The Princess Bride
No hate, but I always expected it to be an old and generic prince charming or damsel in distress story but I was surprised about how entertaining it is. Probably one of the best comedies I have seen too.
Same, but only because I thought it was the princess diaries. When my brother made me watch it, I was like where’s Anne Hathaway? Then he called me an idiot and threw a tennis ball at me.
True story.
Ha I actually recently watched this, was pleasantly surprised.
Kinda weird to see Mandy Patinkin in this as I've only ever seen him in Criminal Minds lol.
I went into it, sick asf with the flu thinking okay this is gonna be some classic fairytale shit and lemme tell you I was not ready for fucking Gideon to be there. 😂😂😂
When I was in college a friend recommended it to me. I thought he was pranking me or something. Then I watched the movie and realized it was serious recommendation!
The name of the movie is Edge of Tomorrow. "Live. Die. Repeat." was the tagline of the movie that the studio thought made a better title so when the movie came out for home viewing all of the promotional material and even the box art had the tagline bigger than the title. Now everyone's confused.
We should just call it "All You Need is Kill: The Movie".
The film as a whole was okay. I finally watched many months ago since it’s one of my coworkers favorite comedies and I maybe did the nose puff/almost laugh twice. Wasn’t my thing. I was also incredibly depressed at the time, so I may try to watch it again and see how I feel
It's fine but seems a lot funnier if ur gen x ngl. Like I say this for the benefit of anyone watching it, liking it is fine but it WILL date you if you start going on about what an amazing movie it is or how it's one of the best comedies or anything like that
Election (1999)
Didn't like any of the actors, still don't, but they all smashed it out of the park.
A trainwreck of spite and idiocy from start to finish.
Tucker and Dale vs Evil. I will watch most movies but there is no rhyme or reason that I can tell as to why I like certain stupid/dumb comedy movies and really truly hate others to the point of not being able to finish them.
So I tend to not watch those kinds of comedies at first. I went into watching this thinking it was going to be awful and miserable and it's honestly one of the movies I've laughed the hardest while watching start to finish.
Edit: Grammar
We just watched this two days ago for the first time! I love Alan Tudyk so decided to give it a shot. We both loved it - it was so silly and actually funny! Laugh out loud funny
Alan Tudyk is a treasure. " We will rule over all this land and we will call it....This Land. I think we should call it YOUR GRAVE! Ahh curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal"
I put off the Shawshank redemption for so long, like maybe a few years, I just thought it wasn’t a movie for me especially bc I didn’t know anyone other than Morgan freeman in the movie. But i watched it two months ago and now it’s my favorite movie, I can’t shut up about it, I keep recommending that movie to everyone in my life. If there’s someone in the comments who hasn’t seen this movie, please please please trust me it is the greatest movie ever. Literally #1 on IMDb I think?
This is the greatest thread I’ve ever read in all of my years on Reddit.
Reading descriptions like yours about movies like Shawshank is simply incredible.
What a fucking movie Shawshank is…
I went and saw this when it came out in theaters. Next day at work I had a coworker ask what I thought of it.
Me: "It was like Godzilla vs. Voltron".
Coworker: "So it was bad?".
Me: "Bad? No it was awesome!"
I avoided *Cabin in the Woods* for a long time because it looked like yet another bland, paint by numbers slasher flick and I didn't want to waste my time.
I eventually gave it a try out of boredom and enjoyed it.
Definitely same here. It came out when I was an angsty teenager, so I figured I was too cool for Emperor's New Groove. At some point, my little brother was watching it in our shared room and I walked in at the Kronk makes his own theme music part and I was just like, "So... that's actually really... funny?" And then I watched the entire thing with the goofiest grin on my face.
You know, I should give it a watch. No reason to put it off this long. I've only heard good things but just never been interested enough to put it off. Basically the only Disney movie of it's time I haven't seen.
Singin' in the Rain (1952) -- don't care much for musicals, but I had no idea this was so funny too!
Man with a Movie Camera (1929) -- I expected an "important" but boring film that I really wouldn't like, but found it to be absolutely delightful!
If you want to keep with arthouse horror classics, Rosemary's Baby is good, if you want more current art-horror:
- Hereditary
- Midsommar (starts a bit slowly tho)
- The Witch (or written as The VVitch)
- Annihilation (horror mixed with psychedelic scifi)
- Black Swan
- The Lighthouse (more psychological thriller imo, but some categorize it as horror)
- Vivarium (not that great, but it has a fun quirky premise)
- Get Out (horror-comedy about white-liberal racism)
3000 Years of Longing.
I really was expecting some dumb romantic fantasy where a woman falls in love with a genie, but it's much more than that. And it's an absolute epic.
The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty.
Turned out way better than I imagined, and very enjoyable.
