Movies people love but you hate

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How many movies are out there that people love, but no matter what happens, you will always hate them. Here is my list:
Maybe there are spoilers here, so be careful.

(1) No Country for Old Men (a hitman is seen as an anti-hero. Good acting, but it is just glorifying a psychopath)
(2) Natural Born Killers (same as above)
(3) Lost in Translation (lost in boredom for me)

I am sure there are more movies that I hate that people love, but I can't think of them right now.

I totally did not understand Lost in Translation at all.

Anything like Big Mommas House or chick flicks are just a massive no-no, I'm totally against animated films - so many people complain at me about this, like Flushed Away is one of my boyfriends favourites but I just don't get the attraction of such films even if they are the big thing right now in movies. I also have no interest in Avatar - I will never watch this film. Erm...there are probably more, but can't think right now.

Lost in Translation was awful.

Any movie, ever, involving the CIA ever. All they are is a reverberation of the same tedious plot, repeated add infinitum. Here's the recipe:

Any war movie that portrays soldiers as heroes, or there government overlords as altruistic. No matter how good they are (Saving Private Ryan), they do leave a bitter aftertaste in your mouth.

I love Lost in Translation, but it's definitely not for everybody (or most people). I think it's probably best appreciated by people who have experienced severe jet lag in a very foreign place. And those who like a story with a slow pace and no climax. Very niche audience.

The first movie to come to mind as something I dislike but which everyone else seems to love is The Wizard of Oz. I also disliked No Country for Old Men, though, as mentioned above. Found it boring.

Avatar - The biggest piece of overhyped religious hippie s**t crapfest ever called a film. And this is from someone who actually watched Battlefield Earth. Its much much worse than that. My belief than the human species had peaked was only confirmed by watching news stories with tosspots painting themselves blue before going to see it, and for months afterwards. We're f****d people, this is the film and fans of it that prove it.

Nods head in appreciation.

That movie sucked, sucked, sucked. The action scences/CGI was watchable, but it's naieve hippy message is just another part of this BS pseudo-religious trend of environmentalism, pushed by a hundred adds with a girl in a pretty dress skipping through a field, singing sweetly to soft acoustic guitar, surrounded by friends and families and country animals. The reality is that the companies making these ads make there products in crude, metallic factories, using underpaid workers.

I can't believe a whole generation has fell for all this BS. It's okay to be an envirnomentalist, if you actually look at the science of it. It isn't a moral position, and it shouldn't be a social movement.

most things people "love", i could not give a rats anus for (not that i have any to spare anyway).

Actually, now that I think about it, most Oscar movies aren't really THAT GOOD. But the rule does not always apply. Titanic was okay, but seriously overrated.

And we are all forgetting the worst insults to the human intelligence ever: Night Shyamalan movies (spoilers):

Sixth Sense: oh yes, he is dead and doesn't even know it. So I guess his wife had been talking to herself every time she spoke to him.
Signs: aliens are invading Earth, and they are naked, and water harms them.
The Village: an elaborate version of Scooby Doo, but Scooby Doo is actually funny.
The Happening: we are all being killed by vegetation.

Yuck I hated Avatar, it was such a cliched, mediocre film but what really made me mad was how people would go on and on about it like it was some sort of masterpiece and how Cameron is some sort of artistic genius.

I really didn't like Burton's Sweeney Todd, I thought for sure that it was going to be panned by critics but was surprised that there were few, if any criticisms of the film. I thought it was a typical Burton/Depp film that tried to hard to be dark and eccentric. I also thought the songs didn't work at all with the rest of the film. Love the original musical though.

Hmm...
Those new Batman movies. Well, I don't hate them, but I hate hearing about them. I remember when 'The Dark Knight' came out there was so much hype, and practically everybody on facebook had 'Why so serious?' as their favorite quotation or pictures of the Joker as their profile pic (mostly girls actually)
Inception. I guess I don't hate it but I do hate hearing about it
Anything by Quentin Tarantino, the exception being Reservoir Dogs
Twilight should go without saying

2001: a space odyssey. It was on TV once and I thought I'd see what all the fuss is about, and it didn't make any sense. Some astronauts were taking photographs in slow motion with weird music playing, I was like WTF was this? I was only half watching, but from what I could see it was just people floating about in space with weird music playing.

Plenty of movies that people love I have found myself abhorring:

1. Avatar (transcended overrated, mediocre plot reminiscent of Jamestown/Clichétown)
2. The Matrix (not as intellectual/"heady" as I would have liked or as interesting)
3. The Matrix's sequels (three hundred times crappier than the original)
4. Any stupid comedy movie (Dodgeball/Balls of Fury are good examples)

Pretty much every movie that comes out and gets popular nowadays.

im with you

So true. The Happening was one of the worst movies I've ever seen, and The Village's plot twist pissed me off.

Rain Man. Everybody in my life loves Rain Man except for me. That movie is just a small example of how people on the spectrum are treated by family and loved ones in general.

Scream: Watching people trying to stab one another, while calling each other ret*ds is not my idea of a good time.