# Movies you hated while everyone loved **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 19, 2010, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hated-while-everyone-loved/536628 "2010-04-19T14:56:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![dangermom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hated-while-everyone-loved/536628/21 "2010-04-19T16:17:54Z")
**You’ve Got Mail**. How I hated that movie. It made me so angry! ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hated-while-everyone-loved/536628/22 "2010-04-19T16:19:20Z")
Good Will Hunting. God Damn, I hated this movie. ---
**Author:** ![overlyverbose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9dc877/32.png) [@overlyverbose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overlyverbose)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hated-while-everyone-loved/536628/23 "2010-04-19T16:20:34Z")
_Kill Bill_, both volumes. They were ridiculously gory and violent and could’ve been much cooler had they not had so many amputations and decapitations. _Reservoir Dogs_. Okay, most anything by Quentin Tarantino. I really don’t get the casual violence. Why is it supposed to be so cool? I see nothing artistic about it. It’s just violence. _Pulp Fiction_ was at least mildly funny, though not so much so that it was really worth watching the whole thing. _The Piano_ and _The English Patient_. Again, both were very artsy, which is just not my style of movie. I can appreciate some artsy movies, but I really watch movies to be entertained, not to extol the virtues of various methods of directing, shooting and acting, so many critically acclaimed movies are just lost on me. Plus, _The English Patient_ confused the hell out of me. But at least it was a lot like the book, which also confused the hell out of me. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hated-while-everyone-loved/536628/24 "2010-04-19T16:22:32Z")
Million Dollar Baby. ---
**Author:** ![Jelly\_Roll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Jelly\_Roll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jelly_Roll)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hated-while-everyone-loved/536628/25 "2010-04-19T16:28:22Z")
**American Gangster.** I just kept sitting in the theater waiting for something-_anything_-to happen. When my husband started snoring, I decided it was time to leave. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hated-while-everyone-loved/536628/26 "2010-04-19T16:32:44Z")
Of those already mentioned, I agree with _Saving Private Ryan_ (wildly overrated) and _Field of Dreams_ (schlocky and stupid, Kevin Costner). My addition: _Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind_. I was REALLY looking forward to this and I expected to love it. But I found all of the “inside Jim Carrey’s head” sequences ridiculously boring. It was like when someone tells you about their crazy dream from last night and asks you what you think it means. If they had cut those sections down by about 85%, I think I would have liked it a lot more. But I am apparently alone in this opinion. Everyone else thinks this movie is awesome. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hated-while-everyone-loved/536628/27 "2010-04-19T16:34:02Z")
> [@Angel\_of\_Doubt](#): > > Pulp Fiction. Maybe it didn’t help that my husband and I watched it together at his insistence after we’d been going through some problems, but I didn’t catch any of the supposed humor or irony it’s supposed to have; it depressed me thoroughly. this one. I hated pulp fiction. ---
**Author:** ![psycat90](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@psycat90](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psycat90)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hated-while-everyone-loved/536628/28 "2010-04-19T16:39:01Z")
Did people really like **What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?** I’m not sure. I remember a bunch of hype about it, but I don’t know if it was good hype or bad hype. Anyway, I saw it for the first time last night and pretty much hated it. A poorly written wankfest of codependency and dysfunction with mediocre acting. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hated-while-everyone-loved/536628/29 "2010-04-19T16:42:47Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > We shouldn’t assume our small circles of friends are in an yway typical of the world at large. Yeah, but as I said, Superbad isn’t something just a circle of my friends liked! > [@Kyla](#): > > My addition: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. I was REALLY looking forward to this and I expected to love it. But I found all of the “inside Jim Carrey’s head” sequences ridiculously boring. It was like when someone tells you about their crazy dream from last night and asks you what you think it means. If they had cut those sections down by about 85%, I think I would have liked it a lot more. I hated it, too. And people kept telling me I had misunderstood it or whatever. It was a crock of shit and I just hated the principle characters. Of the others mentioned, I will agree to E.T. definitely, though I didn’t realize I hated it until years after I had seen it, and then I felt robbed. I also appreciate the realism of the beginning of Saving Private Ryan and I recommend everyone see it after they have watched too many “candy” war flicks. The rest of it was a bit boring I agree. ---
**Author:** ![Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f08c70/32.png) [@Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crowbar_of_Irony_3)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hated-while-everyone-loved/536628/30 "2010-04-19T16:46:12Z")
Titanic. Avatar. See a pattern here? ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hated-while-everyone-loved/536628/31 "2010-04-19T16:46:27Z")
> [@dangermom](#): > > **You’ve Got Mail**. How I hated that movie. It made me so angry! Did people like this? ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hated-while-everyone-loved/536628/32 "2010-04-19T16:48:00Z")
