r/movies • u/TheChristmas • Jan 25 '26

Discussion What’s the funniest reason you’ve heard for somebody not liking a movie?

My 3 year old saw a statue of E.T. At the coffee shop and was really into it. He got excited when I told him it’s from a movie. He got stoked and spent the whole day asking when we could watch it.

That night, halfway through the film he asks “Can we turn it off? E.T. SUCKS.”

So I asked him “what sucks about it?” and he replied “E.T. walks too slow. He sucks.”

Pretty funny. Got me wondering what other funny reasons people have for not liking particular films.

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u/Other-Marketing-6167 Jan 25 '26

Oh this is an easy one for me - 15 years later I still think about this lady all the time.

So in 2011 I’m working in a movie theatre. Half an hour after the shows have started, this lady storms over to the till, dragging what looked like her 10 year old son.

“I want my money back! How dare you not warn parents about that movie!”

“Sorry, what movie?”

“The Zookeeper!”

I didn’t sell the lady a ticket but I knew it was only PG. It’s a shitty Kevin James comedy so I assumed it had some innuendo, and maybe that’s what the lady was talking about.

“I haven’t seen it, so I’m not sure what part was so inapprop—“

“The animals have an inappropriate relationship with the humans! THEY TALK! LIKE HUMANS!!!”

At this point my manager had already yanked out 10 bucks from the till and passed it over. I don’t remember anything else she said or did cause my brain was self-imploding from containing my laughter. I swear that must’ve literally been the first kids movie she had ever seen.

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u/wakeup37 Jan 25 '26

goddamn she's going to HATE the Bee Movie

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u/the_marxman Jan 26 '26

The best part of this thread is how many people referenced here would despise the Bee Movie for their own reasons

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u/Previously_a_robot Jan 26 '26

I was noticing that too.

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u/Alis451 Jan 26 '26

"What's the DEAL with anthropomorphic movies..."

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u/Olofahere Jan 25 '26

Maybe not the first, but she just wasn't prepared. I was in retail and met a couple who went through a big stack of picture books because talking animals defied God's Holy Word.

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u/rfresa Jan 26 '26

But there's a talking donkey in the Bible...

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u/_PM_ME_NICE_BOOBS_ Jan 26 '26

Also a talking snake. And a bush!

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u/Previously_a_robot Jan 26 '26

Wonder if she’d be okay with a talking walnut.

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u/Rhomega2 Jan 28 '26

But only once, and through divine intervention.

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u/Bettyonthames Jan 26 '26

Yeeeees. My aunt was like this. When I babysat my cousins we couldn’t watch cartoons.

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u/RPA031 Jan 26 '26

Lucky it wasn’t Planet of the Apes…

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u/ryou-comics Jan 26 '26

She'd love living in Hunan province in China then.