-The Avengers
-Hugo
-The Cabin in the Woods
-The Hurt Locker
-Transformers (all of them, although 1 was watchable)

Gonna second Hugo. Only saw about 3/4 or a half of it (I was watching it at home and split it in two), but I found it fairly boring. It looked beautiful, but that was pretty much it. I'll give it another try at some point.

Incidentally, does anyone actually like the Transformers movies?

How are they nasty towards their characters?

The original 80's cartoon movie!

But seriously, i hate the Michael Bay transformers movies.

I didn't like transformers, but i did like indiana jones 4

and i LOVED the new avengers movie.

I find the overwhelming popularity of the Twilight movies more annoying than the films themselves. I've watched most of them with my wife, and while I wouldn't call them good by any stretch, I've been subjected to far worse by her taste in movies. It's the odd and annoyingly zealous fandom that surrounds the series that bugs me. On their own, I find the movies mediocre, forgettable, but hardly worth the hate they generate.

Well when I fast forward through all the parts where there are no robots on screen then my 4 year old son loves them. Does that count?

Well I think children like them...just look at Skids and Mudflap.
Also DEEP WANG!

Not saying that that's all there is. The revenge element is just one building block of a movie that I think earned its mainstream popularity by massaging the audience's pleasure spots through confirming our most simple preconceptions about life, while at the same time pretending to be something more noble.

If you like The Shawshank Redemption, you might wanna check out Cool Hand Luke, if you haven't seen it already. It's a remarkably similar movie, another American prison drama about a Christ figure (this time played by Paul Newman, while the Morgan Freeman part is played by George Kennedy, a white guy ?!) rebelling against the cruelty and injustice of (prison) life. It is, however, deeper and actually has something to say about confinement, Christianity, humanity and, yes, redemption that goes beyond what we thought we knew about the world when we were 10.

Is this a serious question?

No, nobody likes them, this is the reason why each new Transformer movie earns more and more gazillions of dollars.

There is no denying that the visuals and audio in Transformers movies are top-notch, so I can easily understand why someone would buy them on Blueray even just for testing their new home theater system. You don't necessarily want to watch Charlie Chaplin right then, even if his movies are better in many ways.

As a matter of fact, if I go to watch a movie in a movie theater, I expect quite a lot of eye candy from it. Mementos and The Big Lebowskis I can just as well watch from my own TV, I don't need a movie theater for enjoying them to the full.

I have the same feelings. Especially when the audience can ruin the whole experience. Always some douchebag will attend to a movie he doesn't understand so he has to annoy everybody around.

Independence Day.

Utter, utter bilge.

Umm... Yes. Although I will admit large parts of 'Revenge of the Fallen' did take the piss, and Shia LeBouf got more annoying with each film, I still came away from each feeling entertained. *shrugs* What can I say? I have a weakness for watching giant transforming robots destroy each other :-) Of course, none of the Bay films can touch the original 1986 masterpiece, of which I have multiple copies (including the Ultimate Edition tin).

As for movies I hate but others love... I don't tend to hate movies that often, if truth be told. I dislike them a lot, or I fail to see what the big deal is. Rise of the Planet of the Apes, for example, or The Avengers/Avengers Assemble.

Having said that, I do truly, deeply, and utterly HATE 'Avatar'. I mean, it began as a mild dislike when I first saw it, but the more I've thought about it over the years, the more that dislike has morphed into complete loathing. The acting was laughable, the plot was stupid, nothing important was ever explained, the ecosystem of Pandora felt like it had been designed, and the naming of that mineral was a fscking insult. Plus, by the end of the film, only one of two things could logically happen next: 1) the human race dies out, meaning Jake signed the death warrant of billions of men, women and children so he could bang a giant blue cat woman, or 2) humanity comes back and flames the entire planet from orbit, killing every living thing, meaning Jake signed the extinction order for an entire ecosystem just so he could bang a giant blue cat woman.

By the power of Greyskull, I HATE that movie so, so much...