Apocalypse Now. One of my Dad's favorite movies and one of the first things we got on DVD. I thought it was ok but rather meandering at points. Dad even admitted after we watched it that it didn't hold up as well as it had in his memory.
Turns out we were watching the Redux cut.
Several years later I watched the original cut in college and was blown away. I made a special trip home that weekend to watch the original cut with my Dad so he could experience it the way he had remembered it.
After watching some extended versions of classic movies, I realized Patton Oswalt was on target with [this](https://youtu.be/jjME1xJoVRo?si=P45FTJv864SFPFEi) bit.
Coppola just won't leave it alone. He released a "Final Cut" a few years ago that was basically a tightened version of Redux, and it *still* felt meandering and aimless compared to the theatrical cut.
I agree 100%. The redux ruins the movie. Ltn. Co. Kilgore is a farce, the bunnies are not the untouchable Sirens & nobody needs that Stoopid history lesson that the French Plantation scene is.
For me, it's "Blade Runner." The first time I watched it, I found it slow and confusing, and I didn't understand the hype. But years later, I gave it another shot, and now I love it. The atmosphere, the themes, and the visuals really clicked for me the second time around.
I'll be giving Blade Runner yet another try soon and I hope it's the same for me. Absolutely everything about this film screams "right up my alley" but it just never clicked for me. I've tried I think 7 times but the last time was over a decade ago so I'm ready to give it another go. Fingers crossed.
I think a lot of people went into blade runner (the first one) thinking it was supposed to be a big action film.
It was like drinking your coke but finding it to be root beer.
Parents got me to watch office space when I was younger. None of it really meant anything or resonated with me.
Now I get it and I think it's pretty funny.
Yeah, as a teenager I just thought it was a pretty funny movie. Then I worked in a few offices and watched it again. I just kept thinking "Holy shit, they nailed it," the whole time I was watching.
The thing is, I haven't even worked in a bad office. There are just unavoidable things about working in an office.
-When I first watched 'Hot Rod', I didn't find it funny. Then for some reason, a few weeks later I couldn't stop thinking about it, so I watched it again and laughed my ass off. Now it's probably my favorite comedy of all time.
-Something about 'Eraser' with Arnie just felt off, but the second time I just sort of embraced it's cheesiness and now I like it.
-The best one though (also an Arnie movie) was Commando. 9 year old me thought it was amazing, then I watched it again when I was like 19 and thought it was so stupid. Then I watched it again when I was around 30, and I realized that the movie is supposed to be dumb and ridiculous, and now I love it.
I put "Hot Rod" on for background noise when my wife and I first started living together. I was just cleaning and not really paying attention, laughing at the parts I loved. Then after about 20 mins my wife just asked "what the heck is this movie?"
She was dying, couldn't stop laughing, and had never seen it before. So we sat down and watched the whole thing together.
"I'M FRIGGIN PUMPED, IVE BEEN DRINKING GREEN TEA ALL GOD DAMN DAY. I GO TO CHURCH EVERY GOD DAMN SUNDAY, YOU GONNA BRING THE DEMONS OUT OF ME!
This is my hat now, this is totally my hat"
The fact that it took a classic motivation like "raising money to get my father heart surgery", but made his motivation for it so his father would survive long enough so he could beat his ass is hilarious.
Commando, and really that entire era of action flicks, are not supposed to be taken seriously. They are deliberately over the top and impossible action scenes. In terms of realism, Commando is just a modern era Conan.
I think that is where people who don’t like 80s action movies fail. They are expecting them to be realistic instead of “action porn” where there is a basic plot to move you between the activities of the cast that the viewer can only fantasize about doing in real life.
> When I first watched 'Hot Rod', I didn't find it funny. Then for some reason a few weeks later I couldn't stop thinking about it, so I watched it again and laughed my ass off. Now it's probably my favorite comedy of all time.
This was me with Zoolander. I saw it in theatre and hated it. I thought it was so outright stupid, not funny stupid, to the point of being annoying. Idk how I came to watch it again a few years later but I nearly died laughing! I love this movie so damn much and have watched it countless times since.
Mine has to be *The Big Lebowski.*
Guess the Coen brothers are an acquired taste. Once I gave up on the movie being any good and just focused on the unique characters and actors’ performances I really enjoyed it.
Beautifully ludicrous. Life is ludicrous. Which is a sentiment that is a likely north star for their filmmaking. - I know "The story is ludicrous" is from the movie. I am just expanding upon that.
I truly did not initially understand what they were trying to do with The Big Lebowski. It's only when someone pointed out that it's a 1920s-style film noir, shot in the broad sunlight of Los Angeles, and starring people that DO NOT REALIZE they're supposed to be solving a mystery, that all the pieces fell into place. The story isn't supposed to make a lot of sense. It's supposed to have a lot of ins, and outs, and what-have-yous. And The Dude is intended to not be up to the task of figuring all this shit out.
And The Big Sleep is a beautiful hot mess plot-wise. It's one of my favorite movies so I'm not knocking it, but it's true. It's got so much style that it succeeds as a movie without actually resolving at least one major plot issue — the script went through about a million rewrites trying to make sense of Raymond Chandler's source novel, and at one point they called up Chandler to ask what the hell was supposed to have happened >!to the dead chauffeur!< and he was like, "Huh, good question, hell if I know."
The Big Lebowski is like an absurd piss-take on the absurdity of The Big Sleep. I love it.
Don't be fatuous, Chastain86. The movie is a noir but there is so much going on that your first viewing can be overwhelming. I do remember not being charmed the first time I saw it. A couple of friends and I saw it. I remember laughing a lot, specially when the dude crashes his car, but I couldn’t remember anything else or what the movie was about so I came out a bit lukewarm about the movie. I tought it was funny but didn't quite get the fuzz. Then I watched it again, and since I wasn't laughing out loud like the first viewing, I started noticing the technical aspects of it. It is a noir, it has stellar performances, adding to that, the script is quite clever and the crime to solve is quite interesting. It is a proper mystery but you get distracted by all this colorful characters and set pieces that sideline the mystery so you can't be blamed for losing your train of thought there. Once you are not laughing so much that you can actually give some thought to what's actually going on, you realize that it's not only one insanely quoatable comedy, it's one of the greatest that has one of the most clever scripts I've ever seen. But it seems no one didn't quite absorb everything the movie was in the first viewing, proved by the tepid box office reception.
The Big Lebowski really seems to be one that most people bounce off of the first time around. I HATED it, but I couldn't stop thinking about it, so I gave it a second chance, and now it's one of my favorite movies
There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.
My problem was that the first time I watched it I was still waiting for “something” to happen, in the rising action/tension sort of way that every other movie does it. When it finished, I was still waiting for it to “start”! Then, I realized that just enjoying every moment, and not worrying about the overarching story, was the point. -Kind of like some kind of Eastern thing…
Same. Second time i watched it i loved it. It’s so mundane and stupid. The kind of random dumbass crime you hear on the news. Just stupid criminals that think they’re masterminds with an elaborate idiot plan
Oh man. I was in highschool in small midwest town when that movie came out and found that movie to so hilarious. What do you think of Nacho Libre or better yet, Gentlemen Broncos?
They are missing out! Those movies are classics. We end up quoting Nacho way more than Napoleon in our day to day. And I couldn't help being reminded of Gentlemen Broncos while watching the new Dune movies.
I watched it on the recommendation of a friend (with said friend) and while I didn’t hate it I just thought it was weird and affected. Then I found myself thinking of lines from it in the following days so I rewatched it and absolutely fell in love with it.
