Movies that you love, but everyone else seems to hate

[Scatter]

Two thousand maniacs is a film I can not live without.

You and me bro!!

[Scatter]

  I would like to see this film.

Good flick! I liked it, so you should too (peas in a movie pod,we are!)

[McDougals House of Horror]

I watched Spielberg's "War of the Worlds" again. I think a lot of people hate this film simply because it isn't George Pal's original that we grew up with. In truth, the first time I saw it I wasn't crazy about it (probably for that reason). But as I've watched it again several times, I now think that it's really a great film. Those tripods coming up out of the ground are very realistic and very scary -- I find this film, and 2010's "Monsters", to be believable visions of what an alien invasion of Earth could really be like. And of course, another great score by John Williams.

[Haunted hearse]

I watched Spielberg's "War of the Worlds" again. I think a lot of people hate this film simply because it isn't George Pal's original that we grew up with. In truth, the first time I saw it I wasn't crazy about it (probably for that reason). But as I've watched it again several times, I now think that it's really a great film. Those tripods coming up out of the ground are very realistic and very scary -- I find this film, and 2010's "Monsters", to be believable visions of what an alien invasion of Earth could really be like. And of course, another great score by John Williams.

Interesting theory.  I always thought the reason people hated the film was because it sucked.

[CreepysFan]

  One blunder of this WOTW version is if the Martian machines were under ground all those years, why didn't they attack before mankind became over populated.  What was the wait ?  Still like watching it from time to time, but not as good as the original.

[Fester]

As far as War Of the Worlds is concerned, it doesn't bother me that it wasn't more like George Pal's version.  That one was good, however, it was only superficially related to the Wells novel and/or the Mercury Theater radio play.
There were just too many holes in the story: Where are they aliens from? Why are they here? Why did they remain hidden in the ground? Why didn't they get found years ago? And special effects/big dramatic scenes are fine--but you really have to relate to (or at least care about) the characters. I couldn't.
Monsters(2010) was way too slow. Granted, the director might have been going for some sort of thoughtful mood. Or perhaps he wanted to show how long the journey took.  But I found myself getting bored and distracted.  I am still wondering how in the heck a anyone could see Texas from a MesoAmerican PreColumbian pyramid.

[MDG]

Great flick -- good story and Timothy Bottoms (who I absolutely reviled in the despicable remake of my beloved "Invaders From Mars") plays a great bomber. Plus a wonderful score by Lalo Schifrin, who wrote the famous theme from "Mission Impossible".

I saw it in Sensurround when it first came out. It's actually on YouTube:

Rollercoaster 1977

Rollercoaster and Capricorn One are probably my favorite popcorn movies of the 70s.

[MDG]

As far as War Of the Worlds is concerned...
There were just too many holes in the story: Where are they aliens from? Why are they here? Why did they remain hidden in the ground? Why didn't they get found years ago? And special effects/big dramatic scenes are fine--but you really have to relate to (or at least care about) the characters. I couldn't.

This.

[Haunted hearse]

As far as a movie about an ET prescense buried underground for centuries, then surfacing and causing havoc, "20 Million Miles to Earth" a great Hammer horror flick, did it much better that the new "War of the Worlds". 

[horrorhunter]

As far as a movie about an ET prescense buried underground for centuries, then surfacing and causing havoc, "20 Million Miles to Earth" a great Hammer horror flick, did it much better that the new "War of the Worlds".

I think that was 5 Million Years To Earth (Quatermass And The Pit). I agree. It is an excellent movie.

[Haunted hearse]

I think that was 5 Million Years To Earth (Quatermass And The Pit). I agree. It is an excellent movie.

It was.  I also perfer "Quatermass And The Pit" the British release title.

[Evermonster]

Just about everything. Around me, they hate everything I watch.

"It's too old, too poorly designed, too boring, too black and white ..."

[marsattacks666]

Just about everything. Around me, they hate everything I watch.

"It's too old, too poorly designed, too boring, too black and white ..."

Ouch!

[Elisabeth]

I do still have modest affection for the old  (early 1960s) CHILLER THEATRE films:  ATTACK OF THE 50 FOOT WOMAN,  FOUR SKULLS OF JONATHAN DRAKE, LEECH WOMAN and the 1953 INVADERS FROM MARS.  I also saw WASP WOMAN there on WPIX - Ch. 11.  Jack Kennedy was President at the time, so these were still pretty new.  I was pretty new myself.

The two that got me BIG TIME, were "JONATHAN DRAKE", with Zatai climbing up the rose trellis, and the sight of a headless body in the casket.
(Mega scary when there's a similar trellis outside your window.)

The other was, of course, INVADERS FROM MARS.  Imagine an eight year old child, seeing something that visualised every child's deepest nightmare: being terrified, with no one to help,....and seeing your parents (who were the only ones who COULD help), turned into brutal strangers who didn't know you.

INVADERS was a real DOOZY,  but I'm glad I saw it when I did....before 1963,  when childhood ended and innocence was lost.

"E"

[KSC]

I don't want to say that I love them, but I rather enjoyed Prince of Persia and John Carter. Definitely not the train wrecks critics would have you believe. John Carter could have been so much more, and how I'd love it if there were sequels, but as it stands, it was a lot of fun, IMO.