Unpopular movie tastes

[crimsonspear4D]

Because I can't stop driving this into the ground every time topics like these come up, I do like Micheal Bay's movies. Transformers; all are flawed but very entertaining, Bad Boys series; explosively fun and I love Martin Lawrence and Will Smith in anything, and The Rock and Armageddon, both good movies but the character dynamics drive it for me.

Adam Sandler movies are... well kind of special, I can't say I like all of the recent ones except for "Pixels" (wasn't THAT bad if you ask me), I loved "The Water Boy" and "Grown Ups" is nice to watch when there's nothing else to watch and feel like a comedy.

So yeah, even though I can be kinda a little strict and critical to movies (mostly I am towards anime though), it is possible to like those that to others look dumb or crappy.

 

[HardkorSB]

OK, let's see:

I think Spider-Man 3 is the best Spider-Man movie so far.
I like the story, I like the performances, emo Peter is spot on in regards to what a dork like Peter Parker would think being "cool" is all about, that moment when Sandman is formed is better than anything in the other movies, the action is great, a really good superhero movie in general.

On the other hand, I don't like The Dark Knight.
The Joker is the only decent thing about it. The fight scenes are laughable, the characters aren't really characters but symbols and metaphors, the sound mixing is the worst I've heard in a long time (the music was often drowning out the dialogue, it's like an amateur did that, I've made Youtube videos with better sound quality), Batman has throat cancer.
I appreciate the use of practical effects though.

I'm a horror movie fan but I didn't like The Shining, which I'm told is supposed to be one of the best horror movies of all time.
Nicholson was fine but the movie was rather dull (and don't tell me it's because I don't like slow movies because I really like Star Trek: The Motion Picture), some of the imagery was there just to be there (like the person in the bear costume giving someone a blow job), Shelley Duvall was not only terrible but also one of the ugliest women I've seen in a major motion picture (this may be shallow but I couldn't get into the movie because her face was distracting me in a bad way).

I've just watched Return of the Jedi a few days ago and it's pretty bad.
The opening scene with rescuing Han from Jabba is decent (even though the super mega ultra bad ass Bobba Fett gets defeated like a *****) but after that, the movie falls apart. The Ewoks were terrible and the idea of them defeating a heavily armed squad of space soldiers is silly, Han spends half the movie standing by a door and doing nothing, Harrison Ford and especially Alec Guiness are phoning in their performances.
I like the Emperor, he was the highlight of the movie.

Ferris Bueler's Day Off, while not bad on a technical level, has one of the worst protagonists I've ever seen.
He's a horrible person, almost everything I hate about human beings is condensed into that character, I wanted to punch him in the face all throughout the movie (and keep punching him until he stops moving), I was rooting for the school principal.

The Doom movie is a great B-movie.
It has action, it has one liners, it has violence and gore, it's has low brow humor.
Yes, it butchers the source material but I judge a piece of medium on it's own merits, not how much it resembles another piece of medium.

That was enough rambling for 1 post, I think.

 

[CrazyGirl17]

I think Spider-man 2 is overrated, and the title character of Ferris Bueller's Day Off is a total asshole.

Come at me, bro!

Edit: Also, I don't get the point of horror movies. Maybe because I don't like being scared. And personally, I think "The Shining" could be improved if it involved the Ghostbusters. Don't tell me that wouldn't be awesome!

 

[pilouuuu]

What I liked-


Butterfly Effect- It so underrated due to its cast and etc. Still I loved the moral/ messaged used in the film.


Tree of Life- I have seriously no idea why this film get praised. All I saw was a some weird dream sequence, a glimspe of Waling with Dinosaur and some kid childhood was an animal abusing ahole!

Butterfly Effect was a fun movie! It made think of how decisions can affect our lives.

Tree of Life is the worstest piece of crap ever! The characters were hateful people, there were like 30 minutes of some stupid universe creation screensaver and the plot... What plot? It sucks! Tree of Life is the worst movie ever!

Also,

Mad Max Fury Road is OK, but not a masterpiece as many claim.I think the same about Alien, Blade Runner and Terminator 2.

 

[ShogunGino]

That will be considered blasohemy by some people, I think Studio Ghibli is overrated. It's not that they make bad movies but besides the most famous 2 all the others are not very good or memorable, and their version of Lupin 3 was horrible as they disney-fied the characters completely.