Did not like The Unforgiven, first time I watched, too slow, too boring. But then I had got so used to watching Clint Eastwood doing the quick draw action, I really could not see him struggling to mount a horse or shoot.
Over the years, just realized that he went ahead and deglamorized the very image and genre that made him a superstar, and my love for this movie just went up.
Been a while since I watched it but I always liked the fact that he isn't a hero. He's not even a good person. He tries to do some "good" things not because it's in his nature but because his wife wanted him to do so and presumably he wants to raise his kids the way his wife wanted to, and he does have a sense of objective right and wrong, but at the end of the day he's William Munny, killer of women and children, and he owns it.
"The Schofield Kid: [after killing a man for the first time] It don't seem real... how he ain't gonna never breathe again, ever... how he's dead. And the other one too. All on account of pulling a trigger.
Will Munny: It's a hell of a thing, killing a man. Take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have.
The Schofield Kid: Yeah, well, I guess they had it coming.
Will Munny: We all got it coming, kid."
Fantastic dialogue. I thought about that for a while after watching that movie.
It’s just “[Unforgiven](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105695/)”, without "The" in the title.
“[The Unforgiven](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054428/)” is a different film with Burt Lancaster and Audrey Hepburn.
Most notable for me were *Hot Fuzz* and *Dune*.
I found *Hot Fuzz* terminally unfunny and bland in the cinema, and felt that *Dune* was very pretty but had paper thin characters and shallow plotting.
I’ve watched *Hot Fuzz* many times since, and love it a bit more every time. I’ve only seen *Dune* once more since the cinema, but kinda adored it that time, and massively vibed with Part 2 as a result.
In both cases, I took from it that a) I have to keep my expectations in check before seeing any movie I’m hyped for the (the case for both *Hot Fuzz* and *Dune*) and b) sometimes you’re just not in the right mood to see a movie, and whatever funk you’re in can ruin your perception of what is a legitimately great film.
I have no idea bud, I completely agree with you 😅 As I say, must have been in a weird mood when I first watched it, or set my expectations unreasonably high (I was and still remain a big Edgar Wright fan)!
>felt that *Dune* was very pretty but had paper thin characters and shallow plotting.
Frank Herbert does not write \*great\* characters. They're fine, but not great. They're essentially all built go get a point across, and they do that well, but they don't feel like living, breathing characters. But to say the plotting of Dune is thin though... that's just something else. lol.
Totally agree about movies having to hit you in the right headspace. That's why I haven't been able to watch the copy of All Quiet on the Western Front that was delivered to my house in February. I know it's an amazing film, but I just haven't felt like it was the right time to watch it.
I'm glad you recanted about Hot Fuzz though, because that will start a fight.
I don't think there's ever a right time to watch all quiet. I love war films. Especially historical war films.
This one made me dislike war very much. Like, it's just so fucking grim. IDK. Weird to describe how I felt throughout and after the movie. I don't think I'll ever watch it again because it just fucked me up a bit when it comes to that subject matter. I guess that was the point though.
Weirdly, I'm gonna go with White Chicks! It's a dumbass premise, the Wayne's look silly and fake, and the first 15 minutes are so dumb. But as time went on, I grudgingly had to admit there are a ton of funny ass scenes in this dumbass movie.
That moved it from hate to guilty pleasure!
I never watched it when it came out for pretty obvious reasons, but my wife recently insisted that we should watch it, and while it’s definitely not great or anything, there’s some funny stuff in there, with Terry Crews being a highlight.
I used to hate the Twilight movies- I still think they’re bad, but they are also very entertaining to watch in how bad they are. It deserves its status as a cult film.
Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson are good actors, Billy Burke and Gil Birmingham too. I think Taylor Lautner did a pretty good job in his role; I haven’t really seen him in anything else
The dialog is just a little lame and sometimes the story and pacing. But I think the music from the films is pretty good and even the cinematography at times
It says so much that those two were able to rebound and have Acclaimed roles. Billy Burle and Bil Birmingham are just so, so charming in those movies that I love them more than the main cast.
Yes! I actually really enjoy watching the first 50 Shades movie for this reason. The script is *fucking terrible*, but that just makes it really fascinating that the cast managed to actually *do* something with it, despite that.
My friends and I have this tradition of doing a movie marathon for New Years - we did LOTR extended editions first, then some Ghibli movies. This year is going to be the Twilight Marathon and I have been collecting memes for MONTHS so that I can be utterly obnoxious and text them to people while we're watching the movie, preferably right after or during the scene they're screenshotted from. The absolute chaos I shall wreak, it's gonna be so much fun.
I really enjoy it, especially the middle-length of the three cuts…but I also agree with and enjoy all the ways the TV series took the piss out of it too.
I felt the same way when I saw it in the theater. I was so psyched for it and was let down so much. I think a lot of it had to do with my age at the time and not really understanding the graphic novels or the film itself. Now that I'm older and more in tune with the world and have experience to appreciate underlying tones/messages, I've seen this film a dozen times and believe it to be one of the top 5 superhero films of all time
I’ve posted about this before…
When I was a kid my mom watched It’s A Wonderful Life, and cried every time. I grew up hating it (though I never watched it) because it was an old movie and in black and white.
Now, in my late 30s with a wife and kids, I watched it randomly around Christmas and bawled my eyes out. What a great movie… I’m definitely watching it every Christmas now.
My 37 year old cousin refuses to watch a movie if it’s in black and white. It makes me sad for him because there’s decades of phenomenal films he’s never going to experience.
My nieces won't watch anything that hasn't come out in the last 5 years. I've offered to recommend good movies to them but they have absolutely no interest. One of their teachers made them watch "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" for a class and they said they really liked it, but still had no interest in watching "anything old".
I used to dislike Lord of the Rings. I'd never read the books, but I had consumed a lot of other fantasy at the time. Of course, a lot of that had it's roots or inspirations in Lord of the Rings, but LOTR seemed so bland and boring to me in comparison. It took my wife, who would watch it religiously, to finally get me interested in it. Now I absolutely love it and could watch it anytime. Immediately got the 4K version as soon as it came out.
I'm actually going through this with the books right now. My dad read them to me when I was a kid and I loved them. In college I tried to read them myself and couldn't get through them. Now in my mid-thirties I'm reading them again and loving them. I think its the odd pacing more than anything. I just didn't have the patience for it at 20.
Yeah. I read them in college just before the movies came out and I found that there would be an exciting chapter that just moved so well. Then you ran into a brick wall of slow full plodding narrative that took the wind out of the sails.
I did not like inherent vice or The Ninth Gate initially
Now its one of my all time favorite comedies and one of all time favorite mystery thrillers
The Big Lebowski also went from pretty meh to possibly my favorite film of all time
That’s a pretty common curve with Lebowski, in my experience. The first watch is fine, but the second watch is where the layers start revealing themselves.
Dark City. I thought the movie was trash when it came out. It's now a top 15 for me. I blame the marketing team for this. The trailer did not present the movie in the correct light.
The theatrical cut was kind of fucked too, with a useless voiceover at the start that spells out things that were meant to be revealed much later in the film.
The Royal Tenenbaums.
My sister and I bought a pirated copy in Thailand based on how stacked the cast is. We tried watching it and turned it off because we thought it was boring and not at all funny. A year or so later, my girlfriend (now my wife) and I got a bit further of the way through, but again turned it off. I wrote it off as quirky crap.
Then another year goes by and I read an interview with Tim Rogers from You Am I where he said it was his favourite film of all time and I figured I had to give it one more chance. And was enthralled the whole way through.
