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People Share the Movies That Turned Out to Be Way Better Than They Expected

It’s a good thing that there are so many different kinds of movies in the world, because not only are there so many different kinds of people watching movies, but when we’re looking for something to watch, we’re not always after the same thing.

Sometimes we want to laugh, sometimes we want to be challenged, sometimes you just want to sit back and be entertained – and sure, sometimes we’re more concerned with quality than others.

Here are 18 times people clicked on a movie thinking it was going to be somewhere between bad and laughably awful, only to be surprised when the flick turned out to be great, instead.

18. If you want to get your heartrate up.

Crank 2: High Voltage

It’s not gonna win any Academy Awards, but that movie is a masterpiece of over the top action and you will not be bored the entire time.

Also features Dwight Yoakam and a score by Mike Patton.

17. You know, really funny.

Megamind.

I thought it was gonna be the normal cringe superhero movie but it was actually just super funny! actually funny, not cringe funny!

16. This movie is a masterpiece.

For some reason, I thought Knives Out was gonna be just another lame movie with famous ensemble cast but I liked it way more than I expected.

I thought this movie was targeted to old, boring people. Turns out to be a great movie that lots of people can enjoy.

15. An instant classic.

Clue. A movie about a board game? What? And it’s a comedy?

14. Epic is an excellent way to describe it.

Cabin In the Woods.

Expected a lame cookie-cutter slasher flick. Got something way more epic and fun.

I saw this movie without seeing any trailers for the film, I had no idea it was going to be satirical and genuinely thought that was the moment I lost touch with modern Hollywood antics.

13. And you’ll never get that song out of your head.

The Lego Movie.

I thought “Oh this is just one of those movies for a product. I mean Batman and Superman on the poster, this screams paid product. I just hope the marketing isn’t crazy”. My god was I wrong.

The Lego Movie is now in my top 20 animated movies and I did not expect that movie to be that amazing. It proved to me that all those paid product movies don’t have any excuses to be as bad as they are.

12. High praise for a parent.

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day – my kids picked this for movie night recently on Disney+.

I was expecting your standard, non-reboot, modern Disney movie, kids think it’s hilarious and everyone else cringes the entire time.

In reality, it was f*cking hysterical from beginning to end and I’m looking forward to watching it again.

11. Southerners are people too.

Tucker and Dale Versus Evil.

As a southerner with a lot of Appalachian hillbilly friends/family, I love this movie for how it finally treats southerners as normal people, as opposed to the crazy, malformed, cannibalistic and/or r*pist hermits that are usually in horror films.

Cause, y’know, poor/uneducated folk are scary.

Also, it’s godd*mn hilarious.

10. It’s all substance, people.

Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse.

I was expecting a corny kids version of a marvel movie. Entertaining but no substance.

Well I was blown away, probably had the most fun in a movie that I can remember with that one. And I think that’s a movie meant to be watched on a big screen.

9. A good take is hard to find.

The Edge of Tomorrow.

I thought it was going to be a stupid explosion movie since I’d never heard of it, turned out to be the one of the cleverest takes on the Sci-fi action genre I’ve seen.

Great story, and really well acted.

Not surprised it’s become a cult hit.

8. This description isn’t wrong, exactly.

About Time.

Looks like your typical frou frou fancy pants British romantic dramedy that relies on posh English accents and charming actors to buy some cheap tears and give middle aged women semi lady boners.

But it’s actually a very nuanced, well-meaning movie that reaches out to any and everyone.

7. Adaptations are tricky.

Stardust.

I didn’t expect that a film of such a great book could ever live up to it. I fully expected to be very disappointed. And then there was Robert DeNiro as a pirate.

Honestly ended up like the movie more than the book. They’re very different variations on the same story, and I like that the movie stayed true while also doing some of its own thing.

Michelle Pfeiffer as a wicked witch is f*cking amazing.

