# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Tracy\_Lord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@Tracy\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tracy_Lord)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967/61 "2006-05-24T21:19:48Z")
Branagh’s “Love’s Labour’s Lost” from a few years ago, the one he reimagined as a 1930’s musical. I thought it was a perfect concept for the play (which itself is silly, over-the-top, and spends as much time on verbal dexterity as it does plot or even characterization), and the execution was delightful. ---
**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, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967/62 "2006-05-24T21:37:29Z")
D+D, paradoxically to me, is not only one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen, but is also under-rated (which should put my estimation of _others’_ opinions of it right around that of _Manos, Hands of Fate_.) It’s graphics were pretty good for the time period, although since eclisped. Give me the ROD! ---
**Author:** ![tashikitten](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/85e7bf/32.png) [@tashikitten](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tashikitten)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967/63 "2006-05-24T21:44:35Z")
Get Crazy. I try to watch it every New Year’s Eve. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085551/](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085551/) Starship Troopers is a guilty pleasure. Hysterical, starring such luminaries as the Hudson Brothers, Julie Newmar and Richard Kiel. I bought this one on DVD as soon as it was released. I know it’s awful, but I laugh out loud adore it. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967/64 "2006-05-24T22:08:08Z")
I liked Heavens Gate except for the worst move you can make in a movie. kris kristoferson.This guy shouldnt even be allowed to watch a movie. But the movie was beautiful and interesting to me. Like Howard the Duck ,Original Little shop of Horrors. Fifth Element, Dune and Tremors, Arachniphobia, 8 legged freaks. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967/65 "2006-05-24T22:09:20Z")
[QUOTE=Wee Bairn] “you know, for kids” [/QUOTE] I was in a meeting once and I was doodling on a notebook. Someone asked me what I was drawing and I flipped the page to a big circle and said, “You know, for kids.” No one had a clue, but no one seemed to want to admit they didn’t have a clue. It was a brilliant moment. And then I started laughing and ruined it. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967/66 "2006-05-24T22:12:27Z")
Forgot Repo Man ---
**Author:** ![Drake\_Tungsten](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/51bf81/32.png) [@Drake\_Tungsten](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drake_Tungsten)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967/67 "2006-05-24T22:13:56Z")
I don’t know why, but \*\*Reign of Fire \*\* is inexplicably one of my favorite action movies and Matthew McConaughey play the coolest-looking action hero ever. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967/68 "2006-05-24T22:13:59Z")
[QUOTE=gonzomax] Forgot Repo Man [/QUOTE] Let’s go get sushi and not pay! ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967/69 "2006-05-24T22:25:36Z")
[QUOTE=Push You Down] 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. [/QUOTE] _The Last Action Hero_ is a brilliant, brilliant movie that never takes a wrong step. One of my very favorite “overlooked” movies, along with _My Giant_ and _Made in Heaven._ ---
**Author:** ![ACC\_Expat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/76d3ee/32.png) [@ACC\_Expat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ACC_Expat)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967/70 "2006-05-24T22:43:28Z")
I do not mean to insinuate that my choice is a flawless flick (indeed the reason I love watching and talking about it is because of its flaws and “could have beens”), but darn it, I’m fond of _Attack of the Clones._ ---
**Author:** ![KJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b2d939/32.png) [@KJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KJ)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967/71 "2006-05-24T22:45:40Z")
I’m one of th 50% that enjoyed **Napoleon Dynamite**. It’s not a riotus comedy, and some parts of it are even kind of depressing, but it captured the “small Mormon town in the middle of nowhere” feeling perfectly. I’ll second: **Return to Oz** : A Bad Movie, but one that’s fun to watch. **Titanic** **Toys** The **Star Wars** prequels\* The **Matrix** sequels\* **Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls** **Mystery Men** \*a 50/50 mixture of really awesome parts and really lame dialogue. I also like: **Tomb Raider** (18% on Rotten Tomatoes) The second **Austin Powers** movie (but not the third one) **Nothing but Trouble** (13% on Rotten Tomatoes, but one of my favorite movies. It’s so quirky and weird, with so many great quotes.) **The Brady Bunch movie** , and **A Very Brady Sequel** (which got 38% on Rotten Tomatoes) **Coneheads** (26% on Rotten Tomatoes) And finally, my deepest, darkest secret that I never share with anybody, a movie that got **0%** on Rotten Tomatoes and which is universally hated by every Doper who has mentioned it: **It’s Pat. The movie.** I’m serious. I don’t care what anyone says, I laugh every time I see that movie. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967/72 "2006-05-24T22:51:11Z")
