Movies You Like But Everyone Else Hates

[Pyromaniak3]

I don't know about you guys but everyone i talk to that isn't a friend didn't like Sucker Punch. I guess i can understand people not liking the Very begining and the Very end, but other then those it was a good movie. People just need to stop judging the begining and end and relize that on the whole it was a good movie.

 

[Mr Somewhere]

Also I greatly enjoy The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou which most people I've met have either never heard of or never seen or dislike.

I love that goddamned film. Though, it has a fair following, I've not heard much bad said about it (outside some very poorly written imdb user reviews).

 

[Tipsythegza]

Well i wouldn't use the word hate, but Dogma = my all time favorite, some of my friends, not so much.

 

[reignsupreme]

Most recently I would say Sucker Punch. All the people I went to the movie with liked it but everyone I know that has seen it thought it was stupid.
Also V for Vendetta, this is one of my favorite films but many people I know hate it

 

[20thCenturyBoy]

I don't understand how the first Underworld movie wasn't given critical acclaim. I thought it was rather interesting and well done myself. The second, not really. Rise of the Lycans was quite interesting, though.

I also don't get the constant hate toward Michael Bay. Really? He made the first Transformers movie pretty well, I think. What the fuck were you looking for, Citizen Kane? The Shawshank Redemption? You really wanted something deep and thoughtful from a movie about giant robots beating the shit out of each other?

No, just basic competency. Editing and cinematography are unknown abstracts to Bay, and tend to result in horribly shot mashups of what we assume to be "action" on the silver screen.

 

[20thCenturyBoy]

Or, to be more specific, in your circle of friends, are there any films you like that your friends hate?

Most of my friends hate westerns, and some of my friends hate Fight Club, American Beauty, Mel Brooks films and The Big Lebowski. All films I like, incidentally.

How about you guys?

Whaaaaat? American Beauty and Fight Club are in my top 5. And The Big Lebowski is an amazing film.

You need new friends!

Well, get this. One of them hates any film he dubs "pretentious" (and what he defines as "pretentious" is essentially any film that strives to play with genre form and experiment with tropes and conventions), one is a heavy feminist who finds The Big Lebowski to be a - excuse the pun - "total dude movie" and highly miosgynistic (I don't really agree, honestly. That argument would only hold water if the female characters weren't any crazier or any less immoral than the men, and just about everyone in that film with the exception of Donny and the Dude is a douchebag)... oh, and she finds Fight Club to be a poorly edited and incompetently told "cockfest" of a story.

I have a strange circle of friends. One's a proud anti-intellectualist who shirks away from any fiction with claims to intellectualism (and he does this out of fear he might not "get it," and thus get insulted for it, so he prefers routine derivative nonsense he's comfortable with), one's arguably one of the most critical feminists I have ever met in my life... to name a few eccentrics.

 

[20thCenturyBoy]

Surprisingly I loved V for Vendetta. However a lot of people around me became confused by watching it due to their limited understanding of V's vocabulary. I really enjoyed it. But everyone else hated it

If it makes you feel any better, a lot of my friends and I enjoyed it.

 

[noxymoron19]

Year One. Everyone hated it. It was a fun movie with non stop jokes. Don't understand why people hated it so much.

 

[20thCenturyBoy]

I thoroughly enjoy movies that are a little campy or whatever if they have some redeeming qualities so I've got a lot of these, but to simplify my main two are:
Johnny Mnemonic <- I LOVE this movie, seriously one of my all time favorites.
Waterworld

Or, to be more specific, in your circle of friends, are there any films you like that your friends hate?

Most of my friends hate westerns, and some of my friends hate Fight Club, American Beauty, Mel Brooks films and The Big Lebowski. All films I like, incidentally.

How about you guys?

Whaaaaat? American Beauty and Fight Club are in my top 5. And The Big Lebowski is an amazing film.

You need new friends!

Indeed, besides I thought enjoying mel brooks was like a universal constant.

Would you believe it's a feminist friend of mine who thinks Brooks films are unsophisticated, unironic, poorly written silly pieces of fluff?

 

[ZeroMachine]

I may get a lot of flack on here for this, but... I love the Silent Hill movie.

Then again, I could never get into the games because of the voice acting.

 

[20thCenturyBoy]

I was surprised to realize how unpopular Cloverfield and District 9 were.
I was actually one of the few people (who I knew) who was satisfied with the ending to Cloverfield.

To be fair, those films "are" fairly polarizing. But I like them. I don't think they're the best, but I feel they did excel in a few areas.

Cloverfield bravely tried to make giant monster films legitimately terrifying, reconstructing the genre by pulling off almost the exact same angle the first Godzilla movie pulled in 1950. Namely, focusing more on the reactions to the monster and giving the monster no personality outside as a terrible anthropomorphic force of nature. I love effort. I don't think it wholly succeeded, there were far too many contrived coincidences that spoiled the terror, but it certainly tired. I have to give it that.

District 9 I felt was ham handed and over the top in many respects, but for what it was worth it was like watching Halo if Halo had any modicum of intelligence.

 

[deleted_by_strongbad]

Most of my friends hate westerns, and some of my friends hate Fight Club, American Beauty, Mel Brooks films and The Big Lebowski. All films I like, incidentally.

Whaaaaat? American Beauty and Fight Club are in my top 5. And The Big Lebowski is an amazing film.

You need new friends!

Indeed, besides I thought enjoying mel brooks was like a universal constant.

Would you believe it's a feminist friend of mine who thinks Brooks films are unsophisticated, unironic, poorly written silly pieces of fluff?[/quote]

I almost can't believe that, has she seen Blazing Saddles? It is pretty much the opposite of that whole statement, it is pretty highly regarded for it's intelligent social commentary wrapped in hilarity.

 

[20thCenturyBoy]

Most of my friends hate westerns, and some of my friends hate Fight Club, American Beauty, Mel Brooks films and The Big Lebowski. All films I like, incidentally.

Whaaaaat? American Beauty and Fight Club are in my top 5. And The Big Lebowski is an amazing film.

You need new friends!

Indeed, besides I thought enjoying mel brooks was like a universal constant.

Would you believe it's a feminist friend of mine who thinks Brooks films are unsophisticated, unironic, poorly written silly pieces of fluff?

I almost can't believe that, has she seen Blazing Saddles? It is pretty much the opposite of that whole statement, it is pretty highly regarded for it's intelligent social commentary wrapped in hilarity.[/quote]

That apparently counts as silly fluff too.

 

[Zoe Castillo]

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[TheMatsjo]

Old School and Pulp Fiction are the ones that spring IMMEDIATELY to mind.

 

[Hlain]

Pulp Fiction

Wait what? How is that possible?
Otherwise, I'm the only person among friends and family who like the deeper, some might say more sophisticated, stuff. Even my sister, who goes to an art school, finds Scary Movie hilarious...

 

[20thCenturyBoy]

Pulp Fiction

Wait what? How is that possible?
Otherwise, I'm the only person among friends and family who like the deeper, some might say more sophisticated, stuff. Even my sister, who goes to an art school, finds Scary Movie hilarious...

Oooh... ouch. I feel you there. Imagine trying to explain to friends of your's who love Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen that you prefer German Expressionist films from the 20's and 30's.