Lanefan
Victoria Rules
Better than they have any right to be:
Jumanji (the Dwayne Johnson version, never saw the original). Dumb-as-a-bag-of-hammers premise but it flat-out works. The sequel's also not bad.
Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, in particular movies 1 and 3. They pulled all this goodness and hilarity out of a theme park ride???
Just about the entire Marvel universe so far, from Iron Man on down. There's been a few bits that lived down to expectations e.g. roughly the whole second half of Agents of Shield, but in general the whole lot has been unexpectedly excellent - even Agent Carter, which other people tend not to like but I'm not other people: I thought it was wonderful.
Jumanji (the Dwayne Johnson version, never saw the original). Dumb-as-a-bag-of-hammers premise but it flat-out works. The sequel's also not bad.
Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, in particular movies 1 and 3. They pulled all this goodness and hilarity out of a theme park ride???
Just about the entire Marvel universe so far, from Iron Man on down. There's been a few bits that lived down to expectations e.g. roughly the whole second half of Agents of Shield, but in general the whole lot has been unexpectedly excellent - even Agent Carter, which other people tend not to like but I'm not other people: I thought it was wonderful.