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RoyaleDuke said:
Watchmen: Director's Cut is the best version of the movie, and the movie is a great adaptation of the sourcework.

I love Watchmen I love Watchmen the movie. People are fucking nuts if they think it is a bad adaptation, the only way to do a more proper adaptation would be a 12 episode series on Netflix or HBO.
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I adore Watchmen. Theatrical, Director's Cut, either one. Every scene was dead on. Great casting, believable acting. I dragged 2 friends to the theater on 2 separate occasions and both loved it too. I don't get the hate, not at all.

Too bad about the DC movie-verse, though. Snyder's style doesn't fit at all. But it fit great for Watchmen.
 
SFenton said:
The Last Airbender.
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I know opinions and all, and I don't like to disparage people for their opinion but... Damn I just cannot understand this one. It's so bad it doesn't even qualify for so bad it's good.

To contribute: I liked the Village although I only saw it once. Not sure if I still would. I also liked Iron Man 3 and I've see a lot of people hating on it. If we are considering Drive a disliked movie then that too. I thought that movie was great, even.

My wife has probably a longer list. She even loved Green Lantern. We own it and watch it from time to time. She also liked the newer Tron movie.
 
Theecliff said:
some people you know not liking certain movies isn't the basis of whether or not they're popular in general. if we're going off purely anecdotal evidence then you could literally post any film in this thread on that technicality

which leads me to ask, what's with all the drive mentions? has the general zeitgeist surrounding the film completely changed all of a sudden? i know there's a few memes about the film but i'm not sure that translates to outright hate. it was very well liked by critics and has similarly high audience scores.
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Not just that, but general consensus that I see online as well. I see far more people going after these movies, especially the Spielberg ones, online than I do loving them. Offline, I can only go off of people I know.
 
Theecliff said:
some people you know not liking certain movies isn't the basis of whether or not they're popular in general. if we're going off purely anecdotal evidence then you could literally post any film in this thread on that technicality

which leads me to ask, what's with all the drive mentions? has the general zeitgeist surrounding the film completely changed all of a sudden? i know there's a few memes about the film but i'm not sure that translates to outright hate. it was very well liked by critics and has similarly high audience scores.
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Nothing has changed with Drive, people ITT just have no clue in general what people like and don't like lol
 
Creepshow 3. I think it's a pretty funny movie, and throw it on time to time when I want to watch something brainless.

Mars Needs Moms. Watched it in theatres twice, and bought it on blu-ray on release day, lmao. It breaks my heart that the movie will probably never be acknowledged by Disney due to how terribly it bombed. I honestly don't even get what people don't like about the movie - the characters, setting, and plot were all executed well imo.

Batman & Robin is my favourite superhero movie.
 
Secret Fawful said:
Not just that, but general consensus that I see online as well. I see far more people going after these movies, especially the Spielberg ones, online than I do loving them. Offline, I can only go off of people I know.
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Almost everytime I read or hear about TinTin it's in the context of "one of the greatest chases in movie history"
 
Strax said:
These movies are not hated by most people even though posters on GAF dislike them
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except for Spider-Man 3, which Raimi sorta disowned as thinking of as 'his' movie. But yeah, even that one is still well-liked compared to The Amazing Spider-Man (2). Brave soul that would confess to loving those two.


The oft-mention of Van Helsing warms my cold, rotten heart though. Though that too, was not actively hated either.

Chronicles or Riddick, Waterworld, and other David Twohy movies are were things get weird though. Similar deal to Last Action Hero and a lot of Paul Verhoeven and Carpenter movies that critics fucking hated and audiences since liked. I think Twohy and co. had the great misfortune of starting making (awesome) movies during the pretentious high of the movie critic (see the animated show The Critic for reference), before being replaced by the more sensible enthusiast critic and brand shill that we have today. Chronicles in particular reviewed poorly, but is awesome in scope and vision, even if not everything necessarily works well towards "what a movie should be", or was felt like at the time. (if only they could have imagined the blockbuster as it is now, ho boy. They would have praised right into the sun if they could have)
On the opposite end, the Star Wars prequels reviewed well initially, and then started their decade long down-spin as people were willing to call them the steaming pile of shit they are at the script level.

