Movies you like that everyone hates.
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I think most of these movies were not generally well recieved by the public or critics, but I like 'em all:
2010
Time Machine - remake
Final Countdown
Strange Invaders
Philadelphia Experiment
Millenium
Invaders From Mars - remake
Streets Of Fire
Valley Girl
Limit Up
Heart Like A Wheel
North Shore
Genghis Khan
Revolution
Wild Things
Mark Of The Devil
Candy
The Black Hole
Masters Of The Universe
Red Sonja
The Last Legion
Sword and the Sorceror
Indestructible Man
Killers From Space
Altered States
Outland
Highlander 2
Electric Dreams
This Property is Condemned
Crimes Of Passion
Brainstorm
Lords Of Discipline
Creepshow
Wild In The Streets
Hollywood Knights
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Quite a few on Jongsstraw's list that I like too, and I'm not so sure all of them were negatively reviewed on first release.
The ones I like:
2010
Strange Invaders
Streets of Fire
Heart Like a Wheel
Altered States
Outland
Electric Dreams
Brainstorm
However, I have to say that anyone who puts Wild Things on the "Like" list is highly suspect. 
Put me down on the Love Linklater list too, especially Slacker, Dazed and Confused, Waking Life, A Scanner Darkly, and most definitely Before Sunrise and Before Sunset. The only things of his I haven't liked were ones he did not write the screenplay - Bad News Bears, School of Rock, etc.
I've been trying to think of something that I like a lot but that most others don't, but I'm not sure. Maybe "A Boy and His Dog." Reviews for it ranged from very negative to "possibly the best SF film ever made" (Vincent Canby, NY Times).
There is another that I like that perhaps many others haven't even seen, so I have no idea how many would like it or hate it. Richard Lester's "The Bed-Sitting Room" from 1969.
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Put me down for Streets Of Fire & Outland as well.
The laughing Chrisisall
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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
I think most of these movies were not generally well recieved by the public or critics, but I like 'em all:
2010
Time Machine - remake
Final Countdown
Strange Invaders
Philadelphia Experiment
Millenium
Invaders From Mars - remake
Streets Of Fire
Valley Girl
Limit Up
Heart Like A Wheel
North Shore
Genghis Khan
Revolution
Wild Things
Mark Of The Devil
Candy
The Black Hole
Masters Of The Universe
Red Sonja
The Last Legion
Sword and the Sorceror
Indestructible Man
Killers From Space
Altered States
Outland
Highlander 2
Electric Dreams
This Property is Condemned
Crimes Of Passion
Brainstorm
Lords Of Discipline
Creepshow
Wild In The Streets
Hollywood Knights
Electric Dreams... I liked that one back in the day. Creator, too. :)
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Originally posted by ecgordon:
Quite a few on Jongsstraw's list that I like too, and I'm not so sure all of them were negatively reviewed on first release.
The ones I like:
2010
Strange Invaders
Streets of Fire
Heart Like a Wheel
Altered States
Outland
Electric Dreams
Brainstorm
However, I have to say that anyone who puts Wild Things on the "Like" list is highly suspect.
Put me down on the Love Linklater list too, especially Slacker, Dazed and Confused, Waking Life, A Scanner Darkly, and most definitely Before Sunrise and Before Sunset. The only things of his I haven't liked were ones he did not write the screenplay - Bad News Bears, School of Rock, etc.
I've been trying to think of something that I like a lot but that most others don't, but I'm not sure. Maybe "A Boy and His Dog." Reviews for it ranged from very negative to "possibly the best SF film ever made" (Vincent Canby, NY Times).
There is another that I like that perhaps many others haven't even seen, so I have no idea how many would like it or hate it. Richard Lester's "The Bed-Sitting Room" from 1969.
Loved "A Boy and His Dog". Possibly the only decent thing Don Johnson has ever been in.
I'll add Something Wild, with Jeff Daniels, Ray Liotta, and Melanie Griffith? Jonathan Demme directed.
