Movies you passionately hate, but lots of people love.

[Pandasaurus]

Oh, and insert <any comic book movie except Guardians of the Galaxy> here.

Thanks for reminding me... I didn't get what all the hype was about for Guardians of the Galaxy. I though it was "Meh... Did I really just buy that?" at best.

 

[sandorski]

That's the Red Ryder movie, right? I saw that for the first time last year. After hearing everyone here gushing over it, I was expecting... something... I didn't like it at all. Boring and disjointed.

Fra jeee lay

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

Harry Potter

I feel sorry for anyone over 30 that likes these movies.

 

[poofyhairguy]

Did you see the final cut or the original theatrical version of the film?

I have seen both now, I "like" the theatrical version more. The Director's Cut is unwatchable to me.

 

[cbrunny]

Let's get this hatefest started...

I wish I could strike these movies from existence.

Why can't people see how bad these 4 movies really are? Almost everyone loves them.

• District 9
• Snowpiercer
• The Grey
• Grandma's Boy

Some people actually like this Michael Bay junk.

• Transformers 1, 2, 3, 4 (yes, the first one too)
• The Rock
• Pain & Gain

A few that really, REALLY disappointed me:

• Swordfish
• The Dark Knight Rises
• Prometheus

Haven't seen the Fast/Furious and Resident Evil movies, but I'm pretty sure I would hate them.

Now argue with me because I'm WRONG!

The Rock is the greatest movie ever made.

Fuck the rest of them.

 

[cbrunny]

Batman movies....

Begins was abso-freakin-lutely the worst superhero movie i have ever seen.
Dark Knight was the second worst.
I skipped whatever the other one is.

I just watched the original National Lampoon's Vacation the other day for the first time. One of the jokes is that he is packing the car and the dog is bugging him so he ties it to the bumper of the car to finish packing. Then he forgets about it and drives away. And drags the dog. And the dog dies.

Terrible. Also a pretty bad movie by modern standards.

300 was awful. Fury Road was completely unnecessary in every way, and not good. Eternal Sunshine was very bad as well. I agree with many others so far.

In Bruges was stupid. Didn't make it halfway.

 

[destrekor]

Begins was abso-freakin-lutely the worst superhero movie i have ever seen.
Dark Knight was the second worst.
I skipped whatever the other one is.

I just watched the original National Lampoon's Vacation the other day for the first time. One of the jokes is that he is packing the car and the dog is bugging him so he ties it to the bumper of the car to finish packing. Then he forgets about it and drives away. And drags the dog. And the dog dies.

Terrible. Also a pretty bad movie by modern standards.

300 was awful. Fury Road was completely unnecessary in every way, and not good. Eternal Sunshine was very bad as well. I agree with many others so far.

In Bruges was stupid. Didn't make it halfway.

Man, you must be a fun one.

 

[cbrunny]

Man, you must be a fun one.

I'm not going to apologize for dragging a dog to death behind a car being objectively not funny.

 

[destrekor]

I'm not going to apologize for dragging a dog to death behind a car being objectively not funny.

It wasn't really supposed to make you laugh. It was comical in that he forget, but then super sad. It produced an awkward laugh, for sure.

But you also made it sound like you just hated the whole movie, not that one scene.
And you also listed good enjoyable movies.

I stand by my original comment.

 

[cbrunny]

It wasn't really supposed to make you laugh. It was comical in that he forget, but then super sad. It produced an awkward laugh, for sure.

But you also made it sound like you just hated the whole movie, not that one scene.
And you also listed good enjoyable movies.

I stand by my original comment.

lol. ok.

I did watch the whole movie. Some of it was ok. Most of it just didn't age well. Would not watch again.

 

[poofyhairguy]

Most of it just didn't age well.

That happens a lot with comedies. Most of them are very dependant on an understanding of the era they were created in, and the ability to get the associated references and in-jokes.

National Lampoon's Vacation is making fun of an era when people tried very hard to live a picturesque white-washed version of the American dream, and in doing so they allowed companies to augment that dream with their own product. Many people in the 1970s/80s acted like if their kids didn't go to Disneyland at least once their childhood was deprived in some way, and the movie makes fun of that drive and the motivations behind it. In 2016 when depriving your kid is he doesn't get his own iPhone it doesn't resonate as much, the dog's sacrifice seems out of place. You don't get the reference of trading a simpler era (of playing with the dog, playing in the yard) for a hyper-commercialized false desire to check a box in your kid's life, even if it sacrifices what they used to love. I am not saying the movie isn't overrated- it is- but it being dated is because life moved on. The Christmas Vacation movie aged better because our cultural expectations of Christmas haven't changed in 50 years, right down to the music.

Every now and then you get a comedy ahead of its time- Some Like it Hot was like 20 or more years ahead of its time. Annie Hall was a good ten or fifteen years before its time. But for the most part comedies become dated quickly.

Hell, even the old concept of slapstick seems very out of place today.

 

[NuclearNed]

Napoleon Dynamite

I have never been able to finish this movie. It isn't just unfunny, it's anti-funny... which is fine if a movie has a good enough story, which this one doesn't.

 

[Demoralized]

Top Gun.

 

[Harrod]

Batman movies, Rockie Movies, and pretty much anything with Gary Busey in it, including Point Break.

 

[motsm]

I'm not going to apologize for dragging a dog to death behind a car being objectively not funny.

I don't remember that part of the movie, but that sounds very funny to me.

 

[cbrunny]

I don't remember that part of the movie, but that sounds very funny to me.

Hilarious.

 

[Ichinisan]

Is it never funny when someone gets shot in a movie?

 

[motsm]

Hilarious.

