10 Movies You Assumed Would Suck, But Didn't.

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8. El Crimen Ferpecto (The Perfect Crime): The box discription didn't grab me, but I had to review it.

The Ferpect Crime would be the translation. The misspelling of the title is part of the joke. I am sure you know this already, i just wanted to clear it up.

I enjoyed Shoot'em Up a lot more than I thought I would.

I'll definitely add Stardust to the list.
V for Vendetta surprised me a lot too.

Vacancy, Vacancy, Vacancy.

I'm damn near PROUD of that movie, considering how lame I expected it to be.

Sunshine is another recent one I thought would be "okay" at best and really ended up loving. Cliff Curtis is the motherfuckin' MAN in that. The entire cast is, really.

In no particular order:

I Am Legend (2007)
Asylum (1972)
Super Troopers (2001)
Alpha Dog (2006)
Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (2006)
A Bucket of Blood (1959)
Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)
Desperate Measures (1998) - I think I'm the only one who likes this movie.
Disturbia (2007) - not too shabby for a Rear Window rip-off
EuroTrip (2004) - this one really surprised me. It's not great, but it is pretty funny.

Mean Girls. For the longest time I thought it was going to be just another Lindsay Lohan vehicle, but now it's one of my favorite comedies.

Shouldn't this just be renamed to 10 movies that were mediocre regardless of my personal ideas. 90% of those listed may not have SUCKED but only 2 or 3 actually succeeded.

1. Ratatouille
2. Snatch
3. The Last Temptation of Christ/On Her Majesty's Secret Service
4. The Devil's Rejects
5. Mission: Impossible III
6. Bug
7. Clue
8. Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
9. Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
10. Catch and Release

Yeah... each of us have one of these. This is the place where we share them.

I don't think any of us feel what we say here is the be-all and end-all of the subject.

I wanna add Stealth to my list. I sat down ready to see a completely awful, mind-numbing and stupid-as-fuck movie and at some point I found myself kinda liking it. It's way too long for its own good, but it's an ambitious little piece of crap and I loved how the plot jumped from military movie to spy movie to action movie. It'd be annoying in any other case, but it was kinda endearing here. The CG was pretty damn good, too. Hell, I even bought the damn thing.

Now Jakespeare will use that as a trampoline to call me out on my Cohen prediction for '08,

Look all I'm saying is you're wrong, it's nothing against you, you are just dead fucking wrong.

CONGO, Crank, Transformers, Constantine, Bride of Chuky, Casino Royale, THX 1138, Sky High, Lilo and Stitch, The Terminal, Contact.

1. Pirates of The Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl
2. Dog Soldiers
3. Galaxy Quest
4. Super Troopers
5. Rocky Balboa
6. Old School
7. Session 9
8. TMNT
9. The Last Horror Movie
10. ...

I can't think of a tenth movie. I usually research the hell out of a movie before I watch it; something I should really stop doing.

Hmmm...can't think of 10 off the top of my head, but Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle was the film that immediately came to mind upon reading the thread title.

I figured 10th & Wolf was going to be another shitty-ass ginzo romp like Brooklyn Rules or This Thing Of Ours, especially considering the fact that it was directed by the guy who did the truly heinous One-Eyed King (trust me, DON'T. DO IT.) but I gotta say I enjoyed it. Look at that cast off of IMDB. It sounds like a bunch of people either out of their league, miscast, or bored out of their minds selling out for a quick buck. But most of the actors either surprisingly acquitted themselves very well or completely owned their roles, especially Ribisi who was a fucking badass. Shoddy fake explosion at the end aside, this was a solid fucking movie that deserved better. But hey, if your name ain't Scorsese and your gangster movie was made after the noir era, you pretty much gotta accept that your film is probably gonna get dumped.

Great choice. I can't believe I forgot about this one.

10TH & WOLF is probably a good one for this thread. Didn't expect much out of it but I agree that it didn't suck. Ribisi should have dialed it down a tad but James Marsden was nowhere near the blank slate that he usually is.

Liked the Kilmer cameo as well.

I forgot one.

Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny.

Man those trailers were a mess.

The first Pirates movie and Boogie Nights for me as well.

PotC got the benefit of the doubt because of Depp and Gore Verbinski, but still... based on a Disney ride I enjoyed in my youth? Come the fuck on. Turned out it was a slightly overlong Raiders of the Lost Ark for a new generation. With pirates. Go figure.

