Movies That You Detest That Many Of Your Loved Ones Adore

[JonFromMaplewood]

I am kicking it back, Tom-list style.

By the way, I think I have read Catch-22 7 times. I did not do so under duress. The movies' not much though.

Among the movies listed on this list so far, I would rank them thusly:

Darjeeling Limited
Crash (wreckage)

How on Earth did Darjeeling Limited end up only a notch above Crash?!  Dave?  Please PLEASE re-think that one.

[Beth]

I like how both "Crash"s wound up on Dave's list. I'm pro Crash (wreckage) however.

[cutout]

A couple of my dumber co-workers actually saw August Rush and liked it. Holy smokes is that one outrageously bad movie. I saw it in Cape Town on vacation when it was raining and almost left to walk around a very bad neighborhood just to get away from Robin Williams and his cr33py pied piper schtick. When I got home from SA, I hoped and prayed every Tuesday night that Tom would say he'd seen the movie just so I could hear him shred it on the air and confirm everything I thought I was seeing.

Key quotes:

Hope: Do you like music?
August Rush: More than food.
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Wizard: You know what music is? God's little reminder that there's something else besides us in this universe; harmonic connection between all living beings, every where, even the stars.
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Lyla Novacek: I'm trying to find my son.
Woman at Desk: Name?
Lyla Novacek: I don't know.
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Hope: You remember how you said Mozart was a musical prod?
Reverend James: Prodigy.
Hope: Yeah, well, I've got one of those and he's living under my bed!

[dave from knoxville]

I am kicking it back, Tom-list style.

By the way, I think I have read Catch-22 7 times. I did not do so under duress. The movies' not much though.

Among the movies listed on this list so far, I would rank them thusly:

Darjeeling Limited
Crash (wreckage)

How on Earth did Darjeeling Limited end up only a notch above Crash?!  Dave?  Please PLEASE re-think that one.

I guess there's just no accounting for taste, but I found the combined smirkage of the three leads almost equal in hatability to a Billy Crystal monologue. Just unacceptably smug and self-satisfied, for my taste.

[WavyGravy]

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.

Oh boy, Into the Wild.   I really wanted him to die.  Burning money..

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

Dave, I love you for starting this thread with my all-time most hated loved movie.  What a piece of garbage.

I would also add Todd Solondz, American Beauty (I will admit that I really did like it when it first came out, but realized I had been bamboozled), and most PT Anderson films except for TWBB and about 2/3 of Boogie Nights.  In terms of uncontroversial (in these parts) opinions: Fight Club, anything by Kevin Smith, most of Oliver Stone's oeuvre.  I hated Reservoir Dogs, plus anything Tarantino's done except Pulp Fiction. 

I thought Pi was totally overrated, though I didn't hate it. 

I liked Little Miss Sunshine, though a lot of my friends hated it.  I guess it was a little overdetermined.  Liked Amelie and Life is Beautiful just fine.

My most controversial opinion of all: I really do not get Godard.  I understand his importance in the history of cinema, etc. etc., but I have yet to be able to stay awake through one of his movies.

[emdasher]

My most controversial opinion of all: I really do not get Godard.  I understand his importance in the history of cinema, etc. etc., but I have yet to be able to stay awake through one of his movies.

I'm with you on this one. I had a similar reaction to The Squid and the Whale. Zzzz....

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

See, I kinda loved The Squid N' The Whale.

[jbissell]

See, I kinda loved The Squid N' The Whale.

But isn't that because you enjoy spreading your seed in libraries?

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

See, I kinda loved The Squid N' The Whale.

But isn't that because you enjoy spreading your seed in libraries?

I don't enjoy it.  I do it because I have to.

[Fido]

Movies I don't care for (detest is too strong a word) that my loved ones adore include much of the fantasy/action/adventure genres, e.g. Lord of the Rings trilogy, Dune, Hellboy 2 (sorry) etc.

I have tried to appreciate these movies, and go to see them on a regular basis just to play along and be a good loved one. Through this compromise is the benefit is that I don't have to see indie flicks alone, and other things.

[A.M. Thomas]

My most controversial opinion of all: I really do not get Godard.  I understand his importance in the history of cinema, etc. etc., but I have yet to be able to stay awake through one of his movies.

Ahhh!  How could you fall asleep to A Woman is a Woman or Breathless or Band of Outsiders?

I find a lot of his later/political films, like La Chinoise kind of boring, but he has so many other good ones.

[A.M. Thomas]

I've gotten pretty good at spotting movies that I'll hate, and avoiding them. The last movie that I remember totally hating (while everyone around me adored it) was My Big Fat Greek Wedding. I knew I would hate it, and I was right. I saw it with my in-laws, who thought it was a whole lot of fun.

I hate My Big Fat Greek Wedding so, so much.  I hate the acting.  I hate the directing.  I hate the plot.  I hate the character arcs.  I hate the novelty of the character that tried to fix everything with Windex.  And I hate that so many people liked it.

[Susannah]

I think from my reply it will become clear that most of my loved ones are idiots of the we-went-to-college-together variety: either they're stoner idiots or pretentious idiots.  Here we go:

-Donnie Darko

-Anything starring Ben Stiller (with the exception of "Flirting With Disaster," which is kind of good.)  This includes "Meet the Parents," "Dodgeball," and ESPECIALLY "Reality Bites" and "Your Friends and Neighbors."

-There's a few overlaps here, because I also hate anything starring Vince Vaughn (even movies like "Old School," which I didn't mind so much at first, I have come to hate on repeat viewings) and anything having to do with Neil LaBute.  Jason, help me out here.  What don't I get about Neil LaBute?

-Top Gun

Finally, somewhat controversial choices: " Seven" and "A Clockwork Orange."  Sure, they're interesting, but I would rather pull my eyelashes out one by one than sit through either of these movies again.  "Seven" is just too grotesque for me to watch--I'm pretty squeamish about violence and torture on film--and...well...I'm just really suspicious of anyone who really loves "A Clockwork Orange," especially if he (and it's always guys) has an Alex poster on his wall. Be honest--do people who really love this movie enough to watch it repeatedly kind of enjoy the rape scenes?  In a purely unironic way? 

[Trembling Eagle]

I think from my reply it will become clear that most of my loved ones are idiots of the we-went-to-college-together variety: either they're stoner idiots or pretentious idiots.  Here we go:

-Donnie Darko

-Anything starring Ben Stiller (with the exception of "Flirting With Disaster," which is kind of good.)  This includes "Meet the Parents," "Dodgeball," and ESPECIALLY "Reality Bites" and "Your Friends and Neighbors."

-There's a few overlaps here, because I also hate anything starring Vince Vaughn (even movies like "Old School," which I didn't mind so much at first, I have come to hate on repeat viewings) and anything having to do with Neil LaBute.  Jason, help me out here.  What don't I get about Neil LaBute?

-Top Gun

Finally, somewhat controversial choices: " Seven" and "A Clockwork Orange."  Sure, they're interesting, but I would rather pull my eyelashes out one by one than sit through either of these movies again.  "Seven" is just too grotesque for me to watch--I'm pretty squeamish about violence and torture on film--and...well...I'm just really suspicious of anyone who really loves "A Clockwork Orange," especially if he (and it's always guys) has an Alex poster on his wall. Be honest--do people who really love this movie enough to watch it repeatedly kind of enjoy the rape scenes?  In a purely unironic way? 

I love every David Fincher movie
there really isn't that much gross out stuff in Se7ven
it is mostly hinted at or suggested