# Movies you'd have to be kind of an asshole not to like **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 3, 2008, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youd-have-to-be-kind-of-an-asshole-not-to-like/458680 "2008-08-03T05:40:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2008, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youd-have-to-be-kind-of-an-asshole-not-to-like/458680/1 "2008-08-03T05:40:17Z")
(With thanks to the [Scarecrow Video Movie Guide](http://www.amazon.com/Scarecrow-Video-Movie-Guide/dp/1570614156/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1217741018&sr=8-1) for the topic idea.) So this rich white plastic surgery victim came in the other night, holding a copy of \*Be Kind Rewind \*with her fingertips, like it was crawling with earwigs, and wanted a refund because it was stupid. I kicked her in the cunt of course, but it set me thinking . . . So here’s my list of Movies You’d Have to Be Kind of an Asshole Not to Like: _Be Kind Rewind My Neighbor Totoro Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion Clueless Babe Wall-E Toy Story My Giant Galaxy Quest Children of Heaven Billy Elliott Strictly Ballroom Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Rio Bravo Persepolis City Lights Mrs. Miniver Good Morning_ . . . totally randomly stream of consciousnessed; neither rhyme nor reason in this list. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2008, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youd-have-to-be-kind-of-an-asshole-not-to-like/458680/2 "2008-08-03T05:49:09Z")
oh and _Stuart Saves His Family_ ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Barchetta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/da6949/32.png) [@Red\_Barchetta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Barchetta)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2008, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youd-have-to-be-kind-of-an-asshole-not-to-like/458680/3 "2008-08-03T06:15:32Z")
Guess I’m a grade A asshole because I thought Wall-e was subpar. However, Toy Story (1 and 2) and Finding Nemo are fantastic movies. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2008, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youd-have-to-be-kind-of-an-asshole-not-to-like/458680/4 "2008-08-03T06:17:49Z")
Clarification: This thread is not to draw out the “assholes,” to find out what movies you \*don’t \*like. It’s to find out what movies you feel the same about; the movies that you feel are universally enjoyable, and you just couldn’t conceive that anyone would dislike them. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2008, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youd-have-to-be-kind-of-an-asshole-not-to-like/458680/5 "2008-08-03T06:25:41Z")
The Iron Giant Brian’s Song Star Wars - the original one - I could see something thinking it overrated in retrospect (I do), but come on, if those opening bars of music don’t reduce you to a grinning 6 year old, you’re an asshole. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2008, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youd-have-to-be-kind-of-an-asshole-not-to-like/458680/6 "2008-08-03T06:29:12Z")
[QUOTE=lissener] oh and _Stuart Saves His Family_ [/QUOTE] I may or may not be an asshole but I loved that movie. It flew under the radar and a lot of people understandably thought “SNL movie? It must suck.” But it had a great cast and a good story. Vincent D’Onofrio and [Harris Yulin](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0950867/) were awesome. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2008, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youd-have-to-be-kind-of-an-asshole-not-to-like/458680/7 "2008-08-03T08:27:09Z")
Spirited Away Millions The Incredibles Harvey Raiders of the Lost Ark Amelie Edward Scissorhands The Upside of Anger The Big Lebowski West Side Story Seabiscuit The Thin Blue Line Badlands ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2008, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youd-have-to-be-kind-of-an-asshole-not-to-like/458680/8 "2008-08-03T08:32:26Z")
_Forrest Gump._ ---
**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:** [August 3, 2008, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youd-have-to-be-kind-of-an-asshole-not-to-like/458680/9 "2008-08-03T09:05:38Z")
[QUOTE=don’t ask] The Big Lebowski [/QUOTE] Are you kidding me? There’s _so much_ to dislike about that movie. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2008, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youd-have-to-be-kind-of-an-asshole-not-to-like/458680/10 "2008-08-03T09:06:49Z")
_The Great Dictator_ _Evil Dead_ _Army of Darkness_ _Sneakers_ ---
