Now you like it, now you don't - in reverse.
 

Have you ever seen a movie you didn't like .... and then someone says something to make you look at it in an entirely different way - then it all makes sense and you DO like it ?

I know this happens a lot when you see a movie and you dont like it at first - almost always due to deflated expectations - but you see it again with ithout those same expectations and like it the second time..

I'm talking about something a little different ..

It happened to me with one movie - and i really suprised myself ..

The Core .... i saw this movie and thought - what a cornball piece of crap ...
Then i heard a reviewer who loved it - comparing it to the old school sci-fi like Journey to the Centre of the Earth ... and i completely did a 180%
I watch it again and i totally see the film with new eyes ... and really like it.

A lot of the younger folks might not know the old films i'm talking about - or like them - its a little too oldschool for some kids ...


but has anone else done a complete about-face on a movie they once hated ?

Equilibrium.

First time I watched it I turned it off after 30 minutes. Tried a second time, got about 40 minutes into it. It got put back on the shelf. I saw a couple of other good films with Bale in, so decided to have a 3rd go....I surpirsed myself, I actually enjoyed it...weird.

I thought The Core was good.

Pink Floyd---The Wall

The first time I watched this [ years ago ] I thought it sucked. I gave it another try months later and loved it.




Of course the first time I was sober.

Dark City

I actually walked out of the theater on this one.

I watched it years later and I enjoyed it, I dunno why I hated it enough to blow 15 bucks.

that one bugged me too ..

i thought the bad guys borrowed their fashion sense a little too closely from hellraiser, i didnt like Keifers lispy voice, and i've never felt rufus sewell could cary a film as a lead .. he's too bland.

I remember there seemed to be influences from other films as well ....

watching it later i could enjoy it on its own merits ..it's stylish and has the feel of one of those mystery PC games ..

but i still think it has it's origional failings

Dark City was pretty cool. Some stuff seemed borrowed (like you said) but the plot itself was insanely original I thought. Movies like this and The Matrix that are sci-fi set in our own reality, that have humans that aren't aware that certain events ever take place is a cool concept to me.

If we are all really just plugged into embryonic chambers as a food source for machines gone wild right now and the plug in the back of our heads is making us think we are on a computer, that'd be a trip. (The Matrix)

Just like it'd be a trip to wake up tomorrow as a completely different person with a totally different life, career and family, but with the memories of a full existance implanted so deeply that you'd never know the difference. (Dark City)

Those kinds of movies are very cool to me for some reason. *Shrug*

i thought the concept of (the origional) Matrix was VERY cool ..

But dark city ... the guinea pig - being studied like lab animals is a pretty old concept - i think its been done in many twilight zone episodes ..

Pitch Black...when it was still a new release at the loval video place...turned it off within maybe 20 minutes of putting it on the first time. Watched it about 2 years later on tv, and quite enjoyed it.
I personally preferred dark city to the matrix, better acting, weirder storyline,some very nice sets and effects, excellent ending...

I can't really think of any movies like that...but I do that a lot with music. I can absolutly hate a song, or a band..then for no reason at all, I like it. I start to listen more I guess.......weird shit.

I did that with the movie The Others. I went in the theatre with high hopes and was let down because I thought it was slow. I then read some reviews and listened to what my friends were saying about it. I then went back and reviewed the film and realized it had that subtle spookiness and I found myself liking the film better and better. Now it is one of my favorites.