10 Movies You Were Shocked To See Didn’t Totally Suck

When low expectations meet quality filmmaking.
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[@dougim]

_Dredd_ is a friggin’ masterpiece, and I absolutely didn’t expect it.

[@johnnydripp]

I went to see John Wick with no expectations just because I like Keanu. 9 years later it’s my favorite action franchise ever.

[@randytrudeau5321]

The 1st is a masterpiece 2nd meh 3rd LOVED the villain/fanboy But now He's a friggin member of Torretto family He survives everything And it really sucks Just an opinion

[@justinchristoph3725]

0:52 - Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017). 2:00 - Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011). 2:38 - John Wick (2014). 3:41 - Bumblebee (2018). 4:28 - 21 Jump Street (2012). 5:21 - Dredd (2012). 6:14 - Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003). 7:09 - Paddington (2014). 7:58 - Hustlers (2019). 8:38 - Oujia: Origin of Evil (2016).

[@skittleboy15]

Great list! D&D with Chris Pine would have went perfectly with these entries.

[@robotzombie9]

Great movie! And Im a Chris Pine fan and after seeing the trailer i thought his career was over.

[@westmcgee9320]

@@robotzombie9it looked absolutely awful. And it apparently wasn’t based on the cartoon. So, those are some major strikes that kept this old guy away.

[@tallAldiProduction]

@@westmcgee9320 It's not based on the cartoon because it's based on the D&D tabletop game which was the base for the cartoon The game provides the lore on which you can create your own story

[@westmcgee9320]

@@tallAldiProduction I understand. But the cartoon was my main hook into the concept. So, they lost this particular fogey, right there.

[@thegray5730]

Van Helsing with Huge Jackman was way better than I thought it'd be.

[@TheeBizzyB]

I remember booking a ticket for John Wick not knowing what to expect. Talk about a more than pleasant surprise.

[@werepixie]

Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter should totally be on here.

[@alastorcorvus]

Nah, it wasn't that bad but it was pretty mediocre overall.

[@AJ-xc4qe]

Here's a list idea: 10 Movies People Wanted To Suck

[@familyguy1530]

1. Batman v Superman, because of all the backlash towards Ben affleck as Batman 2. Amazing spiderman because they recasted tobey 3. Hellboy (2019) recasted ron Perlman 4. Tim burtons the Batman casting of Micheal Keaton 5. Solo no Harrison ford 6. Flash Ezra miller a sicko 7. James Gunn the Suicide squad 8. Aquaman Jason mamoa casting 9. James Gunn whole DCU due to no Zack Snyder 10. Cats

[@SidtheWhistle]

I still remember magazine articles about people losing their mind when Michael Keaton was cast as Batman

[@jules-yi8rn]

Spiderman into the Spider-verse was low on my watch list as well as Puss in Boots: the Last Wish - I really wasn't expecting much from either film and they blew me away.

[@jdtru1808]

Dredd is good movie and one of the top comic movies of all time easy. But it also helps to show Karl Urban will treat IPs that an old nerd like me loves with respect.

[@erich5867]

For me it was Prey. I thought it was just going to be a boring remake with no heart. Holy crap i was wrong. Blew me away. The fight scenes were well done and the cast was excellent.

[@ArcherSuh4721]

Agreed. The Predator was still fresh in my memory so I was expecting the absolute worst and got a major surprise.

[@jfess1911]

Bumblebee was by far the best Transformers movie and it is unfortunate that it wasn't more popular.

[@Cuckoorex]

Drop Dead Gorgeous; marketed as a by-the-books vapid slapstick comedy... but actually a smartly written satire with solid performances from everyone involved.

[@Iggystar71]

Spider-Man Into the Spiderverse? I knew nothing about it, nothing. Didn’t know there was an animated Spider-Man movie even coming out. I was shocked at how good it was.

[@jamalvargas6146]

Blood In Blood Out and Grosse Pointe Blank were surprisingly good too bad They're kinda under the radar

[@altosanon]

Another film that surprised was The Lego Movie. Everyone thought it would just be a film length commercial

[@spankywzl]

6:16 In 1995, after the colossal failure of Cutthroat Island, the Hollywood studios treated the entire pirate genre like leprosy, and refused to make another one. Even after 8 years had passed, the prospects of a pirate movie being anything but a gigantic flop were astronomical. This is what made Pirates of the Caribbean such a risk, but Disney came out on top with their unexpected hit, which became the foundation for the multi million dollar POTC franchise, and a steady and hefty paycheck for Johnny Depp.

[@dougim]

Hollywood _always_ takes the wrong lessons when movies do poorly. Like with _Supergirl_ and then deciding, “Right; female superheroes don’t sell!” and not instead thinking, “MAN was that bad.”

[@strikingmachine2975]

Chappie pleasantly surprised me. The Suicide Squad (sequel). Blackberry also way surpassed my Expectations..

[@trinaq]

I enjoyed Welcome to The Jungle more than I was expecting to. All of the actors clearing had a blast playing against their usual type.

[@rustiouk760]

The Jumanji reboot is one of the best. Who'd have thought

[@landonmiles97]

IMO: Studios should be careful with their trailers. I never saw several great movies because the trailers looked horrible. I assumed the film wouldn’t be much better.

[@dougim]

Sally Hawkins is a delight in everything she’s in.

[@djyanno]

Anybody involved in VFX knows that too much credits goes to Andy Serkis and not enough to the animators. I am not saying that Serkis performance is not great, I am saying that nobody mentions the amazing work of the animators as motion capture is not done and that's a wrap thing, it needs weeks and months of correction and refinements.

[@Iggystar71]

Hmm, excellent point. I’ve never thought of the animators because they were never mentioned. It was pushed that it’s a feat of acting and that’s it. Shame!

[@djyanno]

@@Iggystar71 Andy Serkis is not well liked by animators for that as well. He takes himself all the credit.

[@Iggystar71]

@@djyanno Really?! I had no idea. He cannot be so egocentric to overlook those who actually make it happen?! That’s crazy!!!

[@mizrolist]

@@paulbennett2284Umm, nope. He was a good Alfred Pennyworth and Ulysses Klaw.

[@munk006]

Hustlers was a stripper movie with no nudity 'nuff said 🗑

[@seantlewis376]

Good list. Most of these movies I had to be convinced by friends to see them, and ended up enjoying them much more than I expected.

[@Elerad]

Dredd is one of the most underappreciated movies ever.

[@brucepulver8358]

21 Jump street cameo from Peter DeLuise!!!!

[@melissasmith797]

On a side note...I just watched A Prelude To Fear and Knife Corp. The first one was a 2020 movie about a teenager abduction. The second was about young adults selling knives door to door. The main lead was Kane Hodder. For us horror fans, Jason Vorhees. Both were a pretty good watch.

[@bronsonbamnallen1633]

I was in high school when Pirates came out and it remains one of my favorite all-time movies. I even loved 2 and 3. It was a fantastic trilogy. They should have stopped after 3.

[@Banquet42]

Dredd was awesome and deserved better.

[@arniejolt]

Bumblebee still shot itself in the foot by breaking up Bumblebee's relationship with Charlie Watson because Transformers continuity would all lead back to Bayformers.

[@mathildeglaser8421]

It‘s Peter DeLuise who appeared along side Johnny Depp to reprise their roles from the original 21 Jump Street … I really liked the series back than… its great that they did an updated version of it

[@devinthadude88able]

Paddington was sooo soooo sooooo Damn good.

[@mkprocter882]

agreed I forced myself to watch it and was blown away by the humour and emotion of it

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Paddington is prescious🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤

[@c0mpr3nd3]

Was the hype for Bumblebee all that negative? I remember lots of cautious optimism due to the lack of Bay involvement and the fact the characters ahown in the trailers actually beared a resemblence to the scorce material.

[@Imdrawln]

D a Top 10 Movies That Didn’t Age Well

[@chrisbellon3739]

Funny things about both judge dread movies, the 90's one, world was closed to comic book, but newer version, the character of judge dread was closed to comic book

[@hallzl1]

Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle was amazing

[@mattlatakas7051]

I really didn't have high hopes for Smile because it reminded me too much of Truth Or Dare. Boy, was I wrong...

[@cappyjones]

Dora the Explorer was better than I thought it would be!

[@verybutton]

Casino Royale?

[@spaceo8568]

I have yet to see ANYONE play a 16 year old girl better than Jack Black. INCLUDING 16 year old girls. Lol

[@drewba7741]

Hotel Transylvania for me. Produced by Sony Animation and starring a bunch of people from the mediocre Adam Sandler films. It's actually as good as a lot of DreamWorks films.

[@javib2978]

Films I never expected them to be amazing in my opinion: The Iron Lady. The life about Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher. And the ideals of Neoliberalism. The Goldfinch. I care even if it's different from the book's source material. Sucker Punch. I find it more as a story of female empowerment for teens, young adults, and young girls alike. According to Zack Snyder. Much like Buffy The Vampire Slayer. The Golden Compass. Reasons. Eragon. I like the deviations of the source material. It felt like it had a proper ending. Inkheart. I don't really need a sequel. It felt complete as one film. The Hobbit Trilogy. I watch these films as a tradition in December. Watchmen. I'm glad DC made more stuff about Watchmen. Even if Alan Moore is against it. Percy Jackson films 2010's. I don't mind about the changes anymore. It ended with two films, but it felt like an ending here. The new upcoming tv series can adapt the entire books. Take some elements from the films as well. Any adaptations of the source material has the right to be canon too. Postal. The entire film didn't not age well. I enjoyed more is the soundtrack, and Uwe Boll's tax loophole shelter methods. I don't this as a scheme. But for companies who don't have money to pay tax debts. Fresh Prince of Bel-Air was made as a tax loophole shelter to pay the IRS. A first example of this happened. I agree there. Wanted. To me, the film feels something out of The Matrix from the office scenes to the bullet time effects. No news of a sequel is announced yet. Vice. It's a film about the agreements of the right and left political parties. While the apathetic folks who aren't into politics, are worried about why is is this happening. Its like a family argument with political ideals. I found it like Captain America Civil War, without the special effects, fight choreography, it also mentions films too. And Amityville The Awakening. The film is amazing in its own right. But, it was involved by the infamous Harvey Weinstein. Leave Bob Weinstein out of this. He's not the one should be considered infamous. Harvey's the one who's infamous. The wait for the MeToo Movement has finally come in late 2017. It was worth it. Bob Weinstein was not the infamous one after all. He has some good in him left, and has the rights to go back to filmmaking. Goodbye and farewell, Mr. Harvey Weinstein. So long.

[@Lobossumi]

Speak for yourselves, i knew Dredd will be great. Urban and producer Adi Shankar were both massive fans of the comic.

[@leoalcaraz6153]

Oscar contender? Hustlers was good but the Oscar buzz around it was very short lived especially J lo’s performance; by the end of the year people forgot she was in it and were more interested in Constance wu since it as the performance that launched her into A list star status

[@kingsleyfrancis]

Forgot blue beetle

[@al032184]

Yes, most people have.

[@marinam824]

Hello, WhatCulture Team. If you have ever considered adding Spanish subtitles to your videos or a transcription, I'd like to offer my services as an EN/SP subtitling translator.

[@PaulADAigle]

I stopped watching Horror back when the original Nightmare came out (the last one I liked). I couldn't watch Jump Street or Paddington, as the comedy rubbed me the wrong way, and my anxieties made me stop. Otherwise, agreed.

[@cappyjones]

Paddington was outstanding! You should give it a go. I heard it was good, expected nothing and was pleasantly surprised that it was as good as they said!

[@daniellewis2133]

Spring Breakers (2012).

[@seancollins7447]

Evil Dead 2013: remakes of classic horror movies have constantly sucked before

[@mannyparranda8891]

I remember I watched hustlers just cuz JLo was a pole dancer in it. Hahahaha I'm totally gay but I still thought it would be fun. I super enjoyed that movie. Not what I expected.

[@bonneville1285]

Yet another Stephen King adaption? Not even from one of his horror stories... just some guy going to jail for a murder he didn't commit? We'll pass on that.

[@yudhabagaskara98]

Honorable mentions: Get Out Nobody M3gan

[@nickitacocat]

Schindler's List.

[@jerrydeem8845]

Well if a professional athlete can 'come out of retirement, why can't a hitman? Ponder that my friends.

[@cabe3231]

Ohhh, but the Cardi B inspired "Hustlers", who drug and rob men, was awful.

[@SergioHernandez-le8wp]

Hustlers did suck, though

[@zackfolkestad8746]

Bumblebee is the only good transformer movie. The rest shouldn’t exist.

[@ludgatecircus15]

Criticism of Bay films is terribly misplaced. They are brilliant films of the type intended. It is arrogant in the extreme to point towards Bay undoubtedly because you are not a 'crazy action' fan. Please do not continue to lazy criticism of Bay - he is very talent in a field you simply do not like.

[@BeatRoot14]

Hustlers was boring

[@BOMBheadDOM]

The jumanji sequels were utter tripe shite

[@solidsnake3861]

bumblbee was so boring

[@Snowbiz12]

Hustlers is still not a very good movie

[@eddierascalhaskell4954]

Hustlers was How To Be a Golddigger in Ten Easy Steps...it wasnt anything great at all.

[@jarigustafsson7620]

So, they sucked still.

[@TravisPflanz]

Con Air - I gotta say, these lists are getting worse and worse as they seemingly only focus on post 2000. Stop pandering and start educating. We're all here because we love movies.

[@captainsmirk5582]

Dredd is probably the most accurate comic book adaptation of all time. Great movie.

[@h2odivr]

Anything with J-Blow sucks.