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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Goodsport" data-source="post: 994061" data-attributes="member: 1550">&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp Two movies come to mind:Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp I'm usually pretty good at judging from previews and commercials whether or not a movie will be good or if it will stink.  This is the first, and still one of the rare, movie in recent memory (well, 1989 seems recent... to me, at least <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> ) to prove me wrong.  When I saw the preview and the commercials for this movie, for some reason I thought that it was going to be among the worst dreck in cinematic history.  Eventually, though, a friend of mine convinced me to see it with him and... lo and behold... it was actually pretty funny (in a good way).  Looking back, I can't really see why I was that loathe to see it.Spider-Man (2002)&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp When I first heard the announcement back in 1992 or 1993 that James Cameron (yup, this was to be his movie) was planning to direct a Spider-Man movie, I shook with excitement!  As the years passed and the legal battles among rival studios ensued, however, that excitement turned to a combination of worry and apathy... and when James Cameron officially dropped out of the project, my hopes for the film were dashed.  When Sam Raimi was later named to be the director, that worry and apathy turned to fear and disgust.  In typical fashion, though, I went to see the film anyway when it hit theaters - and I was very pleasantly surprised!  It still would've been interesting to see James Cameron's take on Spider-Man, but Sam Raimi did a surprisingly (to me, at least) good job.-G</blockquote>

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