Movies that Disappoint

[jcroft74]

Every once and while I will get excited to see a movie and it just leaves me flat. Sometimes they just don't suit my tastes, or I don't get why it should funny, or there was too much hype or they are just bad movies.

I am not much for "Top XX" lists. But I was just wondering if you have seen movies that disappointed you. Whether they didn't meet your expectations or whether they just were not that good.

I don't want this to turn into a hate fest. I am not looking for the worst movies ever.

Two that jump into my mind are Anchorman and Eyes Wide Shut. They are very different movies, I know. I had heard from so many people that Anchorman was so funny and then I saw it. Yeah, some funny scenes, but ...

And I think we all know the issues with Eyes Wide Shut. I so wanted that to be good. I loved Kubrick and I was so hoping for a good flick.

[ViscountRadu]

one word: Em-Nite-Sha-ma-llama-llama-man

[jcroft74]

Totally agree. All of them that I have seen fall into this category. I don't hate any of them. But they all could have been so much better.

Though, I am guessing that you are a total MNight hater.

[buxomia]

You see, I've found it a lot safer to go into a film not expecting anything. That's why I liked Pirates 2 and Clerks 2.

But Date Movie, I've talked about how much I hate it before, but damn....that movie blew.

[burgerbob23]

I agree the Lady in the water SUCKED ASS! I mean I actually followed the story line all the way up to the boy reading the cereal boxes and then I literally stold up, looked around at the audience and said "What the FuK!" For real

[ChrisChristman]

The Matrix Revolutions. I wasn't as dissapointed as many were, but it still wasn't as good as it should have been. I would have had more Neo fights (more epic), wouldn't have killed off Trinity (would have had Morpheus sacrifice himself to see his dream of Neo ending the war come to fruition), and wouldn't have necessarily ended it the way they did. I'm not saying Neo should have lived (he shouldn't), but the way they handled it was...dissapointing.

[superdeformed]

I don't want this to turn into a hate fest. I am not looking for the worst movies ever.

Well I can tolerate a movie just simply being bad. It's the movies that dissapoint me are what riles up hatred within me.

Anyway movies that stick out in my mind that have really dissapointed me were X3 and the Matrix Sequals, although I didn't care for the first one til I watched it again.

That's all I can think of right now.

[psbp516]

Agreed with x3. I wanted to kill every single person that worked on that movie. I walked in with alot of hope and expectations and I walked out pissed and even a little upset. Crash also really dissapointed me. I don't know if its because its not my kind of movie but I thought it was horrible.

[briangilmore]

Agreed with x3. I wanted to kill every single person that worked on that movie. I walked in with alot of hope and expectations and I walked out pissed and even a little upset. Crash also really dissapointed me. I don't know if its because its not my kind of movie but I thought it was horrible.


NO! NO! YOU'RE RIGHT! CRASH WAS TERRIBLE! THANK YOU!

paul haggis is a ****ing HACK!!!

[icedsoul]

uh yeah... X3... god that movie was lame... in any way...

miami vice was extremly disappointing, although that was clear from the time they annouced it... but unlike dannyt I like the look of the movie alot.

[jordinho]

NO! NO! YOU'RE RIGHT! CRASH WAS TERRIBLE! THANK YOU!

paul haggis is a ****ing HACK!!!

Seriously man, how long have you been waiting to say that? Everywhere I turn there's more people saying it's brilliant and the best movie they've seen all year blah blah blah. That movie is not only manipulative for manipulation's sake but it's not even the deep film that people say it is.

Maybe if they showed this movie to people outside the U.S. it might paint a surprising picture of America, but if you live here, characters commenting that "Mexicans" park their cars on their lawns or that Asians can't drive is the most benign, banal, trite, trash in the world. As Keith Olbermann might say: "HACK Indeeeed".

[xxxthundercatxxx]

Umm... Superman Returns

[satori]

Tomb Raider 2 - I was in Santorini when they were filming. I was so blown away by Santorini that I thought they would really do it some justice and show it.
The movie sucked, and more to the point they showed Santorini for about 10 seconds tops. The rest that was set in Santorini could of been filmed in a swimming pool.

[bcool]

flyboys - I had high hopes for this one:D but something about it just didn't do it for me.