I suppose we have to go with really poorly reviewed, but that's hardly consistent and gaf is too, well, a bit too similar on tastes to use as an indicator of what people like or hate. But I suppose another "downspin" would be the Matrix sequels, which I unapologetically love, even if gaf doesn't.

Ang Lee's HULK is a good example of a movie that fits the thread though. Good call, since I'd have forgotten to mention it.

Halloween 3: season of the witch (1982) is a definite contender though. Now this movie actually is kinda bad (and reviewed worse), but it's a trip worth making anyway.
And technically, since it bombed at release, The Thing (1981) as well, though it obviously found an audience in the generation that grew up with it and many much more violent movies, so we won't count it.

Speaking of which, I actually liked Alien 3 because I originally saw the series in reverse order, and aside from the line about 'eating brains', which always sounded wrong to me (It's a producer line, basically, and completely misunderstands the xenomorph character), I appreciate it doing things differently and love it on account of its difference in characters, like Charles Dance's doctor.
And then I got all excited about a fourth Alien movie. Yeah.... that happened. So, by the time the prequels started, I was already thoroughly cured of any "it's gonna be great!" type expectations.
 
Strax said:
Almost everytime I read or hear about TinTin it's in the context of "one of the greatest chases in movie history"
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People have started coming around on it more, but for the first four years or so since its release I never heard one positive thing about it. It was considered another Spielberg bomb with nothing memorable, "too-epic music", and bad motion capture.
 
The Dark Knight Rises

I thought it had some really silly things but it was still a great film.
 
Also the Matrix Reloaded, and The Dark Knight Rises.

The Matrix sequels suck compared to the first one, especially Revolutions. However, Reloaded is a good action movie with lots of great sequences.

The Dark Knight Rises isn't as good as Batman Begins or The Dark Knight, and there's some silly stuff in it, but Bane was a great villain and I enjoyed it.
 
People don't really hate the dark knight rises or interstellar. I think if it gets like over 60 on RT and doesn't have such a large vocal amount of hate for it then it won't suit this question

Anyways:
Blackhat
The Ninth Gate
Some movies by Paul W.S. Anderson (three musketeers, mortal kombat, resident evil)
Lone Ranger
John Carter
BvS
 
I like Prometheus though I don't deny its weaknesses.

My favorite Spider-man movie is Amazing Spider-man 1. (However my least favorite is Amazing Spider-man 2)

People keep bringing up Independence Day. I love that movie and I watch it every July 4th. Do people not like that movie? The sequel was one of the worst movies I've seen in the past few years though.

capitalCORN said:
Short Circuit 2. It's so unabashedly Toronto, through and through.
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The Short Circuit series will always have a very special place in my heart. Never been to Toronto, but I'm very familiar with Short Circuit 2. Anyone who watches and doesn't like Short Circuit is not my friend. I dont even think I'm joking.

Count Dookkake said:
Ep2 is the best Star Wars.

BvS is the best comic book movie.
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My eyes literally went wide reading this post. Just fuck my shit up fam.
 
The Village is, undoubtedly, my favorite Shyamalan movie and Lady in the Water is also very good.

The Phantom Menace is my favorite Star Wars movie.
 
Another Revenge of the Sith fan here, though the more I see of the new films the less I like it.

All of the Blade films, especially 2. They seem to have gotten lukewarm receptions. I liked 1, loved 2, thought 3 was OK.

Iron Man 2. Thor 2.

The Garfield Spider-Man films.

Cutthroat Island. I saw it as a kid while in a deep, love of pirates phase (novels, history books, cartoons, movies, loved all things pirates). Looking back now it's not a good film, I can acknowledge that, but still watch and love it.
 
Freeza Under The Shower said:
Ang Lee's HULK is a good example of a movie that fits the thread though. Good call, since I'd have forgotten to mention it.
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Agree with this one. Bruce's history of being abused is comic book canon. Pitting a deranged David Banner (possibly of the TV timeline?) as the source of both his power and his trauma was great.

