Movieacados! Just a little more than a week ago myself and Mrs. Fistcrush did our first movie date of the year and I chose Nirvanna: The Band, The Show, The Movie as it was a smaller movie that we would have limited chances to see in theatres or even afterward. This was a pretty big risk as going in I had only heard basic word of mouth that people liked it and a minor snippet that it might involve time travel somehow, other than that I knew absolutely nothing about the movie with the one exception that I was pretty sure it was a comedy based on the poster, I mean two guys riding an Orbitz bottle over Toronto sends a pretty clear message.
Going into a movie blind is playing movie roulette, and in personal experience it does often work out for me. The risk here is that you will waste your time (and in the case of theatre movies a large amount of money) to view something that you will not enjoy. That is 2-4 hours of your life that you will not be able to get back and that you could have spent rewatching great movies or playing Tetris or any other fun activity. However the reward here is that the experience is greatly enhanced when it is good or better. You will laugh more at jokes that you haven’t heard over and over again on trailers, you will be delighted at the technical prowess on display that you had no idea about going in (I can only imagine how great Into The Spiderverse would be going in with no knowledge of what you are about to witness), and the tension can be really real when you have no idea about characters who might actually die as you have no previous bias or meta knowledge.
So, assuming you have taken that leap of faith today’s prompt is simple: What movies have you watched with little to no knowledge and gotten a significant pay off for your risk?