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The Jumanji remake was FAR better than I expected

The Adventures of Baron Von Munchausen, it's like a Monty Python movie but with American actors and an evil Robin Williams.

Probably not the answer you're looking for, but Puss In Boots 2. The second Shrek spinoff about the cat? Who honestly expected that to be such a banger

Clueless.

Dude, Where's My Car?

I thought it was gonna be a dumb stoner movie, but it is actually amazing and hilarious.

Mean Girls (2004) a masterpiece

I have heard that Speed Racer from the late 2000s kind of kicks ass but haven’t investigated myself

The movie Battleship based on the board game is far better than I ever expected. It's not a masterpiece, but it's a solid action flick.

Alien vs. Predator... Lance Henrickson and a cast of nobodies with an intersting plot. I went in expecting full-on crap and got a real banger instead.

I'm gonna say Cruella. I'm sure lots of people always thought it was gonna be great, but not me. I absolutely expected it to be mediocre at best and I was so wrong. It's now one of my favorite movies.

Tank Girl. It may just be a guilty pleasure but I'll defend it.

I guess Starship Troopers is THE movie for this, although I'm always suprised to find out people used to like it unironically.

Due date, with Robert Downey Jr and Galifianakis is a surprisingly earnest soft remake of Planes, Trains and Automobiles and nobody remembers it exists.

Speaking of unexpectedly fun raunchy comedies, Booksmart.

I want to say The Long Kiss Goodnight, but man, the action in that is janky in exactly the ways modern action movies get right, so it can be a rough watch if you're not ready. It also reads worse now that there's a million John Wicks. Still, ahead of its time and actually well written.

Does Slither count? I feel like it's on that Tremors territory where everybody knows it's cool and ironically that thing, so it may not count. Somebody said Cabin in the Woods below, so... maybe it does count.

Oh, Ready or Not. It's actually really funny and kind of a looser take on Knives Out as a horror movie. Good stuff.

The original TMNT movie should have sucked. How they snuck that tone into a whole movie before they made them tone it down for censorship and toyetic tie-ins is anybody's guess.

Brick doesn't count. Does Brick count? I think it doesn't look like it'd suck, it's just people don't know about it. I mean, if I tell you "film noir by way of high school drama" you may get the wrong impression, so... maybe?

And I mentioned it below, but 2001 Metropolis is awesome despite a lot of people not being able to get past the designs or even being aware of what it is.

Cocaine Bear (2023) is surprisingly good. You think it's gonna be one of those overly campy movies like Sharknado, but it's pretty well written. I mean, don't expect too much, it's still a very solid 7/10. But the thing it understands best is it actually takes enough time at the beginning of the film to develop extensive cast of weird characters so once they all get thrown into the blender (cocaine bear) you actually care enough about them and what's going on to care about the outcome.

So many movies these days forget you really need to care about those characters.

Fun time, give it a go some night when you're bored and got nothing else to do.

I honestly thought Wonka was going to suck, but it turned out to be a pretty good film!

A movie made by a student of the film academy, and it was made with a ridiculously low budget of course, but still contains some wild special effects and a spaceship and an alien creature and a title song written especially for it. Looks quite a bit outdated (and I wonder if it looked that even then when it was new :)), but still a lot of fun, and even a message about artificial intelligence:

"Dark Star" by John Carpenter