# Movies you love that most people don't? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 2, 2017, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393 "2017-07-02T21:18:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![lisiate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f05b48/32.png) [@lisiate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisiate)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2017, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/41 "2017-07-03T10:26:59Z")
28 days. Not the zombie flick, the one where Sandra Bullock goes to rehab. Maybe the only movie with actors from Firefly, Lord of the Rings and The Wire all in the cast. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2017, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/42 "2017-07-03T12:40:40Z")
**Joe Dirt** - it’s dumb, but it’s funny (in the stupidest possible way) and sweet. **Freddy Got Fingered** - it is objectively a bad movie, but, it was never intended to be a good one. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2017, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/43 "2017-07-03T13:03:08Z")
I Sailed to Tahiti with an All Girl Crew…so bad its good. ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2017, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/44 "2017-07-03T13:54:35Z")
> [@RikWriter](#): > > Sahara with Matthew McConaughey. I loved it. Great action, fast-moving, funny and I loved Steve Zahn’s character. > > Joe Vs the Volcano with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. I loved the quirkiness of it, the slightly off-kilter storytelling. > > And also The 13th Warrior. The guys playing the Viking warriors were awesome. GREAT choices! The worst thing about the 13th Warrior is they did the, “save the child running across the field as danger approaches” twice, and they did it both times with Banderas jumping a fence on a horse. Just a copypasta from another part of the script. Yeah, the vikings were great, in turns funny, brooding, and menacing. I also liked the sets, costumes and cinematography. > [@Marci\_Al](#): > > I thought “Stop or My Mom Will Shoot” was a nice family movie (albeit touching too close to gangster stereotyping.) Acting by both Stallone and Getty was good, with Getty stealing the show for the greater part. That movie is so bad, I wanted to break up with my ex-girlfriend because she dragged me to it. If I knew then what I know now, I would have. Holy shit, you’re not her, are you? :eek: > [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Howard the Duck. > > I’m sorry. Don’t you blasphemy in here! Howard the Duck is epic! An epic WHAT, I’m not sure, but it’s fucking EPIC! Lea Thompson never looked cuter, or hotter. Jeffery Jones as the Dark Overlord was over-the-top fun. That scene in the diner alone was reason enough to make that movie. My only regret was the utter waste of Tim Robbins, and even that was an _epic_ waste. Epic, I say. > [@DCnDC](#): > > **Freddy Got Fingered** - it is objectively a bad movie, but, it was never intended to be a good one. Daddy would you like some sausages? Damn, all my picks are taken, even Dune, and I don’t even think that should qualify. ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2017, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/45 "2017-07-03T14:20:44Z")
[**Toys**](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105629/). Such a beautiful movie ---
**Author:** ![Trancephalic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trancephalic/32/380_2.png) [@Trancephalic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trancephalic)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2017, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/46 "2017-07-03T14:38:44Z")
Super Mario Bros. Evolution Mystery Men ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2017, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/47 "2017-07-03T16:00:23Z")
Do cheezy made-for-tv movies on the Syfy channel count? There was a mini-series ‘Alice’ in 2008, a variation of Alice-in-Wonderland, full of bad CGI I really liked. (in fact, anything set in olden days, I like. Right now I am watching ‘The Kissing Bandit’ starring Frank Sinatra. It is so bad, and so funny - it is MEANT to be funny, but doubly so, because, bad!) ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2017, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/48 "2017-07-03T16:06:42Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > I love _Jupiter Ascending_. > > And _Lucy_. I can’t say that I loved it but I liked JA. I appreciated it tried to build a world that was different. Lucy was also entertaining. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2017, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/49 "2017-07-03T16:45:27Z")
**Nothing But Trouble** - really not a good movie, but what can I say, I love John Candy. And it’s got the Digital Underground! ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2017, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/50 "2017-07-03T16:46:03Z")
_Three Amigos_ is amusing. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2017, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/51 "2017-07-03T20:32:46Z")
