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Camazotz Automat:
Not quite the opposite of the THINGS THAT ANNOY YOU topic, but definitely in the other general direction.

I'm not very interested in sports, therefore, I tend to dismiss sports films right out of the gate.

Also, part of the latter is due to being beaten over the high school head (for four consecutive years) with five celluloid reels of Brian's Song way back when velociraptors ruled the Earth.

I just finished watching MONEYBALL, and surprisingly, I liked it. 

I liked the idea (meta number crunching vs. single player fixation), I liked the acting, and I liked the soundtrack. I liked the correct amount of authentic baseball footage used. If the credits had revealed Thomas Köner had provided the ambient sound for some of the empty arena/hallway scenes and that Philip Glass had provided crucial crescendos, I would not have been surprised.  I liked the soundtrack that much. It was well done. I laughed like a baboon at Philip Seymour Hoffman in coaching gear. All he had to do was stand there in polyester self-righteousness while arguing with Pitt and it was funny.

There were a lot of temperamental outbursts with baseball bats flying and things breaking that rang true and that I enjoyed very much.

So. MONEYBALL. I liked it, for far more reasons than I listed above - and I am surprised at how much I liked it.

Eddie Coyle:
 
        I have to use past tense, because I've become incorrigibly pessimistic, cynical and hateful in my descent into early onset curmudgeondom. (gee, you don't say)
         
           But in the wreckage of my past, there were occasional glimpses of someone with a slightly open mind.

          Two movies I expected to hate, but loved...."Trainspotting" and "Boogie Nights".

          Music that I never imagined liking(say at 15) that I grew to love..."Pet Sounds", Lou Reed, Miles Davis(electric phase 1967-) Grateful Dead(1967-1977), Funkadelic(pre-1975) Sparks...etc.

        But that was all before I turned 25...nowadays,if I expect something to suck-undoubtedly it will. But that's a "MP, not a YP".

McPhallus:
In a similar vein, I never thought that I, a die-hard sports hater, could ever like a move about basketball, but I actually liked Hoosiers.  Somehow the characters evoked a feeling of empathy in me and the story pulled me in.

And this from a guy who's felt increasingly alienated from movies since his early teens.  I haven't watched a movie since 2001.

BobGrau:
After 30-odd years of senseless prejudice against olives, I tried one recently and kinda liked it.

Lovely Bones:
Love baseball and college basketball, have always hated football at all levels, but fell in love with the TV show Friday Night Lights.

Or maybe it was Kyle Chandler I fell in love with.  Kinda hard to tell.   ;)

And Eddie, Trainspotting, uh . . . I'll give it well-made, but it left me depressed for weeks afterward.

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