Okay, most of us have missed a movie when it first came out, heard rave reviews about it, and then, years later watched it only to go "hunh, that was the great "x"?"
Some of mine:
This is Spinal Tap- i had two genuine chuckles in this movie. No real laughs at all. I got it, it just wasn't...funny. What it mocked was funny, i freely admit. But it was like i kept waiting for the real Spinal Tap to show, not this poor attempt. Very disappointing.
The Royal Tannenbaums- I simply cannot say how much i hated to waste the money on this rental. I just can't.
Animal House- lord in heaven. It almost hurt me. Years of hearing about it (almost 20), and it was...well, i liked Porky's better, and Police Academy..heck, i liked police acadamey 5 better.
But, i wouldn't want to be so negative, so...Slither, fun little movie. Serenity, a lot of fun. House 1- i always did love the "the house is a doorway to everywhere" plot. Ang Lee's Hulk, i liked it. I wouldn't pay to see it four times in a row, but i liked it, and didn't think it deserved the hatred it seems to generate. I think a lot of that was disappointment that it wasn't Spider Man huge.
Anyway, just my likes and dislikes. WEll, some of them, anyway.
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
I saw "Spinal Tap" about a year ago and thought it held up rather well. The humor is an acquired taste--the characters are almost too stupid to be believable--but as a send-up of rock bands, it was very effective. I loved the references and plot points that could be tied to real bands. (E.g., the singer's girlfriend interfering=Yoko Ono.)
"Animal House" . . . When I first saw it, I was 14 or 15, so most of the the college aspects were lost on me. Having spent much of my life since then in college (both as a student and an instructor), I appreciate it better--particularly Donald Sutherland's lit. professor trying to engage students in a discussion about Milton (I think). I still find the finale hilarious: Delta House getting revenge by disrupting the parade. It's the kind of over-the-top "underdogs win" story line that almost always works.
Posted by rickshaw1 on :
About spinal, i saw a mighty wind and fell out laughing at it. It was genuinely funny. Spinal Tap...i didn't watch it alone and the others that saw it thought it wasn't funny as well. We got it, trust me. I guess it just couldn't live up to the hype. Same for animal house. I thought the parade thing was just...a lame point. I liked Real Genuis better...a lot better.
But, give us some of your disappointments.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Forrest Gump left me with a "eh so what" feeling.
I try to avoid media hype and advertisements about movies I know are coming and want to see (i.e. The Dark Knight) only so I won't get all worked up about it and end up being disappointed.
A movie all my friends raved about but I didn't like at all was Little Shop of Horrors.
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
quote:Originally posted by rickshaw1: But, give us some of your disappointments.
Well, picking on "Ghost Rider" is too easy.
One movie that disappointed me was "Bridge to Terabithia." It was billed as a Narnia-type fantasy, but everthing happens in the kids' imagination. While the movie strives to make a point about the value of imagination, it comes off as cloyingly cute and simplistic--and this opinion is from someone who's enjoyed other children's fantasies such as Narnia and "Sky High."
Posted by MLLASH on :
quote:Originally posted by Quislet, Esq.: Forrest Gump left me with a "eh so what" feeling.
I actually disliked this movie. I remember being enraged that it beat The Shawshank Redemption for the Oscar.
More recent stuff? I finally saw Hostel and thought it was garbage (in fact I didn't watch it to the end).
30 Days of night wasn't as good as I hoped it would be.
Posted by Lance's realm on :
I thought "Saving Private Ryan" was one of the most boring movies I have ever seen. I can't believe some people rave about it.
Posted by Cobalt Kid on :
The recent Atonement was so boring that it could cure anyone's insomnia. Then again, I didn't think it would be *that* great.
Hm. Probably the biggest dissapointments for me the last few years are Pirates of the Carribean 2 and then especially PotC 3. I had genuine high hopes after the first one and I thought they were both just down right rubbish. Subseqent re-watches of various scenes only confirm this. Probably my biggest dissapointment of the last decade (considering disspointment means movies I had high hopes for).
Posted by superboymddjr on :
Tried to watch Forrest Gump three times only to end up that falling asleep 1/2 way. So never saw the ending at all.
I was like huh? when I saw "I am Legend".
Posted by DrakeB3004 on :
Sorry to hear disappointment about some of these movies that I love -- "Forrest Gump", "Saving Private Ryan", "Animal House", "The Royal Tanenbaums", and "This is Spinal Tap."
Some of the comedies I think might not hold up because of shifting comedic sensibilities or something that was awesome when it came out has been done so many times since then, if you see the movie for the first time years later, the humor falls flat because it's not fresh.
