Movies you love but others hate.

[SeerSGB]

Moulin Rouge - Yes, I am a dude, yes I'm straight (you'd be surprised how often people ask that when I mention I love this movie). It's a good story, it's visually impressive, and there's just something about it that makes me like it.

More recent: "It's a Trap!" -- A lot of people dogged on it, and it's not the best of the Family Guy SW parodies; in fact I didn't like when I first got the DVD back in Dec. but it does make for some stupid laughs here and there on those "Switch off brain, time for a little stupid" moments.

 

[RandyS]

Also, I will always love Titanic. Screw everyone who cried at the cinema and later pretended they've always hated it.

Agreed, although ever since my mom died, I've had a hard time watching it. But it IS a good film.

But if we're talking Titanic films, for me, the definitive one is A Night to Remember. This one doesn't qualify as "one I love, but others hate" though, since almost everybody I know loves it too.

 

[Emher]

Moulin Rouge - Yes, I am a dude, yes I'm straight (you'd be surprised how often people ask that when I mention I love this movie). It's a good story, it's visually impressive, and there's just something about it that makes me like it.

More recent: "It's a Trap!" -- A lot of people dogged on it, and it's not the best of the Family Guy SW parodies; in fact I didn't like when I first got the DVD back in Dec. but it does make for some stupid laughs here and there on those "Switch off brain, time for a little stupid" moments.

Yeah I quite like Moulin Rouge as well. Was totally blown away by Ewan McGregor's performance in that movie, plus Nicole Kidman was suddenly sexy again.

Haven't seen the latest Family Guy Star Wars parody yet.

 

[TedShatner10]

Titanic is handicapped by the incessant 'Oirish wanking, the romance is OTT, and some of the visual effects have aged badly, however I'm fed up with the large crowd of supposedly hip 'n trendy know-nothing-know-it-alls that have a habit of ganging up on this movie. It's not a patch on A Night to Remember and the first two Terminator movies, but that doesn't make it a bad movie at all.

I also don't understand why The Great Raid did so badly.

 

[Tom Hendricks]

Moulin Rouge - Yes, I am a dude, yes I'm straight (you'd be surprised how often people ask that when I mention I love this movie). It's a good story, it's visually impressive, and there's just something about it that makes me like it.

I'm totally with you on this one. I too am a heterosexual male who totally loves this movie. You know how much I love this movie, "Come What May" was our first dance song for our wedding and I cried like a baby when the band played it.

 

[Brolan]

Spaced Invaders.

Giggywig: Look, when a vastly superior alien culture comes all this way to take over your world, certain basic laws of planetary conquest apply. For example, when someone points a Quad Vectored Hypo Thermic Cosmo Blaster at you, it's a fair bet you are about to become toast.
Mrs. Vanderspool: Will you please sit down and be quiet?
Giggywig: Or perhaps in your case, a whole loaf of toast.

Pez: Who died and left you in charge?
Giggywig: Captain Bipto!

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I like it when Shakespeare's works are adapted into a modern (present day) setting, but keep the original dialogue. Apparently not a lot of other people do.

For example:

- Romeo + Juliet set in present day California ("Verona Beach"). Seriously. This movie is so freaking cool. I don't even particularly care that it stars Leo DiCaprio. You gotta love it when somebody says "Put up your swords!" and everyone whips out guns...which have the brand name 'Sword'.

- Hamlet in New York City. You wouldn't think Bill Murray would work in Shakespeare, but he actually does a pretty good Polonius. And any movie with both Kyle MacLachlan (Claudius) and Sam Shepard (Ghost) cannot help but be teh coolness. Also: Might be the only time that Mr. MovieFone and Shakespeare appear together...

- The this-movie-has-been-in-development-hell-for-a-ginormous-amount-of-time The Merchant Of Vegas (with Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen) looks kind of interesting as well.

 

[Australis]

^ If you think those are cool you should watch Richard III, with Ian McKellen in the lead role, set in a 1930s totalitarian England. One of my favourite films. Very very well done.