As for another Gore Verbinski film, Mouse Hunt.

Boogie Nights, a semi-low budget* film about 70's porn, starring Marky Mark, with a cast I had mostly never heard of, from a director I didn't know shit about? I remember reading about this in Empire and thinking it sounded fucking awful. I hadn't seen Hard Eight at that point, and I was way wrong, to say the least. It's the Goodfellas of porn, and I may actually prefer it to that film, somehow. It kicked off my love of Paul Thomas Anderson films(and many of the actors in it).

I've got to add Star Wars: Episode III. After I and II, I was expecting to loathe it(except I'm an FX whore, so I figured I'd like it on some level). but I like it more than Jedi. It really has some honestly great stuff in that last act. Then again, Jedi isn't that great, other than it's last act.


*I say "semi" when compared to stuff like Clerks and El Mariachi.

I'll agree on Lilo and Stitch. Surprised by that one.

Lucky Number Slevin, Blue Crush, Down With Love, and Session 9.

That's only four. Sorry. Long day

Both Fantastic Four movies.

2006 was a lost year for me and I had no idea of the successes of the following six.

1. Slither - Was a fun little flick, it hit me in ways 8 Legged Freaks didn't
2. V for Vendetta - Thought would be bad based on other Moore based flicks but it was not that bad
3. Lucky Number Slevin - Who knew God and Ghandi would be so evil, Hartnett wasn't bad either
4. Clerks 2 - Not a fan of the 1st it was dry and dull, color made the dull life of fast food seem not so bad
5. Grandma's Boy - Pot and video games who didn't think of that sooner
6. Inside Man - Had reservations all anyone talked about was that it was Spike's mainstream movie, and 25th Hour wasn't?

Others
7. Equilibrium - Matrix ripoff, no. Didn't like Bale as Batman but loved him in this
8. SWAT - Guilty pleasure my ass. Loved this and Farrell is forever in my cool book
9. Harlem Nights - Heard for years it was Eddie's ego movie but to have Foxx, Prior and Harris in the same film Murphy did something right
10. The Frightners - Heard it was Fox's attempt at adult comedy and he failed, I beg to differ

In no order:

1. Mean Girls
2. 50 First Dates
3. Resident Evil
4. Fantastic Four
5. Alpha Dog
6. Cruel Intentions
7. Terminator 3
8. 8 Mile
9. Peter Pan (2003)
10. The Fast And The Furious

Tis better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to say you don't have absolute, 100% faith in Pixar in this day and age, and remove all doubt. Hopefully, you've learned your lesson.

Why are these two together, exactly?

George of the Jungle (the one with Brendan Fraser) - Maybe I was just in the right mood, but I remember it being much, much more clever than it had any right to be.

The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift - Which I really liked despite some clumsy action directing by Lin. Lucas Black, Bow Wow and Sung Kang generated enough goodwill for me to watch this every time I see it on.

Grandma's Boy - Have to agree with Gen. Bulldog on this one.

Finally, what turned out to be one of my favorite movies:

Rounders - I knew it had tanked at the box office, and just assumed it was a dumb poker movie, a play on Damon's Will Hunting character. But of course that wasn't the case. Surprisingly rich and endlessly entertaining.

Mean Girls
Legally Blonde
The Lost Boys
Play Misty for Me
The Royal Tenenbaums
What's Eating Gilbert Grape?

I can't come up with 10, but boy, was I completely wrong about each one of the six I have.

Agreed.

L.A. Confidential: WB marketing this movie like Oscar bait. While I wanted to have an interest in it, the ads left me cold (and after the constant "Critics say this is the greatest thing since god" strategy, maybe a little resentful.) Needless to say, I was blown away when I finally (grudgingly) watched it.

Also: Fellowship of the Ring, Mean Girls, Toy Story and About a Boy.

Yeah, About a Boy. I don't know if I actually thought it would suck, but I couldn't have been less interested. I only went because I got free passes to an advance screening. Now, I love that movie.

Atonement.

I may need to add a ps on this thing but..

