the pre-eminent self absorbed wacko

Semi-recent FILMS I ENJOYED that you can't chalk up to nostalgia or "you had to be there"-ness
(2003-2012)

500 days of summer
mysterious skin
all the real girls
the departed
i'm a cyborg but that's ok
the beaver
the dark knight trilogy
i heart huckabees

Semi-recent FILMS I HATE that you can chalk up to "you just don't like movies, do you?"

man of steel
inception
the conjuring
hot tub time machine
american reunion
avatar
shame
blue valentine

More can prolly be added to both lists...can't think of everything at once...

I don't know about you, but I can see something of a thread in the films I enjoyed...
500 days and all the real girls deal with desperate hearts/the departed and the dk trilogy deal with right vs. wrong/i heart huckabees, i'm a cyborg but that's ok and the beaver both deal with just plain crazy ppl/mysterious skin is also about crazy people - a pedophile, a hyper-sexual rebel, and a troubled soul with buried memories of his victimhood.  The Departed depicts crazy-savory violence.

the movies I hate list consists of movies i was REALLY looking forward to.  IT might be unfair to include MAN OF STEEL since I never was much of a superman fan.  The guy's an alien for pity's sake.  And he's a freakin' goody-goody.  Bruce Wayne was a goody-goody, but you can see he has to struggle to maintain his righteousness.  as for HTTM, it should have been more fun, same w/ AMERICAN REUNION; INCEPTION was too dry; the whole thing was about getting inside ppl's dreams, but the whole thing felt like a giant wad of plastic.  THE CONJURING just wasn't scary.  It's a good film to watch with your 9 year old son(s) (if applicable), but a grown man who has trouble getting to sleep after seeing that film needs therapy or something...I guess if you've been possessed by a demon, you might relate to it; or if you've lived in a super-haunted house...AVATAR was just stupid.  SHAME was boring and it didn't have to be...ditto w/ BLUE VALENTINE.

semi-recent films I don't care about either way

oldboy
the motorcycle diaries (got 4 or 5 mins through it, boring, IMO)
v for vendetta (watched the whole thing, don't have any strong feelings for or against it)
fracture (ditto)
on the road (too much voice-over narration)
the evil dead (enjoyed the first 5 mins, got interrupted or something, thought abour renting it again, haven't)