Movies you love but others hate.

[the skullcowboy]

Ok, so we all have different tastes when it comes to our entertainment even though we all meet here under the flag of " trek " we all have at least one movie that we enjoy that none of our peers understand why...so why not profess your love for it here and now, i will start off with probably the GREATEST movie ever made...Cabin Boy! no joke I truly love this movie on so many levels, I watch it several times a year and still find new things and jokes in it each time, I have a good many friends and only 1 other enjoys the movie, the rest think its garbage.

So there you go, Cabin Boy...I can hear the whooosing sound of respect for me leaving, dare you list your own now?

 

[Amaris]

I love the movie Wagons East!. It doesn't seem to be well liked by many.

 

[Smellincoffee]

Chasing Liberty. I especially like the background music, and I'm in love with the idea of traveling through Europe and finding one's self. Also, Matthew Goode and Mark Harmon are two of my favorite actors to watch/listen to.

 

[the skullcowboy]

J. Allen-wasn't that the movie John Candy was filming or had just finished filming when he passed away? I have always meant to watch it but have never gotten around to it.

 

[Amaris]

J. Allen-wasn't that the movie John Candy was filming or had just finished filming when he passed away? I have always meant to watch it but have never gotten around to it.

That's the one. For you Star Trek watchers (myself included of course), you'll see more than cameo appearances by Robert Picardo and Ethan Phillips as well!

 

[Gepard]

I'm assuming this is not about guilty pleasure films, so I won't list the 1998 Lost in Space or Godzilla. (Except I guess I just did.)

I wouldn't use the term "love," but I thought 2001's Impostor was quite good, and that's got a 22% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. I loved Bicentennial Man upon first viewing, but it didn't hold up as well a second time, so I'm not sure how I feel about it.

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

I thought Oscar was a very funny movie

 

[Nardpuncher]

Ang Lee's Hulk and 1994's The Shadow.

 

[Haggis and tatties]

Mystery men...love this movie.

 

[ThankQ]

Mystery men...love this movie.

Who hates Mystery Men? What the fork?

 

[the skullcowboy]

I'm assuming this is not about guilty pleasure films, so I won't list the 1998 Lost in Space or Godzilla. (Except I guess I just did.)

Wow, You Liked G.I.N.O huh? then again this is the EXACT thing i made this thread for, I admit I was really excited about the Hollywood's godzilla movie...until I saw it, I actually saw parts of it being filmed too. I did laugh when Godzilla: Final Wars (2004) came out and Japanese Godzilla makes short work of G.I.N.O.( what the ToHo execs christened the american monster, short for Godzilla In Name Only ) or if you prefer " Zilla " prompting the evil alien to say " I knew that tuna-head was useless " that said I am cautiously optimistic about the 2012 hollywood/toho co-production of a 3-d Godzilla movie

 

[ThankQ]

At least the yankee version of Godzilla gave us The Wallflowers cover of "Heros".

 

[Australis]

The Shadow and Lost In Space

 

[Gepard]

Wow, You Liked G.I.N.O huh?

Yeah, I thought it was fantastic when I saw it in the theater. It wasn't until everybody started making jokes about how awful it was that I learned I was supposed to hate it. Of course, like Bicentennial Man, it hasn't held up to future rewatches, and now I see why folks ragged on it so hard. Still, I kind of enjoy it anyway, hence why I call it a guilty pleasure.

Of course, it probably helps that I have no attachment to or interest in the original Godzliia films, so I've never cared that they changed the design or that the story was in "name only" or whatever else gets sand in the pants of the Toho films' fans. It's biggest failing is that it's an Emmerich movie and so doesn't bear critical examination for longer than 0.68 seconds.

 

[Orac Zen]

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein - the Kenneth Branagh-directed version of the tale. It was crapped on by pretty much everyone, but while I wouldn't say I love it I liked it at the time and still do.

 

[Mr Silver]

I like a lot of films that no one else really likes, but I also like a lot of films that most people think are epic

*Freddie Got Fingered (yes terrible, vile but insanely funny)
*Superman Returns (I thought it was a pretty good effort)
*Cabin Fever 2 (I thought it was better than the original, the soundtrack was certainly cooler)
The Condemned (Stone Cold Vs Vinnie Jones, total fanboy wank, but insanely awesome on so many levels)

I'm also partial to some serious cheese fests, 1970's cop movies, anything with lame humor and stuff with really bad acting and SFX, unintentionally funny is sometimes priceless for laughs

 

[Locutus of Bored]

I love 'Bicentennial Man,' and I usually can't stand sappy Robin Williams comedy/dramas. The ending gets me every time.

I thought 'Lost in Space' was pretty good as long as you pretend the bad CGI space monkey and Spider-Smith don't exist.

'Godzilla' I was really looking forward to based on the awesome trailers, but the final execution was unfortunately terrible. There are moments of a good film in there, though, it's just drowned out by a bunch of crap. I did like the one review that said (paraphrasing): "You are led to believe that the military is trying to conduct an orderly demolition of New York City, but this damned giant lizard just keeps getting in the way."

Audiences seemed to like it more than critics (who hated it), but I thought the Martin Lawrence/Tim Robbins comedy 'Nothing to Lose' was hilarious. It's one of my favorite comedies.

 

[Amaris]

I love 'Bicentennial Man,' and I usually can't stand sappy Robin Williams comedy/dramas. The ending gets me every time.

I can't make it through that movie without getting wistful or crying.

 

[Mr Silver]

I seem to remember "The Adventures Of Pluto Nash" not being so bad, despite it being a complete disaster, Critically and Financially

 

[Zulu Romeo]

Star Trek: Nemesis.

"Now if you'll excuse me... I'll be in the gym!"