Based on the reviews by critics and fan reaction, I thought The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey was going to be a Phantom Menace-level disaster. I ended up loving it just as much as the LotR trilogy.
Two other movies that come to mind are the two Bond films with Timothy Dalton, The Living Daylights and Licence to Kill. For years I had heard about them being lowpoints of the Bond franchise, so I avoided them at all costs. I finally gave in and watched them a few years ago and now they're on my top 5 best Bond films list.
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