The LEGO movie was a surprisingly good for a movie based on a toy franchise. What other movies have exceeded their expectations?
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I thought the Wicked movie would be super bloated when I found out that they were splitting it into two parts, but I liked it a lot and it was really faithful to what I remember of the musical
Battleship.
Going by the strictest of interpretations of your criterion, my expectations for Battleship were "ninth circle of Hell"-abouts. The actual film was only the eight circle. Still utterly dire and worthless, but not quite as dire as I'd thought it would be.
The D&D movie was great too
I mean, one of them. Honor Among Thieves was excellent, the 2000 one... not so much.
Nothing like watching Pike jam on a lute
Definitely!
I'm glad that you enjoyed it, that's great, but I thought it was really bad and cringy. I'll focus on the positive, I did like the escape from jail scene at the beginning because that scene did have a genuine players-improvizing-their-ridiculous-stupid-plan-while-the-flabbergasted-DM-tries-to-keep-the-campaign-going feel to it. I wish the rest of the movie was able to capture that same D&D feeling
I think they had to strike a balance of "feels like what would actually happen in a game of DnD" and "we need to streamline some things to make it work as a movie." And I think they struck a decent balance. It was fun to see the times they failed a roll/skill check, and the creative solutions to problems.
I thought it totally did, right down to the overpowered NPC that gets added to the party to move the plot along because the actual group seems to be unable to progress stuff fast enough for the DM.
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once arrived as the concept of multiverses already started to get stale again - but managed to be the best multiverse movie ever.
Clue (1985) set the bar so high for movies based on board games that it cannot ever be reached.
A Knights Tale (2001). Sits in kind of a weird space, and didn't do great critically. A loose retelling of a story from The Canterbury Tales set in the 1300s but with modern references and music. A lot of it feels formulaic.
Yet I think the movie is great. There's some amazing chemistry between the actors (Heath Ledger, Alan Tudyk, Paul Bettany, Mark Addy, Rufus Sewell). The story may be a bit easy to predict sometimes, but the emotional beats hit incredibly hard. I can't really describe why it works, because it probably shouldn't.
I feel like people weren't expecting Puss in Boots 2 to be such a complete and goddamn banger
Who am i?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Am_I_(2014_film)
German movies are renowned for being bad. This is one of rare ones that is good.
Thanks for the rec. I see it’s directed by the creator of Dark
Ooh, been watching several German TV shows lately, gonna check this out. Thanks!
Thank you!
Maybe Super Mario Bros 😜🤣
The 1993 film , right ?
Yeah
George Lucas and the studio thought Star Wars (1977) would be a flop, but I can’t find a good source for what audiences at the time expected. I think audiences doubted that Iron Man (2008) and the following series would be successful with RDJ starring. Some of the movies based on SNL sketches probably exceeded audience’s expectations due to the choice of source material and failures of other films inspired by the same show.
Perhaps it's just nostalgia speaking and it is technically another Lego movie, but Bionicle: The Mask of Light was pretty great.
The Hot Wheels AcceleRacers (2005) movies. Loved 'em as a kid
OG transformers from the 80s...
Dat zombie Optimus.
For the Harry Potter movie that every Harry Potter marathon seems to skip due to sadly not having almost anything to do with the overall plot, Prisoner of Azerbaijan attempts to do several things better than the other seven movies. I am not even a Potterhead and yet I see it and think "why are you trying to shove that one away, that's the opposite of how this should work".
Prisoner of Azerbaijan
Funny typo
The Masters of The Universe movie was tight
The Angry Birds movie exceeded my expectations by quite a bit for being inspired by a mobile game.
Stars Wars wins this. The expectations were so negative, it almost wasn't made.
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