# Movies you thought you would hate but ended up loving? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 4, 2010, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-thought-you-would-hate-but-ended-up-loving/534891 "2010-04-04T04:43:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2010, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-thought-you-would-hate-but-ended-up-loving/534891/41 "2010-04-05T03:02:49Z")
I thought **40 Year Old Virgin** was going to suck because I am just sick of that genre. It was a real LOLer for me. I tried to follow the good vibes with _Anchorman_ but it did actually suck. I got roped in to seeing **Sex and the City** with my mom and aunts. I had never seen the series and hate fashion and girly-girl stuff. It’s not my favorite movie of all time but I really enjoyed it all the way through - even though it was 2.5 hours long! I think I would actually see the sequel. ---
**Author:** ![Invisible\_Chimp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f05b48/32.png) [@Invisible\_Chimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Invisible_Chimp)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2010, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-thought-you-would-hate-but-ended-up-loving/534891/42 "2010-04-05T04:28:09Z")
My brother dragged me to _American Pie_. I didn’t want to see a stupid high school movie, but I thought it was hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2010, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-thought-you-would-hate-but-ended-up-loving/534891/43 "2010-04-05T04:38:44Z")
Never, ever, ever wanted to see Shrek. I was tired of grownups acting like kids, and did NOT want to watch a ‘cartoon’. One day, I was down with the most severe case of the flu that I have ever had. I stayed home from work, was taking Tylenol and Theraflu. Theraflu knocks me the HELL out; I am more doped up on that than I have ever been on any other drug, legal or otherwise. 😛 So, I’m doped up in the living room, in my papasan chair. It’s not the most stable thing in the world, but I am curled up completely in it, under a blankie, watching tv, cause I can’t do anything else \ My roommate comes in and decides it’s time to watch Shrek! I am literally trying to crawl out of the chair to change it but I can’t; I don’t have the strength to get out of the damn chair properly, and if I just roll out the whole thing will fall over. So I’m held hostage to Shrek. And it’s my favorite movie ever, now. I could not stop laughing my sick ass off, and to this day I have no clue if the movie was THAT good, or if I was THAT doped up. Either way, \<3 Shrek. And Theraflu 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Hen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ad7895/32.png) [@Small\_Hen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Hen)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2010, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-thought-you-would-hate-but-ended-up-loving/534891/44 "2010-04-05T05:10:05Z")
I had MUCH more fun at “Hot Tub Time Machine” than I’d expected. … “So much semen!” ---
**Author:** ![JoelUpchurch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f05b48/32.png) [@JoelUpchurch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoelUpchurch)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2010, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-thought-you-would-hate-but-ended-up-loving/534891/45 "2010-04-05T05:42:45Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > **The Matrix** - Surprised if I am the first one to mention this. Don’t you remember when the previews were out on this? Keanu Reeves. A Sci-fi movie from relatively inexperienced dudes. I assumed it was bad so long, I didn’t see it in the theater until it was almost gone. Great movie. Let’s not mention the sequels. When I went to see **The Matrix** I didn’t even know it was Science Fiction. I didn’t read anything about **Star Wars** or **Raiders of the Lost Ark** before I saw them. That doesn’t happen anymore. I won’t watch a movie on TV without checking IMDB first. I was also surprised how much I liked **Night of the Comet** , “Daddy would have bought us Uzis.” and **Tremors** , “Broke into the wrong god damn rec room. Didn’t you, you son of a bitch?” ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2010, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-thought-you-would-hate-but-ended-up-loving/534891/46 "2010-04-05T06:19:52Z")
> [@Maiira](#): > > Also, though I haven’t seen **How to Train Your Dragon** , and thought it looked dumb from the previews, this could potentially become one such movie. Because holy crap, [98% on Rotten Tomatoes??](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1194522-how_to_train_your_dragon/) Granted, some of it is “it look purdy,” but…hey, maybe I’ll change my mind. I saw that last weekend, too. I wanted to get together with some friends I hadn’t seen in a bit, and they picked the movie. Went to the IMAX 3-D theater even. And it was very good. I wouldn’t quite say I loved it; not quite the heights of inspiration that Pixar usually does, but it was a good tale, well told. But can someone please tell me…why do the Vikings have Scottish accents? ---
