I saw this last night and have to say I was completely blown away. I wasn’t expecting much but the visuals were truly impressive.
That’s about it but would like to hear other opinions on it or other films that you didn’t think would be all that but turned out to be so much more.

i thought the bad guy was a bit silly in sunshine, shame coz i love the rest of the film

the hangover was better than expected, tho my expectations were low!

the jacket- its got kiera knightly in and shes usually a bad sign but its quite good

Diving bell and the butterfly. It’s about a man who’s in hospital and he can’t move or speak, it’s sooo moving and beautiful. I was in tears at the end. Lush

Funny how our opinions differ. I thought Sunshine was utterly awful.

Tangled. I’m not a Disney fan (or animation in generally really) but this film is immense fun and very beautiful.

derek_starship – Member
Funny how our opinions differ. I thought Sunshine was utterly awful.

ditto – Event Horizon is better.

Bunny & The Bull was odd.

I was surprised that Rise of The Planet of the Apes wasn’t poo poo.

Rise of The Planet of the Apes wasn’t poo poo.

It was! 😉

I quite liked Sunshine and also Event Horizon. Gattaca suprised me too, as did Solaris – both films I really enjoyed, staying on the space theme.

Warrior

ditto – Event Horizon is better.

Yup. And Solaris is better than that.

Sunshine was a nice surprise for me

As was Moon

Saw Drive the other day – was expecting some sort of sub-Bullitt tosh, but thought it was fab

How I ended this summer.

The science in Sunshine was rubbish, but apart from that it was ok.

Garden State was a bit of a shock, quite a good film.

50/50 – thought it was going to be just another one of those lifeless American films, but it was actually pretty moving.

Sunshine faded (sorry!) really badly towards the end IMO.

Source Code was better than expected.

The science in Sunshine was rubbish, but apart from that it was ok.

You do realise that Prof Brian Cox was the science advisor on that film don’t you? 😀

I thought it was an excellent film.

Yeah, I’d say Source Code was better than expected too.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0326208/

Stander

Solaris was bloody awful. We won tickets to see it from the local paper. A mate of mine who is the journalist who ran the competition phoned me afterwards and apologized.

Event Horizon is dreadful.

Little Miss Sunshine. Funny & sad all in the same film.

Sunshine. Neither funny nor sad, and not really much of anything else imo either.

Solaris was a poor rip-off of the brilliant Russian original.

Sunshine would have been great if the originally penned storyline had been used.

Event Horizon is dreadful.

alien4? the first 3 were too 😉

Blind Side – no idea what it was about, no expectations, blown away!! Sandra Bullock – amazing!

I thought sunshine was rapid despite it being exactly the sort of film I should have liked.

Solaris was OK

I did enjoy event horizon actually..

Human Centipede 2, the plot line was such a nice surprise. Not even slightly predictable having seen the first, and the actors had the whole thing stitched up tight they worked as one unit so well. Their relationship was almost symbiotic

I’ll probably get flayed for this but I thought Dorian Gray was better than I expected it to be.

+1 for Event Horizon – thought it was much better than Sunshine

Biggest surprise for great films last year was Kickass

Let the Right One In ..the Swedish one

Follow Me really was a pile of shite though.

Before Sunrise

I thought it was going to be typical frothy romantic pish that i normally hate but there was nothing else on tv that night and i couldnt sleep so i watched it and godamnit it was just about perfect and felt like it was a movie made specifically to talk to me. Its sequel Before Sunset is every bit as good too.

I quite like the first bit of Sunshine but thought that once it got onto the Freddy Kreuger in space thing it turned to crap.

The Warrior – Great movie and music from the National.
Moon – Amazing performance from Sam Rockman and again great soundtrack.
Life Is Beautiful – Funny and tragic at the same time
City Of God – Just Amazing for such a low budget movie too break so many boundaries.

cynic-al – Member
Event Horizon is dreadful.

Agreed.

I liked Sunshine a lot though.

Little Miss Sunshine. Funny & sad all in the same film.

+1

Also World’s Greatest Dad. Fantastic film, Williams best IMO.

You do realise that Prof Brian Cox was the science advisor on that film don’t you?

Doesn’t mean they listened to him lol.

Moon, one guy, on his own for most of the film, actualy works very well.

Stardust

Stuck it on one day when I was bored.

Turned out to be a tremendous film.

Surely any film thread should have a “Debbie Does Dallas”-type response by now.

Stardust
Stuck it on one day when I was bored. Turned out to be a tremendous film.

Yep it was surprisingly good.

me and msswiss went to see john carter last week. i’d read the books when i was wee but she had no idea and neither of us were hoping for much. it was great. tosh but great!

Executive Decision – wasn’t expecting anything at all, so pleasantly surprised when it was an entertaining romp. Plus they killed off Stephen Seagal in the first 15 minutes!

King Kong is another one which was surprisingly good fun, albeit a bit long.