Was there ever a movie you like but everyone else hated?
 

1. Have you ever seen a movie where you went to yourself; "WOW, this was one of the best movies I ever saw in my life." but yet everybody else hates it and the critics give it bad reviews. You wonder to yourself, why does everyone hate it so much?

2. What about a movie you hate with a passion and yet everybody else liked it so much and it got so many positive reviews from critics. They may have even made sequels to it or plan on doing so in the future and you just keep going to yourself; how the hell does anyone like that movie?


I'll start it off.

1. "Death to Smoochy." It's a comedy directed by Danny Devito. It spoofed actors that were child tv stars like Barney the Dinosaur. In this one, you had Smoochy the Rhino played by Edward Norton. He was a really genuine nice guy who seemed somewhat oblivious to certain things. Other actors in this were Robin Williams who played a random emotionally disturbed psychopath, Jon Stewart, and Danny Devito himself. I thought that this was truly one of the funniest movies ever and yet nobody else really liked it and the critics gave it bad reviews.


2. "X-Men First Class." I have to say I hate this movie. I hated it since the beginning of it where Mystique is Xavier's step sister....I was like, what? Then later on, I just didn't enjoy it. I didn't really care for the actors and some of the dialogue was stupid to me. Yet everyone else liked it, it got great reviews, and I think they're working on a sequel to this movie. Believe me, I honestly do not like this movie, no matter what anyone tells me.

Water world
Johnny mneumonic
Encino man
Hackers
Shawn of the dead (I love this movie, but very few will sit through it with me)

I'm sure there is more... That's what I can think of off the top of my head.

Almost every Will Ferrell movie. There's one person I know besides me that is a real fan.

Green Lantern.

I'm with ya on that.

I think the Fantastic Four movies get a bum rap. They aren't that bad....really.

1. I liked both Fantastic Fours and the first Fred movie.

2. I f*cking hated Scott Pilgrim. What a piece of garbage. Man, I've never been so happy to see a movie fail in my life.

Im one of the few fans who love TMNT 3.

I don't like Titanic. It's one of the most boring movies ever. Plus I just hate Leo Di Crapio.

:tgrin:Batman and Robin. Better than that Batman Forever garbage. Arnold was a "cool" Mr. Freeze:tlol:, and I also didn't mind George Clooney playing the caped crusader. Yet, people hated it. Why?:tconfuse: I get why no one liked the choice for Batgirl, but everything else seemed fine to me. Still, I couldn't stand that Commissioner Gordon portrayed by Pat Hingle.:trazz: Gary Oldman is the best Gordon there is.:tcool:

Lord of the Rings. Such a ****** script, so much nonsense and ****ing lack of a good structure with bad characters and... Oh, I could keep going, but what's the point? By now I've learned that no one will agree with me on this :p

I actually agree with ya. I don't like LOTR either. The movies were boring (the ones I've seen anyways... I think I've seen 2 of em) and I tried to read the books but they just put me to sleep.

The movies I liked that are hated by most are Soider-Man 3, X-Men: First Class, X-Men 3: The Last Stand, The Crow: Salvation, Fantastic 4, and The Green Lantern.

Movies that are popular that I don't really care for much are the James Bond movies, the Godfather movies, Seven, and The 40 Year-Old Virgin. I was planning to watch all of the James Bond movies in chronological order, but after the seventh, I realized I couldn't really get into them. I tried skipping over the rest of them to one of the more modern movies, so I tried GoldenEye. I wasn't feeling that one either, so that's when I realized they weren't for me.

I love me some Speed Racer, man.

Speed Racer was so awesome.

1.) I liked "any given Sunday". Despite the ham fisted scenes in the movie(a player's eye popped out during the game), I liked the movie. Jamie Foxx was awesome playing the hard headed backup QB. I heard people didn't like it.

2.) I realized "the blindside" was full of s&$t. At first I liked it because of the upbeat nature of it but after reading about the boy who Sandra Bullock's character took in had a better backstory than the movie. Somehow the producers felt the kid's real life story was not Hollywood enough so they dumbed him down and made Sandra's character the main character. The real Michael Okafor was pissed about the movie and how they made him act. This is the first time that I feel the need to buy a person's autobiography just to see how "true" the movie's story is.

I think what ruined the movie for most people was the kid and his monkey.

Nah I think it was all the speeding colors.

Anyways I liked Speed Racer.

Movies I like:

Alien Resurrection
Terminator 3 and Salvation
The Godfather part III
The Matrix Reloaded and Revolutions
Star Wars prequels
Ghostbusters 2

Movies I'm not crazy about:
The Dark Knight
The Godfather part II
Seven
Spider-Man 2
Die Hard With a Vengeance
Dr. Strangelove
Goldfinger

I Kinda liked "John Carpenter's Vampires", and the Fred movies.

I would say that it was because of the one liners in this movie.

Plus certain things like Batman having a Bat Credit Card. It's just...why???!!!

Bane was portrayed as an idiot.

Pat Hingle actually did Gordon in the Batman movies Burton did and Schumacher did surprisingly.

Also; they use the storyline of Mr. Freeze freezing his wife to find a cure for the disease she has. At some point in this movie; Batman mentions that Mr. Freeze DID find a cure...so why the heck was he keeping her frozen, stealing diamonds to build some gigantic freeze ray; IF HE HAD THE CURE THE WHOLE TIME?!

