What movie do you love despite knowing most people wouldn't like it?

[Lemmingwiser]

I'll throw up gloomy sunday. It's obviously propagandistic. It's unclear if the movie works better in hungarian or german. The story is trite romanticism to the backdrop of a holocaust setting, like a poor man's la vita bella. But despite it all, I like it. I'm a sucker for urban myths and the gloomy sunday was forbidden in a number of countries because they kept finding suicides with that song on the grammaphone, worrying that the song itself may be causing the suicides. It didn't help that the author of the song also committed suicide.

 

[Dr. Ricearoni]

Paul Blart Mall Cop

 

[Cougar Pump]

Southland Tales. Classic case of a writer-director having a breakout hit (Donnie Darko) but everyone's too scared to challenge the golden child during production of the next film so they shit the bed with a fever dream of good ideas and unchecked garbage. I genuinely love the premise and what Kelly was trying to do with the film, but recognize the result is a hot mess. Having a film be the last three acts of a six-act story, where the first three acts can only be found in a comic book (sorry, graphic novel), is a plain terrible idea. Casting in the film is simultaneously inspired and batshit, but I love seeing a bunch of actors in roles outside their comfort zones. Most of them turned in a good performance, all things considered.
I also fucking hate musicals and this film has a bit of that going on. Somehow it works fine.

 

[Nicholas II of Russia]

Shrek the Third. I still don't understand why is so hated by the community.

In my opinion, the Merlin character makes up to some of the movie's flaws, not to mention there are some pretty funny scenes. Like Fionna getting interrupted with the horn.

 

[Battlecruiser3000ad]

Stop! Or my mom will shoot

 

[cypocryphy]

Halloween Ends

 

[The Backwards Man]

Freddy got Fingered.

 

[Cat tit bingo]

Super mario bros... the 90s live action one. I never cared that it wasn't "game accurate" I just really love its weird dino-dystopia.

 

[gorgoroth7134]

Ever watched Moonstruck with Cher and Nicolas Cage? Its perfection to me, but a lot of people cant stand it - its funny, but somehow realistic in how cheesy it is.

 

[Gangstalker #32194]

Riki-Oh, The Story of Ricky

 

[RACISM]

May I Kill U?
Comedy film about a UK copper who turns vigilante. Underrated classic. Kevin Bishop plays a blinder.

 

[AnsemSoD1]

Michael Bay's Transformers Movies

 

[I'm Retarded?]

Crash. it's hamfisted and heavily moralized but I appreciate that it's an attempt to show that people are more complicated than the stereotypes society imposes on them. apparently it was a very well-received film at the time of its release (2004) but I watched it during one of the most cursed cultural eras (2016) when everyone was flirting with ACAB and unironic socialism and shit, so as soon as I uttered the name I was met with heavy eye-rolls and told it was a film for cringe idiots because it defends Racism and Racist Cops, since the racist characters are shown to have sympathetic qualities and underlying reasons for their behavior, instead of being condemned and punished for the viewer's entertainment.

Ghost in the Shell 2 is unironically my favorite film of all time and I've never gotten anybody to agree with me on this one. to be fair it is incredibly autistic, and being anime does not help its case.

 

[Travoltron]

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier

 

[Patrick Bait-man]

Batman & Robin. It's hilarious and not one of the worst movies of all time.

 

[Dambusters' Dog II]

I never cared that it wasn't "game accurate" I just really love its weird dino-dystopia.

I didn't care that it wasn't accurate to the game's story, but didn't like it for other reasons too numerous to mention (and have been dealt with adequately by others). I did enjoy the attempt to rationalise the name "Mario Brothers" by having Mario's surname also be Mario, because I had never even noticed that the term "Mario brothers" makes no sense whatsoever.

For the thread, I actually enjoyed the film Cloud Atlas. I don't care at all about people putting on makeup to play other races, and I found Tom Hanks's ridiculous attempt at a Cockney accent funny and in keeping with the tone of that segment of the movie. My only criticism is that it's very obvious which segments were directed by the Kraut and which by the Wachowski troons.

 

[Agamemnon Busmalis]

The Last Emperor is one of my favorite films of all time but I could see it being a real slog unless you are very interested in that historical era given its length. The Manchukuo part of the film just sticks with you in particular, IMO.

 

[Testacles Maximus]

I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House.

 

[I'm Retarded?]

I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House.

this movie owns

 

[Pitbull Victim]

Beyond the Black Rainbow - This movie is extremely slow and everyone I've ever watched it with has wanted to kill me and themselves out of boredom. I love it though.

Pit Fighter - Pit Fighter is an objectively terrible movie that I have watched more times than I can count and it never stops being funny. It is essentially a mash-up of Blood Sport and Desperado filmed as cheaply as possible so there's all kinds of mismatched props and costumes, and the editing is worse than some college film projects. The guy who plays the main character is also great - he's some tiny Belgian stuntman who tries to act tough but comes off as deeply autistic and weird. The ending is truly something special - think the end of The Wild Bunch but as reimagined by a very dumb 5th grader and featuring a small, screaming Belgian running around with a plastic M-60. Movie rules.