But one disappointment for me was "Citizen Kane". I'm sure it was very innovative at the time and I can appreciate the craft behind it, but when something's been called the "Greatest Movie Of ALL TIME" so many times, it's hard not to be let down.
Posted by Set on :
I am horribly shallow, so almost any movie that is critically acclaimed, I'll find a snoozefest, while stuff like Army of Darkness leaves me with a big ol' grin.
E.T., Close Encounters and 2001: A Space Odyssey are examples of movies that I *wanted* to like, being a fan of sci-fi, but found terribly disappointing.
Give me the option to watch any of those movies, or the Lost in Space remake, and I'll be watching the Lost in Space remake, because it at least had some funny moments.
I can't call Transformers disappointing, because I expected it to be a boring plot-less special effects-fest along the lines of, uh, every other Michael Bay movie, ever.
quote:Originally posted by Lance's realm: I thought "Saving Private Ryan" was one of the most boring movies I have ever seen. I can't believe some people rave about it.
I am such a masochist. I keep watching Tom Hanks movies, and I haven't been able to *stand* one of them since Splash (and, frankly, I think that the only reason I liked Splash is because Daryl Hannah had her clothes off a lot).
DaVinci Code? Most over-rated book and movie, ever. Freaking 'controversy' that's been around for 1400 years. Oh, he's so edgy, for a freaking coelacanth!
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Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
quote:Originally posted by DrakeB3004: But one disappointment for me was "Citizen Kane". I'm sure it was very innovative at the time and I can appreciate the craft behind it, but when something's been called the "Greatest Movie Of ALL TIME" so many times, it's hard not to be let down.
Agreed. It's not that I think it's a bad movie or anything, it's just I could probably easily name 100 movies that think are better than it, so I find it puzzling that so many people consider it the greatest thing ever.
Posted by Lance's realm on :
I also didn't think highly of "Citizen Kane," but I absolutely loved "The Third Man." It has the most interesting music - all of which is performed on a zither. Very cool!
Posted by Pov on :
Debbie Does Gitmo was low-class, even for porn. Not even worth a Sexflix rental... Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
quote:Originally posted by Pov: Debbie Does Gitmo was low-class, even for porn. Not even worth a Sexflix rental...
But did it really disappoint you?
Posted by Pov on :
Posted by rickshaw1 on :
Perhaps, he disappointed himself, lol.
Other disappointments- the Tom Clancy movie of Jack Ryan with Ben Aflac. (I know, it just that the duck is more entertaining, lol.)
Addams family reunion- but honestly, who expected it to be good?
Elvira's haunted hills- fun for what it was, but i was hoping for something more for her second feature.
By the same token, House II- not much of the charm from the first movie. And man, i never even saw a house three, but there was a house four?
Million Dollar Baby- okay, i like boxing, and i like looking at hot chicks (what straight guy doesn't, lol) but Hillary ain't all that swank, and the movie was kinda...dull.
Small gems- Seraphim Falls, both Pierce and Liam did a great job, on what was obviously not a high budget film. Angelica is still a hottie, even though she is beginning to show her age.
Poodle Springs- yes, i know, it was cable, and it had that really short dude thats supposed to be a tough guy as lead, but any Phillip Marlowe i can get is good phillip marlowe, lol.
Fright Night II- much more fun than one.
Posted by Vee on :
Dances with Wolves ~ I saw it when it was already on the "C" circuit at a neat little place called the Brewhouse (a bar/lounge with a movie screen. You sit around tables and order food off a menu and watch the movie)
It was so god-awful boring that we couldn't even drink ourselves into oblivion while waiting for it to end. It's the only movie that I've ever chosen to walk out on.
Posted by Uranus Lad on :
Oh where do I start? Pretty much anything with a former (post original cast) SNL cast member. I especially loathe Mike Meyers and why anyone finds him funny is completely beyond me. maybe this isn't so much "disappointment: as I more or less expect this class of movies to suck.
One that really sticks out is "Be Cool" a supposed sequel to Get Shorty -a pretty decent film. Be Cool was so horrible I came close to walking out but thought my friend were enjoying it, turns out they felt the same way.
Any movie that you see lots of commercials for will almost inevitably suck (there are a few exceptions, Iron Man was pretty good) so spare yourself the expense and the inevitable disappointment and avoid overly advertised movies.
Posted by Pov on :
quote:Originally posted by Uranus Lad: Any movie that you see lots of commercials for will almost inevitably suck
M Night Shama-lama-ding-dong's The Happening fits in that category, from what I've heard... haven't seen it, nor will I. Shock-gore and environmental preachiness, no thank you!
