Movies you disliked the first time you saw them,now you love them
08-29-06, 12:17 AM
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Lost Highway. I was not aware of David Lynch's other works at the time I first saw this movie, and I was going WTF?!? throughout. But after getting used to Lynch's filmmaking style from his other movies such Mulholland Dr. and Blue Velvet, I rewatched Lost Highway through a "different point of view", and have liked it better since.
10-08-06, 10:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Aetherus
Lost Highway. I was not aware of David Lynch's other works at the time I first saw this movie, and I was going WTF?!? throughout. But after getting used to Lynch's filmmaking style from his other movies such Mulholland Dr. and Blue Velvet, I rewatched Lost Highway through a "different point of view", and have liked it better since.
10-11-06, 02:33 AM
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It seems strange to say now but when I first saw it, I thought Rushmore was a mildly amusing, eccentric bit of work. But I stumbled on a great deal on the Criterion edition of it and got it. It's now probably one of my 5 favorite films of all time. High praise considering I now own somewhere around 700 DVDs. The second time I saw it, it was like I had an epiphany or something. I got it to the Nth degree. Another one that I didn't care a great deal for the first time I saw it was The Blair Witch Project. The hype had me expecting something more than it was, which is a supremely well made uber low budget horror film with some inexplicably good actors. I now think it's on par with the original Night of the Livng Dead. Quite easily in fact.
10-12-06, 12:27 AM
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Suspira - For some reason I just didn't "get it" the first viewing for some reason. But, after the second and third viewings it quickly became one of my all-time favorites.
10-12-06, 01:42 AM
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Se7en : When I saw it in a theater I thought it was a cheap, sensationalist thriller; just getting people's skin to crawl by being sick. After rewatching on DVD years later, I realized that the movie was so effective because of Fincher's subtle touches. You really never even see anything-- certainly nothing gory. He messes with you at a very visceral level, in every sense of that word. Now I realize that it's really a sublime thriller that reinvented the genre in a manner similar to what Hitchcock did 35 years before. I was just dead wrong on that one.
04-18-07, 07:01 PM
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Death Proof
I know deep down some of you others will be converted too.
I know deep down some of you others will be converted too.
04-18-07, 07:30 PM
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"Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" for me.
Hated that movie when I first saw it. Then I saw all the reviews from people who think it is the greatest movie ever...so I watched again. After watching it a second time, I.............HATED IT MORE. What a dreary, self impressed prentious bore of a movie that thinks itself "important" and "meaningful". I would rather watch.....well anything than this movie again.
04-18-07, 11:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Mondo Kane
Death Proof
I know deep down some of you others will be converted too.
I know deep down some of you others will be converted too.
Not for me, but I can see this being on alot of people's list in the future.
04-19-07, 08:10 PM
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Alien (1979)
Barton Fink (1991)
The Cable Guy (1996)
Darkman (1990)
The Departed (2006)
I ♥ Huckabees (2004)
Moulin Rouge! (2001)
Running Scared (2006)
Shaun of the Dead (2004)
V For Vendetta (2005)
Barton Fink (1991)
The Cable Guy (1996)
Darkman (1990)
The Departed (2006)
I ♥ Huckabees (2004)
Moulin Rouge! (2001)
Running Scared (2006)
Shaun of the Dead (2004)
V For Vendetta (2005)
04-23-07, 08:14 PM
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For me, probably The Matrix. I've been a big Hong Kong movie fan for quite a while, and when the Matrix came out, I thought it was just overhyped because most of the fans hadn't really seen much HK-style action---and also, I was miffed because it was overshadowing Dark City, which I thought (and still think) was a better movie.
But after watching it a couple times, I came to appreciate it as a really creative, thought-provoking, well-made film that worked on a number of levels. Still don't care for the sequels much, but I do like the original a lot.
But after watching it a couple times, I came to appreciate it as a really creative, thought-provoking, well-made film that worked on a number of levels. Still don't care for the sequels much, but I do like the original a lot.
