OK, I know what you\u2019re thinking: you can sort of chalk this one up to the relentless over-quoting of lines like, \u201cVery nice!\u201d and \u201cGreat success!\u201d (I\u2019m cringing as I type this). However, that doesn\u2019t take away the fact that this is one hell of a funny movie or that it was so freaking popular in its day that it actually won major awards and led to said over-quoting.<\/p>\n
However, it\u2019s worth pointing out that despite the tremendous popularity of it, I haven\u2019t encountered a single fan of this movie in years. And when I ask them why they hate it, never does the over-quoting come up. The fans have simply disappeared. On two occasions people have listed this as the worst movie they have ever seen, and the usual response to\u00a0Borat<\/em>\u00a0these days seems to be eye-rolling (which I\u2019m sure had nothing to do with my \u201cmy other shirt is on your wife\u201d T-shirt).<\/p>\n The Departed<\/em>\u00a0(2006)<\/strong><\/p>\n This one really bugs me, in a unique way. The film has a great and growing number of people who dislike it intensely. But it\u2019s not the detractors who bug me; you\u2019re free to dislike whatever you want, you strange, art-hating degenerates. What bugs me are the people I know who happen to like this movie. For one reason, even they seem to have gone out of their way to find fault with it. Whenever I mention this movie to someone who I know likes it, they almost always say, \u201cOh yeah! That was, like, in my top 10 favourite movies, it\u2019s so good.\u201d Then I always follow up with, \u201cYeah. Did you know Scorsese won the Oscar for that?\u201d To which they always respond, \u201cOh really? Yeah, I hate career wins.\u201d<\/p>\n Why? You like the movie, so why is it that Scorsese\u2019s win has to be a career win? If he was really handed this award because of his career, he would have won for\u00a0The Aviator<\/em>\u00a0or\u00a0Gangs of New York<\/em>,\u00a0when the chatter about him being overdue was just as loud. This time he actually earned it. Give him his due. You like the movie, so why are you putting his win down?<\/p>\n Shrek 2<\/em>\u00a0(2004)<\/strong><\/p>\n What a strange fate befell this movie. When it came out, people were calling it the funniest movie in a long time, a sequel that was even better than the original. I went to it in theatres and will never forget the laughter \u2014 it was deafening. Now, just mentioning it makes people groan and say, \u201cReally?\u201d in that long and snobby tone that boils me up inside. What happened?<\/p>\n My theory is that it\u2019s been lumped in with the other sequels. They were failures and people have just decided to somehow forget all the fun they had with\u00a0Shrek 2<\/em>\u00a0and assume it was just as bad. In fact, you might even be able to add the original\u00a0Shrek<\/em>\u00a0to the mix as I haven\u2019t heard anything positive about that one in a while. Please give this movie another try. It really is beautifully funny and smartly written.<\/p>\n
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