# Movies you weren't sure you liked when you watched it, but then liked later. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 25, 2004, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-werent-sure-you-liked-when-you-watched-it-but-then-liked-later/261450 "2004-08-25T15:20:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2004, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-werent-sure-you-liked-when-you-watched-it-but-then-liked-later/261450/41 "2004-08-27T07:04:58Z")
> [@wevets](#): > > I disliked _Last Action Hero_ the first time I saw it, but now I think it’s one of the 2 best movies Schwartznegger has ever done. I just had to realize that it wasn’t an action movie. Oh, thankyouthankyouthankyou. Nobody believes me that that movie is brilliant. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2004, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-werent-sure-you-liked-when-you-watched-it-but-then-liked-later/261450/42 "2004-08-27T19:25:13Z")
I’m going to go with [Very Bad Things](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0124198/). When I first saw it in the theatre, I couldn’t get over how fucked up it was, and wasn’t sure if I liked it. Then my friends made me go see it again. I liked it a _ **lot** _ more the second time. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2004, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-werent-sure-you-liked-when-you-watched-it-but-then-liked-later/261450/43 "2004-08-27T19:48:12Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > Oh, thankyouthankyouthankyou. Nobody believes me that that movie is brilliant. I think so, too, but then, I’m a sucker for metafiction. 😃 I agree with the poster upstream that **A Christmas Story** didn’t grab me the first time I saw it. I remember seeing bits of it later and then thinking there were some funny things, but it doesn’t pick up until the “tongue on the flagpole” scene. Then I discovered that scene was near the beginning of the movie . . . ---
**Author:** ![Murcielago](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Murcielago](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Murcielago)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2004, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-werent-sure-you-liked-when-you-watched-it-but-then-liked-later/261450/44 "2004-08-27T20:17:29Z")
_Bubba Ho-Tep_ and _Being There_. In both cases, I found that I appreciated the lead performances more on reflection than I did during the first viewing. I enjoyed Bruce Campbell’s Elvis more on the second viewing and Chauncy Gardner is now one of my favourite Peter Sellars characters ---
**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 28, 2004, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-werent-sure-you-liked-when-you-watched-it-but-then-liked-later/261450/45 "2004-08-28T01:41:44Z")
Die Another Day. At first, I thought it was one of the worst James Bond movies. Now, having seen it on DVD, I tend to think of it as one of the more average, which is to say I like it. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2004, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-werent-sure-you-liked-when-you-watched-it-but-then-liked-later/261450/46 "2004-08-28T04:40:51Z")
Die Another Day is near the top of my list of James Bond movies, which I tend to dislike intensely. DAD is different in that I actually like it. ---
**Author:** ![rolandgunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cdc98d/32.png) [@rolandgunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rolandgunslinger)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2004, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-werent-sure-you-liked-when-you-watched-it-but-then-liked-later/261450/47 "2004-08-28T05:05:29Z")
**My big fat Greek wedding** My wife made take her to see it and I fell asleep during the first half hour or so. Now I watch it every chance I get. “Hey Ian…Were gonna kill ya!” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Fionn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Fionn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fionn)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2004, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-werent-sure-you-liked-when-you-watched-it-but-then-liked-later/261450/48 "2004-08-28T05:26:43Z")
I didn’t like _The Royal Tannenbaums_ when I saw it during its theatrical run, but I ended up watching it a second time because my roommate had the DVD. I thought it was great the second time. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2004, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-werent-sure-you-liked-when-you-watched-it-but-then-liked-later/261450/49 "2004-08-28T05:48:06Z")
Fellowship of the Ring. Fell asleep through it in the theatre, tried watching it two times after that and still hated it, and finally got through it a fourth time when I was housesitting and had nothing better to do. I liked it enough that I immediately went out and bought the other two on DVD just so I could finish watching the trilogy. ---
**Author:** ![uglybeech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/82dd89/32.png) [@uglybeech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/uglybeech)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2004, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-werent-sure-you-liked-when-you-watched-it-but-then-liked-later/261450/50 "2004-08-28T07:47:26Z")
Lars von Trier’s \*\*The Kingdom \*\* I thoroughly hated this movie all the way through. And three quarters of me still hates it, but I have to admit it’s unforgettable. **Intolerable Cruelty** - Eh/Blah the first time through, charming the second time through, loved it the third time through. Same goes for **the Big Lebowski**. Gus Van Sant’s **Elephant**. This is all about atmosphere, so if you don’t realize that it can feel like a pointless movie. But when you do realize that, you find it really captures like no other movie how people in the same circumstances are breathing and living in different atmospheres. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2004, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-werent-sure-you-liked-when-you-watched-it-but-then-liked-later/261450/51 "2004-08-29T00:46:24Z")
Another vote for **Dr Strangelove**. The first time I saw it I was probably fifteen or sixteen. I was watching it with my older brother and a bunch of his friends, they were all laughing hysterically and I just didn’t get it. I watched it again a couple years later in college and thought it was brilliant. The first time I saw **Repo Man** , I can’t say I didn’t enjoy it, but was too drunk and tired to figure out what the hell was going on. And I think the next two times I saw it were pretty much the same. I was finally able to appreciate it once I was able to watch it sober and alert. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-werent-sure-you-liked-when-you-watched-it-but-then-liked-later/261450.md?page=2)