DeNiro is incredible, and Claire Danes took a character that could have been very one note and managed to fully invest me into a character whose not from this world and is very Fish out of Water.

6. This is going on the list.

Hunt for the Wilderpeople

I was not expecting it at all. I liked the trailer but I wasn’t feeling it to be honest.

I still decided to go watch it and I came out feeling like I enjoyed it thoroughly.

I had a good laugh and I actually thought it was well balanced with the actual plot.

5. He is a national treasure.

Had zero interest in watching a cartoon movie called Kung Fu Panda.

Way, way better than expected. God bless Jack Black.

It has so many running gags, such as Po being blissfully unaware he’s adopted and every other character questioning why his Dad is a goose. Wonderful movies.

Po: I found out that my dad… isn’t really my dad.

Tigress: Your dad, the goose?

[Po nods]

Tigress: [deadpan] That must have been quite a shock.

4. Unexpected magic.

“School of Rock.”

I saw it on TV at least 5 years after it was first released. I remembered rolling my eyes at the previews and being all cynical about it.

Turned out it was a magical musical journey full of laughter and learning. ~~~*

3.  Except for the dog.

John Wick.

Keanu as a retired hitman getting revenge on the people who killed his dog? I mean, that sounds like the synopsis for a Ranier Wolfcastle movie.

Put it on during a hangover Sunday thinking it would be background noise while I napped.

There was no napping that day.

2. Second this one.

Pacific Rim

When I first saw the trailer, my friends and I just thought it was going to be along the lines of a Transformers movie (meaning well-below average in terms of quality) but it would be giant robots punching giant monsters.

And that was what the movie was, but the action is just done so well that it doesn’t matter that the premise of the movie is kind of stupid. You have a giant mech use a ship as a baseball bat to beat up a giant monster.

1. Two thumbs up.

Galaxy quest.

Seems like a cheap star trek knock off.

Oh my gosh no it isn’t.

I’ve shown it to people who aren’t into sci-fi and took a lot of persuading.

They love it, every time.

Well, I guess I’m adding a few more movies to my to-watch list!

Have you seen any of these? Were they good? What other movie would you put on a list like this? Tell us down in the comments!

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People Talk About What Celebrities They Felt Bad for Who Got Cancelled

Famous people are getting cancelled left and right these days.

Actors, musicians, politicians, no one is safe.

And I’m sure that you know that a ton of them did really horrible things and they deserved to be called out for them.

But did some of them just get caught up in all the “cancel” hoopla?

AskReddit users talked about what cancelled celebrities they actually feel bad for.

1. That’s too bad.

“Brendan Fraser got blacklisted after being molested by a higher up in the movie industry. His wife divorced him, taking his money too.

After all the joy that man has brought us, he got the short sh*t covered side of the stick.”

2. I’m glad he’s back!

“Paul Reubens aka PeeWee Herman.

He had a reputation of being kind of a stuck up asshole when the PeeWee character shot to fame, but not really any better or worse than other famous folks. He got “cancelled” because he was arrested for public indecency.

He was caught masturbating in an adult theater. Aside from the undercover cop who caught him, he was alone, and it was a normal adult p*rnography film. But the industry and media acted like he’d been caught with child p*rn or had r*ped someone.

He’s made a bit of a comeback recently though. I think people finally realized that in the grand scheme of “s*x crimes”, jerking it by yourself in a p*rn theater is nothing at all.

I saw his PeeWee revival on Broadway several years ago and enjoyed it, and I’ve seen him on a lot of the celebrity game shows on TV recently.”

3. Too much pressure.

“Britney Spears when she shaved her head and all that.

I’m no fan of hers but she just seemed like someone who cracked under all the pressure and lost her sh*t. Craig Ferguson did an absolutely amazing job talking about that and relating it to his own life.

Major respect to him for that.”

4. Backlash.

“The Dixie Chicks got their career ended and death threats for saying they didn’t support the war in Iraq.”

