# Movies you have watched with low expectations only to be surprised by how much you like them.

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**Created:** [April 21, 2014, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-have-watched-with-low-expectations-only-to-be-surprised-by-how-much-you-like-them/686609 "2014-04-21T14:37:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2014, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-have-watched-with-low-expectations-only-to-be-surprised-by-how-much-you-like-them/686609/141 "2014-05-14T23:21:04Z")

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I also should now add to this thread Ben Stiller’s _Secret Life of Walter Mitty_. I was really not expecting much from this, but enjoyed it tremendously.

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**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2014, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-have-watched-with-low-expectations-only-to-be-surprised-by-how-much-you-like-them/686609/142 "2014-05-14T23:51:16Z")

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> It was weird to see John Cho playing any other role than that of the new Star Trek’s Hikaro Sulu.

Have you seen “Sleepy Hollow”? He’s a police officer in it. Well, he starts out as a police officer.

**Hamlet 2**. Though with Steve Coogan as the star, I should have expected that it would be better than I actually expected, based on the description I had read. It’s funny and it’s politically incorrect. A high school musical play co-starring Hamlet and Jesus? You have to see it.

**About Time**. I thought, from the trailers, that it would be cute, but it’s funny, and poignant, and tear-jerking, and I hope Domhnall Gleason can be a star from this (or from the several films he’s been working on.)

**Truly, Madly, Deeply**. I just … love it. It’s perfect.

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**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2014, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-have-watched-with-low-expectations-only-to-be-surprised-by-how-much-you-like-them/686609/143 "2014-05-14T23:52:41Z")

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“Ishtar,” one of the most famous flops in movie history. I was quote amused by Dustin Hoffman and Warren Beatty’s characters.

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