Unpopular movie tastes

[MCerberus]

John Wayne was a bad actor who made genuinely awful movies as a rule. Not only that, but they were culturally toxic and that doesn't even get into the ruin he made of the people around him.

This includes pretty much all of his westerns and the war movies.
Even Midway.

 

[Pyrian]

Hating on popular movies is too easy. I'll stick to positives.

Inside Out is fantastic. Pixar may be uneven (what isn't?) but it's clearly not declining.

I love Thor (the first movie). "I need a horse!"

I really like Serenity. It brought a sense of consequence that Firefly sorely needed.

 

[Nazulu]

Hating on popular movies is too easy. I'll stick to positives.

No, I'd say repeating positive things about popular movies is the easiest. No one ever even gives you shit for why you like something, just dislike.

I really like Serenity. It brought a sense of consequence that Firefly sorely needed.

I completely agree with this. Overall, it was generally well done and amazed me that it wasn't just some cash in.

 

[JemothSkarii]

I love just about any movie with Keanu Reeves in it, it's a guilty pleasure. Especially Constantine (also mad props to whoever cast the Devil because that fit so good). Made me want to read Hellraiser... should get around to it. Still haven't seen Knock Knock though, Horror movies aren't my schtick.

 

[JemothSkarii]

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I can't say I've legitimately enjoyed a John Wayne movie based on what it was... Heck, he played Genghis Khan in a movie called The Conquerer for crying out loud. He was basically a walking propaganda piece, full of the 'true red white and blue blooded American'. I don't think you can stand up and say that John Wayne movies are anything amazing from a technical or literary standpoint.
It was basically simple, cheesy schlock. That's why I liked them. Back then the American Cold War propaganda machine was going full force so you could argue John Wayne was so popular because patriotism and anti-communism.

... Okay, I'll say I legitimately liked the Quiet Man

 

[Rylot]

And I wasn't repulsed by by the new Indiana Jones either. I love how much people hated aliens in a series with jewish ghosts melting faces, Indian dudes pulling hearts out of people's chests with his bare hands, and an immortal Christian who guards a room full of cups that either give you eternal life and heal all wounds or make you disintegrate. But that monkey swordfighting scene was the worst, way worse than the fridge nuke.

I gotta agree with this. It hit so many of the classic Indiana Jones beats that it felt like a true Indiana movie and I enjoyed the hell out of it. Like you said, I don't understand why everyone could take the endings of the other movies at face value but 'inter-dimentional beings' is where everyone draws the line.

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I don't think you can stand up and say that John Wayne movies are anything amazing from a technical or literary standpoint.

Stagecoach (1939) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031971/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Had a huge impact on cinematography and laid out a lot of the tropes you still see, even in genres other than westerns. I'd agree with you on a lot of his films being nothing too special but Stagecoach changed a lot of things.

 

[Sarge034]

I was rather ok with Jupiter Ascending. I think it might have been because one of the characters was basically my personality in space though... Another one? I really like the first Punisher and uh... The Resident Evil movies, the first one and extinction mostly. It's all Carlos Olivera, the character is a total badass. Not even bolder punching, steroid chugging Chris Redfield could carry those movies, but Carlos did...

 

[NerfedFalcon]

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery is effectively ninety minutes of nothing but dick jokes and riffs on James Bond that a lot of people have done with far more class and ability. Doesn't stop me from rewatching it every once in a while and unironically laughing at nearly every scene.

 

[Drathnoxis]

National Treasure - For some reason this movie only has 44% on Rotten Tomatoes, and I can't figure out why (short of maybe reading the reviews). I thought it did everything really well, the characters were pretty likable, the effects were good, and it was a fun treasure hunting romp. Also, it's probably Nicholas Cage's most fitting role, he just sounds like someone whose spent their whole life pouring over books and maps obsessing over something nobody else even believes exists.

So what's wrong with this movie? Tell me, because I can't think of a single thing I didn't like about it.

The sequel was pretty crap though. I think the amount of times you can have the same characters find a long lost treasure that is hidden with clues located in American history is just once. Also, breaking up the love interests between movies just to get them back together in the sequel is always pretty lame.

 

[FPLOON]

I seem to be the only person who either :

1) Saw the Nicolas Cage movie 8mm. or

2) Really loved it.

It's a secret gem of a movie, so dark and brutal, yet it ends in a wonderful catharsis. Yet I can't seem to find anyone to talk to about it.

I saw that movie last year with my mother... and my glob, did it suck me in and didn't want me to look away or pause the movie in any way, shape, or form... Then again, I really like any movie Nicholas Cage is in, so there's that...

I actually liked the Wachowskis' Cloud Atlas. The scope of it floored me, and using the same actors for completely different roles - sometimes outside of their gender - seemed like a groundbreaking concept. The Far Future segments seemed really interesting, as I absolutely can see ourselves forgetting the hallmarks of our current culture and regressing to a tribal status. I loved the broken and reconstituted English that got used in those segments - like the language is only half-remembered.

Another movie I saw with my mother and, unlike her, I really loved that movie as a whole... and really utilized its medium to adapt the novel of the same name, in my opinion...

OT: Atlantis: The Lost Empire and Treasure Planet are the best animated movies to come out of Disney [so far] in the 21st Century with The Princess and the Frog coming in second... However, I really do not want any of them to reach a higher status than they are now less they end up like a cult classic version of Frozen and the like...