5. The Hollywood power machine.

“Megan Fox.

She called out Michael Bay on his s*xist sh*t that’s clear in all his movies but what really got her “cancelled” was that she called him a Nazi.”

6. No big deal.

“Janet Jackson after “Nipplegate.”

I was a kid when it happened so I had no awareness of it but I don’t get how everyone blamed her.

Is there any reason she was at fault instead of Justin Timberlake other than s*xism?”

7. Taking on the Church.

“I’d have to say Sinead O’Connor.

She was absolutely trashed by the media. Written off as a complete nutcase and ruthlessly mocked. All because a bunch of pearl-clutching fools refused to believe the increasingly obvious realities of the Church and decided that the Pope was above criticism.

She was entirely vindicated in the subsequent years (actually, the truth was far worse than even the Church’s worst critics could have imagined), but the legacy of that witch-hunt lives on.

Did SNL, Frank Sinatra, or any of the other f*ckers who were involved ever apologize to her?”

8. A dumb decision.

“I was pretty upset for James Gunn when he got fired from Marvel for things he had said over 10 years ago

But obviously fan outrage over that managed to make Disney realize how stupid their decision was.”

9. Isn’t that ironic?

“Lisa Bonet.

Bill Cosby put a scarlet letter on her after the movie Angel Heart. The convicted rapist thought she “sullied” the image of “The Cosby Show” and “A Different World” and this affected her career going forward.

Not saying she was an Oscar contender, but I remember being upset about how mysogynistic the whole thing was”

10. Don’t hear much from him anymore.

“Al Franken.

He was both my Senator and my favorite politician.

He would have made a great president.”

11. People got offended.

“Liam Neeson.

He was having a frank and honest conversation about his past feelings and emotions around a sensitive topic from his past.

In the interview he is clear that he knows what he said and felt is wrong yet what’s the point in trying to justify it when the sound bite has already been provided.”

12. That was a weird one.

“Michael Richards.

I don’t feel bad he got cancelled. I just felt bad when he tried to apologise on Letterman and the audience was laughing and thinking it was a joke just because it was “Kramer”.

Seinfeld was a good friend and he told the audience this wasn’t a laughing matter.”

13. Thoughts on this one?

“Aziz Ansari definitely didn’t deserve the public shaming he received for what amounted to an awkward, bad date.”

How about you?

Do you think there are some celebrities who got unfairly cancelled?

Talk to us in the comments and let us know!

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What Celebrity Got Cancelled and You Genuinely Felt Bad for Them? Let’s See What People Said.

Whether you want to acknowledge it or not, we now live in a “cancel culture”.

If you’re a public figure and you do something that is deemed to be inappropriate, you may face serious consequences from the public at large.

But is it always fair?

Are there any celebrities out there who have been cancelled that you feel bad for?

AskReddit users shared their thoughts.

1. A rough situation.

“Amanda Bynes.

From what I’ve seen she was abused by Dan Schneider at Nickelodeon Studios for YEARS.

And a lot like Britney, is currently under conservatorship because of a total mental breakdown.”

2. You mean Encino Man?

“Brendan Fraser.

The man was groped by Hollywood exec Philip Berk and spoke out about it long before #metoo.

They instantly cancelled him and we never got to see him again till only recently… His mom also passed away shortly after he got s*xually assaulted.”

3. Shelley Duvall.

“Duvall was in a string of great Robert Altman films in the 1970s, and did her own string of Cable shows in the 1980s, Shelley Duvall’s Faere Tale Theatre, Tall Tales and Legends, and Bedtime stories.

Also, she did a few musical albums, and even created some computer games in the 1990s, like A Bird’s Life and A Dog’s life. There is WAY more to her then Wendy Torrane in the Shining.

Now, she is completly forgotten, except when people call her crazy or something. She deserves WAY better in my opinion.”

4. Britney.

“Britney spears.

