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Rise of Skywalker - after the previous one, I expected to hate it, and was only seeing it to be done with the series. But I actually loved it.
I know it’s goofy as hell, but it just felt like a proper Star Wars movie to me, it was fast, fun entertainment and it undid a lot of things I hated in Last Jedi.
I think that would fit the xkcd criteria for a positive unpopular opinion. I haven’t checked rotten tomatoes though.
Personally, the only modern Star Wars movie that blew my socks off was Rogue One. All the rest were either ok, or, not that great. But RO was absolutely amazing.
Yeah, Rogue One was great, really liked that too.
Wholeheartedly agree, best of all the new movies by far! Great time start to finish, added to the lore, and did homage to what came before.
I just looked it up, 86% audience score which is surprising to me because that movie is such a mess. I will stand with my 42% audience and say the last jedi was the best of that trilogy. At least it had a coherent plot and tried to make a new story.
But yes, Rogue One has a very good case for best Starwars movie out of them all.
I’m a last Jedi defender too. It makes me think of that anakin and padme meme with padme being last Jedi saying to the rest of the franchise “but we’re going to tell a new and interesting story right?”
Last Jedi was a decent movie, but it was worse for having been in the middle of a trilogy.
I personally think that just almost every individual idea that was in the sequels were good ideas if taken on their own, it’s just that none of them were really fleshed out enough or strung together in good ways. As a cohesive trilogy they fall kind of flat (and that may be too kind) but if you think of them more as a series of vignettes each part of them works pretty well IMO.
At first Asteroid City got my attention with it’s title. But after watching the movie I am amazed and wondering why are movies like this not more successful.
You really have to like Wes Anderson style. It’s not for everyone. It’s a niche taste to be honest. A few love Anderson peculiar movie style, but many despise it. I’m in the former group.
I always go into a Wes Anderson film expecting it to be good, and it ends up being even better than that.
I immediately put his movies on the first place of my must watch list.
Bullet Train was fun as hell.
Edit: I just realized that I saw John Wick based on, “Hey I want to see a movie today. John Wick? No idea what this is, but if it’s in IMAX it might be fun!”
It was.
Mad Max: Fury road far exceeded my expectations.
I’d heard good things about the movie, and actually went in with reasonably high expectations of it, and it completely amazed me anyway. Just an incredible spectacle of a film.
Not a movie, but digimon adventure 1. I loved it as a kid watching all the digimon fights. I watched it again later in life and it was even better when I noticed all the character development.
I just finished Host last night.
I had low expectations because of the Zoom format of the movie. I expected it to be real cheesy and low quality.
But man, I was blown away. The Zoom video chat made the whole thing feel more real and once the scares started, they really didn’t stop. It’s only a 50 minute runtime, so it’s short and sweet. Even when I knew what scares were coming, they still got me.
The Suicide Squad
The first one was so bad, was surprised the sequel was watchable haha
Wolf of Wall Street. Mainly because I saw it on a whim pretty much as soon as it came out, and didn’t really have any expectations. Holy fuck what an entertaining and hilarious film, three hours long and not a single boring minute. I’ve not seen it since but I consider it my favourite film regardless.
Based on the trailers and ads, I thought Kung Pow was gonna be a piece of crap. I only went because my parents made me take my younger siblings who wanted to see it.
Turned out to be one of the funniest fucking movies I have ever seen.
Renfield was hilarious in an Army of Darkness kind of rediculous horror way. If that’s your thing.
Bullet Train. I didn’t know what to expect going into it really, but it turned out to be a super fun movie.
Zoolander. Thought it looked bad from the trailers. I was wrong.
Dune
My expectations were sky-high for Dune and they were still exceeded.
The new Puss In Boots. I went to see it mostly for my husband who likes Puss, but oh my goodness it was actually REALLY good. The animation was really interesting.
You beat me to this answer. I knew it was going to be good because of its phenomenal word of mouth and I was still surprised. There are so many cool details that no one will notice on a first watch, but show how much care the creators had for it. By way of example, Death can be seen in the crowd during the opening giant fight (he was there to witness each frivolous end, after all), and the numbered cards denoting each death have the silhouette of Death holding his shotels in the corners.
