Cube
Napolean Dynamite
History of the World Part 1
Satan’s Sadists
Kung Pow
Demonic Toys
How about movies you hate but everyone else loves?
I can’t believe no one has the guts to mention it already, I guess it has to be me. Death to Smoochy is really quite hilarious.
- I also like Death to Smoochy! It’s surprisingly funny.
- 300 is also great borderline gay porn. So cartoonishly over the top awesome, it becomes legitimately awesome. It even has random sex scenes to try to balance out the gayness of 300 muscly dudes in leather underwear kicking ass together. It’s the kind of movie that you have to be in the theatre with a good audience to love or just watch it with a group of friends getting gradually drunk. It’s not meant to be in the same class as say Lawrence of Arabia, Spartacus, or even Braveheart. It’s like Conan the Barbarian level, which is also awesome.
I don’t know why but every time I talk to someone about 2001: A Space Odyssey, they say they don’t like it because they dont get it and it’s boring.
I’m probably the only one on this board who likes, really likes, Tony Scott’s DOMINO
Robert-2001 is long and slow paced. That doesn’t bother me but more and more people seem to have short attention spans anymore.
Cineaste-I hate to admit it but I find Domino underrated. Not a masterpiece but very entertaining.
Oldboy
The Fountain
The Salton Sea
Running with Scissors
Fahrenheit 451
High Anxiety
Eric Red’s Body Parts, w/ Jeff Fahey.
Fast Break w/ Gabe Kaplan.
Landis’ Into the Night
Ravenous
Blake Edward’s Skin Deep
Vampire’s Kiss w/ Nic Cage
Locked Up w/ Stallone
Breakdown w/ Kurt Russell
Escape From New York…
Especially with the Kurt Russell / John Carpenter commentary
i really dug Contact. few of my friends hate on it, but i really enjoy it, especially that crazy guy who lives in space because of being sick.
deep blue sea was great, really loved the score for it as well.
nobody here seems to be fond of the 83 breathless.. to me its a lot better than godards.
and am i the only person who likes the matrix as a trilogy? sure the first was the best, but the other two were fantastic. im tired of people saying they only made 2 and 3 for money. it was written as a trilogy, and for the longest time they never thought they wud even make the last two.
I also thought Death to Smoochy wasn’t that bad—pretty funny, ironic, dark. And Jeb, escape from NY is terrific. Carpenter is often underrated.
I love Diary of the Dead! A thoughtful meditation on the ethics of war photography.
Spellbound (10/10)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (8/10)
Eyes Wide Shut (10/10)
Gangs of New York (10/10)
The Godfather Part III (8/10)
“Everyone” can either be friends or critics depending on which of the above movies I am talking about.
“Death to Smoochy” is Beyond Brilliant. It’s one of Kenneth Anger;s favorite films.
“Vampire’s Kiss” is the only palatable Nic Cage movie.
After I watched Battleship Potemkin, I had a discussion with two people who saw it with me for film history. They absolutley hated it, they found it boring and I guess alienating since there were no central characters or studies of their psychologies.
But I absolutely found it entertaining and new.
robocop. i have loved robocop since i was a kid. why does eveyone i know laugh at me when i say i love robocop?
Heaven’s Gate
Godfather Part III
The Devil’s Rain
2001
The Hebrew Hammer.
I’ve talked to more people about Battleship Potemkin and they hated it.
The American re-make of Breathless
Can you imagine a movie more perfectly designed to get up the noses of Goddard fans? Casting Richard Gere for this was pure genius, the audacity of it. The drab black-&-white is replaced with colour, the irritating jump cuts with competent camera work, and the tedious froggy eggsistentialism with a little T ’n A. I love it to pieces.
I’m a cyborg..but that’s OK.
Aside from OldBoy I think it’s Park Chan-Wook’s best film. One of the most unique film’s I’ve ever seen. The way he managed to portray mentally ill people without a sinister side to them really touched me, critics really disliked it which I really can’t understand.
Too many of the posts on this thread seem to be well liked movies that a few people I know don’t like. Not reviled movies I like. Many consider Oldboy one of the best movies of the decade.
Also, I’ve never met a soul who didn’t like Galaxy Quest, maybe hadn’t seen it, but didn’t like?
So here is what I will throw out:
Oscar starring Stallone, I’ve always liked this movie, and can find very few other fans.
Most any movie starring Jim Varney as Ernest P. Warrel, especially Ernest Goes to Camp and Ernest Scared Stupid, basically kids movies, but I’ve always loved them.
But to really list stinkers, here are movies I like from this list http://www.everyonesacritic.net/movie_rank.asp?list=bottom
Leonard, Part 6-just ridiculous. I don’t know why there is so much hate for this.
Anaconda-Jon Voight is great in this.
Problem Child-if only for the line “Hi, I’m Junior, my favorite color is blue, what’s yours?”
Lost in Space-I enjoyed this, although I have no attachment to the original.
Striptease- really does capture Hiassen pretty well. Badly advertised.
“The Thing” – John Carpenter. Really great film, much better that the Howard Hawks version.
Jon Voight made Anaconda work. That’s a great bad movie. I love it when Eric Stoltz, or whoever it was on that boat, asks what a failed priest is doing way out here and Jon Voight, as the priest, responds with a very bad accent, “Who sez I failed?” And he has that down turned smile making him look reptilian. Brilliant.
@c21scottmyers >>Too many of the posts on this thread seem to be well liked movies that a few people I know don’t like.<<
Try this one (and I probably should be posting this admission under an assumed name): I found a lot of MEET THE SPARTANS very funny.
Eddie Murphy’s only directorial effort, Harlem Nights – hated by people who’d “better ask somebody” – an historical meeting of Foxx, Pryor and Murphy—what?? The funny scenes are historically funny and to be quoted forever among the cognoscenti (“My pinky toe!”); and the dramatic subtext is actually poignant (the group lives to see another day, but have had to pull up stakes and leave behind everything they worked their lives to build).
And kind of by extension: Richard Pryor’s Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling. When for instance Pryor recreates the moment at which he finds the money that the stripper Satin Doll surreptitiously gave to him, as he leaves town…
davecito !
and the only borderline gay porn i like is fucking top gun
What! No Spartacus ?
Somewhere, the extremely hetero Kubrick sheds a tear…