As Fleetwood Mac Sez: You Can Go Your Own Way |
As folks who are regular visitors to the site may have gleaned, I don't take any particular pleasure in disliking things which are either popular by mass appeal or critical consensus. For example, the entire thrust of my discussion of The Revenant was really about how I thought it was a good movie, but maybe not a great movie. And how I figured this meant I'd spend the next six months trying to decide if I needed to be polite in mixed company, or if I'd just be "that guy" and make noise about my opinion.
A few days ago, an old high school pal, JoeC, started asking folks on facebook about what bands people hated that folks seemed to really dig. You could say why, and some folks did.
Today he asked folks about what movies people hated that had popular or critical acclaim. He volunteered his own answers and gave some great explanations why - some were logical, some visceral - and then invited others to join in.
I am afraid I came off as a pretentious jerkface for bitching about Whit Stillman, but, man, I cannot stand that dude's work.
I love the idea of us all working through our cognitive dissonance together. So, I'm going to ask the same thing Joe asked:
What movie do you hate that seems to get all the kudos, laud & honor - and you think it's just terrible?