I’m a big Coen Bros. fan, and I have to say I was totally underwhelmed by _The Hudsucker Proxy_. Just didn’t do it for me. Far better of theirs IMHO are _The Big Lebowski, Fargo, Raising Arizona, A Serious Man_ and _No Country For Old Men_. _The Hidden_ is a great B-movie about a slimy alien criminal hiding out in LA, hopping from human to human as it’s chased by a local cop and an odd FBI agent. Hardly anyone seems to know about it. > [@Reddy\_Mercury](#): > > What are some movies you enjoy, that most people don’t seem to? > > Myself: > > Star Trek: The Motion Picture… Other than the interminable sailing further and further into V’Ger, I agree. It was great to see the whole cast together again, and the redesigned _Enterprise_. > [@RikWriter](#): > > Sahara with Matthew McConaughey. I loved it. Great action, fast-moving, funny and I loved Steve Zahn’s character… It was better than I expected, but I won’t say I love it. > [@nightshadea](#): > > johnny dangerously it was a “airplane” 30s gangster movie parody that was juvenile and cheesy …the best actors were Michael Keaton and the lady that played his mom … I saw it when it first came out and remember enjoying it. “You shouldn’t grab me, Johnny. My mother grabbed me once… _once_.” > [@MrDibble](#): > > I love… _Lucy_. It had its moments, but _Limitless_ is IMHO a much better take on the premise. > [@Trancephalic](#): > > …Mystery Men Yes! A great superhero spoof. “We’ve got a blind date with destiny… and it looks like she’s ordered the lobster.” ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2017, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/52 "2017-07-03T20:38:13Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > **L.A. Story** , from Steve Martin’s romantic period, it came out a few years after _Roxanne_. It’s not that most people don’t love it, they just haven’t heard of it. I think it’s fantastic, in the best senses of the word. Well, any movie with a tuba in it. “Sustained booming noises.” ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2017, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/53 "2017-07-03T20:43:30Z")
The old Paramount _Alice in Wonderland_ that bombed at the box-office like _Ishtar_. And a bunch of cheesy made-for-TV movies, especially one called _Death of a Cheerleader_, where Kellie Martin murders Tori Spelling\*. I originally watched it because Valerie Harper plays Kellie Martin’s mother. Not I watch it because Tori Spellings gets killed. \*Not really a spoiler-- I think it happens before the first commercial. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2017, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/54 "2017-07-03T20:51:49Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > It had its moments, but _Limitless_ is IMHO a much better take on the premise. I like it too, but I prefer Besson’s commitment to taking the premise just that much more into full-on Fantasyland. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2017, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/55 "2017-07-03T21:14:18Z")
The greatest superhero movie of all time is _Zorro, The Gay Blade_. ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2017, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/56 "2017-07-03T23:06:21Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > _Three Amigos_ is amusing. It also doesn’t really fit the category. A lot of people love the Three Amigos. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2017, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/57 "2017-07-03T23:43:56Z")
_White Chicks_ is enjoyable, particularly due to Terry Crews. Anything with him, really. The Postman, Waterworld, John Carter, et al. were decent movies with good moments. But people assume financial failure automatically means terrible. > [@The\_Tooth](#): > > Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure is wonderfully absurd. It’s stupid, but like a Marx Brothers movie is stupid. It always makes me laugh. Who the hell doesn’t like this except people who never saw it but guess it’s a dumb kids movie? Either that or they’re terrorists. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2017, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/58 "2017-07-04T00:49:30Z")
Shhh! I’m trying to use the phone! ---
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2017, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/59 "2017-07-04T00:50:23Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > The greatest superhero movie of all time is _Zorro, The Gay Blade_. I agree with you completely. George Hamilton was a riot. _“Two bits, four bits, six bits, a peso! All for Zorro, stand up and say so!”_ ---
**Author:** ![Marci\_Al](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47c2d/32.png) [@Marci\_Al](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marci_Al)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2017, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/60 "2017-07-04T01:27:06Z")
> [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](#): > > [Stop! Or my Mom will Shoot] > > That movie is so bad, I wanted to break up with my ex-girlfriend because she dragged me to it. If I knew then what I know now, I would have. Holy shit, you’re not her, are you? :eek: I never thought it could possibly steer in this direction, but one reason I remember it is I watched it inside a hotel room, while doing the nasty with a “casual” acquaintance. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393.md?page=4)