What's a film that you dislike but everyone else seems to love?

[Aulayna]

The question is in the title!

[Loony BoB]

No Country For Old Men
There Will Be Blood
Citizen Kane
Kill Bill
Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

To be fair, it's been a long time since I saw the last one, maybe I'd like it a second time around. Dunno.

[WarZidane]

Baby Driver

That's actually the only one I can think of, besides just movies in genres I don't generally like (Horror, for example)

[Wolf Kanno]

James Cameron's Avatar. Granted, I've only met a few people who would say they loved it as opposed to others who have more divisive feelings about it. The fact it's the highest grossing movie of all time until recently baffles my mind and I'm likely not going to bother with the sequels.

Maleficent is another film like that. I know too many people who have an overwhelmingly positive opinion about this flick and I feel it is utter fan-fiction garbage. I can't believe it got a sequel.

Forrest Gump is another that is interesting as a period piece but the premise and what happens within is too ridiculous to take seriously.

Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children which may not be as divisive of an opinion now, but its honestly a weak film overall that works better as a mindless spectacle than as an actual film.

I feel like I'm missing a really obvious one for myself. Like a go-to-one that for some reason my mind has slipped. I'll muse over this a bit more.

[Spuuky]

Definitely Donnie Darko.

[Fynn]

Maleficent is another film like that. I know too many people who have an overwhelmingly positive opinion about this flick and I feel it is utter fan-fiction garbage. I can't believe it got a sequel.

The thing about Maleficent is that I think a lot of the people who like it (myself included) are very much aware that it is complete garbage. But it's my garbage, you know?

[Spuuky]

Also every Wes Anderson film

[Wolf Kanno]

The thing about Maleficent is that I think a lot of the people who like it (myself included) are very much aware that it is complete garbage. But it's my garbage, you know?

Man, it can't even fall into "so bad, it's good territory" for me. It's likely because Maleficent if one of my favorite Disney villains and trying to contort that plot in a way to make her an anti-hero ruins everything about her character. Why can't villains just be evil? Give me a start of darkness tale where the protagonist sticks to their guns as a villain by the end.

[Fynn]

I honestly just don't consider her the same character. OG Maleficent will always reign supreme

[Bubba]

Pretty much anything by Darren Aronofsky.

I've mentioned here before that Black Swan is incredibly overrated. The dialogue was wooden with zero life to it. This didn't help the acting which was completely unremarkable, particularly Portman. Though admittedly she was better in this than in Star Wars... though that wasn't hard. Vincent Cassell's was the only decent performance in the whole thing. Also, the imagery that Aronofsky used... there were a lot of blatantly obvious black and white contrasts throughout along with some uses of reflection. It was clear why he used these to remain in keeping with the films theme. It was just clumsily handled with zero subtlety.

While we're talking about zero subtlety, his most recent film Mother! was even worse. I get that he was purposely attempting an allegorical tale but it was so in-your-face that there was little else to it. He seemed to forego all other elements to the movie other than imagery and allegory. Quite possibly the most pretentious movie ever made by far-and-away the most pretentious director ever.

I've had a lot of people recommend Requiem For a Dream which I might check out at some point. I might be too late though for me to watch anything else by him.

[Vincent, Thunder God]

Also every Wes Anderson film

yeah, I disliked Grand Budapest when i watched it. Didnt mind Isle of Dogs though

[Wolf Kanno]

I feel like I'm missing a really obvious one for myself. Like a go-to-one that for some reason my mind has slipped. I'll muse over this a bit more.

Just remembered. It' a Wonderful Life. Hate this sappy movie, still one of my least favorite Christmas movies.

[Jinx]

The Dark Knight.

[Chris]

Red Sonja, Conan the Barbarian, Conan the Destroyer. Also, Highlander and Cyber Bandits.

[Big D]

'Looper' and 'Dark Knight Rises' for me. I strongly disliked the former once it was over, and the latter actually made me angry.

[jenovajunkie]

Big Black Asses 3. Not the gender I was expecting.

[Sarisa]

All of the Star Wars movies, and more recently all of the Superhero movies that have been coming out. I'm not really a fan of either genre in general, but I honestly don't understand how people can go so crazy over them. Even I never treated my favorite movie like some sort of cult.

[tidus79]

Definitely "La grande Bellezza"....boring!

[Diego Gravas]

All of the Star Wars movies, and more recently all of the Superhero movies that have been coming out. I'm not really a fan of either genre in general, but I honestly don't understand how people can go so crazy over them. Even I never treated my favorite movie like some sort of cult.
Dislike the Star wars saga as well. It is about computer graphics and not about acting and plot :(

[Mercen-X]

Captain Marvel

[Spuuky]

Captain MarvelCaptain Marvel has a 48% audience score on RT and almost no one speaks positively about it.

[Mercen-X]

And yet it is defended so fanatically whenever someone harshes on it.

On the hand, I enjoyed Charlie's Angels. Maybe I just don't like Brie Larson.

[Lord Golbez]

The Matrix.

