# Movies you love but everyone else seems to hate **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 23, 2006, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967 "2006-05-23T22:21:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967/1 "2006-05-23T22:21:03Z")
Let’s have the flip side to [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=372468). I like _Robin Hood Prince of Thieves_. There, I said it. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967/2 "2006-05-23T22:35:03Z")
I recently saw **Stealth** , and it wasn’t half bad. Well, maybe half. But I didn’t find it to be the horrendous stinker that folks had told me it was. My husband is very fond of **Howard the Duck** and **Hudson Hawk**. He is weird in other ways, too, but I love him. ---
**Author:** ![Hogwash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e57/32.png) [@Hogwash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hogwash)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967/3 "2006-05-23T22:37:58Z")
**eXistenZ.** Written like this: one word. Small “e”. Capital ‘X’…capital ‘Z’. It’s new. It’s from Antenna Research. ---
**Author:** ![bubastis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d07c76/32.png) [@bubastis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bubastis)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967/4 "2006-05-23T22:37:58Z")
Unbreakable. I’ve never met anyone who likes it. I was spellbound by it, maybe I just caught it on a day where I wanted to sink into a movie like this. If I watched it on a sugar-rush-I-want-an-action-movie day, I probably would have hated it too. The only problem I have with this movie is the same problem I had with Sixth Sense… It feels like the pilot for a TV show. I also loved Signs, too. Hated the Village, though, before anyone thinks I AM M.Night Shyamalan. ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967/5 "2006-05-23T22:45:23Z")
**Harry & Walter Go to New York** Honest. > [@](#): > > I’m Harry > [RIGHT]I’m Walter[/RIGHT] > It’s wonderful to be here. > We guarantee to put a smile on every face we see here > He’s Walter > [RIGHT]He’s Harry[/RIGHT] > The billing Doesn’t matter > [RIGHT]A team[/RIGHT] > A set > [RIGHT] A Pair[/RIGHT] > I’m the former > [RIGHT] I’m the latter[/RIGHT] > We sing we dance > Wear baggy pants > And a million disguises > Light of foot > [RIGHT] And slight of hand[/RIGHT] > Full of surprises! See? ---
**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:** [May 23, 2006, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967/6 "2006-05-23T22:50:42Z")
_Zardoz Exorcist II: The Heretic The Screaming Skull Dances With Wolves Batman Returns City of Angels What Dreams May Come Primary Colors Legends of the Fall Magnolia The Mission Out of Africa Return to Oz Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow Tommy Alexander Kingdom of Heaven Cat Pople (1982) Conan the Destoyer Deep Impact The Godfather, Part III I Heart Huckabees Logan’s Run Futureworld Nomads Patch Adams Sahara (2005) Solaris (2002) Sphere Star Trek: INsurrectio Stuart Saves His Family Titanic The Towering Inferno Young Guns I & II_ ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967/7 "2006-05-23T22:57:14Z")
Gee, I like almost all the movies that y’all have mentioned. Am I easy to please or what? ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967/8 "2006-05-23T23:01:24Z")
> [@pinkfreud](#): > > I recently saw **Stealth** , and it wasn’t half bad. Well, maybe half. But I didn’t find it to be the horrendous stinker that folks had told me it was. > > My husband is very fond of **Howard the Duck** and **Hudson Hawk**. He is weird in other ways, too, but I love him. Your husband has my stamp of approval with **Howard the Duck**. That’s a GREAT movie!!! If he likes **Mean Guns** , we may have issues. I lurve me that movie. It’s so bad, it’s great. ---
**Author:** ![blinkingblinking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@blinkingblinking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blinkingblinking)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967/9 "2006-05-23T23:11:35Z")
> [@Dr. Rieux](#): > > _Zardoz > Exorcist II: The Heretic > The Screaming Skull > Dances With Wolves > Batman Returns > City of Angels > What Dreams May Come > Primary Colors > Legends of the Fall > Magnolia > The Mission > Out of Africa > Return to Oz > Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow > Tommy > Alexander > Kingdom of Heaven > Cat Pople (1982) > Conan the Destoyer > Deep Impact > The Godfather, Part III > I Heart Huckabees > Logan’s Run > Futureworld > Nomads > Patch Adams > Sahara (2005) > Solaris (2002) > Sphere > Star Trek: INsurrectio > Stuart Saves His Family > Titanic > The Towering Inferno > Young Guns I & II_ I quite like a lot of those movies and many of them are very popular including Batman Returns, Dances with Wolves(Imdb rating of 7.8/10),Out of Africa. You are including Oscar winners for Best Picture as Movies everyone else hates? his makes no sense. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967/10 "2006-05-23T23:18:02Z")
I like Hudson Hawk, Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai, Starship Troopers, Clay Pigeons, The 13th Floor, Mystery Men, Payback, and Last Man Standing, none of which are terribly popular outside of the geekiest geek circles. ---
