# What movie where you most pleasantly suprised after veiwing? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 8, 2000, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-where-you-most-pleasantly-suprised-after-veiwing/12719 "2000-01-08T00:52:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2000, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-where-you-most-pleasantly-suprised-after-veiwing/12719/61 "2000-01-10T23:47:00Z")
Believe it or not, _Pollyana!_ I had seen ads for this movie, and a magazine cartoon, published during the movie’s initial showings in 1960, with people scowling on their way in and happy on their way out! And that’s how it was with me; in fact, in the last 40 years (I didn’t go to the movies at all from July 1971 to March 1982, or at all since June 1987) there are few movies that have made me feel happy at the end. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2000, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-where-you-most-pleasantly-suprised-after-veiwing/12719/62 "2000-01-11T06:16:00Z")
I’m sure I can come up with more, but here are three: Oscar. Yes, the one with Sylvester Stallone. Still the best dollar movie I’ve ever attended. It’s hilarious. Cutthroat Island. Not everyone’s cup of tea, and very weak in many respects, but the final ship-to-ship cannon battle is just about the most awesome thing I’ve ever seen on film. Dead Alive. I watched it because I’d heard that it was the goriest film ever made. Well, it IS in fact the goriest film ever made, but it’s also amazingly funny. If you have a high tolerance for onscreen carnage (we’re talking thousands of gallons of blood, literally), this movie will crack you up. The director, Peter Jackson, is currently working on The Lord Of The Rings. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2000, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-where-you-most-pleasantly-suprised-after-veiwing/12719/63 "2000-01-11T14:00:00Z")
Interestingly, the top two money-losers of the all time have been mentioned in this thread - _Cutthroat Island_ and _The Adventures of Baron Munchausen_. On other threads, people have said that they liked the next two biggest money-losers - _Ishtar_ and _Hudson Hawk_. Is there anybody out there willing to go for the next one on the list - _Inchon_? ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2000, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-where-you-most-pleasantly-suprised-after-veiwing/12719/64 "2000-01-11T14:52:00Z")
Ike, you mean you DON’T want to be the creme in a Gish Oreo? Huh, you ain’t the man I thought you was . . . ---
**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2000, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-where-you-most-pleasantly-suprised-after-veiwing/12719/65 "2000-01-11T22:54:00Z")
OK, it’s kinda indie but it’s got some pretty big names: Swimming with Sharks. The cover and back make it out to be a mediocre low-budget office comedy. It’s not. Stars Kevin Spacey and Frank Whaley, and it’s really a gritty, vitriolic dark comedy. Amazing. Sadly, no one saw it, and George Huang has more or less disappeared. Watch it, and you will, I guarantee, have your world turned upside down. Justin ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2000, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-where-you-most-pleasantly-suprised-after-veiwing/12719/66 "2000-01-11T22:54:00Z")
## I thought the absolute number one money loser was and will always be “Waterworld”. * * * Coldfire: second to none but Satan. * * * “You know how complex women are” - Neil Peart, Rush (1993) ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2000, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-where-you-most-pleasantly-suprised-after-veiwing/12719/67 "2000-01-12T04:02:00Z")
Coldfire writes: \> I thought the absolute number one money \> loser was and will always be “Waterworld”. It’s not even in the top ten. Here’s the top ten money-losers: 1. _Cutthroat Island_ (1995) lost $81.0 million. 2. _The Adventures of Baron Munchausen_ (1988) lost $48.1 million. 3. _Ishtar_ (1987)lost $47.3 million. 4. _Hudson Hawk_ (1991) lost $47.0 million. 5. _Inchon_ (1981) lost $44.1 million. 6. _The Cotton Club_ (1984) lost $38.1 million. 7. _Santa Claus - The Movie_ (1985) lost $37.0 million. 8. _Heaven’s Gate_ (1980) lost $34.2 million. 9. _Billy Bathgate_ (1991) lost $33.0 million. 10. _Pirates_ (1986) lost $30.3 million. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2000, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-where-you-most-pleasantly-suprised-after-veiwing/12719/68 "2000-01-12T19:03:00Z")
I liked WAKING NED DEVINE. We walked out of THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY. Disgusting. Mr. Ripley was as queer as pink ink. * * * Political correctness is just tyranny with manners. I wish for you the courage to be unpopular. Popularity is history’s pocket change. Courage is history’s true currency. Charleton Heston ---
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## Duece Bigalow- stupid and silly. We couldn’t stop laughing BASEketball and Orgazmo- too funny. Don’t invite your mom or your little nieces over. \ Spice World- just think of it as a Monkees episode, with breasts Swimming with Sharks was a HOOT, especially the paper-cut scene “That was a hell of a thing.” ---
**Author:** ![Vestal\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5e9695/32.png) [@Vestal\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vestal_Blue)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2000, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-where-you-most-pleasantly-suprised-after-veiwing/12719/70 "2000-01-13T00:11:00Z")
Moulan; one of Disneys’ better recent efforts. Pocahontas was a disappointment, and I expected Moulan to be the same, so it was a definite pleasant surprise! Does anyone besides me think that the Mongol leader looked like Gallagher on steroids having a real bad day? * * * VB TANSTAAFL! ---
**Author:** ![chief](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df788c/32.png) [@chief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chief)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2000, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-where-you-most-pleasantly-suprised-after-veiwing/12719/71 "2000-01-14T03:48:00Z")
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