# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967/21 "2006-05-24T01:01:16Z")
[QUOTE=Nic2004] 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. 😉 [/QUOTE] It used to be an HBO daytime staple. I enjoyed it (although, admittedly, the last time I saw it was when I was in high school), and was amused by Belusi’s eventual love interest. And I, too, liked Unbreakable. Takes an interesting and, to some degree, a more realistic view of what it’d mean to be a superhero. (The end was kinda silly, but eh.) ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967/22 "2006-05-24T01:10:35Z")
I didn’t know people hate _Stuart Saves His Family_. Well then, they’re wrong. It’s a good glick. Maybe not high art; but it is funny and sweet. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967/23 "2006-05-24T01:27:50Z")
**Alien: Resurrection**. Well, I wouldn’t go so far as to say I _love_ it, but it certainly is leagues ahead of Alien: 3 (may God forever curse its name.) It successfully serves up philosophical questions and action at the same time, and slightly less heavy-handedly than _The Matrix_. (Plus it has Winona Ryder and a proto-Firefly _Betty_ (the best name for a ship in fiction, ever.)) ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967/24 "2006-05-24T01:29:15Z")
[QUOTE=Otanx] _Red Dawn_ Yep, crappy movie, crappy acting, but I like it anyway. [/QUOTE] There are lots of movies mentioned here that I like, but this is perhaps the most misunderstood. It’s freqequently derided as being right-wing propaganda, but if you’re paying attention, you see it’s actually very left wing. ---
**Author:** ![DxZero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@DxZero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DxZero)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967/25 "2006-05-24T01:42:33Z")
[QUOTE=saoirse] There are lots of movies mentioned here that I like, but this is perhaps the most misunderstood. It’s freqequently derided as being right-wing propaganda, but if you’re paying attention, you see it’s actually very left wing. [/QUOTE] Well the director, [John Milius - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Milius) , is pretty well known right-winger (despite the fact he calls himself a Zen Anarchist) if there was anything left-wing going on in that movie, it was probably unintentional. That being said, I did enjoy it quite a bit. Just had to turn my brain off a little. ---
**Author:** ![supervenusfreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@supervenusfreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/supervenusfreak)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967/26 "2006-05-24T01:56:02Z")
I am definitely with **Podkayne** on **Toys** (one of my favorite moives to watch on Christmas), and with **Filmgeek** on **Sister Act 2** (especially the concert sequence!). My choice? **Connie and Carla**. I absolutely love this movie. It is improbable, implausible, and I enjoy it very much! ---
**Author:** ![WarmNPrickly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@WarmNPrickly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WarmNPrickly)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967/27 "2006-05-24T01:56:20Z")
I agree with Unbreakable. I don’t know why everyone pans it. I actually like most of the Kevin Costner Sci-Fi stuff. I know he make William Shatner look like Marlyn Brando but its Sci-Fi so I take what I can get. ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967/28 "2006-05-24T02:00:33Z")
**Robin Hood Prince of Theives** is on my list too. There’s part of me that respects Kevin Costner because he didn’t even attempt to do an accent (lets be realistic here, the original Robin Hood, if he in fact existed, would not speak with a present day british accent anyhow). **Meet the Deedles** (no, not Feebles). Two privileged surfers from Hawaii spend a summer in Yellowstone National Park pretending to be rangers who are trying to solve a prairie dog problem created by a man who is trying to get them (the p dogs) to dig a new geyser to create his own (bad guy) theme park. I ask you, waht’s not to like? ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967/29 "2006-05-24T02:06:13Z")
[QUOTE=DxZero] Well the director, [John Milius - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Milius) , is pretty well known right-winger (despite the fact he calls himself a Zen Anarchist) if there was anything left-wing going on in that movie, it was probably unintentional. That being said, I did enjoy it quite a bit. Just had to turn my brain off a little. [/QUOTE] Well, assuming that the heroes are justified in what they’re doing, I don’t know how else to take the fact that they are explicitly compared to the Sandinistas and the Salvadoran FMLN. They even commit their own atrocity (okay, sort of) and have to answer the question, “What makes us different from them?” ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967/30 "2006-05-24T02:10:48Z")
