You didnt like the movie because you didnt get it......ok......

[Mr.HyDe807]

This is something that i really dont get. Heres the deal, my friend was praising House of a 1000 corpses, sating it was the greatest horror movie ever made! So, i decided to rent it to check it out. In the end, it was pretty good, but nothing great {5/10}. So i told my friend that i didnt really think it was that great, but i wasnt trying to be mean about it! So he yells back at me saying "you dont like it because you just didnt get it!!!!!".

Actually my fine fellow friend, i most certainly did get it. I know it was a homage to movies like The Texas Chainsaw Masscre and i appreciated its novelty. However, thats still doesnt mean that im gonna like the movie even more.

Has anyone else ever get that from their friends? I mean, you dont need to go all defensive just because i didnt like the movie and then question my taste for them. I have seen and loved all movie genres since i was a kid and would know their homages if there were any????

Just seeing if anybody else get that from their friends!

[bnuz_17]

I like the movie, and my friend watched and said he didn't like it because he didn't get it. When I tell him I like he gets all pissed off and says its shitty...

[Lord Nikon]

Any Lynch fan will do nothing short of setting your house on fire if you tell them that Blue Velvet, Lost Highway, Muholland Drive, sucked ass. I saw Lost Highway and told my friend it sucked cause it made no sense. Ofcourse "I didn't get it". Maybe it's because he makes his stupid movies so that they don't make sense.

[ParileseMonster]

Well, I do not think Lynch movies suck ass at all. But, I keep away from them. The style and technique are great. Unfortunately they confuse the shit out of my mind, which is smart but genetically dyslexic and that gets in the way and that pisses me off!

[jeo4]

I treat most friends like critics. If I listened to half of the opinions offered me on movies, I wouldn't see most of the ones I've seen. There are some exceptions...one of which has known me for 22 years. Otherwise, nobodys opinion sways me about films. And hearing "you just don't get it" just pisses me off because generally that comment comes from fan boys who have some sentimental attachment to a particular star, director, etc. and they can't seem to come up with a more intelligent retort regarding the film.

[boombche_stum]

I agree with you rant my friend. I've gotten this before too. I watched Butterfly Effect to see what the "hype" was about and I did not find it entertaining at all (it had it's moments, but nothing worth noting). And when some of my co-workers were talking about how great it was I expressed my dislike of the film and one belted out, "That's probably just because you're too stupid to get it." Of course I asked him what the hell he was smoking seeing as how the movie isn't exactly the most complicated or deep movie on the planet (I even asked him if we watched the same movie), then he simply said, "Oh, you just didn't like it then." No kidding!

It's the only the fanboys who say this kind of stuff though. I would never tell anybody that they didn't like a movie because they didn't get it because we all have our reasons for liking and disliking a film (and it rarely has to do with "not getting it").

[LoomisFan]

I was once told that I didn't like Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes remake because I didn't understand it.....
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[Raymond Babbit]

Originally posted by LoomisFan
I was once told that I didn't like Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes remake because I didn't understand it.....
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You didn't understand Planet of the Apes? That's just sad




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[thedudeman69]

Originally posted by LoomisFan
I was once told that I didn't like Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes remake because I didn't understand it.....
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What is so hard to not understand? It sucked.

[AceD]

I agree with this rant in part, but the problem is that if you totally agree with the premise than you can never say that someone else doesn't understand a movie you like and they don't.

[Weasel]

This may sound weird, but I think sometimes, people really don't understand a movie, and this is why they don't like it. Not always, and it pisses me off as much as all of you when someone tell me I didn't "get" a movie that sucked, but it happens.

Example :

I blind-bought the MULLHOLAND DRIVE (sp?) DVD having heard a lot of good comments about it. I had never seen any Lynch movie before. So, I watch it for the first time with my parents and my brother (I didn't know about that lesbian scene, it made a pretty awkward moment in the living room...). They all thought it sucked. The acting was good, the directing perfect, but non of us could understand what had just happened. What the fuck were those tiny elderlies about?

But I had just bought the DVD and wanted to convince me that the movie didn't sucked that much. So I watched it again. And again. And scoured the Internet looking for informations about it. And I ended up understanding what the movie mean (because yes, whatever you say about it, it makes sense). Only then, after getting it, I started to like it.

I don't want to start another Lynch debate with this, I just wanted to show that it's possible not liking a movie because we didn't udnerstand it.

[The Heart Collector]

I have to agree with the guy above me. Sometimes people DON'T get movies. I mean really, I've heard some complete barbarities regarding movies by some people.



It reminds me of The Way of The Gun

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I don't actually know anyone who got the fact that Sarno was Robin's father. No one. I most certainly didn't realize it myself, not until after reading it did I hear the dialogue and say "wait, wtf: it's explicit!". I think if you don't get that part of the movie, the whole thing seems kinda nonsensical.
































