Some people seemed to hate Roman Polanski's The Ninth Gate (with Jonny Depp), but I thought it was a pretty good occult thriller.

A.I.: Artificial Intelligence - the Speilberg/Kubric movie was brilliant, in my view, although they should have cut the exposition dialogue from the ending to make it perfect.

A lot of the critics of the World of Warcraft movie were overly judgemental, I thought and actually it was pretty entertaining on the whole.  

David Lynch's Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me was absolutely slated by Twin Peans fans, but I actually think it's one of the greatest horror movies of all time.

Fire Walk with Me is a film whose rep has improved a lot since it first came out.

On a related note, I love Lynch's Dune despite it being near incoherent upon first viewing and full of Herbert's melodramatic dialogue. I love the set design, cast, goofy but memorable dialogue.

Dune notably was one movie that was not given the final directors cut by Lynch himself but was edited by producers (or business execs really). Bladerunner was a similar case and, like Bladerunner, I wonder whether removing the heavy inner monologue dialogue would have improved it somewhat. There is also apparently several hours of extra footage lost to the movie somewhere also. It is, as you say, a visual treat with the costumes and sets and so on.

All that said, Lynch still took the story into weird places, regardless - like the sound-based weapons (no-where in the book), making Bene Gesserits shave their heads (when they are supposed to be super hot escorts, in effect) or having the Baron make Thufir Hawat milk a shaved cat for an antidote (again, nowhere in the book), etc.

The Star Wars Prequels
Flash Gprdon
The most recent Conan remake
Man of Steel
Batman vs Superman
Terminator: Genesis
Rob Zombie's Halloween
The Friday the 13th remake

I love Dune.  It might be one of my favorite movies.  I didn't know it was unintelligible until I showed it to some fiends of mine.  About half way through I looked over and they had to sweet clue what was going on.  

It was a shock.  It was so obvious.  How could they not understand?

That's something that always baffled me about the Lynch Dune movie. I saw it when my age was single digits... didn't read the book until I'd more or less doubled in age (say... 8 and 16 for ballpark), and I never had a problem following it, but man did I lose some respect for Gene Siskell last year when I finally watched him and Ebert discuss it.

Dude did movie watching for a limit and was punked on Dune by an eight year old?  


That aside I'm not sure it qualifies as a movie that 'everyone hates'. Its... divisive but has many, many fans.

I never found Dune confusing; I just thought it was dull with weak protagonists in the sense of, "What's the reason I care about this guy?" I thought it looked cool, though.

Quote from: Headless;1001487I love Dune.  It might be one of my favorite movies.  I didn't know it was unintelligible until I showed it to some fiends of mine.  About half way through I looked over and they had to sweet clue what was going on.  

It was a shock.  It was so obvious.  How could they not understand?

I watched it after reading the book and think that might have helped (though I know a lot of fans of the book who didn't like it).

The only thing I really deeply despised about the Dune movie was turning Baron Harkonnen into a flying buboe.

Well, his character too, actually.  He went from "playing the game of Empire and winning" to "third rate kitten-strangler."

Quote from: Gronan of Simmerya;1001609The only thing I really deeply despised about the Dune movie was turning Baron Harkonnen into a flying buboe.

It has been a while since I've seen the movie, so I might be remembering incorrectly, but in the book he had to use anti-gravity to hold up his fat. So flying buboe doesn't seem like an enormous stretch.

He had an antigravity belt, yes, which made him dance lightly on his feet.  Not fly.

He also did not dress in greasy, filthy leather, nor was he covered with pustles, buboes, chancres, and other assorted globs of pus.

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Not a great film, and the recurring theme song is terrible, but I like it pretty well.
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Wait... are the pockets DRAWN on his shirt?

Who DOES that?  What, do they charge a tax for every pocket you have, so to save money and make him look rich they took a marker to him? I'm confuse.

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