Movies you like but everybody else hates

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

I'm borrowing from Mizzou's musicians thread.

What are some movies that you like that everybody else hates ...


For me (around SportsJournalists.com) its Forrest Gump.
I love that movie and think its awards were well earned. Yeah there were some standout flicks that year, but Forrest Gump was the best.
I'll watch the first half of that movie over and over.

 

[cranberry]

Mr. Bean's Holiday. Rowan Atkinson is a comic genius.

 

[Ace]

Escape from New York.

I tried to watch it with my kids, thinking they'd love it. They hated it and thought I was crazy.

 

[Shaggy]

Vegas Vacation
Dirty Work
Poetic Justice

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Joe vs. the Volcano

 

[Oggiedoggie]

Howard the Duck

 

[Piotr Rasputin]

The Star Wars prequels (two of three, anyway)

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[Mizzougrad96]

The Star Wars prequels (two of three, anyway)

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I'll just quote the great Patton Oswalt... "If I could have access to a time machine, I would go back to 1998 and beat George Lucas to death with a shovel." ;)

 

[Mizzougrad96]

UHF
Cabin Boy
Son In Law

 

[JNEWFIFTY]

Vegas Vacation
Dirty Work
Poetic Justice

I'll second on Vegas Vacation and Dirty Work.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Howard the Duck

Haven't seen Howard since I was, oh, 15 or so, but I thought it was funny as hell, too. I'm not sure if I would like it so much as an adult.

One movie that I liked that didn't get very good reviews or draw too well at the box office was Billy Crystal's Mr. Saturday Night.

 

[Double J]

UHF
Cabin Boy
Son In Law

I'll agree with the first and third choices. :)

 

[Beef03]

Armageddon. Yes completely illogical and rates about a 1 out of 10 on the reality scale, but it was a damn entertaining movie with a solid cast.

 

[Wenders]

All of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies (people generally really like the first and the like goes down in the next two. I love all three.)
Titanic (will watch it every time it's on TV)

 

[playthrough]

Not sure if people hate these or just make fun of them, but I saw Urban Cowboy and Saturday Night Fever in the last couple years and thought both were pretty good.

It was my Travolta phase.

 

[Jesus_Muscatel]

Escape from New York.

I tried to watch it with my kids, thinking they'd love it. They hated it and thought I was crazy.

Hauk: We'd make one helluva team, Snake.

Snake, sucking on a Marlboro: The name's Plissken.

 

[doubledown68]

Tango & Cash
Cool Runnings
Necessary Roughness

 

[Care Bear]

I like bad Kevin Costner movies. Waterworld, Robin Hood, The Postman. I have no idea why. He sucks.

 

[kokane_muthashed]

Love Guru


haha. release the hounds and all that ****. :)

 

[Piotr Rasputin]

Escape from New York.

Doesn't belong in this thread, because those who hate this film are insane.

"President of what?" is quite the quotable line.