# 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:** 1\ **Showing post:** 33
**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. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-hated-while-everyone-loved/536628)._