“Exorcist II: The Heretic”
“Swashbuckler”
“The Towering Inferno”
“The Phantom Menace”
“Never Say Never Again”
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!
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.
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.
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).
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.
“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)
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?
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.
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
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…MASH 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 MASH? And why?
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.
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 ).
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.
There was another one, Vibes, with Cyndi Lauper and Jeff Goldblum. Awesome.
“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.
I saw Event Horizon with a group of friends. Everone hated it but me. I loved it and still do.
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.
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.
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.”