Fave Movies and Movies You Don't Get

[Talika]

The ones I could watch many times (and many times I did :) ): American beauty (Kevin Spacey rocks), Scent of a woman, Family man (with Nicholas Cage) - all for different reasons but I do love eclectic randomness

For the inner godess I love movies that involve food or cooking (Julie & Julia, Eat drink man woman, Babettes feast ...)

The movies I don't understand/don't appeal to me/I find boring ... well, there are some, but I try not to remember the titles, maybe I will give them another chance? :?

[Seven Severn]

I hated, hated, hated, hated "Bridesmaids." I just didn't get it. At all. Under no circumstances. It wasn't funny. I didn't laugh once. The scene in the bridal shop was disgusting, not funny. And Kristin Wigg's character was so sad and depressing, not at all funny. I just DON'T.GET.IT.

At least you made it all the way through. I got to the 45 minute mark and gave up. I, also, didn't laugh once.

[bettertomarry]

Loved: All Wes Anderson films, especially The Royal Tenebaums & Fantastic Mr Fox. Oh, and The Life Aquatic. Clue, Eternal Sunshine, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971), Newsies, documentaries such as The Parrots of Telegraph Hill, Tapped, Helvetica. Breakfast at Tiffany's is a favorite, as is Casablanca. Forgetting Sarah Marshall I actually really liked even though I understand that it is a terrible movie. Dazed and Confused - I loved it when I was a teen

Hated: Most big name films, like Avatar. I still don't know what happened, the 3D gave me a headache and it was boring. Titanic I wanted to like but it turned into this giant pop culture thing that was so overdone. Bridesmaids was not funny, it was gross. Superbad was the stupidest thing I'd ever seen I don't think I laughed once. The Grey was so bad we still have conversations about it.

Maggie, have you ever read Breakfast at Tiffany's? Its so different from the movie. I highly recommend it. I agree about The Grey. My wife and I have a theory that Liam Neeson was so depressed about the death of Miranda Richardson that he just agrees to any movie offered to him.

[IceTwinkie]

I don't really have a favorite movie but right now I really have a thing for all things Bollywood

Movie I don't get, "Withnail and I" I have friends who think it is screamingly funny but I found it tedious. I have tried to re-watch it a couple of times but to be honest, I can never make past the first 30 minutes.

[iloveevolution]

I never understood Napoleon Dynamite- everyone quoted it all the time but I just didn't find it funny at all.

[AnywhereButHere]

Borat, Harold & Maude, Glengarry Glenross and Flight. All movies I don't get the appeal of and approximately 8 hours of my life I'll never get back.

Then again, my favorites are Jaws, The Abyss, Arsenic & Old Lace, so I guess its a personal taste thing... :)

[Blahblah]

I really don't get any movie involving that midget, wonky toothed, alien host Tom Cruise. Why anyone would willingly cough up cash to watch him is beyond comprehension. Do Not Want.

[keen23]

I really don't get any movie involving that midget, wonky toothed, alien host Tom Cruise. Why anyone would willingly cough up cash to watch him is beyond comprehension. Do Not Want.

Oh god, he was so good in Tropic Thunder as the disgusting agent Les Grossman. Almost unrecognizable. He was really good in Collateral as well, as Vincent, the hit man. I guess I like Tom Cruise when he plays against type.

[Shirley MacLaine]

I liked him in Tropic Thunder and I don't know if I liked HIM in it so much, but I have a huge soft spot for Minority Report.

And iloveevolution - I feel you on Napoleon Dynamite. I saw it the weekend it opened and hated it, and then suffered through everyone at my school quoting it for forever. It drove me crazy!

[Blahblah]

Oh god, he was so good in Tropic Thunder as the disgusting agent Les Grossman. Almost unrecognizable. He was really good in Collateral as well, as Vincent, the hit man. I guess I like Tom Cruise when he plays against type.

He'd have to be almost unrecognisable for me to sit though anything with him in it. :lol:

[Maggie Mae]

I liked him in Valkyrie. Or at least I liked the movie.

[AnywhereButHere]

We have a friend that HATES Tom Cruise. Any mention of Tom Cruise or a movie he had anything to do with, leads to an hours long diatribe, complete with high pitched squeaking. I'm no fan of Mr. Cruise, but this verges on pathological! Actuallly, I'm trying to think of any movie I liked him in and could only come up with Legend. Hey - I was 14, and Tim Curry is awesome. :) His role in Born on the 4th of July was also really good. So, yeah, two movies...

[RosyDaisy]

I don't really have a favorite movie, but I wish my DirecTV subscription included international programming. I'm not in a position to travel, so this would give some insight into pop culture in other countries. I also live in the middle of nowhere where there isn't much in the way of diversity.

[happy atheist]

One of my favorite movies of all time is Heathers. I worked in a movie theatre when it was released, so I got to see it a ton of times. One evening these two businessmen came in and asked if it was any good. I told them I liked it a lot, but that it wasn't for everyone. They saw it and apparently didn't like it very much. A few months later they came back and said, "Hey, you're the girl who told us to see that teenage suicide movie!"

