, none of the characters is fleshed out, John Leguizamo and Jim Broadbent are underused, and yet… and yet… Baz Luhrman creates a kaleidoscope of color, light, sound and costumes that I just find exhiliarating. It’s an assault on the senses, and I can understand and respect the opinions of others who absolutely hate the movie. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hate-but-everyone-else-seems-to-love/357564.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hate-but-everyone-else-seems-to-love/357564.md?page=5)