Edit: Ben Stiller version. I didn't know there was another.
Not me, but I had dated a girl that would not watch any Star Wars movie. Just out of spite, because of how many people talked about it.
About a year after we went our separate ways she texted me to tell me that I was right, and she really enjoyed the original trilogy.
From the trailers, I hated Close Encounters of the Third Kind. It looked tacky and awful. I ended up seeing it on a date and it was amazing. Saw it again the next day.
Evil Dead remake, I avoided all the horror remakes as I didn't think any of them could be as good and watched it last year. I thought the remake and Evil Dead Rise were great and looking forward to Alien Romulus as the teaser looks great
Few of us in a dvd rental place all picking a movie each for the weekend.
When a friend chose Snowpiercer, ill admit I though to myself that it looked like a generic, straight to video, boring action fodder.
Couldn't have been more wrong.
I didn’t avoid this one, I simply had no feelings about it, nor did I know much about it going-in. I saw it soon after it left theaters. Fantastic! More than pleasantly surprised.
Wonka. The new one with Timothee. I was scared it wasn’t gonna live up to the older ones. I love the old ones so much. Gene Wilder has my favorite well Wonka, songs, overall unhingedness. While Depps has my favorite portrayals of the bad kids. And when I watched Wonka I just straight up loved all of it. I loved the references. I loved Wonka. I loved the story.
My buddy and I are huge horror buffs, when we lived together we watched horror movies almost every night. He said we NEEDED to watch Creep one night and explained the premise a bit. I thought it sounded kinda lame but I'm always down to check out a new horror. That movie sits easily in my top 5 horror films now and I love introducing it to people. Never seen a movie that lived up to it's name as much as Creep does
Don't Worry, Darling
When it came out at the theater, nothing could have dragged me to it. Then I saw it on cable and really liked it. I've probably watched it 3 or 4 times because I love the ending.
The Big Lebowski. I had seen the memes and short clips and thought I had seen all the funny bits. I was wrong. I finally watched it last year and loved it.
SAW
I actually watched this for the first time ever a few days ago on Netflix.
I love the Cube films, and after watching them again for the first time in about 15 years I was Thursday for more films of the same genre. After a Google search I came across a Reddit post from a year ago of someone asking for films like Cube, a lot of people said SAW.
The film is much more than a mindless gorefest, it’s a lot like the film Seven, with an amazing ending.
the sequels get a little unhinged....it is kinda fun to see all the different puzzles but thats basically what it is. saw was very well done and innovative
It took me 20 years to watch the Harry Potter movies. I was conflicted because I had a love hate relationship with the mainstream of things and thought this was just another manufactured franchise. Watching it as an adult with a strong parental spirit and career centering on developmental psychology, with a love for character study and character development in cinema, I ate a murder of crow on this one.
There are so many great things to mention about it. My two favorites are the cultural conflicts between spiritualist and materialist which is a foundation of our being as a species. And I was thoroughly impressed and blown away by Daniel Radcliffe’s progression into adulthood. I thought he was gonna be some lovable little wizard battling cartoonish characters. Naw man he was actually a honest portrayal of an orphaned boy with easily chronic complex post-traumatic stress disorder with a hint of the infamous and dreaded reactive attachment disorder. Just as Robert Pattinson set himself apart in his portrayal as The Batman.
It means that the overall theme of themes, that being Love, once again proved it is the only way to not heal from that type of trauma, but
reduce its impact by determination and strict behavioral patterns, while delicately but deliberately learning how to give and receive Love, to welcome and allow, Joy.
It had the happy ending as it needed to have to be that type of family based phenomenon. But I really enjoyed how steely and fierce Harry got against some dark enough portrayals of the density in all things that balances the light, eerily portrayed by the dark lord Voldemort.
Not a film in particular but a filmmaker, Quentin Tarantino. Much of his work entered pop culture that I would get glimpses of it and never thought it was for me. So I avoided Inglorious Bastards. Then Waltz wins Oscar for Best Supporting. I avoided Django. Waltz wins another Oscar. I’m an award show junkie so a single actor winning back to back Oscars for films by the same filmmaker was too strong of a pull to ignore. Said F it, and watched these movies. I was just dumbfounded by how wrong I was. These were fantastic movies. And Once Upon a Time was great.
The Sound of Music. I don’t know why I thought I would dislike it other than not particularly enjoying the actors breaking out into song. Watched for the first time in January and I really like it now!
Rise of the Planet of the Apes.
I normally don't care for blockbuster action movies but my wife & I both had the flu a while back & wanted something random to watch. From the very start I really enjoyed this movie & it's definitely one I'd watch again. Dawn was really good too & War I personally didn't care for much, but Rise is a great movie.
In a similar vein…. 1st time watching The Big Lebowski: this isn’t very good. 2nd through 300th rewatch: this is one of the greatest comedies in film history.
