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madphilb wrote:I should go back and read the whole thread (I think I've missed a page somewhere)... but maybe I should start a thread of "movies that most others thought was trash and I liked"

I've beaten you to it.

Anyway, Instead of cluttering up the "lousy movies" thread with this, I thought I would start a new thread.

Here are some movies that I liked, but that other people either never saw, or hated:

The Incredible Hulk
The 5th Element
Matrix: Reloaded
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (what were you thinking?! This is my favorite of the three)
T3: Rise of the Machines
Star Wars Episode 2: Clone Wars and Episode 1: The Phantom Menace
-ok, that takes care of all the ones that other people said they didn't like on the "lousy movies" thread, so here are some originial ones-
Underworld
Godzilla 2000 (not the crappy american film)
28 Days Later
Resident Evil

Not too long ago, I heard someone say, "There are people out there who will love any movie that you hate. It's a fact," so I suppose that it is no surprise that we have differing opinions about most of these movies. However, I have yet to see anyone defend the live action Street Fighter film.

I find that I see very few movies that I actually dislike; then again, I avoid movies that I know I will hate, although I will admit that I was tricked into seeing House of the Dead, which was a total disappointment aside from the game clips between scenes.

Reign of Fire
Eight Legged Freaks
LXG

I liked all of those a lot.

The Incredible Hulk
Matrix: Reloaded
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Godzilla 2000
Resident Evil

I also enjoy these movies and I really want to see underworld

The Incredible Hulk
Matrix: Reloaded
Matrix: Revolutions (everyone i met said it was bad, i really liked it)
Daredevil
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (some of my friends didnt like it)


there are probably some more

glitch1501 wrote:The Incredible Hulk
Matrix: Reloaded
Matrix: Revolutions (everyone i met said it was bad, i really liked it)
Daredevil
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (some of my friends didnt like it)


there are probably some more

Revolutions and Daredevil movies I also liked

[quote="cbwing0"] However, I have yet to see anyone defend the live action Street Fighter film. ]

My friend said he thought it was ok

Matrix Reloaded (actually liked it better than Revolutions)
The Princess Bride
LXG was ok...don't know if I really *liked* it
hmm...brain fried from work. I'll post more later if I can think of any.

heh, if we were doing books you like no one else does, the list could be endless (Scarlet Letter, A Seperate piece, The Portrait of Dorian Gray...you know, most of those books you *had* to read in school )

I adore "Delirious" (the John Candy comedy where he's a soap opera writer trapped in his own show), but most people in my family think it's just dumb.

I think I was also one of the six people in the USA who saw "The Avengers," let alone the fewer still who actually enjoyed it. (The plot was very typical of the show and Sean Connery made an excellent villain; Emma Peel and John Steed were just improperly cast ... Ralph Fiennes is too smooth for Patrick MacNee's charming brutality, and Uma Thurman was more perky than clever, unlike the smart and sophisticated Diana Rigg.)

reloaded
The Italian Job ( the new one)

Uh you guys?

There are a few others that where added here.... T3, Underworld, Daredevil, The Princess Bride (was that not liked? hmm.... got that on DVD, killer flick), The Avengers (I liked that one too, enough to buy a VHS copy, have to upgrade to DVD sometime), The Italian Job (both new and original, though they're hardly related aside from using minis and stealing gold).

Add to that:
Soldier (Kurt Russel, not a real popular movie anyway)
Steel (I'm guessing this one isn't well liked )

I'm sure I'll think of more later.

Anything old.

-The Matrix reloaded (was considered one of the best movies of 2003 by critics)
-The Matrix relovutions (was on the top 10 worst films of 2003)

The critics may have liked it, but that doesn't mean any of the people in the real world did. And vice versa. A great number of people I know did not like Reloaded in the least, but adored Revolutions. So I wouldn't go by the critics or boxoffice prices...go by us lowly real humans as to what's popular or not.

