# What movies do you hate that everyone else loved? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 16, 2001, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-hate-that-everyone-else-loved/50310 "2001-01-16T13:04:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Spritle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Spritle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spritle)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2001, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-hate-that-everyone-else-loved/50310/1 "2001-01-16T13:04:26Z")
**Monday Morning Thread #7** OK, it’s Tuesday, so **sue** me! Inspired by another thread, I came up with this one. It was only a matter of time… I walked out of the movie “No Way Out”, fell asleep during “JFK”, sat through “Forrest Gump” grumbling the entire time. “Good Will Hunting” - I don’t think so. “Shakespeare in Love” - Spritle in bathroom. Your contributions?? ---
**Author:** ![Pnuk\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Pnuk\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pnuk_Guy)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2001, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-hate-that-everyone-else-loved/50310/2 "2001-01-16T14:25:19Z")
Grosse point blank … or whatever. I didn’t get it. I’m a huge John Cusack film, but this film just wasn’t funny. oh well. ---
**Author:** ![corvidae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/898d66/32.png) [@corvidae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corvidae)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2001, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-hate-that-everyone-else-loved/50310/3 "2001-01-16T14:27:35Z")
_The English Patient_ : I absolutely despised this movie and every character in it. _Shakespeare in Love_ : At best, mediocre. ---
**Author:** ![Falcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/49beb7/32.png) [@Falcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Falcon)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2001, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-hate-that-everyone-else-loved/50310/4 "2001-01-16T14:29:27Z")
I hate _It’s A Wonderful Life._ I’m officially a cynical bitch now. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2001, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-hate-that-everyone-else-loved/50310/5 "2001-01-16T14:36:43Z")
I got you all beat. **The Sound of Friggin’ Music** Not sure if we would classify it as a movie, or a musical: either way, it blows. No, it’s not funny. No, there’s nothing historically important about it. No, seven Nazi kids singing in canon is not entertainment. ---
**Author:** ![Medea\_s\_Child](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Medea\_s\_Child](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Medea_s_Child)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2001, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-hate-that-everyone-else-loved/50310/6 "2001-01-16T15:05:50Z")
Blair Witch Project. I’m really easy to please movie wise, seriously. I liked Meet Joe Black, I enjoy Shakespeare in Love, I think movies that fit thier genre are fine and not particularly bad, useless, but not _bad_. Blair Witch was useless, bad, and _I_ had problems ignoring the plot holes. I can ignore the plot holes in MI2. American Pie. Hated it. Well, more along the lines of “Why am I watching this? Can I stop now?” Blair Witch is still the biggie though. ---
**Author:** ![Jet\_Jaguar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jet_jaguar/32/3562_2.png) [@Jet\_Jaguar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jet_Jaguar)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2001, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-hate-that-everyone-else-loved/50310/7 "2001-01-16T15:10:24Z")
_Gone with the Wind_: I tried, I really did, but I couldn’t sit more than halfway through it. _South Park, the Movie_: Well, everyone that wasn’t offended by the material seems to love it. I wasn’t offended, I just didn’t think it was particularly funny. It had it’s moments, but mostly it was just cheap toilet humor. ---
**Author:** ![racerx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5e9695/32.png) [@racerx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racerx)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2001, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-hate-that-everyone-else-loved/50310/8 "2001-01-16T15:43:09Z")
damn The Matrix. damn it to hell. my hatred only grows the more people insist that it’s a good movie. i think i only mild disliked it when i first saw it, but the more people try to convince me it is worthy of worship, the more i despise it and that keanu reeves. (i swear, “Bill and Ted’s EA” was his greatest work.) ---
**Author:** ![Anake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/97f17d/32.png) [@Anake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anake)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2001, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-hate-that-everyone-else-loved/50310/9 "2001-01-16T15:43:49Z")
_American Pie_. –Anake ---
**Author:** ![andyman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8491ac/32.png) [@andyman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andyman)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2001, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-hate-that-everyone-else-loved/50310/10 "2001-01-16T15:50:23Z")
Independence Day Saw it with a group of people who loved it, while I was sitting there thinking “This is such crap!” Blair Witch & Titanic also come to mind. ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2001, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-hate-that-everyone-else-loved/50310/11 "2001-01-16T16:20:17Z")
Titanic - mediocre acting, predictable and uninteresting plot, and one of the worst miscasts (DiCaprio) of all time. Leo is a good actor, but that part should have gone to someone a bit more mature and masculine looking. Forrest Gump - What a piece of crap that movie was. Tom Hanks has got to be the worst actor to ever win an Oscar (and he’s won 2!). Did anyone notice how he lost his slow accent half way through the movie? And the story was just stupid. The Deer Hunter - While I thought this had the potential to be a damn good movie, I was disappointed with the length of the wedding scene. And I hated the movie because the Christopher Walken character plays Russian Roulette for months without dying while the DeNiro character goes back to the USA and then returns to Vietnam. To survive that long is statistically impossible and I hate it when a movie doesn’t make sense. ---
