Fave Movies and Movies You Don't Get

[already hungover]

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!"

My mom had approximately zero standards as far as what kinds of movies I was allowed to watch. I remember watching Heathers when I was four or five and being fucking TERRIFIED. I didn't understand the darkly comedic aspect at all and was instead frightened by the big explosion. I watched it again when I was older and realized it's not really supposed to be a horror movie. Ha.

(I also watched Blue Velvet around the same time and I think I'm fucked up now.) :dance:

[So Says I]

Aw, Corn Nuts! I loved Heathers. "I love my dead gay son!" Has anyone else noticed that Winona Ryder always does some sort of voiceover in just about every movie she's in? She's either writing in a journal, reading someone a story, or something like that. I wonder why that is?

P.S. already hungover - (hands you a PBR) ;) "Here's to your fuck!"

[Shirley MacLaine]

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"

I don't hate all zombie movies, but I really don't get zombies as a cultural phenomenon. Like... how did this zombie apocalypse whatever become a thing? Why has it been a thing for so many years? WHY WON'T IT DIE? Zombie movies can be okay, but zombies... of all the scary movie things... are just really boring to me?

[Blahblah]

First saw An American Werewolf in London when I was 15. It was the first time I went to the movies with a boy and i only went with him as a favour to his poor deluded mother because he was as gay as exgayGreg but that still counts right?

Anyway, I still adore this movie. Especially the genius music.

[hearyoume08]

Saved and Drop dead gorgeous are two of my faves. "Most smartest" indeed.

[norabrie]

I LOVE movies! Inception, Donnie Darko, and then some that were mentioned here - Clue, Shawshank Redemption.

I also love Love Actually, Mean Girls, The Other Guys...

Dislikes include Napoleon Dynamite, War Horse, Twilight, any comedy like Knocked Up or that kind...

[CallmeChaCha]

I don't hate all zombie movies, but I really don't get zombies as a cultural phenomenon. Like... how did this zombie apocalypse whatever become a thing? Why has it been a thing for so many years? WHY WON'T IT DIE? Zombie movies can be okay, but zombies... of all the scary movie things... are just really boring to me?

I don't mind zombie movies and I don't think they're scary but I can't watch them because I get nightmares. It's the weirdest thing. Zombie movies = not scary. Zombie nightmares = very scary. :lol: (well, it's not funny when it happens)

[Hane]

Nothing much to say (I'm home sick with bronchitis and a 100.5 fever, so I'm damn near delirious--don't handle fevers well), but I'm watching "Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 2" on PPV, and am pretty sure it's the silliest thing I've ever seen. Whenever the filmmaker wants to make a supremely boring part look Really Important, s/he lays on a thick coat of Big Portentous Background Music. It drags on at a snail's pace, but the scenery is pretty.

[Full enough quiver]

Omg, I HATE Napoleon Dynamite with the burning hatred of 1000 suns! Never understood why people loved it so much. To each their own, I guess.

[AVENues]

I love the Swordfish - awesome music! - and I have seen it several times. If someone would ask me what it is about I'd say, "I dunno", which is the truth. I have no idea what is it supposed to be about.

I have seen Mulholland Drive about ten times - no idea what it is about.

I have seen the movie series about that damn toy cube with the pinhead guy who's a total sicko - I'u'nno what they were all about. Too gorey, too. "The deader" almost made me drop my cookies.

I don't get the Saw series either, except for the first one. I stopped watching that gore fest anyway at about 2.5 of the series.

[AVENues]

I watched Twilight I and II, and after that I could not care less, really.

I forced myself to watch those movies that people are crazy about just to know what they are about, like Titanic, Avatar, etc, all of them was hours of sheer suffering to me. I could never bring myself to watch the Star Wars series, also Stargate and the series with captain Kirk and the other one, who I hear is a "better captain". I like ghost and demon movies or horror movies about the human psyche, but I would not watch zombie or alien movies for all the money in the world. I don't care for James Bond movies either.

When I like a movie, I watch it over and over again.

[Savoring Samsara]

I have seen the movie series about that damn toy cube with the pinhead guy who's a total sicko - I'u'nno what they were all about. Too gorey, too.

Hellraiser.

I'm a horror movie fanatic - the bloodier and cheesier, the better. (I do draw a distinction, however, between horror and torture porn. There is too much of the latter being made right now.) A couple of my favorites are The Descent (totally terrifying on multiple levels, badass all-woman cast), Let The Right One In (vampires! Sweden! the 80s!), and REC (an amazing Spanish "found footage" zombie movie).

Really, though, my movie tastes are pretty broad and eclectic, though a bit out of date since I haven't managed to stay as caught up on current films as I would like. Just off the top of my head, some of my non-horror favorites are: The Princess Bride, Edward Scissorhands, The Prestige, Time After Time, Truly Madly Deeply, V For Vendetta, Sunshine, the original Star Wars trilogy, and the first two Alien movies.

