Everyone else is wrong

[Savonarola]

The film I just watched (The Love Trap) had a biography about William Wyler in which his various collaborators talked about him.  At one point everyone's favorite Stalinist, Lillian Hellman, talked about "Mrs. Miniver."  She said that when she saw it she was in tears since it was so awful and that she berated Wyler for making a film so far beneath him.  Mrs. Miniver went on to win Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography (B&W), and Best Supporting Actress at the 1942 Oscars, was added to the National Film Registry and was ranked as one of the most inspirational films by the AFI.  Hellman is right; the film is garbage, heavy handed garbage.

Do you have a work of art, book, movie or whatever that is universally loved (or hated) and that you hate (or love)?

For me, Maria Callas has a terrible voice.  All of her performances are painful.

[Admiral Yi]

Kurasawa's Ran.

[The Brain]

Terminator 2.

[Grey Fox]

Star Wars, lolz.

[Valmy]

Star Trek.

But nothing from the 1920s or 1930s I can think of so nothing you might be familiar with Sav

[crazy canuck]

Rap music - how is it that is something that has become perhaps not universally, but widely loved.

[Brazen]

My dad (who was in London as a kid during the Blitz) was talking about Mrs Miniver just last week. He said it was the most terribly Americanised vision of England during the war he'd seen. The accents were mostly terrible (especially the kids) and the homes had white picket fences, which really is an all-American phenomenon. I believe it was well-regarded as it broke plot rules (SPOILERS: the girl and not the pilot dies).

Don't know if GF was being ironic, but I do think Star Wars is unfairly praised. It's a mostly awful film with dreadful characteristic and script. I'm not terribly keen on the Godfather films either.

[Martinus]

I actually liked Wild Wild West. 

[Admiral Yi]

I'm not terribly keen on the Godfather films either.

[Valmy]

Ok let's not derail this thing by trying to convince people their hatred of popular stuff is wrong. That way leads to madness.

[Grey Fox]

My dad (who was in London as a kid during the Blitz) was talking about Mrs Miniver just last week. He said it was the most terribly Americanised vision of England during the war he'd seen. The accents were mostly terrible (especially the kids) and the homes had white picket fences, which really is an all-American phenomenon. I believe it was well-regarded as it broke plot rules (SPOILERS: the girl and not the pilot dies).

Don't know if GF was being ironic, but I do think Star Wars is unfairly praised. It's a mostly awful film with dreadful characteristic and script. I'm not terribly keen on the Godfather films either.

I am not.

[Savonarola]

My dad (who was in London as a kid during the Blitz) was talking about Mrs Miniver just last week. He said it was the most terribly Americanised vision of England during the war he'd seen. The accents were mostly terrible (especially the kids) and the homes had white picket fences, which really is an all-American phenomenon. I believe it was well-regarded as it broke plot rules.

Which is funny since Wyler traveled extensively.  He must have known London doesn't look like suburban Los Angeles.

[Valmy]

unfairly praised. It's a mostly awful film with dreadful characteristic and script.

Fairness has nothing to do with it

[lustindarkness]

I kinda feel that way every time I post in the movie/tv thread.

Me: I watched (random movie) and it was great fun.
Languish movie snobs: That movie sucks, plot holes, acting, etc...

[Eddie Teach]

Most 80s teen movies. Especially The Breakfast Club. 

The Mona Lisa. Most of Picasso's works.

Jay-z.