I know there are a lot of bad movies/good movies threads here, so I’m curious what are some movies you went to that you thought would be horrible or great, and it turned out to be the opposite…
I would say “A.I.” being the worst that I thought was going to be good.
And the movie “Go” being a great movie that I thought would suck donkey.
and let me ask you something, I’ve talked to people who saw the putrid Three to Tango movie… and most of them LIKED that God awful garbage. The movie was just as bad as Sweet November!! Anyone out there realize how damn bad this movie was?
Oh, and that Nia Long gal from Big Mamma’s House… she’s SO hot
This is going back more than a year years, but I was pleasantly surprised by THE LITTLE MERMAID in 1989. Disney had been on a downward slide into medicrity for a few years, and I expected this film to be one more big disappointment.
More recently, I expected JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH and MONKEYBONE to be much better, since both were directed by Henry Selick, who directed TIM BURTON’S THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS. GIANT PEACH was merely disappointing, but MONKEYBONE was absolutely awful.
Oh, HELL yeah!
Thinking it was a “docu-drama” of Ilse Koch, I bought Ilsa: She Wolf of The SS.
YIKES!!
It’s not only a porno flick, it’s a bloody porno flick and it made me so sick that I couldn’t finish watching the goddamn thing!
Interestingly enough, the cover of the video states that the movie was shot in secrecy on the set of Hogan’s Heroes and that it was banned 25 years ago. Damn! I can see why!
So yeah, I guess you could say I was shocked, ZZ.
Trying to decide if I should list it on e-bay or throw the frickin’ thing in the trash!
Long-awaited Lucas flick, THE PHANTOM MENACE. Should have been an action-packed good time, laying the foundation for the superb entertainment that is the Star Wars trilogy. Wasn’t.
Should have been bad but weren’t:
How could a film about two murderous lesbian Australian teenagers in a prep school be any good. . .I just saw Peter Jackson’s HEAVENLY CREATURES and now I’m looking forward to LOTR even more!
A Neil LaBute film called in the company of men. I was expecting a small budget type odd humored comedy. What I watched was sickly display of wretched humanity. This movie made me sick to my stomach. The characters were such truly despicable people, that I could stand to look at them I fast forwarded through the entire movie and watched the ending. I was hoping the director/writer would make some reconciliation’s for his characters actions. Like maybe a moral to the story, or just deserts…nope not a thing. He ended it with out a damn bit of closure. I was pissed and shocked. I despise that movie with “every fiber of my being”…to quote another doper, I’ve forgotten who said it.
Don’t EVER see the movie “Happiness” then… it was the most shocking movie I had ever seen. It was just too dark.
“Your Friends and Neighbors” was from the same super-dude that made “I T Company of Men”, that was a little like “Happiness”, and was dark, but it was easier to watch.
I was expecting very little from The Iron Giant when it was in one of the first batches of DVDs I ever rented from Netflix. I ordered my own copy immediately after viewing.
Although by no means whatsoever did I expect Jeepers Creepers to be anything more than a mildly-amusing typical post-“Scream” horror flick, I was simply not prepared for how execrable it was. I wouldn’t have minded so much if I had been fully prepared–I rather enjoy truly bad films when I’m properly braced beforehand.
The advertising campaign for this movie was horrible. I thought it would end up being the worst comedy since… well just about any comedy released this past year other than Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back and American Pie 2. I wouldn’t have even considered renting it had I not scored free passes to the movie. Good thing I did, too, 'cause it ended up being one of the funniest (if not THE funniest) movies I’ve ever seen. In retrospect, I guess the advertising campaign was bad because all the best scenes in the movie had to be viewed in their entirity in order to be funny (how exactlty does one end up clinging to a cow dangling from a hot-air balloon?).
I agree with Diesel, Rat Race looked nearly painful in the previews but was an excellent movie. Some of the jokes in that movie had me crying I was laughing so hard (especially Jon Lovitz with his daughter in the car “I’m prairie doggin’ it!”). The only thing that spoiled that movie was the use of way too overplayed All-Star by Smashmouth.
