# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![ambushed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3bc359/32.png) [@ambushed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ambushed)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967/41 "2006-05-24T10:06:24Z")
[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] Whoa, there! They commit an atrocity and that makes them leftists??? ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967/42 "2006-05-24T11:35:58Z")
I really like [Buster](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094819/) with Phil Collins. I missed seeing it in the theater because it lasted maybe a week, so I had to wait for it to come out on video. I’ve never heard of anyone else who has even heard of it. Oh, and **The Truth About Cats and Dogs** , and **The Bank** , which I saw at the Cleveland Film Festival a few years back…Anthony LaPaglia is the villain, and this was before his series on TV. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967/43 "2006-05-24T11:49:05Z")
Ignoring flicks that I love watching for the ‘OMG, that’s so horrible!’ factor… Seconding _Howard the Duck_ and _Burton’s Planet of the Apes_. I also liked the second and third _Matrix_ movies. I liked the first _D&D_ movie. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Big\_Cheese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8baadc/32.png) [@The\_Big\_Cheese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Big_Cheese)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967/44 "2006-05-24T13:25:35Z")
\*\*Waterworld \*\* with Costner. I liked it, most hated it, and it gets shit for being too expensive to make, but it’s a good movie. ---
**Author:** ![Long\_Time\_First\_Time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@Long\_Time\_First\_Time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Long_Time_First_Time)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967/45 "2006-05-24T13:32:56Z")
Kingpin ---
**Author:** ![jali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@jali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jali)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967/46 "2006-05-24T13:43:10Z")
I like many of the movies previously mentioned. \*\*Unbreakable A Knight’s Tale Buckaroo Banzai \*\* (“laugh-a now a- monkey-boy”, 'wherever you go… there you are") **The Last Action Hero Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves** I’ll add a few more: **Space Camp** - love this movie! **Space Truckers** - just campy enough for me. **A Walk In The Clouds** - really sweet story. **The Fifth Element** - Fav scenes: the food cart outside his apartment and the singer’s performance. **What A Girl Wants** - I know it’s just for teenyboppers so maybe I’m a teenybopper on the inside. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967/47 "2006-05-24T14:23:25Z")
Every time I flip past **Independence Day** I end up watching it again. Yeah, it’s silly, but I just love it! ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967/48 "2006-05-24T15:20:51Z")
[QUOTE=jali] **The Fifth Element** - Fav scenes: the food cart outside his apartment and the singer’s performance. [/QUOTE] I loved this movie. The way that the future New York City was portrayed, the comedy and Milla Jovovich’s costume. It was great. I bought the DVD. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967/49 "2006-05-24T15:26:29Z")
I LOVE **Anchorman**. I know I am not alone, but there seems to be a lot more people who find it horrible. ---
**Author:** ![kelly5078](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6f9a4e/32.png) [@kelly5078](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kelly5078)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967/50 "2006-05-24T15:29:54Z")
**Dune** seems to be badly regarded, but my wife and I love it. And another vote for **The Fifth Element** , although the Ruby Rhod character grates. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967/51 "2006-05-24T15:31:09Z")
Another vote for **The Last Action Hero** **Ishtar A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy** – Very misunderstood, but for a reason: people thought it was supposed to be a comedy. It’s actually a tragedy. \*\*Tommy[b/] – in the so bad it’s great; Russell’s humorless approach and complete lack of understanding makes it great comedy. ---
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967/52 "2006-05-24T16:16:15Z")
One should **never** be ashamed of liking **Hudsucker Proxy**. It is IMO one of the very best Coen films. I sometimes use this or \*\*Mystery Men \*\* as a litmus test when meeting new people- if they like these two films, I know they are probably cool to be around. HP is so full of good moments/lines- “I don’t think they hired me because they thought I was a schmo” “44 (floors) not counting the mezzanine” (hula hoop) “brings people together, even though it keeps them apart, spatially” “you know, for kids” ---
**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, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967/53 "2006-05-24T16:20:09Z")
[QUOTE=ambushed] Whoa, there! They commit an atrocity and that makes them leftists??? [/QUOTE] No, but at the time the movie came out, there were news reports of left-wing atrocities (as well as the right-wing ones) being committed in Latin America. I thought that the justification they offered basically established a double standard between a native insurgency and an foreign army, very much in the insurgency’s favor. ---
**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, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967/54 "2006-05-24T16:24:49Z")
[QUOTE=jali] **The Fifth Element** - Fav scenes: the food cart outside his apartment and the singer’s performance. [/QUOTE] Is this one that everybody hates? I don’t know – I haven’t really heard lots of consensus about it either way. In any event, it left me rather unimpressed the first time I watched it. I think I expected it to be something else. It seemed kind of goofy at the time. Upon repeat viewings, I noticed more about how it was put together than I did before. And it grew on me, as I found more things in it to appreciate. I really like it, now. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967/55 "2006-05-24T16:44:29Z")
Yeah, I thought **Fifth Element** was very well liked. I luuurve it myself, _including_ the [del]Prince[/del] Ruby Rhod character. ---
**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 24, 2006, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967/56 "2006-05-24T19:31:39Z")
Red Dawn being one of my favorite movies… I am hard pressed to remember… When do the Wolverines ever commit something that could be called an atrocity? ---
**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 24, 2006, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967/57 "2006-05-24T19:34:49Z")
Oh… do you mean when they kill the mayor’s kid who has been spying on 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, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967/58 "2006-05-24T20:05:52Z")
[QUOTE=Push You Down] Oh… do you mean when they kill the mayor’s kid who has been spying on them? [/QUOTE] That’s the one. That was a little bit of anti-intellectualism. The mayor’s kid was a smart guy, President of the Student Council, and all. Our heroes were football players, led by the Quarterback, of course. ---
**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 24, 2006, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967/59 "2006-05-24T20:32:09Z")
The kid was a spy! I think it had as much to do with class as it did with anti-intellectualism. He’s the rich preppy kid whose dad is the mayor. Where clearly the other characters are lower to middle class. And really only Swayze was a jock. The other kids were just kids. Swayze and Sheen’s dad just taught them how to hunt and live off the land, making them a bit more prepared then the others. Originally the story was more Lord of the Flies with really the only remaining aspect of that in the finished product is C Thomas Howell’s character. He goes from naive first time hunter to cold blooded freedom fighter who ultimately sacrifices himself for no gain. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967/60 "2006-05-24T20:41:21Z")
I didn’t know some of these were hated! Count me in as liking: Matrix 2 & 3 Alien 4 Ace Ventura 2 Planet of the Apes (this was hated?) The first D&D…didn’t love it, but it wasn’t as bad as they said. Kingpin (another 😕 ) Fifth Element [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967.md?page=4)