Let do the converse, movies you like that other people tend to hate.

[theguru]

Many of the cheesy sci-fi flicks that the critics pan. Robocop, Total Recall, The Core. Stuff like that.

 

I thought the new Robocop was pretty solid.

[Getslow]

Starring Damien Lewis, who played Dick Winters in Band of Brothers? If I remember that right, I enjoy it as well.

 

That's the one. I've taken a fairly significant amount of criticism for my defense of that movie... probably because I don't know how. It's goofy as heck.

[MJAlltheWay24]

Anything with Sean Penn, post Fast Times at Ridgemont High. I love his abilities and love the topics his movies cover. Can't find many who have seen some of the movies I especially love though, like Mystic River.

 

I really enjoyed Mystic River.

 

Have you seen Milk?

[rockmom]

I really enjoyed Mystic River.

 

Have you seen Milk?

 

Yes. Loved his performance!

 

You'd be hard pressed to find a Penn movie I haven't seen. I think he has the broadest range and depth of emotional connection to character of any actor in my generation.

[Voice of Reason]

Based on what people posted in the other thread, apparently The Matrix series.

[2 Humped Camel]

I have an inexplicable affection for "Dreamcatcher" based on the book by Stephen King. Objectively, I know it's not great, but I really enjoy it for some reason.

 

I loved the book, but the movie was awful.

[2 Humped Camel]

Water World, I really like the movie for some reason.

[Jim Schue]

Water World, I really like the movie for some reason.

 

I bet you sit down regularly and do Costner double features with that one and The Postman.

[formerkywrestler]

Walking Tall (2004)

 

86 minutes of The Rock beating people up. Weapon of choice: fence post.

[MJAlltheWay24]

Yes. Loved his performance!

 

You'd be hard pressed to find a Penn movie I haven't seen. I think he has the broadest range and depth of emotional connection to character of any actor in my generation.

 

More than Daniel Day Lewis?

 

I do like Penn quite a bit though.

[MJAlltheWay24]

Water World, I really like the movie for some reason.

 

Don't know why but I'm a big fan of it also.

 

Felt like Mad Max, which I like and will probably be seeing the new one.

[kygirl]

Sahara-I know it is usually the punchline to jokes about movie flops but I liked it. The well directed action scenes were good not to mention the beautiful photography.

[Sandman]

Movie I Like that other people likely don't know exists:

Fresh Horses.

I like it but it is no hidden gem. Shot in Cincinnati with a couple big stars at the time. Perhaps Ben Stiller's first movie now that I think about it.

 

Slasher themed movies seem to be taking a bit of a beating, so I'll throw in the Scream series, the first I Know What You Did Last Summer, and Halloween I, II and IV.

[swamprat]

Sahara-I know it is usually the punchline to jokes about movie flops but I liked it. The well directed action scenes were good not to mention the beautiful photography.

 

It would have been OK, if I hadn't been a big fan of the books. I'm a big fan of Clive Cussler's Dirk Pitt series. The casting of Pitt and Giordino in that movie was terrible.

[swamprat]

Star Trek. All of them.