# Movies you were greatly surprised not to like **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 6, 2009, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-were-greatly-surprised-not-to-like/498923 "2009-06-06T14:39:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2009, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-were-greatly-surprised-not-to-like/498923/1 "2009-06-06T14:39:18Z")
I was fairly excited to rent Transformers. I figuerd it would be good, mindless summer entertainment, and that Bay’s skills would be ideally suited to the task of bringing the Autobots to life. Instead I was just…bored. I might have stuck it all the way through if I’d been in a theater, but as I was at home I just popped out the disc out and read a book. But that’s just me. What movie have you most expected to love, but instead by disappointed by. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2009, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-were-greatly-surprised-not-to-like/498923/2 "2009-06-06T14:42:52Z")
I’m a child of the eighties and was told that it was great by pretty much everyone I knew, so I expected to like \*Transformers \*as well. Nope. Hated it. ---
**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2009, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-were-greatly-surprised-not-to-like/498923/3 "2009-06-06T15:00:08Z")
I didn’t like _Transformers_ either. There was too much “wacky” humour, while I was hoping for a movie that took itself seriously. I also didn’t like _The Princess Bride_. Given what I knew from pop culture about it I expected it to be great, only to discover there _weren’t_ any other good bits. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2009, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-were-greatly-surprised-not-to-like/498923/4 "2009-06-06T15:03:06Z")
_Lolita_ (1961). Zzzzz. I guess I was expecting it to be droll because it had Peter Sellers in it. ---
**Author:** ![randwill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@randwill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randwill)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2009, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-were-greatly-surprised-not-to-like/498923/5 "2009-06-06T15:07:21Z")
Too many to mention and mercifully forgotten. Whenever someone starts a thread here about “Great movies that not many people know about”, I head over to Netflix and put a few of them that sound interesting in my queue. Usually when I watch them, it becomes obvious why not many people know about them. ---
**Author:** ![Surbey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@Surbey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surbey)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2009, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-were-greatly-surprised-not-to-like/498923/6 "2009-06-06T15:16:49Z")
Lord of the Rings. My friends loved it, the internet raved about,and I think every nerd I knew blew a load in their pants during it. But I hated it. HATED HATED HATED it. They were so boring I fell asleep in the theater and have never watched a single one of them again. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2009, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-were-greatly-surprised-not-to-like/498923/7 "2009-06-06T15:18:46Z")
> [@Grumman](#): > > II also didn’t like _The Princess Bride_. Given what I knew from pop culture about it I expected it to be great, only to discover there _weren’t_ any other good bits. :eek: Heretic, kindling, blah blah blach. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2009, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-were-greatly-surprised-not-to-like/498923/8 "2009-06-06T15:19:55Z")
I thought I’d like _The Curious Case of Benjamin Button_. I’m a big fan of Fincher and Pitt’s other outings together, and I love Cate Blanchett. The film was pretty to look at, but the story and characters just didn’t grab me like I expected them too. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2009, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-were-greatly-surprised-not-to-like/498923/9 "2009-06-06T15:25:51Z")
_Lost in Translation_. I was traveling to Asia a lot when it came out and was really expecting to relate to a lot of it. Instead it was about a couple of the most assholish, self absorbed pieces of shit who totally missed the point of just about everything. ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2009, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-were-greatly-surprised-not-to-like/498923/10 "2009-06-06T15:39:22Z")
For a while, I thought I was the only person on earth who didn’t love _Transformers_. I’m glad to know that’s not the case. I missed it in the theater, borrowed a roommates DVD of it and it didn’t take long before I found the main characters both annoying and cliched, and with a lack of hot Robot on Robot action, that started to wear down my endurance. Then the robots arrived and started talking jive. At that point, I turned the movie off. Never looked back. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2009, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-were-greatly-surprised-not-to-like/498923/11 "2009-06-06T15:43:14Z")
I saw _Transformers_ in this fancy schmancy mall in Sofia, Bulgaria. Now, I’m not a big shopper as a rule, but I lived in a rural village of 3,000 people and it was exciting and strange to be in a mall with so much _stuff_. I spent most of the movie wondering if my friends would be insulted if I left to go wander around the mall and look at all the shiny things. Boooorrrriiiinnng. And I _like_ summer explosion movies! ---
