# 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:** 7
**Author:** ![A\_Dodgy\_Dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a87d85/32.png) [@A\_Dodgy\_Dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A_Dodgy_Dude)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/121 "2017-07-06T01:39:42Z")
The Tourist. Angelina Jolie looks exactly the way a movie star is supposed to look in that movie. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/122 "2017-07-06T02:19:42Z")
Supposedly the 1968 movie _The Magus_ was generally disliked when it came out. It’s hard to tell if that was really true, since there are few reviews of it online and some of them say it’s pretty good. In any case, the one time I saw it I liked it. ---
**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 6, 2017, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/123 "2017-07-06T03:19:05Z")
> [@Lord\_Mondegreen](#): > > 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. Yeah, the critics liked it, but how many people saw it then or remember it now? Online cites say it grossed about $28.9 million, making it the 46th ranked movie of 1991. I think that qualifies it for the thread. Or consider another favorite of mine, _The Right Stuff_. Some critics raved about it; Siskel and Ebert both picked it among the top 3 films of the decade (1980s). But it didn’t even make back its budget. Is that a movie most people don’t love? > [@](#): > > 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. > [@Kron](#): > > “Not liking it” is an understatement to my absolutely visceral reaction to that movie. I’ve tried to redeem it in my own eyes, and it makes me irrationally angry every time I (attempt to) watch it. I liked the movie version of Hitchhiker’s Guide, but I didn’t love it as much as the other version of the work. Stephen Fry (a friend of Douglas Adams) as the voice of the book was great, and Zooey Deschanel was adorable as Trillian. Bonus trivia question: What’s the connection (or connections) between Zooey Deschanel and _The Right Stuff_? > [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > _Mystery Men_ is the best Terry Gilliam film that Terry Gilliam didn’t make. (Second best is _The City of Lost Children_.) Hmm, I can definitely see it with _The City of Lost Children_. And I like Gilliam and _Mystery Men_, but not seeing a lot of similarity there. Of course, a Gilliam version of _Mystery Men_ could have been fucking amazing. ---
**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 6, 2017, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/124 "2017-07-06T04:55:03Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > “Brassed off” = “pissed off” > “noises off” isn’t slang, it’s theatre jargon - the stage direction for sound coming from offstage. A great day for The Dope. Ignorance fought! ---
**Author:** ![Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marvin_the_martian/32/2898_2.png) [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marvin_the_Martian)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/125 "2017-07-06T05:37:14Z")
> [@CaptMurdock](#): > > _Popeye._ Loved that movie. “Ya can’t inheritsk a pipe.” My contribution: _The Invention of Lying_. Me: Absolutely brilliant. Everyone else I know: meh. ---
**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 6, 2017, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/126 "2017-07-06T05:42:25Z")
krondys: > [@](#): > > “Not liking it” is an understatement to my absolutely visceral reaction to that movie. Ditto. As soon as the movie had Ford paying off the guy to not bulldoze Arthur’s house rather than using his absurd logic to get him to take Arthur’s place in front of the bulldozer, I felt the spirit and charm of the books was completely missing. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/127 "2017-07-06T07:43:46Z")
I haven’t seen _HHGttG_, but I’ve seen photos of Marvin the Android\* and it annoys me that he doesn’t look tall enough to have a leg the length of a cricket stump. \*and don’t even get me started on the fatuity of taking a once-used throwaway insult by Zaphod and deciding that that’s Marvin’s name, now. ---
**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 6, 2017, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/128 "2017-07-06T20:58:21Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > I haven’t seen _HHGttG_, but I’ve seen photos of Marvin the Android\* and it annoys me that he doesn’t look tall enough to have a leg the length of a cricket stump. > \*and don’t even get me started on the fatuity of taking a once-used throwaway insult by Zaphod and deciding that that’s Marvin’s name, now. This is the movie that decided to (effectively) skip the extra head and arm thing. It barely qualifies as being in the _HHGttG_ universe which is incredibly broad and varying, but that crosses a line. ---
**Author:** ![Gretchion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8edcca/32.png) [@Gretchion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gretchion)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2017, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/129 "2017-07-08T04:46:57Z")
Count me as another that enjoys **Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy**. I also really like **Memoirs of an Invisible Man** , and the way it presented how difficult it could really be to be completely invisible. ---