**Author:** ![Cyberhwk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7993a0/32.png) [@Cyberhwk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyberhwk)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2010, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-thought-you-would-hate-but-ended-up-loving/534891/47 "2010-04-05T07:12:49Z")
I just assumed **Napoleon Dynamite** was your average teenage comedy flick. ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2010, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-thought-you-would-hate-but-ended-up-loving/534891/48 "2010-04-05T07:31:07Z")
My wife insisted we watch **Kung Fu Panda** in the theater. I’m not big fans of either Dreamworks or Jack Black, and assumed it would be just a ching-chongy version of Madagascar. Far from it, and we were both impressed with how dead-on it presented Chinese culture (at least, of that particular genre) and in a positive light no less. ---
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2010, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-thought-you-would-hate-but-ended-up-loving/534891/49 "2010-04-05T07:59:29Z")
I was pleasantly surprised by “Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle” which I had skipped until last month, on the grounds that I really have no time or love for stoner humor. I was moved, however, by my love of John Cho, Kal Penn and Neil Patrick Harris, and I’m glad I was, because I was nicely disabused of my belief that one needed to be high to appreciate it. I’ve got the sequel waiting on my TiVo for me. I expected to be bored silly by “Apollo 13.” Space race, scary couple of days, blah blah. It captivated me. So much so that whenever I run into it rerun on TBS or TNT (usually once a month of so) I sit and watch. > [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > But can someone please tell me…why do the Vikings have Scottish accents? Because faux-Scottish accents can be done broadly and will still sound funny, whereas Scandinavian accents end up sounding like Drew Barrymore “yah, mah name is Bjergen Kjergen” in the second Wayne’s World movie, and no one could possibly sit through two hours of _that_. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2010, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-thought-you-would-hate-but-ended-up-loving/534891/50 "2010-04-05T09:47:42Z")
**The Dream Team** with Michael Keaton and Peter Boyle. For some reason I was convinced that the **Batman** movie was taking so long to make was because Keaton wanted to do this one first. Frankly, of the two, **Dream Team** stands up better to repeated viewings. ---
**Author:** ![Sr\_Siete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@Sr\_Siete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sr_Siete)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2010, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-thought-you-would-hate-but-ended-up-loving/534891/51 "2010-04-05T10:53:32Z")
The other day I started watching “All the real girls”, a movie with Zoey Deschanel. I started up hating it. You know, typical indie flick where the director tries to disguise the lack of money by having the actors talk like uninteresting everyday working class small town bores. It was only my nothing short of psychotic need to watch every movie till the end credits once I’ve started it that prevented me from changing channels. Once you get over the mundanity of it all, you start actually caring for this little people and their dumb problems. And later, when drama ensues… well, that’s one of those movies that gets etched in the memory. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2010, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-thought-you-would-hate-but-ended-up-loving/534891/52 "2010-04-05T12:27:27Z")
> [@Ataraxy](#): > > My brother dragged me to _American Pie_. I didn’t want to see a stupid high school movie, but I thought it was hilarious. Yep. This is another one I thought I would hate. I saw the trailers and thought to myself, “A guy fucking a pie? This is going to be dumber than hell.” But when I went back to school that summer, everyone was talking about how great it was, so one night when I had nothing better to do I figured I would go check it out. With my student ID it was only four bucks to get in the theater. I wound up laughing my ass off. ---
**Author:** ![Perciful](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b38774/32.png) [@Perciful](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Perciful)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2010, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-thought-you-would-hate-but-ended-up-loving/534891/53 "2010-04-05T12:32:42Z")
I thought I would hate, ‘Don’t Mess With The Zohan’. When I didn’t think Adam Sandler could be any more funny he had to go pull this out of his hat. I have seen it a few times but am going to buy it. He was actually funny in a ‘sexy way’ in this. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2010, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-thought-you-would-hate-but-ended-up-loving/534891/54 "2010-04-05T13:34:50Z")
