Movies that you thought would stink but turned out to be ok?

[freestuff]

The Book of Eli
Daybreakers

 

[Greekstar]

Manos: the hands of fate.


Wasn't as horrible as....... OK it was horrible.

 

[assholee]

Not recent but: Lord of War

 

[Social Gent]

Mr. Brooks.
It's Kevin Costner, so to quote Chris Griffin, "How does he keep getting work!?!".
But I watched it, and have watched it several times since the first time I saw it. Perhaps one of Costner's best films since Field of Dreams - every guy loves that movie.

 

[anon1]

The Book of Eli

Derivative, a post modern remake of Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451.
And it sucked because of it.

 

[Ceiling Cat]

Jade, starring David Caruso. I heard it was a piece of crap. When I saw it on television it was not the best but was in the OK category.

 

[james t kirk]

Avatar.

I went kicking and screaming, but ended up liking it.

 

[ASYLUM]

i didnt think scott pilgrim was going to stink but it exceeded my expectations beyond belief.

 

[assholesuction]

A Team ! thought it was going to be a stupid action movie, but it was funny as hell

 

[thecuriousgeorge]

The Other Guys....I hate will ferrell..but it cracked me up..pretty funny stuff

 

[tribunus]

The Next Three Days. With shitty box office numbers and poor reviews in the back of my mind as I entered the theatre, I enjoyed it quite a bit.

 

[rafterman]

The Social Network. Had really good reviews but I was sceptical that a movie about Facebook would be entertaining however found the acting first rate and a ended up being quite engrossed in the film and actually went to see it again at the second run cinema.

 

[DocOdd]

Predators. Rather deep in the sequence of sequels to a franchise that wasn't all that good to begin with, but turned out to be pretty entertaining.

 

[diehard]

Movies you watch without any previous expectations have a great chance of being good.

 

[Lenny Weinrib]

Starship Troopers 3.
(2 sucks.)

 

[T.O.tourist]

i didnt think scott pilgrim was going to stink but it exceeded my expectations beyond belief.

I have to admit that I really liked this movie.

 

[Frosty]

Scott Pilgrim was the keeper this year for me. Watched it 5 times now. I didn't get bored.

 

[MissCroft]

Not a recent movie but Terminator 2: Judgement Day. About 10 years ago someone forced me to watch it and I kept saying how I hated action movies....but to this day it remains one of my all-time favourites.

 

[T.O.tourist]

The Other Guys......pretty funny stuff

I thought it was alright, a pretty good spoof of the usual "cop buddy movie".

 

[moviefan]

Charlie's Angels.

I figured this would work about as well as the "Beverly Hillbillies" movie, but it (the first one, not the sequel) was actually quite good.