What movie do you hate that everyone else loved?

12/10/17 | Simon Green

[Simon Green]

The first that comes to mind for me: "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial". Sappy and overly sentimental.

(And while I'm at it, "Titanic")

[Fiji Hill]

I've never seen Midnight Cowboy. I assume it's about midnight, but it's probably not about a cowboy.

[Texan5]

I agree-comedy for adults is only funny when it isn’t selective, censored and PC driven-the funniest scenes in Blazing Saddles are the most un-PC ones-the fight scene where the one cowboy says kiss me, you bitch to the one punched him, the comment on the race of the sheriff as “the sheriff is near”-and Airplane’s jive speaking, the little girl who likes her coffee just like her men, the parody of the stewardess giving head, then smoking a cigarette etc... Maybe I’m a cruel bad person, but I find that stuff really funny...

[Pontiac]

Around the World in 80 Days. I cannot sit through it.

I thought the original was good.

The Jacki Chan remake, not so much.

[TheStickman]

Grease

Stupidest flick I ever saw. Worse yet I waited in a long line with my GF who was the sole reason I saw the movie at all. Naturally she loved it.

[Chuckster]

Anything with Meryl Streep in it.

[Fiji Hill]

I’m not real fond of Sound of Music

Why should anyone be? It's a depressing film filled with songs on dark and dreary themes.

[M Kehoe]

Hi. Welcome to FR.

Interesting threads.

Especially if the same people post to both.

5.56mm

[CharlesMartelsGhost]

Star Trek all of them
Out of Africa
Avatar
Rudy
Interstellar
The Village
Django Unchained

Have a special dislike for any movie with John Wayne in it. As a child grandfather would watch them on endless loop. I think of nails on chalk board when I hear John Wayne’s voice.

[Texan5]

Midnight Cowboy is about a male prostitute’s relationship with a total loser called Ratso-I saw it when I was in my teens and I already liked erotic films that were artsy or film noire-that one was both-the guy-on-guy sex wasn’t as disgusting as it is in today’s movies, though because it was not as graphic...

My mom liked those types of films and started taking us kids with her to see them when we were 12 or so-there were no ratings on that stuff then. Scarecrow is one of my favs as far as film noire goes-gritty, raw and downright depressing...

[Fiji Hill]

THE GRADUATE

One thing that annoys me about this film is that while it is set at UC Berkeley, it was shot at the University of Southern California, something that anyone familiar with both, or even one of the campuses will quickly discern. Why couldn't they have shot the scenes on location at Berkeley--or set the story at USC?

[Texan5]

Mad Magazine had one of the most hilarious, vulgar and outrageous parodies of Sound of Music I’ve ever seen-made me LMAO.

[blindsangamon]

Sergeant Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band - that stinker with the BeeGees portraying the Fab Four. The story was so idiotic and the BeeGees couldn’t act their way out of a wet paper bag. They had to dub in a voice over by George Burns so the audience could make sense of it. Insulting at every level.

[freepertoo]

Time Bandits, with Chariots of Fire a close second.

[miss marmelstein]

No, it drove me crazy.

[Pontiac]

Maybe I’m a cruel bad person, but I find that stuff really funny

We all are in one way or another.

It is human nature to laugh at the weakness and foilbles of others.

Sure, the best of us don’t laugh in someone’s face at a truly tragic failing on someone’s part but in a movie theater we are allowed to laugh at a well-played farce.

And stereotypes are funny because they so often play true. And if a person can’t take a joke that plays on their ethnic stereotype they a weak and not deserving of the respect they are demanding when they complain about the insensitivity of the jokester.

And Hollywood is failing to deliver because they are cowards before the PC Police.

[miss marmelstein]

Midnight Cowboy was the first mainstream Hollywood movie to be rated X.

[ReaganGeneration2]

First answer before reading any of these: Titanic

[Fiji Hill]

E.T. was a ripoff. The creature comes to earth where he is persecuted by the adults and beloved by the children. He performs miracles and has the power to heal. He is finally hunted down and killed by the authorities. After a period he rises and ultimately ascends into the sky, yearning to go home. It seems to me I’ve heard that account somewhere before. I walked out of the theatre bug eyed and shaking my head that Spielberg had the stones to pull that off.

Here's where you may have previously heard the account. This tune--co-written by Berry Gordy and Smokey Robinson (the singer "Bill"), but not a hit--may have inspired the movie.

It--Ron and Bill (1959)

[Fresh Wind]

Right along with E.T. is Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind.

Both terrible.

[Night Hides Not]

Wolf of Wall Street, almost any movie with DeCaprio in it.