[abacusand13south]

I must be retarded because I liked X3, it was by no means the best X Men movie but still a good movie. Sure there were things I would have preferred to see changed but I can say that about damn near anything, but I guess I look for the good in these movies because I liked Daredevil. And who ever starts a Daredevil discussion here should die a slow painful death, we have had the discussion a million times and no ones opinion are going to be changed by it. That was just a pre-emptive strike to halt any Daredevil discussion that may have started after my reply.

[proglodyte]

This may be an unpopular opinion, but I was very bored and dissapointed with Kill Bill vol. 2. Don't get me wrong, there was some cool stuff mixed in there, but that whole scene with Bill and Uma talking at the end put me to sleep. Quentin should have just stuck with one movie and cut out all the boring fluff from the two.

[jordinho]

This may be an unpopular opinion, but I was very bored and dissapointed with Kill Bill vol. 2. Don't get me wrong, there was some cool stuff mixed in there, but that whole scene with Bill and Uma talking at the end put me to sleep. Quentin should have just stuck with one movie and cut out all the boring fluff from the two.

I agree except that I think the movies should have remained intact with a bridge in between. It'd be a 4 hour movie but come on, what else were you doing that day anyway? That's right, you were wanking.

[satori]

flyboys - I had high hopes for this one:D but something about it just didn't do it for me.
you're damn skippy on that one. Visually it was amazing, but even the old WW1 movies made in the 30s had better writing and plots. Once again it needed a brutal editor that could cut out the stupid crap. It couldn't figure out what kind of movie it was so it didn't quite make it anywhere. Also it was extremely confusing trying to figure out what was who... and what was with all the Fokker Wolfs being painted red... they were painted dark Green for the most part except for the flying circus who painted their planes all sorts of crazy colours.

[tokyomonster]

I'd say Blade Runner and 2001: A Space Odessey. I don't know why really..guess I just wasn't feeling it.

Ah, and Silent Hill...I actually expected it to be scary.

[icedsoul]

blade runner? dude...

I am ok with 2001... a bit overrated in my opinion anyway... but blade runner? c'mon...

[satori]

blade runner? dude...

I am ok with 2001... a bit overrated in my opinion anyway... but blade runner? c'mon...

I'm with you there, bizarre.

[actonWJK]

Umm... Superman Returns

I have to second this one. Never liked superman to begin with though, guess i went with that frame of mind.

Also citizen kane.....again i think it was the frame of mind that i had watching this movie. I just stopped it in the middle because i fell asleep twice while watching it. I would like to give it another chance though, becuase everyone hails it as the best thing since jesus.

[sniperxtreme]

Terminator 3, X-Men 3, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3.

[Jon]

Umm... Superman Returns

I was just thinking that as I was going through the earlier posts. The beginning wasn't bad, but what the hell was up with the ending?

[sniperxtreme]

Oh also AVP sucked horribly, takes some really crappy film making to stuff up that movie.

[masherscf]

The most disapointing movie in history was "Highlander 2: The Quickening", It take a special talent to get Sean Connery to do a sequel and then make a movie so bad that it ruins the preceding movie as well. Notice how they openly ignore that movie in the rest of the "Highlander" franchise.

[soundwave2.0]

daredevil could have been awesome...one of the darker marvel comics and it just was cheesy

[masherscf]

daredevil could have been awesome...one of the darker marvel comics and it just was cheesy

*Cough* AFFLACK *Cough*

[briangilmore]

*Cough* AFFLACK *Cough*

*Affleck...unless you can connect Spokesman ducks voiced by Gilbert Godfried to the Daredevil movie?...

oh, and *ding ding*

[masherscf]

*Affleck...unless you can connect Spokesman ducks voiced by Gilbert Godfried to the Daredevil movie?...

oh, and *ding ding*

Spelling doesn't count on the internet. It's just a series of tubes...

[psbp516]

I agree except that I think the movies should have remained intact with a bridge in between. It'd be a 4 hour movie but come on, what else were you doing that day anyway? That's right, you were wanking.

They are doing this. It was on digg awhile ago but its going to be both movies edited together, I'm guessing with extra scenes, with an intermission in between. I can't wait. I loved both parts of kill bill and would love to see how Tarantino ties them together.

[buxomia]

I must be retarded because I liked X3, it was by no means the best X Men movie but still a good movie. Sure there were things I would have preferred to see changed but I can say that about damn near anything, but I guess I look for the good in these movies because I liked Daredevil. And who ever starts a Daredevil discussion here should die a slow painful death, we have had the discussion a million times and no ones opinion are going to be changed by it. That was just a pre-emptive strike to halt any Daredevil discussion that may have started after my reply.