I'd really like to see Stewart & McKellen doing Merchant of Vegas. I saw them (on TV) in a stage production of Waiting for Godot together.

 

[ITL]

You're not the only one. I still love that film.
I might go as far as saying that there is a plethora of fans out there.

It's an infamous film. That means it's more than famous.

It taught us all that tequila is like beer. Invaluable knowledge on my 21st birthday. I can still sing "My Little Buttercup" from heart, too.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ If you think those are cool you should watch Richard III, with Ian McKellen in the lead role, set in a 1930s totalitarian England. One of my favourite films. Very very well done.

Oops! Forgot about that one. I have it on DVD as well.

I love that bit about "My kingdom for a horse" as Richard's jeep is stuck in the mud.

 

[MANT!]

Hello, my name's Mark and I like Wing Commander...


Yeah it's silly badly written, cliched and the like, but it has Saffron Burrows in it..
and that more than makes up for all the above sins...

 

[SeerSGB]

Moulin Rouge - Yes, I am a dude, yes I'm straight (you'd be surprised how often people ask that when I mention I love this movie). It's a good story, it's visually impressive, and there's just something about it that makes me like it.

I'm totally with you on this one. I too am a heterosexual male who totally loves this movie. You know how much I love this movie, "Come What May" was our first dance song for our wedding and I cried like a baby when the band played it.

Cools. It's a damn good movie. Usually whenever am I'm a funk, I put Moulin Rouge and it drags me right out of it. It's absurd, and dark, and funny, and serious, and it's all that at once.

 

[JarodRussell]

Hello, my name's Mark and I like Wing Commander...


Yeah it's silly badly written, cliched and the like, but it has Saffron Burrows in it..
and that more than makes up for all the above sins...

I also loved the visual effects and the music.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ Me too.

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cohxgOVcK8E[/yt]

(I have never played the WC games, by the way.)

 

[goofy]

I have an entire shelf of Babylon 5 episodes on VHS, "Joe Dirt", "Sweet Home Alabama" (Reese Witherspoon), and other clearance-bin movies, two VHS tapes of "(Old) Knight Rider" and others that would make people bust out laughing, and not in a good way.

"Good Morning, Vietnam"
"I Love Trouble" (Julia Roberts & Nick Nolte)
"Loser" (Jason Biggs & Mina Suvari)
"Drive Me Crazy" (Melissa Joan Hart)
"Best Defense" (Eddie Murphy)
"The Net" (Sandra Bullock)
"Iron Giant"
"The Wedding Planner" (Jennifer Lopez)

 

[Seraphim]

Dinner for Unterschlagen

 

[Switch]

"Good Morning, Vietnam"

I thought this was fairly well regarded, although I've never got around to seeing it myself.

 

[MLJames]

I was the only one in my circle of friends who liked The Mist. Everyone else thought Frank Darabont should have been burned at the stake for changing the ending of the story. I also agree with him that the movie works better in black and white; when I break out my dvd to watch it, that's the version I play.

As for 80s cheesy movies, I've always had a soft spot for Swamp Thing. Interestingly enough, this one also works well if you watch it in black and white. A college friend of mine suggested that when we saw it in the theater on its initial run, and he was right.

 

[Switch]

Ett hål i mitt hjärta (2004)

I wouldn't say I love it, or even like it; it's not that sort of film. But its IMDb rating of 4.5 is, I think, a little unfair. There is a deep-seated rage here, and it is not unjustified. When I think of this film what actually comes to mind is a scene from Gladiator: Maximus standing bloodied in the Coliseum, roaring at the crowd: "Are you not entertained?"

No, not so much.

 

[Eleanor_zhDarjel]

I liked Robin Hood. Yes, the one with Kevin Costner. Wonderful music, the sherif is amazing and watch it in german so Kevins crapy english doesn't bother me.

There, I said it.

Was Alan Rickman the sheriff?

YES!!!! I just love him! Even as a depressed robot he is cool!