Apparently you have no idea what context is, or more accurately, you are choosing to ignore context because it benefits your argument.

Anything can be funny, no matter how vile it may be in reality.

 

[FerrelGeek]

That's from the Director's Cut of the ROTK.

Another scene I liked from there was the Mouth of Sauron. All the way up until Aragorn killed him. Book-Aragorn was far too honorable to ever kill an envoy who hadn't done anything.

True on that point.

 

[Insomniator]

Avatar -- so much hype for a 3 hour long CGI tech show with a pathetic story about environmentalism.

 

[destrekor]

That happens a lot with comedies. Most of them are very dependant on an understanding of the era they were created in, and the ability to get the associated references and in-jokes.

National Lampoon's Vacation is making fun of an era when people tried very hard to live a picturesque white-washed version of the American dream, and in doing so they allowed companies to augment that dream with their own product. Many people in the 1970s/80s acted like if their kids didn't go to Disneyland at least once their childhood was deprived in some way, and the movie makes fun of that drive and the motivations behind it. In 2016 when depriving your kid is he doesn't get his own iPhone it doesn't resonate as much, the dog's sacrifice seems out of place. You don't get the reference of trading a simpler era (of playing with the dog, playing in the yard) for a hyper-commercialized false desire to check a box in your kid's life, even if it sacrifices what they used to love. I am not saying the movie isn't overrated- it is- but it being dated is because life moved on. The Christmas Vacation movie aged better because our cultural expectations of Christmas haven't changed in 50 years, right down to the music.

Every now and then you get a comedy ahead of its time- Some Like it Hot was like 20 or more years ahead of its time. Annie Hall was a good ten or fifteen years before its time. But for the most part comedies become dated quickly.

Hell, even the old concept of slapstick seems very out of place today.

I guess I'm one to still appreciate Vacation because, while it came out long before I was born, I did live through the entire 90s, and things weren't that different yet. It was still before the technology really took off, and we still plenty of reasons to get outside and just waste away the day instead of doing that in front of a computer.

And I could also appreciate it somewhat as a major theme park fan, but thankfully, Cedar Point was (and still is) about an hour's drive from home. Screw Disney world, never been there, don't care to, hope I never waste that kind of money. I'll take all the rides at Cedar Point over an overly-theatrical theme park any day. But I would love to go to Universal Studios.

And growing up, we had our long-trip vacations, routinely driving 12+ hours for a family vacation in the Myrtle Beach area, hauling our camper. So the movie resonates with me in many ways, as the family aspect, the vacation, travel, and just the way things were back then. Is it aged? Sure, but I think many 80s and 90s kids should be able to appreciate it. If you were born mid 90s or so and grew up with technology or in certain parts of the country, I guess I could see how the different themes no longer resonate.

Christmas Vacation is a blast, definitely better than Vacation, but Vacation is still plenty great in my book.

 

[destrekor]

Avatar -- so much hype for a 3 hour long CGI tech show with a pathetic story about environmentalism.

It wasn't a movie to enjoy for the movie. It was a spectacle.

For that, I thought it was awesome. Still the best 3D I have seen, but I admit I did not see The Hobbit in HFR (or at all, for that matter), nor did I see Gravity though I certainly wanted to see it for the spectacle alone.

It was certainly a poor movie on its own, but I can't lie, it was fun to watch. I'd be curious for sure to see that film tech combined with HFR. One reason I do look forward to the upcoming Avatar sequels, I'm hoping Cameron works more of that technical magic to make it a fun watch. Although I do definitely hope it's also simply a better story.

 

[zinfamous]

Let's get this hatefest started...

I wish I could strike these movies from existence.

Why can't people see how bad these 4 movies really are? Almost everyone loves them.

• District 9
• Snowpiercer
• The Grey
• Grandma's Boy

Some people actually like this Michael Bay junk.

• Transformers 1, 2, 3, 4 (yes, the first one too)
• The Rock
• Pain & Gain

A few that really, REALLY disappointed me:

• Swordfish
• The Dark Knight Rises
• Prometheus

Haven't seen the Fast/Furious and Resident Evil movies, but I'm pretty sure I would hate them.

Now argue with me because I'm WRONG!

Agree for the most part, but I liked Prometheus a lot (plot hole complaints are stupid and pointless in this movie), TDKR was fine. I actually enjoyed it more than TDK...if only Joker was in it, and I thought District Nine was fine.

The rest are garbage. I also couldn't stand Snowpiercer.


For me: anything with Tom Cruise. Utter dreck.

(OK, except for Magnolia--though that role would be unquestionably better with anyone other than Cruise)

 

[zinfamous]

300

Sorry fanbois, Spartans were well known for pedophile boy sex at the agoge.

huh? that was never meant to be accurate in any way. It was a highly-interpretative representation based on Frank Miller's work.

So, you think everything else is super accurate? What tipped you off: the complete lack of armor, the trans-cis-demi-god giant Xerxes creature?

I thought 'Mad Max - Fury Road' sucked balls.

 

[destrekor]

[terrible images removed]

Hilarious.

We don't need grisly photos as example. Like Ichinisan said, death can be quite hilarious in a movie.

I take it you are a very strong animal or dog lover, but you let it cloud your ability to just step back and enjoy. It's much the same as someone of any culture being unable to enjoy anything some humor at their expense, whereas others have no problem separating fiction from reality and just laugh and enjoy.

Listen, I'm a huge dog lover, seeing real-life examples of injury is kind of devastating. And that's why I acknowledged that kind of thing is an awkward laugh, and that is usually the intent. The context is comical, the actual event is not, but put it in that situation and, while you feel bad, you chuckle or laugh. At the context, not the event.
If you can't separate that, then I reckon you don't enjoy many comedies.