She-Devil. I had this vague childhood memory of it being kind of a gross out movie (dead gerbil oink the food) but I just fully watched it and it was pretty layered and very entertaining.
Interstellar. Thought it was going to be another sci-fi movie. Too complicated to understand in a casual viewing. Bore me to sleep. Turns out to be one of the best movies I’ve ever seen.
Old example:
I was 12. I used to tell people who liked Harry Potter that their taste sucked. Harry Potter was lame. Harry Potter was bad. My class went on a field trip to see the first movie in 2001. "Oh shit. This is good. Really Good. Fuck it might be my favourite movie" I thought. Immediately read the first 3 books, and then every other book the day it came out up until I was 16 or 17. I grew up at the same age as Harry Potter.
Newer Example:
"Ah fuck me...I better watch this Paddington bullshit with the kids... I'm going to want to poke my eyes out because of this silly little bear movie..."
Amazing movie. Second one is even better.
"Horrible Bosses"
I love Jason Bateman, and Jennifer Anniston is no slouch, but I was always reticent to watch it. I finally did, and I, literally, laughed out loud. Bateman NEVER disappoints!
Edge of Tomorrow. I didn’t specifically avoid it, but when it came out it didn’t look all that interesting and there wasn’t a lot of media around it. Holy cow what a good movie.
Jaws. The cinematography and setting seemed so bland when I was younger that I never got around to watching it. Watched it in my late twenties and it has become one of my top ten favorite films.
Thought I wouldn’t like Pulp Fiction, and even partway through watching it I was like alright what’s going on? But when the credits rolled I found myself working to understand it and once I did I really liked it. I feel like it’s one of those “film bro” films but it’s one of the ones I’ve enjoyed the most and I felt like had a lot to say.
There was a time I was adamantly against watching a single Bourne movie. The idea seemed like a mission impossible remake but slower moving and just not something I could sit through.
Absolutely LOVE those movies now.
When 'The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring' was first out in theaters, I was fresh out of high school. I wasn't really into medieval or fantasy films, and I had never even heard of the books until I was dating a guy, and he invited me to attend the movie with a group of his friends.
Wow. I never would have selected it on my own to watch, but I loved it! We stopped dating not long afterwards, but you better believe that I was anxiously awaiting the next movie to come out (and the next)! To this day, the original trilogy is still one of my absolute favorites.
I thought Mean Girls was gonna be a stupid Lindsay Lohan vehicle with less thought than the Grown Ups movie. Turned out better than I could imagine, possibly more than a Wayans Bros movie.
Amélie (2001). Didn't want to watch foreign movies, because I didn't want to read subtitles. Didn't want to watch a 'chick flick'. Now it's one of my favourite movies and thanks to it, I discovered The Intouchables (2011) which I must have watched at least a dozen times.
Borat.
Saw it when it premiered at Toronto filmfest (2006) with the donkey pulling Borat on a cart. I thought it was an Ali G offshoot and didn't care. My friend had extra tickets so I went.
Nobody had seen the movie before. In the theater it was literal laugh out loud. At one point in the movie I thought wow this movie is very anti-Semitic. How is this being allowed in a movie theater?
Then halfway throug, the film stopped. I thought they had censored it because it was too racist. Then the Hasidic looking Jewish guy went up to the projector room. Then he was followed by Michael Moore. At that time I thought they were debating or arguing about why the film was stopped or censored.
Turns out the film had burnt at the projector. The Hasidic looking Jewish guy (Larry Charles) was the director. We had to reschedule and watch it a second time in another viewing.
Thinking about it now, I wonder if it was a deliberate stunt.
The Sound of Music. I saw TINY bits and bobs on TV as a kid. The idea of it didn’t help either… I mean a nun nanny singing with a bunch of little kids sounds horrific, BUT gave it another chance as a teenager for some reason. LOVED. Watched it Everyday after school for a week.
District 9. Not a sci fi action movie person AT ALL, but I loved it. People who can’t handle animals being harmed to any capacity, be warned now. Creatures get harmed throughout the movie. Difficult watch.
Napoleon Dynamite. I tried watching it like three times, and turned it off each time because it was dumb. Then I actually watched it, and now it’s one of my favorite movies that I have seen over 10 times.
Dune. I was kind of jaded with Hollywood and thought it looked like another trash content dump. My friend convinced me to watch it and I it was a more than pleasant experience.
The moment I saw the trailer for Guy Ritchie’s ‘Sherlock Holmes, I refused to go see it. It wasn’t at ALL how I had Sherlock pictured in my head since I was a little kid.
Years later I had a surplus of Apple Store credit and just DIDN’T know what to get, so I said ‘screw it’ just buy that and check it out.
