Speaking of High Art, does anybody like that movie?
I think Stuart Saves His Family is divisive. There are a lot of people like me who think it’s like recovery for people who don’t know whether to vomit or laugh at the term “recovery” but who really need it even though they think it’s stupid and embarassing. But most people just think it’s one of the dumbest movies ever made and they draw the line at barfing.
I know there are people who love it because they said so on imdb.
The one that immediately came to my mind was Sideways. In my little circle of friends there are two of us that loved it and two more that think it’s probably the worst movie ever made.
I’ll second Napoleon Dynamite and Passion of the Christ. I thought Passion was okay the first time but the second time I watched it, I absolutely hated it.
Early U.S. releases of “Akira.”
I wouldn’t call it “divisive,” because everyone seems to hate it but me–Saving Silverman.
This is one of my favorites of all time. I think it’s completely hilarious. I even got the DVD and watched the director’s cut. Boy was I surprised to find out that other people dislike it so much. And I was really surprised to find that so many people took it as misogynist, because I totally didn’t, and I tend toward the knee-jerk feminist side of things.
Yikes, Saving Silverman is awful.
But I love Fight Club. And I got women’s parts and such.
Citizen Kane If you’re a critic, you think it’s the greatest thing produced by the hand of man. I saw it once and wondered, “just what is the big deal?” Boring story. What did Rosebud mean? I found myself not caring.
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.*
I loved *Fellowship * beyond description and saw it an embarrassing number of times, and felt it got gypped on the Oscar.
I thought Two Towers was flawed but still excellent, and saw it an equally embarrassing number of times.
I found *Return * to be a stinking pile of donkey vomit that was so bad it actually reached backwards in the space-time continuum and ruined its predecessors. When it won the Oscar for best pic I nearly had a stroke.
Birth Of A Nation both created modern movies as we know them, and is as ugly as a firebomb through a bedroom window (which actually happened to my family, in Maywood, Illinois, in 65).
The Big Lebowski? Everyone else seems to have not heard of it or thought it completely unfunny, my friends and I think its hilarious and try and quote it as often as possible.
Yes, but many of the elements that made them so divisive in their day now seem quaint.
I also liked Saving Silverman and it includes the only major role I’ve seen Jack Black play that I could stomach.
“They’re cornholin’ ya?!”
My vote goes for Unbreakable. Comic fans tend to love it, art snobs tend to find it pretentious. Which are you?
I’m a comics fan who finds it pretentious. The ending was… flawed. Incomplete.
I’m neither a comic fan or an art snob, and I love the ending.
Another few, all in the same group: Billy Madison, Tommy Boy, and Big Daddy.
And, in a somewhat separate group: Man on the Moon. Now, THERE is a genius film that people just don’t get.
Thelma and Louise. One of the few movies whose discussion will cause me to nearly burst blood vessels.
Dude! You are THEM? I remember when that happened!
Showgirls.
Definitely a love it or hate it movie.
FTR, it was a discussion of Showgirls that got lissner banned.
I too like The Big Lebowski. I also enjoyed Real Men, What Planet Are You From and **Big Trouble ** but have watched with friends who were less than impressed.
Meh.