**Author:** ![Illuminatiprimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/illuminatiprimus/32/11520_2.png) [@Illuminatiprimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Illuminatiprimus)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2008, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youd-have-to-be-kind-of-an-asshole-not-to-like/458680/11 "2008-08-03T09:48:30Z")
[QUOTE=Argent Towers] _Forrest Gump._ [/QUOTE] I see what you did there, **Argent Towers** 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2008, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youd-have-to-be-kind-of-an-asshole-not-to-like/458680/12 "2008-08-03T10:03:05Z")
gee, I guess I’m a bigger asshole than I thought. Of the OP’s list, there’s only two that I actively, seriously like, vs. finding merely pleasant. (Toy story and Galaxy Quest, which is nothing less than brilliant.) ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2008, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youd-have-to-be-kind-of-an-asshole-not-to-like/458680/13 "2008-08-03T10:08:38Z")
**Howl’s Moving Castle.** And I second **Spirited Away**. Both truly magical animated movies. ---
**Author:** ![Made\_in\_Macau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eada6e/32.png) [@Made\_in\_Macau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Made_in_Macau)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2008, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youd-have-to-be-kind-of-an-asshole-not-to-like/458680/14 "2008-08-03T10:19:20Z")
You’d have to be an asshole not to like ‘One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest’ surely? MiM ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2008, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youd-have-to-be-kind-of-an-asshole-not-to-like/458680/15 "2008-08-03T10:26:34Z")
[QUOTE=GuanoLad] Are you kidding me? There’s _so much_ to dislike about that movie. [/QUOTE] Well I am cheating there. Four of us were doing overtime recently and someone came up with a stupid idea how to do what we were doing and I said, “That’s a great plan, Walter. That’s fuckin’ ingenious, if I understand it correctly. It’s a Swiss fuckin’ watch,” and two of the others laughed. Someone said, "This is what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass!’ Our boss looked puzzled so we regaled him with some of the glories of _The Great Lebowski_, which he hadn’t seen, and one of the guys assured him he would love it. I said that you can’t be sure because I had friends that didn’t like it. Mark said, “I’m sure you know people that don’t like it but surely they aren’t friends?” ---
**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:** [August 3, 2008, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youd-have-to-be-kind-of-an-asshole-not-to-like/458680/16 "2008-08-03T10:32:33Z")
•_Bambi_. •Arguably _Dumbo_ (The crows are kind of a sticking point…somehwat balanced out by the song “Baby Mine,” which I’ve heard claimed as a soul detector) •_A Charlie Brown Christmas_. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2008, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youd-have-to-be-kind-of-an-asshole-not-to-like/458680/17 "2008-08-03T11:08:27Z")
_Raiders Of The Lost Ark_. Just…too…cool. 🆒🆒🆒🆒 ---
**Author:** ![bubastis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d07c76/32.png) [@bubastis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bubastis)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2008, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youd-have-to-be-kind-of-an-asshole-not-to-like/458680/18 "2008-08-03T11:16:23Z")
[QUOTE=lissener] So this rich white plastic surgery victim came in the other night, holding a copy of \*Be Kind Rewind \*with her fingertips, like it was crawling with earwigs, and wanted a refund because it was stupid. [/QUOTE] Off topic, but did she really expect a refund for a movie she disliked? It’s not like you or your company MADE the f’kin thing. Or am I missing the part where she was forced at gunpoint to rent it? Anyrate, you’d have to be kind of an asshole to not like Tremors Shaun of the Dead Back To The Future ---
**Author:** ![Svejk\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@Svejk\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Svejk_1)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2008, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youd-have-to-be-kind-of-an-asshole-not-to-like/458680/19 "2008-08-03T11:31:47Z")
I’m not sure if it would by force of necessity make anyone an asshole if he or she did not like **Pulp Fiction** , but it would certainly remove any ground for friendship or even an interesting conversation. ---
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2008, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youd-have-to-be-kind-of-an-asshole-not-to-like/458680/20 "2008-08-03T13:05:03Z")
_The Princess Bride_ [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youd-have-to-be-kind-of-an-asshole-not-to-like/458680.md?page=2)