# What movies do you actively hate? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 3, 2008, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-actively-hate/458735 "2008-08-03T20:25:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**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 4, 2008, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-actively-hate/458735/61 "2008-08-04T16:58:13Z")
[QUOTE=Antinor01] Have you heard the song in italian? 😃 (Il Mio Cuore Va, done by Sarah Brightman) [/QUOTE] Yes, and I don’t think it sounded much better. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-actively-hate/458735/62 "2008-08-04T17:15:19Z")
Oh, Yeah – \*\*Starship Troopers I, Robot Martians, Go Home\*\* I really hate it when someone trashes a good SF book. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-actively-hate/458735/63 "2008-08-04T17:18:40Z")
**Princess Bride**. I was ready to claw my eyes out by the end. ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-actively-hate/458735/64 "2008-08-04T17:19:59Z")
[QUOTE=Tom Tildrum] **Princess Bride**. I was ready to claw my eyes out by the end. [/QUOTE] Inconcievable! -FrL- ---
**Author:** ![justrob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a9adbd/32.png) [@justrob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/justrob)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-actively-hate/458735/65 "2008-08-04T17:22:13Z")
**Blaster Master** mentioned it but I couldn’t tell if it was on his hate list or not. Highlander 2. The immortals were aliens? Seriously WTF! This movie nearly made me stop liking Highlander which is saying something because Highlander was my favorite film for quite some time. ---
**Author:** ![JR\_Brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JR\_Brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JR_Brown)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-actively-hate/458735/66 "2008-08-04T17:50:34Z")
[QUOTE=RealityChuck] So your advocating that, to satisfy you, all actors who appear in historical films have teeth pulled or broken? [/QUOTE] No, I’m responding to this: [QUOTE=GuanoLad] Before sugar came along and spoiled it all, a lot more people had nice teeth than you might expect. [/QUOTE] Which is, in general, untrue. Although if you’re watching a historical film and _everyone_ is clean, nicely-dressed, healthy and attractive, even the peasants, you’ve got to wonder how well they’ve handled the actual _history_ part (not very, usually). JRB ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-actively-hate/458735/67 "2008-08-04T17:52:57Z")
[QUOTE=Blaster Master] I also actively hate **Titanic**. And that god-damned song, it was EVERYWHERE! I’ve even heard a blue-grass cover of that song; how pathetic is that? [/QUOTE] I loathe that song. Every holiday season at every mall around town some guy sets up a little stand trying to sell his damn pan flute cds and plays that song non-stop for 6 weeks straight. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-actively-hate/458735/68 "2008-08-04T19:10:26Z")
> [@](#): > > I also actively hate Titanic. Not because it’s a bad film, I have no idea, because I’ve never seen it. I hate it because I was about 14 at the time it came out and EVERY girl my age was COMPLETELY obsessed with the movie and… Leonardo DiCaprio. How the HELL was I suppose to compete with HIM? And that god-damned song, it was EVERYWHERE! I’ve even heard a blue-grass cover of that song; how pathetic is that? You really should listen to the cover of it by the group **Big Daddy** – they revamped it as a peppy, up-beat Elvis Presley song. It’s hilarious! I play it for people and then ask them to tell me where the song came from. They usually have to listen a second time before understandimng dawns. Look it up. You’ll never hear the song the same way again. (Especially when the backup singers unobtrusively start singing the background: “Glub glub! Drip Drip! Goin’ Down in a Sinkin’ Ship!”) ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-actively-hate/458735/69 "2008-08-04T19:19:19Z")
[QUOTE=MGibson] _Powder_. It’s one of those “oh he’s special and humanity just can’t accept special people so they attack what they fear” type of movies. For some reason it really annoyed me. Marc [/QUOTE] This is way creepier if you know the guy who wrote and directed the movie is a child molestor. ---
**Author:** ![I\_Have\_Hippos\_In\_My\_Garden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/4491bb/32.png) [@I\_Have\_Hippos\_In\_My\_Garden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Have_Hippos_In_My_Garden)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-actively-hate/458735/70 "2008-08-04T19:28:33Z")
**2001 Space Odyssey** Although I have had tea with Arthur C. Clarke in his house in Sri Lanka so I didn’t tell him that (obviously) ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-actively-hate/458735/71 "2008-08-04T19:38:53Z")
[QUOTE=CalMeacham] You really should listen to the cover of it by the group **Big Daddy** – they revamped it as a peppy, up-beat Elvis Presley song. It’s hilarious! I play it for people and then ask them to tell me where the song came from. They usually have to listen a second time before understandimng dawns. Look it up. You’ll never hear the song the same way again. (Especially when the backup singers unobtrusively start singing the background: “Glub glub! Drip Drip! Goin’ Down in a Sinkin’ Ship!”) [/QUOTE] I’d never heard of those guys before, but I just listened to some clips from their “best of” album. So apparently their thing is that they cover rock and pop songs, doing them in retro (50’s and 60’s) rock and pop styles. You would think this is a joke that can work maybe once. But damned if they don’t make it work every time! Each track works, the adaptation doesn’t feel forced at all. And in listening to each track, I found myself learning something new about the song, _and_ something new about the style it had been adapted into. This was a really interesting experience, and I think I might buy the album, so thanks! -FrL- ---
**Author:** ![whole\_bean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@whole\_bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whole_bean)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-actively-hate/458735/72 "2008-08-04T20:00:10Z")
[QUOTE=JR Brown] No, I’m responding to this: Which is, in general, untrue. Although if you’re watching a historical film and _everyone_ is clean, nicely-dressed, healthy and attractive, even the peasants, you’ve got to wonder how well they’ve handled the actual _history_ part (not very, usually). JRB [/QUOTE] One of the best aspects of the John Adams HBO miniseries was attention to this sort of detail. ---