The remake of the Wizard of Oz, The Wiz?, with a young Micheal Jackson as the main character. Rather than taking place in the land of OZ, it take place in some sort of strange industrial/ghetto wasteland. I only went cause we were already at the theater and it was the only thing not sold out. Thoroughly enjoyed it a the time. ---
**Author:** ![Nunzio\_Tavulari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Nunzio\_Tavulari](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nunzio_Tavulari)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2010, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-thought-you-would-hate-but-ended-up-loving/534891/55 "2010-04-05T13:37:16Z")
> [@JoelUpchurch](#): > > I was also surprised how much I liked **Night of the Comet** , “Daddy would have bought us Uzis.” No one has ever understood my love for **Night Of The Comet** My most surprising movie was **Moonstruck**. I thought it would just be a chick flick but it was al dente. ---
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2010, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-thought-you-would-hate-but-ended-up-loving/534891/56 "2010-04-05T13:41:34Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > I didn’t think I’d hate it but I had low expectations for SPEED RACER. > > I left the theatre singing “Go, Speed Racer-Go Speed Racer-Go Speed Racer, Go-oh!” Exactly my reaction. I consider that movie to be incredibly brilliant. The plot made a great deal of sense in that particular zany world, and the characters were strange and iconic but approachably human. And it looked _awesome_. Yet, I really didn’t expect much and didn’t like the original cartoon. Oh, and technically, Watchmen (the movie, at least) has no fewer than three characters who rip off Batman. One of them is just more obvious about it. However, it’s actually kind of important in all three cases and is done very deliberately and with meaning. ---
**Author:** ![halfliquid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e57/32.png) [@halfliquid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/halfliquid)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2010, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-thought-you-would-hate-but-ended-up-loving/534891/57 "2010-04-05T16:55:43Z")
> [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > **…PeeWee’s Big Adventure…** I saw this movie over twenty years ago and I still remember the scene with _ **Large Marge** _. ---
**Author:** ![MTCicero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@MTCicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTCicero)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2010, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-thought-you-would-hate-but-ended-up-loving/534891/58 "2010-04-05T17:12:04Z")
> [@Nunzio\_Tavulari](#): > > No one has ever understood my love for **Night Of The Comet** You are not alone. ---
**Author:** ![MTCicero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@MTCicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTCicero)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2010, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-thought-you-would-hate-but-ended-up-loving/534891/59 "2010-04-05T17:18:47Z")
> [@halfliquid](#): > > I saw this movie over twenty years ago and I still remember the scene with _ **Large Marge** _. And don’t forget “Adobe”. ([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYfjq3ZYZbA&NR=1](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYfjq3ZYZbA&NR=1)) ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2010, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-thought-you-would-hate-but-ended-up-loving/534891/60 "2010-04-05T17:20:07Z")
> [@SoulFrost](#): > > Back in the early 90s, my then-girlfriend wanted me to watch something called **The Princess Bride** with her. > > “Aw, Honey, I’m really not feeling up to a bunch of girly-girl crap…” > > “Trust me, you’ll like it. Really.” > > Really! Yes! I saw it in college with male, geeky friends who were saying how great this movie was. I rooooolled my eyes so hard I thought they’d pop out; I am really not a girly-girl and couldn’t see how this would be interesting. And not too long into that viewing I was completely converted. I even got the book and love it too. Also voting for **Terminator** and **Last Action Hero**. The latter really takes a lot of crap, it’s not an action film with a kid sidekick, it’s a parody of movies, Hollywood, all that stuff. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-thought-you-would-hate-but-ended-up-loving/534891.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-thought-you-would-hate-but-ended-up-loving/534891.md?page=4)