I'm suprised no one mentioned the granddaddy of all flops this past year, Gigli! Oh wait...that's because everyone really did hate it.

names and reasons.

Eraser - not because it was good, but because it was funny. only to me though, no one else in 50 Km will ever get it.
James Bond movies - my parents don't like them for one reason; they saw it too much and therefore boring.

perhaps there's more. i'll add when i can think of more. 4:30am is not a good time to think a lot.

Let's see here...

- Ishtar
- Johnny Dangerously
- Willow

Maybe I'll think of more later.

I very much loved League of extraordinary Gentlemen.(or LXG) But alot of people said it was a flop. I also liked the incredable hulk alot to but some ppl said it stunk! also Underworld. rein of fire.

The Princess Bride is disliked!?!?! It's like a classic! I love it to pieces!

Um Royal Tennenbaums, no one seemed to like that one but I own it and love it!

I've never met anyone that didn't like the Princess Bride.

The Incredible Hulk- although I gotta admit it was really Nick Nolte that made the film.

Star Trek: The Motion Picture (nobody I know likes this film).

> Star Trek: The Motion Picture (nobody I know likes this film).

I do! But I only like the Director's Cut, though.

Hey TM, ask Lightbringer how he feels about Willow. I'll tell you up front you're not the only one that liked that movie.

Yeah...I also liked Willow.

I'll 2nd (or 3rd, or 4th) Willow... was one of the classic play-it-all-the-time ones from my Beta days (that's a format from long before the DVD days for you young ones )
I liked Eraser too....

oh, if I didn't mention this before.... the american Godzilla movie from a few years back (with Mathew Broderick) ...I didn't think it was all that bad of a movie.

does Goonies fit in here too? (one of my early DVD purchaces, was a special sale, about half off with anohter DVD)

The Godzilla movie *was* pretty good. I liked Hank Azaria in it in particular ... you'd never guess this is the guy who does half the voices on The Simpsons (for that matter, Harry Shearer, who also does a number of Simpsons voices, was in that movie also).

Goonies was fun.

Speaking of Matthew Broderick, please make me not feel quite so old-at-heart and someone tell me they've seen the *original* movie The Producers (with Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder)? Please?

Yes, Goonies will always be one of my favorites.
Labyrinth - it was so weird, but I liked it
The Rocketeer
Princess Diaries - such a cute movie!

And now for the old ones ^^
Meet Me in St Louis
In the Good Old Summer Time
Easter Parade
Arsenic and Old Lace
*** Casablanca ***
Gone With The Wind
Thousands Cheer

... I could go on and on, but I doubt anyone really knows these movies anyway, so I'll spare you all.

> Casablanca

"Round up the usual suspects."

Speaking of old movies, anyone here into old *war* movies? I love "A Bridge Too Far" and "The Great Escape."

I thought everybody liked Casablanca. Don't forget other Bogart films like The Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep, and Key Largo. Other old movies: Metropolis, M, Citizen Kane, The Great Dictator, etc

As for war movies, how about "The Devil's Brigade" or "Bridge on the River Kwai"?

Despite the massive pannings I read about them (mostly from type A personality fanboy types), I liked the Star Wars prequels. No they weren't perfect, yes there was some stupid stuff, but they still are completing the story of Anikan's life and filling in other gaps fans have been clamoring for for years.
Blues Brothers 2000, nowhere near as good as the original, but still entertaining.
I've seen Creature from the BLack Lagoon get blasted in a few places.

Technomancer wrote:
As for war movies, how about "The Devil's Brigade" or "Bridge on the River Kwai"?

Hmm *points to "Bridge on the River Kwai." Hey, shoo, I wonder if that's the one I was thinking of earlier ...

Techno, was that about a bridge that was next to impossible to build?

I don't think that's it, the film in question involved the building of the bridge by Commonwealth POW's being held in Burma by the Japanese. Sir Alec Guinness played the lead role if that rings a bell. It's also associated with a popular whistling tune.