# 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:** 8
**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, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hated-while-everyone-loved/536628/141 "2010-04-21T22:36:59Z")
> [@Simplicio](#): > > It’s number 58 in the IMDB “most popular movies” list linked above. That is based on 200 thousand ratings. On Netflix it has 3.6 out of five based 4.5 **million** ratings. That is a respectable number but not outstanding. The US Box Office for the Eternal Sunshine is $34 million compared to $242 million for Jim Carrey’s Previous Movie, _Bruce Almighty_. The movie ranked about 80 for the year. [http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=2004&p=.htm](http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=2004&p=.htm) I don’t think the people rating on IMDB are representative of the general public. Here are the all time inflation adjusted movie grosses. [http://boxofficemojo.com/alltime/adjusted.htm](http://boxofficemojo.com/alltime/adjusted.htm) ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hated-while-everyone-loved/536628/142 "2010-04-21T23:03:57Z")
**Steel Magnolias.** I’ve had to suffer through this movie more times than I’d like to remember. I’m sure this movie can be used to interrogate prisoners of war. ---
**Author:** ![hankhill911](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e47c2d/32.png) [@hankhill911](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hankhill911)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hated-while-everyone-loved/536628/143 "2010-04-22T00:32:24Z")
Couldn’t stand Forrest Gump… And I agree…Crash was just awful. “We’re all interlinked and interconnected somehow.” I found Napoleon Dynamite somewhat charming, if overrated… Agree with The Hangover…had about 4-5 funny lines with about half an hour of filler… And of course, Titanic…a complete waste of 2.5 hours plus of my time… ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hated-while-everyone-loved/536628/144 "2010-04-22T00:50:42Z")
> [@Alan\_Bird](#): > > 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. I found this distasteful, almost painful to watch. I liked the actors, but still! A Walk To Remember - utter twaddle, a generic Lifetime movie, starring nobodies. I had to watch this at someone’s house after a dinner party, and the hostess actually began bawling at the end! And all I could think was, who ARE these people and why am I having to watch their amateur theatrics? Who gives a damn? Pulp Fiction - utterly appalling. I hated everyone in it. The only good part was the story about the watch, and I laughed so hard I nearly choked. Anything starring Robert Redford. I never drank the Redford kool-aid. Most especially, The Sting. I’ve only fallen asleep at two movies in my life, and The Sting was one of them. Hated hated hated it. Fargo - utterly appalling. Hated hated hated it. Appalling. Moulin Rouge. I’d heard you either loved or hated it, and I SO wanted to love it, but really, I just couldn’t get into it. I read a review that said it was like being smothered by a boxcar full of glitter dumped on you, and I loved the LOOK, but that was all. There’s more. I’ll be back. ---
**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:** [April 22, 2010, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hated-while-everyone-loved/536628/145 "2010-04-22T01:33:41Z")
> [@Oni no Maggie](#): > > (Yeah, yeah, Stargate was crap, but it was enjoyable crap.) But all Kurt Russell films are “enjoyable crap”. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hated-while-everyone-loved/536628/146 "2010-04-22T01:42:20Z")
> [@Lemur866](#): > > Good Will Hunting. God Damn, I hated this movie. Marry me, **Lemur**. I’ve explained in the other thread why I thought this movie was so loathsome (at least, the forty-five minutes or so I saw of it before I gave up and walked out of the theater), and I just can’t understand how so many people think it’s even tolerable. And it’s refreshing to see the hate on _Forrest Gump_ too, which was a shallow and materialistic misogynistic frat-boy farce pretending to be a heartwarming triumph of a lovable underdog. Bleah. ---