**Author:** ![Podkayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967/11 "2006-05-23T23:19:43Z")
My husband and I like lots of movies that nobody else likes. I don’t understand the hate for **Toys**. It’s so gorgeously _strange_. **Hudson Hawk** is a riot. I think 90% of the reason that people hate it is that they are expecting one thing (Bruce Willis action movie) and get something completely . . . undescribable. We’ve roped a few people into watching **Our Man Flint** and **In Like Flint** , Sixties super-spy parodies. They feature James Coburn as a secret agent—just like Hudson Hawk, come to think of it! In Hudson Hawk, he strangles people bare-handed in Rome. In _In Like Flint_, he speaks the dolphin language. Or maybe the dolphin thing was in _Our Man Flint_ . . . Either way, what’s not to love? Yet, of all the unfortunates who have been subjected to the Flint movies, only my mom found them funny. (The apple, she does not fall far from the tree.) We also liked **Signs** , although when I try to defend it, I suddenly feel like **lissener** , so I usually just break off in mid-sentence and say, “nevermindletsagreetodisagree.” ---
**Author:** ![blinkingblinking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@blinkingblinking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blinkingblinking)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967/12 "2006-05-23T23:23:23Z")
My answer to the OP. I liked Hudson Hawk. I like Bruse Willis. I was always kind of surprised that people who like Bruce do not like this movie. It is typical Bruce Willis. I think he co-wrote it or produced it or something. It was his baby and he tried for years to get it on screen. I also liked Last Action Hero with Arnie. I thought this was a typical Arnie movie with the twist of Arnie sending himself up. Again I was surprised that Arnie fans did not like this movie. My two choices here probably make my movie going look low brow, but I like many kinds of movies. My alltime favourite movies are Casablanca, Cyrano de Bergerac, Wild Strawberries and Cinema Paradiso. ---
**Author:** ![Otanx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Otanx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otanx)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967/13 "2006-05-23T23:24:52Z")
_2001 A Space Odysey_ I love it. Everyone else I talk to says it is too slow. _Red Dawn_ Yep, crappy movie, crappy acting, but I like it anyway. _M_ by _Fritz Lang_ This is a classic, but I don’t know anyone else that enjoys it. I could come up with a few more, but too early in the morning for me to be thinking. -Otanx ---
**Author:** ![divemaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/divemaster/32/78_2.png) [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967/14 "2006-05-23T23:27:11Z")
I don’t guess a lot of people _hate_ **The Hudsucker Proxy** , but most consider it way down the list of Coen Bros. movies. But that’s my favorite! I also thought \*\*The Last Action Hero \*\* was a lot of fun, but it seems to have been universally panned. There are a lot of people who really like Starship Troopers (the book) and a lot who like \*\*Starship Troopers \*\* (the movie), but usually not both. I loved both. ---
**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:** [May 23, 2006, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967/15 "2006-05-23T23:33:26Z")
I have thoroughly enjoyed every Shamalan (I know I spelled that wrong) movie. In fact I find most critiques of his movies to be beyond petty. They’re not flawless by any means, but when poeple start whining about his twists being foreshadowed (where if they weren’t foreshadowed he’d be clambasted for pulling them out of his ass) and picking apart little issues I just tune those people out. ---
**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:** [May 23, 2006, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967/16 "2006-05-23T23:36:20Z")
> [@divemaster](#): > > I also thought \*\*The Last Action Hero \*\* was a lot of fun, but it seems to have been universally panned. I just say this again recently… I still like it. It’s a parody of movie culture and violence. I think part of it borders on genius… When a cartoon cat detective shows up and no one bats an eye, that’s fucking awesome. Its funny from a culture stand point because its a genre that doesn’t really exist anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Talon\_Karrde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Talon\_Karrde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Talon_Karrde)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967/17 "2006-05-24T00:14:59Z")
> [@divemaster](#): > > I don’t guess a lot of people _hate_ **The Hudsucker Proxy** , but most consider it way down the list of Coen Bros. movies. But that’s my favorite! It’s not my favorite of theirs, but it’s one of theirs. I also really liked their version of Ladykillers. ---
**Author:** ![Viridiana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ebca7d/32.png) [@Viridiana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Viridiana)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967/18 "2006-05-24T00:22:13Z")
I love **Howard the Duck**! I don’t think it counts anyway because it’s a cult classic. Now, **The Substitute** , I have not gotten one other person to admit liking. Don’t ask me why I like it, I just do. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967/19 "2006-05-24T00:31:47Z")
**Sister Act, II.** Yes, the second one. ---
**Author:** ![Nic2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@Nic2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nic2004)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967/20 "2006-05-24T00:43:09Z")
I have all ways liked [Real Men](http://http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093828/) with James Belusi and John Ritter. It is such a sublime parody of the spy guy type macho thing that I think many miss it. As far as I can tell, I may be the only one to have ever seen it. 😉 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967.md?page=2)