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.
My brother dragged me to American Pie. I didn’t want to see a stupid high school movie, but I thought it was hilarious.
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 <include sleep>
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 
I had MUCH more fun at “Hot Tub Time Machine” than I’d expected.
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“So much semen!”
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?”
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?
I just assumed Napoleon Dynamite was your average teenage comedy flick.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I saw this movie over twenty years ago and I still remember the scene with Large Marge.
You are not alone.
And don’t forget “Adobe”. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYfjq3ZYZbA&NR=1)
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.