Movies you love but everyone else seems to hate

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.

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!

Get Crazy. I try to watch it every New Year’s Eve. 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.

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.

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.

Forgot Repo Man

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.

Let’s go get sushi and not pay!

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.

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.

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.

And Eddie and The Crusers and Streets of Fire

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.

The Pirate Movie
The Cutting Edge
Ice Pirates

I have no shame :slight_smile:

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.

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.

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. :slight_smile:

Oh yeah…she let her subscription lapse, didn’t she? Oh well.

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.

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.

National Treasure was awesome, as were The Mummy, The Mummy Returns, and especially The Librarian: Quest For the Spear!