**Author:** ![D.Fenestrator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aca169/32.png) [@D.Fenestrator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D.Fenestrator)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2009, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-were-greatly-surprised-not-to-like/498923/12 "2009-06-06T15:47:57Z")
Back in the late '80’s, a movie called “Amazon Women on the Moon” came out. It sounded like it would be irreverent and joke-a-minute, and I was looking forward to some silly fun. I was very disappointed. To this day I don’t know why I disliked it so much. Some of my friends still think it is hilarious. I just can’t agree with them. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2009, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-were-greatly-surprised-not-to-like/498923/13 "2009-06-06T15:57:43Z")
Kubrick’s version of The Shining. Loved the book; abhored the movie. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2009, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-were-greatly-surprised-not-to-like/498923/14 "2009-06-06T16:00:43Z")
I heard all the hype about _No Country for Old Men_ and ended up disliking it immensely. And after the credits rolled for \*Star Trek Reboot \*or 0.0 or whatever they’re calling it, I sat in my movie theatre seat, trying to wrap my head around the betrayal. ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2009, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-were-greatly-surprised-not-to-like/498923/15 "2009-06-06T16:03:28Z")
> [@D.Fenestrator](#): > > Back in the late '80’s, a movie called “Amazon Women on the Moon” came out. It sounded like it would be irreverent and joke-a-minute, and I was looking forward to some silly fun. I was very disappointed. To this day I don’t know why I disliked it so much. Some of my friends still think it is hilarious. I just can’t agree with them. ☹ I thought it was hilarious. Gratuitous nudity helped, too. Arsenio Hall having a videotape ricochet off his forehead was funny, too. My movie for this list would be “Borat”. I love the concept for Borat. Any individual minute-long segment is hilarious. The movie itself, however, was just blah. -Joe ---
**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:** [June 6, 2009, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-were-greatly-surprised-not-to-like/498923/16 "2009-06-06T16:05:40Z")
_The Sting_. I had never seen it until this last year. It has a great reputation. I loved _Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid_. So I figured kick back and enjoy. Grant you, it wasn’t bad. I’d rate it as good but hardly great. While I was watching it, it struck me that, if it wasn’t for the presense of Newman and Redford, it felt like a well-made TV movie. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2009, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-were-greatly-surprised-not-to-like/498923/17 "2009-06-06T16:08:14Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > _Lost in Translation_. I was traveling to Asia a lot when it came out and was really expecting to relate to a lot of it. Instead it was about a couple of the most assholish, self absorbed pieces of shit who totally missed the point of just about everything. Me too. I generally like movies that are a little non mainstream, but I wanted to kill everyone and then feast on their remains in that movie. Also, Rushmore and all the Wes Anderson movies. Again, I like a lot of weird stuff, but what I’ve seen of Anderson irritates me. It just feels like weird for its own sake. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2009, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-were-greatly-surprised-not-to-like/498923/18 "2009-06-06T16:27:51Z")
_ **Tom Jones** _. It was on On Demand recently, so I decided to give it another shot. Classic, 4 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, comedy, sex romp, impressive cast . . . except it’s not funny. Like, at all. Nor is it interesting. About half an hour in, I decided I had more entertaining things to do with my time, and went and washed the dishes. ---
**Author:** ![MOIDALIZE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@MOIDALIZE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MOIDALIZE)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2009, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-were-greatly-surprised-not-to-like/498923/19 "2009-06-06T16:35:20Z")
Both **AvP** movies. I mean, it’s Aliens and Predators. How could you possibly mess that up? Well, they did. Twice. ---
**Author:** ![Electric\_Warrior](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Electric\_Warrior](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electric_Warrior)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2009, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-were-greatly-surprised-not-to-like/498923/20 "2009-06-06T16:44:10Z")
_Saturday Night Fever_ was one of the most lifeless, uninspired movies I ever saw. I couldn’t even finish it, due to my utter lack of caring about anything on screen. Now I know this isn’t considered one of the pinnacles of 20th century film artistry, but I really like disco, and I think the soundtrack is a fantastic album. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-were-greatly-surprised-not-to-like/498923.md?page=2)