What's your favorite movie and which surprised you? [lvl 2]

A few of my favourites are: Groundhog Day, The Lost Boys, Blade Runner (original) and The Matrix 😎
Edge of Tomorrow could have been another boring Cruise movie but it was a lot better than I expected! 😁

Favorite movie: La vita è bella
The one that surprised me: Abre los ojos

Fav: V for Vendetta; Easy Virtue, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and Midnight in Paris are close seconds
Movie that surprised me: Spring

The Matrix
Life is Beautiful
Fight Club

There's so many that its not fair to pick :D

Kind of obvious/cliche answer, but my favorite is The Godfather. Having trouble picking the other answer, though...

Big Trouble in Little China

• What is your favorite movie of all time?
  Gulliver's Travels 1996 with Ted Danson
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulliver%27s_Travels_(miniseries)

• Also, which movie did you not expect to be as good as it was?
  The lovers by Tsui Hark, i thought it would be a forgettable romantic comedy, but it was an impressive tragi-comedy, something unforgettable !
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lovers_(1994_film)

Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch, 2013)

The biggest recent surprise was probably Roma. I mean, I'd enjoyed everything by Cuaron before that, but I didn't know this guy was a full-fledged genius.

The 13th floor. I watched it at a time where I didn't know anything about it and that's how anyone should watch it. Plus, it has Gretchen Mol.

American Beauty (I didn't expect it to be as good as it was either)

Tillsammans (Together!), a swedish movie by Lukas Moodysson, taking place in 1975. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0203166/

Muriel's Wedding

The Thin Red Line (1998, dir. Terrence Malick) (I expected a war movie, it was that but only as a side dish, a beautiful timeless connecting movie underneath)

Thank you everyone for the suggestions! I didnt respond to everyone but I added them all! I'll make sure to reply to the suggestion if we watch the movie and give our comments about it!

Good Will Hunting absolute favorite

Lawrence of Arabia

I recently saw a movie called Freaks, a low budget Sci Fi movie from last year. I didn't expect much but it was really well done. It's pretty dark with a really amazing child actress as the lead, the sort of movie where I don't want to give anything away. Sort of a Superhero movie.

I don't know what my fav is anymore, I have too many.

FAVORITES:
Lord Of The Rings Trilogy - (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120737/reference), (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0167261/reference), (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0167260/reference)
Ghost World (2001)
Contact (1997)
Braveheart (1995)
Amelie (2001)
Chocolat (2000)

SURPRISED ME:
Blue Valentine (2010) - Also a favorite
Alice (2009) - Yes, the Syfy film. Marvelous!
Carnage (2011)
Doctor Strange (2016) - MCU, sure, a lot of people like them, but I really, really, enjoy this one
Age Of Adaline (2015)
Pieces Of April (2003) - Great Thanksgiving film! So moving
Cinema Paradiso (1988)
Dagon (2001) - Expected an average B-movie, got something much more.
District 9 (2009) - Also a favorite. This blew me away on first viewing
Dredd (2012) - Awesome action film
Frequency (2000) - Touching
Megamind (2010) - Previously mentioned, thought I'd mention again hehe
Pan's Labyrinth (2006) - Symbolism and themes and motifs everywhere!
Monster Man (2003) - Hilarious horror movie :). Such a good time lol

My favourite movie is probably something out of the Ghibli collection. (I can't tell you which one, because most are perfect at what they're trying to be, while all being completely different.)

The movie that surprised me with how much I enjoyed it was Metropolis. It's one of those classic films you expect to enjoy academically, but not as entertainment. Boy, was that wrong. My friend and I were glued to the screen, and each shot was incredibly beautiful.

Terminator 2
Aliens
Cinema Paradiso (If you love cinema or movies you have to see this. It's a slow starter however.)

What is your favorite movie of all time? Wuthering Heights (1939)
Which movie did you not expect to be as good as it was? Fright Night (1985)

Anyhoo... Thank you for sharing!

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My favorite movie is probably Kingdom of Heaven, a historical epic about the fall of Jerusalem during the Crusades. It may also be the movie that most-surprised me by how much I enjoyed it, though for the sake of variety I'll also say that Rogue One also fits that bill, as I was disappointed with the new mainline Star Wars movies, and expected far less of Rogue One, yet found it to be probably my favorite of the whole series.

The Thing (1982) and City of God are my favorite movies and the one that i was not expecting to be as good as it was is What we do in the shadows.

The one I didn't expect to be as good as it was... Nightcrawler (2014). There are actually a few more, but if I have to pick just one, I would go with that one.

Favourite movie... That is a harsh one... It would be between Memento (2000), Akira (1988) and The Raid (2011). They are too different for me to just pick one :(.

The Prestige is one of my favourite movies too (along with Prisoners and Zodiac), and Terminator 2 one of my favourite occidental action movies.

I have 2, that suprised me
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - with Jim Carrey- i find Jim Carrey a tad grating normally so i went into the movie with low expectations and actually ended up really enjoying it
The Shawshank Redemption - i am not a fan of Stephen Kings work normally, so when i was given a pile of VHS tapes it was the very last one I watched, but it really suprised me

Don't have a single favorite movie, but I do have a favorite genre and that's noir. Sadly, this kind of movie barely gets made anymore. Anyway, here's my list https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/the-100-best-film-noirs-of-all-time/. Also, many of my favorite movies were made in the 20s and 30s. Silents are an acquired taste and it took me awhile to get into them, but now that they getting restorations, it's easy to see that some of them are amazing. So, I guess you could say, that those are the movies that surprised me the most.