Oh good God we agree on something?! It's a miracle!

I liked X3 and I hated Spiderman 2. The whole thing with the train. And all those New Yorkers agree not to tell anyone his identity? Bullshit. Pure bullshit.

[xxxthundercatxxx]

Pam and Tommy's sex tape. It's stupid and his legendary dick isn't huge like everyone makes it out to be. What a waste of time and bandwith and a kleenex.

[psbp516]

Oh good God we agree on something?! It's a miracle!

I liked X3 and I hated Spiderman 2. The whole thing with the train. And all those New Yorkers agree not to tell anyone his identity? Bullshit. Pure bullshit.

How is it bullshit? He just saved their lives. If some guy in a suit came out of no where when I was about to die a horrific bloody death and saved me, I wouldn't rat him out either. Hell, I would give him a blow job if he asked me to.

[xxxthundercatxxx]

How is it bullshit? He just saved their lives. If some guy in a suit came out of no where when I was about to die a horrific bloody death and saved me, I wouldn't rat him out either. Hell, I would give him a blow job if he asked me to.

Like any of them know who the **** Peter Parker is anyways.

[thefast]

Snakes on a Plane. I would have completely loved it if the director of Formula 51 had stayed.

[fino35]

The Wickerman.
I knew it was going to be shitty(got dragged into it) but jesus.
"STEP AWAY FROM THE BIKE!"

Snakes on a plane.
wasn't a total dissapointment it just wasn't played as straight as I wanted it to be, felt somewhat forced.

Deliverence.
You wanna know why the only reference to that film you hear is the rape scene? because that is the only thing that happened in that boring movie.

Star Wars: episode 3.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" I was most dissapointed in the way Sam Jackson died.

[fino35]

Pam and Tommy's sex tape. It's stupid and his legendary dick isn't huge like everyone makes it out to be. What a waste of time and bandwith and a kleenex.

Thanks, you just saved me about a gig of hard drive space.

[masherscf]

Thanks, you just saved me about a gig of hard drive space.

Damn, I was just about to download that too..

[darksydeavenger]

Incorrect spelling is what the kewl kids on the internets do nowadays. lke, srsly, gt with teh pix mang!

[buxomia]

How is it bullshit? He just saved their lives. If some guy in a suit came out of no where when I was about to die a horrific bloody death and saved me, I wouldn't rat him out either. Hell, I would give him a blow job if he asked me to.

Why is it bullshit? Because I live here. Every single one of those adults (I'll give the kids the benefit of the doubt) would give their story for thousands of dollars to every magazine known to man. It's that simple.

[masherscf]

Why is it bullshit? Because I live here. Every single one of those adults (I'll give the kids the benefit of the doubt) would give their story for thousands of dollars to every magazine known to man. It's that simple.

Just where is that train in NYC? It looks a lot like Chicago to me. (I'm just joking, I know Spiderman is set in NYC)

[buxomia]

Just where is that train in NYC? It looks a lot like Chicago to me.

I can honestly say that I haven't watched it in a while. A lot of Spiderman is actually filmed in NY so it could have been the LIRR or the Staten Island train, that has a lot of open air like that.

[soundwave2.0]

the point that ppl would have no clue who the guy is is a good one. he looks like an average kid...granted ppl would have camera phones...but forget about that...lol.

they are all full of adrenaline and what not. the mind doesn't notice details that well when you are pumped up like that. giving a description of an average white malein that state wouldn't help too much

but none of that is the point i wanted to make.

that is your huge problem with spiderman 2...and you like x-men 3? woah! i mean i like x3 more than most, bu the minute you start looking at it...it falls apart.

[masherscf]

I can honestly say that I haven't watched it in a while. A lot of Spiderman is actually filmed in NY so it could have been the LIRR or the Staten Island train, that has a lot of open air like that.

Those aren't MTA commuter rail trains from the LIRR. They're not even NY subway train cars. I suspect they shot those scenes in Chicago (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0316654/locations).