She didn’t even get “cancelled”, she just had her reputation smeared all over primetime tv and THEN the courts decide that her reaction to being systematically erased from relevance was “crazy”.”

5. Blacklisted.

“Peter Norman.

He should have been Australia’s greatest athlete, but he supported the black power salute and got black listed by the Australian Olympic Committee.”

6. Haven’t heard about this one.

“David Arquette.

There’s a really good documentary called “You Cannot Kill David Arquette” about what happened and how he is now.”

7. Two good actresses.

“Ashley Judd.

Harvey Weinstein blacklisted her for years. She’s an incredible actress IMO.

Mira Sorvino, too. She went from one of the most in-demand actresses after winning her Oscar, to being completely blacklisted because Weinstein was telling anyone who’d listen that she was a diva and impossible to work with.”

8. Star of the 1980s.

“Corey Feldman.

He was the first who told everyone what was really going on with child actors in Hollywood and no one listened.

Barbara Walters yelled at him for exposing it.”

9. Pee-wee!

“Paul Reubens.

As a 1980s kid who loved PeeWee’s Playhouse, remembering how my parents tried to explain Paul Rubens getting canceled is hilarious.

My dad told me “he took off his clothes in a movie theater” and kid me was like “wow that’s really weird but I guess he is kind of crazy?””

10. Remember this?

“Winona Ryder.

That feels like one of the first big “cancels” of the Internet age.

Glad she was able to rebound with Stranger Things.”

11. This was ridiculous.

“Howard Dean.

He yelled in excitement at one of his political rallies in 2004.

People thought he was wasn’t fit to be president because of it.”

12. Outrage.

“Kind of a unique case but, Laura Dern.

When Laura Dern played Ellen’s girlfriend on the episode where she came out, she was blacklisted by the industry for nearly a decade. And some people would harass her to the point she needed protection in public.

She says her manager warned her she wouldn’t get roles if she agreed to take the part on Ellen but did so anyways. She went from Jurassic Park and being in demand to nobody giving her a call.

Obviously she’s recovered but we lost a decade of great Laura Dern performances because of studios perception that she was cancelled by public opinion for playing a gay role.”

13. For speaking out.

“Not completely gone, but Terry Crews has issues getting work because he spoke out about being s*xually assaulted during the #MeToo movement.

People assumed a man his stature couldn’t be assaulted and he gave names and people weren’t very happy.”

Do you feel bad for any cancelled celebs?

If so, talk to us in the comments.

We’d love to hear from you!

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Does Anyone Really Buy These Fake Moments in Movies?

I really love movies, but I find myself rolling my eyes at least a few times when I’m watching anything that was made in Hollywood.

A lot of the plot points are absurdly unrealistic.

Despite being so hard to believe and physically impossible, a lot of these incorrect cliches appear over and over again in the movies.

Here are 18 people who also call B.S. on these false cliches in movies.

1. Are movie couches made of bulletproof vests?

Are people shooting at you?

Take cover behind… anything!

Car doors, drywall, couches, tables, cardboard boxes, it doesn’t matter!

EVERYTHING is bulletproof!

2. What cashier can afford THAT apartment?

The fresh out of college student scoring a great apartment in a swanky part of town while working minimum wage job for themselves.

In reality, you’d have 4 roommates for such a place, or you’re living in a dump in a bad part of town.

3. Does anyone buy this?

That everyone in a Tom Cruise movie is the same height or shorter than him…

4. Who else yells at the screen?

Whenever some idiot is running on foot while being chased by a car that’s trying to run them down, they without fail ALWAYS run straight down the middle of the street.

All they have to do is simply run off to the side where there’s trees and lamp-posts and plenty of other sh*t to block them from getting hit.

In that case, I always root for whoever’s driving.

5. I get blisters looking at pics of the sun.

Fire, Lava, etc. has no heat- people can be suspended over a volcano.

Or in the case of The Hobbit, SURF ON MOLTEN METAL and no one gets so much as a blister.