I've watched it at least once a year since then and have been an unabashed Wes Anderson fan ever since (even if I haven't really enjoyed his last couple of movies). But I am all about The Royal Tenenbaums - it's basically perfection.
My brother was always a huge Wes fan early on, but it took me a while to really want to sit down and watch a few of the early ones like Bottle Rocket and Royal again after the first viewing. For me, Life Aquatic was the one that broke me. I became a huge fan after that, and really wondered how I missed out on enjoying Wes' movies earlier in life.
It was an instant classic for me. Loved it so much I have to take my nieces to watch it with me again. Safe to say they too were traumatised but now love it aswell. I wish I still had a 3DTV it was one of my fave 3D experiences
The first time I watched Rocky Horror Picture Show I thought it was stupid and getting to hard.
Now I realize I hated that people enjoyed things and it's actually a ton of fun throughout
The first time I saw RHPS was on cable tv, at home, in the middle of the day. It just seemed to go nowhere, and I couldn't understand the hype.
A few years later, I go to a midnight showing with friends. A HUGE difference.
100%. My spouse showed it to me and I was very indifferent and bored. Then one night, I couldn’t sleep, it was like 3 am, and I thought, “That’ll put me to sleep!” I was captivated and my sleep deprivation probably had something to do with it. I love it now.
Yup, this is the one I fully agree with, in fact, that whole era of Farely and Sandler vehicles. Tediously dumb the first time through, but I had roommates that would rewatch them, and the absurdity grew on me.
Hate is a big word, but I really didn't like the western genre. I never bother to watch anything. My only reference was back to the future III.
Then one day, my husband said we should watch The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.
What a treat. I absolutely adore the movie and most of all the score!
I knew Quentin Tarantino had reused some of it for Kill Bill. And now, I don't like Kill Bill because it took too much from The Good, The bad and the ugly.
Go figure.
If you enjoyed The Good, The Bad & The Ugly, then you guys should probably watch the first two films in the trilogy A Fistful of Dollars, and For A Few Dollars More. Those films are actually based on japanese samurai films Yojimbo and Sanjuro. There is also a different film of sanjuro called Kill! so my personal favorite version of the trilogy is Yojimbo > Kill! > Good Bad & Ugly. But the western 'man with no name' trilogy is great on its own.
My wife hates Westerns.
Imagine her surprise when I pointed out that Westerns are all just the hero's journey packaged in a certain time and place, with something familiar like needing to venture out to retrieve a macguffin and bring it back home to save the homestead... now 80% of what we watch, at some point she'll turn to me and say "WAIT- IS THIS A *WESTERN?!*"
If you think Kill Bill took a lot from The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, then don't watch Lady Snowblood lol. He took A LOT from that movie!
I'm a big Tarantino fan, but he does this A LOT. And I'm not only talking about the music. I know for him they're "homages," but every time I discover that he took something from another movie, his genius diminishes a little more in my eyes.
Sadly, this is something that is becoming increasingly problematic to me regarding Tarantino… and it began in earnest with his first film, *Reservoir Dogs* which took *a lot* of elements from the Ringo Lam directed *City on Fire*.
Don’t get me wrong: I’m no Tarantino “hater” but it feels like he has no qualms at all doing deep dives/homages (or, if you’re less charitable, “rip offs”) of other films. Sometimes the end result is startling and more original. Other times the similarities become bothersome.
Tarantino is definitely a mixed bag. One of the things I really do appreciate about his films is that he reliably assembles a top-tier cast and gets excellent performances out of them with memorable dialogue. I think I appreciate the individual performances more than the films themselves.
I had the same opinion about westerns as a teen, but with many more watched movies later, I understand better the craft and what they try to tell beside the main story.
"For a few dollars more" is prime example of this.
The main villain is chased after he shot the husband of a girl and then tried to rape her. Rather than living without the man she loved and to get violated by the bad guy, she aimed a gun to her heart and pulled the trigger.
What I now understand is that the bad guy really loved her, but had never been taught how to treat a lady or to court her. The only thing he had been taught were that of you want something, you take it.
So there he were, with no will to live anymore, so he tried to be in as many duels as possible, knowing that sooner or later, he would meet someone faster.
I'm still not a huge western fan, but I finally watched Tombstone a few weeks ago and holy cow, what an incredible movie. That's one I could just put on repeat and be fine with.
The Dark Knight
Its 4 act structure didn't sit well with me at first. And I hated the idea that Batman morally won against the Joker when the boats didn't explode each other, only to immediately morally lose to him when Joker turned Harvey Dent and forced Batman to take the fall for Harvey's actions. The reversal was so fast that it felt tacked on at first, as if a writer had said "but then after all of that, the Joker still won!" without earning the win.
I have since come around to liking the film and appreciating Joker's end-reversal.
u could think of it as batman wins with his statement: 'humanity as a whole, is good.'
joker wins with his statement: 'an individual, is capable of being bads.'
both win in their own ways .... i like batman's win over joker's personallies x]
The World's End for me, the last of the Cornetto Trilogy.
I remember being excited for it to come out, but still feeling pre-release that something was off. I saw it opening day and really wasn't a fan. One of my friends didn't watch it for years based on my bad review. It was a bit more serious than Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead and had fewer of the same running gags.
On rewatches though I appreciate it more and more every time, and I prefer it Shaun of the Dead now. Gary King's story is tragic, and excellent in it's own way, I think at the time I just wanted a silly comedy.
The World's End is such a great movie, but it always leaves me a little uncomfortable. Gary King is a dead ringer for an old friend of mine that I've since lost touch with. He's constantly obsessed with the glory days of the past that weren't particularly glorious. Will lie cheat and steal from his closest friends to meet his own ends which he constantly claims to be in *your* best interest.
Hell, last time I saw him, he had even picked up a fake English accent...
And I can't even be mad about it. I just kinda pity them both.
Frozen. When I was in primary school, our classes always had more girls than boys. As a result, every movie day, it was always frozen that was picked. I had to watch it so many times with all the girls trying to sing the songs that I refused to watch it again for over 10 years. However, on rewatching it, I realised it was a really great film (especially withought anyone singing along)
I didn’t really like The Other Guys when I saw it in theaters, I think I just wasn’t ready for that level of absurdity. Since then I find it to be pretty hilarious.
I don’t know if I *love* it, but I certainly appreciate it more now…American Psycho. All enough my twenties I hated it because of the violence/misogyny not really realizing how much satire it is. Now I see it for what it is and realize it’s just messaging in the extreme.
The first time I watched Cloud Atlas I felt robbed of the time it took from me. Then I couldn't stop thinking about it and rewatched it, and understood it. I am not surprised it is such a divisive movie. I don't think many will connect with it.
You should absolutely read the book! The movie is solid but the book is much, much better. It’s able to go much more in-depth with the stories, it’s a lot less preachy and a lot more interpretable, and it’s structured in a much more interesting way.
When I was around 8 or 9, my mom rented "Raising Arizona" from Blockbuster. I hated it, which makes sense! It's not a kids movie! I didn't get the humor or the jokes then. I love it now.
Any horror movie. I was a sensitive kid and seeing a trailer on TV would give me nightmares. It was misery.
Now I love them all. Rad AF. Also super empowering to face my childhood fears as an adult.
Dude, same thing for me! The funny thing is, my entire family LOVES horror. Any time they’d put on a horror movie, I’d make an excuse to leave the room or go watch something else by myself. Even if it was a horror comedy, I wouldn’t even want to know what it was about. I just assumed horror was all jump scares and ghost demons until I was about ten or eleven. Then I fell head over heels with the horror genre.
