You can't be talked into liking a movie, no matter how much your friends/families/local film critics may try to sway your opinions. But while some of the reasons for your distaste may be common complaints — awkward dialogue, weak performances, distractingly terrible wigs — others may be a touch more...unique. And there were plenty of these unique, verging on utterly absurd, explanations submitted when redditor u/SkyOfFallingWater asked the folks of r/movies for "the most ridiculous reason you've seen for disliking a movie." Here are 19 of 'em, ranging from "too much chrome" to "not enough horses."
Responses have been edited for length and/or clarity.
1. "My mom didn't like The Departed because she couldn't tell Matt Damon and Leonardo DiCaprio apart, and therefore found the plot confusing."
2. "My cousin hated The Batman because it had 'too much thinking.'"
3. "I had a coworker just yesterday say he absolutely hated Knives Out because Daniel Craig was not like James Bond in it. I guess this is how actors get typecast."
4. "My sister refused to watch The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe because according to her, it promoted paganism and witchcraft and was anti-Christian. You know, The Chronicles of Narnia, one of the most blunt biblical allegories ever written. By C.S. Lewis, a devout Christian."
5. "When Mad Max: Fury Road came out, I was talking to a friend who really disliked it. He was shocked when he said I loved it. I asked what he didn't like about it and he said, 'Where did they get all the chrome from?'"
6. "My brother dismissed the Dark Knight trilogy because 'his face looks squished inside the mask.' The worst part is he's not wrong."
7. "My mother at this point in her life refuses to watch any movie that doesn't have either horses or a cooking montage in it. I convinced her to see The Last Jedi because of the horse-like creatures at the casino planet and the new Avatar because of the same. She hated them both because they weren't 'horse-y enough.' Her favorite movies right now are Chef and Nope."
8. "The guy sitting behind me watching Arrival was really irked that there was no big battle scene against the aliens."
9. "I once saw a one-star review for The Princess Bride that complained there were no moral lessons learned."
10. "My mother doesn't like Snowpiercer because she thought it was too unbelievable that the coats worn by the survivors at the end fit them perfectly."
11. "Current day? I have had at least two people tell me they couldn't take The Banshees of Inisherin because 'cutting off fingers isn't a realistic reaction to someone saying they don't like you.'"
12. "My friend once got frustrated while we were watching a horror movie. She said, 'Why don't they just use their mobiles to call for help?! Stupid idiots.' .........The film was made in 1978."
13. "I remember on some message boards when Zodiac came out that people were complaining because they never caught the killer. Well...yeah."
14. "It took me a while to watch the first Thor movie, because after watching the trailers, I couldn't get my head around a Norse god with an Australian accent."
15. "I've known a few people who will never watch a movie with subtitles or more than a decade old. There's so many amazing films out there these people will never see."
16. "They see a musical and go, 'Why are they singing and dancing all of a sudden?'"
17. "This is mine: I didn't like Frozen because the first song led me to believe that all the music in the movie would be in that Scandinavian folk style, but then the rest of the songs were generic musical style. As a lover of folk music, I was highly disappointed. Yes, I am aware that this is a very petty reason."
18. "My friend told me she HATED Jojo Rabbit and when I asked why she said the 'weird angle everything was shot at and the laugh track that didn't match the rest of the audio' were too distracting. ... On further investigation it turned out she had watched a shitty bootleg version her dad downloaded."
19. And finally: "Well, the fake outrage over that gay kiss in Lightyear surely takes the fucking biscuit."
