Everyone loves/hates it but you

[BeyondTheGrave]

I know were all B- movie fans and we watch things that would kill normal people but whats something that eveyone seems to like/dislike that you always had the opposite reaction (dislike/liked). Also it does not have to be just movies it could be cartoons, TV shows, a song, book, video game etc.. Some examples of movies and a cartoon that everyone seems to dislike are that I like are:

Starship troopers 2
Punshier both versions
King Arthur(2004)
Aeon Flux

or movies that everyone likes but I don't like that much:
 
Spider-man2 ( I liked when I saw in the theater but when I saw it again I didn't like it as much as I did)

Napoleon Dynamite



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You can’t give it, you can't buy it, and you just don't get it!-Aeon Flux



Post Edited (02-01-05 12:05)

[Fearless Freep]

I actually don't think about it

[Master Blaster]

Night of the Zombies and Dragnet (TV show) - Nobody I know can stand them but me.

I hated Spiderman 2 and I'd like to give Shrek two in the chest and one in the head.

My wife on the other hand is the only person I know who hates Fight Club.

[phantom oldtimer]

HATED:

Terms of Endearment (cheap manipulative trash)
Zardoz (worst scifi movie I ever saw )

LOVED:

Altman's Popeye (only version to capture the feel of the original comic strip IMO)
Mars Attacks! (everyone treats as a failed Tim Burton film;  when it's really Part 2 of his Ed Wood tribute)

[Derf]

Two that immediately come to mind in the "I liked it while most people hated it" category are "Mom and Dad Save the World" and "Tank Girl." I really enjoy these movies whatever anyone else says.

It may not really apply on this board, but in the "I hated it while most people loved it" category fall movies such as "The Sound of Music" (I can't say it's a bad movie, but watching it makes me want to claw my way out of the room) and "Titanic" (if this movie were set anywhere but on the Titanic, more people would have seen it for what it was: the story of a one-night stand that only sticks with the woman because the guy dies. Oh, and it's on the Titanic. The poor schmuck she marries and who encourages/finances her long, adventurous lifestyle is easily forgotten over "what could have been").

[Menard]

Master Blaster wrote:

> Night of the Zombies and Dragnet (TV show) - Nobody I know can stand them but me..


I actually like both of them too. NIGHT OF THE ZOMBIES (the Mattei version) is a better zombie movie than of lot of the straight-to-video amateur stuff that has been coming out lately.

There are people who don't like Joe Friday? Shame on them.

[Ed]

To be honest., many of the "must see" movies that come out leave me damn cold.  I hold a special loathing for the Costner vehicle, "The Bodyguard".  And I didn't mind the Postman and even Waterworld.  
The other one was "The Day after Tomorrow" (2004).  Thats  like the movie version of a toothache for me.  
Ed

[Menard]

I have seriously tried to like Fulci's THE BEYOND. Most people who rave about how great it is seem to have the same response they apparently borrowed from the same source when confronted with someone who does not like the movie, "You just don't get it."

They would be correct. I do not get an incomprehensible pastiche of imagery presented in a disjointed storyline. THE BEYOND seems to me like a paint by numbers on film, I have to fill in the blanks.

Several people defend THE BEYOND as an experience to be had and its disjointed storyline is part of what makes it great. To me, Fulci failed as a director to bring a complete and comprehensible flow to his film. If I were to engage someone in conversation and leave words out of my sentences, it is not their fault they did not get what I was saying, it would be my fault for a poor presentation. Fulci gave a poor presentation.

[ulthar]

One I liked that many did not was "The Blair Witch Project."  Okay, so I know all the nitpicky stuff, but I liked it for its attempt at doing something new.

I remember seeing it in the theatre and laughing out loud, I was enjoying myself so much.  There's so much wrong with it, but hey, it was F-U-N.

[blkrider]

Stuff I dislike that everyone else likes:

DEAD ALIVE
SPIDERMAN 2
The EVIL DEAD series.

[Ed]

I agree with you on Blair Witch, it was good fun.   And not at all derivative.

-Ed

[Menard]

phantom oldtimer wrote:

> HATED:
>
> Terms of Endearment (cheap manipulative trash)
> Zardoz (worst scifi movie I ever saw )
>

I never saw TERMS OF ENDEARMENT, but I absolutely agree with you on ZARDOZ. I got a headache just watching that droll piece of (cinema).

[Mr. Hockstatter]

One movie that I really like that some critics practically pee themselves over is Jason X.  What were they expecting?  Alien?  I've seen all the Friday the 13th movies and Jason X surpassed my expectations.

One I can't stand that everyone else seems to love is that new Battlestar Galactica series on Sci-Fi.  Those characters just make me cringe.  Put them all together in a room and have Jerry Springer host it.

Another TV show I like is Star Trek Enterprise.  I think it's the best thing since The Original Series.  All the Trekkies on the net detest it for some reason.

[blkrider]

I recall some kind of quote from David Friedman where he said that Blair Witch was basically like the old roadshow pictures he used to do....the selling of the movie was more important than the movie itself.  I like it for that reason, it's like the old exploitation movies of decades past.  

Jason X was dumb, but I liked parts of it.  I don't really know why people dump all over it either, I don't think it was really any worse than the last few installments of the series.

[D Munger]

Didn't care for Fight Club, loved The Cars That Ate Paris (it was called Cars That Eat People the first time I saw it).