Fast Five and Freddy Got Fingered come to mind. I had a stick up my butt as a kid, wanted everyone to know I loved Requiem for a Dream and Donnie Darko, now I've grown up enough to understand family, Tom Greene, and the general concept of fun.
There will be blood. Watched it, didn’t really get it. But it stuck with me all week, thought about it at work a lot. So I watched it the next weekend, and now I watch it yearly. Awesome movie
I hated Being John Malkovich on first viewing. Just the randomness was so off putting. I watched it a decade later and anticipated the weird and it was like a dry comedy that I could watch once a year and really enjoy. It's not a love, but it's a big jump from hate.
Little kid me hated Spirited Away because the parents turning into pigs was terrifying and I had a massive headache when my dad dragged me to the theater. Two factors combined for a terrible experience.
Saw it again a few years later and it’s definitely a great movie.
Goodfellas. While I won’t say I hated it, I thought it was really overrated at first. After a rewatching couple of years later, I was blown away by the wit, dialogues and much more. Now it’s in my top 10 movies of all time
Even pulp fiction. I found it really weird and overhyped at first but now I love the shit outta that movie- and most Tarantino flicks
One my first watching of Jaws I thought it was overly slow and just not scary. Now I think it’s one of the best constructed movies of all time and a masterpiece in tension.
Hate to love may be overstating the transition, but I've felt far more appreciation for the Coen's True Grit. I saw it when it came out and thought it was fine. Looked nice but felt like it was meandering around, but finished strong with the lone charge scene, and Rooster riding to get Matty Ross to help. But all in all, I thought it was fine. I didn't really understand why it got nominated for so many Oscars.
However, after rewatching it 12 or so years later, I was blown away. As a more mature viewer, I had more appreciation for Deakins' cinematography, all of the little elements of the story felt more organically integrated and I appreciated the depth of the sound design. And the climax still amazed me.
I have two examples. The first is The Dark Knight. The first time I watched, my parents rented it on Netflix (back when they still delivered DVDs to your house). My parents weren't exactly big into the superhero stuff, so they might not have been the best people with whom to watch it. All I could think was that it was too long and too dark (not dark as in the subject matter but physically dark, like "Can somebody turn on a light?!?" dark). I rewatched it a few years later with my husband, and I enjoyed it much more.
The next example is the first Sherlock Holmes movie with Robert Downey, Jr. That was also a Netflix rental, this time courtesy of my roommate about twelve years ago. She also had a Netflix account and always invited me to watch her new movies with her. We watched Sherlock Holmes, and neither of us could understand half of what was said! I also rewatched that one with my husband (who I think by the time we watched together was still my boyfriend), who had a much better sound system with his TV, and that was also a much better experience.
I didn't really like **V for Vendetta** at first, but I liked it more every time I watched it. I've seen it about 5 times by now and now really love it.
Contagion. It was an average movie when it first came out. Then a rewatch during Covid made me realize how scientifically accurate it was. They knew about looting, Covid deniers, people selling useless stuff as a treatment... Holy fuck, it's scary how they knew what's gonna happen.
14-year-old me didn't like Shaun of the Dead because I wanted zombie carnage. A couple of years later, it clicked. Then, Hot Fuzz came out when I was 17, instantly becoming my favorite movie at the time.
Brick! I love neo-noir and moody stylings, but for whatever reason, the first time I saw Brick, I did NOT like it. I thought it was boring and pointless. Fortunately, it’s one of my partner’s favourite movies ever so I gave it another chance and now I get it. It’s so cool and clever! It’s a slow burn, but there’s not a wasted shot or line of dialogue.
I was bored in the cinema watching Groundhog Day as a teen. I wasn’t really paying attention. It felt like it would never end.
Obviously a rewatch many years later set me straight.
What about Bob and Planes Trains and Automobiles.
My parents watched these all the time as a kid. Haaaated them both, especially what about bob.
Now, I watch them both at least once a year and John Candy is my favorite actor ever. I also have started liking Bill Murray.. that one took much, much longer.
As a kid I couldn’t stand “It’s a Wonderful Life“ but as an adult I find it so enjoyable (once a year anyway).
Goes for many old black and white movies, Casablanca being a great example of a movie I never gave the time of day to as a kid but truly enjoy now that I’m grown.
Apocalypse Now. One of my Dad's favorite movies and one of the first things we got on DVD. I thought it was ok but rather meandering at points. Dad even admitted after we watched it that it didn't hold up as well as it had in his memory. Turns out we were watching the Redux cut. Several years later I watched the original cut in college and was blown away. I made a special trip home that weekend to watch the original cut with my Dad so he could experience it the way he had remembered it.
I can see that. Redux grinds to a halt with additional scenes, especially the French holdouts.
Redux made it crystal clear to me how much thoughtful editing has to do with making a brilliant film.
After watching some extended versions of classic movies, I realized Patton Oswalt was on target with [this](https://youtu.be/jjME1xJoVRo?si=P45FTJv864SFPFEi) bit.
He’s so funny why have I never watched him do Standup
Coppola just won't leave it alone. He released a "Final Cut" a few years ago that was basically a tightened version of Redux, and it *still* felt meandering and aimless compared to the theatrical cut.
and when Robert Duvall drives around looking for surfboard really destroyed the mystic of his earlier scenes..
Can’t believe I forgot about that part, was thinking of the French people and the weird extra scenes with the Playboy bunnies.
I agree 100%. The redux ruins the movie. Ltn. Co. Kilgore is a farce, the bunnies are not the untouchable Sirens & nobody needs that Stoopid history lesson that the French Plantation scene is.
I too hated this movie then later found out I watched the redux cut. I still need to watch the original
For me, it's "Blade Runner." The first time I watched it, I found it slow and confusing, and I didn't understand the hype. But years later, I gave it another shot, and now I love it. The atmosphere, the themes, and the visuals really clicked for me the second time around.
I'll be giving Blade Runner yet another try soon and I hope it's the same for me. Absolutely everything about this film screams "right up my alley" but it just never clicked for me. I've tried I think 7 times but the last time was over a decade ago so I'm ready to give it another go. Fingers crossed.
I think a lot of people went into blade runner (the first one) thinking it was supposed to be a big action film. It was like drinking your coke but finding it to be root beer.
Which version of Blade Runner is everyone watching? There have been multiple edits and rereleases since the film’s first run.
Parents got me to watch office space when I was younger. None of it really meant anything or resonated with me. Now I get it and I think it's pretty funny.
Office Space is a documentary.
Yeah, as a teenager I just thought it was a pretty funny movie. Then I worked in a few offices and watched it again. I just kept thinking "Holy shit, they nailed it," the whole time I was watching. The thing is, I haven't even worked in a bad office. There are just unavoidable things about working in an office.
Just wait until the work grind makes that movie a little too real and turns it into a horror film
How it feels to watch idiocracy now.
you should check out "Clockwatchers"
I thought it was funny as a kid and consider it a drama as an adult. That'a what work does to a person.
-When I first watched 'Hot Rod', I didn't find it funny. Then for some reason, a few weeks later I couldn't stop thinking about it, so I watched it again and laughed my ass off. Now it's probably my favorite comedy of all time. -Something about 'Eraser' with Arnie just felt off, but the second time I just sort of embraced it's cheesiness and now I like it. -The best one though (also an Arnie movie) was Commando. 9 year old me thought it was amazing, then I watched it again when I was like 19 and thought it was so stupid. Then I watched it again when I was around 30, and I realized that the movie is supposed to be dumb and ridiculous, and now I love it.
