The Tourist.
Angelina Jolie looks exactly the way a movie star is supposed to look in that movie.
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.
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?
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?
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.
A great day for The Dope. Ignorance fought!
Loved that movie. “Ya can’t inheritsk a pipe.”
My contribution: The Invention of Lying. Me: Absolutely brilliant. Everyone else I know: meh.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
The lunch meeting where he arrives by jetpack? Awesome scene, I wish it was on youtube. Where did you happen to see it?
It’s obviously just an oh-so-chic trend of being an asshole to people. Patrick Stewart makes it work without a setup.
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.
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.
Sounds a bit more like Die Another Day.
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.
You’re right.
Zooey’s father, Caleb, was cinematographer for TRS.
YouTube. But the only thing I can find right now is this.
“You think with a financial statement like this you can have the duck?” 
Correct. And Zooey’s mother, Mary Jo, was in The Right Stuff; she played Annie Glenn (John Glenn’s wife, with the stutter).