Movies you hate, that everyone else seems to love

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Just about all recent comedies, all soap operas, Titanic, Star Wars, Pirates of the Caribbean.

It seems recently when a movie is advertised they do a little creative editing to make the movie seem better than it actually is. One example is Burn After Reading. I am a big fan of the Coen Brothers but this one was a big disappointment.

I hardly ever watch movies, I just don't care for them for some reason. About the only movies I actually like are animated like Disney or Shrek. Of course, I used to dream about becoming an animator myself one day but since I realised that was impossible my interest in such movies has waned as well. Meh.

My brother likes foreign films but doesn't like anything else. he says (and I agree with him) that other movies are too "Hollywood". My parents seem to watch all kinds of movies ALL the time. I don't like it when they do while I'm visiting because my father is hard of hearing and has the volume up on full blast while watching some "action" film where people are horribly killed or blown up every few minutes. I'm not much of a movie person. I find it hard to sit through one and just watch without getting restless or bored. It's even hard for me to pay close attention to a TV show that's over a half hour!

This film got my brother and his best friend to watch something Star Trek-related, which is something of a minor miracle

i have yet to find one person who will sit thru all of salo with me

Simpsons Movie. Not that it's hated, but once people watched it once or twice, they moved on. I haven't heard anyone mention the movie for over a few months now. I still think about this movie a lot and I watched it a lot of times, it can get to the point where I know over half the script inside out.

Batman (1989) Honestly I loved some of the portrayals such as Michael Keaton as Batman. But I felt that Nicholsons Joker was not as good as he could have been. I would have like his interpretation to be a mix between his portrayal of the joker he already uses and a mix with Jack from The Shining. I also thought it dragged on way too long. I mean AMAZING beginning. Dull dull and god dull middle. Then An AMAZING Climax and ending.

IMO Batman Returns (the sequel) was a much superior film.

High School Musical
Star Trek
Hannah Montana: The Movie

I'm more into independent and European film.

Moulin Rouge. I normally love musicals, but recycling songs from other time periods is just wrong! No creativity at all! I couldn't stand this movie!!

This comment is coming from someone who LOVES all things Star Trek!! ! If this movie had been all by itself and not connected to any previous Star Trek franchise it would have been great as a one-off, as in Star Trek had NEVER existed, but sadly the alternate reality that is set in motion due to the conseqences of this movie leaves much to be desired in my book, rendering many things that will happen in future Trek nearly null and void.

Last edited by moonnymph on 24 Feb 2010, 2:53 pm, edited 2 times in total.

Except that it doesn't render any part of the previously established Star Trek universe null a void. Spock (!) said it in the movie; when the Romulans went through the wormhole it created an alternate timeline. The fact that Spock (!) exists, exactly as he was prior to going through the wormhole, in this new timeline is an indicator that the original timeline remains unchanged.

Even if that weren't the case, it's a tribute movie. It has no effect on the established franchise, it doesn't make any of the previous Star Trek tales any less compelling and, as you said, it does a good job as a stand-alone movie.

The guy who runs my comic shop is a massive Trek (particularly William Shatner) fan, and he thought pretty much the same thing. And if it can get both a long-time fan to say "screw all that fiddly continuity, this is awesome!", and also my totally un-sci-fi brother to go "this is awesome!", then I'd say it's done its job of reaching both a new and an established audience

Twilight. The Godfather. Idiocracy. High School Musical. And my least favorite, for reasons unknown, National Treasure. I HATE National Treasure.

Wait, does anyone love Twilight and High School Musical?

Well, somebody must like High School Musical, or it wouldn't have spawned two sequels Same with the reprehensible Twilight - if it had sunk without trace, as it clearly deserved to, then it wouldn't have got a sequel either.

I blame the teenage girls who buy the books and think Stephanie Meyer invented werewolves