**Author:** ![Jormungandr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@Jormungandr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jormungandr)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hated-while-everyone-loved/536628/147 "2010-04-22T01:55:17Z")
**Grease.** I can never sit through the whole thing. I don’t know if it’s the acting or the singing, I just find myself changing the channel. Maybe it’s Travolta. However, I can watch\*\* Grease 2\*\* and have done so multiple times. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hated-while-everyone-loved/536628/148 "2010-04-22T01:57:24Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > And it’s refreshing to see the hate on _Forrest Gump_ too, which was a shallow and materialistic misogynistic frat-boy farce pretending to be a heartwarming triumph of a lovable underdog. Bleah. Really?? I guess I have to disagree. Rather than it being a shallow and materialistic misogynistic frat-boy farce pretending to be a heartwarming triumph of a lovable underdog, I thought it was a smarmy, platitudinous, liberal-bashing fable with a couple of funny moments. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hated-while-everyone-loved/536628/149 "2010-04-22T02:35:49Z")
Well, I’m down with that too. I apologize if my use of the word “farce” gave the impression that I thought the damn thing was actually humorous. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hated-while-everyone-loved/536628/150 "2010-04-22T02:44:53Z")
I want say “everybody” loved it because few people have seen it, but _Synechdoche NY_ got almost unanimous raves from critics: Ebert gave it 4 stars and most critics put it on their best movies of the year shortlist. At one point it had about a 9.0 rating on imdb as well (now it’s down to 7.3). It would take me 540 pages to give the _abstract_ of how much I hated this self-indulgent masturbatory shitfest. I’d rather watch a four hour video of barnyard animals crapping set to a soundtrack of Wagner fed through Auto-Tune and played backwards. But please don’t get me wrong: I frigging HATED this film. ---
**Author:** ![Uzi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/91b2a8/32.png) [@Uzi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uzi)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hated-while-everyone-loved/536628/151 "2010-04-22T04:21:12Z")
_No Country for Old Men_ I hate it so much I don’t even like typing the name. Matrix and Avatar have great action and special effects, but why the hell can’t someone write a good back story for what is happening? In Avatar it turns out the world is a supercomputer. You don’t think a company is going to pause in what they are doing to consider the possibilities of that? No, but the company is _ **EVIL** _, \ Of course, what you don’t see is the next year where the company comes back with a competent commander and military and squashes the natives like bugs from orbit.:rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Ruffian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71e660/32.png) [@Ruffian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruffian)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hated-while-everyone-loved/536628/152 "2010-04-22T04:59:19Z")
> [@FordTaurusSHO94](#): > > Into The Wild > > The kid was an idiot and got what was coming to him. That was more or less my impression of the book when I read it years ago. I loved Krakauer’s _Into Thin Air_ and thought this would be a good second read, but found the kid to be a naive fool. Krakauer did not write him as sympathetically as he was portrayed in the film, IMO. Add me to the anti-camps of: _Forrest Gump_ – I’ve seen it in pieces since and found it more mildly entertaining than when I saw it when it first came out. But an Oscar winner?? WTF? _There Will Be Blood_ – not only was it chilled molasses slow, the lead character is completely unredeemable. Why would I want to watch three hours of an asshole evolving into a drunk, evil asshole? _Gone With the Wind_ – Oh dear God. I tried to watch about 15min of it once, and about lost my mind. Everyone sucked. Definitely think something was lost in the 70+ years since it was made. _Anchorman_ and _Dodgeball_ – hubby loved them. I thought they both were awful…I mean, painfully, awkwardly awful. “A whale’s vagina”–how the hell is that even clever, nonetheless funny?? Steve Carrell and “I love lamp” is the only redeeming quality. As for _Dodgeball_…ick, it was even worse. Now, I do like _The Princess Bride_, _Lost in Translation_, and _Napoleon Dynamite_. Just FTR, for the nobody that cares. ---
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hated-while-everyone-loved/536628/153 "2010-04-22T05:10:23Z")
> [@Ruffian](#): > > _Gone With the Wind_ – Oh dear God. I tried to watch about 15min of it once, and about lost my mind. Everyone sucked. Definitely think something was lost in the 70+ years since it was made. A couple of notes on GWTW. If you ever read the book, (and if you haven’t, I highly recommend it), you can understand why it was 4+ hours. It was an epic, and the book is an amazingly detailed story of the Old South and how it changed after the Civil War. The second reason it’s so long is because there wasn’t much else to do back then. A 4 hour movie was an event, not something that dragged. People loved it, even if it’s not faithful to the book. (for instance, Scarlett has 3 children, one by her first husband Mr. Hamilton named Wade). There was no TV to get home to, no computers or internet. No cell phones or texting. No video games! What the hell else was there to do? Read a newspaper, listen to the radio, or catch a ballgame in person. Other than that, the movies were IT. With that said, I find it boring too. 😃 it’s a tough sit movie to sit through. and Rhett Butler is the only redeeming and interesting character in the entire movie. ---