6. Martyrs

The member of the group that sacrifices themselves for no reason.

7. My ventriloquist skills could come in handy

Acting like an easily removable piece of duct tape silences someone.

8. Those hackers have some kind of superpower

Hackers in movies:

*enters a few keystrokes*

“I’m in!”

9. Why does stalking = life partner? Ugh

Guys who get rejected and then stalk the girl and win her over at the end of the movie.

10. I mean, I’m not a doctor, but…

Drowning revivals.

Victim is pulled, blue, from the water.

Couple of chest compressions, hero through gritted teeth says “don’t you die on me goddammit”,

Small arc of water shoots from the mouth of the victim as they cough twice and immediately regain consciousness, sit up and ask what happened.

Alright.

11. Movie characters have no manners.

No one ever says goodbye on the phone.

12. Maybe some movie viewers have a slurping fetish, Karen!

When a character gets a full cup of a drink with a straw and they sip and it makes a slurping noise.

Drinking through a straw doesn’t make a slurping sound until the near end of the drink.

13. If I got shot in the leg I’d be crying and asking to be carried!

When getting shot, stabbed, bones broken and beaten seems to have no physical detriment on a character.

Get shot in the leg? Still able to run.

Stabbed in the back? Still able to finish a fight.

Ridiculous.

14. I never trust anyone who leaves without finishing their pizza!

People order food or drink in a restaurant, get the food, never touch it and decide it’s time to go.

15. For me it’s like two minutes.

Standing under the shower head when you turn on the shower.

Dat sh*t way too cold.

16. If I didn’t restrain my cowlick it would land on my eyeball!

Women in action movies/sequences always wearing their hair down.

Trust me: if there is any running, jumping, climbing trees, we’re putting that sh*t up in a ponytail.

17. Nobody at school never noticed my late ’90s sparkly frosted eye shadow

Nerdy girl starts wearing makeup EVERYONE notices it the next day.

18. Well, it gives me time to make popcorn before I come back

The last 30 seconds on the bomb timer lasts 5 minutes or more.

It’s good to know that a lot of people who watch movies have enough common sense to know this stuff is ridiculous, but at least it’s entertaining!

What fake movie moments drive you up the wall? Leave us a comment!

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These Movies Were Explained So Badly, We Couldn’t Help But Laugh

It’s kind of wild how much movie trailers have changed. Back in the 1980s, the details a movie trailer would give you about a plot were so immense that you basically got the entire story told to you before you’d even seen the thing. Better hope there was a lot of spectacle, because otherwise the whole thing is pretty much spoiled, right?

Compare that to the blockbuster trailers of today, which are often little more than brief, out of context snippets, a little stirring music, and are a bunch of blackouts. They really hype up the mystery of the experience now.

I suppose either one is better than the approach taken by this subreddit, which intentionally explains the plot to you, but really badly.

Here are 11 movie plots hilariously misexplained (original taglines included for contrast.)

11. Titanic (1997)

“Nothing On Earth Could Come Between Them.”

10. The Lord of the Rings (2001)

“One Ring To Rule Them All”

9. Deadpool (2016)

“Sit on this”

8. Speed (1994)

“Get ready for rush hour.”

7. The Martian (2015)

“Help is only 140 million miles away”

6. Finding Nemo (2003)

“71% of the Earth’s surface is covered by water. That’s a lot of space to find one fish.”

5. The Shining (1980)

“He came as the caretaker, but this hotel had its own guardians – who’d been there a long time”

4. Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005)

“There’s No Room for Mistakes”

3. Harry Potter (2001)

“Journey beyond your imagination”

2. WALL·E (2008)

“After 700 years of doing what he was built for – he’ll discover what he’s meant for.”

1. Every Adam Sandler Movie

“HURRBIDY DOOOO!”

Man. Can’t wait to get back in those theaters.

What movie would you like to explain badly?