As for the movie I don't get, I am a very bad geek, because I have never liked or understood 2001: A Space Odyssey.

[lagenialester]

I always feel like I'm a huge pretentious douche because I'm that person that hates all of the "REALLY AMAZING OMG!!!111!!!" movies. It's not that I go into them trying to hate them...I just don't like them. Or I think they're ok. It takes a lot to make me really excited about something.

We watched Argo the other night and my husband was all "THAT WAS SO AMAZING" and I was more like "Hold on, let me sit on the internet and actually read everything about the Iranian hostage crisis and tell you the actual facts." (To be fair, the movie was really accurate.)

That being said, I think I like movies where I can turn my brain off, but not ones that make me feel disgusting afterward. I hate movies like Knocked Up or The Hangover, because I'm not interested in pot or being drunk or having sex with random people. On the other hand, I love movies like "Arranged" (not super popular, but a movie about an Orthodox Jewish woman and a Muslim woman who are both going through the marriage process) or even "Mean Girls"....yeah, I'm trying to look for a way to explain my bizarre movie tastes and I keep coming up empty.

[Shirley MacLaine]

Hellraiser.

I'm a horror movie fanatic - the bloodier and cheesier, the better. (I do draw a distinction, however, between horror and torture porn. There is too much of the latter being made right now.) A couple of my favorites are The Descent (totally terrifying on multiple levels, badass all-woman cast), Let The Right One In (vampires! Sweden! the 80s!), and REC (an amazing Spanish "found footage" zombie movie).

Really, though, my movie tastes are pretty broad and eclectic, though a bit out of date since I haven't managed to stay as caught up on current films as I would like. Just off the top of my head, some of my non-horror favorites are: The Princess Bride, Edward Scissorhands, The Prestige, Time After Time, Truly Madly Deeply, V For Vendetta, Sunshine, the original Star Wars trilogy, and the first two Alien movies.

As for the movie I don't get, I am a very bad geek, because I have never liked or understood 2001: A Space Odyssey.

A.) Love The Descent, Let the Right One In. B.) HATE 2001.

I did like Hellraiser. At least, the first one... I liked the lady protag and I thought they did some really impressive things with the creature designs and stuff.

[AVENues]

The weird thing about the descent is, that as much as I dislike "weird creature" movies and I never watch them, I loved watching this movie to study the human psyche. There was a plot behind the monster cave scenario that unfolded very gracefully.

Yes, it was hellraiser, thanks!

And as much as I loved X files... the series, I was an X files freak!, I could barely sit through the movies. :/ I only remember something about bees and how my former girl crush looked so weird to me... she had the cutest round little face and cherry lips at the beginning, and in the movies, oh my goodness. I have an oval face, not too long but I have bangs all over my head to make my head look round, I'm horribly self conscious of my face, esp. since the oh-so-lovely Sarah Jessica Parker memes. I'm horrified by the thought of someone comparing me to a horse, esp. my students. OK nevermind. I did not get the movies, I was disappointed by them and I only watch the series over again once I'm in the mood.

[Shirley MacLaine]

The weird thing about the descent is, that as much as I dislike "weird creature" movies and I never watch them, I loved watching this movie to study the human psyche. There was a plot behind the monster cave scenario that unfolded very gracefully.

Yes, it was hellraiser, thanks!

And as much as I loved X files... the series, I was an X files freak!, I could barely sit through the movies. :/ I only remember something about bees and how my former girl crush looked so weird to me... she had the cutest round little face and cherry lips at the beginning, and in the movies, oh my goodness. I have an oval face, not too long but I have bangs all over my head to make my head look round, I'm horribly self conscious of my face, esp. since the oh-so-lovely Sarah Jessica Parker memes. I'm horrified by the thought of someone comparing me to a horse, esp. my students. OK nevermind. I did not get the movies, I was disappointed by them and I only watch the series over again once I'm in the mood.

Sarah Jessica Parker is a death hill for me. I'm not super attracted to her personally, but I can't staaaaand how people talk about her! SHE LOOKS FINE. LIKE A NORMAL HUMAN. Not a horse or a foot or whatever!

[AVENues]

I know it's horrid. I think she looks hot and has got a super good taste in clothes. All this criticism about every inch of our body drives people nuts and I don't even want to attract anyone. :/ I probably should get my insecurities under control, but I'm still affected by talk like that, jokes like that can be super cruel and hurtful. I still wish I had a round face though. I'm not going under the knife for it, mule jokes or not. And I don't understand why pretty people with great features turn themselves into odd looking people. Eh, whatever.

[Savoring Samsara]

The weird thing about the descent is, that as much as I dislike "weird creature" movies and I never watch them, I loved watching this movie to study the human psyche. There was a plot behind the monster cave scenario that unfolded very gracefully.

