Films You Hate, But Everyone Else Loves

Two words - vocal minority. If most people hated Transformers then it and its three sequels wouldn't have made billions of dollars worldwide.

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Transformers is a movie based on a toy line of cars that transformed into robots. It's pretty notorious for being an absolutely horrible adaption that takes a children's property and makes it into an inappropriate action flick.

Just because you pay for a ticket, it doesn't mean you'll come out liking it, so the numbers don't mean much. Parents can't take their kids to most films, so they get counted with the children to see these types of films. And there are a lot of adults who want to relive their youth.

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That explains the first one well enough, but then there's the matter of the sequel being successful enough to generate more sequels. Fool me once, etc.

Wasn't it discussed yesterday how the newest part of a series always makes the most money? Surely, everyone who say "Part 7" didn't necessarily see every single preceding film.

Here are the highest grossing films. Making money doesn't mean they are great pictures. And most of the greatest pictures ever either didn't make money, or lost money.

1 Avatar $2,787,965,087 2009 [# 1][# 2] 2 1 Titanic $2,186,772,302 1997 [# 3][# 4] 3 3 The Avengers $1,518,594,910 2012 [# 5][# 6] 4 3 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 $1,341,511,219 2011 [# 7][# 8] 5 5 Frozen $1,279,852,693 2013 [# 9][# 10] 6 5 Iron Man 3 $1,215,439,994 2013 [# 11][# 12] 7 4 Transformers: Dark of the Moon $1,123,794,079 2011 [# 13][# 8] 8 2 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King $1,119,929,521 2003 [# 14][# 15] 9 7 Skyfall $1,108,561,013 2012 [# 16][# 17] 10 10 Transformers: Age of Extinction $1,091,405,097 2014 [# 18][# 19] 11 7 The Dark Knight Rises $1,084,439,099 2012 [# 20][# 21] 12 3 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest $1,066,179,725 2006 [# 22][# 23] 13 5 Toy Story 3 $1,063,171,911 2010 [# 24][# 25] 14 6 Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides $1,045,713,802 2011 [# 26][# 27] 15 1 Jurassic Park $1,029,939,903 1993 [# 28][# 29] 16 2 Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace $1,027,044,677 1999 [# 30][# 4] 17 5 Alice in Wonderland $1,025,467,110 2010 [# 31][# 32] 18 14 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey $1,017,003,568 2012 [# 33][# 34] 19 4 The Dark Knight $1,004,558,444 2008 [# 35][# 36] 20 20 Furious 7 $1,000,554,080 2015 [# 37] 21 2 The Lion King $987,483,777 1994 [# 38][# 29] 22 2 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone $974,755,371 2001 [# 39][# 40] 23 20 Despicable Me 2 $970,761,885 2013 [# 41][# 42] 24 5 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End $963,420,425 2007 [# 43][# 44] 25 24 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug $960,366,855 2013 [# 45][# 46] 26 10 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 $960,283,305 2010 [# 47][# 48] 27 26 The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies $955,113,783 2014 [# 49][# 50] 28 6 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix $939,885,929 2007 [# 51][# 44] 29 9 Finding Nemo $936,743,261 2003 [# 52][# 15] 30 8 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince $934,416,487 2009 [# 53][# 54] 31 5 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers $926,047,111 2002 [# 55][# 56] 32 6 Shrek 2 $919,838,758 2004 [# 57][# 58] 33 8 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire $896,911,078 2005 [# 59][# 60] 34 10 Spider-Man 3 $890,871,626 2007 [# 61][# 62] 35 15 Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs $886,686,817 2009 [# 63][# 64] 36 6 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets $878,979,634 2002 [# 65][# 66] 37 29 Ice Age: Continental Drift $877,244,782 2012 [# 67][# 68] 38 5 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring $871,530,324 2001 [# 69][# 70] 39 34 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire $864,912,963 2013 [# 71][# 72] 40 11 Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith $848,754,768 2005 [# 73][# 74] 41 19 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen $836,303,693 2009 [# 75][# 76] 42 33 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 $829,685,377 2012 [# 77][# 78] 43 24 Inception $825,532,764 2010 [# 79][# 80] 44 7 Spider-Man $821,708,551 2002 [# 81][# 82] 45 2 Independence Day $817,400,891 1996 [# 83][# 84] 46 19 Shrek the Third $798,958,162 2007 [# 85][# 82] 47 14 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban $796,688,549 2004 [# 86][# 87] 48 1 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial $792,910,554 1982 [# 88][# 89] 49 31 2012 $791,217,826 2009 [# 90][# 91] 50 44F6 Fast & Furious 6 $788,679,850 2013 [# 92][# 93]

Good point.

Box office means nothing in terms of quality. Neither of the film nor the filmmaking.

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Just looking at the 50 Highest Grossing films is gross.

for it would be man of steel and amazing spider man, i just hate them and i only like classic movies of these heroes.

Everyone loves Man of Steel? Since when?

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Since hating Superman legally became un-American.

For months, I have been bombarded with glowing reviews for a new "horror" film that I just "have to see". Being the "horror guy" amongst my peers, they were sure that my mind would be blown by this wonderful film. So I made some popcorn, opened a beer and got comfortable before pressing play on... The Babadook.

...go on?

I hated it (hence its inclusion in this thread).


It is not a good sign that the film became less and less engaging after the "creature" appears.

Isn't it? I've not seen The Babadook, but isn't that what usually happens with films where the creature/monster/entity isn't shown and is then revealed? This even happens in Jaws.

Well, the fact that you hated it was clear enough, I was just hoping for an explanation. I actually liked The Babadook but I can also see why the film does lose a little of its edge once it reveals the creature. I still thought the rest of the film was solid enough to compensate for such a flaw.

Trust me, many of my friends whose opinion of films I respect have vouched for the movie. This is one of those films where I just don't see what there is to love about it. The The Exorcist meets Stir of Echoes gimmick led no where and, unlike in those films, I never felt any danger. The idea of keeping things hidden from the audience is perfectly fine if you lay the suspense on real thick (such as I saw in It Follows) but that never happened.

The Exorcist meets Stir Of Echoes? More interested in it now.

Here are some movies that Roger Ebert hates but everyone else loves.

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Pretty interesting list. Surprised to see Dead Poet's Society on there.

The only movie on that list that I've seen is Dead Poet's Society, and I love it, but nothing else on that list even interests me.