# Movies you like that everyone else hates **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 8, 2001, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-like-that-everyone-else-hates/49040 "2001-01-08T19:21:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2001, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-like-that-everyone-else-hates/49040/61 "2001-01-10T08:46:07Z")
“Exorcist II: The Heretic” “Swashbuckler” “The Towering Inferno” “The Phantom Menace” “Never Say Never Again” ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2001, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-like-that-everyone-else-hates/49040/62 "2001-01-10T10:32:58Z")
Some great, great films have been mentioned here. _Real Genius Zorro, the Gay Blade Dead Again The Burbs 12 Monkeys In the Mouth of Madness Big Trouble in Little China_ I, personally, loved **The Blair Witch Project** , for which my roommate makes big fun of me. I thought it was scary, dammit! ---
**Author:** ![Togepi\_no\_Miko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@Togepi\_no\_Miko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Togepi_no_Miko)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2001, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-like-that-everyone-else-hates/49040/63 "2001-01-10T11:17:50Z")
Hudson hawk, krull, Dead Again, are all fantastic. The Shadow. Event Horizon. No one mentioned Heinlein-based the Puppet Masters. I hate Brazil, and I despised Kubrick’s the shining. the remake was much better. The Quick and the Dead. The Hunted, with Christopher lambert, Joan chen, John Lone. Heck, I liked the Mortal Kombat movies. Salem’s Lot was interesting though flawed, same goes for In the Mouth of Madness. ---
**Author:** ![AVSC916](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f0a364/32.png) [@AVSC916](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AVSC916)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2001, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-like-that-everyone-else-hates/49040/64 "2001-01-10T14:24:52Z")
**Water World**. I thoroughly enjoyed it and was surprised to find that seemingly no one else did. **Big Trouble in Little China**. It was delightfully funny. I enjoyed it. ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2001, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-like-that-everyone-else-hates/49040/65 "2001-01-10T14:59:36Z")
I find it hard to believe that _anyone_ doesn’t love **Big Trouble in Little China**. It’s a great movie! My favorite guilty pleasure is **Showgirls** , but everybody I know hates it. It is a wonderful campfest I could watch over and over and over. **The 5000 Fingers of Dr T** –It’s a live action Dr. Seuss musical from 1952 starring Hans Conried and Tommy Rettig (from _Lassie_). ---
**Author:** ![Kid\_Gilligan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kid\_Gilligan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kid_Gilligan)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2001, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-like-that-everyone-else-hates/49040/66 "2001-01-10T15:18:14Z")
A number of critics have listed this as one of their 10 best of all time, but it was a huge bomb at the box office. If you can deal with Steve Martin lip-syncing to old 20’s era songs in a movie that was never meant to be funny, try Pennies from Heaven. ---
**Author:** ![egkelly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/db5fbb/32.png) [@egkelly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/egkelly)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2001, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-like-that-everyone-else-hates/49040/67 "2001-01-10T15:27:07Z")
“THE DEVILS of Loudoun” by ken Russell? It came out in the late 60’s, and was universally panned. I found it to be one of the most disturbing, thought provoking movies I’ve ever seen. However, it is NOT for the squeemish! (lots of bllod and gore) ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2001, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-like-that-everyone-else-hates/49040/68 "2001-01-10T17:20:19Z")
**Hackers** - i dont even know the word for this movie, there isn’t a sentence that would do it justice. One of the best movies ever. And all my real life friends hate it. **Cannibal the Musical** - I’m a HUGE Trey/Matt fan. I think im the only one out of all my real life friends that actually _gets_ their humor, it goes right over most peoples heads and then they say the movie sucks and wonder why I’m laughing. If you even have a speck of a sense of humor you need to check this movie out. Have any of you seen it? ---
**Author:** ![dustMagnate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/fbc32d/32.png) [@dustMagnate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dustMagnate)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2001, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-like-that-everyone-else-hates/49040/69 "2001-01-10T17:47:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by egkelly \* > \*\*“THE DEVILS of Loudoun” by ken Russell? It came out in the late 60’s, and was universally panned. I found it to be one of the most disturbing, thought provoking movies I’ve ever seen. However, it is NOT for the squeemish! (lots of bllod and gore) \*\* Best halloween movie of all time. Great cast, true story (based on a true story), and great representation of medieval science. Oliver Reed, Vanessa Redgrave, and a poignant love story/mass hysteria. I have never before or since seen a glass, a wasp, and a nipple all in the same shot. I taped it off Bravo years ago and watch it every Halloween. There is lost footage according to IMDB so the original must have been truly weird. ---
**Author:** ![that\_darn\_cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/59ef9b/32.png) [@that\_darn\_cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/that_darn_cat)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2001, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-like-that-everyone-else-hates/49040/70 "2001-01-10T18:04:07Z")
Ok, so this thread is enough for me to finally stop lurking. Also, a good abuse of my new office computer. I have to put in a vote for Mean Guns, with Christopher Lambert and Ice-T! A truly classic bad movie, with more guns than you could ask for and Highlander style moves with a baseball bat, thanks to Chris Lambert. Then again, I like anything with Ice-T. great thread ---