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[LoomisFan]

Originally posted by Raymond Babbit
You didn't understand Planet of the Apes? That's just sad




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No, no, you don't understand. I was talking about how the ending made no fucking sense, and that the rest of the film was shite, so they said to me, "You just didn't like it because you didn't understand it!"
That's just fucking stupid. The film was a mindless piece of shit, there was no fucking way to understand it.
I hate that damn "movie."

[Madhatter]

i some cases this may be ture.

For example A.I. people rib on the ending saying these aliens are just stupid. they are not aliens they are more advanced A.I. if this is a persons oly reason for not likeing the movie then they didn't get it. But if you dissliked it for other reasons two then it didn't matter if you got the ending or not.

[Misanthrope]

Originally posted by Lord Nikon
Any Lynch fan will do nothing short of setting your house on fire if you tell them that Blue Velvet, Lost Highway, Muholland Drive, sucked ass. I saw Lost Highway and told my friend it sucked cause it made no sense. Ofcourse "I didn't get it". Maybe it's because he makes his stupid movies so that they don't make sense.

Its ok not to like movies because you didnt think much of them. Is moronic to dislike them because "you dont get them". Newsflash: you're not supposed to "get" Lynch movies, forget what you think you know about popcorn mindfuckers like Donnie Darko or Memento.

What pisses me off is that you must "get it" or get things in order to like them, thats just being lazy while watching a movie, i can appreciate movies that do not come with a map, i respect simple straightfoward movies and people who like them, you do not do the same.

[pyscho dude]

Well I hate Lynch's films and it's not just because I didn't get it(why can't he just make a coherent film for once?) but it's also because they're just too weird and bizzare and their not particularily entertaining. I think Lynch is a good director but I don't think he should be allowed to write.

[quoth_the_raven]

I'm always acused of not liking films because I don't "get" them. I generally put it down to the pretensions of the accuser and get on with my life.

but thats just me.

[Hobbs2100]

One thing I never understood is people who say they dont get it because they say movies are not realistic. ITS A FREAKIN MOVIE/

Between those critcs and the ones that dont understand them, I say bring it on. If I liked ANY movie, That gives you the power to debate. Which is something I love to do after everymovie, good or bad.

For those who just didnt get.

First question I always have for them was, "Were you paying attention? Or were you asleep or did you go for popcorn?"

[Misanthrope]

Originally posted by pyscho dude
Well I hate Lynch's films and it's not just because I didn't get it(why can't he just make a coherent film for once?) but it's also because they're just too weird and bizzare and their not particularily entertaining. I think Lynch is a good director but I don't think he should be allowed to write.

The are other people in this world, people other than you. And believe it or not, other people like Lynch as a screenwriter too. I get that you dont like them because they are too weird, i realize they are not for everyone, but you're attitute is very annoying. Let the people who produce, fincance and in the end watch his movies whenever he should be allowed to write.

If there is an example of how the exact opposite attitute being as annoying is this, who do you think you are to tell other people what should and should not write and what they should and should not see?

[BubbaStrangelove]

You all hang out with a bunch of assholes.

Seriously, I wouldn't hang with someone who talked to me like that. All of my friends (many of whom are Lynch fans, btw) wouldn't say something like that. Either you appreciate the movie, or you didn't. Anytime someone doesn't like a movie, and another friend goes into a long monologue about it's pros, the other friend will say something funny like, "Well, when you explain it like that, the movie kicks ass!"

It wasn't really until I came on these boards did I even realize you could insult someone by saying that a they didn't get a movie. When I first heard that, I was like, "Yeah, I didn't get it. What was so great about it?" Then was usually confused why they never explained it to me.

Later on, I realized it was meant to be like some sort of insult - a very lame sort of insult. Like, they were shrugging me off or some shit. What the hell is that about? Yeah, fuck you. When my foot is up your ass, and you're screaming "Why? Why?" I'll fucking say back, "Hey, you just don't get it!" but deep in my heart I'll be ready to explain how my foot ended up your ass.

So, that's my look on it -- Someone pointing out you didn't get a movie, no big deal. Someone trying to defend a movie by belittling your understanding of it, and not being able to explain it to you, major uncool.

[B1rd_Po0p]

Oooh, I was on the other side of this one... :o

I lent Shaun Of The Dead to a co-worker. She hated it. I said "You just don't get British humor." and she goes "No, I just hated it." So to test her ability to "get" movies: I lent her Donnie Darko - which she loved. So... I guess she just hated Shaun Of The Dead. (Which is something I don't get! :D)

[BubbaStrangelove]

Originally posted by B1rd_Po0p
"You just don't get British humor."


I can't speak for anyone else, but I'd say "Not guilty."

You explained why you think the worker didn't get it -- not at all like the other instances bitched about here, where it clearly seems like the *guilty* was sticking their nose in the air.

[SAI]

this happened to me recently actually, in reference to Dear Frankie. I just said what I always say when the 'you just didn't get it' argument comes up. That it's a bad way to argue, read my review and actually address some of the points i made if you want to argue about how good a film is, don't just imply i'm a moron.

and in reference to Lynch, lost highway in particular - I don't think you are supposed to get it