As an animation nerd, I must correct you in that Lupin III: Castle of Cagliostro was NOT made by Ghibli. Miyazaki and Takahata didn't start Ghibli until after that movie was released. The movie was made by TMS, the studio that has the official Lupin III license. Miyazaki and Takahata got started working on Lupin during the last half of the original Lupin anime, where they started making the cast a bit more 'family friendly' in accordance to what the producers wanted, in contrast to what the original lead was doing, keeping it more adult. Ironically enough, this more sanitized Lupin is what kinda became the basis for the most popular iteration: the second anime series.

Yeah, Miyazaki clearly was never comfortable with writing sexually open characters. Although in the wave of current ecchi fanservice anime, I do find his more prudish style to be a refreshing break. That said, I'm not too happy with how he handled characters like Fujiko when he was writing Lupin. I still think Castle of Cagliostro is a very well planned and executed movie, but some of the characters' personalities obviously took a hit.

I'm still a fan of Ghibli. I don't love all their movies, though. Porco Rosso's second act and climax are mostly dull. Totoro doesn't blend its use of reality and fantasy well enough for my tastes. Ponyo has an uneven plot, with a slow trickle into a weak climax. Kiki's Delivery Service doesn't do enough with its concept, and its slice-of-life vignettes are nowhere as entertaining as Ghibli's other slice-of-life movies, which I really enjoy.

Castle in the Sky is still my favorite animated movie of all time though.

 

[Poetic Nova]

Going to drop another bombshell.

I actually really like Prometheus. Perfect? No. But I liked it nonentheless. HAve yet to meet someone who shares this view.

 

[pearcinator]

Starship Troopers - all my mates either hate it or think it's just ok. I think it's amazing!

2012 - I liked it for how silly it was but it still had some good acting and heart. My mates hate it because they think it's just like Michael Bay.

Going to drop another bombshell.

I actually really like Prometheus. Perfect? No. But I liked it nonentheless. HAve yet to meet someone who shares this view.

I like Prometheus too!
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On the other hand;

I don't like Inception. All my mates love it but I think it's messy and overrated.

 

[M0rp43vs]

With all the praise I kept hearing about it, I thought Inside Out was just OK. I didn't think it was a good metaphor for depression more than what happens when you try to run something as a committee. And while I really liked Joy and Sadness (and maybe that one), all the other characters were just one-notes and not just the one-note emotions, the humans were really dull and cliche. The jokes were mostly-miss-maybe-hit. There were some neat little things in it though.

And to completely invalidate my opinion, I didn't mind Click. The Adam Sandler movie. To be fair, it showed up on TV when I had nothing better to do so I had no expectations. I ignored most of the beginning but I did think the second half was very introspective and while I didn't cry, I did get pings of sadness.

Also, while opinion tends to swing depending on the time of day but I do really like Pacific Rim. At the very least, the fact that they were able to make giant robots and monster look actually majestic was enough for me to put it on my favourite movies list.

 

[Wolf Hagen]

I reeeeaaaally love the first "Heavy Metal" Movie. Not Heavy Metal F.A.K.K. 2, thats a good movie as well, but the one before. I really do.
Good Music, nice Stile of Animations, and a bit of Pulp mixed in for shits and giggles, not speaking of the sweet classic hard rock. <3

Another one would be the almost unheard of movie "Toys". Seemes a bit childish overall, but it clearly helps. Defenatly also one of those guilty pleasures (and it has Robin Williams as the leading role! ).

I also really like the movie "Ruby and Quentin", wich nobody understands, while I think of it as some sweet harmless fun. And if I say so, they ask what I think of the Movie "Leon", wich is a topic for later....


And now for some juicy hating time:


I really don't like "Saving private Ryan", Mostly for it's inconsisting pacing and it's inconsisting and aimless moral anvildropping. I really liked "Inglorious Basterds" in that aspect WAY more (and that it's characters feel more like human beeings, messed up human beeings, but human beeings). And France wasn't that dirty and colorless back then FFS >.<!

Another one I really started to hate was "Full Metal Jacket", cause the first half is military porn for CoD Playing 13 year olds (that gets quoted waaaayyyy to often, Knights of Ni effect on full steam) and the second half is just sooo daaamn booooring.