[buxomia]

the point that ppl would have no clue who the guy is is a good one. he looks like an average kid...granted ppl would have camera phones...but forget about that...lol.

they are all full of adrenaline and what not. the mind doesn't notice details that well when you are pumped up like that. giving a description of an average white malein that state wouldn't help too much

but none of that is the point i wanted to make.

that is your huge problem with spiderman 2...and you like x-men 3? woah! i mean i like x3 more than most, bu the minute you start looking at it...it falls apart.

Like I can explain why I liked one and not the other. Spiderman 2 pissed me off at parts. Like the chemistry between Peter and Mary Jane. It just wasn't there like it was in the first movie. X3, I saw it in a two level movie theater, sold out on premiere night. I guarantee you if I watched it now I'd be equally as pissed. But right now, I'm sticking to my guns.

[buxomia]

Those aren't MTA commuter rail trains from the LIRR. They're not even NY subway train cars. I suspect they shot those scenes in Chicago (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0316654/locations).

Yeah I just looked at the scene again, and that's not a NY train.

[masherscf]

Yeah I just looked at the scene again, and that's not a NY train.

Riding those trains everyday to work make you notice things... In any case, they probably just used Chicago for the exterior reference shots for the CGI. I bet a lot of those shots were produced in post. The stuff inside the train was obviously a sound stage.

[icedsoul]

X3 better than Spiderman 2? GOOD GOD GIRL!!!

... comparing those two is already critical and then having x3 as the winner... doh!

just comparing anything sam raimi did to that "work" of this untalented, ****ed up, idiotic moron ratner is blasphemy...

I am shocked!!!

[buxomia]

X3 better than Spiderman 2? GOOD GOD GIRL!!!

... comparing those two is already critical and then having x3 as the winner... doh!

just comparing anything sam raimi did to that "work" of this untalented, ****ed up, idiotic moron ratner is blasphemy...

I am shocked!!!

Well I never promised that I'd be conventional, now did I?

[icedsoul]

Well I never promised that I'd be conventional, now did I?

well :-)

as far as I can remember... damn I wanted to go to bed, but now I am awake and scared thinking about the consequences of ppl thinking like this...

[AriaStar]

I'm going to go a little further back and say that the movie that I hated most, simply because I loved the first four so much, is Rocky V. Almost terrible enough to ruin the first four.

Generally I try to watch each movie I see as not connected to anything. So Lord of the Rings I watched to appreciate for their own merit rather than to seek errors or changes from the books, Batman Returns I watched without the others in mind, which were a different story anyway, etc.

But a film I did see with high hopes and ended up walking out on in a foreign film called Ma Mere (http://imdb.com/title/tt0381392/). Louis Garrel is a very talented actor, but not even his talent could make me overlook him having graphic sex with his mother. At the point where he's chasing the ambulance to the song "So Happy Together" after his mother stabs herself during the act, I decided to leave.

[icedsoul]

I'm going to go a little further back and say that the movie that I hated most, simply because I loved the first four so much, is Rocky V. Almost terrible enough to ruin the first four.

Generally I try to watch each movie I see as not connected to anything. So Lord of the Rings I watched to appreciate for their own merit rather than to seek errors or changes from the books, Batman Returns I watched without the others in mind, which were a different story anyway, etc.

But a film I did see with high hopes and ended up walking out on in a foreign film called Ma Mere (http://imdb.com/title/tt0381392/). Louis Garrel is a very talented actor, but not even his talent could make me overlook him having graphic sex with his mother. At the point where he's chasing the ambulance to the song "So Happy Together" after his mother stabs herself during the act, I decided to leave.


ah well french movies... in my opinion they are either extremly good or extremly bad... guess you caught one of the bad ones here...

[masherscf]

I thought "The Island" was pretty disappointing. The first 40 minutes were really excellent Scifi. The rest was a third-rate chase movies.

[buxomia]

Minority Report, Scary Movie after the first, Ring 2, Vanilla Sky

Okay let me just say every Tom Cruise film with the exception of Mission Impossible 3

[icedsoul]

I actually liked minority report... but bux.... COCKTAIL?!?!?!

maybe its my age... but this is one of my fav movies from my childhood somehow...

[point5o]

But a film I did see with high hopes and ended up walking out on in a foreign film called Ma Mere (http://imdb.com/title/tt0381392/). Louis Garrel is a very talented actor, but not even his talent could make me overlook him having graphic sex with his mother. At the point where he's chasing the ambulance to the song "So Happy Together" after his mother stabs herself during the act, I decided to leave.

