Making any movie, no matter how it turns out, is like shoving a boulder up a hill, and making a movie that's actually good? It's truly nothing short of a miracle.
On paper, it goes without saying that each of the following ten movies categorically shouldn't have worked at all. Perhaps they were an ultra-belated sequel coming way too many decades after the fact, a horror remake that controversially deviated from the source material, or a film so bold it struggled to receive a conventional release altogether.
For one reason or another, these movies all seemed destined to fail, whether critically, commercially, or even both. But each of these films loudly proved the skeptics wrong, turning in an impressively sturdy end product that also happened to make a dent with general audiences.
Thanks to expectation-defying filmmaking and committed performances, they all rose above the stink of potential failure and spun low expectations into genuine surprise that things turned out quite this well.
