Movies that at first you hate and now love

[Rated R]

This is an interesting subject for me, because it happens quite often in my world. Fargo is the main example I'm going to use. When it was released on video my parents rented it and I decided to watch it with them. I spent the whole time ridiculing it at how pointless it was. I believe I was immature at the time and my respect for film had not yet developed. The next time I saw it was on CBC, uncensored gotta love Canadian television, and it blew me away despite the commercials. I realized that it was art and in turn I became a Coen Brothers fanatic. Now I want to hear your examples of movies that you hated the first time around and now love.

Jason

[flowrchild]

That is a good question. I seem to have the opposite experience more often, where I really like a movie and then I see it again and don't understand its original appeal to me. That happened recently for me with "Changing Lanes."

As for movies I *hate* and then love, I think that hardly ever happens with me, mainly because if I hate a movie I am not likely to ever sit through it again.

Don't ya just love how I totally didn't answer your question? Sorry about that.

[Mikey2Dope]

I HATED Mallrats the first time I saw it and despised it. For some reason I watched it like 4 years later and was laughing my ass off the whole time and now love it. Weird huh?

[bowieee]

The Reanimater

[Scarface98.9]

Pulp Fiction

[ReservoirDog]

I watched The Matrix the first time in a theater and hated it. I probably didnt like it much cause I was watching it with my girlfriend and that was a week before we broke up we were going through tough times.

I later rented it when it came out on DVD and couldnt believe how I didnt like it the first time. It soon became one of my favorite movies. Proof that who you watch movies with makes a world of a difference.

[BadCoverVersion]

Definately Mulholland Drive

I think I was just a tad baffled...Had to vent my spleen...

Why bother attemting to comprehend the bastard when you can quite simply say it's a bag of wank!

I'm a buffoon, forgive me! I soon saw the error of my ways!

[blankpage]

Truth be told I wasn't very fond of Clerks after my first viewing.I had a huge headache that day so yeah know.I was pissed becuase I bought it blindly.I put it in again few days laster.....Now I love it!

[loserkid]

the movie I hated, and hated wiht a passion was south park, bigger longer, and uncut....then i saw it again and couldn't stop laughing..I love the movie now...have no clue why I could of hated it

[Puck Bond]

Titanic yes I hated it in 1997...well the very thought of it the idea...I hated all its success, hated Celine Dion and that friggin song. I refused to ever watch it...vowed that I wouldn't...but as my movie taste grew and I expanded my horizons to more than just comedy, horror and action etc. I figured I would give Titanic a try and I ended up digging it a lot! Now I have a huge crush on Kate Winslet and she is one of my favorite actresses...I even think Leo is ok and wonder why he gets such a bad wrap...because I have enjoyed most of his other work.

[Tapeworm]

The Man In The Moon (not that dumb Jim Carrey movie)
Bully

[docholiday_13]

Weird story coming up. When I was eleven I used to watch a tape my older cousin had made. It had Young Guns and A Clockwork Orange on it. It was edited so that the minute Young Guns ended The beginning of Clockwork (Close up of Alex's face) started. So one day I watched maybe the first twenty minutes of Clockwork. Wow. It was pretty intense to me at that age. I then started having nightmares of the movie. I got so spooked that I'd jump up to press stop after Young Guns ended so I wouldn't have to see the opeing shot. I lived in pathetic fear of this movie until I was 15. Then my bud bought the movie and I decided to watch it. Four years later, It's my fave movie.

[malcolm1980]

The Thin Red Line - I did not like this film when I first saw it. I thought it was boring and pretentious. It took me a second viewing to realize how brilliant it really it. It's now my number 3 film of 1998.

[the movie guy]

Originally posted by Rated R
This is an interesting subject for me, because it happens quite often in my world. Fargo is the main example I'm going to use. When it was released on video my parents rented it and I decided to watch it with them. I spent the whole time ridiculing it at how pointless it was. I believe I was immature at the time and my respect for film had not yet developed. The next time I saw it was on CBC, uncensored gotta love Canadian television, and it blew me away despite the commercials. I realized that it was art and in turn I became a Coen Brothers fanatic. Now I want to hear your examples of movies that you hated the first time around and now love.