[QUOTE=drm] **Robin Hood Prince of Theives** is on my list too. There’s part of me that respects Kevin Costner because he didn’t even attempt to do an accent (lets be realistic here, the original Robin Hood, if he in fact existed, would not speak with a present day british accent anyhow). [/QUOTE] I hated this movie, but I’m glad you made that point. I believe they used the Saxon/Norman angle for the story. In that case, he should have been speaking with a vaguely German accent, or in a Saxon dialect with subtitles. ---
**Author:** ![DxZero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@DxZero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DxZero)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967/31 "2006-05-24T02:14:13Z")
[QUOTE=saoirse] Well, assuming that the heroes are justified in what they’re doing, I don’t know how else to take the fact that they are explicitly compared to the Sandinistas and the Salvadoran FMLN. They even commit their own atrocity (okay, sort of) and have to answer the question, “What makes us different from them?” [/QUOTE] Fair enough. And after looking at all the films he’s worked on, especially as a writer, its probably not fair to pin him down to one idealogy, at a least as far as movies go. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967/32 "2006-05-24T02:24:00Z")
I not only liked Burton’s _Planet of the Apes_ and the _Star Wars_ prequels, but I thought the originals really weren’t _that_ great, by themselves, to begin with. ---
**Author:** ![Campion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@Campion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Campion)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967/33 "2006-05-24T03:09:25Z")
\*[Drop Dead Fred\*](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101775/). It’s just plain goofy and childish – makes me laugh every time. ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967/34 "2006-05-24T03:21:57Z")
[QUOTE=Ludovic] **Alien: Resurrection**. Well, I wouldn’t go so far as to say I _love_ it, but it certainly is leagues ahead of Alien: 3 (may God forever curse its name.) [/QUOTE] I’m with you on this one. I wouldn’t put it in the most loved movie category for me, either – but I liked it. And it’s definitely way better than the Alien3 stinkfest. For silly humor, I remember hearing that people were walking out of the theater when **Ace Ventura 2: When Nature Calls** came out. But I liked it – better than the first one, as well. Especially the scene when he gets hit with the poison darts. (I can always crack up a couple of friends mimicking that scene… ;)) I also thought **Last Action Hero** was a pretty clever one – Ah-nold doing a good job of ripping on himself. I liked it. ---
**Author:** ![pokey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ebca7d/32.png) [@pokey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pokey)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967/35 "2006-05-24T04:01:51Z")
[QUOTE=Homebrew] I didn’t know people hate _Stuart Saves His Family_. Well then, they’re wrong. It’s a good glick. Maybe not high art; but it is funny and sweet. [/QUOTE] I just love that movie. I think it got written off because it really should suck a lot more than it eventually does. It probably would have been fine if it stood on its own without the whole “movie based on an SNL sketch you’re tired of” stigma. It was more a movie that only a small audience would ever really like but it’s good for what it is. It’s very Frankeny. ---
**Author:** ![cainxinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@cainxinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cainxinth)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967/36 "2006-05-24T04:05:07Z")
I liked The Core the first time I saw it… a second watching on cable and I realized it was as bad as everyone said it was. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967/37 "2006-05-24T04:06:19Z")
I love these movies, too. And after all, movies are supposed to be _entertainment_. Some entertainment is better done than the rest, but if it’s entertained you, really, that’s all that matters. My personal vote goes to **A Knight’s Tale**. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967/38 "2006-05-24T04:08:34Z")
I find _Caligula_ fascinating. I used to own it on video. The porn scene are boring, though. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967/39 "2006-05-24T08:35:29Z")
_Jingle All The Way_. Arnie does a great job of parodying himself as a well-meaning neighborhood loser, Phil Hartman as the superdad who’s actually a creep, and Sinbad as the postal worker on the edge of snapping. It’s up there with _Better Off Dead_ on my chart. ---
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[QUOTE=Ranchoth] I not only liked Burton’s _Planet of the Apes_ \, but I thought the originals really weren’t _that_ great, by themselves, to begin with. [/QUOTE] Amen - I would re-watch Burton’s version a hundred times in a row rather than watch the original again. I really like\* Hudson Hawk\*, too. I don’t think I’ve ever seen Bruce and not liked him (and therefore, usually the film, too. Well, except _Armageddon_). Bad science aside, I really liked the _Day After Tomorrow_. I have no idea why. I also really liked _Soldier_. And _Reign of Fire_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967.md?page=3)