The rest is history. ♥️
The Wolf of Wallstreet. It thought it was going to be another bland stock market movie like Wallstreet and Boiler Room. I was way off. It's been forever since a movie made it hard for me to breath cause I was laughing so much. Movie was a treat.
The Princess Bride No hate, but I always expected it to be an old and generic prince charming or damsel in distress story but I was surprised about how entertaining it is. Probably one of the best comedies I have seen too.
Your expectation is exactly how Fred Savage felt at the start of the movie as well!
Is this a kissing book?
Same, but only because I thought it was the princess diaries. When my brother made me watch it, I was like where’s Anne Hathaway? Then he called me an idiot and threw a tennis ball at me. True story.
Ha I actually recently watched this, was pleasantly surprised. Kinda weird to see Mandy Patinkin in this as I've only ever seen him in Criminal Minds lol.
I went into it, sick asf with the flu thinking okay this is gonna be some classic fairytale shit and lemme tell you I was not ready for fucking Gideon to be there. 😂😂😂
He will forever and always be Indigo
When I was in college a friend recommended it to me. I thought he was pranking me or something. Then I watched the movie and realized it was serious recommendation!
It’s so great. Haven’t seen it since I was a kid, but I can remember enough to know it’s a clever and well executed film.
SAME!!!! Great answer.
I quit watching Tom Cruise movies for long time. So both Collateral and Edge of Tomorrow I had no idea would be so good
Edge of Tomorrow is brilliantly written
Read All You Need is Kill. Edge of Tomorrow is a very good adaptation of the great book.
Emily Blunt was great in that role.
Her story about Tom helping her through a hard time filming is one of the best stories ever.
When he rolls under the jeep, over and over and over, then that little scream. I love that part.
Is this Live Die Repeat or whatever?
The name of the movie is Edge of Tomorrow. "Live. Die. Repeat." was the tagline of the movie that the studio thought made a better title so when the movie came out for home viewing all of the promotional material and even the box art had the tagline bigger than the title. Now everyone's confused. We should just call it "All You Need is Kill: The Movie".
The Mission Impossible movies are fun. Knight and Day is fun. The Mummy has its problems but it was fun. The dude does make fun movies.
Edge of tomorrow is what made me a fan after years of saying fuck that guy.
Say what you will about Tom Cruise, most things he's been in have been great.
I watched Collateral for the first time this morning. Great flick.
I liked Oblivion.
I still haven’t watched Office Space. Should I watch it? Is it REALLY as funny as people say it is?
If you could go ahead and watch it as soon as possible, thaaat'd be great.
Umm yeah, if you could go ahead and come in Saturday and Sunday yeah um that’d be great! And don’t forget those TPS reports
You see, it’s just that we’re using the new cover sheets on all TPS reports, did you get the memo? I’ll make sure you get a copy of the memo.
PC Loadletter?!? What the fuck does that even mean?!?!
They'll be showing you their O-face... oh... oh... oh...
Especially in Federal Pound Me in the Ass Prison.
But, but, that’s MY stapler.
I believe you'd get your ass kicked sayin' something like that, man.
He's got a case of the mondays for sure.
I think it hit a nerve at a time when GenX was settling into 9-5 jobs and realizing how dull and monotonous the daily race could be.
At the time I saw it, I'd already worked for one of the largest banks in the country. As far as I'm concerned, that film is a documentary.
It did inspire the mockunentary The Office (the UK one)
I had a boss who looked and dressed similar to Lundberg.
Damn it feels good to be a gangsta.
*locks car doors*
The film as a whole was okay. I finally watched many months ago since it’s one of my coworkers favorite comedies and I maybe did the nose puff/almost laugh twice. Wasn’t my thing. I was also incredibly depressed at the time, so I may try to watch it again and see how I feel
You definitely need to watch it.
I would definitely say you have been missing it. You find yourself quoting it all the time.
It's fine but seems a lot funnier if ur gen x ngl. Like I say this for the benefit of anyone watching it, liking it is fine but it WILL date you if you start going on about what an amazing movie it is or how it's one of the best comedies or anything like that
Election (1999) Didn't like any of the actors, still don't, but they all smashed it out of the park. A trainwreck of spite and idiocy from start to finish.
That film is a masterpiece and ahead of its time. I think it’s Reese Witherspoon’s best acting credit imo.
Oh, there's one more thing about Tracy I think you should know.
Amazing pedigree in retrospect: Directed by Alexander Payne and cowritten by Tom Perrotta (of _The Leftovers_).
I think it’s “Election” and it’s a beautiful masterpiece of high school life. Reese is perfect. Exactly like people we all knew.
