The Most Hated Movie I Love

[mishalak]

I really like David Lynch's Dune. At times it seems like everyone else hates it and likes the Sci-Fi version better. For the life of me I can't figure out why. I wonder if that could be a meme. What movie do you defend when people start saying, "Oh that was the worse ever!"?

Comments

[sraun]

I'll defend the Lynch Dune upon occasion. I figured out it's (to me) biggest problem the very first time I watched - what favorite sub-plot of your's from the book did it set up and not resolve? Everyone I talked to who had read the book had a favorite sub-plot that the movie set up and then dropped.

In terms of using the title and nothing else, Dune was nowhere near as bad as, say, Starship Troopers.

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

Or how about Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame? Title and just about nothing else. Or The Cat in the Hat, which I have not seen, but I can guess about how much they used based upon the trailers.