Movies you mostly hate

[Anonymous]

but love to watch for just a few characters.

I haven't seen Gone With the Wind in fifteen years because I just find all the talk about "darkies" so unbearable, but I'd love to watch a collection of all of Olivia de Haviland's scenes.

Anne Hathaway is painful to watch chew the scenery, but I'd love a version of The Devil Wears Prada with her and her stupid boyfriend and friends edited out. Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, Stanley Tucci - they're glorious.

[Anonymous]

Anything with Ben Stiller in it. He picks real stinkers.

[Anonymous]

The Twilight movies after the first two, which were actually good.

I love the main characters, though the secondary brothers and sisters gets boring. Mainly it's how it turned from being a very atmospheric, emotion-based indie film into a franchise.

I still watch it though! Every time.

[Anonymous]

Love Actually. I can't figure out why that POS movies is so popular.

[Anonymous]

Any of the Star Wars with Natalie Portman. God she is annoying.

[Anonymous]

Any movie with Kate Hudson in it.

[Anonymous]

Shakespeare In Love. So overrated. Saving Private Ryan was robbed of an Academy Award.

Gwenyth Paltrow should be publicly flogged for what she has done to the film industry and the American public.

[Anonymous]

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Such a disappointment, but I do appreciate some of the scenes with just Harrison Ford and Shia Laboeuf. Their back-and-forth seemed natural. Every other part of it though... ugh, so awful!

[Anonymous]

OP, I love your premise (though some posters don't seem to get it ) and totally agree with the examples you cite. (Giselle Bundchen is also a highlight iin that very small role as a Vogue staffer and Emily Blunt's fellow mean girl.)

So, how do you feel about Castaway? (SPOILER ALERT here.)

Whenever I come across it on TV, I get totally sucked in, despite the fact that I really only love the "frame" scenes where you get to see Tom Hanks's life before the plane crash and then again after he returns and tries to reclaim his old life. Everything in the middle is fascinating the first time you watch it -- the character is so resourceful! -- but then it's just a bit tiresome the second time around. Even Hanks, a great actor, can't hold your attention when he's talking to that volleyball. OTOH, the whole Moscow sequence at the beginning is amazing storytelling -- efficient and gripping -- and Hanks's interactions with his former colleagues (his old buddy who recounts the details of Hanks's "funeral"), his girlfriend who still pines away for him (Helen Hunt -- very effective in just a few scenes -- e.g., showing him the maps she used to track the search for his downed plane), and -- perhaps most impressive -- Chris Noth as the rebound guy she married after everybody told her to stop pining away her husband (and he's a dentist -- Chris Noth (aka Mr. Big from Sex and the City) as a dentist? But he pulls it off.

[Anonymous]

Every time castaway is on I have to watch the rain scene where Helen hunt says "you're the love of my life!" but has to get out of the car. And I cry.

I watch You've Got Mail even though it's terrible because Tom Hanks is good in it.

[Anonymous]

I love love love love Grease but really hate the message that I only see now and totally missed as a teen when I watched that movie on infinite repeat.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I love love love love Grease but really hate the message that I only see now and totally missed as a teen when I watched that movie on infinite repeat.

And I get that I'm not on point.

[Anonymous]

Avatar, Grease, You've Got Mail, The Notebook, Ghost, Pretty Woman

[Anonymous]

I hate all rom-coms usually, but love Tom Hanks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Love Actually. I can't figure out why that POS movies is so popular.

I also HATED that movie- and I love romcoms!