**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 4, 2008, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-actively-hate/458735/73 "2008-08-04T20:13:27Z")
[QUOTE=Cisco] This is way creepier if you know the guy who wrote and directed the movie is a child molestor. [/QUOTE] REALLY??? :eek: :eek: :eek: I’m now seeing that movie in a completely different light, and I don’t like what I’m seeing. ---
**Author:** ![Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4da419/32.png) [@Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gala_Matrix_Fire)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-actively-hate/458735/74 "2008-08-04T22:00:33Z")
[QUOTE=SuntanTigerTamer] Thin Red Line - “hey, lets make a WW2 movie, set it during one of the most interesting campaigns of the war, have an all-star cast, and make it as boring and pretentious as possible!” [/QUOTE] What makes it 10x worse, for me, is that it was an excellent, excellent novel. Very far removed from the movie. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-actively-hate/458735/75 "2008-08-04T23:28:54Z")
About Napoleon Dynamite: [QUOTE=Sateryn76] Well said - excellent point. You may have just explained to me why I hate this film. It really made me angry that it was so bad… [/QUOTE] Glad to help. There are so many reasons to hate this film. The title character’s name, for one. Did his mother name him that? No geek would have succeeded in giving himself a name like that, so we’re to assume that Mrs. Dynamite named her son “Napoleon”? It’s an Elvis Costello joke, but a stupid, forced one. I could watch it again to identify all the reasons I find it so awful, but I don’t wish to spend time that could be spent watching better films. Another film in the same “laugh at the outcasts while pretending to empathize with them” genre is [“Eagle Vs. Shark”](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0494222/). Genuine social outcasts, like Quentin Tarantino, make films about the cool people they wish they were. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-actively-hate/458735/76 "2008-08-04T23:32:18Z")
[QUOTE=Illuminatiprimus] REALLY??? :eek: :eek: :eek: I’m now seeing that movie in a completely different light, and I don’t like what I’m seeing. [/QUOTE] [Really.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powder_%28film%29#Controversy), but I didn’t know that either so now I add that film to the list. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-actively-hate/458735/77 "2008-08-04T23:37:11Z")
[QUOTE=RealityChuck] So your advocating that, to satisfy you, all actors who appear in historical films have teeth pulled or broken? [/QUOTE] No, but I prefer an honest more Jabberwocky feel to middle European movies than giving it the fantasy of being bug, rot, and odor free. There is makeup and prosthetics that can be used. These people would have, for the most part, been repulsive to modern day westerners. They weren’t just like us but with stupid looking clothes. ---
**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2008, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-actively-hate/458735/78 "2008-08-05T00:01:19Z")
Se7en Wrong in almost every way possible. Contrived bullshit. But people want to like it. I think it is #34 on the imdb top 250. ---
**Author:** ![mr.jp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/48db29/32.png) [@mr.jp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mr.jp)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2008, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-actively-hate/458735/79 "2008-08-05T08:24:18Z")
American Beauty. The materialistic real estate saleswoman, the stupid teenagers who think they’re special because they are weird, repressed homosexual gay-hating marine guy, the sex-fixated cheerleader who is actually a virgin, etc. It takes this bunch of archetypical stock characters, mix them together, and suddenly it’s “deep”. ---
**Author:** ![Blaster\_Master](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cab0a1/32.png) [@Blaster\_Master](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blaster_Master)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2008, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-actively-hate/458735/80 "2008-08-05T14:05:14Z")
[QUOTE=justrob] **Blaster Master** mentioned it but I couldn’t tell if it was on his hate list or not. Highlander 2. The immortals were aliens? Seriously WTF! This movie nearly made me stop liking Highlander which is saying something because Highlander was my favorite film for quite some time. [/QUOTE] Oh, don’t get me wrong, it’s a cinematic failure of epic proportions, I just don’t actively hate it. And even as bad as it is, Battlefield Earth is worse. Compared to it, Highlander 2’s plot is cohesive, compelling, and believable. Besides, I can at least ignore Highlander 2 and still enjoy most of the rest of the franchise; Battlefield Earth has… Scientology. [QUOTE=CalMeacham] You really should listen to the cover of it by the group **Big Daddy** – they revamped it as a peppy, up-beat Elvis Presley song. It’s hilarious! I play it for people and then ask them to tell me where the song came from. They usually have to listen a second time before understandimng dawns. [/QUOTE] I did a quick search and managed to find a clip. Awesome! I’d not have guessed it was the same lyrics. I’ll have to see if I can find a full version later. [QUOTE=mr. jp] American Beauty. The materialistic real estate saleswoman, the stupid teenagers who think they’re special because they are weird, repressed homosexual gay-hating marine guy, the sex-fixated cheerleader who is actually a virgin, etc. It takes this bunch of archetypical stock characters, mix them together, and suddenly it’s “deep”. [/quote] You missed the plastic bag scene. While I get the point of that, and the whole movie even, the whole thing just takes itself too seriously. I think Family Guy nailed what was wrong with that particular scene best: “Do you have any idea how complicated your circulatory system is?” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-actively-hate/458735.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-actively-hate/458735.md?page=5)