# 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:** 4
**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 4, 2017, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/61 "2017-07-04T01:33:05Z")
> [@Marci\_Al](#): > > 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. Heh, guess we dodged that bullet. I definitely was not performing, nor even thinking about it, while watching Estelle Getty & Stallone. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2017, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/62 "2017-07-04T03:01:00Z")
> [@Sigmagirl](#): > > Well, any movie with a tuba in it. > > “Sustained booming noises.” Ah, sustained booming noises; around nine, nine-fifteen. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2017, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/63 "2017-07-04T03:15:38Z")
> [@scr4](#): > > [**Toys**](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105629/). Such a beautiful movie I also love this movie, mainly because I love some of the visuals, and I really don’t think most people are interested in seeing a movie just for visuals. They consider it cheap, or simplistic, for some reason, and I never agreed with that. Similarly, I thought the _Speed Racer_ movie was good, precisely _because_ it’s a CG showcase, whereas the “true fans” and “cineasts” and all of the pseudo-intellectuals fall all over themselves to decry CG and demand physical effects and, I presume, in-camera effects and whatever other dogma the cashiers want these days. Anyway. _Metropolis_ disproves them comprehensively, as does the _oeuvre_ Stanley Kubrick. Film as spectacle has been with us from long before film as storytelling was seriously considered, and it will never be fully out of fashion. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2017, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/64 "2017-07-04T03:24:01Z")
> [@Derleth](#): > > I also love this movie, mainly because I love some of the visuals, and I really don’t think most people are interested in seeing a movie just for visuals. They consider it cheap, or simplistic, for some reason, and I never agreed with that. Similarly, I thought the _Speed Racer_ movie was good, precisely _because_ it’s a CG showcase, whereas the “true fans” and “cineasts” and all of the pseudo-intellectuals fall all over themselves to decry CG and demand physical effects and, I presume, in-camera effects and whatever other dogma the cashiers want these days. I love great visuals and I can appreciate a movie for a lot of different reasons. But _Toys_ is just a bad movie. It makes my list of the ten worst movies I’ve ever seen. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2017, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/65 "2017-07-04T03:37:33Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > I love great visuals and I can appreciate a movie for a lot of different reasons. > > But _Toys_ is just a bad movie. It makes my list of the ten worst movies I’ve ever seen. I’m certainly not going to argue, but I’m impressed that anyone had a strong enough reaction to this film to consider it one of the worst they’ve ever seen. _Toys_ is, to me, a Magritte painting, a visually beautiful piece of surrealist art without the darkness surrealism usually implies. (Why can art not have dreams without their being nightmares?) I love it because it captures something I love about the era in which it was made, but I can’t imagine it having enough substance to be seriously hated by anyone. Oh, well. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2017, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/66 "2017-07-04T05:38:25Z")
Count me in as another who likes _The 13th Warrior_. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2017, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/67 "2017-07-04T07:20:27Z")
I love My Dinner with Andre. Can’t find anybody else who gets the appeal of watching two guys have dinner and talk. ---
**Author:** ![Wallaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/dc4da7/32.png) [@Wallaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallaby)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2017, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/68 "2017-07-04T08:12:41Z")
_King Ralph_. Utterly stupid. One Dimensional. Predictable. Fun, though. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2017, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/69 "2017-07-04T10:09:33Z")
> [@Sefton](#): > > I love _The Hudsucker Proxy_ with all my heart. I didn’t know that we weren’t supposed to like that one. I think it’s great. My contribution is a pair of films: The Jean Claude van Dam “Street Fighter” movie. Raul Julia makes that movie for me. And “The Adventures of Ford Fairlaine,” starring Andrew “Dice” Clay as a rock n roll detective. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2017, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/70 "2017-07-04T11:08:39Z")
Given the woeful level of the competition in the genre, I think “Bend it Like Beckham” was the greatest sports film ever made. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2017, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/71 "2017-07-04T11:17:10Z")
