# Movies that didn't suck **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 2, 2005, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-didnt-suck/292516 "2005-03-02T00:15:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Shirt\_Ninja\_13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e19b73/32.png) [@Shirt\_Ninja\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirt_Ninja_13)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2005, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-didnt-suck/292516/1 "2005-03-02T00:15:19Z")
Ok, I just saw _Constantine_. I admit, I enjoyed it, despite some residual quibbling about the casting (Jason Marsters would have made a much better JC, in my opinion). Fact is, that was something of a surprise: ever since i heard about it, I figured it’d suck pretty hard. Has anyone else had an experience like this with any other movies? Has anyone else ever been under the impression a movie would suck until their friends made them watch it, or somesuch, and then found that they really enjoyed it? _bamf_ ---
**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2005, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-didnt-suck/292516/2 "2005-03-02T00:28:26Z")
My stepson chose to see **Dude Where’s My Car** for his birthday a few years ago. I couldn’t believe how funny it was. ---
**Author:** ![Neurotik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@Neurotik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neurotik)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2005, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-didnt-suck/292516/3 "2005-03-02T00:32:07Z")
> [@Odinoneeye](#): > > My stepson chose to see **Dude Where’s My Car** for his birthday a few years ago. My friends and I began our drinking game series (all with the same basic rule) with this movie. Every time you sigh in disgust, you have to take a shot. With this movie, we discovered about halfway through we weren’t going to make it doing shots of Jaeger and had to downgrade a bit. For my part, that movie was **Garden State**. My GF at the time dragged me to this, and I was absolutely dreading it. Turned out, I liked it a lot. ---
**Author:** ![LindyHopper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@LindyHopper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LindyHopper)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2005, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-didnt-suck/292516/4 "2005-03-02T00:33:38Z")
For me, it was **American Pie**. I was fully prepared for it to just be a lame teen comedy (I only planned on watching it for the gratuitous T & A), but it was actually quite funny. Not bad at all. ---
**Author:** ![Shirt\_Ninja\_13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e19b73/32.png) [@Shirt\_Ninja\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirt_Ninja_13)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2005, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-didnt-suck/292516/5 "2005-03-02T00:38:03Z")
> [@Neurotik](#): > > My friends and I began our drinking game series (all with the same basic rule) with this movie. Every time you sigh in disgust, you have to take a shot. With this movie, we discovered about halfway through we weren’t going to make it doing shots of Jaeger and had to downgrade a bit. That sounds almost like the Water of Life drinking game for the old Dune movie. Drink everytime you seen a Freman (sp?). By the end of the movie you’re either dead or have turned the poison to water and thus _are_ the Kwizatz Haderach. _bamf_ ---
**Author:** ![ladybug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/46a35a/32.png) [@ladybug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladybug)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2005, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-didnt-suck/292516/6 "2005-03-02T00:38:56Z")
I tagged along with my mom and sibs a few years ago when they went to see _The Emperor’s New Groove_, expecting nothing more than a mediocre Disney movie. It turned out to be pretty good. I laughed nonstop during the last 20 minutes. ---
**Author:** ![LordVor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/90ced4/32.png) [@LordVor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LordVor)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2005, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-didnt-suck/292516/7 "2005-03-02T00:45:06Z")
> [@LindyHopper](#): > > For me, it was **American Pie**. I was fully prepared for it to just be a lame teen comedy (I only planned on watching it for the gratuitous T & A), but it was actually quite funny. Not bad at all. Ditto Eurotrip. -lv ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2005, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-didnt-suck/292516/8 "2005-03-02T00:49:14Z")
I thought _Fight Club_ was the stupidest movie concept I had ever heard of and the commercials for it made me turn the channel as fast as I could but I watched it on FX a couple years ago when I was dreadfully bored and wound up thoroughly enjoying it and it’s now one of my favorite movies (but I’m not one of those idiots that buys into its ironic philosophy) and it introduced me to my favorite actor, Edward Norton. ---
**Author:** ![LindyHopper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@LindyHopper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LindyHopper)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2005, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-didnt-suck/292516/9 "2005-03-02T00:50:36Z")
> [@LordVor](#): > > Ditto Eurotrip. > > -lv Huh. Might have to check it out. Although seeing Michelle Trachtenberg topless (is that right? I heard a rumor about that in the unrated version) is going to be oogy at first. ---
