21 Great Movies That Shouldn’t Have Been Nearly as Good
For every Oscar-winning magnum opus, Hollywood has produced a stunning amount of dreck. Not so much these days, when they’re too scared to even release a completed film that everyone loves if it’s not part of a franchise, but there was a time when a producer could pitch their most unhinged fever dream shower thoughts and studios would simply hand over a big brown bag with a dollar sign on it. That time was the ‘80s, when illegal stimulants were a lot more socially acceptable.
The thing is, though, that most successful Hollywood producers know what they’re doing, even (sometimes especially) the ones most fond of illegal stimulants. As a result, some of those bonkers pitches turned into legitimately great movies. “My answer: MacGruber,” one Redditor told r/AskReddit. “And The A-Team, that film was really fun.”
They then asked, “What are some movies that are way better than they had any right to be?” and their fellow Redditors provided all kinds of right stuff.