I can’t think of anything anyone else hasn’t mentioned, but I do want to add my voice to those who hated _Crash_ and _City of God_. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hated-while-everyone-loved/536628/33 "2010-04-19T16:48:20Z")
_Lost in Translation_. Aptly named; something didn’t make it from the inspiration to the screen. Just kind of wandered and didn’t do much for me. I like Bill Murray and I was expecting a lot from this movie, especially given the reviews. _Contact_. I really wanted my money back on this one. Over time I’ve come to understand that there are two different cultural mindsets & ways of thinking about “contact with extraterrestrial intelligences”, one of which derives from standard science fiction and assumes that contact with ETs would be akin to contact with a previously unknown human culture, the other of which is a woo-woo semi-spiritual semi-religious belief system about conspiracies, aliens as special/spiritual guides or leaders for humankind, and the conflict between True Believer who believes in aliens and alien abductions & crop circles versus skeptical people who would say “Cite?”. I was expecting the former and got the latter. Also, the main character at no point gains a toehold and manages to succeed or take control of _any_ situation she is in; it was like the worst of old gothic paperbacks like Mary Roberts Rinehart. Damsel in perpetual distress. _The Fantastic Mr. Fox_. Not so fantastic. Good execution but the story itself was sort of all over the place. Slow-moving. Interminable. Eventually boring. _City of Lost Children_. Unwatchable. Weird for the sake of weird. We ejected the DVD and went on to watch something else. _Sunshine Cleaning_. Had high hopes for this one, from the same folks who made _Little Miss Sunshine_, but somehow it never gelled into any kind of compellng story. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hated-while-everyone-loved/536628/34 "2010-04-19T17:07:15Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > I am not trying to defend _ **Napoleon Dynamite** _, a movie I haven’t even seen. > > But if writer/director Jared Hess were reading this forum, he’d probably be thinking, "What do you mean EVERYBODY liked _ **Napoleon Dynamite** _ except you? If EVERYBODY but you loved it, why am I not rolling in dough right now? > > Napoleon Dynamite was only a modest cult hit. The few people who liked it got into it in a big way, but the vast majority of the population has barely even heard of it. OK, it’s not exactly Avatar or anything, but the film had a [budget of $400K and brought in $44 million domestically.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_Dynamite) That’s not chump change. Compare that to [Goodfellas](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodfellas) which had a $25 million budget and brought in about the same take as Napoleon Dynamite. ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hated-while-everyone-loved/536628/35 "2010-04-19T17:09:30Z")
_Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas_: I keep getting told how great it is and how the fact that it’s such a great film about _mumble_. I find it hard to watch, I don’t know, I’ve heard that was the point. All I know is that I got bored about halfway through and never finished it. I also hate E.T. (someone mentioned it above), but that’s probably partially because I was scared of E.T. when I was little. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hated-while-everyone-loved/536628/36 "2010-04-19T17:25:10Z")
My wife and I rented _Prizzi’s Honor_ one evening. The critics thought well of it, a lot of people had recommended it, good actors in it, etc. Hated it. HATED HATED HATED it. Usually, a film this well recommended should score no worse than an “Eh”, but not this one. HATED HATED HATED it. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hated-while-everyone-loved/536628/37 "2010-04-19T17:29:05Z")
_The Others_. Actually, save for the first 10 minutes I never actually watched it so I can’t really say I hated it, but I figured out the twist before the opening titles finished so I turned it off. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hated-while-everyone-loved/536628/38 "2010-04-19T17:32:11Z")
I’ll agree with City of God. I saw it, thought it was forgettable, and couldn’t believe when I found out that people thought this was great art. The only thing it seemed to have going for it was that it was super violent. ---
**Author:** ![GESancMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gesancman/32/2923_2.png) [@GESancMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GESancMan)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hated-while-everyone-loved/536628/39 "2010-04-19T17:45:38Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > Old School. Sad, sad, sad movie. I may have chuckled once. Yeah. Well, I didn’t _hate_ it, but it left me scratching my head. I mean, people kept telling me how gawddamn funny it is, so when I finally saw it I was expecting to laugh hysterically. I kept waiting for the funny parts… and waiting… and waiting… ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_s\_Son](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19adc/32.png) [@Jim\_s\_Son](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_s_Son)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hated-while-everyone-loved/536628/40 "2010-04-19T18:03:34Z")
“Godfather Part II”. Never understand why people fawn over it as “greatest sequel ever”. Which isn’t much of a field except for “Bride of Frankenstein” and “Empire Strikes Back”. “Carnal Knowledge” As Mad magazine said at the time, who is going to believe Candice Bergen is a wallflower at a dance? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hated-while-everyone-loved/536628.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hated-while-everyone-loved/536628.md?page=3)