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[Dagger75]

Cutthroat Island. I liked this movie. Everybody seemed to hate it, I didn't.

Beatmaster was cool.

I to like the D&D Movie

 

[Sixchan]

Final Fantasy. The story was, IMO, actually pretty good, it was just pulled off badly, and the Animation was absolutely amazing. I went to see it with a friend, and altogether I think we found about a dozen similarities with the games. The Lifestream thing is the only one that springs directly to mind now, though.

Also, Treasure Planet. In the UK, Critics hammered it claiming it to be boring and average and stuff, but I thought it was great.

 

[LightPhoenix]

I think the problem with this movie, along with Galaxy Quest, is
that people that aren't familiar with the source material (comics,
or in GQ's case Star Trek) just didn't get it. <snip>

Ooh, I completely forgot about Galaxy Quest.

You make a very good point about the source material - I think it hurt Unbreakable a lot too. A lot of people consider that to be Shayamalan's worst movie so far, and I personally think it's his best.

 

[Sixchan]

Ooh, I completely forgot about Galaxy Quest.

You make a very good point about the source material - I think it hurt Unbreakable a lot too. A lot of people consider that to be Shayamalan's worst movie so far, and I personally think it's his best.

Hmm...I liked Galaxy quest a lot too. I wasn't aware that it was unpopular, but my whole family and all my friends are Star Trek fans anyway.

 

[Viking Bastard]

Cutthroat Island. I liked this movie. Everybody seemed to hate it, I didn't.

Finally someone! I have searched the world and I have found you.

I have this suspicion people were expecting 'epic' and 'dramatic'
when they saw this movie. I was expecting 'summer blockbuster'.

 

[Silver Moon]

I'll also concur with both Galaxy Quest and Mystery Men, having bought the videos of both as soon as they were released.

I've got a somewhat off-the-wall (non-scifi) one to add to the list: "Fly Away Home". Nearly everyone panned it as a silly kids' film about a girl helping out a flock of geese, but I find this film to be a real treasure. Oscar winner Anna Paquin puts in a great performance as a grief-stricken girl learning to live with the father she's never known. The cinematography is very good. Even the geese story, while predictable, is still entertaining to watch.

 

[Barendd Nobeard]

I've got a somewhat off-the-wall (non-scifi) one to add to the list: "Fly Away Home". Nearly everyone panned it as a silly kids' film about a girl helping out a flock of geese, but I find this film to be a real treasure. Oscar winner Anna Paquin puts in a great performance as a grief-stricken girl learning to live with the father she's never known. The cinematography is very good. Even the geese story, while predictable, is still entertaining to watch.

And it's based on a true story (sort of).

Anyway, some of my favorites are that are not common crowd pleasers:

Repo Man - "The more you drive, the less intelligent you are."
Cecil B. Demented - Terrorist film-makers kidnap Melanie Griffith and make her star in their underground movie.
Housekeeping - great performance by Christine Lahti as Sylvie

 

[Viking Bastard]

Ooooh... I love Cecil B Demented. It got a pretty good rep here
from critics, but aside from them, I seem to be the only one that's
seen it the whole damn city.

 

[Barendd Nobeard]

Ooooh... I love Cecil B Demented. It got a pretty good rep here from critics, but aside from them, I seem to be the only one that's seen it the whole damn city.

Maybe critics (and other "film people") like it because of all the film references in it.

At the showing I went to, there were only three people in the audience. Shortly after that, the theater put up a sign that said unless there were 5 or more people in the audience, showings would be cancelled.

Hair is another film I like that almost no one has seen (or liked). Maybe it's just the songs. Many of which can not be quoted here, for fear of offening Eric's Grandmother.

Adventures in Babysitting - the only good film directed by Chris Columbus. "Nobody leaves this stage until they sing the blues."

Of course, I could watch films by great directors all day: Akira Kurosawa, Alfred Hitchcock, Ed Wood....

 

[Sixchan]

No-one mentioned The Two Towers yet.

Not that everybody hates it, but most people seemed to like Fellowship better. Me, I'm a Medieval Battle Slut, so I thought it was far better than all the talking in Fellowship.