And Eddie and The Crusers and Streets of Fire ---
**Author:** ![Linty\_Fresh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Linty\_Fresh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linty_Fresh)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967/73 "2006-05-24T23:01:09Z")
[QUOTE=Gangster Octopus] I LOVE **Anchorman**. I know I am not alone, but there seems to be a lot more people who find it horrible. [/QUOTE] Oooh, seconded! **Mrs. Fresh** and I quote from this movie _constantly_. She says that I’m quite the dullard, and I call her a smelly pirate hooker. Then I ask her if she got her clothes at the toilet store. The winter nights just _fly_ by. My own choices? I love **McHale’s Navy** with Tom Arnold and **The Pest**. They’re just so wonderfully goofy. I’m not sure if I should include **Straight To Hell** , because I don’t think enough people have seen it to make it widely hated. I’m happy to say that I used to include **Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band** in this category, but it was on IFC about a month back, and I could not even get _through_ it, the movie sucked so badly. Needless to say, I was tremendously relieved. ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967/74 "2006-05-24T23:11:54Z")
**The Pirate Movie** **The Cutting Edge** **Ice Pirates** I have no shame 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967/75 "2006-05-24T23:14:50Z")
[QUOTE=lissener] One of my very favorite “overlooked” movies, along with _My Giant_ [/QUOTE] The one with Gheorghe Muresan? God, did I ever bawl at that movie. Right there. In the theater. Hysterical sobs. It had been a long day. I’ve never dared watch it again, though my husband tried to reassure me that it was okay and that Gheorghe Muresan didn’t really have giantism so he wasn’t going to die! Not one of my finer moments. ---
**Author:** ![Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e56c9b/32.png) [@Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mirror_Image_egamI_rorriM)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967/76 "2006-05-24T23:20:43Z")
I love _National Treasure_, and all of M. Night Shyamalan’s stuff. I’m excited about seeing his new movie, even though I have no idea what it’s about, really. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2006, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967/77 "2006-05-25T00:01:27Z")
[QUOTE=KJ] I’ll second: **Return to Oz** : A Bad Movie, but one that’s fun to watch. The **Star Wars** prequels\* The second **Austin Powers** movie (but not the third one) [/QUOTE] You can add me to these, too. I love Return to Oz. I like it better than the first one. I don’t love the Star Wars prequels, but there’s lots of good parts, and plus it’s _Ewan McGregor_ and\* Liam Neeson\* and how could I not love them. I also like the 2nd Austin Powers. The third one, they changed his whole personality and added a stoopid villain. He should have had sex with what’s her name. They went and got…i dunno, cowardly. And I wanted to kill the Dutchman. Sorry, **gum**. But you should be angry, too. 🙂 Oh yeah…she let her subscription lapse, didn’t she? Oh well. ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2006, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967/78 "2006-05-25T00:50:41Z")
[QUOTE=Push You Down] 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. [/QUOTE] But why was that guy the spy? It’s not that he didn’t deserve it in the context of the movie, it’s why the movie set that particular situation up that way. You’re right about the class angle, though. That was definitely there, but bear in mind that class often (but not always —see _It Happened One Night_) used as a stalking horse for anti-intellectualism. Actually, now that you mention it, I’m wondering if there isn’t a streak of Maoism in it. I’ll have to hunt down a copy and watch it again. ---
**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 25, 2006, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967/79 "2006-05-25T01:38:06Z")
Another one from me…the _G.I. Joe_ movie. (The animated one, that is.) And I actually liked the “Cobra-La” idea…I dunno, for an organization like Cobra and it’s leaders, it’s secret origin _had_ to be a bit wild and over-the-top, in my book. ---
**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 25, 2006, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967/80 "2006-05-25T01:41:52Z")
National Treasure was awesome, as were The Mummy, The Mummy Returns, and especially The Librarian: Quest For the Spear! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-but-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/357967.md?page=5)