Speaking of Disney, I really love the Planes spin-off movies, especially the second one... Also, I love all of the car-related references in Cars 2 more than in the first Cars movie...

Speaking of Pixar, they have not made a movie yet that has made me go any less than "It was great"...

Going back to Disney, or to be more specific Disney Channel, I still say that all three High School Musical movies (Sharpay spin-off movie not included) are worth watching in general... even if the second one's the one with the slightly better music...

Speaking of TV movies, the Sharknado movies are of neutral enjoyment... because Ghost Shark is still better...

Speaking of low-budget, A Haunted House is better than every Scary Movie movie after the first one...

Speaking of horror, Undead is underrated... Sure, it's an Australian zombie movie, but it's like a low-budget Shawn of the Dead with [REDACTED] as a plot twist...

Speaking of underrated, all of Zach Braff's directed movies are awesome!

Other than that, I got nothing unless my past self wants to ninja-post me or something...

 

[Christemo]

On average I have more fun with bad movies with good movies unless they're like, the best movies of all time (talking Fight Club, American Psycho, etc here).

For example I've had eternally more fun with The Evil Bong, a 2%-er on Rotten Tomatoes, than all of Star Wars.

 

[zombiejoe]

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Woah mama, I gotta give you props for going full out with this list here! Some of these things I couldn't agree with more, others drove me up the wall, but in the end, this was a fun list to read.

 

[twistedmic]

I don't know how popular, or unpopular, this opinion is, but I find the modern American horror movie industry is a blight on the world of movies and cinema. They are nothing but slasher/splatter flicks filled with jump-scares, barely distinguishable, more-often-than-not flat one dimensional characters. Each separate franchise is bogged down with far too many unnecessary and extremely similar ( to the point of being constant rehashes) sequels. They are the movie equivalent of Call of Duty and sports games (Madden, FIFA, NBA etc.).

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

I thought Gravity was one of the best movies I've ever seen.

I liked the movie only having two actors. I like that they killed Clooney's character fast. I liked how they killed the other minor astronauts in the beginning. I loved the attention to detail, the interactions with zero gravity, but mostly the movie looked amazing. Definitely a movie that you had to see in theaters just for the enormous images.

The only thing I didn't like about the movie was that scene where Bullock though Clooney was alive. I suspended my disbelief that someone could dumbpilot one satelite to another without any form of technology, I didn't have strong feelings about Bullock because I thought she did alright, I wasn't bothered by the tagline "two hours of Bullock screaming", wasn't so strong on the unneeded explanation of Bullock's dead daughter, but that's it. A few minor annoyances that really didn't detract from my enjoyment of the movie.

I saw the movie twice in theaters. If it came back in theaters I'd watch it again just because of how flipping good it looked.

 

[takemeouttotheblack]

In addition to small gothic/historical films like Ironclad and Solomon Kane?

I really like the Nick Cage Gone in 60 Seconds, because it's awesome fun as a romp and as a style.

I adore the David Lynch Dune on a 'WTF this is awesome' scale.

I love the original Thor, because it's just fun.

I loathe The Dark Knight Rises. Because there's nothing enjoyable in it whatsoever, and Bane was a crappy villain in an overly smug, complicated storyline that in the end didn't matter in the slightest. Why should I give a crap about Talia?

 

[Something Amyss]

I'm a big fan of Super Troopers. Rotten Tomatoes says this is an unpopular opinion.

Yeah, it's stupid. Yeah, it's juvenile. Yeah, it's really stupid.

But it's sooooo much fun.

 

[C14N]

I have never heard anybody else share this opinion but I think Aliens is a mediocre film and a totally disappointing followup to Alien. The characters were annoying, the plot didn't make much sense and it turned an iconic movie monster into a mook that poses about as much threat as a Storm Trooper.

I actually agree, for the most part.

Alien had me on the edge of my seat, nearly holding my breath for almost the entire film. The mysteries it presented - the wrecked alien ship on LV-426, the Space Jockey, etc. - and made absolutely no pretense of trying to explain raised a million fascinating questions in my mind.

Aliens... meh, it wasn't bad, I guess, but it was a James Cameron movie. Good action, yes, but none of the tension, mystery or horror that made the original so memorable.

Yeah, I think the same. It wasn't bad, it just felt run-of-the-mill to me. I guess it's kind of a victim of the "Seinfeld Effect" in that it was probably so influential that it just seems very cliched looking back on it. I probably would have liked it a lot more if it wasn't using a previously-defined and iconic movie monster as the alien horde. It's just that I first saw it the next day after I first saw Alien (back when the Bluray boxset came out) and it felt like such a jarring change.

 

[DefunctTheory]

I'm a big fan of Super Troopers. Rotten Tomatoes says this is an unpopular opinion.

Yeah, it's stupid. Yeah, it's juvenile. Yeah, it's really stupid.

But it's sooooo much fun.

Its got an audience approval rating of 90%, you vanilla movie watcher.

Critics hated it more then one would rationally think, though.

 

[The Madman]

I don't like either Quentin Tarantino or Christopher Nolan movies.

That's right. Kill Bill? Meh. Dark Knight trilogy? Not my thing. Honestly I just don't like either directors style for a myriad of reasons, and neither has yet managed to make a movie I'd say I fully enjoyed.

At least Michael Bay has Bad Boys 2 and The Rock, both thoroughly fun action movies.