
Originally Posted by
Bad Robot
I don't know, but not getting what you expect is sometimes good.
I agree, in general. But.
Not getting what you expect means you have to reassess what you've already seen.
And, depending on whereabouts in the film that point occurs and how long it takes you to do so, affects the rest of the film to varying degrees.
I caught up fairly quickly with
RED - I'd read the original comic and was looking forward to something far, far far, darker, but it was only about ten-twenty minutes or so in when I made the switch. And loved it.
On the other hand I was dragged by my (then) wife to see Costner's
Robin Hood, about which I'd heard nothing prior to arriving at the cinema. It took far longer for me to realise it supposed to be funny (in that I'd gone in thinking it was going to be a serious treatment and had also not, up that point, found the "humorous aspects" to
be particularly humorous). It's still not a film I'm enamoured of.