Awesome stuff you dismissed

[NerfedFalcon]

On the recommendation of a friend, I watched a movie that I'd hardly given a thought to before: Legend of the Guardians. It's an animated movie about owls and the adventures thereof, and based on the trailer when it came out, my 15-year-old self ignored it and moved on. Having seen it for the first time tonight, expecting absolutely nothing of it, and what I got was actually really, really awesome. There's some surprisingly dark material, but it's still totally friendly for kids and the arc is interesting to follow. So inspired by that but lacking enough substance to write a full-on review, I'm instead opening a thread here:

What's a movie or a game or whatever that you dismissed when it came out, but then really enjoyed when someone else (or some impulse along the lines of 'I'm bored, let's see how bad this is')[footnote]I found My Little Pony this way, but that was much longer ago.[/footnote] convinced you to watch/play/read/whatever it?

Captcha: Describe 'Whole Foods Market' with any words:
STRIP THE FLESH, SALT THE WOUND!

 

[Genocidicles]

Avatar: The last Airbender.

For those of you don't know, 'Bender' is slang for Homosexual in Britain... So when the adverts first came on for it, the teenage me just laughed at.

Then about a year ago my sister watched it on Netflix, and she recommended it. So I watched it and thought it was awesome.

 

[Scarim Coral]

Breaking Bad. Despite how much acclaim (my bro and a mate keep telling me to watch it and recently won an award) it has, I still not in the mood to watch it.

Also while I have heard good things about Teen Titans Go, I still refuse to watch it (probably due to having nostalgia goggles on me) but hey if you like it, that's ok but I'm not in the mood to watch it. I watch superheroes cartoon for the action not for the comedy (yes superheroes shows have comedy, I mean the overall theme to it).

 

[Diablo1099_v1legacy]

For those of you don't know, 'Bender' is slang for Homosexual in Britain...

I thought it was Slang for a night of binge drinking and generally making an ass of yourself?

OT: MOBAs.

While I avoid LoL like the plague, I found a much simpler 2D one called "Awesomenauts" to be good fun.
I can now understand the appeal of such games.

 

[bartholen_v1legacy]

Game of Thrones. For years I dismissed pretty much all fantasy as either Tolkien-ripoffs or a dead genre regurgitating the same cliches over and over. And behold, 30 minutes into the first episode I was hopelessly in love.

Berserk on the basis of the first story arc. I saw it as incredibly juvenile and gratuituously graphic cliched "invincible badass fighting demons" nonsense that so many other manga seem to be. Over time I started to like it, and eventually grew to love it. The first story arc is still rubbish though.

Rise of the Planet of the Apes. I like to think that movie actually changed me as a person. From the trailers I judged it as an at-best mediocre CG fest with nothing to offer but special effects. Turns out I was horribly mistaken when I went to saw it after it got excellent reviews. I can't ever remember being so psyched about a movie after I came out of the theater. After that I've been far less judgemental about things overall.

 

[Angie7F]

Avengers.
Mainly because I have to catch up on the other hero movies before I get to fully enjoy it

 

[Evonisia]

I dismissed Supernatural, despite the fact that a lot of my friends keep telling me how it great it is and what not. I don't know, I don't really feel the need to watch it even though the subject matter is at least interesting to me.

 

[MasterOfHisOwnDomain]

I dismissed Tartar sauce, and then discovered that it is THE best accompaniment to breaded fish. So tasty.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

Dismissing Breaking Bad and The Wire so far. I know they're awesome.

 

[BleedingPride]

I completely dismissed the first Assassin's Creed until a year after it came out. I was just not interested, and now it's my favorite game series ever. Boy was I wrong.

 

[SwimmingRock]

The Dead or Alive movie, because it looked terrible. Then Chris Sims, who's never led me astray when it comes to entertainment media, said it was hilariously terrible. I watched it last week and it is actually really good. Not genuinely "good movie" good, but definitely "two beers in movie night" good. The actors for Bass and Zack are perfectly cast as goofy and super sketchy.

 

[Casual Shinji]

Berserk on the basis of the first story arc. I saw it as incredibly juvenile and gratuituously graphic cliched "invincible badass fighting demons" nonsense that so many other manga seem to be. Over time I started to like it, and eventually grew to love it. The first story arc is still rubbish though.

Long running manga (so basically all of them) generally have an introduction chapter like that. I still think it's pretty good, just nothing compared to what follows. It's also kind fun seeing a story like this in its infancy when the author obviously doesn't really know what he's doing yet. Like the very first pages where you see Guts having sex with a demon woman, seeing as that's a giant contadiction to his character.

Rise of the Planet of the Apes. I like to think that movie actually changed me as a person. From the trailers I judged it as an at-best mediocre CG fest with nothing to offer but special effects. Turns out I was horribly mistaken when I went to saw it after it got excellent reviews. I can't ever remember being so psyched about a movie after I came out of the theater. After that I've been far less judgemental about things overall.

I had about the same reaction. When I saw the first trailer I thought, "Man, if this movie would actually focus on Caesar as a character and his growth, that would be so awesome. But eh, that's not gonna happen."

 

[BloatedGuppy]

Initially dismissed Harry Potter as tweenie crap, as I was annoyed by its surging popularity. Eventually read it and found it delightful and whimsical.

Initially dismissed The Wire as a dull looking police procedural. Do we really need another one? I asked aloud. Then eventually watched it and found it the best show ever made.

Initially dismissed Azumanga Daioh as routine anime piffle and left it sitting unwatched for several years despite a glowing recommendation. Eventually watched it almost by accident and it swiftly became one of my favorite series of all time.

Initially dismissed The Witcher series due to the protagonist looking like a death metal Edgar Winter, eventually discovered the 2nd game was amongst my favorite RPGs of the decade.

Most recently dismissed Hearthstone as a lame, pointless Magic knockoff. Now I am slobbering for a beta key.

 

[sageoftruth]

A while back, my mother recommended "The Borgias" to me. I don't watch much TV, and my mother's a big Jane Austen fan, so I initially dismissed it as another show about aristocrats doing whatever aristocrats do. I was partially right, but it was very political and reveled in it's backstabbing and dirty back-deals about as much as Game of Thrones. I'll need to find a way to get ahold of the first episode.

 

[DanielBrown]

The TV-series Archer kept begging to be seen on my Netflix ever since I got the service. Ignored it over and over because I thought the style looked really shitty. Saw people reference it and post images from it on Imgur and kept ignoring it.
Eventually, when bored as fuck, I decided to give it a shot.

Watched the four seasons available(don't know if they did more) in just a few days and loved every minute of it. Definetly recommend it for those that enjoy humor where the main character is a huge fucking douchebag, but doesn't know it.