**Author:** ![lissabeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@lissabeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissabeth)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2001, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-like-that-everyone-else-hates/49040/71 "2001-01-10T18:48:43Z")
Starship Troopers was awesome…my Mormon friend hated it because of the anti-Mormon comments in it. Dirty Dancing-Friends moan and groan about seeing it again, and again. Days of Thunder- MMMM Tom Cruise and racing. How could anyone hate that combo. Not really related but…M_A_S_H on TV or even the movie. My friends and family refuse to come in room when it’s on. Do any of you have an aversion to M_A_S_H? And why? ---
**Author:** ![HelloKitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecccb3/32.png) [@HelloKitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelloKitty)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2001, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-like-that-everyone-else-hates/49040/72 "2001-01-10T19:59:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by cuautemhoc \* > \*\*The Postman, starring Kevin Costner. > > Yes, it is sentimental. Yes, it is six-and-a-half hours long. But it’s different! Unique! And Tom Petty has a hilarious cameo. > > \*\* I also liked **The Postman**. I thought it was cool that Tom Petty was playing…Tom Petty!! As far as movies everyone else hated, but I liked, another Costner epic comes to mind: **Waterworld**. I really thought this was a cool movie! This one gets made fun of alot, but is hilarious: **Weekend at Bernie’s**. This movie never fails to crack me up. ---
**Author:** ![Danimal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bb73d2/32.png) [@Danimal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danimal)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2001, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-like-that-everyone-else-hates/49040/73 "2001-01-10T22:38:19Z")
Wait, I just remembered another movie, probably even more hated than Branagh’s _Frankenstein_ that I loved: _What Dreams May Come._ That movie got a double whammy; first the highbrow critical crowd, who automatically despise anything starring Robin Williams, and then the lowbrow Christian right, who disliked its clearly heretical bent. I loved it, because it remains to date the only depiction of a heaven that I actually might want to go to, or address the problems of utopia that George Orwell once raised (see “Why Socialists Don’t Believe in Fun,” [http://www.k-1.com/Orwell/soc.htm](http://www.k-1.com/Orwell/soc.htm) ). ---
**Author:** ![ladybug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/46a35a/32.png) [@ladybug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladybug)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2001, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-like-that-everyone-else-hates/49040/74 "2001-01-10T23:01:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by New & Improved Scott \* > \*\*I’ve seen **Tranformers: the Movie** like, a hundred times now. I really like it, but for no real reason. \*\* Hey Scott, “Bah weep granah weep ninni bong!” 😃 My brother recently gave me his VHS copy of the movie after he got the DVD. I might have to watch it this weekend. I don’t know if this qualifies as a movie that everyone hates, but I really liked **Digimon: the Movie**. I also have the first nine episodes on tape. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Onimous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@Ann\_Onimous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Onimous)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2001, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-like-that-everyone-else-hates/49040/75 "2001-01-10T23:10:09Z")
There was another one, **Vibes** , with Cyndi Lauper and Jeff Goldblum. Awesome. ---
**Author:** ![FEotU](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b9bd4f/32.png) [@FEotU](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FEotU)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2001, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-like-that-everyone-else-hates/49040/76 "2001-01-11T03:54:28Z")
“The Return of Captain Invincible”, a bizarre musical with Alan Arkin as a has-been superhero who must be sobered up after decades of drunkenness when his arch-enemy, played by Christopher Lee, returns in an attempt to take over the world. “Moon 02” a science-fiction western. ---
**Author:** ![Eo\_Echo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ebca7d/32.png) [@Eo\_Echo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eo_Echo)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2001, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-like-that-everyone-else-hates/49040/77 "2001-01-11T04:19:44Z")
I saw _Event Horizon_ with a group of friends. Everone hated it but me. I loved it and still do. ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2001, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-like-that-everyone-else-hates/49040/78 "2001-01-11T04:21:58Z")
I was just goin’ over my list of movies I liked but everyone else just loathes. Here they are: **Hudson Hawk** **Mystery Men** **12 Monkeys** - I didn’t even know most people didn’t like this movie! **Fifth Element** - Once again, didn’t know I was going against the grain here. ---
**Author:** ![delphica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2001, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-like-that-everyone-else-hates/49040/79 "2001-01-11T04:51:54Z")
I can’t believe that this thread has caused me to find the other 12 or so people who liked **Hudson Hawk**! (Either that or Bruce Willis is spamming this board.) We should form a support group or something. Overall, I wouldn’t say I liked **Joe vs. The Volcano** , but the movie has one brief scene that I think might be the finest moment in comedy in the history of film … the look on Tom Hanks’s face when he sees the hammerhead shark. I personally believe that the Oscars he got for other films were actually retroactive honors for the expression he created in **Joe vs. The Volcano**. ---
**Author:** ![Mofo\_Rising](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Mofo\_Rising](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mofo_Rising)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2001, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-like-that-everyone-else-hates/49040/80 "2001-01-11T05:48:05Z")
**The Stupids** I’ve answered to this thread type several times, and am a regular at a bad movie site message board, but nobody has ever seconded me on **The Stupids**. I think it’s frickin’ hilarious. They’re not just stupid, they have a _complex_ stupidity. “Actually, it’s pronounced Lloyd.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-like-that-everyone-else-hates/49040.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-like-that-everyone-else-hates/49040.md?page=5)