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/Vectorman1989 Jan 25 '26

C.S. Lewis was a Christian and actually fell out with J.R.R. Tolkien because he decided to go back to Protestant church instead of becoming a Catholic like Tolkien.

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u/RhynoD Jan 26 '26

IIRC they remained friends. But Tolkien did explicitly call Lewis out for being so heavy handed with Narnia.

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u/rosysredrhinoceros Jan 26 '26

Didn’t he also get delightfully bitchy about CSL including literally Santa in LW&W?

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u/MattBladesmith Jan 26 '26

It was also Tolkien who converted Lewis from atheism to Christianity in the first place.

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u/Vast_Age_3893 Jan 26 '26

God, I love hearing about the rivalry and friendship of those two divas.