Name a movie that you love but others don't...and you can't understand why

[Schadenfroh]

Lost City of Children

Really weird, but also really good!

 

[soulcougher73]

fixored.

Thanks lol brain fart

 

[zinfamous]

Thanks lol brain fart

did you just call me a brain fart?!!?

 

[Locut0s]

did you just call me a brain fart?!!?

I think he left out the period. I think he meant he HAD a brain fart.

Unless my brain fart is not getting that you got this and are being sarcastic?

 

[BurnItDwn]

I watched All the Leprechaun movies. Some of them were actually funny though. Nothing like a small leprechaun that rhymes when he is about to kill. Some of it is hilarious. Sort of a twisted appreciation is needed but there are a good number of funny points in the series. And Warwick Davis is the star!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warwick_Davis

Professor Filius Flitwick in the Harry Potter films

Leprechains 2 and 3 were probably the best ones if anyone cares. 1 kinda sucked.

Warwick Davis was awesome in Willow. That man can act!

 

[zinfamous]

I think he left out the period. I think he meant he HAD a brain fart.

Unless my brain fart is not getting that you got this are are being sarcastic?

yes, I was being facetious.

 

[zinfamous]

Warwick Davis was awesome in Willow. That man can act!

Willow was great. Val Kilmer's future wife = the hotness.

I also recallr digging the Willow NES game, which was basically a Zelda clone

 

[Jzero]

Trainspotting is fantastic! I thought most people liked it?

I know few people that have seen it and even fewer that like it... Everyone I know that has even seen it always just says "Oh is that the movie where he dives into the toliet? That was *disgusting*!" or "I just couldn't watch after the scene with the baby..." They basically checked out of the movie after watching one of these "shocking" scenes (as if they don't routinely watch movies/TV with far more shocking scenes in them).

 

[darkswordsman17]

Trainspotting is fantastic! I thought most people liked it?

I had basically only ever heard positive things about it. I caught part of it on some movie channel and wasn't terribly interested. Seemed like it was just intentionally trying to push buttons, which doesn't always work for me.

I will agree, I don't think most people have seen it and for a lot, its like Pulp Fiction where it has some really fucked up stuff so people don't really like to talk about it.

I've never seen it, but it was my understanding that Fargo was universally loved.

Maybe you need new friends

MotionMan

It was pretty well liked, but I think it was more critically acclaimed than mass market. I've seen bits and pieces and didn't find those to be good enough to care to hunt down the full movie. That, and I have a friend that has similar tastes in movies, and he hates it, so I figured I wouldn't bother.

I watched All the Leprechaun movies. Some of them were actually funny though. Nothing like a small leprechaun that rhymes when he is about to kill. Some of it is hilarious. Sort of a twisted appreciation is needed but there are a good number of funny points in the series. And Warwick Davis is the star!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warwick_Davis

Professor Filius Flitwick in the Harry Potter films

Leprechains 2 and 3 were probably the best ones if anyone cares. 1 kinda sucked.

The fact that you know him as that and not Willow makes me a sad panda.

 

[StageLeft]

Waterworld!

me, too, i really just like that movie.

 

[chuckywang]

Waterworld!

Uh no. That's a movie you might like, but you can completely understand why others don't.

 

[darkswordsman17]

Uh no. That's a movie you might like, but you can completely understand why others don't.

 

[sandorski]

I know I will be crushed for this...

Battlefield Earth

bracing for impact...

I agree with you.

 

[sandorski]

I liked Postman a lot as well.

Me too.

 

[Locut0s]

I agree with you.

BTW coming to the Vancouver Olympic meet-up?

 

[sandorski]

the Wraith!

haha, kinda dumb movie, but entertaining I thought.

 

[Perknose]

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai: Across the 8th Dimension - Very quirky 80s scifi cult classic. However, it's very very 80s.

I LOVE this movie. I think it's a near-perfect gonzo comic masterpiece! Damnedest thing is, it got a RAVE review in the Philly Inquirer when it first came out, and then two days later the original review was pulled and substitued for with a meh one, with no explanation.

Not sure what you mean about it being 80's. Much of the 80's sucked. This movie didn't.