I detested the "comic book transition" editing moments, though. So out of place in such a dark story of family pathos and power.
 
DavidDesu said:
TRON Legacy.

I bloody love this film. First time I watched it at home on my TV, headphones on, volume up, was a fantastic experience. The music was a huge part of it, loved the Daft Punk soundtrack, and it was just a cool fun film. I'd not even really seen the original properly but this still worked for me.

I see quite a few people dismissing this film but I just don't get it. Didn't have the greatest last act, but the first two were awesome.
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This is my best answer. I can't tell you how many times I've seen this movie. The soundtrack is classic.

Also:

Star Wars: Episodes I & III
Good Burger
The Transformers: The Movie
The Bayformers movies (Well, RotF, not so much)
Batman Forever
 
Apt101 said:
The Garfield Spider-Man films.
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Ugh another I missed. Both these movies were better than the 2nd and 3rd Raimi efforts. Hell even the first. Garfield was fantastic as both Pete and Spider-Man. The fights were excellent. And I was genuinely interested in the mystery surrounding Peter's parents.
 
Now that I think about it, going with HULK as well. IIRC right around when Life of Pi came out, Ang Lee said he would love another shot at a Hulk movie. I think the dude more than deserves it.
 
Rhomega Beta said:
This is my best answer. I can't tell you how many times I've seen this movie. The soundtrack is classic.

Also:

Star Wars: Episodes I & III
Good Burger
The Transformers: The Movie
The Bayformers movies (Well, RotF, not so much)
Batman Forever
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Whoa whoa whoa.. Who considers Transformers: The Movie bad? We're talking about the animated movie right? I still love that movie to this day.
 
McNagah said:
Jumanji
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Wait people hate that? This was my favorite movie as a kid, thought it would be a universally seen as enjoyable at least, kind of like Home Alone and such

For me:

Revenge of the Sith, easily

John Carter

Spider Man 3 wasn't as good as 1 or 2 but I'll take it over the new ones and any marvel movie that isn't avengers 1 or guardians any day
 
Pirates of the Caribbean 3.

I like each of the first three films, but the third seems to catch the most flak. Haven't seen the fourth all the way through. It put me to sleep the first time I tried, so I guess I still need to give it a fair shot.


Spider Man 3 is also worth watching if only for James Franco

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Aw look at him. He can't wink.
 
Tarextherex said:
Wait people hate that? This was my favorite movie as a kid, thought it would be a universally seen as enjoyable at least, kind of like Home Alone and such

For me:

Revenge of the Sith, easily

John Carter

Spider Man 3 wasn't as good as 1 or 2 but I'll take it over the new ones and any marvel movie that isn't avengers 1 or guardians any day
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Yeah John Carter was pretty cool. RIP Taylor Kitchen.
 
Black hat is pure Mann. It has its share of nonsense and a completely passable story, but the sum is greater than its parts and is still better than 99 percent of what Hollywood spits out.
Give me black hat over anything Marvel has released.
Discotheque said:
People don't really hate the dark knight rises or interstellar. I think if it gets like over 60 on RT and doesn't have such a large vocal amount of hate for it then it won't suit this question

Anyways:
Blackhat
The Ninth Gate
Some movies by Paul W.S. Anderson (three musketeers, mortal kombat, resident evil)
Lone Ranger
John Carter
BvS
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Have not seen Lone Ranger and not sure what BvS is, but you're a good man, with good taste.
 
Looney Tunes- Back in Action is great and better than Space Jam.

While we are talking about Fraser movies, Mummy 3 is as good as Mummy 1 and much better than Mummy 2.

X Men 3 was the best XMen movie till Logan. All other XMen movies had that unsatisfying "This week on the XMen" feeling. X3 actually ended a story.

BB and Dark Knight are better movies, but for some reason I keep rewatching Rises.

2012 is Emmerich's best disasterporn.

I like that cartoon Transformers movie ironically.

Matrix 2 and 3 have too much bloat(everything Niobe, Ghost, that kis and Zion should have stayed in Animatrix/Enter The Matrix), but they did too much right. French man is one of the greatest characters ever.
 
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