# 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:** 7
**Author:** ![gang\_green](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f07891/32.png) [@gang\_green](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gang_green)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hated-while-everyone-loved/536628/121 "2010-04-21T14:01:22Z")
Gone with the Wind. Nobody in that film is interesting, likeable, or sympathetic. And it’s FOUR FREAKIN’ HOURS of uninteresting, unlikeable, unsympathetic people. The only thing I liked about it was a scene where Scarlett was running down stairs toward Rhett. I was fascinated by how fast her feet moved. ---
**Author:** ![koufax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7ea924/32.png) [@koufax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koufax)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hated-while-everyone-loved/536628/122 "2010-04-21T14:51:06Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > _ **The Shawshank Redemption** _. A bunch of stereotyped characters colliding to make the number one rated film on IMDB. Whatever. I strongly agree. The most over rated piece of shit of all time. ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hated-while-everyone-loved/536628/123 "2010-04-21T15:10:58Z")
> [@Aspidistra](#): > > I just went all the way throuth the [IMDB users’](http://www.imdb.com/chart/top) top 250 movies of all time. A couple of those movies are a bit over-rated, but I liked almost all of them to one degree or another. The only one I think I actually hated is **Fargo**. I like most of the other Cohen brothers films, and over-the-top violence doesn’t bother me, but Fargo is one of the few movies I got bored enough watching that I turned it off halfway through. ---
**Author:** ![FordTaurusSHO94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f07891/32.png) [@FordTaurusSHO94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordTaurusSHO94)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hated-while-everyone-loved/536628/124 "2010-04-21T15:12:44Z")
Into The Wild The kid was an idiot and got what was coming to him. ---
**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 21, 2010, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hated-while-everyone-loved/536628/125 "2010-04-21T15:13:33Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > He didn’t. He forced the client to kill her because he _was_ lust. The same way that Brad Pitt _became_ wrath when he shot John Doe. Pride was similar - she could have chosen to live disfigured, but killed herself instead. ---
**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 21, 2010, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hated-while-everyone-loved/536628/126 "2010-04-21T15:46:47Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > there is no movie named Se7en! [IMDb quietly disagrees](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114369/). ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hated-while-everyone-loved/536628/127 "2010-04-21T16:23:10Z")
If _Titanic_ and _Saving Private Ryan_ didn’t each have their one big, technically mind-blowing scene (sinking and D-Day, respectively), I think they both would have just faded away at the box office. Both of those enormously difficult to engineer scenes and the hype related to them is what put butts in the theater seats and made them mega-hits. As for _Psycho_ I think it just didn’t age well. My mom said she screamed in the theater when the chair was spun around to reveal Norman’s less-than-lively mother. I didn’t see the big deal at all and I didn’t know it was supposed to be a surprise. My friend’s mom explained it to us (she saw it in the theater). At the time, you didn’t really see nudity in mainstream movies. Although strategic camera work kept Janet Leigh’s parts covered, my friend’s mom said it was the first times in her movie-going experience that she was really _aware_ of a woman’s nakedness and exposure onscreen, so when the shower attack came it had more of a psychological impact because my friend’s mom said she had already been uncomfortable about how exposed and vulnerable Leigh was (especially knowing Norman had peep-holes too). She did not mention however, if she felt the reveal was scary at the time. But since that film came out, we’re a lot more used to seeing women disrobe and be murdered and little kids got to watch a face melt in _Raiders of the Lost Ark_. There’s nothing really uncomfortable or shocking about Psycho anymore, we see more sick and twisted stuff on prime time everyday. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hated-while-everyone-loved/536628/128 "2010-04-21T17:55:19Z")
> [@Aspidistra](#): > > I just went all the way throuth the [IMDB users’](http://www.imdb.com/chart/top) top 250 movies of all time. All I found was: > > **Se7en** - Ugly pretentious load of crap. Doesn’t even make sense half the time (why did he kill the prostitute for “lust” rather than her client?) > > Other than that, nothing much. I suspect I \*would \*have hated “The Bourne Ultimatum” based on how much “The Bourne Identity” sucked, but maybe I’ll do it a favour and just assume it was better. I’ve seen it, and didn’t hate it, but I have no desire to see it again. It isn’t particularly fun to watch or groundbreaking, and way overrated. Other people have explained lust, so I will just point out that he’s a serial killer. His killings don’t necessarily have to make logical sense, despite the conceit of the movie. Some real killers have serious hangups about prostitutes, so it wouldn’t be surprising if they confuse it with lust. I do hate the movie for spawning the insipid trend of replacing letters with numbers in movies, musical groups, etc. The title kinda makes sense, because a “7” rotated is sort of a “V.” That doesn’t excuse things like “5ive.” I pronounce these things phonetically out of spite. > [@FordTaurusSHO94](#): > > Into The Wild > > The kid was an idiot and got what was coming to him. I have not seen the movie, but I got the same impression from the book when I read it ages ago. I don’t think Krakauer necessarily intended it to be sympathetic anyway. Did the movie go out of the way to make us like him? ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hated-while-everyone-loved/536628/129 "2010-04-21T18:08:51Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > [IMDb quietly disagrees](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114369/). This is one rare case where the IMDB is wrong. “Se7en” is a marketing logo, but the movie’s official title is “Seven”: > **[WarnerBros.com | Home of WB Movies, TV, Games, and more!](https://www.warnerbros.com/)** > > Home of Warner Bros Movies, TV Shows and Video Games including Harry Potter, DC Comics and more! ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hated-while-everyone-loved/536628/130 "2010-04-21T18:15:50Z")
