The post about Equinox got me thinking. At the time I watched it, I thought it was a stupid movie and hated it. For years I told everyone that it sucked. Now that I think back on the little of it I do remember, it seems like a cool movie that I might enjoy.
Are there any movies that you hated at the time you saw them, but years later you started to like them (before you'd seen them again)?
MIDNIGHT MADNESS. It was the movie that had all these teams of nerdy kids running around the city trying to solve a big scavenger hunt. There were the nerds on scooters, the cool kids, the evil kids, the lesbians. . . also a young Michael J. Fox.
They would show it over and over on HBO. At the time I really didn't like it, but I still watched it. Now I remember the movie quite fondly. I even watched it again recently and found it very enjoyable.
I recall being made to sit through PRACTICAL MAGIC by my wife and found it an excruciatingly femi-Nazi piece about hating men. Jeez, why didn't the witches become lesbos or something, that would have made it mildly interesting! And PRETTY WOMAN sends out all the wrong signals to teenage girls. Mr Cranky's opinion on this one is spot on, read it in the RUNAWAY BRIDE(yuk) review of his. I loathe this movie enough to burn all copies of it.
I have to admit it, I hated 'Killer Klowns' first time I saw it. I was young and foolish (about 11 and foolish to be particular). It was only after having become a big horror fan, then watching 'Braindead' thinking it was straight-up zombie horror, discovering the greatness or horror comedy within, finding this site, rmemebering Killer Klowns, realising what I had missed in it and finding and watching it again with completely different expectations that it came to be one of my, and now of my friends, favourite films.
Pete
I'm also a big fan of the comma, not so much of the full stop.
I hated Repo Man the first time I saw it. Then, with maybe ten minutes left in it, I realized there was no reason why I shouldn't like it. I watched it again the next morning, and liked it a lot more.
I absolutely hated Men In Black, Dead Alive, and Return Of The Living Dead the first time I saw any of them.
Now, all 3 are among my favorites.
Night of the Demon is, while watching it, a f**king horrible movie. When you're done with it and stop to think about it, it should be really cool, especially for someone whose favorite kind, or at least one of their favorite kinds of movie is gritty seventies exploitation stuff. Sadly, it still sucks. I've seen it three times, and it was horrible every damn one of them. But my memory likes it.
Brother R
Hated Cannibal Holocaust the first time I watched it. Found it really dull. Now though it is a lot better compared to some of the trash about. Hated Jeepers Creepers too the first time I saw it. Oh wait I still hate that piece of crap.
I really disliked X-Men the first time, but now I can tolerate it. Surprisingly I liked Dirty Dancing the third time around, although the first two times were awful. I also liked the Sixth Sense a lot better the second time around, I guess because it wasnt around midnight and I had come to not have as huge a disliking for Hayley Joel Osmet.
One movie I loved the first time... and then regretted watching again was The Whole Nine Yards. It just didnt seem nearly as funny after the first and in retrospect, it never was that good.
Jeepers Creepers was one that I hated until I thought about it and still remember it fondly.
Ghoulies 4 and Ghoulies are two other that I have over the years re thought and actually found myself enjoying.
I've found that the odd numbered Ghoulies are the good ones. The first one is cool, the third one is funny as hell. The second one and the fourth one make me want to squirt acid in my eyes.
Brother R
Actually, I hated Signs when I saw it, but the more I think about it the more I enjoy it. Help!