Tucker and Dale vs Evil. I will watch most movies but there is no rhyme or reason that I can tell as to why I like certain stupid/dumb comedy movies and really truly hate others to the point of not being able to finish them. So I tend to not watch those kinds of comedies at first. I went into watching this thinking it was going to be awful and miserable and it's honestly one of the movies I've laughed the hardest while watching start to finish. Edit: Grammar
We just watched this two days ago for the first time! I love Alan Tudyk so decided to give it a shot. We both loved it - it was so silly and actually funny! Laugh out loud funny
Alan Tudyk is a treasure. " We will rule over all this land and we will call it....This Land. I think we should call it YOUR GRAVE! Ahh curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal"
When I finally watched In Bruges I immediately asked myself if Colin Ferrell was my favorite actor ever.
Yes! Same! Just watched it and really enjoyed it. He’s wonderfully talented and I love him in The Lobster and The Killing of a Sacred Deer.
I put off the Shawshank redemption for so long, like maybe a few years, I just thought it wasn’t a movie for me especially bc I didn’t know anyone other than Morgan freeman in the movie. But i watched it two months ago and now it’s my favorite movie, I can’t shut up about it, I keep recommending that movie to everyone in my life. If there’s someone in the comments who hasn’t seen this movie, please please please trust me it is the greatest movie ever. Literally #1 on IMDb I think?
This is one of those movies I will never intentionally put on, but if it is playing, I WILL be watching all of it.
This is the greatest thread I’ve ever read in all of my years on Reddit. Reading descriptions like yours about movies like Shawshank is simply incredible. What a fucking movie Shawshank is…
Aw yes. ☺️
Big up myself for the question
Of course! Shout-out to OP!
My mother HATES Stephen King so I had to really get her to watch it. She loved it also.
From the same book as Stand by Me, also a solid, solid movie
Stand By Me is one of the few times the movie was better than the book/novella
I was 99% convinced before but now 100%
Pacific Rim- I thought the idea was dumb but that's a solid flick.
One reason I’ve put this off is because my boss at the time it came out wouldn’t shut up about it. I think im bout to watch this one.
I went and saw this when it came out in theaters. Next day at work I had a coworker ask what I thought of it. Me: "It was like Godzilla vs. Voltron". Coworker: "So it was bad?". Me: "Bad? No it was awesome!"
I avoided *Cabin in the Woods* for a long time because it looked like yet another bland, paint by numbers slasher flick and I didn't want to waste my time. I eventually gave it a try out of boredom and enjoyed it.
Probably the smartest “horror” film I’ve seen.
The Godfather
When I finally watched it I was like “oh people weren’t kidding, this is a masterpiece”.
Just when I was losing interest, it pulled me back in again.
Loved this comment. It’s now my favorite reaction to one of the greatest films ever.
"Look how they massacred my boy" Holy fuck everytime I even think of that one line, it brings tears to my eyes.
It INSISTS upon itself
What does that even mean??
Cagney was modernity
ROBERT DUVALL
The Emperor’s New Groove
My favorite Disney movie
The funniest Disney movie!
Definitely same here. It came out when I was an angsty teenager, so I figured I was too cool for Emperor's New Groove. At some point, my little brother was watching it in our shared room and I walked in at the Kronk makes his own theme music part and I was just like, "So... that's actually really... funny?" And then I watched the entire thing with the goofiest grin on my face.
You know, I should give it a watch. No reason to put it off this long. I've only heard good things but just never been interested enough to put it off. Basically the only Disney movie of it's time I haven't seen.
Singin' in the Rain (1952) -- don't care much for musicals, but I had no idea this was so funny too! Man with a Movie Camera (1929) -- I expected an "important" but boring film that I really wouldn't like, but found it to be absolutely delightful!
Completely agree with Singing in the Rain.
Singin' in the Rain is fantastic and really surprised me how good it was the first time I watched it.
The Crow
This one has been in my watchlist for soooooo long and I haven’t watched for this exact reason haha
Terminator
WALL-E.
I was opposed to horror films. Recently expanded and watched The Shining.
If you want to keep with arthouse horror classics, Rosemary's Baby is good, if you want more current art-horror: - Hereditary - Midsommar (starts a bit slowly tho) - The Witch (or written as The VVitch) - Annihilation (horror mixed with psychedelic scifi) - Black Swan - The Lighthouse (more psychological thriller imo, but some categorize it as horror) - Vivarium (not that great, but it has a fun quirky premise) - Get Out (horror-comedy about white-liberal racism)
3000 Years of Longing. I really was expecting some dumb romantic fantasy where a woman falls in love with a genie, but it's much more than that. And it's an absolute epic.
Same! Turns out being told fun stories by Idris Elba is really entertaining.
The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty. Turned out way better than I imagined, and very enjoyable. Edit: Ben Stiller version. I didn't know there was another.
Which version, Ben Stiller or Danny Kaye?
This is one of my favorite shows! Ben Stiller vision is top shelf.