And the third most hateable movie of all time for me would be "Leon".
Just because of the girl, this little, annoying Lolithign, thats pretentious as f*** and more annoying then the Westborough Baptist Church.
I know France has a waaaaaaayyyy diffrent cultural stance on the whole horny, unexperienced underaged girly thing then the rest but cooome on guys! D:
Or was this lil Annoying thing in there just to show off, that Leon can handle even things, that others would have dropped off at the Orphanage after day two?
But yeah, I really don't like this one.

 

[Pyrian]

..."Full Metal Jacket", cause the first half is military porn for CoD Playing 13 year olds...

An R-rated movie from 1987 is for under-age players of a game series that wasn't released until 2003? Gotta give Kubrick credit for foresight, then.

 

[CrazyGirl17]

One last one: I still say the 80's Transformers movie is overrated. Yes, the art style is gorgeous (though the animation at times isn't good), and the music kicks ass, the story is kinda stupid, and nearly all the older characters are killed off (including Optimus Slagging Prime!) just to introduce new characters and sell more toys.

So yeah, chew on that, fanboys! Take off the nostalgia goggles and face facts: Transformers the Movie is just plain overrated!

Once again, come at me, Bro!

 

[Wolf Hagen]

..."Full Metal Jacket", cause the first half is military porn for CoD Playing 13 year olds...

An R-rated movie from 1987 is for under-age players of a game series that wasn't released until 2003? Gotta give Kubrick credit for foresight, then.

You don getid n00b! It's about war, MUHREENS and drilling... shouting... and somming about long sucking chinese officers? YEAH!

 

[F-I-D-O]

I really hated "Some Like it Hot." Watched it in a film class, and was told that I was wrong because it "is largely considered the best comedy created." I found no part of the film funny, just tedious.
Also wasn't a huge fan of Scott Pilgrim, as I found the last third to be ridiculously rushed and pointing out that you did the ending fight twice doesn't make it less annoying to go through the same fight.

As far as big dumb explosions go, I'm a fan of "Transformers" 1 and 3. Michael Bay is really good at big, dumb explosions, and its a good enough excuse to hear Peter Cullen say "Autobots, roll out!" again.
I like "Repo: The Genetic Opera" but I've yet to encounter someone who's seen it and didn't think it was at least okay, so I can't say it's unpopular, just obscure.
I actually didn't mind Elysium or Chappie. I wouldn't regularly watch them again, but I wouldn't be opposed to it. Mainly I really like the style of the movies, even if the overall delivery and political messages are incredibly heavy handed. And Wolverine in cargo shorts just looks silly.

Starship Troopers - all my mates either hate it or think it's just ok. I think it's amazing!

Going to drop another bombshell.

I actually really like Prometheus. Perfect? No. But I liked it nonentheless. HAve yet to meet someone who shares this view.

I like Prometheus too!

Make it three.
Not a fan of Starship Troopers though, I think the book is so much better and the film drastically misses the point of the text. Can't help but feel it would be stronger as a different/original IP.

I also didn't realize people hated on Pacific Rim. My friend group loved it, but apparently we are an exception.
My opinion of Iron Man 3 swings on the time of day, but I still enjoyed Iron Man 2, even more in a marathon setting as it offloads a lot of the exposition from the later movies but still has enough time to be amusing.

 

[Roboshi]

None of the Christopher Nolan Batman movies were anything other than average. nearly every good point is hampered by a bad one; Nice costume or car design hampered by the inability to show it properly.

But that's not the big one, for me the big one is;

Heath ledger was a terrible Joker. His death was a terrible tradegy and I would never say anything about Ledger as a person, but as the Joker he just wasn't "The Joker". I feel that if you made only minor alterations like covering his face with a mask and changing the name to "the Anarchist" or something, we would be praising an effective NEW villain and no one would be complaining that he was "just joker in a gas mask".

I think the biggest example of this is in his style during the bank robbery he starts the movie with; after shooting some tocken clown faced thugs he makes his gettaway by blending in to a row of school buses (with the police conviently missing the one covered in masionry). NOW the phrase "blending in" should NEVER be a part of any joker plan.

Also that handheld camera "blair witch" bit was just irritating to me, though I can't put my finger on why, possibly the fact Heath just couldn't stop licking at his makeup like a dog that had gotten his face in some goose fat.

