Popular movies you never 'got'

[atomicAdam]

Donny Darko,

I don't get it. I mean, I get it, but I don't get it.

[atomicAdam]

Rocky Horror Picture Show. I could never get why people were so mad about it. I mean some people went to see it hundreds of times! They brought rice to throw at the wedding, dressed up in character even when it wasn't Halloween. Could someone please "splain it to me Lucy"

It is because they have no other reason in life for living. ... No, seriously. It is really cause they like it a lot, went a few times, met friends, had some fun, came back some more to see more friends, and there was probably some alcohol invoked, along with sex, drugs, and generally ugly people.

Get it?

[atomicAdam]

I'm not talking about the vertual amusement park rides like Tranformers and other action flicks, I'm talking about movies that are nearly universally beloved by most everyone you know, except you.

I got to thinking of this when I heard people returning from seeing Where The Wild Things Are. Of everyone loved it (if I'm gonna wait in line for anything, it better be awesome), but I harked back to the days when other must-see movies came out and I dutifully went to go see it and it fell flat for me.

E.T. - I was completely unmoved. Maybe it was all the hype, but I felt that the little creature looked like a badly constructed muppet. Nothing about the movie worked for me.

Three Men & A Baby - I sat through it once. I was on a date, or I woulda left. I still find it to be one of the most unwatchable movie I know besides Grease 2. Three of my most unfavorite actors are in this movie.

Pulp Fiction - This out-of-sequence scenes principle mighta worked had it tied in with the central plot (if there was one), but like a lot of Tarentino movies, it seems like so much style over substance, where a string of unrelated things happen and the only common thread is the sudden unexpected death of people who are living on borrowed time anyway.

Napolean Dynamite - Oh wait a minute, I get it now...this was funny cuz I actually paid to see it.

Get it, got it, good. Wait 3 Men.... what, no. No not that one. Brazil?

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Rocky Horror Picture Show. I could never get why people were so mad about it. I mean some people went to see it hundreds of times! They brought rice to throw at the wedding, dressed up in character even when it wasn't Halloween. Could someone please "splain it to me Lucy"

I think you really need to see the Rocky Horror Show on stage before you can appreciate RHPS. I didn't like the movie the first time I saw it and was generally baffled. Then I caught it on stage with a drunk and rowdy university crowd and it was so much fun. I went back to the movie again and it's now one of my top-3 films ever.

[Geoffcin]

It is because they have no other reason in life for living. ... No, seriously. It is really cause they like it a lot, went a few times, met friends, had some fun, came back some more to see more friends, and there was probably some alcohol invoked, along with sex, drugs, and generally ugly people.

Get it?

OK, I get it now. Sex, drugs, rock & roll, only with ugly people. Echh!

[Feanor]

Get it, got it, good. Wait 3 Men.... what, no. No not that one. Brazil?

OK ... I intend to watch Brazil again someday. I have to admit after my first and only viewing, I can't understand what the fuss is about.

[Jack in Wilmington]

I read the first book and enjoyed it. But I just never really had the urge to read any more of them. Just like music, there are too many books and too little time. I have to pick and choose and HP has just never made the cut.

As for the HP movies, a good movie should stand on its own two feet and not be reliant on having read the book to 'get' it. I have no problem with movies leaving out parts of the story for the sake of time or ease of storytelling. But the HP movies have huge gaping holes in them where things just don't make sense without the filler. This, in my opinion, makes them bad movies.

As for James Bond...if I want to watch a spy movie, I'd much rather watch Austin Powers. YEAH BABY!

How can you even say spy movie and Austin Powers in the same sentence. Ian Flemming must be turning over in his grave.

We all complain about the HP movies and what gets left out. If they put it all in, the movies would be mini series.

[atomicAdam]

OK ... I intend to watch Brazil again someday. I have to admit after my first and only viewing, I can't understand what the fuss is about.

Yeah, I don't get it either. Could just be one of those that will always be better in book form.