> [@Jim\_s\_Son](#): > > “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”. > … You and me both. Admittedly, I never saw the _first_ one, but I saw II on campus. I remember being BORED SILLY. The movie was 3.5 hours long. At numerous points after hour 2, they could have simply stopped the movie and I would not have felt deprived of any interesting plot points. “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”. We didn’t see this in the theater, rather we rented it and watched it at home. Here’s a kid who has everything he could desire (spoiled rotten), and decides to buck the rules for no reason other than to goof off - ruining a number of lives in the process. ---
**Author:** ![Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maggie_the_Ocelot)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hated-while-everyone-loved/536628/131 "2010-04-21T18:45:42Z")
**Big Trouble in Little China.** All my friends _love_ this movie, and I hated it. When it was still in the theaters, me and my boyfriend snuck in to see it - and then walked out. Come to think of it, there have been exactly two Kurt Russell films I’ve enjoyed - Tombstone and Stargate. (Yeah, yeah, Stargate was crap, but it was enjoyable crap.) ---
**Author:** ![JoelUpchurch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f05b48/32.png) [@JoelUpchurch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoelUpchurch)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hated-while-everyone-loved/536628/132 "2010-04-21T19:12:48Z")
> [@Kyla](#): > > 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. I would have put Eternal Sunshine in the category of movies that I liked and everyone else hated. What gave you the impression that it was popular? In terms of popular movies I hated, I walked out of the theater during Rocky. ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hated-while-everyone-loved/536628/133 "2010-04-21T19:14:46Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > I have not seen the movie, but I got the same impression from the book when I read it ages ago. I don’t think Krakauer necessarily intended it to be sympathetic anyway. Did the movie go out of the way to make us like him? I don’t think it went out of its way to get us to like him. I think it established that this kid relied on luck and tiny bit of information to get by. The kid was a likable sort but being likable is not the same as rooting for him as the hero. It’s a journey picture, we’re just watching events unfold. ---
**Author:** ![JoelUpchurch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f05b48/32.png) [@JoelUpchurch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoelUpchurch)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hated-while-everyone-loved/536628/134 "2010-04-21T19:24:05Z")
> [@overlyverbose](#): > > _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. Does anyone else remember the episode of Seinfeld about how Elaine hating _The English Patient_ and trying to hide it from her coworkers? I wonder how many people fake liking a movie, because other people say they like it or it is something they think they should like. Maybe that would explain _The Unbearable Lightness of Being_. I think the title should have been shortened to Unbearable. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hated-while-everyone-loved/536628/135 "2010-04-21T19:37:08Z")
I don’t know if this fits into the ‘everybody loved it’ designation, but here is one I Totally Hated: **Brick** ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hated-while-everyone-loved/536628/136 "2010-04-21T19:49:14Z")
> [@Oni no Maggie](#): > > **Big Trouble in Little China.** All my friends _love_ this movie, and I hated it. When it was still in the theaters, me and my boyfriend snuck in to see it - and then walked out. > > Come to think of it, there have been exactly two Kurt Russell films I’ve enjoyed - Tombstone and Stargate. (Yeah, yeah, Stargate was crap, but it was enjoyable crap.) You never saw The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes? ---
**Author:** ![gladtobeblazed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85f322/32.png) [@gladtobeblazed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gladtobeblazed)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hated-while-everyone-loved/536628/137 "2010-04-21T20:21:06Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > I don’t know if this fits into the ‘everybody loved it’ designation, but here is one I Totally Hated: **Brick** Same here, I couldn’t stand **Brick** Another one that a lot of my friends liked was **The Machinist**. I thought it was dull and the ending unsatisfactory. ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hated-while-everyone-loved/536628/138 "2010-04-21T21:07:10Z")
> [@JoelUpchurch](#): > > I would have put Eternal Sunshine in the category of movies that I liked and everyone else hated. What gave you the impression that it was popular? It’s number 58 in the IMDB “most popular movies” list linked above. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hated-while-everyone-loved/536628/139 "2010-04-21T21:14:40Z")
_Driving Miss Daisy_- the story of a miserable old bitch and her stereotypical black servant from the time she’s 65 and he’s 50 til the time she’s 142 and he’s 127. It had its moments I’ll grant and the actors did more than anyone else could have with the script, but generally I thought it was vastly overrated, so obviously written by a former kid from a rich family (which it was) and I thought Hoke would have been well within his rights to smother her in her sleep one morning. Another vote for _Superbad_- I stayed awake through 3 Porkys movies (not on my short or long list of faves but I’ve seen worse) but this one I couldn’t pay attention to without FFW. _Sweeney Todd_- I dislike the play, hated the movie. ---
**Author:** ![Alan\_Bird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b3f665/32.png) [@Alan\_Bird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Bird)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hated-while-everyone-loved/536628/140 "2010-04-21T21:17:52Z")
40 Year Old Virgin. Everyone said I had to see it and I like Steve Carell but I couldn’t even make it all the way through. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hated-while-everyone-loved/536628.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hated-while-everyone-loved/536628.md?page=8)