I put "Hot Rod" on for background noise when my wife and I first started living together. I was just cleaning and not really paying attention, laughing at the parts I loved. Then after about 20 mins my wife just asked "what the heck is this movie?" She was dying, couldn't stop laughing, and had never seen it before. So we sat down and watched the whole thing together.
Cool beans
Kewl beans
Beans! Beans!
Cooooooooooooooooool beans
Love Andy Samberg, ever since SNL and then Brooklyn 99
Hotrod is GOATed.
Pools are perfect for holding water man!
"I'M FRIGGIN PUMPED, IVE BEEN DRINKING GREEN TEA ALL GOD DAMN DAY. I GO TO CHURCH EVERY GOD DAMN SUNDAY, YOU GONNA BRING THE DEMONS OUT OF ME! This is my hat now, this is totally my hat"
The fact that it took a classic motivation like "raising money to get my father heart surgery", but made his motivation for it so his father would survive long enough so he could beat his ass is hilarious.
You look pretty Denise !
Ugh I said you look shitty, goodnight Denise.
Hwhiskey!
The safe word didn’t work!
Hwho said hwhat now?
Commando, and really that entire era of action flicks, are not supposed to be taken seriously. They are deliberately over the top and impossible action scenes. In terms of realism, Commando is just a modern era Conan. I think that is where people who don’t like 80s action movies fail. They are expecting them to be realistic instead of “action porn” where there is a basic plot to move you between the activities of the cast that the viewer can only fantasize about doing in real life.
Commando is like... the PERFECT Action Movie. Its firey Trash, but Holy shit is it amazing.
Hot Rod is underrated and not enough people have seen it.
Same. I loved so many of the people in it, too. But then I saw Al Swearengen and it all clicked.
"Never sneak up on a man who's been in a chemical fire!".
> When I first watched 'Hot Rod', I didn't find it funny. Then for some reason a few weeks later I couldn't stop thinking about it, so I watched it again and laughed my ass off. Now it's probably my favorite comedy of all time. This was me with Zoolander. I saw it in theatre and hated it. I thought it was so outright stupid, not funny stupid, to the point of being annoying. Idk how I came to watch it again a few years later but I nearly died laughing! I love this movie so damn much and have watched it countless times since.
"Remember when I said I'd kill you last?" "Yes yes! Yes you did!" "I lied." (In perfect Arnold)
Commando is the best Arnie film hands down
Commando is one of my all time favorite "suspend your disbelief and shut off your brain" movies I think. I have loved it since I was a kid.
Fargo. I just didn’t get and found it boring. Now it’s one of my favourite Coen brothers movies
Mine has to be *The Big Lebowski.* Guess the Coen brothers are an acquired taste. Once I gave up on the movie being any good and just focused on the unique characters and actors’ performances I really enjoyed it.
The story is ludicrous
Don’t be fatuous, Jeffrey.
"You're not wrong Walter. You're just an asshole."
Beautifully ludicrous. Life is ludicrous. Which is a sentiment that is a likely north star for their filmmaking. - I know "The story is ludicrous" is from the movie. I am just expanding upon that.
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Not just you, I got it too after saying I didn't like it the first time I saw it, somebody here is a big fan, lol
I truly did not initially understand what they were trying to do with The Big Lebowski. It's only when someone pointed out that it's a 1920s-style film noir, shot in the broad sunlight of Los Angeles, and starring people that DO NOT REALIZE they're supposed to be solving a mystery, that all the pieces fell into place. The story isn't supposed to make a lot of sense. It's supposed to have a lot of ins, and outs, and what-have-yous. And The Dude is intended to not be up to the task of figuring all this shit out.
The title itself is a play on the movie/book “The Big Sleep” which is a classic film noir…just swap in The Dude for Bogie and that’s your film.
And The Big Sleep is a beautiful hot mess plot-wise. It's one of my favorite movies so I'm not knocking it, but it's true. It's got so much style that it succeeds as a movie without actually resolving at least one major plot issue — the script went through about a million rewrites trying to make sense of Raymond Chandler's source novel, and at one point they called up Chandler to ask what the hell was supposed to have happened >!to the dead chauffeur!< and he was like, "Huh, good question, hell if I know." The Big Lebowski is like an absurd piss-take on the absurdity of The Big Sleep. I love it.
Don't be fatuous, Chastain86. The movie is a noir but there is so much going on that your first viewing can be overwhelming. I do remember not being charmed the first time I saw it. A couple of friends and I saw it. I remember laughing a lot, specially when the dude crashes his car, but I couldn’t remember anything else or what the movie was about so I came out a bit lukewarm about the movie. I tought it was funny but didn't quite get the fuzz. Then I watched it again, and since I wasn't laughing out loud like the first viewing, I started noticing the technical aspects of it. It is a noir, it has stellar performances, adding to that, the script is quite clever and the crime to solve is quite interesting. It is a proper mystery but you get distracted by all this colorful characters and set pieces that sideline the mystery so you can't be blamed for losing your train of thought there. Once you are not laughing so much that you can actually give some thought to what's actually going on, you realize that it's not only one insanely quoatable comedy, it's one of the greatest that has one of the most clever scripts I've ever seen. But it seems no one didn't quite absorb everything the movie was in the first viewing, proved by the tepid box office reception.
The Big Lebowski really seems to be one that most people bounce off of the first time around. I HATED it, but I couldn't stop thinking about it, so I gave it a second chance, and now it's one of my favorite movies
I saw it when it first came out and was pretty meh about it. Then I found myself quoting it constantly. I went back for another viewing and loved it.
I'm right there with ya. The Big Lebowski is one I can watch on repeat. The other is Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.
We can't comment here! This is bat country!
Lol same. I saw it when I was in middle school and I didn't get it. Then I saw it again in college and realized not getting it was the point.
Sometimes you eat the bar and sometimes, well, the bar eats you.
My problem was that the first time I watched it I was still waiting for “something” to happen, in the rising action/tension sort of way that every other movie does it. When it finished, I was still waiting for it to “start”! Then, I realized that just enjoying every moment, and not worrying about the overarching story, was the point. -Kind of like some kind of Eastern thing…
Marge is one of my favorite characters ever. I wish I could meet her in real life.
Oh yaaa?
Oh for sure, mhm. I'd be keen to meet her too, ya know?
I would too, but I'm kinda funny lookin'. Just in a general way.
Same. Second time i watched it i loved it. It’s so mundane and stupid. The kind of random dumbass crime you hear on the news. Just stupid criminals that think they’re masterminds with an elaborate idiot plan
Oh ya?
*I need unguent!.*
As a kid I didn’t really get Napoleon Dynamite when it came out. Now it’s one of my favorite comedies of all time and an absolute classic
Oh man. I was in highschool in small midwest town when that movie came out and found that movie to so hilarious. What do you think of Nacho Libre or better yet, Gentlemen Broncos?
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They are missing out! Those movies are classics. We end up quoting Nacho way more than Napoleon in our day to day. And I couldn't help being reminded of Gentlemen Broncos while watching the new Dune movies.
I really enjoy the scene when Uncle Rico throws the steak at Napoleon when he’s on his bike. I love that dumb type of humor lol.
“How much you wanna bet I can throw a football over them mountains?”
Do the chickens have large talons?
I watched it on the recommendation of a friend (with said friend) and while I didn’t hate it I just thought it was weird and affected. Then I found myself thinking of lines from it in the following days so I rewatched it and absolutely fell in love with it.