[Mercen-X]

lol, maybe if you said Revolutions

[Mr Gashtacular]

maybe i just dislike the genre but a lot of superhero franchises are just so boring and formulaic and predictable. i know the market for them is huge but just please stop it hollywood

[Mercen-X]

The production value for most superhero films from the release of Iron Man and onward (at least insomuch as Marvel goes) is at its highest point and seems to be steadily climbing. What's more, there is so much lore to draw on that the stories just continue seemingly without end. Therefore, it's unlikely Hollywood will stop. There's even rumor of a sequel to Hancock. I also continue to hold out hope for sequels to Sleight and Chronicle (and please tell us Michael B. Jordan's character magically survived because reasons).

[Fynn]

maybe i just dislike the genre but a lot of superhero franchises are just so boring and formulaic and predictable. i know the market for them is huge but just please stop it hollywood

Omg same. It’s not that I hate them, I just really don’t get the hype

[Lord Golbez]

lol, maybe if you said Revolutions


If I'd said Revolutions, it wouldn't have fit the thread. And I also never saw it, because the first one was terrible.

[Vincent, Thunder God]

I dunno - Blade Runner's sequel maybe? It just could have been better

[Spuuky]

lol, maybe if you said Revolutions


If I'd said Revolutions, it wouldn't have fit the thread. And I also never saw it, because the first one was terrible.Well everyone hated the second and third ones and they loved the first one, so maybe you'd like those ones. But it really depends on WHY you hated the first one.

[Lord Golbez]

Two major reasons, probably lots of smaller ones that I forget because I saw it once 20 years ago.

1. The premise is idiotic. I can tolerate that to some extent, especially if the movie is not taking itself seriously. Matrix was taking itself seriously and definitely was not good enough to make me overlook the idiocy of the premise. How are you going to use humans as batteries when your primary source of energy (the sun) is cut off? Humans also rely on the sun for energy. Stupid! The machines don't even seem to treat this as a temporary solution with a (rapidly approaching, realistically) expiration date. So stupid.

2. When just after explaining that most of the people in the matrix are innocent victims, they all decide it's time to go on a shooting spree and maximize casualties. WTF was that? It's like the writers decided to completely abandon any contemplative aspect of the plot in favor of mindless action.

[Spuuky]

OK well if your issue is that it has logical plot holes, then you will hate the other two even more.

Just for the record, the "humans as a battery" thing was not the original premise, it was a rewrite, because studio execs felt that the original premise (machines using the humans as a neural network) was too complicated for their moron audiences.

[Slothy]

I'm not sure why the idea of a small resistance group needing to take action that might harm some otherwise innocent people for the sake of saving everyone in the end is particularly stupid. Particularly when those people are being used as meat shields/a potential army for the machines to take control of and stealth isn't an option. There'd be no movie if they sat around doing nothing for fear of innocent people getting killed. Kind of a silly thing to do when your entire race has been enslaved.

Also what spuuky said regarding human batteries. Everyone knew the human battery thing made no sense even back in 98 but there's no stupider group of humans than movie execs and I just always went with the neural network thing as my head canon anyway basically. Seems weird to me to let one plot point that's a bit silly but ultimately not even that important to the story ruin the whole movie for you. I mean hell, most SciFi stories of all kinds are about as far from actual plausibility as you can get scientifically but I don't hate star trek because almost every alien is humanoid.

[Lord Golbez]

That doesn't really make it better. I judge the final product. The fact that they had a better script and ruined it, if anything makes it worse.

The acceptable sacrifice argument doesn't explain their behavior in that ridiculous scene where they run in guns blazing like their primary objective is to maximize casualties.

[Vyk]

There's some solid theories that you can place in your headcanon if it makes anything better. Main one being that breaking out of the matrix puts you into another matrix, just an outer layer. So saying the sun was taken away and humans are being used as batteries is just the lore of that lowest level of matrix code, but probably has little, if anything, to do with the overarching system. Very likely the sun actually exists if you ever get actually outside the code, and the battery thing may have just been something to convince anyone that actually got out of the lower layer or something, but doesn't mean anything on the whole since it's just a farce

Also they simulate humans in their own training things, so there's a good chance different levels of the matrix are filled with npcs that aren't real humans, so they may just be slaughtering bundles of code that look like humans and aren't actually humans getting killed. But you're really not required to like it. I enjoy what it tried to do and what it could have been and I'm open to headcanon, and it was pretty ahead of its time when it came out, but time and scrutiny and ... sequels, have definitely changed the lens looking back at it

As for the topic title, I don't think I've ever seen a Tarantino movie I've actually liked. In fact, most of the ones I've watched have made me feel offended that I spent time on them instead of something else. And it's hard because I seem to draw friendships with people who define their entertainment tastes on Tarantino films and cult classics in the same vein. Is it weird that I like Boondock Saints and not Reservoir Dogs? I like Interview With the Vampire, hate From Dusk to Dawn, and feel meh on Lost Boys

[Vermachtnis]

Watchmen, went and watched it in theaters with my friends. They all loved it, but I was eh about it. I loved that weird ass out of place sex scene though.

[Anatolie]

wonder woman was meh for me, it was too plain and all the cg made it very irritating more so than guardians of the galaxy or avatar. with other marvel and dc movies when you asks someone what they liked about it theyll give you specifics like, they loved heath ledgers performance, or seeing hugh jackman busted up and broken down but still puts up a fight was honorable, or even the small inclusions of ant-man, black panther, and spider-man in captain america civil war was great. but with wonder woman… they just say… yeah..its great.. if you were to ask what exactly was great they would still give a vague answer.