Another "gonzo comic masterpiece", imho, is Repo Man, another gem from the stinky brown void of the 80's. It has so many tasty bits, you could quote from it forever:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0910145/

Miller: A lot o' people don't realize what's really going on. They view life as a bunch o' unconnected incidents 'n things. They don't realize that there's this, like, lattice o' coincidence that lays on top o' everything. Give you an example; show you what I mean: suppose you're thinkin' about a plate o' shrimp. Suddenly someone'll say, like, plate, or shrimp, or plate o' shrimp out of the blue, no explanation. No point in lookin' for one, either. It's all part of a cosmic unconciousness.
Otto: You eat a lot of acid, Miller, back in the hippie days?
Miller: I'll give you another instance: you know how everybody's into weirdness right now?...

---------------------------------------------------------------

J. Frank Parnell: Ever been to Utah? Ra-di-a-tion. Yes, indeed. You hear the most outrageous lies about it. Half-baked goggle-box do-gooders telling everybody it's bad for you. Pernicious nonsense. Everybody could stand a hundred chest X-rays a year. They ought to have them, too. When they canceled the project it almost did me in. One day my mind was full to bursting. The next day - nothing. Swept away. But I'll show them. I had a lobotomy in the end.
Otto: Lobotomy? Isn't that for loonies?
Parnell: Not at all. Friend of mine had one. Designer of the neutron bomb. You ever hear of the neutron bomb? Destroys people - leaves buildings standing. Fits in a suitcase. It's so small, no one knows it's there until - BLAMMO. Eyes melt, skin explodes, everybody dead. So immoral, working on the thing can drive you mad. That's what happened to this friend of mine. So he had a lobotomy. Now he's well again.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

Bud: Credit is a sacred trust, it's what our free society is founded on. Do you think they give a damn about their bills in Russia? I said, do you think they give a damn about their bills in Russia?
Otto: They don't pay bills in Russia, it's all free.
Bud: All free? Free my ass. What are you, a fuckin' commie? Huh?
Otto: No, I ain't no commie.
Bud: Well, you better not be. I don't want no commies in my car. No Christians either.

I'm also quite pleased to see Brazil getting it's due here. Terry Gilliam rules! Two other of his films that I loved that I seldom see mentioned, let alone positively, are Jabberwocky and Time Bandits.

"Jabberwocky: the monster so horrible that people caught the plague to avoid it."

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Dutch - Movie bombed, I consider it a holiday classic.

The Cable Guy - It as all I can do anytime I spar, to not bust out my Jim Carrey impression for the Star Trek fight music! :biggrin:

Joe v. The Volcano - I love everything about this movie, from start to finish. The thing I like the most though, is the way the luggage salesman makes buying the luggage seem as important as Indy deciding which cup is the Holy Grail. Then, to have what appeared at first to be a whack jobs' reverence for luggage, turn out to be truly sage advice.

 

[PingSpike]

I'm not sure I'm the only one that feels this way, but I love Hackers. That movie is so great.

 

[BTA]

Dutch - Movie bombed, I consider it a holiday classic.

The Cable Guy - It as all I can do anytime I spar, to not bust out my Jim Carrey impression for the Star Trek fight music! :biggrin:

Joe v. The Volcano - I love everything about this movie, from start to finish. The thing I like the most though, is the way the luggage salesman makes buying the luggage seem as important as Indy deciding which cup is the Holy Grail. Then, to have what appeared at first to be a whack jobs' reverence for luggage, turn out to be truly sage advice.

Agreed on Joe v. The Volcano

Dutch was decent too.

 

[KeithTalent]

The Cable Guy - It as all I can do anytime I spar, to not bust out my Jim Carrey impression for the Star Trek fight music! :biggrin:

Love that movie.

KT

 

[kgokal]

7 Pounds.... never will forget it.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

7 Pounds.... never will forget it.

Thanks, it has been on showtime or starz recently, I'll see if I can DVR it.


BTW, without spoilers: This is not going to be like Pay It Forward, where I end up terribly depressed/bummed out afterwards is it?

 

[GrantMeThePower]

Perfume

 

[Electric Amish]

Hudson Hawk.

My friends and I laugh our fucking asses off every time we watch that show.