Give it a shot in the comments.

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Hilariously Dumb Movie Character Tropes That Will Look Familiar To You

Wanna know what drives me crazy with movie characters?

When there’s some kind of conflict arising from a misunderstanding, and Character A says to Character B “How could you!” B and A have known each other for a while, and B has given A no reason not to trust him before now, but A jumps right to assuming the worst. “I can explain!” shouts B, “Save it!” says A, and leaves in a huff.

B really could have explained. But he won’t get a chance to, because we need to save that resolution for the final act. In the meantime, try to somehow not think of A as an absolute sociopath.

Oh look, here’s Twitter to pick apart some more tropes!

10. Phony phone

I also leave gaps in my conversation that are way too short for me to be getting the information I’m getting.

9. Carry on

I get everything I need with just the look on my face.

8. Shoot up

Yeah that’s not how guns work.

7. Afraid of the dark

“Let me just unload these groceries I’m carrying for some reason in the darkness.”

6. Period piece

What a perfect world.

5. Good police work

We’re all better cops than movie cops.

4. Seek and ye shall find

“Good thing they have it filed under ‘I’ for ‘incriminating evidence.’”

3. Do the twist

The first day you become cool they teach you how to do that neck thing.

2. Fit me in

Lose the attitude.

1. Secret surprise

GOTTA SAVE IT FOR ACT III.

Hows come movies so dumb, yanno?

What other tropes should we dig into?

Tell us in the comments.

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13 Cool Hollywood Facts From Behind-the-Scenes

The thing about movies is they’re incredibly hard to make. They’re complicated. And if you’re someone staffed on a film set, odds are you might spend days, weeks, or months hammering out details on a film that in the big picture will be invisible to the audience.

But not invisible to the people on r/MovieDetails – they thrive on the minutia. Here are just a few gems they’ve uncovered!

13. Troy (2004)

Brad Pitt and Eric Bana made an agreement to owe each other small amounts of money for each accidental hit on set during their fight choreography.

In the end, Bana owed nothing, Pitt owed $750.

12. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)

It’s notable that Ginny is the only girl in the photo wearing pants instead of a skirt, likely a nod from the costuming department that she’d be in boys’ hand-me-downs.

11. Interstellar (2014)

The way they modeled the black hole was so complex that it took 100 hours of computing time to render each frame.

10. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)

Everyone with a flower in their lapel tried to kill Indy.

He then marks Elsa with one.

9. The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

Bruce is the only person at the masquerade not wearing a mask.

Batman is his true identity, the maskless Bruce is the facade.

8. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)

The toothpaste brand Smilex is a nod to Smylex, the company that creates poisonous gas in one of Tim Burton’s other movies, Batman.

7. The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Terry the dog (“Toto”) was paid more than the actors playing munchkins.

6. The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

“I am your father.” wasn’t spoken on set during the shooting of the scene.

It was dubbed in later along with the rest of Vader’s dialogue.

In order to keep the secret, the line as performed was “Obi-Wan killed your father.”

Only Mark Hamill knew what it would really be.

5. Rango (2011)

Rather than motion capture, animators used footage of the actors playing their parts live as detailed reference.

4. The Incredibles (2004)

Director Brad Bird had Spencer Fox (Dash) run laps around he studio in order to sound convincingly out of breath.

3. Scream (1996)

The phone Drew Barrymore was using to dial 911 had been left plugged in by mistake for a few takes.

The police called back to ask what was going on.

2. Inglorious Bastards (2009)

Colonel Landa subtly but repeatedly checks the pulse of those he’s interrogating in order to gauge how nervous they are.

1. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006)

Mackenzie Crook wore two contact lenses on top of each other to pull off his character’s wooden eye effect.

“It’s uncomfortable,” he said, “but not painful.”

There’s more than just loads of money happening behind the scenes of these iconic flicks!

What’s your favorite movie factoid?

Tell us in the comments.

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