Films I love, but everyone else hates.

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I LOVE Ice Age..my ex hated it though.I just loooove it! funny,as I don't normally tolerate cartoons or that Everyone Loves Raymond man (?)
Also LOVE Fantasia....

Last Action Hero--anybody who thinks it fails as an action movie is completely missing the point. The movie is supposed to be a metafictional deconstruction of action movies, in the same way that Scream parodied slasher films.

Watchmen--I don't understand why all the fanboys gripe about it not being one hundred percent faithful to the comic. Aside from omitting the Tales of the Black Freighter, it remained very faithful to its source. However, I think remaining too faithful to a book or comic would do the source a greater injustice. If it had been one hundred percent faithful to the comic, then why read it at all? A couple of years ago I read the book Fight Club, and I got bored with it because it was almost exactly like the movie, which I had already seen. I had the same issue with the American remake of Let the Right One In. Nobody's going to see the Swedish version since the American film is exactly the same.

Avatar--so what if it's Dances with Wolves with aliens? I know how a lot of people like to gripe about how contemporary movies are all about special effects, but the effects in Avatar were like nothing we'd ever seen before, so I think it's unoriginal story can be forgiven. Now, in ten years when those effects will no doubt become more commonplace, it will be perfectly alright to gripe.

The Fountain: this movie is so ambiguous and can sometimes be a bit pretentious and preachy, but I have never seen a more moving film. The film is about death and how it is inevitable, being part of life. Hugh Jackman plays three characters(two of which are most likely the same person) trying to save someone or something they love. The problem is, they get so caught up in their conquests that they become irrational and inattentive to the true purpose of life: to live it and enjoy it. In this respect, he reminds me of Don Quixote de La Mancha. Except a somber and sane Don Quixote. Hugh Jackman does not attack windmills in this movie.

The film is praised by many and hated by many. Most people couldn't understand it because there was very little exposition and because it was set in three different periods. Also, much of the movie is ambiguous and open to interpretation. Some of the themes can be messy at times. But overall, I love this movie. It single-handedly changed my views on death and softened my fear of it. And each and every time I watch it, I find something new. It's like Blade Runner in that respect. Plus, Hugh Jackman's portrayal of Tom Creo(the present and future characters) was spectacular, that I cried through most of the last third of the film. I never really cared for Hugh until seeing this movie. Now I am tempted to name him as my favorite actor. Also, the movie only uses CGI once. Every single space scene(much of the movie takes place in the Orion Nebula as the movie is a psychological science fiction film) made use of macrophotography of microrganisms and chemical reactions. Also, the lighting is excellent, with the much of the movie being dark in the beginning but getting brighter as future Tommy begins to understand that he is suffering a fate worse than death by cheating it with immortality. At the end, the movie is enveloped in gold light.

To top it off, the soundtrack is my favorite of all time. It was composed by Clint Mansell, whose work in another movie(Moon) inspired me to teach myself piano. I've been playing piano now for almost a year, and I still practice at least once a week if not more. The music is very minimal and somewhat Castilian sounding. The soundtrack is the only one able to single-handedly make me cry.

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I have no idea why anybody hates either of these films. Some people tell me that the ending in Crystal Skull is unrealistic. I always ask whether they've even watched the endings of the other Indy films!

I also like all of the other films on your list that I've seen.

Waterworld
The Postman

Indy wrote

The point is that there were aliens at the end of the film. Of course they were refered to as interdimensional beings, but still they had a flying saucer and that kinda took away the illusion of what the Indy films are about. Aliens do not belong in an Indy movie. Thats like putting a time travel plot in a Pirates of the Caribbean movie. But still an OK movie.

Dune (David Lynch)--I saw the movie before I read the book, so I had the advantage of not having any specific expectations in mind which might be typical to the fans of the novel. Having read the book and considering the scope of the story, I think the only way to really do it justice would be to make it into a TV series (not a miniseries like the Sci-Fi channel had). The David Lynch film had a really great atmosphere to it. The sets and the costumes reflected a civilization that had reverted back into feudalism, unlike the miniseries which had people running around in togas.

No! The film starts with an extraterrestrial found in Roswell. The interdimensional beings feature right the way through the film (one of their skulls is on the film poster and in the film title). Why hate the ending instead of the whole thing?

I don't mind people being anti the whole interdimensional beings thing. For what it's worth, I think George Lucas should have stuck to calling them aliens. It would have been more in-keeping with the original myth. Personally, I see it as a matter of personal taste. But now that they're in the story, they definitely belong and they're definitely called interdimensional beings. People that don't approve of Indiana Jones encountering this particular myth could read the film poster (it's a massive clue) and stay away.

But, I do mind people criticising the film's ending for being unrealistic or unexpected. Did they not watch the rest of the film, or any of the other films!?

I'm not sure exactly but I think the whole Crystal Skull thing is real, but there are many theories on where it or they came from and aliens is one of them. There is also that mayan thing that Lucas and Speilberg should have sticked with.

You're right - George Lucas could have left anything alien-like out of the story. I know that the Mitchell-Hedges skull was claimed to be used as a "skull of doom" by the Mayans. It would probable have made a lot of people happy if he'd done what you suggested (and Steven Spielberg) and stayed away from anything 'alien'.

But, I think that these are the best films ever made (I'm extremely biased). I like the fact that they are filmed in the style of B-movies, with lots of adventure, humour, and absurd back-stories. Including interdimensional beings fits perfectly with the B-movie genre. They could include giant insects and dinosaurs and I'd still watch them

The First Highlander-stolen by my ex
Fire and Ice (Anime by Bakshi and the Icon Artist Frank Frazetta RIP)
Mad Max Movies
Shadowlands
Being There
Watership Down
The Professional
300
Avatar
Big Trouble In Little China

I think I like Godzilla as well, not quite sure.

Blame the writer, not the director. A good script makes a good movie; a bad script makes a bad movie. That's really all there is to it. It's not the director's fault if the execs hand them a crappy script and tell them to work with it the way it is. A director can only try to make up for the poor script; or, if they suck, only serve to make it worse. The script is the backbone of any movie, good or bad, and everything else only reflects that.

Godzilla Vs Mothra
& oh yeah, Godzilla Vs the Smog Monster (which got its director fired--he never made another movie)

nobody saw Unstrung Heroes but it's a masterpiece

& i love Johnny Guitar--i guess it has a slight cult status now--

the list of movies everyone else loves but me would be way, way longer

M. Night Shyamalan´s The Village

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