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Old 11-23-2023, 03:29 PM   #1
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I find myself disappointed with movies more and more lately. Probably becoming a curmudgeon but I feel angry if a movie has let me down, so I tend to lower expectations to attempt reduce that effect. Stop movies twenty minutes in because I know I'm gonna hate it.

But what are the movies that you had high expectations and they delivered. Not great movies, because that is a plenty, but great movies that delivered.

1. Mad Max Fury Road - The previews looked bonkers, the Tina Turner barffest previously, but this movie had me smiling and laughing with glee 90% of the time. It's no Shakespeare but a masterpiece.

2. Raiders of the Lost Ark - Saw this in Sandpoint as a kid, probably my first movie ever and holy shat.

3. Kill Bill - Looked so good in the previews and it was way better. People who say "the blood was over the top" are immediately identified as objectively stupid. That was the point.

4. Inglourious Basterds - Watched it with a German friend who hates pretty much every movie and he just loved it.
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Old 11-23-2023, 03:41 PM   #2
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The Dark Knight, Blade Runner 2049, Dune, Knives Out are ones that come to mind.
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Avengers Infinity War for me. Sky high expectations and it exceeded them in every way. Endgame was the opposite. Well below expectations. God the blip is mind blowingly stupid.

This one’s only partial but There Will Be Blood. I thought the trailer made it look like an interesting oil baron movie about business men going head to head and holy #### it was so, so much more.

Fury Road is a good one. I remember the first time I saw the trailer I couldn’t tell if it looked amazing or hilariously bad. Boy did it ever deliver.

The Martian. It was hard to believe it could live up to the book and it did. Total home run.

The Matrix. It was so hyped and yet still blew my mind.
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The new Dune movie, not a Dune guy, but loved the pacing, the visuals.
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No Country for Old Men. When I first saw the trailer I was riveted. After the film concluded my jaw was on the floor.

Another Coen Brothers film - True Grit. The original had a campy little place in my heart. The re-make was a damned masterpiece from top to bottom.
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The Chris Nolan trifecta of The Dark Knight, Inception, and Interstellar. I had very high expectations for all three going in and found them all to be exceptional and surprising, to this day some of my favorite movies.
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Avengers Infinity War for me. Sky high expectations and it exceeded them in every way. Endgame was the opposite. Well below expectations. God the blip is mind blowingly stupid.

This one’s only partial but There Will Be Blood. I thought the trailer made it look like an interesting oil baron movie about business men going head to head and holy #### it was so, so much more.

Fury Road is a good one. I remember the first time I saw the trailer I couldn’t tell if it looked amazing or hilariously bad. Boy did it ever deliver.

The Martian. It was hard to believe it could live up to the book and it did. Total home run.

The Matrix. It was so hyped and yet still blew my mind.
The Martian and The Matrix are great ones for this. I couldn't think of any, but those two do it.

The Matrix totally blew my mind as well. Couldn't believe how awesome that was. Wide-eyed and amazed throughout. That was revolutionary.

The Martian, too. Loved the book and was looking forward to the movie, but tried not to get too excited. It fkn delivered, though. Man, even the trailer for The Martian is awesome. I still watch it sometimes hah.
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The new Dune movie, not a Dune guy, but loved the pacing, the visuals.
I thought it was boring, but I'm going to hit it again. I was expecting a beginning, middle and end. I didn't know the whole movie was just the beginning of a story. I think knowing that I could watch it with a different expectation and enjoy it. I'll definitely watch it again before the next installment.
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The Road with Viggo Mortensen. It's obscure got average ratings, but in terms of the story and that it's primarily a father and his son on screen in an unknown apocalypse. Viggo was stunning in this performance.

I also remember when LOTR's trilogy started, each one was beyond what one could conceive. Just so well done, unlike the Hobbit.
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Old 11-23-2023, 08:52 PM   #10
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You guys are devolving into movies that are great but you didn’t expect to. Haha. That list is a thousand long. I was thinking of carving out that top part. Marketed great but we’re better.

There is not many!

No one was posting about that new pulp fiction movie. Can’t wait for that one with John Travolta???? But he’s not a total garbage weirdo.
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Shawshank was one of my favourite Stephen King pieces and I was a big fan of Tim Robbins so my expectations were really high heading into that one and it still exceeded them.
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The latest Top Gun and Mission Impossible movies come to mind.

I guess what that says is you can count on Tom Cruise to deliver?
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But what are the movies that you had high expectations and they delivered. Not great movies, because that is a plenty, but great movies that delivered.
Gladiator. It looked awesome, and it was awesome.

Anything James Cameron has high expectations, so I'll put True Lies and T2 on this list too.

Matrix 1 was absolutely GOAT material, but the stink of Matrix 2 and 3 tarnished it's legacy.

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Dune for me too.
I was told it was awesome and I loved it when I watched it.
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Gladiator. It looked awesome, and it was awesome.

Anything James Cameron has high expectations, so I'll put True Lies and T2 on this list too.

Matrix 1 was absolutely GOAT material, but the stink of Matrix 2 and 3 tarnished it's legacy.
I see we're at the point of just not acknowledging 4 lol.

I appreciated the lore/expanded universe in 2. But yeah the rest of the trilogy didn't age well. They're much more goofy and meme-able than epic or cool.

1 holds up beautifully and that's a testament to a superbly crafted film

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Top Gun Maverick, Shawshank, LOTR, Interstellar are my picks. Lots of hype and backed it up.
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The Shinning and Shawshank.
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Ah The Shinning...nobody wants to get sued...
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Forrest Gump. Matrix.

And the best I can think of hands down, Terminator 2.

This thing was hyped to the moon and to this day is still probably the greatest action movie ever made. It's literally perfect
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