 

[pearcinator]

Not a fan of Starship Troopers though, I think the book is so much better and the film drastically misses the point of the text. Can't help but feel it would be stronger as a different/original IP.

To me, Starship Troopers is the perfect satire of the American military. They go in guns-blazing because they have better weapons and get fucked up by the bugs on home-ground. The whole movie you're cheering for the human race when they are in truth the invading aliens intent on genocide. The bugs didn't actually 'send' that meteorite to Earth (come on, they are on the opposite side of the galaxy! It would have taken BILLIONS of years to make it to Earth) it was just a natural disaster that 'humanity' (i.e. USA) used as an excuse to go to war.

Considering the movie pre-dates 9-11 and the 'war on terrorism' sharing some acute similarities with Starship Troopers, I think it was a great movie that perfectly satirises war and military propaganda (albeit through use of a science-fiction setting/scenario).

Would you like to know more?

 

[stormtrooper9091]

Fight Club is the most overrated movie ever.

I always say this

 

[F-I-D-O]

Not a fan of Starship Troopers though, I think the book is so much better and the film drastically misses the point of the text. Can't help but feel it would be stronger as a different/original IP.

To me, Starship Troopers is the perfect satire of the American military. They go in guns-blazing because they have better weapons and get fucked up by the bugs on home-ground. The whole movie you're cheering for the human race when they are in truth the invading aliens intent on genocide. The bugs didn't actually 'send' that meteorite to Earth (come on, they are on the opposite side of the galaxy! It would have taken BILLIONS of years to make it to Earth) it was just a natural disaster that 'humanity' (i.e. USA) used as an excuse to go to war.

Considering the movie pre-dates 9-11 and the 'war on terrorism' sharing some acute similarities with Starship Troopers, I think it was a great movie that perfectly satirises war and military propaganda (albeit through use of a science-fiction setting/scenario).

Would you like to know more?

That movie sounds really interesting.
It also sounds like an atrocious Starship Troopers movie.

The book focuses on having the best trained military, and the evolving democracy and social structure that would contribute to a large interstellar war machine. Soldiers aren't necessarily presented as all heroes, but as a necessary job that pays for it's horrors with citizenship. It's a rather intelligent work on the long term functioning of military and operation structure with ever miniaturizing nuclear technology, while still respecting the pure machination of a properly ordered and managed military. Honestly, it shows how a military fascist government could function long term, not unlike the "How to be a powerful if unpopular king" presented in "The Prince."

The battle doesn't matter. The book focuses just as much on killing insurgents who are helping the bugs take human territory as it does on building towards the final Normandy-essque encounter. Yes, the main character starts as a dumb kid, but he gets trained and ironed through boot camp to become a functional cog.

The major military innovation isn't co-ed showers - it's tactical, efficient operations on a scale where close quarters is within nuke range and big picture is over multiple planets. Hell, the final fight echos Tolkein's "Battle of Five Armies." The fighting isn't important, the buildup and machination behind it is.

Propaganda isn't a feature - you just have to join the military to vote. The job is still looked at as the option for people who can't find other work or those with death wishes, but it's a necessary occupation.

The movie is interesting in satirizing late cold war military attitudes and poking fun at the military. But in doing so, it completely misses the concepts of the book - misrepresenting a text to present a completely indulgent story. In that respect, I think Starship Troopers is a bad movie, since it fails at being even an attempt at an adaptation - at least David Lynch tried with Dune.
Doesn't help that I think Verhoeven made a better movie and social commentary in Robocop.

 

[Rip Van Rabbit]

I absolutely adore Repo! The Genetic Opera and that's coming from someone that doesn't particularly enjoy musicals. Then again, Sarah Brightman (Blind Mag) might be influencing my opinion quite heavily.

Oooh, I got another one:
I have a soft-spot for mushy-gushy cheesy romantic comedies!

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[sub][small]Don't look at me like that.[/small][/sub]

On one hand I want to shout "Just talk to each other!" at the characters. Buuuuut, one the other hand, I like the warm fuzzy feeling when I get to go "D'awww!" during a particularly sappy moment.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

I actually quite like Sucker Punch. Sure, it's madder than a bag of cats, but that's sort of why I like it. There's really nothing else quite like it.