**Author:** ![MacSpon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@MacSpon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacSpon)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2005, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-didnt-suck/292516/10 "2005-03-02T00:53:06Z")
**Scary Movie**. It … it wasn’t _good_. But it didn’t suck. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2005, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-didnt-suck/292516/11 "2005-03-02T00:56:06Z")
> [@LindyHopper](#): > > Huh. Might have to check it out. Although seeing Michelle Trachtenberg topless (is that right? I heard a rumor about that in the unrated version) is going to be oogy at first. I just checked and she’s only in a bikini according to [mrskin.com](http://mrskin.com). ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2005, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-didnt-suck/292516/12 "2005-03-02T00:58:55Z")
I was prepared to dislike (or at least be bored by) _Josie and the Pussycats_. I enjoyed it quite a bit. Much to my surprise, it had a sly, clever script, and the young actresses (especially Rosario Dawson) were very pleasant. ---
**Author:** ![LindyHopper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@LindyHopper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LindyHopper)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2005, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-didnt-suck/292516/13 "2005-03-02T01:00:43Z")
> [@Aesiron](#): > > I just checked and she’s only in a bikini according to [mrskin.com](http://mrskin.com). Ah, OK. That’s better. I mean, I know she’s grown into a lovely young woman, but…she’s _Dawn_! And she’s fourteen! And I agree with **MacSpon** about “Scary Movie”. It didn’t suck, although it should have. ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2005, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-didnt-suck/292516/14 "2005-03-02T01:01:37Z")
Forrest Gump. Never wanted to see it but my wife talked me into it and it’s one of my favorites now. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2005, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-didnt-suck/292516/15 "2005-03-02T01:17:01Z")
> [@LindyHopper](#): > > Ah, OK. That’s better. I mean, I know she’s grown into a lovely young woman, but…she’s _Dawn_! And she’s fourteen! She’s ten year old Nona to me first and foremost so it’s even more oogy to me despite only being three years younger than I am. ---
**Author:** ![Tracy\_Lord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@Tracy\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tracy_Lord)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2005, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-didnt-suck/292516/16 "2005-03-02T01:21:00Z")
I went into _Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle_ expecting stupid laughs. And they were stupid laughs, but they were SMART stupid laughs! Ditto _Dodgeball_, which for my money is one of the best comedies released in the last five years. ---
**Author:** ![RancidYakButterTeaParty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/53a042/32.png) [@RancidYakButterTeaParty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RancidYakButterTeaParty)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2005, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-didnt-suck/292516/17 "2005-03-02T01:21:51Z")
For me it was Groundhog’s Day. I heard it was horrible, and the premise seemed ridiculous. Every time I see it, I enjoy it more. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2005, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-didnt-suck/292516/18 "2005-03-02T01:35:25Z")
_The Girl Next Door_, not only was it tolerable I actually really liked it. Good cast, funny and smart in places, the nicest movie about porn I have seen. I expected to enjoy it about as much as _American Pie_ - not at all, but enjoyed it as much as _Something About Mary_ which would also qualify for the OP. ---
**Author:** ![Baggins111](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9fc29f/32.png) [@Baggins111](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baggins111)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2005, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-didnt-suck/292516/19 "2005-03-02T01:45:43Z")
My high school sweetheart dragged me against my many protests to see some movie way back when called **Dances With Wolves.** I now own both the regular and director’s cuts on DVD. Yeah, some people think it’s drivel, but I loved it. Then I had someone drag me to see some stupid pirate movie that I thought would suck hard. Turns out **Pirates of the Carribean** wasn’t all that bad. ---
**Author:** ![Bottle\_of\_Smoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Bottle\_of\_Smoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bottle_of_Smoke)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2005, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-didnt-suck/292516/20 "2005-03-02T03:28:10Z")
I’ll second _The Emperor’s New Groove_. I walked in expecting to suffer through another Disney lame-fest for the sake of my kids, but I loved it. No dopey singing, no cute fuzzy sidekicks. Great dialogue and funky animation. I was surprised it wasn’t a bigger hit. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-didnt-suck/292516.md?page=2)