I thought I would not like Napoleon Dynamite, but I tried watching it with my son and found that I actually enjoyed it.
Movies I disliked that most people like:
American Beauty
Memento
Eastern Promises (fantastic acting, but so incredibly violent)
Brideshead Revisited (Not the BBC production, the just plain terrible movie)
Circle of Friends (the end is different than that in the movie and totally changes the story)
Eyes Wide Shut (fantastically awful)
Sideways (could not bring myself to care about the characters)
The Big Lebowski (ditto)
since it’s Friday night and I’m taking a walk on the wild side, I am just going to put it out there that I have never seen a Harry Potter movie and still feel like I am a whole human being , nor do I have any interest in Star Wars
I must be one of the few people who hated “Grease”. What is the message? That nice girls have to change their real selves and dress like a ‘ho’ to please losers?
^ the movie was awful but the Broadway show was good. I actually dated one of the actors in it and saw the last half hour a zillion times waiting for the show to be over so we could go out.
How could anyone not like The Dude?
And “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” always made me uneasy.
The message: it’s OK to bully and discriminate against somebody for their physical deformity. Buy hey, if you can make a quick buck off of them, then go ahead and use them.
And what’s with the oppressed slaves-- ahem, elves-- working in Santa’s workshop? Is the message that it’s OK for tall white people to colonize and enslave short indigenous people?
Don’t even get me started on the “Little Mermaid”…
And the book was so good. I loved the book. HATED the movie.
I remember falling asleep on a date watching “The Last Picture Show” and thinking that was a wasted evening. I also despise A Christmas Story.
@GMTPlus7 You remind me of my dad. Although I LOVED the Lion King (and its sequels), he was convinced it was racist. Y’know, because Scar was ‘black’ and Simba and all the good lions were ‘white’. He was even more convinced, since they showed how Scar’s family lived in the “ghettos” of the jungle and how Simba was initially against his daughter marrying a ‘black’ lion LOL
The ‘Lion King’ is Hamlet without the suicide
@InfinityMan - there was criticism about the lion king for a similar issue. A woman called it guilty of “looksism” where the bad characters have scars. Wasn’t the bad lion’s name Scar? Disney had also been accused of having the good characters have lighter skin than the bad ones in Alladin.
Disney movies drive me crazy in general with their warped take on classic fairy tales.
@greenwitch I agree about Disney. Some of their older stuff was fine, but I re-watched Pocahontas the other day with my nephews and didn’t understand how I could have possibly liked it as a child. I mean I guess it’s fine as a kids movie - I like the song Colors of the Wind - but the story just made me angry.
My family saw Synecdoche and none of us could follow it or liked it.
The thing that always gets me about Disney movies–some of which I love, notably Beauty and the Beast–is the missing mothers. Why are all the mothers dead?
@Data10, you have to watch the original Hairspray, with Divine as the mother. It’s great.
The Cutting Edge is a guilty pleasure fr me. 
The Disney movies seem to follow a formula where the parents are dead or gone so the young protagonist has to go out on their own. Many of them are based on Grimm/Perrault or other classic tales but they do what they want with the story. They left out the “new lamps for old” part of Aladdin because Aladdin is married at that point and God forbid any young protagonist in a Disney film gets married! They drastically changed the Little Mermaid because she dies and turns into seafoam as some sort of spiritual transformation and that is way too depressing for Disney (not say ing that I disagree here but if you’re going to change the story that much, just write a new story).
I’m not sure why they left out the part in Peter Pan where the audience is supposed to say “I believe” in fairies to help Tinkerbell recover. And it’s typical for them to overdramaticize things. In Beauty and the Beast, it is Belle’s quiet realization that she is in love that sends her back to the Beast, not that his life is in danger from some macho dude. The same thing with Ella Enchanted. She loves the Prince and finds the strength to tell him NO. What a great lesson that would be! Movies for kids seem to have no respect for quiet realizations and inner strength, it’s all about action scenes and danger. Too bad.
Nope. Almost every movie based on a musical makes my hate list. Dreamgirls and Chicago being amongst the few exceptions.
Same here, including Chicago.
Agreed. I don’t mind songs in the old Disney movies. Now they just grate on my nerves.