**Author:** ![ThisYearsGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@ThisYearsGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisYearsGirl)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2001, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-hate-that-everyone-else-loved/50310/12 "2001-01-16T17:31:37Z")
I’ll second The Matrix, Shakespeare in Love, and Good Will Hunting. I’d like to add American Beauty, The Green Mile (actually, I’ve never met anyone else who loves this movie; but it got nominated for best picture and Magnolia didn’t), and Run, Lola, Run. I thought it was okay, but the best part of it was the soundtrack. ---
**Author:** ![TiffTZell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/77aa72/32.png) [@TiffTZell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TiffTZell)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2001, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-hate-that-everyone-else-loved/50310/13 "2001-01-16T17:51:46Z")
Titanic arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh and man on the moon pittoey ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2001, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-hate-that-everyone-else-loved/50310/14 "2001-01-16T20:00:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jet Jaguar \* > **_South Park, the Movie_: Well, everyone that wasn’t offended by the material seems to love it. I wasn’t offended, I just didn’t think it was particularly funny. It had it’s moments, but mostly it was just cheap toilet humor.** I’ll have to respectfully disagree – beneath the (thick) veneer of potty-mouth dialog and cheap jokes, the _South Park_ movie IMO offered a heaping dose of biting satire, brilliant wit, and pointed social commentary. I sincerely think it was one of the most intelligent and thought-provoking movies of the year. My only wariness about getting a copy is the fear that my tot will eventually see it unsupervised and warp his fragile little mind. 🙂 And to address the OP: _Gone With the Wind_. **Four hours** of zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz… ---
**Author:** ![Screwtape](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Screwtape](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Screwtape)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2001, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-hate-that-everyone-else-loved/50310/15 "2001-01-16T21:06:52Z")
_Titanic_ - what happens to the ship is the least predictable thing about this. _Incontinence Day_ - puhleeze! Hacking an alien computer? And installing a virus! Have you anything like a clue?! _The Phranchise Menace_ Lucas is one of the few people who’ve managed to sell out - to himself. _Jurassic Park_ Arggh! Yet more adorable moppets saving the day, and the T.Rex at the end standing under the banner with “When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth” or some such drivel. Why, oh why, can’t directors resist the urge to yank you out of the story with a cutesy bit? ---
**Author:** ![Anamorphic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anamorphic/32/3057_2.png) [@Anamorphic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anamorphic)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2001, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-hate-that-everyone-else-loved/50310/16 "2001-01-16T21:18:07Z")
\*\* The Rocky Horror Picture Show \*\* Crap. “No,” you say, “it’s \* CAMP\*! It’s so bad it’s good!” No, it’s so bad it’s crap. And don’t throw any of your stupid rice at me, either. ---
**Author:** ![ladybug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/46a35a/32.png) [@ladybug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladybug)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2001, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-hate-that-everyone-else-loved/50310/17 "2001-01-16T21:33:56Z")
_Austin Powers_ – I walked out about 10 minutes into it. _The X Files_ – I was a fan of the show, but I couldn’t get into the story. Plus I couldn’t hear a damn thing. _The Blair Witch Project_ – I fell asleep about 20 minutes into it. And just so you all hate me … _The Wizard of Oz._ I don’t know what it is about that movie, but I can’t stand watching it. I avoid it whenever possible. ---
**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:** [January 16, 2001, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-hate-that-everyone-else-loved/50310/18 "2001-01-16T21:43:46Z")
“Raging Bull” Nope, don’t get it. Snore. Also “The Deer Hunter”. And it’s not that I hate Di Niro. That’s just two widely worshipped movies that I really couldn’t stand. Also “Sound of Music” \_ ack! help! lemme outta here! ---
**Author:** ![minty\_green](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@minty\_green](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minty_green)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2001, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-hate-that-everyone-else-loved/50310/19 "2001-01-16T22:09:21Z")
_Good Will Hunting_ was pablum, pure and stupid. _Apocalypse Now_ was a hugely overrated snoozefest. OTOH, I quite liked both _Shakespeare in Love_ and _Grosse Pointe Blank_, and so did all the cool people. So there! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![FallenAngel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@FallenAngel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FallenAngel)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2001, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-hate-that-everyone-else-loved/50310/20 "2001-01-16T22:58:40Z")
Gone with the Wind Sound of Muzak Citizen Kane - it was brilliantly filmed, but the story was weak and had a truck sized plot hole from the start. Independence Day, Twister and any other flick that’s all special effects, no plot. and the capper… Something About Mary: All my friends RAVED about this idiotic chunk of drivel. “It’s the funniest movie ever. I laughed so hard I almost pissed myself.” Etc. I went. I watched. I chuckled in the two scenes with the dog and sat there like I was watching a car wreck the rest of the time. It completely solidified what has become a sacred rule: If Chris Elliot has a hand in any production, avoid it like the creeping death. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-hate-that-everyone-else-loved/50310.md?page=2)