Movies everyone loves that you don't get?

And Harrison Ford was ill-cast as a nebbish bureaucrat in Blade Runner. That role really should have gone to Hoffman (the part was written for him IIRC). And yet now people cannot imagine The Graduate without Hoffman or Blade Runner without Ford.

There is an emotional aspect to memory such that an image of a seems wrong to us if there is not a familiar "feeling" to it. See Capgras Delusion. How many of these people "feel" wrong for the part below?

And how much of this feeling has to do with "right" casting and how much of it has to do with our emotional connection with having "imprinted" on the version of the film we saw? It's a bit of both, but I am suspicious when people claim "Only X could have played that part!"

I really just want you all angry and confused the whole time.

Gladiator




It's been a long time since I've watched it so I don't have any specifics as to why I don't think it's that great, only going off my first and only impression of it - that's what everybody's been talking about? eh...

You know what, I'll just mix it up and say The Revenant. Very superficial excuse for a modern classic.

I don't know if everyone loves Donnie Darko but I had some friends that thought it was the most mystical thing ever. I didn't get it except for that the bunny suit was bizarre and the dark feeling throughout the movie gave it a horror feel but overall I couldn't understand why they were so enthralled with the flick.

I suppose I could say that to flip this situation around those old friends would have probably been as confused about my enthusiasm and laughter for Napolean Dynamite but that was after they were gone, so I guess we were different when it came to movies.

The first time I saw Napoleon Dynamite I had the same look on my face that Napoleon (John Heder) does throughout the film - I was dumbfounded. I was left trying to figure it out. Was is supposed to be funny? Was it supposed to not be funny? It has since grown to cult status in my mind and I now found it hilarious!

I don't know if everyone loves Donnie Darko but I had some friends that thought it was the most mystical thing ever. I didn't get it except for that the bunny suit was bizarre and the dark feeling throughout the movie gave it a horror feel but overall I couldn't understand why they were so enthralled with the flick.

I don't know if everyone loves Donnie Darko but I had some friends that thought it was the most mystical thing ever. I didn't get it except for that the bunny suit was bizarre and the dark feeling throughout the movie gave it a horror feel but overall I couldn't understand why they were so enthralled with the flick.

Agreed. I can appreciate the atmosphere but it's not worth much without a good plot and characters to work with, and Darko falls short in these areas.

When a theater major attempts to write a time travel story, this is what you get.

Dunno what theatre has to do with it,

but Darko is a flick that tries too hard to blow your mind, and in trying ends up with a plot so contrived that none of the twists land the way they seem to want them to. You can't have plot twists in a plot that's already twisted out of shape.

The more you overtake the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain.