Movies you've changed your opinion of.

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Believe it or not, I actually disliked Goodfellas the first time I saw it. The dizzying camerawork gave me a headache, as did the violence. Only several years later when I saw it on video did I recognize it's brilliance...and how funny the movie is. In contrast, I thought Top Gun was the greatest movie ever when I saw it as a teenager. Now I think it's the most unintentionally hilarious piece of garbage ever made.
 
2001: A Space Odyssey. The first time I saw it, I turned it off. Bored as hell. I have now seen it over 30 times and I wrote my senior paper in college about it. One of my three favorites of all time.

The first time I saw American Beauty I was completely blown away. I took a bunch of friends to see it for my second time, and I was curiously underwhelmed. I have seen it a few more times since, and now I really don't care about it. I don't dislike it, I just don't even have an opinion about it.
 
The Big Lebowski. The first time I saw it, didn't like it. Watched it again, liked it a bit. After seeing it a couple more times I LOVE it.

2001: A Space Odyssey. I was blown away by it in the theater when it first came out but it hasn't worn well on me through the years. I don't dislike it, just ambivalent.
 
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The Big Lebowski. The first time I saw it, didn't like it. Watched it again, liked it a bit. After seeing it a couple more times I LOVE it.
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Ha ha, this is what I tell every girlfriend I show it to. They watch it and hate it and I say: "No, you just have to watch it 5 more times!"

For me, the ones that come to mind are Pulp Fiction and Sin City. Hated both when I saw them originally, but now really, really love them.

Oh ah Fight Club, which I did not like at first, but now think it's pretty brilliant.
 
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Same for Pulp Fiction - saw it, thought "what's the big deal", and then thought about it for a few weeks and realized why it is a Royal with cheese.

Transformers: saw it, thought it was dumb but innocently entertaining - then I realized how stupid I was being and how evil the film is.

And, darnit, the more I think about Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood, the more I'm afraid that I'll really enjoy it on a second viewing (which will necessitate a lot of redacting on my part).
 
i was the exact opposite with pulp fiction and sin city. thought they were genius the first time, by they have declined for me big time.
 
The latest for me is No Country For Old Men. The first time I watched it I was riveted(although I was a little confused by the ending), and thought it was the best Coen Bros movie yet.

Seeing it a second time, so I could take my wife to see it, was a totally different experience. It didn't hold up to my original assessment. I didn't care about any of the characters....at all. I was still excited by the moments of intense action, but beyond that I wasn't drawn in. There wasn't any food-for-thought the second time around. It was just a heist film.

I won't be going back again, even on video. This is not the case with alot of there other films. I've seen Fargo, Raising Arizona, The Man Who Wasn't There, and Lebowski so many times and it never tarnishes their rewatchability.

I set the bar too high, I suppose.
 
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The Big Lebowski. The first time I saw it, didn't like it. Watched it again, liked it a bit. After seeing it a couple more times I LOVE it.
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Same here. All my friends loved it and I couldn't see it. My eyes have since been opened.:Drogar-Happy(DBG):
 
On Golden Pond. First time I saw it I couldn't give a flying hoot (granted, I was 17). Watched it again after turning 40 and being married for 20 years, and immediately understood why it was nominated for 10 Oscars and won three.
 
Since many have mentioned the Coens, I didn't care for O Brother on first viewing. Since then I've become enamored of its charms.
 
Stranger Than Paradise
I thought it was kind of boring and too dry and deadpan. A year later, I decided to give it a second chance, and fell in love with it. I watched it again, immediately after finishing it for the second time. It's since become one of my favorite films, with Jarmusch becoming one of my favorite filmmakers.

Manhattan
I thought it was more of the same Woody Allen. I think I was only really half-into-it at the time. For some reason, I was drawn back to it, since I was becoming a Woody fan at the time. Now, much like Stranger Than Paradise, it's now one of my top favorite films.

Shadows
John Cassavetes' debut film. I watched it, and wasn't all that impressed. Maybe I was even slightly turned off by the rough technical qualities. About six months later, I was reading some articles about Cassavetes and Shadows on Ray Carney's website. I liked what he had to say, as well as some of the things Cassavetes had to say about it in interview snippets, so I decided to try it again. Again, I watched it again, and then two more times afterward. It's one of my top three favorite films now, and Cassavetes has since changed the way I looked at film, and filmmaking.

I look back at the films I used to love before I discovered what independent film actually was and cringe. I won't even mention those films. It's just too embarrassing.
 
Midnight Cowboy. When I watched it as a pre-teen I didn't care for it. Today is one of my favorite films.
 
Oh yeah, how could I forget. I first saw The clockwork orange when I was about 14 and I was like "What the heck?!". Now it's also one of my favorite films.
 
Uhh, the first Austin Powers and Mystery Men. I think I was taking them too seriously the first time around.
 
Napoleon Dynamite.

First time I watched it with my gf. Boring, slow moving and wasn't getting the humor. I watched it a bit later solo and thought it was hysterical. Either I grew in a weeks time or I shouldn't watch comedy with my gf.
 
Shrek - I thought it was so dumb and predictable the first time I saw it. Watched it again and saw that there was something deeper to the characters. Still think it's Eddie Murphy's best performance ever in film.

Rushmore - The first time I saw it I was so confused by the filmmaking style, I had no idea what was going on. Only later when I saw it on video did I realize it was genius. To this day, it's the only Wes Anderson film I really like (well, except for Bottle Rocket).

Lost In Translation - The first time I saw it I felt it was racist and meandering. Then when I saw it again and let myself not judge the loose structure, I really enjoyed it, which is saying something cause I think Scarlett Johansen is a bad actress.

Get Shorty - It was just boring to me the first time. I don't know why, but 3 days later I watched it again and was laughing the whole way through. Where is that John Travolta today??

Little Miss Sunshine - I hated it the first time. I thought it was quirky for quirky's sake, indie-predictable, trite, tried too hard, hated the little girl and didn't get why anybody would think she would be a beauty contestant. The second time I saw it I.... oh who am I kidding? I hated it even more.
 
Lebowski... liked it the first time I saw it, then spun out into a cultish frenzy... it is now part of our weekly, if not daily, vernacular. After about the third viewing I decided to go three weeks straight with a caucasian in my hand through every waking minute. I wanted to jump into the movie and hang out with those guys every day. Napoleon Dynamite... found it mildly amusing to partially stupid the first time... now we run those lines (what, years later?) and I can hardly stand up from laughing to hard.


Napoleon Dynamite... found it mildly amusing to partially stupid the first time... now we run those lines (what, years later?) and I can hardly stand up from laughing too hard.

"but my lips hurt real bad!"
 
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