movies you like that everyone else hates

Psycho Beach Party and Super Troopers, any time I watch one of them, my wife leaves the room. She calls the latter "Stupid Troopers".

Edit: Add me to the Notorious Betty Page list, too!
 
jlee562 said:
I would have loved AI if it had ended with him trapped in the ice. The "second ending" just felt tacked on.
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Uh, spoilers I guess.

I felt that way about his War of the Worlds. There's a point where Tom Cruise goes to sleep, when he wakes up nothing makes logical sense for the rest of the movie to create a happy ending. I just pretended he's dreaming it.

With AI I liked the extended ending because it was underlining what the movie was about as a small coda.

For me, the movie was about things. Things we create, things we discard, how we relate to those things, and also what we owe them, if anything. What does the stuff we discard say about how we act? Does an idea have rights? The fact that most of these things were robots that walked and talked was just a narrative device. The way they were treated, they might as well have been hammers and soda cans.

So the ending was perfect for me because it removed "us" from the equation and left behind a world of only our things.

I can see why people don't like it, because it almost plays like a rushed happy ending, but I actually found it quite sad.
 
CB2001 said:
How anyone could hate this one is beyond me. It's a great docu-drama about the iconic pin-up. Gretchen Mol did an excellent job at playing her.
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Most people I know don't like it with the exception of my cousin who is a huge pinup fan.
But I agree with you completely!
 
I have never seen space truckers or heard of it. My friends (all 20 somethings) hate most of the movies i like since the movies are older than them. Hitchiker's was one that nobody seemed to like along with Final fantasy: the spirits within.
 
Okay, here's one that I sort of like but a lot of people hate: Rise: Blood Hunter (especially the Unrated cut). Many people dislike it, saying it's run-of-the-mill. But I like it because of the stylistic approach to it. Not to mention, the "vampires" in the film play along the same lines as those in the film The Hunger (in fact, I sort of see R:BH as being a "cousin" to TH), another film I happen to like. Though, for some reason, many over at the IMDb have some how taken the film as a commentary about Lucy Liu hating herself for being an Asian-American (which I honestly don't see), it's just one of those guilty pleasure films I happen to have in my collection.

The trailer for Rise: Blood Hunter: YouTube - RISE: BLOOD HUNTER - Trailer
 
Re-Animator...Bride Of Re-Animator...From Beyond...Stuart Gordon ..is...GOD...:love:cheers:thumbsup
 
-Solaris
-The Postman
-Daredevil (the director's cut)
-All 3 of the Punisher films
-All of the Hulk films (I even have fun with made for TV films, but I have to have some wine to go with all the cheese in those)
-The Next Karate Kid
-The Karate Kid remake
-JCVD
-Alien Resurrection
-Superman Returns (don't like Lois Lane or the son though)

now here are a few that I find strange because nobody seems to like these...

-Knockaround Guys
-Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
-Suicide Kings
-Things To Do in Denver When You're Dead
-Desperate Measures
-Homeboy
-Bullet
 
I like so many movies mentioned in this thread, but I think 'Dukes of Hazzard' , with Jonny Knoxville and Seann William Scott is one of my favourite modern car movies, alongside Tokyo Drift, and much because of the driving and stunts in both movies, allthough 'Dukes' outshines almost everything else ever made (The jumps are just insane). Also much because of sick humour of the 'Broken Lizzard' team (I love every one of their movies), but I guess never having watched the original series is important too :)
 
I would have to say... a movie that I ended up walking out on in the theater but when it came out on VHS I bought and wore out was:

Top Secret

Val Kilmer's break out role as a Elvis wannabe and the pun humor was just off the hook. My favorite scene was when they were in the park and in the background you see a giant pigeon statue, and all the sudden these guys come flying down to land on it and start peeing all over it. HILARIOUS!
 
Darius Alucard said:
now here are a few that I find strange because nobody seems to like these...

-Suicide Kings
-Things To Do in Denver When You're Dead
-Bullet
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I enjoy these movies as well, but I can understand why some might not like Bullet.

Zykotec said:
I like so many movies mentioned in this thread, but I think 'Dukes of Hazzard', with Jonny Knoxville and Seann William Scott is one of my favourite modern car movies...
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I'm one of those few who thought the movie was far better than the television series.
 
Zombie_61 said:
I'm one of those few who thought the movie was far better than the television series.
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What's your opinion about the original movie? I mean the one the TV show is loosely based off of. And how does it compare to the new movie?
 
CB2001 said:
What's your opinion about the original movie? I mean the one the TV show is loosely based off of. And how does it compare to the new movie?
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I didn't know the television series was based on a previous movie, so I had to look it up. Assuming you're referring to Moonrunners, I'd never heard of it until about 5 minutes ago; needless to say, I haven't seen it. Should I?
 
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