Movies you Dislike But Others Love.

[Big Beard Booty Daddy]

This is a thread where we can discuss, as the title states, movie you don't like that others love. For me this is SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE. It's not that I didn't enjoy it, but being a big Danny Boyle fan I wanted to like it more than I did.

 

[Jingus]

A Clockwork Orange
Scream
Gladiator
Natural Born Killers
V For Vendetta
Sixteen Candles
the Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake
Band of Outsiders
Suspiria
Rent

I'm sure there's many more I could put on here, but I dunno how many people actually liked stuff such as The English Patient or Alien vs Predator so I'm not sure they count.

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

I haven't put a lot of thought into them to go in depth or anything, but I greatly disliked the following:

The Big Lebowski
Fight Club
Anything by Kevin Smith
Anything by Judd Apatow
Borat
American Beauty
Babel
Traffic

There are a lot more than I am forgetting.

 

[ChrisMWaters]

Forest Gump.

To me, overrated.

 

[Gary]

Never cared for "Forest Gump." either. While I'm at it, I also never liked "Donnie Darko" a whole lot either.

 

[Adam]

Nobody bringing up Star Wars?

Very boring films in my eyes.

 

[strummer]

pretty much any Kevin Smith movie

and anything done by Aaron Sorkin

 

[Youth N Asia]

Seems like everyone I know loves Grandma's Boy. I thought it was a subpar movie with a couple laughs at best

 

[special k]

Fucking "Scarface" for sure. Two good scenes doesn't make it even close to Godfather or the Scorcese gangster movies.

 

[foleyfanforever88]

Superbad. I wouldn't say I dislike it, but I don't think it's nearly as good as people made it out to be.

 

[JHawk]

The Matrix.

Not that it was bad, but was this really good enough to warrant two sequels?

 

[Psycho Penguin]

Matrix, Fight Club, and Lord of the Rings.

 

[Big Beard Booty Daddy]

Fucking "Scarface" for sure. Two good scenes doesn't make it even close to Godfather or the Scorcese gangster movies.

YES!!! A lot of people I know hold this movie up to such a high standard. It's an average movie at best. Pacino overacts so badly in this. I would go as far as to say it should be on the list of worst remakes ever.

I also agree with STAR WARS. I think it mainly goes back to their fans though. They can be so annoying. My friends sister runs what's called the New York Jedi. They dress up like STAR WARS characters, not just for conventions, but walking down the street. It's so annoying. I'm a huge horror fan, but I don't go walking down the street dressed as Jason.

 

[treble]

The best part of Scarface is the music.

 

[special k]

The thing with Star Wars is they definitely have flaws, and they definitely have really good points. But what they have for a lot of people is nostalgia, and that's unbeatable.

It's not just people my age (28) who grew up with them, either. My dad still recalls the Star Destroyer flyover, and how the theater got dead quiet, people had never seen anything like it. The only shot I can think to compare it to is when the camera zooms out on the field of the wounded in Gone With the Wind, people just didn't know a movie could do that back then.

I didn't think Gladiator was all that. It was definitely good, don't get me wrong. It had some great scenes, visually, and a couple good lines. But it's about as deep as a puddle.

You know what? Psycho is way overrated. Again, not a bad movie. But Hitchcock had many better films. Vertigo, The Birds, Rear Window are all significantly better.

 

[The Metal Maniac]

Mostly anything by Tarantino.

I saw Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill 1&2, and Reservoir Dogs. Didn't really care for any of them. Didn't help that my friends majorly hyped the films up. Of the 4 though, I think Kill Bill 1 bothered me the most. The rest I just thought were okay, but I had been led to believe they were great.

Not a big Austin Powers fan either, but everyone else I know seems to love the films.

 

[Big Beard Booty Daddy]

The thing with Star Wars is they definitely have flaws, and they definitely have really good points. But what they have for a lot of people is nostalgia, and that's unbeatable.

It's not just people my age (28) who grew up with them, either. My dad still recalls the Star Destroyer flyover, and how the theater got dead quiet, people had never seen anything like it. The only shot I can think to compare it to is when the camera zooms out on the field of the wounded in Gone With the Wind, people just didn't know a movie could do that back then.

I didn't think Gladiator was all that. It was definitely good, don't get me wrong. It had some great scenes, visually, and a couple good lines. But it's about as deep as a puddle.