11. Love Actually - How it sucked me in I don't know it's sweet and endearing
12. The Professional - A movie that when I saw ads for it looked like some pretentious fluff
13. The Shawshank Redemption - Again, more pretentious ads, then saw it in catholic school no less, loved it ever since
14. The Italian Job - Heard bad news on it plus remakes generally suck, but this movie's like the little engine that could it had heart and endearing quality
15. The Iron Giant - Looked cool but had reservations about it and waited, my loss. And to think if this movie was a hit WB could have made ...
16. The Incredibles - Which looked like a hokey rip-off of F4 but looked cool nonetheless, 1st Disney movie seen in theaters since the Lion King a very great impression
17. The Hudsucker Proxy - The movie I believe got good press but I was too young, anyways saw it thought it was funny but loved it beautiful score
18. Stardust - Despite being severely miscast, I took a dare and saw it once and again. Like IJ it has heart
19. Long Kiss Goodnight - Single handily made me remember Sam Jackson... before Pulp Fiction and Geena Davis!? Who knew?
20. 2 Fast 2 Furious/ F&F Tokyo Drift - While 1st left me cold, 2nd made me laugh in a good way and 3 just stuck with me

YES. I absolutely dreaded that movie, but it was part of the five Best Picture nominee showcase that I went to. And I loved it.

I found Click to be not as bad as I thought. I avoided it when it first came out, but I ended up watching it on Encore about a month ago when there wasn't anything else on and I didn't hate it. Walken was good, as always.


Same goes for The Butterfly Effect. I try to avoid Ashton Kutcher movies just on principle because he annoys the piss out of me. But again, caught it on Encore one time and enjoyed it. There were some glaring plot holes, but the performances weren't bad. Even Kutcher kept it toned down to tolerable. And I was really facinated by the premise.

Meant to cover that, why I didn't, ummm.....

I thought that they would suck based on the same criteria: I was told by family members that both movies were absolutely terrible and I shouldn't waste my time, so I went into them with severely lowered expectations as a result. Turns out those people were very, veeeeery wrong.

It has always been one of my ultimate guilty pleasures, I thought I was all alone.

I didn't know what to make of the trailers or what the general vibe of the film was supposed to be, but the second De Vito's voiceover started I was in. Good choice, should've been on mine.

EDIT: Oh, and as far as Pixar goes Justin? Cars. I had a really hard time having faith coming out of that little endevour.

But I have moved on and I have learned my lesson don't worry.

I'm still in awe that the Lord of the Rings movies turned out as good as they were ... because they had no right to be. Before the cameras started rolling, George Lucas said he had doubts the movie could be made for the budget Peter Jackson was given. Let's not get off track on a GL bashing expedition, because he was right. Those movies should have sucked. Hollywood should have chewed them up and spit out the bones because that's the way the industry works. We're talking about the same industry that thought X-Men 3 as something you could shoot over the weekend, and created words like "toyetic."

Because one is about Christ, and the other has George Lazenby in it. Duh.

I didn't think it would suck exactly, but I assumed that Twelve Angry Men simply couldn't be as good as it was supposed to be. Just twelve guys arguing for a whole film?

I was very very wrong.

Wait, somebody liked Undead? Why?

Jonathan Banks, you really are my hero.

I thought I was the only one.. So this is what it feels like, when doves cry

Ginger Snaps - The DVD cover is horrible, cheap, and looks like any of a thousand direct-to-video horror flicks, but when I saw the film, it quickly became one of my all-time favorites.

They're one in the same.

It does have a surprising amount of charm, that one.

Treasure Planet - thought that like Atlantis it would be dull, now I thinks its Disney most ambitious film although still somewhat held in film of the latter Eisner decline era.

Narnia - Sure the CGI is still shit but considering from the guy who brought you Shreck I expected far, far worse

Lemony Snicket - if WB and there massive amounts of money had yet yet to capture a Potter book right, how the hell would a series I liked do it with Jim Carrey

Man on Fire - Denzel and the "Lesser" Scott again, with Fanning along for the ride??

Moulin Rouge - looked like R&J cranked to 12 which it is, but in ways I did not expect

Phantom of The Opera - good material but considering what Joel did Batman, I was scared shitless

Most recent for me was Hot Rod, thought it would suck from watching the trailer but I laughed all the way through it when I finally saw it on DVD.

The biggest one from the last few years would have to be Blood Diamond. I can't believe the difference on how great it turned out to be compared to how much I thought it would suck from watching the trailer.

Upon revisiting them post-puberty, I was surprised how much the Addams Family movies didn't suck.

Addams Family Values is sooo much fun.