10 Movies Way Better Than They Had Any Right To Be

10. X-Men: First Class

Rushing a movie through production in order to meet an already-scheduled release date is always a risky move, especially when it involves a franchise that's beginning to run out of steam. After the disappointment of The Last Stand and X-Men Origins: Wolverine had stretched audience goodwill to breaking point, Fox decided to hit the reset button on the entire X-Men series in what seemed like a final throw of the dice.

When Matthew Vaughn officially signed onto the project there were less than fourteen months to go until First Class hit theaters, which is an insanely short schedule for a $140m summer blockbuster and not only that, he decided to rewrite the existing script with regular collaborator Jane Goldman first. If that wasn't crazy enough, shooting only started a little over nine months before the release date and pre-production didn't even begin until April 2011. To put that into perspective, the movie was coming out on June 3rd.

Many were predicting that such a quick turnaround would be detrimental to the final product, with Vaughn himself admitting to having "never worked under such time pressure". To the surprise of almost everyone, First Class turned out to be arguably the best movie in the entire series yet, bringing the X-Men back from the brink and setting the franchise up for the next decade in the process.