Movies you love but everyone hates

[WalrusPowers]

the Truman Show
Pulp Fiction
the Blues Brothers

None of my friends like these movies. They regard my opinions as total stupidity and they think I am an idiot.

Movies they like:
Transformers 1-3
Vampires Suck

 

[xchurchx]

I enjoyed Watchmen quite a bit, it has its limitations like some terrible casting and sloppy pacing but its still enjoyable. Of course the comic is in a different league altogether.

what? whoever hates the watchmen should get a slap to the face!

For me it has to be the rush our trillogy

 

[xchurchx]

the Truman Show
Pulp Fiction
the Blues Brothers

None of my friends like these movies. They regard my opinions as total stupidity and they think I am an idiot.

But...... You just named 3 of the greatest movies i've ever seen :l

 

[CATS FTW]

I actually quite liked Postal, and liking any movie by Uwe Boll seems to be a sin amongst anyone who has ever watched a movie before

You know strangely enough I feel the same way about that movie, but I did watch it at four A.M. with my pals, however I did think it was okay in a stupid way, I also really liked another movie he made called Rampage which was actually sort of interesting and, well, in a weird way meaningful, maybe he's getting better at filmmaking, no, no that could never happen.

 

[GrimSheeper]

I think Critics and a lot of people agree on hating both Equilibrium and Boondock Saints and I just don't care, I love the stupidity and over the top action of both and the buddy comedy of brothers of Boondocks (mainly because I have a relation to my brother just like that). I can see all the reasons why critics would call them bad, I just like them anyways. Oh and I somehow liked Uwe Bolls Postal for it being so stupid and Rampage for being a genuinely good (read average for every other director) Boll movie.

the Truman Show
Pulp Fiction
the Blues Brothers

None of my friends like these movies. They regard my opinions as total stupidity and they think I am an idiot.

Movies they like:
Transformers 1-3
Vampires Suck

I haven't even seen Vampires Suck...I'd probably like it. But calling Blues Brothers and Truman Show bad? Hating Pulp Fiction? Get new friends to watch movies with. Especially if your friends consider Transformers 2 to be entertainment. Don't ditch them, just don't watch anymore movies with people who enjoy Skids& Mudflap, giant Devastator Scrotums and John Tourturro in jockstraps to be good.

 

[Jazoni89]

Crank 2

Insanely stupid, but insanely fun, and a great watch.

I really don't understand the hate for it to be honest.

 

[Cazza]

The Matrix

I know a lot of people who hated it.

 

[Carnagath]

the Truman Show
Pulp Fiction
the Blues Brothers

None of my friends like these movies. They regard my opinions as total stupidity and they think I am an idiot.

I can imagine someone being too retarded for Truman Show or too young for Blues Brothers, but that's the first time I hear of someone disliking Pulp Fiction. Your friends must be pretty special.

Me, I have a soft spot for the movie May, a psychological thriller about a sociopathic girl who starts to lose her mind because of her loneliness. Everyone I've recommended it to seems to not get it for some reason. I guess they just want to be entertained and it's not a very entertaining movie. It is however visually stunning, well written, hypnotizingly paced, and Angela Bettis, although perhaps too good looking for that specific part, is absolutely relentless in her performance.

 

[tehroc]

I liked Southland Tales with The Rock. I didn't even read that graphic novels that lead into the movie. I guess that is what the movies biggest problem, no one read the graphic novels that fill in all the backstory. I like movies that leave me somewhat confused.

Add me as another one who liked the Matrix sequels. I enjoyed all the symbolism.

 

[Pinkamena]

I like the lesser known, more obscure indie movies, so usually, people don't even know if they like them or not ._.
But if I had to guess, they wouldn't like them.

 

[Moeez]

I doubt you'd find many people liking these movies:

Valhalla Rising. I love the foreboding atmosphere, I just love all the filmic aspects of it, and Mads Mikkelsen. Plus VIKINGS! Hardly any dialogue! Discovery of America! Christian crusaders! One-Eyed mute dude!