Jason

This is too weird...

That's EXACTLY the story I planned on telling when I entered this topic. :confused:

(All but the Canadian part to your story, of course. :p )

Fargo - A

Well, I'll also say then that I appreciated Mulholland Drive more the second time too, but, still, it's ending pissed me off... C- to B-.

Also, Boondock Saints put me to sleep the first time I saw it. The next week I watched it and thought it was pretty good. Last month I watched it twice more, and loved it... B- to B to B+ to A-. And that's a fact, Jack. (I have no idea why I said that. I think I'm getting tired.)

[Nate6]

I couldn't stand Pulp Fiction when I first saw it, I thought it an audacious, strange mess. But then I watched it again, and again, and eventually I came to love it :D

[Goosey]

This happens to me the odd time as well, and coincidentally, with some of the films named here. Sometimes films that go on to become my favorites I don't care for on the first viewing. Here are some I didn't care for much at first but are now at the top of my list:

Fargo
Pulp Fiction
Dracula
Unforgiven
A Clockwork Orange
2001

[The Claw]

Blazing Saddles.

when i saw it years ago i didnt think it was good but when i watched it again it was funny as hell.

I didnt think Clerks or Fletch were that good the first time. but I liked them the second time i watched em.

[freakandgeek]

i hated mallrats the first time i saw it...NOW I LOVE IT

and actually, my fave movie (reservoir dogs) i didn't like it the first time i saw it because i hyped it up for myself because of the back of the box, but now, well, i love it

[Hell Phantom]

ALIEN 3 the first time I saw that, I was bored and drowling on myself. Only the ending excited me. Then...I bought THE ALIEN LEGACY (Alien Saga boxset) on DVD and watched it again. It rocked ass! Then I watched it again and again...still rules!

[Hannibal21]

I HATED Gosford Park the first time I saw it! I almost fell asleep in the theatres and was so angry that I watched that crap! But the second time, I saw it on the small screen and I thought it was brilliant. Seeing that kind of movie on the big screen just makes my head hurt.

[HM Murdock]

Silence of the Lambs
Dracula
James Bond movies
Blair Witch Project 2 (no wait I still hate that movie)
Lord of the Rings (cartoon)

[Bub]

Pulp Ficton - Not that I couldn't stand it, I just thought it wasy way overrated
The Evil Dead - A cheesy mess...I've learned to take it for what it is.
Fight Club - Boring and too long...what the hell was wrong with me back then?!

[Tom Samborski]

The Truman Show

[the movie guy]

Well, at first I loved Terminator 2, then I hated it, now I love it again. (But am starting to get tired of it. Seen it three time this year and don't want to watch it again for all of 2003.)

When I first saw Pulp Fiction I was like, "that's it? That's what I've been waiting for?" I thought True Romance and Reservoir Dogs were way better than it, then I saw it again... I still like True Romance and Reservoir Dogs better, but I also like Pulp Fiction much more than I did that first time. (I need to see how a second watching of True Romance goes.)

At first I hated Clockwork Orange with an extreme passion...

(I'll pick up the rest of the story when I watch it again someday. :D )

[Jasonite]

I felt the same way about Fargo the first time I watched it. I didn't hate it, but it didn't do much for me until I saw it again. I also didn't like Ace Ventura the first time I saw it, didn't think it was hardly funny at all. Now I crack up every time I see it.


J

[santi-freak]

The Sixth Sense
For Love of the Game
Edward Scissorhands
Road Trip

[rushmore beauty]

From Hell (8/10)

[WriterManX]

My top 10 opinion turn-arounds:

Bad to Good:
"Pulp Fiction"
"Silence of the Lambs"
"American Psycho"
"Blade 2"
"A Clockwork Orange"

Good to Bad:
"Shatter Dead"
"Batman"
"Collateral Damage"
"3000 Miles to Graceland"
"Vanilla Sky"

[Eleanor Rigby]

Zoolander.

