This whole thread is a great read. Figured I'd throw in my 2 cents.
Movies/actors/actresses I DON'T like that many others do: Casablanca (horribly paced and overdramatic), Godfather Pt. II (1 was such a great character development piece. After the 3rd congressional hearing scene in Pt. 2 I was ready to throw my remote at the TV), Breakfast at Tiffany's (Hepburn is just so hateable and I was way too distracted by Rooney's super-racist Japanese character. I get it was the times, but jeez), Hugh Grant (I find him unbearable. He always plays the same character and it's always annoying and I can't figure out why women (fictional or otherwise) would see anything in him, especially after seeing Mickey Blue Eyes), Monty Python and the Holy Grail (I love a lot of british humor movies and TV and loved Meaning of Life but I just didn't find most of this one funny), Raging Bull and Network (both classics but I couldn't buy the protagonists as realistic personalities, as much as Lamota may be based on the actual boxer).
And now the ones I DO like: Volcano (everyone always says Dante's Peak was better and I get that it's super silly but it's a fun popcorn movie, like Armageddon), Back to the Future III (I love the entire series but III always gets pegged as the worst and I thought it was very well done and kept the tone and pace of the others), Psycho (the Gus Van Sant remake - I thought the actors were great and i think most people just disliked the idea of the shot for shot remake and did not try to gauge it on its own), Star Wars VI: Return of the Jedi (I always hear "ewoks" as the biggest complaint but I thought it was a great conclusion and probably the most action-packed of all the original trilogy films, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (I know Costner had 0 accent but I think between Freeman, Rickman, and the action, this is a great, great movie),
Reading this it seems like I just like popcorn movies but I agree with many other faves like Shawshank, Saving Private Ryan, LOTR, Pulp Fiction, American Beauty, American History X, Forrest Gump, Goodfellas, Inception, and so forth.
