# Movies that surprised you - good or bad ways. (spoilers, I assume) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 31, 2014, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-surprised-you-good-or-bad-ways-spoilers-i-assume/694512 "2014-07-31T18:12:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2014, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-surprised-you-good-or-bad-ways-spoilers-i-assume/694512/61 "2014-08-05T04:02:16Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > Oh man, I’ve never heard of it but now I really want to see it! You need to see it, it’s great in a 1970’s kind of way. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMupA9_wLcw) ---
**Author:** ![Gerald\_II](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Gerald\_II](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gerald_II)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2014, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-surprised-you-good-or-bad-ways-spoilers-i-assume/694512/62 "2014-08-05T07:37:55Z")
> [@neofishboy](#): > > Agree completely. Eddie Murphy was well into the “suck” portion of his career and Steve Martin hadn’t done anything particularly noteworthy in years. Would have ignored it entirely but watched it on a recommendation and loved it. > > [Happy premises and Laker Girls](http://www.anyclip.com/movies/bowfinger/mindhead-therapeutic-session/#!quotes/) I gotta buy this movie on DVD. “It’s all my imagination huh? And I suppose they didn’t put a computer chip in Latoya Jackson’s brain, she just acts like that.” Kick-Ass also surprised me. I thought it was going to be a spoof movie on superheroes, parodying the genre itself in a mean spirited way but it actually had better action and more heart than most superhero movies I’ve seen. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2014, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-surprised-you-good-or-bad-ways-spoilers-i-assume/694512/63 "2014-08-05T12:15:38Z")
> [@zoid](#): > > You need to see it, it’s great in a 1970’s kind of way. > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMupA9\_wLcw](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMupA9_wLcw) Thanks for the link! [We’re excited.](https://flic.kr/p/nJ5ajF)😃 ---
**Author:** ![Pixel\_Dent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bc8723/32.png) [@Pixel\_Dent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixel_Dent)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2014, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-surprised-you-good-or-bad-ways-spoilers-i-assume/694512/64 "2014-08-05T13:23:47Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Was [Heaven’s Gate] 3 hours and 40 minutes? Yes, I think that’s the version I saw. 3 hours 40 minutes sounds about right. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2014, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-surprised-you-good-or-bad-ways-spoilers-i-assume/694512/65 "2014-08-05T13:42:00Z")
> [@Pixel\_Dent](#): > > Yes, I think that’s the version I saw. 3 hours 40 minutes sounds about right. Yep, then that is the re-constructed and repaired cut, which I’ve heard is quite the movie. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2014, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-surprised-you-good-or-bad-ways-spoilers-i-assume/694512/66 "2014-08-08T00:22:12Z")
Wings of Hope by Werner Herzog. Wow, this was a very interesting documentary about a lady who survived a 2-mile fall to become the only survivor of a plane crash in 1971. She was 17 and navigated her way through the Peruvian(I think) jungle for 10 days until she found rescuers. She had a maggot infested arm, a broken collar bone, and another injury on her leg. Herzog takes her back to the jungle to find the plane and re-navigate her way through the jungle…and try to find the plane itself. It was in 2000 and the lady was up for it. Fascinating and intense. Loved it. [Free on youtube.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEFrOmqnktQ) ---
**Author:** ![MacSpon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@MacSpon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacSpon)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2014, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-surprised-you-good-or-bad-ways-spoilers-i-assume/694512/67 "2014-08-08T01:26:51Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > Speed Racer, it was funny the races were cool as hell and the entire world was well made and worked in a way i did not think it possibly could. Another, somewhat startled, appreciation for _Speed Racer_. Great movie. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-surprised-you-good-or-bad-ways-spoilers-i-assume/694512.md?page=3)