Observe and Report (Seth Rogen, Aziz Ansari, Danny McBride, Anna Faris, Ray Liotta!). The "comedic Taxi Driver". Yes, this was released right next to Paul Blart: Mall Cop (lol). Seth Rogen's most unique performance you'll ever see. I'm huge into dark comedies, and this is one of the funniest. Mall cop with delusions of grandeur (and mental health problems) to be a real cop and goes postal when trying to save a girl from a streaker. I wish people didn't focus on the controversial "rape" scene. It's a character study of a flawed character, but also a hilariously twisted comedy.

 

[lobster1077]

the Truman Show
Pulp Fiction
the Blues Brothers

None of my friends like these movies. They regard my opinions as total stupidity and they think I am an idiot.

Movies they like:
Transformers 1-3
Vampires Suck

What Pulp Fiction disliked by someone? but its the perfect film in every regard. It seems your friends are not of sound mind.

 

[MortarTeam]

Uwe Boll's "Postal". It really is in the Postal 2 mood of mindless comical violence.

 

[Scarim Coral]

I don't get why people hated The Butterfly Effect. I genuie thought it's a good film since there aren't that many films with a moral to it (well depending what the film is).

 

[ProfessorLayton]

Hey, I see where you're coming from, and you have some good points. Still, if someone pulls the "you just don't get it" card (which is totally ridiculous), that's the person's pretense, not the movie's. I don't think the movie itself is pretentious because it achieves more or less what it set out to achieve, without claiming to be anything more. Just to be clear, I didn't mean to imply if someone doesn't like it, it's because they have bad taste. It's not a perfect film: there's a reason why it's in the "movies you love but everyone hates" thread. Just like some things are popular for a reason, some things are unpopular for a reason too. And I stand by liking it.

(Super 8 was 2011, btw)

I know Super 8 was 2011, I was trying to squeeze it in to the section about my opinions of the worst movie ever made... going back and looking at my post, I must have been tired or something because there are so many mistakes in wording...

But either way, my hating it probably had a lot to do with my theater experience as well... as in, accidentally walking into the wrong theater and then when I got to the right one, the fire alarm went off halfway through and killed the flow.

 

[aba1]

The star wars prequels (could have gone without Jar Jar though) the Matrix and Pirates of the Caribbean sequels (come to think of it, those two crossed over would be awesome) I know they had a lot to be desired, but I still loved them.

me tooooooooooooooooo

 

[TheLastSamurai14]

I liked Jumper and FFVII Advent Children. No one's ever heard of Jumper except me and my friend, to be honest. And Advent Children is dismissed because it's Final Fantasy VII based.

Speaking of Final Fantasy, I also liked The Spirits Within, but I try not to associate it with the series. I see it as just that, The Spirits Within.

 

[Griffolion]

Skyline

Almost every single person I know was absolutely scathing, but they were criticising exactly the kinds of things people complain about in "yay america" sci-fis.

They watch ID4, and they hated the unrealistic rubbish, eg:
"why can a f-18 shoot down a vastly superior alien space ship?"
"why can will smith basically one-hit-kill an alien in combat suit?"
"wtf is the president doing flying a fighter plane?!"

Then they saw Skyline, and complained reverse:
"no way could that house sized alien take a bazooka! it's made in the US of A!"
"what the hell?! they killed Turk from Scrubs!? That's illegal!"
"the ending was stooopid. Humans would have kicked alien arse."
"ps. USA, USA, USA!"

Skyline presented a thoroughly plausible version of alien invasion - you gonna get raped, and no matter how hard you try, you might as well just pass them the lube and think of happier times.

HAHAHA I thought i was alone on this one... I watched it with a whole group who cracked it and said pretty much all you did and my one response was... 'vastly superior race invades earth, what did you think was going to happen?'

What actually happens in Skyline? Does everyone die? D':

OT: Equilibrium. I thought it was a really compelling dystopic story that isn't too far from plausibility.

 

[moviedork]

Zack Snyder is a genius. Have you seen Sucker Punch?

Snyder is certainly no genius. The guy has made fun B-Movie adaptations and an awful "original" film that will probably end up being my least favorite movie of the year.