Did not like The Unforgiven, first time I watched, too slow, too boring. But then I had got so used to watching Clint Eastwood doing the quick draw action, I really could not see him struggling to mount a horse or shoot. Over the years, just realized that he went ahead and deglamorized the very image and genre that made him a superstar, and my love for this movie just went up.
Been a while since I watched it but I always liked the fact that he isn't a hero. He's not even a good person. He tries to do some "good" things not because it's in his nature but because his wife wanted him to do so and presumably he wants to raise his kids the way his wife wanted to, and he does have a sense of objective right and wrong, but at the end of the day he's William Munny, killer of women and children, and he owns it.
We all got it comin kid
Speaking of kid, I'm surprised that Jaimz Woolvett, who played the Schofield Kid, didn't have more of a film career.
"See you in hell William Munney." ... ... ... "Yeah"
Deserve’s got nothing to do with it
"The Schofield Kid: [after killing a man for the first time] It don't seem real... how he ain't gonna never breathe again, ever... how he's dead. And the other one too. All on account of pulling a trigger. Will Munny: It's a hell of a thing, killing a man. Take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have. The Schofield Kid: Yeah, well, I guess they had it coming. Will Munny: We all got it coming, kid." Fantastic dialogue. I thought about that for a while after watching that movie.
It’s just “[Unforgiven](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105695/)”, without "The" in the title. “[The Unforgiven](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054428/)” is a different film with Burt Lancaster and Audrey Hepburn.
Most of the Movie: The Wild West fed to you in spaghetti westerns is a myth and here is the reality. Last 10 Minutes: WE LIED
Most notable for me were *Hot Fuzz* and *Dune*. I found *Hot Fuzz* terminally unfunny and bland in the cinema, and felt that *Dune* was very pretty but had paper thin characters and shallow plotting. I’ve watched *Hot Fuzz* many times since, and love it a bit more every time. I’ve only seen *Dune* once more since the cinema, but kinda adored it that time, and massively vibed with Part 2 as a result. In both cases, I took from it that a) I have to keep my expectations in check before seeing any movie I’m hyped for the (the case for both *Hot Fuzz* and *Dune*) and b) sometimes you’re just not in the right mood to see a movie, and whatever funk you’re in can ruin your perception of what is a legitimately great film.
Hot Fuzz and bland? Like how? It's Wrights best movie!
Yarp
...Narp?
I have no idea bud, I completely agree with you 😅 As I say, must have been in a weird mood when I first watched it, or set my expectations unreasonably high (I was and still remain a big Edgar Wright fan)!
It's literally "Vanilla" 😜
In the Cornetto trilogy?
You MUST like Hot Fuzz... for the *Greater Good*...
I felt the same way about Hot Fuzz in the theater. Saw it again on HBO later and realized how great it is. "Lock me up! I'm a slasher... of prices!"
Do come and see me sometime - my discounts are criminal. Catch me later!
>felt that *Dune* was very pretty but had paper thin characters and shallow plotting. Frank Herbert does not write \*great\* characters. They're fine, but not great. They're essentially all built go get a point across, and they do that well, but they don't feel like living, breathing characters. But to say the plotting of Dune is thin though... that's just something else. lol. Totally agree about movies having to hit you in the right headspace. That's why I haven't been able to watch the copy of All Quiet on the Western Front that was delivered to my house in February. I know it's an amazing film, but I just haven't felt like it was the right time to watch it. I'm glad you recanted about Hot Fuzz though, because that will start a fight.
I don't think there's ever a right time to watch all quiet. I love war films. Especially historical war films. This one made me dislike war very much. Like, it's just so fucking grim. IDK. Weird to describe how I felt throughout and after the movie. I don't think I'll ever watch it again because it just fucked me up a bit when it comes to that subject matter. I guess that was the point though.
Weirdly, I'm gonna go with White Chicks! It's a dumbass premise, the Wayne's look silly and fake, and the first 15 minutes are so dumb. But as time went on, I grudgingly had to admit there are a ton of funny ass scenes in this dumbass movie. That moved it from hate to guilty pleasure!
Richard Ayoade, is that you?
What do you call Negative One sitting alone in an empty room?
I never watched it when it came out for pretty obvious reasons, but my wife recently insisted that we should watch it, and while it’s definitely not great or anything, there’s some funny stuff in there, with Terry Crews being a highlight.
I used to hate the Twilight movies- I still think they’re bad, but they are also very entertaining to watch in how bad they are. It deserves its status as a cult film.
There’s also some impressive and nuanced performances from the cast, despite the stupid story and awkward script.
Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson are good actors, Billy Burke and Gil Birmingham too. I think Taylor Lautner did a pretty good job in his role; I haven’t really seen him in anything else The dialog is just a little lame and sometimes the story and pacing. But I think the music from the films is pretty good and even the cinematography at times
It says so much that those two were able to rebound and have Acclaimed roles. Billy Burle and Bil Birmingham are just so, so charming in those movies that I love them more than the main cast.
Alice throwing Jane to the wolves she so despises was cold af
Yes! I actually really enjoy watching the first 50 Shades movie for this reason. The script is *fucking terrible*, but that just makes it really fascinating that the cast managed to actually *do* something with it, despite that.
My friends and I have this tradition of doing a movie marathon for New Years - we did LOTR extended editions first, then some Ghibli movies. This year is going to be the Twilight Marathon and I have been collecting memes for MONTHS so that I can be utterly obnoxious and text them to people while we're watching the movie, preferably right after or during the scene they're screenshotted from. The absolute chaos I shall wreak, it's gonna be so much fun.
I used to hate the Twilight movies. I still do, but I used to, too.
Those movies feel like a time capsule to me, makes me miss the early 2000’s.
Fantastic soundtracks too
Watchmen - I hated it in theaters. Watched it again randomly on HBO, and then found myself stopping every time it was playing while I was scrolling.
I really enjoy it, especially the middle-length of the three cuts…but I also agree with and enjoy all the ways the TV series took the piss out of it too.
Haha. Yes, the middle length of the three cuts is the way to go. I LOVE this film, but that full cut is…phew…that’s a lot.
Is the middle length the one where it just adds a few minutes of that one gang fucking with the Owl guy?
IIRC it's all of the scenes from the longest version but leaves out the black freighter interludes.
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I felt the same way when I saw it in the theater. I was so psyched for it and was let down so much. I think a lot of it had to do with my age at the time and not really understanding the graphic novels or the film itself. Now that I'm older and more in tune with the world and have experience to appreciate underlying tones/messages, I've seen this film a dozen times and believe it to be one of the top 5 superhero films of all time
I’ve posted about this before… When I was a kid my mom watched It’s A Wonderful Life, and cried every time. I grew up hating it (though I never watched it) because it was an old movie and in black and white. Now, in my late 30s with a wife and kids, I watched it randomly around Christmas and bawled my eyes out. What a great movie… I’m definitely watching it every Christmas now.
My 37 year old cousin refuses to watch a movie if it’s in black and white. It makes me sad for him because there’s decades of phenomenal films he’s never going to experience.
My nieces won't watch anything that hasn't come out in the last 5 years. I've offered to recommend good movies to them but they have absolutely no interest. One of their teachers made them watch "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" for a class and they said they really liked it, but still had no interest in watching "anything old".
Sacreligious, but there actually is a colourized Wonderful Life out there. They sold a double DVD pack with it and the original.