Sounds like my kind of strange.


I was disappointed with House of Flying Daggers. Let's see, what else...

[icedsoul]

I was disappointed with House of Flying Daggers. Let's see, what else...

thats interesting... how come?

[point5o]

thats interesting... how come?

That's cold man...trying to make me think an empty stomach.

It was a great premise but the execution was very flawed. I didn't like the cinematography(that oversaturated look, the sharpness problem was probably because of the copy I watched) and the obvious CG effects...practical fake blood > CG blood.

[icedsoul]

That's cold man...trying to make me think an empty stomach.

It was a great premise but the execution was very flawed. I didn't like the cinematography(that oversaturated look, the sharpness problem was probably because of the copy I watched) and the obvious CG effects...practical fake blood > CG blood.

see thats how taste can differ... I liked the cinematography alot and especially the colors... it underlined the whole story so nicely in my opinion... and sorry about the thinking :-)

[Jon]

I was disappointed with House of Flying Daggers. Let's see, what else...

That movie was awesome. However, I was disappointed with Hero.

[guano]

Oh...wait I didn't clarify....anything after Mission Impossible

You didn't like The Last Samurai?

I just saw Highlander for the first time. It was the "Immortal Edition" or some crap. I'm not sure how it differed from the theatrical cut, but it was some of the worst shit I'v ever seen.

[buxomia]

I actually liked minority report... but bux.... COCKTAIL?!?!?!

maybe its my age... but this is one of my fav movies from my childhood somehow...

Oh...wait I didn't clarify....anything after Mission Impossible

[buxomia]

:-D

I am feeling better already...

See? We can find a happy medium.

I finally figured out why I always like the sci fi/fantasy films that no one else does. I have good taste with indie films and I spend lots of time analyzing those. When it comes to comic book/sci fi/fantasy films, I am there purely for the entertainment. It's the only type of film that I don't analyze, and I'd like to keep it that way. No further questions!

[icedsoul]

Oh...wait I didn't clarify....anything after Mission Impossible

:-D

I am feeling better already...

[abacusand13south]

Oh good God we agree on something?! It's a miracle!

I liked X3 and I hated Spiderman 2. The whole thing with the train. And all those New Yorkers agree not to tell anyone his identity? Bullshit. Pure bullshit.

Yeah that is pretty strange that we agreed on something, but I liked Spiderman 2. The train scene was the worst part of the movie but like previously said no one knows who Peter Parker is so how would they let out his identity?

[briangilmore]

NO! NO! YOU'RE RIGHT! CRASH WAS TERRIBLE! THANK YOU!

paul haggis is a ****ing HACK!!!


Paul Haggis...more like Paul HACKis...

oh and Abacus, Daredevil sucked dude, sorry.


(muuuahahaha!)

X3 was great though, ftw. here's my points from the old forums, it is truly an epic debate, which i still think i won...and according to the poll, most dromies DID, in fact, like it:

http://www.onewhowaits.com/geekdrome/thread.php?thread=627

[toastmstrgeneral]

where's the bell?

[bcool]

i was a little let down by the 4th harry potter movie. yeah thats right, wanna figh' abou' it?

[briangilmore]

where's the bell?


*ding ding*

[AriaStar]

i was a little let down by the 4th harry potter movie. yeah thats right, wanna figh' abou' it?

I was let down by the lack of Quidditch in the beginning and the traps and suck in the maze, but overall loved it. The scene after Harry brought Cendric back from the graveyard was so sad!

[comradelazyman]

Talladega nights was the most recent disappointment that comes to mind.

[mojofrojo]

Talladega nights was the most recent disappointment that comes to mind.

Oh man, nights was hilarious. I got to tell ya. After working with nascar fans all my damm life (thats the nicest thing i can call them) watching that movie was awesome with my redneck friends. The kiss at the end with Ferral and that french dude, the entire theater groaned and squirmed like they were watching hardcore twink porn. Awesome.

Ultraviolet on the other hand, sucked balls.

[bcool]

I was let down by the lack of Quidditch in the beginning and the traps and suck in the maze, but overall loved it. The scene after Harry brought Cendric back from the graveyard was so sad!

I just felt like i was never involved in the story (something the books do so well). Maybe it was because I already knew the story, but then so have most people that go see this. It was like a cliff notes for the book or something.