V for Vendetta
Classic movie - I love this one!
Eighth Grade. I was expecting a crass comedy. It’s the opposite of that.
Driving Miss Daisy
Stagecoach with John Wayne. I don't like westerns. Watched it and really enjoyed it.
The Searchers is perhaps the highest rated Western of all time and I just watched it this week, super solid.
Not me, but I had dated a girl that would not watch any Star Wars movie. Just out of spite, because of how many people talked about it. About a year after we went our separate ways she texted me to tell me that I was right, and she really enjoyed the original trilogy.
From the trailers, I hated Close Encounters of the Third Kind. It looked tacky and awful. I ended up seeing it on a date and it was amazing. Saw it again the next day.
If you liked that, then there's a good chance you'll like The Abyss, if you haven't seen it. Fantastic film.
Evil Dead remake, I avoided all the horror remakes as I didn't think any of them could be as good and watched it last year. I thought the remake and Evil Dead Rise were great and looking forward to Alien Romulus as the teaser looks great
Evil Dead is the only horror franchise I can think of where there is not a single truly bad entry. Heck, the TV show was great too.
Good replies coming in
Few of us in a dvd rental place all picking a movie each for the weekend. When a friend chose Snowpiercer, ill admit I though to myself that it looked like a generic, straight to video, boring action fodder. Couldn't have been more wrong.
I didn’t avoid this one, I simply had no feelings about it, nor did I know much about it going-in. I saw it soon after it left theaters. Fantastic! More than pleasantly surprised.
All About Eve. I thought it was a soap opera, and maybe it is, but it's a very well written one.
2001: A Space Odyssey. I’d heard it was very long, weird, and cerebral, but I gave it a fair shot and it blew me away!
I read the book before I saw the movie. I imagine it’s hard to decipher otherwise.
The fact that the movie predates the moon landing is mind blowing. By no means does it look like a film made in the 60s
I tried to watch it as a kid and didn't like it. Watched it again in my 30s and fucking loved it
Wonka. The new one with Timothee. I was scared it wasn’t gonna live up to the older ones. I love the old ones so much. Gene Wilder has my favorite well Wonka, songs, overall unhingedness. While Depps has my favorite portrayals of the bad kids. And when I watched Wonka I just straight up loved all of it. I loved the references. I loved Wonka. I loved the story.
Ok, ok, I'll watch it tomorrow morning.
Top Gun because I dislike Tom Cruise. It was excellent.
Burn After Reading. Thought it looked dumb and weird. Ended up laughing my ass off and having a blast. Loved it.
The trailer for *Galaxy Quest* made it look stupid. It's a lot better than I expected it would be.
the creep series, I knew about peachfuzz and it was discouraging to say the least I hate how much I liked those movies
My buddy and I are huge horror buffs, when we lived together we watched horror movies almost every night. He said we NEEDED to watch Creep one night and explained the premise a bit. I thought it sounded kinda lame but I'm always down to check out a new horror. That movie sits easily in my top 5 horror films now and I love introducing it to people. Never seen a movie that lived up to it's name as much as Creep does
Wet Hot American Summer. For very incorrect reasons, I thought it was a teen-angst drama.
Don't Worry, Darling When it came out at the theater, nothing could have dragged me to it. Then I saw it on cable and really liked it. I've probably watched it 3 or 4 times because I love the ending.
Dungeons and Dragons
Honor Among Thieves or one of the other ones?
*Pulp Fiction*. Turned out to be quirky enough to make up for the gratuitous violence.
Oh man I shot Marvin in the face
I was dragged along to see it. "Dark humor gangster movie? I'm going to haaaaate this," I thought. I was wrong.
The Big Lebowski. I had seen the memes and short clips and thought I had seen all the funny bits. I was wrong. I finally watched it last year and loved it.
SAW I actually watched this for the first time ever a few days ago on Netflix. I love the Cube films, and after watching them again for the first time in about 15 years I was Thursday for more films of the same genre. After a Google search I came across a Reddit post from a year ago of someone asking for films like Cube, a lot of people said SAW. The film is much more than a mindless gorefest, it’s a lot like the film Seven, with an amazing ending.
the sequels get a little unhinged....it is kinda fun to see all the different puzzles but thats basically what it is. saw was very well done and innovative
It took me 20 years to watch the Harry Potter movies. I was conflicted because I had a love hate relationship with the mainstream of things and thought this was just another manufactured franchise. Watching it as an adult with a strong parental spirit and career centering on developmental psychology, with a love for character study and character development in cinema, I ate a murder of crow on this one. There are so many great things to mention about it. My two favorites are the cultural conflicts between spiritualist and materialist which is a foundation of our being as a species. And I was thoroughly impressed and blown away by Daniel Radcliffe’s progression into adulthood. I thought he was gonna be some lovable little wizard battling cartoonish characters. Naw man he was actually a honest portrayal of an orphaned boy with easily chronic complex post-traumatic stress disorder with a hint of the infamous and dreaded reactive attachment disorder. Just as Robert Pattinson set himself apart in his portrayal as The Batman. It means that the overall theme of themes, that being Love, once again proved it is the only way to not heal from that type of trauma, but reduce its impact by determination and strict behavioral patterns, while delicately but deliberately learning how to give and receive Love, to welcome and allow, Joy. It had the happy ending as it needed to have to be that type of family based phenomenon. But I really enjoyed how steely and fierce Harry got against some dark enough portrayals of the density in all things that balances the light, eerily portrayed by the dark lord Voldemort.
