teruterubozu
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A psychedelic blasphemy and conceptual turd.
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Most disappointing movie you've seen
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A psychedelic blasphemy and conceptual turd.
ReturnOfTheRAT
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Oh, you.
Probably Spider-Man 3. Even as someone who loves the campier elements of Raimi - and loved all the "Now dig on this!" shit - it almost smothered me with how cack-handed it was. There've been awful sequels before, but not ones I've previously been supermegahyped about.
Loved Drive, loved District 9, didn't despise Prometheus.
Loved Drive, loved District 9, didn't despise Prometheus.
Art Teitlebaum
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I remember falling asleep in the cinema during Men in Black 2 and Oliver Stone's The Doors. The latter one isn't really so bad though, watched it on TV some years later and was pleasantly surprised.
Oh yes and Matrix Reloaded was some pretentious and rather boring stuff.
Oh yes and Matrix Reloaded was some pretentious and rather boring stuff.
I agree with a lot of the films mentioned. Alien 3, Jurassic Park the Lost World, Matrix sequels, Hook, Alien Resurrection, The Two Towers, Star Wars Episode 1, Tin Tin, Transformers (but to be honest I knew it was already fucked seeing who the director was). The Thind Red Line, The Kings Speech, Gremlins 2, and the Back to the Future sequels. Men in Black 2 is a good one as well. The original Spider-Man was a disappointment but they made up for it with the sequel. Batman Forever and especially Batman and Robin were big downers for me as well.
Vulcano's assistant
Banned
Spiderman 3
I really enjoyed Drive and I am typically wary of sparse dialog in films. The music fit perfectly with it and while it may have sounded a bit new wave, the lyrics and such as cheesy as they were actually filled in some context for the film. Just to say I enjoyed it on several levels, and music was simply icing, and the good kind. You play some of those scenes with no music or a different track and I am not sure they work.
Warm Machine
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Exactly, but I think people really did want to go back and explore that universe and shoot up some more Aliens. I love Alien 3 for its uncompromising adult bleakness and deadly tone but we know there were more stories that could have been told, conventional and unconventional.
Then A:R comes along and the movie is inconsequential and intrinsically broken. It is near impossible to top the Alien as a logical rule driven creature with a full life cycle, and to write in mammalian birth and try to write in a creature that would take the story in a new direction is painful and simply watered down. It was a reboot that didn't reboot anything. It ended with a complete conclusion to its own narrative, and answered no questions left over from the previous 3 films.
And whenever it, or any of the other prequels is on I tell myself I'm only going to watch 10 minutes and I end up watching the whole movie.
Expendable.
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Not that I've "ever seen," but a few I was excited for that were major letdowns recently:
The extended cut, which I do not think is even a Director's cut, just fills in a bit of the story. It does not add any real context nor does it make the situation Ripley is in more interesting.
As a movie unto itself, it is decent, maybe good as far as horror standards go. But what it does to the universe, the implications to the characters involved, is just not exciting or even interesting IMO. Not to mention the movie lacked suspense, the development of all of these characters they introduce, mixed with some really bad effects. It was just a cluster fuck, and everyone involved in its creation at the time knew it.
B_Rik_Schitthaus
Banned
Battle Royal 2
Max Armstrong
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Same thing for me, one of my favourite from last year.
Nappuccino
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That was so bad. I watched it again last night, and it is just so terrible. Not that the original was amazing, but something fun was going on there. UGH.
Felix Lighter
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The Phantom Menace. The Crystal Skull actually shit on a franchise I loved more but the Star Wars prequels prepared me so I wasn't nearly as disappointed.
keyboardcat
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Solaris w Clooney. POS.
ClassyPenguin
Banned
The Avengers.
I don't like superhero movies anyway.
I don't like superhero movies anyway.
This movie right here, what a fuck up after the sublime Collateral.
Boo this man! BOOOOOO!
My pick is Titanic. Triied watching it 7 times and all of them I fell asleep before halfway through the movie
LabouredSubterfuge
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I don't Hate Cameron necessarily but given their respective hype in media circles and from the public, I would nominate either Titanic or Avatar. I wasn't expecting tonnes from either but I didn't expect them to genuinely poor movies.
Combichristoffersen
Combovers don't work when there is no hair
The Hitchhiker movie still hurts
As for GoS, it's a good movie, but I liked the first one more.And wtf at bjork not liking Bubba Ho-Tep.
Kitsunebaby
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Reign of Fire.
I was a young kid obsessed with dragons, it wouldn't have taken much to please me. But this piece of shit was just depressingly bad.
I was a young kid obsessed with dragons, it wouldn't have taken much to please me. But this piece of shit was just depressingly bad.
LabouredSubterfuge
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They were naive enough to play the GAF movie hype game and like most that play that game they lost. The remainder pretend to themselves that the movie was good.
Nappuccino
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it is "good." It isn't awesome, fantastic, wonderful, stupendous, superb, brilliant or any such thing like that.
But it is a perfectly decent movie that suffers a number of flaws.
tuna on toast
Banned
The Big Lebowski
I just recently watched it after years of hearing a lot of people say how great it is. It wasn't bad. I was just expecting more.
I just recently watched it after years of hearing a lot of people say how great it is. It wasn't bad. I was just expecting more.
watch it again
Hellshadow
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gonna go with The Ring 2. Ugh.
Alien fans were expecting a lot. Those first two films are on a lot of peoples top ten list. So anything less was going to be a disappointment. Upon a second viewing I really enjoyed it, but I still had a lot of problems with it. But for those people who cannot suspend their disbelief and enjoy it for what it is, they have a lot of very justifiable complaints. I can move past the problems in that film, but other get hung up on them and are not so easily satisfied.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
Prometheus falls under the same hat as Public Enemies. Popular director going back to doing what he does best, amazing visuals, incredible cast, and it has the benefit of being a part of a geek fan favorite series. So when it comes out and it's "decent"(aka kinda shit), the disappointment explodes everywhere and paints the walls red with virgin blood.
I remember coming out of the theater with the feeling of "I can't believe I didn't like it!". I loved Fellowship and still consider one of the best adventure movies ever made. TTT was just not up to that level of quality, with its uneven pace and moments of pure boredom and dullness. The big battle did nothing for me. Gollum is really the only salvageable element from the film.
Oh come on
crazy monkey
Banned
disappointed was avatar and jp3. Was hyped for both didn't like both of them at all.
Edmond Dantès
Dantès the White
And the score and the Balrog opening.
I remember coming out of the theater with the feeling of "I can't believe I didn't like it!". I loved Fellowship and still consider one of the best adventure movies ever made. TTT was just not up to that level of quality, with its uneven pace and moments of pure boredom and dullness. The big battle did nothing for me. Gollum is really the only salvageable element from the film.
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