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I find that people don't "get" certain movies if they aren't in the right mood when they watch them. For example, if you're in crappy mood and you can't let certain problems go, then if you go watch a comedy you might not find it very funny. Or if you are watching a low-brow Amerian teen comedy but were expecting brittish humor. Things like that. I think if a movie is considered to be good by a lot of your friends (friends tend to have similar tastes, though there are exceptions, which is why I say a lot of them) then I think it's worth spending 2 hours of your time re-watching the movie when you're in a different mindset. Also, many times the second watching of a movie is actually better than the first watching.
As for people saying they don't "get" movies that they haven't even seen the whole of, for whatever reason - maybe you don't get it because you didn't watch the whole thing. Movies are supposed to be taken in all at once, not in pieces. If you only see the first half, or last half, or middle of a movie, then I wouldn't expect you to "get" why it's so good. Give them another chance and watch them all the way through. 99% of the time, if I commit myself to a movie, I watch it in its entirety just to give it a chance to pick up or explain itself.
There are few movies I don't like. Each has merit in its own way. Of all the movies listed here that I have watched, I can't think of any that I would say I didn't "get." Even a movie like Matrix Revolutions - I was disappointed by it, but everyone was disappointed by it, so I don't consider me not "getting" that. It did have some nice action in it, but it didn't live up to the expecations of the fans.
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