[rushmore beauty]

Originally posted by WriterManX
My top 10 opinion turn-arounds:

Bad to Good:
"Pulp Fiction"
"Silence of the Lambs"
"American Psycho"
"Blade 2"
"A Clockwork Orange"

Good to Bad:
"Shatter Dead"
"Batman"
"Collateral Damage"
"3000 Miles to Graceland"
"Vanilla Sky"

How could Pulp Fiction (9/10), Blade II (9/10) and A Clockwork Orange (10/10) all start out bad for you? No offence or anything, it's just that thie first time I saw ny of those I was blown away...although I still need to see American Psycho.

[WriterManX]

Originally posted by rushmore beauty
How could Pulp Fiction (9/10), Blade II (9/10) and A Clockwork Orange (10/10) all start out bad for you? No offence or anything, it's just that thie first time I saw ny of those I was blown away...although I still need to see American Psycho.

I thought that "Blade 2" was merely OK when I first saw it, but after watching "Spider-Man," I learned to appreciate how well it translated the comic material to live action. It moved from about a 5/10 to a 8/10 for me. Plus, when I saw it originally, I was running about a 104 degree fever due to appendicitis and wanted nothing more than to feel better. That was more the my poor judgment rather than the quality of the movie.

As for "Pulp Fiction," it just didn't "sink in" the first time I saw it. I didn't see anything special about it back then, which was before I got seriously interested in film, but I rewatched a long time later and thought, "Man, what was I thinking? This is awesome!"

And I just thought that "Clockwork Orange" was rambling idiocy at first (again, before I got interested in film). I never caught the underlying tones that Kubrick presented until a second viewing, in which I had the same reaction as I did with "Pulp Fiction." I saw both those movies when I was a lot younger and didn't appreciate cinema yet. It was the ignorance of youth that was to blame. I didn't learn to like good movies until I was about 16, so give me a break. I was a late bloomer when it came to films.

Writer "Don't worry! I'm okay now!" ManX

[the movie guy]

Originally posted by the movie guy
At first I hated Clockwork Orange with an extreme passion...

(I'll pick up the rest of the story when I watch it again someday. :D )

Well, I watched it again. Pretty good flick, but still overrated, and not Kubrick's best. 8/10

[Sugar Magnolia]

2001. The first time I saw it, the only thing I could think about " what was up with that fucked up baby?!". Then , about a year later I watched it again and loved it.

[Annie Hall]

Moulin Rouge. I HATED the movie for no longer than a week, after which I thought "what the hell" and sat down and rewatched it. And, as you see (if you'll move your gaze over a bit to the left) it is one of my favorite movies. Something about the intenisty of the colors, the music, the entire aura around the flick...I just wasn't in the right mood. Nothing that The Producers didn't fix. ;)

Also, Four Weddings and a Funeral, now what I consider to be one of the best romantic comedies around...was BORING as all get out first time I saw it. I sat slack-jawed for about an hour before I just left. When I finally watched it again about 6 months ago I could've screamed...it was just so neato :P

[Dmxkilla99]

This is going to sound weird, but, I hated Fight Club the fist time i saw it. I thought it was boring and stupid. But then I watched it again, and thought is was amazing! Now its one of my all time favorite movies!

[Pootie]

A.I.

[syxxpac]

Originally posted by Scarface98.9
Pulp Fiction

Me too. My dad rented it when it first came out on video when I was 9. I think the reason I didn't like it was because basically I was too damn young and stupid, and had not gotten past the stage of "Ace Ventura is the best movie ever". I decided to relive it a few years ago, and shit am I glad I did!

[FoxForce5]

The Big Lebowski

[JivaFox]

I hated Clockwork Orange the first time, then I liked it. The same with American Psycho and Evil Dead 2 and Blair Witch Project.
I liked Vanilla Sky until the second time around.

[Sparrow]

Bridget Jones Diary
American Beauty
The King and I

[Strider]

I didn't care much for Any Given Sunday, X-men, or Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone very much the first time, but I gave them all a second viewing, and now I think they're all very enjoyable films.

Strider

[Michael_myers]

Halloween and Friday the 13th. What an original combination, huh?