**Author:** ![MizTina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MizTina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MizTina)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hated-while-everyone-loved/536628/154 "2010-04-22T06:12:17Z")
Crank. God, what a horrible movie, but the people I watched it with were either all rapt attention or laughing. I just wanted everyone in the damn movie to die already and put me out of my misery. Same for Twilight, what godawful tripe. Thank heavens I saw it on cable and didn’t thump down 7 bucks for the non privilege. I’m ashamed to admit to watching it all way through, but I thought that it HAD to get better, else why would everyone lined up to see it? Apparently because they’re nuts. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hated-while-everyone-loved/536628/155 "2010-04-22T06:29:46Z")
> [@MizTina](#): > > … I’m ashamed to admit to watching it all way through, but I thought that it HAD to get better, else why would everyone lined up to see it?.. Thihs is my biggest (and continuing) mistake in movie watching – watching them through imagining they will get better. That happens maybe 1% of the time – so rarely that at the moment I can’t name a movie where it did. Plenty of them get worse though. On the plus side, maybe 2 or 3% get SOOO much worse that they become entertaining in ways the producers never intended. That was my experience with _The Wicker Man_ remake – I almost fainted from laughter a couple of times. ---
**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:** [April 22, 2010, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hated-while-everyone-loved/536628/156 "2010-04-22T07:12:36Z")
_The Assassination of whoever it was by the coward whoever else it was._ One of them was Robert Ford. Anyway, it was looooooooooooooooong, and boooooooooooooooooooring, and then it was over. At last. How does crap like that get critical acclaim? Nothing happened for three hours! ---
**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hated-while-everyone-loved/536628/157 "2010-04-22T08:58:55Z")
> [@Gorgonzola](#): > > _Pretty Woman._ Prostitution is fun; you get to wear beautiful clothes and go to the opera, and the rich handsome john will fall in love with you and take you away from all this even though it’s superfun! > > _Dirty Dancing._ All I can say about this one is that it makes me hiss “Get some self-esteem!” at Baby through clenched teeth. > > Many, many, many of my female friends LOVE these, and I have sat through them uncountable times. Mostly they just make me sad. **Gorgonzola**? Would you mind getting out of my head, please? Because I came on this thread to say exactly the same things about exactly those two movies. _Dirty Dancing,_ at least, had some decent music. In fact it would have been improved if they’d dropped the whole film thing and played two hours’ worth of early '60s pop in a darkened theater. ---
**Author:** ![Bakhesh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Bakhesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bakhesh)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hated-while-everyone-loved/536628/158 "2010-04-22T11:51:07Z")
Magnolia - If you are going to make a movie that’s just short of three hours, how about actually having something happen in it? And no, making it rain frogs for no reason whatsoever does not count Donnie Darko - Ok, it has a couple of interesting lines in it, and a few good songs on the soundtrack, but could you at least make some sort of attempt at making sense? ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hated-while-everyone-loved/536628/159 "2010-04-22T11:56:14Z")
**flodnak** , get out of my head. ITA with you _and_ **Gorgonzola** on both _Dirty Dancing_ and _Pretty Woman_. ---
**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 22, 2010, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hated-while-everyone-loved/536628/160 "2010-04-22T13:43:21Z")
I’m somewhat surprised at the number of people posting in this thread who seem to demand that the main character in a movie be a good person or have some redeeming characteristic. I rather enjoy seeing movies about [complete monsters](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CompleteMonster) (warning: TV Tropes link; I hope you didn’t have plans for the rest of the day). I find them refreshing. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hated-while-everyone-loved/536628.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hated-while-everyone-loved/536628.md?page=9)