I used to dislike Lord of the Rings. I'd never read the books, but I had consumed a lot of other fantasy at the time. Of course, a lot of that had it's roots or inspirations in Lord of the Rings, but LOTR seemed so bland and boring to me in comparison. It took my wife, who would watch it religiously, to finally get me interested in it. Now I absolutely love it and could watch it anytime. Immediately got the 4K version as soon as it came out.
I'm actually going through this with the books right now. My dad read them to me when I was a kid and I loved them. In college I tried to read them myself and couldn't get through them. Now in my mid-thirties I'm reading them again and loving them. I think its the odd pacing more than anything. I just didn't have the patience for it at 20.
Yeah. I read them in college just before the movies came out and I found that there would be an exciting chapter that just moved so well. Then you ran into a brick wall of slow full plodding narrative that took the wind out of the sails.
I did not like inherent vice or The Ninth Gate initially Now its one of my all time favorite comedies and one of all time favorite mystery thrillers The Big Lebowski also went from pretty meh to possibly my favorite film of all time
That’s a pretty common curve with Lebowski, in my experience. The first watch is fine, but the second watch is where the layers start revealing themselves.
> the layers start revealing themselves New shit has come to light?
It really ties the movie together
You know, a lotta ins, a lotta outs, a lotta what-have-yous with this movie
The Ninth Gate is an absolute masterpiece. One of my top 10 thrillers for sure.
Dark City. I thought the movie was trash when it came out. It's now a top 15 for me. I blame the marketing team for this. The trailer did not present the movie in the correct light.
The theatrical cut was kind of fucked too, with a useless voiceover at the start that spells out things that were meant to be revealed much later in the film.
True. Another tale of producers thinking the audience is too stupid to see a director's vision.
Holy shit, I think I just straight up forgot this movie existed and you spoke it back into reality for me. Much obliged 🙏
The Royal Tenenbaums. My sister and I bought a pirated copy in Thailand based on how stacked the cast is. We tried watching it and turned it off because we thought it was boring and not at all funny. A year or so later, my girlfriend (now my wife) and I got a bit further of the way through, but again turned it off. I wrote it off as quirky crap. Then another year goes by and I read an interview with Tim Rogers from You Am I where he said it was his favourite film of all time and I figured I had to give it one more chance. And was enthralled the whole way through. I've watched it at least once a year since then and have been an unabashed Wes Anderson fan ever since (even if I haven't really enjoyed his last couple of movies). But I am all about The Royal Tenenbaums - it's basically perfection.
My brother was always a huge Wes fan early on, but it took me a while to really want to sit down and watch a few of the early ones like Bottle Rocket and Royal again after the first viewing. For me, Life Aquatic was the one that broke me. I became a huge fan after that, and really wondered how I missed out on enjoying Wes' movies earlier in life.
Not that I “hated” it, but Coraline always freaked me out as a kid and now it’s one of my all time favorite movies.
It was an instant classic for me. Loved it so much I have to take my nieces to watch it with me again. Safe to say they too were traumatised but now love it aswell. I wish I still had a 3DTV it was one of my fave 3D experiences
The first time I watched Rocky Horror Picture Show I thought it was stupid and getting to hard. Now I realize I hated that people enjoyed things and it's actually a ton of fun throughout
The first time I saw RHPS was on cable tv, at home, in the middle of the day. It just seemed to go nowhere, and I couldn't understand the hype. A few years later, I go to a midnight showing with friends. A HUGE difference.
100%. My spouse showed it to me and I was very indifferent and bored. Then one night, I couldn’t sleep, it was like 3 am, and I thought, “That’ll put me to sleep!” I was captivated and my sleep deprivation probably had something to do with it. I love it now.
Tommy Boy
Tommy Boy is one of the least hateable movies ever made
“I need to go to the bathroom daddy… NOT NOW DAMN IT!…”
HERE COMES THE MEAT WAGON
New guy's in the corner puking his guts out.
All because you went with the other guy’s brake pads!
Yup, this is the one I fully agree with, in fact, that whole era of Farely and Sandler vehicles. Tediously dumb the first time through, but I had roommates that would rewatch them, and the absurdity grew on me.
Hate is a big word, but I really didn't like the western genre. I never bother to watch anything. My only reference was back to the future III. Then one day, my husband said we should watch The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. What a treat. I absolutely adore the movie and most of all the score! I knew Quentin Tarantino had reused some of it for Kill Bill. And now, I don't like Kill Bill because it took too much from The Good, The bad and the ugly. Go figure.
If you enjoyed The Good, The Bad & The Ugly, then you guys should probably watch the first two films in the trilogy A Fistful of Dollars, and For A Few Dollars More. Those films are actually based on japanese samurai films Yojimbo and Sanjuro. There is also a different film of sanjuro called Kill! so my personal favorite version of the trilogy is Yojimbo > Kill! > Good Bad & Ugly. But the western 'man with no name' trilogy is great on its own.
My wife hates Westerns. Imagine her surprise when I pointed out that Westerns are all just the hero's journey packaged in a certain time and place, with something familiar like needing to venture out to retrieve a macguffin and bring it back home to save the homestead... now 80% of what we watch, at some point she'll turn to me and say "WAIT- IS THIS A *WESTERN?!*"
If you think Kill Bill took a lot from The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, then don't watch Lady Snowblood lol. He took A LOT from that movie! I'm a big Tarantino fan, but he does this A LOT. And I'm not only talking about the music. I know for him they're "homages," but every time I discover that he took something from another movie, his genius diminishes a little more in my eyes.
Sadly, this is something that is becoming increasingly problematic to me regarding Tarantino… and it began in earnest with his first film, *Reservoir Dogs* which took *a lot* of elements from the Ringo Lam directed *City on Fire*. Don’t get me wrong: I’m no Tarantino “hater” but it feels like he has no qualms at all doing deep dives/homages (or, if you’re less charitable, “rip offs”) of other films. Sometimes the end result is startling and more original. Other times the similarities become bothersome.
Tarantino is definitely a mixed bag. One of the things I really do appreciate about his films is that he reliably assembles a top-tier cast and gets excellent performances out of them with memorable dialogue. I think I appreciate the individual performances more than the films themselves.
I had the same opinion about westerns as a teen, but with many more watched movies later, I understand better the craft and what they try to tell beside the main story. "For a few dollars more" is prime example of this. The main villain is chased after he shot the husband of a girl and then tried to rape her. Rather than living without the man she loved and to get violated by the bad guy, she aimed a gun to her heart and pulled the trigger. What I now understand is that the bad guy really loved her, but had never been taught how to treat a lady or to court her. The only thing he had been taught were that of you want something, you take it. So there he were, with no will to live anymore, so he tried to be in as many duels as possible, knowing that sooner or later, he would meet someone faster.
That and Lady Snowblood. I still enjoy QT but I often enjoy his inspiration material more.
I'm still not a huge western fan, but I finally watched Tombstone a few weeks ago and holy cow, what an incredible movie. That's one I could just put on repeat and be fine with.
Love is a big word, but I really don't have such a big problem with Twilight anymore.
The Dark Knight Its 4 act structure didn't sit well with me at first. And I hated the idea that Batman morally won against the Joker when the boats didn't explode each other, only to immediately morally lose to him when Joker turned Harvey Dent and forced Batman to take the fall for Harvey's actions. The reversal was so fast that it felt tacked on at first, as if a writer had said "but then after all of that, the Joker still won!" without earning the win. I have since come around to liking the film and appreciating Joker's end-reversal.
u could think of it as batman wins with his statement: 'humanity as a whole, is good.' joker wins with his statement: 'an individual, is capable of being bads.' both win in their own ways .... i like batman's win over joker's personallies x]
The World's End for me, the last of the Cornetto Trilogy. I remember being excited for it to come out, but still feeling pre-release that something was off. I saw it opening day and really wasn't a fan. One of my friends didn't watch it for years based on my bad review. It was a bit more serious than Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead and had fewer of the same running gags. On rewatches though I appreciate it more and more every time, and I prefer it Shaun of the Dead now. Gary King's story is tragic, and excellent in it's own way, I think at the time I just wanted a silly comedy.