**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 10, 2017, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/130 "2017-07-10T10:12:33Z")
> [@CaptMurdock](#): > > _Popeye._ Would have been greatly improved by the removal of the songs. Ye gods, they draaaaaaaaaag. But otherwise an enjoyable film. A world in which Shelley Duvall never got to fulfill her destiny and play Olive Oyl is not one in which I wish to live. Speaking of films improved by removing songs: _The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T_, which is not a weird horror film but rather a live-action Dr. Seuss movie. It was (in the words of the good Doctor himself) a “debaculous fiasco” and received deeply negative reviews, but personally I think it’s a wonderfully surreal film that works…except for the songs, which don’t really add anything to it. Conversely, the dance sequences are brilliant, and the “Dungeon Ballet” scene is worth the entire film. > [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Yeah, the critics liked it, but how many people saw it then or remember it now? Me! And I loved it. Although I wish they’d left in the John Lithgow scene - it set up the “New Cruelty” joke that didn’t make any sense later without it. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2017, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/131 "2017-07-10T11:08:14Z")
To this day, I remain the only one who loves Noises Off that I know of, after a lifetime of trying to get various people to watch it (every so often), having them do so, and then remark about how boring or unfunny it is. That’s with anyone/everyone. Now, in just my family alone (because I have met others outside my family who likes the following two movies), I seem to be the only one who doesn’t find the movie version of The Five People You Meet in Heaven and Love Actually boring. EDIT: And now, after actually READING the rest of the thread, I see other people have already mentioned Noises Off. :smack: ---
**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 10, 2017, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/132 "2017-07-10T14:04:16Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Me! And I loved it. Although I wish they’d left in the John Lithgow scene… The lunch meeting where he arrives by jetpack? Awesome scene, I wish it was on youtube. Where did you happen to see it? > [@](#): > > … - it set up the “New Cruelty” joke that didn’t make any sense later without it. It’s obviously just an oh-so-chic trend of being an asshole to people. Patrick Stewart makes it work without a setup. ---
**Author:** ![janeslogin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@janeslogin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janeslogin)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2017, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/133 "2017-07-10T21:58:10Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > And what thread was this supposed to go in? Stuff gets stuck in my copy/paste occasionally.That was not even supposed to be on SD. Note to all you youngsters. 85s were audio recordings about a quarter inch thick, usually recorded one side. ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2017, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/134 "2017-07-10T22:35:01Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKAME9fAA-4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKAME9fAA-4) I quite enjoyed Tomorrow Never Dies I liked how it didn’t seem to be about anything for quite a while. Bond is captured, tortured, released, quizzed, escapes…and…hangs out on a beach…ok movie, where are you going with this??? My entry is the American Fever Pitch. ---
**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 10, 2017, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/135 "2017-07-10T23:23:15Z")
> [@Dale\_Sams](#): > > I quite enjoyed Tomorrow Never Dies > > I liked how it didn’t seem to be about anything for quite a while. Bond is captured, tortured, released, quizzed, escapes…and…hangs out on a beach…ok movie, where are you going with this??? Sounds a bit more like _Die Another Day_. ---
**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 10, 2017, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/136 "2017-07-10T23:33:23Z")
> [@Dale\_Sams](#): > > My entry is the American Fever Pitch. I liked that quite a bit. Drew Barrymore and Jimmy Fallon were good in their roles and it helped that the movie was filmed and set in Boston in 2004, centering around a rabid Red Sox fan. So it was a happy coincidence that the movie ends with the Red Sox winning the World Series. ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2017, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/137 "2017-07-11T00:18:25Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Sounds a bit more like _Die Another Day_. You’re right. ---
**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 11, 2017, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/138 "2017-07-11T00:39:06Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > \ Bonus trivia question: What’s the connection (or connections) between Zooey Deschanel and _The Right Stuff_? \ Zooey’s father, Caleb, was cinematographer for TRS. ---
**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 11, 2017, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/139 "2017-07-11T09:51:03Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > The lunch meeting where he arrives by jetpack? Awesome scene, I wish it was on youtube. Where did you happen to see it? YouTube. But the only thing I can find right now is [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXAvUOF5nLU). > [@](#): > > It’s obviously just an oh-so-chic trend of being an asshole to people. Patrick Stewart makes it work without a setup. “You think with a financial statement like this you can have the duck?” 😃 ---
**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 11, 2017, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/140 "2017-07-11T16:16:28Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Bonus trivia question: What’s the connection (or connections) between Zooey Deschanel and _The Right Stuff_? > [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Zooey’s father, Caleb, was cinematographer for TRS. Correct. And Zooey’s mother, Mary Jo, was in _The Right Stuff_; she played Annie Glenn (John Glenn’s wife, with the stutter). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393.md?page=8)