What Movies do you Hate that Everyone Else Loves? (4 Viewers)

[SaintVulture]

I think it is possible for a director to adapt a book or screenplay into something it was not intended to be. He can use imagery not present in the book, change some of the dialogue, etc. Not saying that happened here, but it is possible for a director to promote his own agenda in making a project uniquely his.

beat me to it.

 

[mean machine]

Not sure if everyone else loves these, and "hate" may be a little strong for a couple of them:

2001 - A Space Odyssey
Rocky Horror Picture Show (except for Susan Sarandon in her bra)
Midnight Cowboy
Cabaret
Tin Cup
Bull Durham
Face/Off
Gladiator (a couple of good scenes, but mostly overrated)
Mission Impossible (but I thought 3 was pretty good)
Moulin Rouge
The English Patient
The Doors
Starship Troopers
Syriana
The Thin Red Line

 

[Wisdom Tooth]

Any and all musicals.

 

[Mr. Sparkle]

If this has been debunked already I apologize, but I had to stop right here and say something before I could go any further.

V for Vendetta began in 1982 and was completed in 1988. George Bush was elected in the year 2000. Kindly explain to me how a comic book written almost 20 years before his election is anti Bush propaganda? Please. And don't tell me the movie is completely different, it isn't. The changes made to the story were pretty minor.

V was written by an Englishman named Alan Moore, one of the greatest authors of all time, and it was in response to the growing conservative movement of the early 80's in Great Britian.

Edit: Another of Moore's stories the Watchmen will be coming to theatres soon. It is generaly regarded as the best story ever told in Graphic Novel format. It is about superheroes in a cold war era trying to prevent nuclear holocaust. I can't wait to see what it gets accused of being aggainst by people who won't realize it was written in 1986.

Heh. Even Alan Moore says they took his story and ruined it by turning into an anti-Bush hit piece. (What a dupe!)

It's been turned into a Bush-era parable by people too timid to set a political satire in their own country. In my original story there had been a limited nuclear war, which had isolated Britain, caused a lot of chaos and a collapse of government, and a fascist totalitarian dictatorship had sprung up. Now, in the film, you've got a sinister group of right-wing figures — not fascists, but you know that they're bad guys — and what they have done is manufactured a bio-terror weapon in secret, so that they can fake a massive terrorist incident to get everybody on their side, so that they can pursue their right-wing agenda. It's a thwarted and frustrated and perhaps largely impotent American liberal fantasy of someone with American liberal values [standing up] against a state run by neo-conservatives — which is not what "V for Vendetta" was about. It was about fascism, it was about anarchy, it was about [England]. The intent of the film is nothing like the intent of the book as I wrote it. And if the Wachowski brothers had felt moved to protest the way things were going in America, then wouldn't it have been more direct to do what I'd done and set a risky political narrative sometime in the near future that was obviously talking about the things going on today?"

http://www.mtv.com/shared/movies/interviews/m/moore_alan_060315/

Bush or no Bush, the movie was Godawful, IMO.

 

[Paul]

The Matrix Series
The Alien Series
The Star Wars Deal (All 20 of 'em)
All Star Trek stuff

I can probably find something wrong about every movie, even the ones I love. But don't you dare talk about Gremlins....

 

[west bank chris]

anchorman

 

[SoggyBottomBoy]

I'm noticing a trend that I'm guilty of. Disliking an actor and generally dismissing their work because of it. For me, it's Tom Cruise. It stems from his demand to be, not only top billing, but most cases, the only billing on the promotions and film trailers.

For the Tarantino haters (today's his birthday, BTW), I think Pulp Fiction is one of the best screenplays, ever. Resevoir Dogs I liked, also. The Kill Bills were pretty good but he started losing me when he collaborated with Rodriguez.

Like the Stillers (Jr and Sr) and Will Ferrel in general, but they've both done some stinkers.

 

[egautr1]

Pretty much anything with Will Smith in it is bad. He is an o.k. actor at best, but i just can't get past the fact that he is the fresh prince and that is all he will ever be. Plus his wife is a horrible actress yet she is in almost all his movies and she ruined some other movies all by herself. The matrix sequels especially, she totally ruined those movies for me. You can throw in Nicholas Cage and Tom Cruise too, although Cruise is a great actor i just can't see past the fact that he is Tom Cruise anymore.

 

[whoah whoah]

Is shrek anygood? I never saw it....

 

[bsmooth25]

Borat

 

[dude24]

Tremors

 

[thewyrm]

Alan Moore hates every film adapted from his work. Here is a counter to his pessimism.

Co-author and illustrator David Lloyd, by contrast, embraced the adaptation. In an interview with Newsrama.com, he states: "It's a terrific film. The most extraordinary thing about it for me was seeing scenes that I'd worked on and crafted for maximum effect in the book translated to film with the same degree of care and effect. The "transformation" scene between Natalie Portman and Hugo Weaving is just great. If you happen to be one of those people who admires the original so much that changes to it will automatically turn you off, then you may dislike the film — but if you enjoyed the original and can accept an adaptation that is different to its source material but equally as powerful, then you'll be as impressed as I was with it."

 

[yotd576]

Lost in Translation...Besides the eye candy of Scarlett...ZZzZZzzz....I like my Bill Murray fighting ghosts or being a groundskeeper.

 

[thewyrm]

I loved Lost in Translation. Bill Murray gotted robbed out an Oscar for that film, he was outstanding.

 

[Mr. Sparkle]

Alan Moore hates every film adapted from his work. Here is a counter to his pessimism.

Hey, you're the one who brought him up as a defense against charges that the movie was a lame Bush-bashing vehicle.

Anyway, one guy liked it, one didnt, but they both seem to be saying, "Yeah, it's a totally different story," which is exactly what those of us that see it as a lame Bush-bashing vehicle have been saying.

Glad you liked it, though. Different strokes and all that.