A movie I can not stand is Napoleon Dynamite. I hated it then and everybody loved it. Still hate it to this day. Also Taladega Nights ,Step Brothers and Superbad.

Green Lantern. There were parts where it was a bit slow, but I didn't expect anything more from the film.

1. Independence Day, ID4, or whatever you want to call it. I don't know why people hate this movie so much, its a big dumb action movie that is supposed to be fun. At least we got to know the characters and knew what was going on, unlike....

2. The Michael Bay Transformers movies. WHY THE F*CK DO PEOPLE LIKE THESE!?

They explained pretty clearly that Freeze's wife had an advanced stage of the disease that the cure did nothing for while Alfred was in the early stage where it could help him. Freeze needed more money to fund his further research.

Simple dawg. Right there in the movie.

Turtles 3. The costumes were butt ugly but other than that, I love it.

At least in the Batman Beyond timeline Nora was cured. Sure she divorced his arse right after, but hey at least she was cured. :lol:

Here's something I hated that critics have praised: Avatar. Yes, it was done beautifully with the editing and special effects, but the story seemed a bit unoriginal . . . or James Cameron just took things he used from Aliens or from the Matrix to combine it with Dances With Wolves meeting the Smurfs. The characters were unlikeable to me. I had no sympathy for any of them. Plus, the movie was boring from the start, especially when I saw it in 3D. Everything was dragging on and on, I was starting to lose interest.:tsleep:

One last thing: if the whole thing took place on a planet called Pandora, why didn't James Cameron call the film "Pandora?":tconfuse: I mean, "Avatar?" Come on. I don't care if those blue aliens are really avatars of the humans. Because of him, the title "Avatar" no longer shows up for any Last Airbender titles.:tgrumble: Very original, Cameron. No wonder why I can't call The Last Airbender "Avatar" anymore.:trolleye: Pathetic.

Yes, because Cameron was thinking of a 2005 cartoon when he wrote Avatar in '94. Because avatars aren't an ancient concept and term in and of themselves.

Who cares if he wrote it in 1994? I just felt he wasn't flexible enough to change the title since it has been used for The Last Airbender. I wouldn't even care if he still called the aliens avatars, because that made sense. With the internet and online games, there are avatars that are our characters.

And you're right. It is an ancient concept that it is a descent of a deity in Hinduism. I have no problem with that. It's just that since Last Airbender made a huge impact being once called Avatar, Cameron should have changed his title. That's just me. Maybe I'm only saying this because I didn't like the movie that much.

So Cameron should've changed the title of his movie just to please fans of a cartoon. Alright.

You know what? We'll just have to agree to disagree on this one. If we keep fighting, it's going to become one of those pointless battles of who's right and who's wrong.

Here's a movie that I hated that critics praised: The Hangover. It had a couple of funny parts, but the whole thing was really a film where they dropped the F Bomb so many times. It was very vulgar and the rest was just unfunny.

Hey! That reminds me of another movie that I didn't think was that bad, Cop-Out!

Also. What's the issue with a Rated R comedy being vulgar? That's pretty much the only reason for their existance.

Agreed. Zach was funny aaaaaand that's it.

I like Judge Dredd. I can certainly understand fans' outcry of its lack of fidelity to the source material, but I have fun watching it each time.

Actually, the Mike Tyson part with "In the Air Tonight" playing in the background was funny.:tlol:

Never saw Judge Dredd. You looking forward to seeing the new one?

You know what was a good movie, but really was not hated by critics or audiences: Demolition Man. I don't know. Once you mentioned about a Stallone film, I just suddenly thought of this one.

Anyway, films I think critics haven't given any chances with are the later Shrek sequels. Shrek The Third was better than the second one. Second one I'll have to watch again. The third film should have been the last. Though I thought Shrek Forever After was interesting, it was not the best.

:tsmile:Wall-E wasn't bad. I enjoyed that one. Not that much dialogue in the film, but still fun to watch. I'd rather put Up in my least favorite. It's a good half a movie. It's very sentimental when you see the life he had with his life and the life he'd have with the boy scout kid. But once those talking deviced dogs entered the scene, it got out of hand. I didn't actually think Up would become one of those dog movies like Beethoven or Air Bud. What the shell?:trolleye:

Way to diminish your point by saying "What the shell?".

I'm sorry. I just kind of like that catchphrase. I don't know. We're on a forum that mostly talks about TMNT. I can't refer to anything like that?

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I absolutely LOVED Speed Racer, so much I went out the next day and got the Mach 5 M tattoo. We watched the whole series to get pumped for the movie, it delivered almost everything I wanted to see since I was 6. People who didn't like it mostly weren't fans of the show, and thus missed the entire point. It was SUPPOSED to be over-the-top, candy gloss, stupid-crazy ridiculous - like the show - and it totally was. Gimme more Mach 5 instead of Mach 6 and I'm a happy guy all over (although Mach 6 was cool, I just didn't think it necessary). Everyone acted their roles perfectly; Christina Ricci was hot, John Goodman was PERFECT, and Susan Sarandon even gave Speed's mom more "depth" (her huge jugs probably helped with that) than she ever had in the show. I didn't think a live-action anime could be much more accurate, in spirit or execution.

People that didn't like it just missed the point; although I could see how some visually sensitive types wouldn't dig it on account of how frenetic it was. I liked how they put so much work into it, some types of cameras were invented specifically for making that film, and they tried all kinds of new tricks with shooting it that had never been done before. I kinda get into stuff like that, and it usually enhances my enjoyment of the whole experience.