Definitely one of the brilliant things about that movie is that it's scary before the cave monsters even show up. The way it's shot really evokes the fear and claustrophobia of being lost underground.

[AVENues]

I was so overwhelmed by the fact that one stupid narcissistic idiot took her best friends recklessly into a cave system that no one has explored before, there was no safe track to that cave and they were absolutely helpless, unprepaired and cut off from the world. I would have freaked out even if it happened to me above the ground in the open, like in a forest. And the best of course, was yet to come... All that because one person with a HUGE ego thought they were unbeatable. Some friend, huh.

[brokenminded]

Some of my favs are Little Miss Sunshine, Donnie Darko, The Birds, Kick-Ass, 8 Mile, Mean Girls, Hope Floats, The Children, Arsnic and Old Lace, Night Of The Hunter, The Nanny, Psycho, Orphan, South Park, Rec, Fears Of The Dark, Teeth, Kill List, Disney's Robin Hood

I'm definitely a horror nut. I enjoy a lot of obscure unheard of stuff and am a sucker for anything that's considered controversial.

[PennySycamore]

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.

Why on earth was he cast as Jack Reacher? He's totally wrong for the part! Reacher is supposed to be really tall -like 6'5".

[laura oz]

Why on earth was he cast as Jack Reacher? He's totally wrong for the part! Reacher is supposed to be really tall -like 6'5".

I just saw not too long ago on cafemom that someone posted something about him that once you notice it you can never not notice it again: Dude has a tooth dead center on his face. I thought it was photo shopped, but when I looked at other pics it is definitely there. Now, in addition to seeing him as a whackadoodle talking about SP's and being "glib", I have to notice this too. I just wish I could get it all out of my head, man.

eta woops, didn't notice the "wonky toothed" reference and guess what I posted is old news :oops:

[Shirley MacLaine]

I just saw not too long ago on cafemom that someone posted something about him that once you notice it you can never not notice it again: Dude has a tooth dead center on his face. I thought it was photo shopped, but when I looked at other pics it is definitely there. Now, in addition to seeing him as a whackadoodle talking about SP's and being "glib", I have to notice this too. I just wish I could get it all out of my head, man.

eta woops, didn't notice the "wonky toothed" reference and guess what I posted is old news :oops:

It's so true, though. Once I saw that off-center tooth I could never, ever unsee it.

I don't hate Tom Cruise? Like, he's... whatever. I have nothing specific against him as an actor and I like him in some things (Minority Report, holla!). And I'm enthused about whatever that movie is with the trailer where Morgan Freeman badassedly lights a cigar in the dark. But there's nothing I've seen with him in it that I think NEEDS him in it, you know? Every movie I've liked of his, I'd be just as happy with if he weren't in it. I don't get him as a box-office draw.

[Salamander]

I do not get Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. I've seen a stage production of it and I watched half the movie version before I couldn't take it anymore and shut it off. Which is saying something, because I enjoy watching Gary Oldman and Tim Roth, and I've sat through movies that were objectively far worse. I just thought it was so self-indulgent and obnoxious, which is kind of the joke, that the leads would normally not be the center of the action but are the protagonists in this piece, while the main events of Hamlet take place on the margins, but...gah. I don't think it's a bad play/movie per se, I just found it really irritating.

I didn't get The Godfather either. I just found it extraordinarily long and slow, and I didn't think it lived up to all the hype. I'm willing to rewatch it, though. I'd probably appreciate it more the second time around.

[tankgirl]

I see many favorites on both sides listed here, Eternal Sunshine, Donnie Darko, and many classics mentioned on here I love. I also get a huge kick out of Harold and Maude, I think the faked death scenes are hilarious!! But I like dark humor, I love Shallow Grave, and Heather's fits in that theme too. "Fuck me gently with a chainsaw". I tend to like more off films and a few mainstream, but outside of kids/family and classics I don't tend to like a lot of popular movies.

I have never seen any of the "low brow" comedies mentioned like Bridesmaids and 40 year old virgin cause I just don't like that kind of film. I was talked into Napoleon Dynamite and hated it. I also was almost kicked out of two movies Showgirls and Titanic cause I got so bored and annoyed by the whole thing, my friends and I started making jokes under our breaths and then started to laugh too hard. Both times the theater was almost disserted, and we tried to be good, but man those movies were terrible!

On films I didn't get or just didn't get the hype, "There will be blood" enraged me, that I gave up 2 hours of my life for that movie, I was not happy at all! Pulp Fiction, Fight Club and Natural Born Killers both are on my list of I just didn't get all the hype. I had friends talk about these movies like they film version of the second coming, some got really religious about Fight Club. I though Pulp Fiction was ok, didn't really like the other two, but I also can't stand Juilette Lewis.

I also hate depressing films, no Old Yeller for me, and skip Graveyard of the Fireflies if you want a movie that even slightly stands a chance of finding a happy moment.