Movies I love and everyone else thinks are mildly inexplicable to actively terrible:
Dr. Phibes 1 and 2
Theater of Blood (another Vincent Price vehicle after the unexpected success of the “Phibes” movies… features Diana Rigg in drag for much of the movie… yum!)
Baghdad Cafe
Glen or Glenda (which I’ve seen so often that I’ve now figured out the symbolism)
I also wish to go on record as never having lost the faith with the sublime Dusty Springfield, whom everyone else dropped until a new generation came along to exclaim in rapture, “Woah! Where the hell did THIS come from?”
Plums with cheese spread on them! (well, I dunno if anyone’s ever tried this, but when I mention it to someone 95% of them go “ewwwwww”, the others say, well, doesnt sound good but people put cheddar on apple pie so what the hey.)
Music: I have a strong affection for the Korean art of p’ansori, a sort of one-man opera that is actively repellent to most non-Koreans–but I love it. It is performed solo with no set or props apart from a fan, and it isn’t sung as much as it is growled. An example of the art can be found in the film Chunhyang.
Food: Kimchi. I really like kimchi, and I eat it in just about any sort of dish–mixed in with spaghetti sauce, in a burrito, in soups. Needless to say, the Goboyfriend loathes the stuff so I have to be discreet when I sneak some home.
Movie: Showgirls–It’s a trashy jewel in the exploitation film subgenre. “I’m erect, why aren’t you erect?”
You’re not the only one. My husband, mouthbreather and I TiVO RAW and Smackdown. Most of the time we just skip the lame banter and watch the matches. Our friends gave up on rasslin’ a few years ago tho, so we’re pretty much the only ones who still watch.
As for the OP, the only thing I can think of that I like and have tried to get my friends into was the movie Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills. I LOVE this movie, but whenever I’ve tried to show it to someone they look at me like I should know better.
I’m glad that you have enough sense to intellectualy realize how terrible that movie is, and how unlikely it is that anyone else would like it. I do, however, have a friend with very odd taste in movies. Among other insane opinions, he believes that:
-Saving Silverman is good
-Die Hard 2 is good while Die Hard is bad
and this one might be unique:
-Back to the Future 2 is far better than Back to the Future
Things that people in this thread have mentioned which I like:
-Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills
-Dude, Where’s My Car?
-Moulin Rouge (in fact, I know far more people who love it than the other way around… two of my friends recently got married and both used the phrase “come what may” in their vows)
-I have some fondness for the Star Wars Prequels, although I’m not blind to their numerous flaws
-I enjoyed Buffy: The Movie although it was nowhere near as good as the TV show
I can’t think of anything for myself… hmmm… perhaps I can triumph through obscurity. Anyone else read The Pelbar Cycle by Paul O. Williams? Oh, and I positively adore Titanic, and sometimes feel that I’m the only person in the world, or at least the only one on the SDMB, willing to make that claim. Although I know that’s not quite true. However, if the category were “things which you love but which a significant number of people spew venom at with great regularity”…
Well food stuff…
I like marmite with ritch fruit bread. In fact I really enjoy this combination, having often had marmite sandwiches and fruitbread as school lunches I discovered that together they are even better.
I enjoy raw garlic, but don’t indulge due to its smell.
Strawberry Jam and Cheddar Cheese sandwiches are great.
Two of my favorite bands, ‘Mr. Children’ and ‘Guided By Voices’. No one I know really likes or even cares about them except for the people from who I first heard about them.
ACK! you have an ally in my boyfriend. at least once a week i’m guaranteed to hear the phrase “A beer bong for m’lady?” but he also had to go out and buy the “Josie and the Pussycats” movie.
when i was younger i LOVED vienna sausages, could eat cans at a time. (even i think that’s kinda gross now) oh, and pickled okra. i love me some pickled okra. can’t think of anyone else who likes it outside of my family.
Music: (1) A band called KidneyThieves (which has since vanished, I believe because of copyright by a prior band called Kidney Thieves). (2) Some of the more obscure old Yes albums like Relayer (especially the track Gates of Delerium).
Food: Raw macaroni and peanut butter. Tasty, but very loud.