You know what? Psycho is way overrated. Again, not a bad movie. But Hitchcock had many better films. Vertigo, The Birds, Rear Window are all significantly better.

I agree that it has nostalgia, but that means nothing when I can't get into a movie. I've seen the original 3 many times, and I respect them for what they did for film, but I just don't think they are great.

PSYCHO is a very, very good movie and I agree that Hitchcock had better movies. NORTH BY NORTH WEST and THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH are two that I liked better.

I didn't like THE MATRIX either. The slow motion action scenes aren't revolutionary, they are boring and the wire work ruined movies as a lot of action movies are now copying that style.

 

[BurningPirateShipSex]

I haven't put a lot of thought into them to go in depth or anything, but I greatly disliked the following:

The Big Lebowski
Fight Club
Anything by Kevin Smith
Anything by Judd Apatow
Borat

There are a lot more than I am forgetting.

I CAST THEE OUT!

 

[Big Beard Booty Daddy]

Another one I was thinking about, 300. After seeing SIN CITY, some friends thought I would enjoy 300. I watched it and almost fell asleep. I found it boring and hard to watch.

 

[Scroby]

Any Seth Rogan movie, except Zack and Miri Make a Porno. That one movie caught me by surprise except Seth Rogan just stared in it and didn't actually make it. But 9 months or whatever it's called or Superbad, 9 months especially sucked.

I really didn't like Clearks 2, oh and Hellboy. I thought Hellboy sucked balls.

 

[6foot9]

All the Star Wars and LotR movies.

 

[wnyxmcneal]

Any Seth Rogan movie, except Zack and Miri Make a Porno. That one movie caught me by surprise except Seth Rogan just stared in it and didn't actually make it. But 9 months or whatever it's called or Superbad, 9 months especially sucked.

I really didn't like Clearks 2, oh and Hellboy. I thought Hellboy sucked balls.

Nine Months is Hugh Grant knocks up Julianne Moore.
Knocked Up is Seth Rogen knocks up Katherine Heigl

 

[The Buzz]

Role Models and Terminator 3, everyone but my close knit group of friends seems to atleast like these movies.

 

[NoCalMike]

Nacho Libre

Scarface - well the thing with Scarface is that I did not find the movie bad or anything, I just find it ridiculous that people would list this movie alongside movies such as Goodfellas, Mean Streets, Godfather as far as actual "Quality" goes.

Shrek(s)

 

[sfaJack]

Agreed on Nacho Libre. A couple of my friends just LOVE that movie and I didn't make it halfway through it before turning it off. It's horrible.

Napoleon Dynamite is another.

 

[Your Favorite Weapon]

I hated Superbad, Anchorman, and Transformers three movies that come to mind immediately, which most of my friends watched, loved, and quoted numerous times.

 

[tonyjaymz03]

Anything by Tarantino

Not that i totally dislike his movies but I think he is vastly vastly overated.

IMO He's had one good movie(R.Dogs) 2 decent movies(Kill Bill and Pulp Fiction) and then whatever is left over

When Kill Bill vol. 1 came out, our school newspapaer ran a 2 full page story on it, where the writer sucked tarantino's cock hard

also, the star wars movies. Empire Strikes Back was decent, but all the others were shit to me.

oh, and Donnie darko. Everyone told me it was a great movie, so deep or whatever...was pure shit.

 

[JHawk]

Agreed on Napoleon Dynamite.

"You just don't understand that kind of humor."

Not being funny is not humor/.

 

[Sesquipedaliantique]

The first three Star Wars films. People will always bring up their influence on cinema if you attack them, but I'm pretty sure that's not wholly positive.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Any Seth Rogan movie, except Zack and Miri Make a Porno. That one movie caught me by surprise except Seth Rogan just stared in it and didn't actually make it. But 9 months or whatever it's called or Superbad, 9 months especially sucked.

I really didn't like Clearks 2, oh and Hellboy. I thought Hellboy sucked balls.

Nine Months was Hugh Grant and Julianne Moore (and Tom Arnold!), dipshit!

I don't know if it's my agreeable nature but there aren't a lot vastly influential/hugely popular movies that I don't like other than the ones that most of the internet doesn't like (IE virtually any movie with Movie in the title except American Movie) but there are a lot of widely disliked movies that I enjoy! I mean I know there are some out there but I'm just having a brainfart right now. I disagree with virtually everyone in this thread. I at least tolerate any movie I've seen mentioned in this thread and like/love the majority of 'em.