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RE: Movies that were better than you had expected
December 26, 2012 at 2:27 pm
The Dawn of the Dead remake. The original is still miles better, but I was rather surprised by it.
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RE: Movies that were better than you had expected
December 26, 2012 at 3:51 pm
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).
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RE: Movies that were better than you had expected
December 26, 2012 at 5:20 pm
Iron Man and Iron Man II. And The Dark Knight.
When did we finally figure out how to make comic book movies?
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RE: Movies that were better than you had expected
December 26, 2012 at 9:45 pm
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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RE: Movies that were better than you had expected
December 26, 2012 at 10:29 pm
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...