I’ve always hade a soft spot for “Always”, and I thought "Cheaters (Jeff Daniels) was a seriously under-appreciated picture. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2017, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/72 "2017-07-04T11:19:20Z")
> [@Sigmagirl](#): > > Well, any movie with a tuba in it. > > “Sustained booming noises.” “Brassed Off” was a fun picture, too. Wait a minute – it coming to me – “Swamp Thing” ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2017, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/73 "2017-07-04T12:16:36Z")
_Paul Blart Mall Cop_. I mean it’s not exactly Oscar bait, but it’s a perfectly decent little family comedy. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2017, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/74 "2017-07-04T12:34:02Z")
> [@lisiate](#): > > 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. Most of it is merely mildly entertaining, but Alan Tudyk’s mad gay German really makes it worth watching. > [@scr4](#): > > [**Toys**](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105629/). Such a beautiful movie \*Toys \*always disappointed me in that it’s great up to Act 3 (and absolutely beautiful) and then, somewhere around the time we get the music video, it loses its way. So close to being brilliant, but not close enough. > [@Superdude](#): > > The Jean Claude van Dam “Street Fighter” movie. Raul Julia makes that movie for me. I do like that one. And it’s even better if you read what filming it was like - drugs, chaos, and a constant van Damme/Minogue shagfest. > [@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. Generally well received, as I recall, although a bit auteur-ish. I’ve heard it called a bookend to Woody Allen’s _Manhattan_ and I wouldn’t disagree. > [@The\_Tooth](#): > > Auto Focus is a dramitized biopic of Bob Crane starring Greg Kinnear, and it has a lot of style as well as Willem Dafoe in his second-most skeevy role. I give up - what’s the first? There are so many to choose from. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2017, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/75 "2017-07-04T12:46:05Z")
> [@Trancephalic](#): > > … > Mystery Men I am amazed at the lack of love for this movie. When I saw it in the theater there were less than a dozen people there. On a Friday 9-something show. It’s second weekend. Worse, I was the only person who burst out laughing at the funniest line: “Look, I’m a publicist, not a magician.” Tons of great bits: “Doc, you’re a genius.” “That’s what it says on the card.” Great supporting cast: Lena Olin, Eddie Izzard, Tom Waits, etc. Okay, Claire Forlani is a dud. Who hasn’t wanted to defraculate Greg Kinnear? I blame Smash Mouth. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2017, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/76 "2017-07-04T13:47:58Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > Worse, I was the only person who burst out laughing at the funniest line: “Look, I’m a publicist, not a magician.” Not everyone knows that acting is Ricky Jay’s second career. > [@](#): > > Great supporting cast: Lena Olin, Eddie Izzard, Tom Waits, etc. Okay, Claire Forlani is a dud. Geoffrey Rush and Wes Studi are great in it. “When you can balance a tack hammer on your head, you will head off your foes with a balanced attack.” “We are number one. All others are number two, or lower.” ---
**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, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/77 "2017-07-04T14:04:19Z")
> [@Trancephalic](#): > > Mystery Men For me, the best part of the movie was Hank Azaria as the Blue Raja. **Shoveller** : You’re the master of cutlery. You couldn’t throw a knife sometimes when someone’s trying to kill me? **Blue Raja** : No, I can’t! You couldn’t, uh, use a rake sometimes? **Shoveller** : No. I’m the Shoveler. **Blue Raja** : Well, I’m the Blue Raja. I’m not Stab Man, I’m not Knifey Boy - I’m the Blue Raja. ---
**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:** [July 4, 2017, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/78 "2017-07-04T14:55:24Z")
I think there are maybe one or two movies people have mentioned already that I’ve seen that I don’t like. After that… -Considering it, and seeing it again on a marathon recently, I find I have kind of a soft spot for 1998’s _Godzilla_. Although I’d like it a lot better, and I think other people would too, if they’d only called the monster “Leviathan” or something. And “Zilla” has made a far better showing of himself in other media, such as the cartoon spinoff series, which was actually quite well animated and well written, as I remember. -I don’t own a single _Tomorrowland_ pin… I own _two_. ---
**Author:** ![Tinker\_Grey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tinker_grey/32/8136_2.png) [@Tinker\_Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tinker_Grey)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2017, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/79 "2017-07-04T16:14:50Z")
_Aeon Flux_ ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2017, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/80 "2017-07-04T16:28:48Z")
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