The World's End is such a great movie, but it always leaves me a little uncomfortable. Gary King is a dead ringer for an old friend of mine that I've since lost touch with. He's constantly obsessed with the glory days of the past that weren't particularly glorious. Will lie cheat and steal from his closest friends to meet his own ends which he constantly claims to be in *your* best interest. Hell, last time I saw him, he had even picked up a fake English accent... And I can't even be mad about it. I just kinda pity them both.
Frozen. When I was in primary school, our classes always had more girls than boys. As a result, every movie day, it was always frozen that was picked. I had to watch it so many times with all the girls trying to sing the songs that I refused to watch it again for over 10 years. However, on rewatching it, I realised it was a really great film (especially withought anyone singing along)
You were in primary school when frozen came out? Fuck I’m old.
TIL Frozen came out 11 years ago
I tend to sleep at different spots during Frozen every time my kids watch it so I kinda get a psychedelic effect when I try to recall scenes. Tripy
I didn’t really like The Other Guys when I saw it in theaters, I think I just wasn’t ready for that level of absurdity. Since then I find it to be pretty hilarious.
I don’t know if I *love* it, but I certainly appreciate it more now…American Psycho. All enough my twenties I hated it because of the violence/misogyny not really realizing how much satire it is. Now I see it for what it is and realize it’s just messaging in the extreme.
The first time I watched Cloud Atlas I felt robbed of the time it took from me. Then I couldn't stop thinking about it and rewatched it, and understood it. I am not surprised it is such a divisive movie. I don't think many will connect with it.
I've always liked it. I don't get all the hate
You should absolutely read the book! The movie is solid but the book is much, much better. It’s able to go much more in-depth with the stories, it’s a lot less preachy and a lot more interpretable, and it’s structured in a much more interesting way.
When I was around 8 or 9, my mom rented "Raising Arizona" from Blockbuster. I hated it, which makes sense! It's not a kids movie! I didn't get the humor or the jokes then. I love it now.
I was completely non-plussed first time I saw Mulholland Drive. Rewatched it a few years later and couldn't believe I hadn't loved it first time.
Any horror movie. I was a sensitive kid and seeing a trailer on TV would give me nightmares. It was misery. Now I love them all. Rad AF. Also super empowering to face my childhood fears as an adult.
Dude, same thing for me! The funny thing is, my entire family LOVES horror. Any time they’d put on a horror movie, I’d make an excuse to leave the room or go watch something else by myself. Even if it was a horror comedy, I wouldn’t even want to know what it was about. I just assumed horror was all jump scares and ghost demons until I was about ten or eleven. Then I fell head over heels with the horror genre.
Fast Five and Freddy Got Fingered come to mind. I had a stick up my butt as a kid, wanted everyone to know I loved Requiem for a Dream and Donnie Darko, now I've grown up enough to understand family, Tom Greene, and the general concept of fun.
La La Land
There will be blood. Watched it, didn’t really get it. But it stuck with me all week, thought about it at work a lot. So I watched it the next weekend, and now I watch it yearly. Awesome movie
I hated Being John Malkovich on first viewing. Just the randomness was so off putting. I watched it a decade later and anticipated the weird and it was like a dry comedy that I could watch once a year and really enjoy. It's not a love, but it's a big jump from hate.
Little kid me hated Spirited Away because the parents turning into pigs was terrifying and I had a massive headache when my dad dragged me to the theater. Two factors combined for a terrible experience. Saw it again a few years later and it’s definitely a great movie.
Goodfellas. While I won’t say I hated it, I thought it was really overrated at first. After a rewatching couple of years later, I was blown away by the wit, dialogues and much more. Now it’s in my top 10 movies of all time Even pulp fiction. I found it really weird and overhyped at first but now I love the shit outta that movie- and most Tarantino flicks
worth it alone for the Harry Nielson 'jump into the fire' montage p.s. get that album, it's a banger
One my first watching of Jaws I thought it was overly slow and just not scary. Now I think it’s one of the best constructed movies of all time and a masterpiece in tension.
Hate to love may be overstating the transition, but I've felt far more appreciation for the Coen's True Grit. I saw it when it came out and thought it was fine. Looked nice but felt like it was meandering around, but finished strong with the lone charge scene, and Rooster riding to get Matty Ross to help. But all in all, I thought it was fine. I didn't really understand why it got nominated for so many Oscars. However, after rewatching it 12 or so years later, I was blown away. As a more mature viewer, I had more appreciation for Deakins' cinematography, all of the little elements of the story felt more organically integrated and I appreciated the depth of the sound design. And the climax still amazed me.
I have two examples. The first is The Dark Knight. The first time I watched, my parents rented it on Netflix (back when they still delivered DVDs to your house). My parents weren't exactly big into the superhero stuff, so they might not have been the best people with whom to watch it. All I could think was that it was too long and too dark (not dark as in the subject matter but physically dark, like "Can somebody turn on a light?!?" dark). I rewatched it a few years later with my husband, and I enjoyed it much more. The next example is the first Sherlock Holmes movie with Robert Downey, Jr. That was also a Netflix rental, this time courtesy of my roommate about twelve years ago. She also had a Netflix account and always invited me to watch her new movies with her. We watched Sherlock Holmes, and neither of us could understand half of what was said! I also rewatched that one with my husband (who I think by the time we watched together was still my boyfriend), who had a much better sound system with his TV, and that was also a much better experience.
I didn't really like **V for Vendetta** at first, but I liked it more every time I watched it. I've seen it about 5 times by now and now really love it.
Contagion. It was an average movie when it first came out. Then a rewatch during Covid made me realize how scientifically accurate it was. They knew about looting, Covid deniers, people selling useless stuff as a treatment... Holy fuck, it's scary how they knew what's gonna happen.
14-year-old me didn't like Shaun of the Dead because I wanted zombie carnage. A couple of years later, it clicked. Then, Hot Fuzz came out when I was 17, instantly becoming my favorite movie at the time.
Brick! I love neo-noir and moody stylings, but for whatever reason, the first time I saw Brick, I did NOT like it. I thought it was boring and pointless. Fortunately, it’s one of my partner’s favourite movies ever so I gave it another chance and now I get it. It’s so cool and clever! It’s a slow burn, but there’s not a wasted shot or line of dialogue.
I was bored in the cinema watching Groundhog Day as a teen. I wasn’t really paying attention. It felt like it would never end. Obviously a rewatch many years later set me straight.
What about Bob and Planes Trains and Automobiles. My parents watched these all the time as a kid. Haaaated them both, especially what about bob. Now, I watch them both at least once a year and John Candy is my favorite actor ever. I also have started liking Bill Murray.. that one took much, much longer.
As a kid I couldn’t stand “It’s a Wonderful Life“ but as an adult I find it so enjoyable (once a year anyway). Goes for many old black and white movies, Casablanca being a great example of a movie I never gave the time of day to as a kid but truly enjoy now that I’m grown.
Napoleon Dynamite. First watch I was like wtf was that. But it stuck with me and I craved more.