Favorite Shockers

[Unknown User]

Posted: 7/21/05 at 3:38pm

What movies did you think would suck but you were actually impressed with them?

Mine would be

*The Last Shot (with matthew broderick and alex baldwin)

[Love4Cheno]

Posted: 7/21/05 at 3:40pm

I don't know why I dismissed it, but I thought Spanglish would be really boring.

I LOVED it and it's one of my favourite recent films.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 7/21/05 at 3:46pm

I'm also very scared to admit that I thought that Big Fish was gonna suck despite it being a Burton film...and it is now one of my fav movies ever...

[Broadway_Bound_Star]

Posted: 7/21/05 at 4:04pm

Well, I thought The longest yard was gonna be really dumb, but I kinda liked it.

[broadway86]

Posted: 7/21/05 at 4:05pm

There's a LOT of those, but here's just a handful of my favorite surprises:

Legally Blonde - Quite possibly the biggest surprise of them all...
Wrong Turn - It doesn't matter how old the formula is. It's how you work it. The same goes for every other slasher movie on this list.
The Sixth Sense - The twist that surprised the world.
Texas Chainsaw '03
South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut
Fever Pitch
8MM
Drop Dead Gorgeous
The Bourne Supremacy
School of Rock
Identity
The Life Aquatic
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
The Butterfly Effect
House of Wax
Freaky Friday '03
Vanilla Sky
Femme Fatale
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
The Notebook
Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Looney Tunes: Back in Action (a shockingly funny movie)
The Girl Next Door
The Cell
Final Destination
Sky Captain... (I know, Munk. I know.)
Toolbox Murders '03
Fight Club
Zoolander

...and nearly every Tim Burton movie ever made.

[AbbaRabbit]

Posted: 7/21/05 at 4:08pm

i'll have to agree with cheno and say spanglish... i didn't think i would like it, but it was a wonderful movie.

[Love4Cheno]

Posted: 7/21/05 at 4:11pm

Spanglish had me laughing hysterically one moment (Adam Sandler wiping away his tears with the seatbelt) and sobbing the next (teen daughter's issues with insensitive mother).

[AbbaRabbit]

Posted: 7/21/05 at 4:14pm

oh, i hated the mother... she was a witch.

[My Fair Lady]

Posted: 7/21/05 at 4:15pm

I thought that I would hate The Breakfast Club and I loved it.

[singingwendy]

Posted: 7/21/05 at 4:42pm

Eurotrip....actually much better than I expected...still not deep but much more enjoyable than I thought.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 7/21/05 at 4:47pm

U Turn
School of Rock
Along Came Polly
Napolean Dynamite
Spiderman 2
Foxy Brown
A Kiss Before Dying
Any Given Sunday
Hands on a Hard Body

[Unknown User]

Posted: 7/21/05 at 4:51pm

I love Eurotrip.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 7/21/05 at 5:01pm

Any given sunday=best football movie ever

[singingwendy]

Posted: 7/21/05 at 5:01pm

Funny thing is that when they were electing the new pope this spring, one of the girls I teach with was going through the whole process...and she said, "Sad thing is that I learned most of this from watching "Eurotrip"! "

[DoogieB]

Posted: 7/21/05 at 7:07pm

Real Life.

[ashley0139]

Posted: 7/21/05 at 7:09pm

I thought I would hate Mean Girls the first time I saw it. Lindsay is not a favorite of mine. Ended up being one of my favorite movies. Hilarious! I ended liking it more than my best friend who dragged me to it.

[Justice]

Posted: 7/21/05 at 7:12pm

Jerry Maguire...
I had no desire to see it, and my ex and I snuck in the theatre...I was gonna leave, but, i decided to endure through the boredom of a Sports movie. Well, color me surprised, it was definately one of the best films i had ever seen, despite it starring tom Cruise.
It also made me a huge fan of Regina King.

[Greekmusicalfan]

Posted: 7/21/05 at 7:29pm

Shall We Dance ?
I rented it recently just to pass some time and I found it one of the most wonderful and sentimental films I have seen in recent years !!!

[TGIF]

Posted: 7/21/05 at 7:33pm

I was dragged by a friend to see the first Harry Potter. I was against anything Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings. I saw it and loved it.

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 7/21/05 at 8:57pm

Matchstick Men, a film which I still feel is one of the most underrated of all time.

[BluCat500]

Posted: 7/21/05 at 9:10pm

I just finally watched Matchstick Men because they had been playing it ad nauseum on cable, and I was like fine I'll watch it already geez (yes thats right I talked to my TV), And I actually really liked it, lots of twists...

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 7/21/05 at 9:39pm

Hellz yeah. One of Nicolas Cage's best performances.

[life_so_far]

Posted: 7/22/05 at 12:45am

Not my favorite shocker, but the movie that shocked me the most:

Okay, I might get laughed at for this one (I would laugh) but Reign of Fire was a lot better than I expected. Wasn't the best movie ever made by a long shot but I thought that it would be really can't-sit-through-it horrible (and I can sit through most anything) It was actually bearable and did have funny parts. Basically the whole movie for me was in this one scene where Christian Bale and Gerard Butler are recreating Star Wars' "Luke, I am your father!" scene... that scene

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 7/23/05 at 11:28pm

Holy crap.

Had a very pleasant shocker today....

I saw DEVIL'S REJECTS for some reason, despite the fact that I don't like Rob Zombie and...well...it was good!

While the directorial "flourishes" (Peckenpah homages such as slow motion and freeze frames) were tiresome and quite pretentious in an Oliver Stone-type way, for the most part, this movie was friggin' hilarious. The dialogue was surprisingly clever in places and other times, there was actual tension being built, which is more than I can say for half of the action and/or horror films that came out this summer. The acting, too, was much MUCH better than I expected from B-movie veterans, especially Sid Haig and Bill Mosely, who both look like Dave Attell's father and Edgar Winter gone to seed, respectfully, in this film. It reminded me a bit of a Quentin Tarantino homage to I Spit On Your Grave.