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I say Meet the Parents too...I haven't wished I was laughing more in my life. I'm sure Meet the Fockers is even worse but I'll spare myself the pain.
Also Spider-Man and Spider-Man 2. I just don't "get" comic books, superheroes, or movies based on them. I also can't deal with such unrealistic movies that try to present themselves as somewhat realistic. I admit these are totally my problem and not necessarily a problem with the films, but the effects reel for Spider-Man 2 is only 10 or 15 minutes long and Spider-Man would have died about 20 times in it if he was a real human. I can deal with shooting some webs out but come on, nobody who got bit by a spider can get hit by trains and fall off buildings without a scratch. Look at Michael Jackson, he got bit by a spider and he can't even walk to court. =P
Fight Club and Mulholland Drive seem to be the movies that people love that other people love to hate. I think they were fantastic from the first time I saw them, and no, I don't claim to have understood them and I still don't entirely. But their commercial failures show one of the reasons that the MPAA usually cranks out such crap as Scooby Doo 2. Every time someone tries to make an innovative movie, people don't like it because they don't understand it and the studio loses money, and when studios lose money, studio chiefs get fired (though I'm sure they haven't done too poorly with the DVD sales). On the other hand, they can make a sequel to a popular movie and no matter how bad it is it will make a ton of money. It's a cliche, but people will get what they pay for.
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