10 Movies You Only Like Because Everybody Else Does

6. Ted (2012)

"Oh, man, you've got to see Ted!" These were pretty much the words uttered by everyone who went to the theatre to catch Seth MacFarlane's first full-length feature movie; a motion picture about a guy played by Mark Wahlberg whose best friend happens to be a drunken, pot-smoking, foul-mouthed teddy bear named "Ted" (voiced by MacFarlane, of course).

Watching Ted, you come to realise that the idea of Ted is what had so many people so excited about it; the concept. The actual movie is lackluster beyond belief, though: pretty much all the jokes fall flat, the screenplay is a mess, and the whole talking teddy bear thing is funny for about five minutes. Then MacFarlane realises that he needs an actual story (because this is a movie, right?) and that's where things start to go very, very wrong.

It's hard to imagine that anybody who claims to have enjoyed Ted actually did to the degree that they remember. It was very much a film of the moment - a tentpole comedy movie - and the associated fever of a talking teddy bear, a somewhat funny trailer (which contained all the good jokes, by the way) and MacFarlane's involvement just swindled the masses.