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ST Movie Poll -- What was the last movie about which your preconceived notions were flat out wrong?

Posted by znufrii Jan 12 '09, 07:23

i.e. you thought it would be awesome, and were disappointed, or you were dismissive at first but loved it, etc.

For me, Benjamin Button. I thought it would feel contrived, trite and sentimental. I couldn't have been more wrong.

Responses:

Role Models, probably. nm - Dignan Jan 12, 07:44
Zero Effect -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Jan 12, 07:42
Nobody's Fool. - kelly Jan 12, 07:41
Step Brothers. I never ever thought that I would have loved it as much as I did. -- nm - Shaun Jan 12, 07:39
I don't know about "good-bad", but for "not at all what I expected", either "Brazil" or Kathy Bates' "Unconditional Love". -- nm - Ender Jan 12, 07:38
Grandma's Boy. Much funnier then exprected. -- nm - AJRimmer Jan 12, 07:34
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oh, maybe City of God. - Callisto Jan 12, 07:31
Tropic Thunder, thanks to you fine people. "Oh, it's soooo good..." -- nm - TFox Jan 12, 07:29 2
- I stand by my A+ for that movie. ("It's just corn syrup!") -- nm - Beryllium Jan 12, 07:30 1
  - So should have been a GG nominee for Comedy Picture. - MDH Jan 12, 07:39
Forgetting Sarah Marshall. - Mel Profit Jan 12, 07:29 5
- I don't think so. I think we listed this one last week in the Monday roundup. -- nm - Diva Jan 12, 07:40 1
  - what *was* it? -- nm - Mel Profit Jan 12, 07:47
- I think this was ours too. I didn't want to see it at all and loved pretty much everything about it. -- nm - emotichanic Jan 12, 07:31 2
  - There wasn't a joke in the first 45 mins that did anything but hit the target. -- nm - Mel Profit Jan 12, 07:33 1
    - joke spoils - TFox Jan 12, 07:35
Not the last one but Singin' in the Rain is probably the one who shocked me the most - Guigue Jan 12, 07:28
Been awhile since I was completely wrong...but the two biggest :The Village and Moulin Rouge...thought the firste would be good and the other suck - The Calico Cat Coalition Jan 12, 07:28 1
- The Village did the same thing to me. - Mel Profit Jan 12, 07:29
I'm not 100% sure, but I think it was No Country For Old Men. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 12, 07:27
Pineapple Express, thought it would actually be funny, I was wrong -- nm - MDH Jan 12, 07:27 2
- exactly the opposite of this. -- nm - school on monday loves mandy lane Jan 12, 07:35 1
  - I'm the perfect target demo for that movie and my friends and I were like "wtf, that was terrible" - MDH Jan 12, 07:39
I can't remember the "last one," but the biggest one was "Moulin Rouge." - JaxSean Jan 12, 07:27
Dan in Real Life. I didn't really think it would be as good as it was -- nm - oblique Jan 12, 07:24

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