I never watch Colbert and I very rarely watch the interviews on The Daily Show. I am a fan of Jon Stewart, though.

Lion King 1 1/2 is my favorite Disney movie. I like it more than the original.

Maybe it's possible to compile a taxonomy of why differences of opinion exist...

1. People are different (part 1). One's genome may process adrenalin differently so that one person's horror film becomes another's snooze-fest.
2. People are different (part 2). Did the movie 'speak to you' because of all your accumulated influences that define your personality, or leave you cold as you haven't 'travelled' there yet, in real life or in imagination?
3. Encountering a pop phenomenon after it was a thing? It may have went viral/topped the charts in its day, but coming to it a decade afterwards won't have the same effect. You maximize your chances of liking something if its defining/reflecting the zeitgeist. Tone dates. Effects date. Editing styles date. Everything dates.
4. State of mind when seeing it. Are you watching the movie out with your mates after a couple of drinks, or alone after a traumatic break-up?
5. Did you see the movie on IMAX in the sweet-spot, or your iPhone 3GS whilst commuting? Was it 'edited for content' on a red-eye flight with numerous interruptions?
6. Have you overdosed on the movie/song/album/band/TV show? After binging on Jim Beam or chocolate cake, it may turn you off them for life. Why wouldn't it be the same for a movie? You can have too much of a good thing.
7. Peer group pressure. If everyone says 'x' is cool, are you forced to conform? Or are you forced to take the opposite viewpoint just to be different? Does your inner hipster refuse to like mainstream fodder?
8. Wrong age. Stuff is targeted to certain demographics. Why would 30-year olds like stuff made for teens? You can outgrow something you used to like.
9. Geekdom. You've read every article, watched every interview, behind-the-scenes, out-takes, etc. Of course you'll "get it" compared to a novice coming in cold.
10. Culture - why would we like the latest hottest Japanese fad, when we grew up in the west?

There's probably many more...

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I LOVE Dollhouse, George of the Jungle, Shrek (Just #1, the rest can go die in a fire), and Space Jam.

And probably my weirdest and dirtiest secret favorite movie... Farce Of The Penguins. I honestly have no explanation for this, I just think it's fricking hilarious, it defies all logical explanation.

I hated Shrek 1 and fell asleep about 15 minutes into Shrek 2—which I NEVER DO.

Whoever wrote the Robin Hood rap/Fiona kung fu scene in Shrek 1 should get shingles.

I forgot to mention my dirtiest secret: I'm not too crazy about The Hurt Locker. It feels too dry. I have to admit it's still a better movie than Avatar (which totally relies on the 3D gimmick - the whole plot is recycled from old classics).

The movies (even the Extended Editions) don't bore me at all despite their length. I'd say they're much better than the books (Tolkien was not a great writer - he was simply a linguist who thought it was necessary to develop a mythology for his languages).

Oh gods....Avatar.

I'm sure I've said it before, but, I fully acknowledge that the story is recycled from about 50 stories that also recycled it from other recycled stories....whatever. I still really enjoy it, because for me at least, the world and the development around it is so completely amazing that I'm drawn into the story of the planet. It's kinda like a really deeply detailed oil painted still life of a bowl of fruit. The foreground is utterly stereotypical and boring that most people would just pass it off as a hack job, but every inch of the background is so richly detailed and every inch of it is filled with so many fascinating little things that you could spend hours just looking at it.

*Sorry...that analogy came off a little more condescending than I intended...I'm just a guy that really enjoys  looking at the background and the environment, and taking in every facet of the universe of a movie like that, if you aren't, cool.

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I'm not so sure about that actually, if he were setting it in the same place, I would probably agree no hesistation. We've already seen the hometree tribe and the hallelujah mountains, and everything that's to do with the forest part of Pandora, not that I wouldn't love to spend more time there and discover more about the place, but we've seen enough that it would be really hard to recapture that absolutely amazement and engagement with the location.

Now, however, if the rumours are true and Cameron is actually setting Avatar 2 in one of the other tribes, specifically an ocean dwelling one (Cameron and ocean life...never saw that one coming) it's a whole new ball game. Everything we see will be something new and amazing and fascinating. And if they can pull it off nearly as successfully as they did for Avatar 1. I'm all on board, story or no.

Of course, if he did manage to knock the story and the universe out of the park, it would definitely be contender for my favourite movie of all time.

Sorry...yeah, I'm a huge universe building geek.

I've seen Die Hard and Aliens too many times. I still can see why they're very good movies, but I can't be genuinely entertained by them anymore 

It holds up to a second viewing really well.

On the other hand, I revisited The Goonies (a movie I grew up with) and it wasn't nearly as great as I remembered it.

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