You watch movies for a different reason than your friends do. That's all. Ranking everyone's intelligence (be honest, you meant intelligence when you said "education") based on their entertainment preferences is a bad habit that won't make your life any easier, so nip that *beep* in the bud while you're still young.
I enjoyed the movie, but I don't think it demanded very much, intellectually. And it didn't presume any familiarity with philosophical literature. The ultimate futility of all things is an uncomfortable thought, but it's not inaccessible to anyone. A lot of people, educated or not, just prefer not to be made to think about these things, on the weekend, at the movies.
It could also be as simple as they didn't like or care about the characters. I'll admit that this wasn't the best thing about this movie. The main character probably appeals only to brooding solipsists, and the rest didn't resemble actual human beings in any way other than physical form. But that didn't put me off because I expect that, to a certain extent, with a Terry Gilliam movie. I get why that would bother someone who's not familiar with his stuff, or just wants more of a believable human story. I can't watch rom-coms because I always find the characters so detestable - if there's anything redeeming about a rom-com, it's lost on me because of my hatred for everyone in it.
All that said, I'll admit hypocrisy in that if you told me your favorite movie was something like "Heaven is for Real", then I would think you were stupid and uneducated and I would know I could never love you and that we could never even be friends.
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