9 Movies That Everyone Has Been Tricked Into Believing They Love

7. The "I Want To Believe" Trick - Harry Potter 1-8

I like Harry Potter. The books (save for the last one) are immensely clever, brilliantly engrossing and the characters are wonderful. J.K. Rowling deserves all the praise that has been heaped upon her. I say this because I don't want to be branded a Potter hater. Far from it, in fact: I've simply just never been to see a Harry Potter movie adaptation without walking out of the theatre to find myself thinking: "That was all right."

Not a single one of these movies (except one) has ever had me feeling like they were anything but rigid, factory-like adaptations. Save for Alfonso Cuaron's stand-out third venture, that's exactly what these movie are: factory-like. Yet Potter fans took to these things with enough gusto to fill the hall at Hogwarts, most of whom wanted to enjoy each chapter so badly that they declared every new one they saw as "the best film yet."

Thing is, there's something unnerving about the conveyer belt-esque, tick-list styled approach that the filmmakers took to bringing Potter to the big screen. Are they bad films? Not really. Are they great cinema? No. The problem is that movie-goers were simply given eight movies that were so factory-pressed that they were impossible to object to.