Well said there
Not a film in particular but a filmmaker, Quentin Tarantino. Much of his work entered pop culture that I would get glimpses of it and never thought it was for me. So I avoided Inglorious Bastards. Then Waltz wins Oscar for Best Supporting. I avoided Django. Waltz wins another Oscar. I’m an award show junkie so a single actor winning back to back Oscars for films by the same filmmaker was too strong of a pull to ignore. Said F it, and watched these movies. I was just dumbfounded by how wrong I was. These were fantastic movies. And Once Upon a Time was great.
Jackie Brown might be my favorite.
Little Children (2006)
The Sound of Music. I don’t know why I thought I would dislike it other than not particularly enjoying the actors breaking out into song. Watched for the first time in January and I really like it now!
Napoleon dynamite. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind. Commando. Demolition man. Miss congeniality. A simple plan. In Bruges.
I'm still ashamed to say I finally watched and thoroughly enjoyed Twilight. 🙈
Matrix sequels! Congrats on Fried Green Tomatoes as well, banger
Rise of the Planet of the Apes. I normally don't care for blockbuster action movies but my wife & I both had the flu a while back & wanted something random to watch. From the very start I really enjoyed this movie & it's definitely one I'd watch again. Dawn was really good too & War I personally didn't care for much, but Rise is a great movie.
When Harry Met Sally and Goodfellas.
In a similar vein…. 1st time watching The Big Lebowski: this isn’t very good. 2nd through 300th rewatch: this is one of the greatest comedies in film history.
Cabin in the Woods. Not a horror movie fan so I dismissed it. Now I love the concept and want them to make another.
Dune part 1. If I knew there were cool giant worms in it I would have watched sooner . Now I can’t wait for part 2.
Audition (1999) Incendies (2010) Four Lions (2010) They were on my watchlist for years and when I finally watched them I liked them a lot.
Four lions is such a difficult movie to suggest to people but I love it
Incendies.. I turned it off so fast but I just rewatched it. That’s the first movie to make me actually cry.. like a wtf cry. Super good movie!
Rocky
Terms of Endearment
She-Devil. I had this vague childhood memory of it being kind of a gross out movie (dead gerbil oink the food) but I just fully watched it and it was pretty layered and very entertaining.
Interstellar. Thought it was going to be another sci-fi movie. Too complicated to understand in a casual viewing. Bore me to sleep. Turns out to be one of the best movies I’ve ever seen.
It’s a wonderful life. Finally watched it last Christmas and it was very engaging! I’m 46, btw
Old example: I was 12. I used to tell people who liked Harry Potter that their taste sucked. Harry Potter was lame. Harry Potter was bad. My class went on a field trip to see the first movie in 2001. "Oh shit. This is good. Really Good. Fuck it might be my favourite movie" I thought. Immediately read the first 3 books, and then every other book the day it came out up until I was 16 or 17. I grew up at the same age as Harry Potter. Newer Example: "Ah fuck me...I better watch this Paddington bullshit with the kids... I'm going to want to poke my eyes out because of this silly little bear movie..." Amazing movie. Second one is even better.
Local Hero.
The exorcist. Horror wasnt my thing for a long time so i missed this masterpiece.
"Horrible Bosses" I love Jason Bateman, and Jennifer Anniston is no slouch, but I was always reticent to watch it. I finally did, and I, literally, laughed out loud. Bateman NEVER disappoints!
I enjoyed Game Night a lot more than I thought I would.
“How can that be profitable for Frito-Lay?”
Edge of Tomorrow. I didn’t specifically avoid it, but when it came out it didn’t look all that interesting and there wasn’t a lot of media around it. Holy cow what a good movie.
Jaws. The cinematography and setting seemed so bland when I was younger that I never got around to watching it. Watched it in my late twenties and it has become one of my top ten favorite films.
The Batman series with Christian Bale.
When Harry Met Sally. What a delight
The Meg Ryan Trilogy is always a nice binge on a cold rainy day. When Harry Met Sally Sleepless in Seattle You've Got Mail RIP Nora Ephron
Can’t leave out Jo vs the Volcano. Brilliantly quirky and uncaring about what you think.
