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Is there a movie you initially thought you wouldn't like but you ended up liking?


"The Notebook" for me 

 - - James Marsden as that main woman's first fiance and Gena Rowlands both helped me like the movie a lot. Neither were in the movie a huge amount of screen time but they were essential in my opinion.

Image result for gena rowlands in The Notebook

Posted - April 17, 2018

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  • "Fiddler On the Roof" ... I don't normally like musicals, this one was very good.

      April 17, 2018 8:36 PM MDT
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  • 1633
    Haven't seen it but know the whole If I Were A Rich Man song well
      April 17, 2018 9:44 PM MDT
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  • 23647
    I liked this movie a lot, too.
    :)
      April 18, 2018 10:06 AM MDT
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  • 5614
    "Indiana Jones and The Lost ArK" at the time I was deep sci-fi, a purist you might say ;) This post was edited by O-uknow at April 18, 2018 10:07 AM MDT
      April 17, 2018 9:08 PM MDT
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  • 23647
    I think I saw this one --  was it the first in the franchise?
    POTENTIAL PLOT SPOILER!!!
    Did the ending have a worker pushing a cart in a HUGE cluttered warehouse and the ark (or whatever was the main point of the movie) was sitting there in the midst of everything? I liked that ending if that's the one.
      April 18, 2018 10:09 AM MDT
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  • 5614
    Aye, indeed. The Ark of the Covenant is sitting in a government warehouse somewhere. Just as well. Only priests acceptable to God can use it and to anyone else it is deadly. Methink the official title was "Raiders of The Lost Ark". This post was edited by O-uknow at April 19, 2018 6:38 AM MDT
      April 18, 2018 11:07 PM MDT
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  • 23647
    That's the one, yes!
    :)
    Thanks for helping me out!
      April 19, 2018 6:38 AM MDT
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  • 1633
    The Mad Woman Of Chaillot — I initially thought this to be just yet another cookie cutter, carbon copy late 1960s/early 1970s allegorical film but it turned out to be a very poignant social commentary with very delightful and believable characters.
      April 17, 2018 9:43 PM MDT
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  • 23647
    I have never even heard of this movie. I should look it up! (But I'm so out of the habit of watching movies.)
      April 18, 2018 10:10 AM MDT
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  • 1713
    Requiem For A Dream. There's still one scene in that movie that I can't bear to watch. Yuck!
      April 18, 2018 7:12 AM MDT
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  • 23647
    I still have not seen this movie. I've always meant to but I know it may be VERY heavy emotionally on the viewer.
    :)
      April 18, 2018 10:11 AM MDT
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  • 3523
    "Shine," about an Australian pianist who's crowning achievement was to play Rachmaninoff's Third Piano Concerto.  The effort required in his quest estranged him from his father and resulted in some severe mental problems although he may have been autistic to start with.   Good movie.
      April 18, 2018 8:23 PM MDT
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  • 23647
    Thanks, CallMeIshmael!
    I skimmed your answer because I haven't seen the movie, yet, and I prefer not to know too much about a movie before I see it, ha!
    :)
      April 19, 2018 6:40 AM MDT
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