# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2017, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/81 "2017-07-04T17:26:47Z")
> [@Ranchoth](#): > > -I don’t own a single _Tomorrowland_ pin… > > I own _two_. I liked that movie. Didn’t love it, but I enjoyed it fine. Never understood why it’s considered bad. ---
**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 4, 2017, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/82 "2017-07-04T17:35:42Z")
I think I need to see _Mystery Men_, now. ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2017, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/83 "2017-07-04T18:29:08Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > I think I need to see _Mystery Men_, now. It’s a funny movie. One of the few movies where I can tolerate Ben Stiller. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2017, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/84 "2017-07-04T18:35:16Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > I think I need to see _Mystery Men_, now. Meh. Skip _Mystery Men_, watch [_The Specials_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Specials_%28film%29). (Can’t include it as a movie “most people don’t like” because it is a movie most people haven’t heard of. It played in I think only 2 theaters and made only $13,000 at the box office.) ([Clip](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osCVUNDxhZQ). Somebody crudely censored it, so it is kinda SFW.) ---
**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 4, 2017, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/85 "2017-07-04T18:41:21Z")
> [@jtur88](#): > > I’ve always hade a soft spot for “Always” Have you seen _A Guy Named Joe_? It’s the movie _Always_ is a remake of. I dislike _Always_ only because I didn’t think _A Guy Named Joe_ needed remaking. ---
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2017, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/86 "2017-07-04T23:47:34Z")
_The Core_. Marvellous pulp sci-fi, depending on handwavium and unobtanium to make it work. Sometimes what you really need is a mechanical mole movie, and if it breaks the Second Law of Thermodynamics, so much the better. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/87 "2017-07-05T03:54:32Z")
I love \*Xanadu \*in all its cheesy glory. I’m also a big fan of all several Stephen King TV miniseries that most people think sucked, like _The Langoliers_, _IT_, and _Rose Red_. ---
**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:** [July 5, 2017, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/88 "2017-07-05T04:01:38Z")
I _really_ loved Almost Famous and Say Anything, so I was willing to watch anything else Cameron Crowe made. Now both of those are generally well-liked but Elizabethtown was not. And yet I liked it. (And actually I even warmed to Roadies, the premium cable series he was also involved in, but which ended after one season.) ---
**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 5, 2017, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/89 "2017-07-05T04:12:03Z")
> [@Wallaby](#): > > _King Ralph_. > > Utterly stupid. One Dimensional. Predictable. > > Fun, though. You might like the novel which inspired it. Very different, but worth a read: [Headlong (Williams novel) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headlong_(Williams_novel)) ---
**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 5, 2017, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/90 "2017-07-05T05:52:24Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > I _really_ loved Almost Famous and Say Anything, so I was willing to watch anything else Cameron Crowe made. Now both of those are generally well-liked but Elizabethtown was not. And yet I liked it. (And actually I even warmed to Roadies, the premium cable series he was also involved in, but which ended after one season.) “Roadies” reminds me of a movie starring Meat Loaf and Kaki Hunter (of “Porky’s” fame), called “Roadie”. So bad it’s good, and it just OOZED 1970’s all over you. Though made in 1980, I think it’s the quintessential 1970’s movie, filled with 70’s character actors, music, and style. That movie marked the actual end of the 1970’s. OK folks, that’s a wrap. On to the 80’s! Not really an improvement, in my opinion. I used to have a huge DVD collection, mostly because I lived in a shit-ass one-horse town with nothing to do, and because I lived near a Hastings, which rented DVD’s, then sold them when they were no longer in demand. I had to move across country and sold most of them, but kept about 50 of them. “Roadie” was one. Think I’ll throw it on now. > [@jtur88](#): > > “Brassed Off” was a fun picture, too. Reminds me of another movie, “Noises off”, in that their titles sound vaguely like British slang that I’m entirely left out on. No idea what they mean. > [@psychobunny](#): > > I love My Dinner with Andre. Can’t find anybody else who gets the appeal of watching two guys have dinner and talk. I saw it when I was young and was captivated. I saw it 20 years later, and I realized how full of shit the not-Wallace-Shawn guy was. Whackadoo. Maybe if I saw it a third time I’d get past the woo-woo bs and see something deeper, but I doubt I’ll be finding the time for it. I didn’t have a problem with it just being 2 guys talking, though. There had to have been a lot going right for that to work as well as it did. Acting, script, editing, directing. I didn’t find it boring at all. ---
**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 5, 2017, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/91 "2017-07-05T07:06:06Z")
> [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](#): > > Reminds me of another movie, “Noises off”, in that their titles sound vaguely like British slang that I’m entirely left out on. No idea what they mean. “Brassed off” = “pissed off” “noises off” isn’t slang, it’s theatre jargon - the stage direction for sound coming from offstage. ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/92 "2017-07-05T08:40:47Z")