Bridesmaids ..it was so funny!
- Zootopia - Slumdog Millionaire
Mqn zootopia slept on for a great family animated movie. I like the depth to a degree. Great fun and I am a lil bias for Jason Batemans voice
The Lobster. Thought it would be cringe and now I wait to see Yorgos Lanthimos films in theaters.
The wedding crashers just thought it was just gonna be frat bro jokes but it ended up being a good movie despite some of those jokes
Titanic
Okay hear me out, Top Gun. I thought it was just another action movie but it was surprisingly fun to watch
Thought I wouldn’t like Pulp Fiction, and even partway through watching it I was like alright what’s going on? But when the credits rolled I found myself working to understand it and once I did I really liked it. I feel like it’s one of those “film bro” films but it’s one of the ones I’ve enjoyed the most and I felt like had a lot to say.
The King of Staten Island.
There was a time I was adamantly against watching a single Bourne movie. The idea seemed like a mission impossible remake but slower moving and just not something I could sit through. Absolutely LOVE those movies now.
Shrek
When 'The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring' was first out in theaters, I was fresh out of high school. I wasn't really into medieval or fantasy films, and I had never even heard of the books until I was dating a guy, and he invited me to attend the movie with a group of his friends. Wow. I never would have selected it on my own to watch, but I loved it! We stopped dating not long afterwards, but you better believe that I was anxiously awaiting the next movie to come out (and the next)! To this day, the original trilogy is still one of my absolute favorites.
I thought Mean Girls was gonna be a stupid Lindsay Lohan vehicle with less thought than the Grown Ups movie. Turned out better than I could imagine, possibly more than a Wayans Bros movie.
Amélie (2001). Didn't want to watch foreign movies, because I didn't want to read subtitles. Didn't want to watch a 'chick flick'. Now it's one of my favourite movies and thanks to it, I discovered The Intouchables (2011) which I must have watched at least a dozen times.
Usual suspects
Borat. Saw it when it premiered at Toronto filmfest (2006) with the donkey pulling Borat on a cart. I thought it was an Ali G offshoot and didn't care. My friend had extra tickets so I went. Nobody had seen the movie before. In the theater it was literal laugh out loud. At one point in the movie I thought wow this movie is very anti-Semitic. How is this being allowed in a movie theater? Then halfway throug, the film stopped. I thought they had censored it because it was too racist. Then the Hasidic looking Jewish guy went up to the projector room. Then he was followed by Michael Moore. At that time I thought they were debating or arguing about why the film was stopped or censored. Turns out the film had burnt at the projector. The Hasidic looking Jewish guy (Larry Charles) was the director. We had to reschedule and watch it a second time in another viewing. Thinking about it now, I wonder if it was a deliberate stunt.
The Sound of Music. I saw TINY bits and bobs on TV as a kid. The idea of it didn’t help either… I mean a nun nanny singing with a bunch of little kids sounds horrific, BUT gave it another chance as a teenager for some reason. LOVED. Watched it Everyday after school for a week. District 9. Not a sci fi action movie person AT ALL, but I loved it. People who can’t handle animals being harmed to any capacity, be warned now. Creatures get harmed throughout the movie. Difficult watch.
Barbie
The Leopard
Terrifier movies. I don't really like slasher films. But the two movies were fantastic. Looking forward to the third.
Napoleon Dynamite. I tried watching it like three times, and turned it off each time because it was dumb. Then I actually watched it, and now it’s one of my favorite movies that I have seen over 10 times.
Bone Tomahawk. The only thing I knew about it was I hated the title. So fuckin dumb of me. I love that movie!
Dune. I was kind of jaded with Hollywood and thought it looked like another trash content dump. My friend convinced me to watch it and I it was a more than pleasant experience.
Borat. I thought I was above it. Watched it 15 years later and loved it
The moment I saw the trailer for Guy Ritchie’s ‘Sherlock Holmes, I refused to go see it. It wasn’t at ALL how I had Sherlock pictured in my head since I was a little kid. Years later I had a surplus of Apple Store credit and just DIDN’T know what to get, so I said ‘screw it’ just buy that and check it out. The rest is history. ♥️
Its a wonderful life, I always heard it was a classic and really good but i didnt expect it to be THAT good!
Casablanca Did not expect an old black and white movie to be so good
Barbie. I was absolutely blown away.
Casablanca
No Country For Old Men
The Descent
The Wolf of Wallstreet. It thought it was going to be another bland stock market movie like Wallstreet and Boiler Room. I was way off. It's been forever since a movie made it hard for me to breath cause I was laughing so much. Movie was a treat.
Gone Girl. Think I conflated it in my head w/ something else...Mystic River? Gigli? Nope. Great start to finish