Movies That You Detest That Many Of Your Loved Ones Adore

[Trembling Eagle]

I think Shawshank Redemption is awesome. I can see thinking it's overrated, but "detest"?

I love that movie.


Detest? Hmmmm...my mom loves "Bull Durham" but I never really got it. I don't really detest it though. Just not into it.

I know that every male friend of mine does NOT like "Lost in Translation" and every girl friend of mine loves it (including me). Interesting phenomenon. Just thought I'd point it out.

It just moves so damn slow and nothing much happens. Is the point of the movie to just create atmosphere?

[yesno]

I'm a boy and I liked "Lost in Translation."  I liked its mood, the setting, My Bloody Valentine, and Bill Murray.  No way it should have won an Oscar for the screenplay of all things, though.

I also liked Marie Antoinette, but mostly for the costumes.  I like that Sofia Coppola just makes these stylish, vapid films.

[Regular Joe]

I know that every male friend of mine does NOT like "Lost in Translation" and every girl friend of mine loves it (including me). Interesting phenomenon. Just thought I'd point it out.

I enjoy both Shawshank Redemption and Lost in Translation, and my Joe doesn't stand for Josephine.

My detestable movie is a novel: Catcher in the Rye. People stick up for the indefensible little punk in that book the same way they stick up for their terrible movie choices, like that changes how endlessly negative and unspectacular the book is.

[jbissell]

I'm a boy and I liked "Lost in Translation."  I liked its mood, the setting, My Bloody Valentine, and Bill Murray.  No way it should have won an Oscar for the screenplay of all things, though.

I also liked Marie Antoinette, but mostly for the costumes.  I like that Sofia Coppola just makes these stylish, vapid films.

I'm with you 100% on both accounts.  Although if anyone other than Bill had been in Lost in Translation, I probably wouldn't have bothered seeing it in the first place.

[JamesU]

As I type this, I'm in the middle of watching "Into The Wild" with the people I'm staying with. This movie is triggering my "Hippie Kill Response." This rich kid is rejecting the selfishness of his family by acting even more selfish.

Yeah I was pretty much cringing the entire movie. I love this quote from an Alaskan park ranger I found on Wikipedia. “I am exposed continually to what I will call the ‘McCandless Phenomenon.’ People, nearly always young men, come to Alaska to challenge themselves against an unforgiving wilderness landscape where convenience of access and possibility of rescue are practically nonexistent […] When you consider McCandless from my perspective, you quickly see that what he did wasn’t even particularly daring, just stupid, tragic, and inconsiderate."

[Matt]

the departed...  that movie stunk! 

Which is why I call it Who De-Farted?

My mom's been on me to watch Crash (the one about racism, not the one about people fucking car wrecks or whatever). I've never seen it, so I don't know if I "detest" it, but everything I've heard about it makes me think I would.

[jbissell]

My mom's been on me to watch Crash (the one about racism, not the one about people fucking car wrecks or whatever). I've never seen it, so I don't know if I "detest" it, but everything I've heard about it makes me think I would.

Don't. It's just as bad as you've heard.

[Spoony]

I finished Into The Wild. Dear God, at the end of the movie, I wanted that bear to take a swing at that kid more than anything in my life. I knew he was going to starve to death, but I was PRAYING they tacked on a twist ending where he's mauled by bears. That selfish little creep. Why did he got better looking the more homeless he got?

So did I hate it more than Funny Games?

Hard to say... one was arrogant in a 1st year film student vein, and the other was arrogant for a liberal arts major. I'm going to say that Into the Wild made me angrier. Only because it glorified the actions of some kid who thought he was better than people who worked for a living and was too good for soup kitchens. Adding insult to injury, it was also set to the voice of Eddie Veddor. Funny Games was just a really annoying film.

[Spoony]

Oh yeah, and Corpse Bride stunk.

Hand-me-down Tim Burton from Tim Burton.

[A.M. Thomas]

So many movies I love are mentioned in this thread.

[Gilly]

Detest is a strong word but I will never watch Shawshank more than the one time I watched it.

I'd like to see you avoid it.  It's playing on 10 cable networks at any given time.

Ha, I don't have cable!

[Spoony]

Detest is a strong word but I will never watch Shawshank more than the one time I watched it.

I'd like to see you avoid it.  It's playing on 10 cable networks at any given time.

Ha, I don't have cable!

Dammit!

I'll be projecting this on the side of you house tonight. No one gets off that easily.

[gravy boat]

My detestable movie is a novel: Catcher in the Rye. People stick up for the indefensible little punk in that book the same way they stick up for their terrible movie choices, like that changes how endlessly negative and unspectacular the book is.

Seconded.  

Also, I'll defend the actual Into the Wild kid, based on the book.  The movie did unnecessary glorify him.  But read the book before you start thinking you have him pegged.  The book showed the harder edges the kid had, and what a dick he could be, and that yes he made some stunningly stupid choices.  (If he had just bought a map of the area he was in he would have seen that he was about a 1/4 mile from a hand-crank pulley that he could have used to traverse the river.)  Finishing the book, I thought the kid was a grade-A asshole (how he treated the old man (Hal Holbrook character) in the book was particularly cruel), but I respected him for how he tough he was, and how uncompromising he was in his view points.  Now, uncompromising people are not much fun to be around, but they are interesting.    

[yesno]

More controversial picks!

American Beauty
(sorry Dorvid)

Magnolia
(I love every other PTA movie, but this one doesn't cut it for me)

Rockers
(I like the Jamaican culture and setting, am bored by the tedious caper)

Inland Empire
(Lynch's worst movie since Dune, and I've seen every Lynch movie at least 5 times.  I liked the first 40 minutes a lot.  The rest shows that he needs an editor and his eyes checked if he thinks that DV or whatever he's using looks as good as film.)

[JonFromMaplewood]

Everyone I know, from every walk of life, loves Love, Actually.  I think I need new friends and family.  It is one of the few movies I have ever shut off.  The look is so antiseptic and it feels like a coffee ad that goes on too long.

Also, I agree about American Beauty.  "The suburbs aren't all they're cracked up to be!"  Who knew?!  It actually felt like a naughtier Three's Company.  Neighbor peeks in the window, sees something he mistakes for sexual when it's not, and goes loopy. Jack Tripper, look out!