The Most Misunderstood Movies of 2008

[EricJ]

Originally Posted by P@t_Mtl

For me the most misunderstood movie of 2008 was Indiana Jones & The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull.

Too bad the list only wanted "Misunderstood" = "Quirky independent"...

Indy IV was certainly "misunderstood" by its own co-producer (Steve was trying to END it, George!--Give him a little slack for some period nostalgia), and wasn't quite "Worst movie like ever, d00d! ", but was the product of its own twenty-year studio stubbornness.

But let's face it: If this was Yahoo!Movies' list, they'd STILL try to find some way of squeezing a "The Happening" joke out of it...
Okay, so it wasn't Hitchcock or "The Birds", but I'd rather see M. Night Shamalyan try to imitate Hitchcock and fail, than try to imitate Joseph Campbell and fail, with mermaids and pools and self-cameos, 'n stuff.
Like Indy IV, it helps when you know what a director was trying to do, even if he never quite got there.