Movies that were better than you had expected

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A response to:

http://atheistforums.org/thread-14563.html

I`ll start with Skyfall, the last Bond movie.
Not being a big fan of the series I was suprised how much I enjoyed this film.

[Tea Earl Grey Hot]

"God Bless America"

[frankiej]

The Dawn of the Dead remake. The original is still miles better, but I was rather surprised by it.

[Rev. Rye]

Little Women, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, Papillon, Lincoln, Oldboy (how was I to know that the movie would become one of my top ten favorite films?), A Serbian Film, American Beauty (I came upon it late), We Need to Talk About Kevin, The General (I was always more of a Chaplin junkie).

[Annik]

Iron Man and Iron Man II. And The Dark Knight.

When did we finally figure out how to make comic book movies?

[Rev. Rye]

Iron Man and Iron Man II. And The Dark Knight.

When did we finally figure out how to make comic book movies?

When Tim Burton got the rights to Batman?

[Tea Earl Grey Hot]

I never liked any Marvel based movies. Whenever I see a marvel film, "dumb dumb dumb" is ringing in my head. The Nolan batman films are the only superhero films that seemed half way interesting.

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both from the same director, both only recently in cinema and both outright awsome.

I was really suprised and hadn`t expected such an awsome film.

[frankiej]

Both of those are fantastic films, but I had heard that they were great before I watched them, so I expected it.

[Creed of Heresy]

The Avengers. I expected it to be good. But not THAT good.

The first Silent Hill movie. Silent Hill Revelations was pure dog shit, though.

Toy Story 2 and 3. A rare set of exceptions to "the sequels suck." Wall-E. Up. Dark Knight Rises. I kept hearing DKR wasn't that great but I dunno what the hell people were talking about. Iron Man. Finally, powered-armor done right- ok enough with my obsession with powered armor...