Also "The Lathe of Heaven", but that was done as a miniseries on PBS, not a full-on feature film, so it may not count. Then it was redone by Sci-Fi, I think.
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Friday, May 28, 2010 - 18:26 To President Obama:
Mr. President, you're a god damn, mother fucking liar.
Fuck you, you cock sucking community activist piece of shit.
... go fuck yourself, Mr. President.
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Glengarry Glen Ross
I don't know how this movie fares with the rest of the world but all my friends think it is a boring, pointless film. Me, I really like like it and shows what a group of actors can do when sets and props are limited. And it shows that (some) stage plays can be adapted to the screen. An actor friend of mine insists that they can't be adapted well enough to be worth watching.
Hudsucker Proxy
Not so much hated by my friends as met with a kind of 'half-hearted' shrug and an 'It's okay-ish' reply. I gather from reviews that this is a general reaction. Personally I really like it's subtle charm and consider it one of the better Coen Bros movies.
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I liked Something Wild. Saw it long long ago though, so I don't know if I'd still like it now. Melanie Griffith is so cool.
I don't know if it's universally hated, but I certainly know some folks who couldn't stand Marie Antoinette. Yeah, I'd have been happier if they didn't cast a well-known actress, but Kirsten Dunst was actually pretty good. More importantly, the costumes and location and color palette are so sumptuous that I can (and probably have) watch that movie a million times over. And I like the modern punk-girl music.
Also: Showgirls. Horrible movie, yet oddly fascinating. I'd watch it again if it was on. (Wouldn't buy it though.)
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Originally posted by OPPYH:
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So my question is what are some of the movies that you like that your friends and/or relatives despise?
Gremlins II the New Batch. To me it's way better than the first film, which is far too sentimental.
Alien III - Yeah I like it, and I like it more than Aliens. (But ALIEN is still the best)
The Timothy Dalton Bond films:
Living Daylights and License To Kill. Whenever I mention I like these films over the Connery ones I get looks like I killed a puppy's cuddly toy or something.
Cartoons - http://cirqusartsandmusic.blogspot.com
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Originally posted by mal4prez:
I liked Something Wild. Saw it long long ago though, so I don't know if I'd still like it now. Melanie Griffith is so cool.
I don't know if it's universally hated, but I certainly know some folks who couldn't stand Marie Antoinette. Yeah, I'd have been happier if they didn't cast a well-known actress, but Kirsten Dunst was actually pretty good. More importantly, the costumes and location and color palette are so sumptuous that I can (and probably have) watch that movie a million times over. And I like the modern punk-girl music.
Also: Showgirls. Horrible movie, yet oddly fascinating. I'd watch it again if it was on. (Wouldn't buy it though.)
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Showgirls transcends badness. It's so awful, so camp, so kitsch, that it becomes AWESOME in its level of suck.
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Fuck you, you cock sucking community activist piece of shit.
... go fuck yourself, Mr. President.
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Originally posted by lwaves:
Glengarry Glen Ross
I don't know how this movie fares with the rest of the world but all my friends think it is a boring, pointless film. Me, I really like like it and shows what a group of actors can do when sets and props are limited. And it shows that (some) stage plays can be adapted to the screen. An actor friend of mine insists that they can't be adapted well enough to be worth watching.
Loved it.
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Hudsucker Proxy
Not so much hated by my friends as met with a kind of 'half-hearted' shrug and an 'It's okay-ish' reply. I gather from reviews that this is a general reaction. Personally I really like it's subtle charm and consider it one of the better Coen Bros movies.
I confess - that's been my general reaction, too. But there ARE some really great lines in there, like his tag-line for the hoop: "You know... for kids." That line still lives on at my house; my wife and I say it at the oddest times...
I might have to give it another watch sometime.
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Friday, September 24, 2010
I hate Obama's America. You're damn right about that.
Friday, May 28, 2010 - 18:26 To President Obama:
Mr. President, you're a god damn, mother fucking liar.
Fuck you, you cock sucking community activist piece of shit.
... go fuck yourself, Mr. President.
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