Changing your mind about a movie.

When i saw this thread the first film that popped into my head was sin city. The first time i saw this movie i just could not get into it, no matter how hard i tried. I watched it again recently, as the first time i watched it was when it was first released on dvd, and have to say i actually enjoyed it, which i wasnt expecting at all.

I wasn't a fan of fight club at first....

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Blasphemy! No kidding, kidding, I didn't really get its greatness the 1st time I watched it either, still liked it.

For me I also didn't really have any kind of particular feeling on Blade Runner the first viewing (I watched it by myself on my Xbox with tons of glare which probably didn't help). But after I talked about it with my friend and proceeded to watch it again I absolutely loved it . Now I own the Special Edition Final Cut

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The Matrix, It's not that iI didn't like it it's just I had only seen it once and by the time hype for the videogames heated up I got hooked on the franchise.

There are a lot of films I can think of that I originally thought little of but have nowadays come to appreciate much better...Goodfellas, Blade Runner, Heat, The Godfather, Army of Darkness, The Big Lebowski, Dazed and Confused...etc.

And on the flip side of the coin, I used to love the Indiana Jones movies when I was growing up, nowadays I can't quite get into them. Methinks I watched them too many times...

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i think i'm the same as Gummo, who said a few pages back she didn't like Donnie Darko. it used to be one of my favorite films of all time. i don't hate it now, but i definitely have sort of went off it. i think its a mixture of the fact that i watched it so much, its slightly pretentious, and so many people quote it and come all over it. i know that shouldn't bug me, but it does!

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Blade Runner was marketed as a Star Wars-type adventure and when I saw it (at age 19) I wasn't expecting a mystery. I thought that it absolutely sucked. I saw it a year or so later on HBO and it made me mad that the marketing was so misleading. It was and remains a great movie for me.

The Martial Arts genre.

Back in college (many moons ago) a close friend/roomate of mine used to loooove Bruce Lee and the Martial Arts films in general. She'd invite me to watch them with her and I had absolutely no interest in seeing them. In the past few years, however, I've had a change of heart and have become more open to, and even like, the genre. Maybe my kids have influenced me (Jackie Chan's the man to them) or maybe it started with Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and is fed by the likes of Hero and House of Flying Daggers. Anyway...I just wanted to fess up on changing my tune.

I thought Citizen Kane was boring the first time I watched it, now I love it.

Dr. Strangelove is another that I didn't 'get' the first time I saw it, but I just watched it again and I'm starting to enjoy the biting humor in the dialogue better.

It'll take more viewings of both films to get the full impact of them, I think.

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Batman Begins - was totally disapointed when i first saw it. Now its one of, if not my favourite movie. I think that I remembered the original Tim Burton version from being a kid and couldnt let it go initially.

I finally saw the Ocean's 11 remake on regular TV the other night, commercials and all, and was pleased to find that it really wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. Still. my favorite scene was a quick shot when all of the celebrities are taking their seats for the big championship fight and there's one quick shot of Henry Silva and Angie Dickinson in the crowd--probably the only two members of the original cast who are still alive. Nothing was said or made of their appearance in the remake, but there they were, a short and silent homage to the original film. If you blinked or were entirely unaware of the original cast, you missed it.

On the debit side, the new robbery plan was way too complicated and confusing, with one huge flaw: do you really think that the guards who night after night after night watch on teir monitors the same scenes of people going in and out of the vault would overlook the fact that the fake film they are suddenly seeing didn't have that massive casino emblem in the floor tiles? That would be like guards monitoring the entry to a major federal building and not noticing that the giant Seal of the United States had suddenly vanished from the floor.

Also, that one-of-a-kind Buck Rogers electric whozits that they steal from a local scientific lab would have triggered a massive search, when they could have quitely bought some ammonia nitrate fertilizer and blown down the power pylons as they did in the original film.

Also, whatever "beauty" Julia Roberts is supposed to have shoots right by me; she's skinny, has a mouth like a bass, walks like a lumberjack, and is ugly as a mud fence.

Also, both the original and the remake haven't the time to fully develop the characters all 11 robbers, so it's difficult to remember who's supposed to be doing what and who's on screen now, especially if they're wearing masks. However, the original had the advantage of better known actors--better known to me, at least--so they weren't as difficult to sort out as in the remake where some of the faces were new to me. The new crew likely was more recognizeable to others in this forum.

There were other bits of silliness--the acrobat goes around asking questions in Chinese and Brad Pitt answers him in English: So the acrobat understands but cannot speak English, while Pitt understands but cannot speak Chinese??? Also, what's the big deal about the acrobat getting his hand smashed before the caper? It doesn't interfere with his acrobatics or what he has to do inside the vault. So the bandage gets caught while they're trying to set off the explosives. So he gets blown into Chinese confetti. Big deal. Expendable cast member. Now the split is 10 ways.

But it was okay for a couple of hours of light entertainment, with enough commercials so I could get up and do other things before coming back for another brief plunge into the story. Didn't make me want to run out and rent Ocean's 12, 13, 14, or however many are now out there, however.

I didn't find that silly at all a friend i grew up with could understand Macedonian but not speak it, her mother could understand English and not speak it so it happens i always found their conversations interesting

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it is necessary to change sometimes

The Boondock Saints. I really liked it the first couple of times then watched it again and hated it...

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