Movies You Hated that the General Public Loved...

Groundhog Day or any other movies where people have to endure the same day over and over again.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events. Anything with Jim Carrey in it, actually. Mostly childish drivel made for the 13 year male.
Vanilla Sky starring Tom Cruise. What was THAT about? I started being more discerning about his movies after that. Tom started taking roles in crappy movies about that time. Someone thought we wouldn't notice.
 

I loved "Three Musketeers" but only if you're talking about the Salkind 1973 production starring Oliver Reed (the most perfect Athos EVER), Richard Chamberlain, Michael York, and Faye Dunaway as Milady. The 1993 film with Chris O'Donnell, Charlie Sheen, and Kiefer Sutherland was embarrassingly awful.

"Wuthering Heights" - classic Hollywood with Lawrence Olivier and Merle Oberon. Except I loathe the Bronte sisters' novels. Give me historical romances by Georgette Heyer, Mary Balogh, and C. S. Harris any day. They can write rings around the Brontes.

"Pride & Prejudice" 2005 with Keira Knightley. Granted that Austen's greatest work is too subtle and slow-paced for Hollywood (which is why the more simplistic "Emma" and "Sense and Sensibility" have always transferred to screen much more successfully), I could not believe the avalanche of historical inaccuracies in almost every scene. Coming as this did after the amazing A&E/BBC TV miniseries that pushed Colin Firth to fame, Knightley and Macfadyen lacked chemistry and apparently kept forgetting to put all their costume pieces on before filming half their scenes.

  • I was not at all surprised to learn that the 2005 P&P scriptwriter produced 10 drafts, each one getting further and further from Austen's work. The director that was hired had never produced a movie, never did read the book, and altered even more of the dialogue by changing the date from 1813 to late Victorian and adding many Modernisms to the script "because people, you know, don't really talk that way". The 1940 Hollywood version is mediocre, but the 2005 film is a travesty, from a guy who thought teen film "Sixteen Candles" was 'romantic realism'!
 
I found Blazing Saddles to be offensive. Couldn't keep watching it.
@Nathan Plan 9 From Outer Space was one that got past me. Never even heard of it.
 

Barry Lyndon. Fat City. 2001: A Space Odessey, except for the ape scene in the beginning. No amount of psychedelics could save this turkey. IMO.
 
For me, the redeeming sequence in 2001, A Space Odyssey was the space scene with Hal (the computer) and the astronauts.

When my husband is having trouble with his laptop, he'll ask me to fix it, often saying, "I hate this (*&^* computer. I swear I'm going to throw it out the window."

Sometimes I reply with Hal's slow, measured, monotone voice: "Dave, I know that you're planning to disconnect me, and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen."

p.s. Hubby's name isn't Dave.
 
All of the stupid Beach Blanket movies (Frankie & Annette) of the 60s. All of the movies during the McCarthy American communist witch hunt era. All Rocky movies, all marital arts, teen dance movies and 99% of the gore filled horror movies.
 
Now that my kids are grown, I refuse to sit through any movie based on a comic book or an old TV show.

I really hate "Emperors' new clothes" movies where you walk out saying "what the heck was that about?"

Some examples: The Master, The Tree of Life, Meek's Crossing, Youth.
 
Gary O' said:
Hate most musicals, even though many have recv'd awards
I think that musical hate thing began with West Side Story
They're getting ready for a gang war, knife fight thing.....but wait, they break into song and dancing
WTH?

The latest on my hate list is;

The Princess Bride

Some friends of ours love that movie
So we sat through it with them, since they promised we'd love it too

I began hating my friends half way thru that rag
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