I saw so many bad movies when I had that job. The good ones really stand out. Heathers, Die Hard, Edward Scissorhands. Die Hard was at our theatre for the first 5 months that I worked there. 5 months! Nothing stays in theatres that long anymore. Most movies have really crappy music during the credits, but Die Hard has a fantastic version of Ode to Joy. I didn't even mind cleaning up between showings.

Another favorite is Rocky Horror, but not because the movie is any good. I used to be part of the floor show. In fact that's how I got the theatre job. My friends and I would go in costume, and the manager would let us in for free. After a few months of that he told me they were hiring. That was my first job, and I'm pretty sure I got it because I dressed slutty for Rocky Horror.

[Shirley MacLaine]

Heathers is one of my all-time favorites tooooo. For sure.

[happy atheist]

Heathers is one of my all-time favorites tooooo. For sure.

I got to meet Christian Slater once. That was all kinds of awesome. He was very polite. I got my picture taken with him and he put his arm around me!

We did not go on a murder spree afterwards, in case you were wondering.

[Shirley MacLaine]

What! That is so awesome!

[Lady Elaine]

Did not like Eternal Sunshine. I got what it was trying to say, but it was just dumb, I thought. Did not like The Master. Or Lincoln. Both were so boring to me. Argo was pretty good.

I like most George Clooney movies. The Descendants was great. And anything with Kate Winslet. The Reader, Revolutionary Road and Little Children are some of my top favorites.

[laura oz]

It's so crazy that I forgot about Heathers! When I see someone get touchy about something, in my head and sometimes out loud I say, "What's your damage, Heather?" :lol: I get a lot of blank stares.

I hate to admit this, but I can't enjoy anything Tom Cruise is in. I keep seeing him cackle like a cashew talking about SP's and I just can't. I'm embarrassed for him to a certain extent cause of how STRANGE he acted a while back and opened the hidden panel on the crazy.

[happy atheist]

What! That is so awesome!

Should I make you hella jealous and tell you I also once met Ed Asner?

[SpeshulTaterTot]

Has anyone seen The Master? I saw it a couple of days ago and did not get it. I mean, the acting was good, the cinematography was gorgeous, but it was just so slow and I think I really didn't get the point of it. I went with two friends who felt the same way, but everyone around us was all omg, amaaaazing, so deep, blah blah blah. One of my friends was actually called a cunt during the movie for laughing at a scene that apparently wasn't meant to be funny.

[Full enough quiver]

Shawshank redemption has got to be my favorite movie ever. Hate twilight. Also hate Harry Potter (except the first one) because they don't come close to the books. My sisters keeper was also completely different than the book, which bugged me. When I want to laugh at stupid fundies, I like saved. Laugh my ass off every time. I also love but I'm a cheerleader. If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it.

[FaustianSlip]

Probably my favorite movie ever is Singing In the Rain. I've seen it hundreds of times, probably, can quote it from memory, and I still adore it. Other favorites include Glory, A Hard Day's Night, X-Men (the first and second, the third never happened), Gallipoli, the first three Indiana Jones movies, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Office Space and Casino Royale.

A recent movie I totally didn't get was Magic Mike. Some friends and I watched it after reading a number of good reviews and seeing that the Rotten Tomatoes ranking was actually quite high, and it was just horrendous. The worst movie I've seen in years, probably. We couldn't believe the reviews and thought they were some kind of sick joke.

[infooverload]

Hmm I'll start with movies I couldn't stand. I saw Vanilla Sky in the theater and was like thank God when it finally ended. Lost in Translation I recieved as a gift from my sister-in-law who heard all the critical acclaim and thought I would like it. I do not think I laughed once during the movie. James Bond movies bore me to no end. Oh and I tend to steer away from Harrison Ford movies because he is such a slow talker.

Movies I Enjoy

Chick Flicks I've Enjoyed: Next Stop Wonderland, Next Stop Wonderland and Fried Green Tomatoes

Foreign Movies: Amelie and Pans Labyrinth

Thrillers: Momento and Fargo

Low Brow Comedies: Napolean Dynamite, Bad Santa and Planes/Trains and Automobiles

Random Other Movies: American Beauty, Take me Home, My Life Without Me, Marley & Me, and I'm sure there are others I can not think of.

[stacyf]

Movies I love; Empire of the Sun, Things to Do in Denver When Your Dead, Almost Famous, Usual Suspects, Shawshank, Apollo 13 (love the scene with Tom Hanks mom & "Neil Armstrong")and Little Miss Sunshine. I also really like the latest Star Trek and I am waiting rather impatiently for Into Darkness.

Movies I just don't get; Eternal Sunshine, All the Twilights and any Zombie movie, all those B CCreepy movies my husband watches on "Chiller"