We’ve all had the experience of really enjoying a movie, only to tell our friends about it and find out they all hated it and are all laughing at you when you get up to go to the bathroom. Here are ten such movies for me, ranging from some I kinda like to some I really love, but all of which earn me cock-eyed looks and a bewildered “Wait, really?”

#10: Batman Returns

Now, I don’t love this movie, but I do like it. It definitely deserves better than the reputation it has and despite the above trailer making it actually look pretty terrible, I’m ever willing to defend it.

My colleague Mark is on record saying: “I don’t really enjoy watching Batman Returns at all.” Well, you know what I don’t enjoy, Mark? I don’t enjoy that time in middle school gym class that you turned up all the doors on the lockers so they were stuck open and then wouldn’t confess for a while and everybody in the class almost had to run a bunch of extra laps. That’s what I don’t enjoy at all, buddy!

#9: BASEketball

This is the only movie I can think of that gives you the chance to hear Robert Stack, in full Unsolved Mysteries mode, drop an f-bomb. What I’m saying is, it has a lot of funny parts, though several not-so-funny parts are featured in the trailer as part of the universe’s ongoing attempt to make me look like an idiot.

#8: Blues Brothers 2000

Here it comes. Hold onto your hats because I am about to rock your world: I think Blues Brothers 2000 is better than the first one. Yes, it’s sad that there could be no John Belushi, but in terms of what happens in the movies, the first one and the second one are basically exactly the same movie. But the second one moves along a lot faster, making it an easier, more enjoyable watch. There I said it.

#7: The X-Files: I Want to Believe

I don’t know that it’s really nobody likes this movie, though it did get a lot of negative reviews, as much as nobody even saw it. I’m the only person I know who saw this flick, opening as it did a week after a little movie you may have heard of called The Dark Knight. The timing sort of doomed this movie to being overlooked at the box office, but it’s a worthy addition to the X-Files canon. It asks thought-provoking questions about life and morality, and though the supernatural side of the story is sometimes a little lacking, the stuff about the characters of Mulder and Scully is well done and just what a fan of the TV series would want to see after all these years.

#6: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III

All my turtle-loving friends my age, they turn into real Negative Nancys when it comes to this movie. Here’s my theory on that phenomenon. This movie is no worse than Turtles 2, which these same people all love. But what happened was by the time Turtles III came out, kids in my age group were old enough to think the toys and movies they liked a few years before were stupid and for babies, and it wouldn’t be another ten or so years before they came back around and started loving everything they loved as kids again. So they all just assumed this movie was dumb. Fortunately, since I never grew up at all and never stopped liking the same things I liked when I was four years old, I have always been a big supporter of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III. And while I’m on the subject…

#5: TMNT

Are you people with your bad attitudes liars, assholes, crazy, or what? This movie was great!

#4: The Master of Disguise

Mike Nelson of MST3K, a guy whose opinion on movies I respect more than almost any other, calls this the third worst comedy of all time, better only than Junior and Little Nicky. He couldn’t be more wrong. This movie is funny and I’ll scream that until the day I die.

I remember the day I and a large group of my friends saw it in the theater. Most of them wanted to see something else—M. Night Shyamalan’s Signs, if you can believe anyone wanting to see an M. Night Shyamalan movie—and I and one other brave soul campaigned so hard for The Master of Disguise that we finally broke them down and convinced them to go. They all hated it, because they are idiots. I loved it.

#3: Battle for the Planet of the Apes

PEOPLE: The Planet of the Apes movies just got worse and worse as they went on.
ME: No, you just get worse and worse as you go on, buttmunch.

#2: Psycho II

Critical consensus on this movie basically amounts to “Oh, it’s okay, but not really very good and certainly nothing compared to the original, blah blah.” Roger Ebert says “It’s too heavy on plot and too willing to cheat about its plot to be really successful” and ” I don’t think it deserves a place on a double bill with the original Psycho” and calls it “a movie full of half-sketched characters and half-explained developments.” What is wrong with that guy? This movie is probably the greatest horror sequel of all time and would fit on a double bill with the original movie very comfortably indeed. I think Hitchcock would have been proud of this picture.

#1: Rock-a-Doodle

That’s right, Rock-a-Doodle. The movie that nobody liked and that basically ruined Don Bluth financially is, in fact, the greatest movie of all time. It’s the story of a boy who turns into a cat and follows around an Elvis-style rockabilly rooster voiced by Glen Campbell. There are some villainous owls voiced by Christopher Plummer and Charles Nelson Reilly. THIS MOVIE HAS EVERYTHING!

True story: On my sixth birthday, I got a cassette of the Rock-a-Doodle soundtrack and proceeded to listen to it about five times a day for the rest of my life until the day I die. I freakin’ love this movie and can’t believe there is anybody out there who doesn’t. What’s not to like? That rooster is singing like Elvis! Are you even seeing this? THE ROOSTER IS SINGING LIKE ELVIS!

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