> [@Sefton](#): > > **Blue Raja** : Well, I’m the Blue Raja. I’m not Stab Man, I’m not Knifey Boy - I’m the Blue Raja. “And yes, I know I don’t wear much blue and I speak in a British accent, but if you know your history it really does make perfect sense!”😃 ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Mondegreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/91b2a8/32.png) [@Lord\_Mondegreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Mondegreen)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/93 "2017-07-05T10:00:09Z")
As usual in threads like this, there are a lot of movies mentioned that don’t exactly fit the “Movies you love that most people don’t.” For example, “L.A. Story” was mentioned - Rotten Tomatoes has a 75% audience rating, a 94% critics rating, and 100% top critics rating. IMDd has it at 6.7/10. Given that, I am a little hesitant to mention “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (2005)”, because the only metric by which it fails is Rotten Tomatoes overall critics’ score. Still, I recall fans not liking it, so I still think it qualifies. I absolutely loved it, and I have been a fan of the radio series, books, TV series and LP releases since the early '80s. It was always going to be nearly impossible to translate the radio series/books to the big screen, but I think they did the best job possible. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/94 "2017-07-05T12:02:12Z")
Just rewatched “The Immortals” the other night. Man, I love that movie. Awesome visuals and it has the best bad guy ever. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/95 "2017-07-05T13:29:37Z")
Agree with this bunch on **Jupiter Ascending. Tomorrowland,** and David Lynch’s **Dune**. I also like the cut-for-TV version of Lynch’s **Dune** , which is marked “Directed by Allen Smithee” and contains scenes that aren’t in the released version\*. It was clearly cut by someone who knew and loved the novel, even if it wasn’t David Lynch. \*Please note that this is neither the Director’s Cut of Lynch’s Dune nor the SciFi Channel’s version of Dune, which is also well worth watching. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/96 "2017-07-05T13:44:53Z")
I’m a sucker for sentimental movies. _The Third Miracle_ starring Ed Harris is an example that comes to mind — I think it was a box-office flop. ---
**Author:** ![puddleglum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puddleglum/32/137_2.png) [@puddleglum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puddleglum)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/97 "2017-07-05T13:56:03Z")
Troy. The Paris- Helen introduction part is much too long, but the battle and fight scenes are the best I have ever seen. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/98 "2017-07-05T14:01:01Z")
nightshadea: I love Johnny Dangerously, and I always thought it was pretty well liked - I don’t know that it fits the title of the thread. My answers: Little Nicky: Yes, it’s Adam Sandler dumbness, but it has a lot of clever touches, and I think it does an amazing job of portraying someone who has no concept of what life on Earth is like. I love when he gets hit by a train, goes back to Hell, and says, “I got hit by some lights with a lot of metal attached to them.” That sounds exactly like how someone with zero Earthly experience would describe the experience. Tomorrow Never Dies: Considered by most to be in the lower tier of Bond movies, I love the opening sequence at the terrorist bazaar, the hotel-garage car chase, the Bond girls are among the sexiest in the series, and I found the media-villain concept pretty original. And Brosnan is my favorite Bond actor, so I’m sure that elevates it for me more than for many who prefer one of the others. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/99 "2017-07-05T14:07:46Z")
> [@puddleglum](#): > > Troy. The Paris- Helen introduction part is much too long, but the battle and fight scenes are the best I have ever seen. I’ll second this. Even though it makes a ridiculous hash of a lot of the _Iliad_ (most of it to no good purpose – and there’s a lot more than leaving out the gods), it’s still very well done. Pair this with the Hallmark TV version of **The Odyssey** (which is more faithful, and leaves the gods in) and you’ve got the complete visual Homer. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/100 "2017-07-05T15:27:45Z")
> [@FlikTheBlue](#): > > Weekend at Bernie’s, the original Well, sure. I can see that having a certain… > [@FlikTheBlue](#): > > and the sequel. Oh, _COME ON_ now! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393.md?page=6)