Does it make you an asshole if upon hearing about the movie it sounds completely uninteresting or even stupid? Because a lot of the movies mentioned in this thread I have absolutely no interest in.
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Forrest Gump.
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Crash.
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Crash.
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Birdcage.
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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.
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Maybe she would have liked it better had it been remade by two video store clerks.
Anybody who didn’t like Anal Bukkake Whores XIV…
I’m thinking *Sophie’s Choice * should probably be on this list.
North by Northwest
The General
To Have and Have Not
Bringing up Baby.
The Fall
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Return to Oz
Local Hero
Never Cry Wolf
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Crash.
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Titanic
Brokeback Mountain
Wings of Desire
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the RIng
Moulin Rouge!
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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?
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Oh yeah. It doesn’t happen often, but it happens. I once had an asshole of a customer enter the door ranting and cussing, then throw a videotape at my head, telling me he wasn’t going to pay for such a “dumb fucking movie!” The movie? Dumb and Dumber.
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Does it make you an asshole if upon hearing about the movie it sounds completely uninteresting or even stupid? Because a lot of the movies mentioned in this thread I have absolutely no interest in.
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IANTOP, but I don’t think so, no. At least, two of my additions (Iron Giant and Brian’s Song) are sort of stealth sucker punches - they sound lame as all get-out, but if you actually *watch *them and don’t find your “allergies” acting up, you’re kind of an asshole.
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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.
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Then I wear my Badge of Assholery proudly. I didn’t see any of the Star Wars films until years later, on HBO I believe. I was, as intelligent teens often are, resentful of the success of a LCD pseudo-sci-fi (skiffy) movie, having read many great works of science fiction relentlessly through my teen years. Since then I’ve mellowed out a bit, and can enjoy them for what they are (in small doses), but they will never be on my Top 250 list.
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Bringing up Baby.
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This plus Holiday and The Philadelphia Story.
Beauty and the Beast (1991)
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
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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.
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See, I’ve learned that no such thing exists. There are movies I love, movies I can’t imagine anyone not liking, yet I know there are people out there who don’t. Their reasons may seem petty or stupid to me (just like mine might to you about the truly detestable Billy Elliott), but this runs into the whole Litmus Test school of critique evaluation. There are critics I love who seem to sometimes “miss the mark” about movies I admire or vice versa, but I’ve learned that movies I love are simply movies I love, and while I may be an ambassador for those films, I don’t need other people to love them (though it brings me great joy if they do).
I couldn’t trust anyone who isn’t charmed by Overboard.
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I couldn’t trust anyone who isn’t charmed by Overboard.
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With Goldie Hawn as an amnesiac heiress and Kurt Russell as a carpenter who, to avenge himself on her for being a bitch, manipulates her into believing that she’s his wife and the mother of his children? Yeah, that’s a charmer all right.
If you don’t like Field of Dreams, you’re just not a human being. 
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Children of Heaven
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My dislike of this movie is fully justified.
That said, I don’t get people who aren’t charmed by The Fifth Element.
*Little Miss Sunshine
Casablanca
Roman Holiday
Some Like It Hot
Singin’ In the Rain
White Christmas
Caddyshack
A Fish Called Wanda*
…and many more