It'd be funny, though, to make a spoof called "The What's Happening"... just to see a bunch of dancing Reruns jumping off the rooftop... or Rog laying under that industrial lawnmower... Posted by Cobalt Kid on :
quote:Originally posted by Uranus Lad: Oh where do I start? Pretty much anything with a former (post original cast) SNL cast member. I especially loathe Mike Meyers and why anyone finds him funny is completely beyond me. maybe this isn't so much "disappointment: as I more or less expect this class of movies to suck.
I agree with this assessment. I'd say 95% of this long list of movies is crap.
Forest Gump - man, I loved this movie!
Citizen Kane - I like the film a lot, but agree that I can think of others that are better. My film teacher in college thought this wasn't even Welles' best film and that "A Touch of Evil" was. He made a strong arguement and I think 'Touch' is excellent (but again, its largely ignored by critics while Citizen Kane is so largely trumpeted). On the other hand, I think Casablanca, my favorite movie of all time, deserves 100% of the praise its gotten over the years.
Posted by Ram Boy on :
I once walked out on a Leonardo DiCaprio movie about the man in the iron mask in which he plays Louis XIV. Even though I wasn't all that into it I might have been able to stick it out, but then he responded to one of his ministers with a "yuh-huh" and I just couldn't take it anymore.
My partner and I argued about whether to go to a film I wanted to see, Kate and Leopold, or his choice, a Lord of The Rings film. I "won". He picked the next three or four films after that one.
Posted by Set on :
quote:Originally posted by Vee: Dances with Wolves ~
God, I thought the brain cells I lost when I watched that snoozefest were gone forever. But now they're back.
The damn *horse* was the best part of that movie.
And then I watched Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, which was pretty cool, and remember thinking that Costner's lifeless bored 'get me out of here' performance really dragged down what could have been the best movie in years.
It was later said that he was 'tired' from working back to back on Polkas with Porcupines and I remember thinking, 'Oh, so because he spent so much time on a movie that *sucked,* a movie that was pretty good suffered?' Ugh.
And as long as I'm bashing Costner. Field of Dreams. Also, Waterworld.
On the other tentacle, No Way Out frikkin' *rocked.*
Posted by profh0011 on :
"Give me the option to watch any of those movies, or the Lost in Space remake, and I'll be watching the Lost in Space remake, because it at least had some funny moments."
HAH!
I saw the LIS film twice... loved it both times, despite its faults.
Along similar lines... I've gone to see ALIEN several times... INCLUDING its reissue not long ago, which I went so I could see the scenes I'd read about so long ago that were cut.
But given a choice of that and something-- heh-- "similar"-- I'll take THE GREEN SLIME!!! (By a mile!)
Posted by profh0011 on :
"Polkas with Porcupines"
You know... that just sounds SO MUCH like it OUGHT to be a movie... or at least, a cartoon short.
"Oh, OUGHT is such a TERRIBLE word!" --Simon Templar / THE SAINT IN NEW YORK (1938)
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
quote:Originally posted by Pov:
quote:Originally posted by Uranus Lad: Any movie that you see lots of commercials for will almost inevitably suck
M Night Shama-lama-ding-dong's The Happening fits in that category, from what I've heard... haven't seen it, nor will I. Shock-gore and environmental preachiness, no thank you!
It'd be funny, though, to make a spoof called "The What's Happening"... just to see a bunch of dancing Reruns jumping off the rooftop... or Rog laying under that industrial lawnmower...
Aaron Williams beat you to that one Bri.
Posted by Pov on :
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
I mentioned this thread to my roommate. The film he felt was a disappointment was "Independence Day"
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
10,000 BC. After what Roland Emmerich did with Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow. Like a DnA storyline falling apart in the third act.
Posted by profh0011 on :
"E.T., Close Encounters and 2001: A Space Odyssey are examples of movies that I *wanted* to like, being a fan of sci-fi, but found terribly disappointing."
Let's see... saw E.T. once... ONCE!! More than enough.Bordered on nauseating. CLOSE ENCOUNTERS, if I hadn't read the comic-book adaptation first, and knew the ending and was waiting to see the ending, I swear, I would have walked out halfway thru. That's how annoying that film was. (My sensibilities and Steven Spielberg's must be so far apart, only a tiny handful of his films I've ever gotten to really like at all...)
Now 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY I saw when it first came out, in a theatre equipped for C I N E R A M A (curved screen & 3 projectors!). Could barely follow it, but was highly amused when, halfway thru the "star gate" sequence-- HALF the audience walked out! HALF!!! Outrageous. Then I read the novel, and was able to better figure out what was going on. I went to see it again EACH time it was reissued in the 70's (it got reissued more often than FANTASIA) and really enjoyed seeing it on a big screen in one theatre in Moorestown equipped way back then with a STEREO sound system. But when ABC ran it, it disappeared from theatres... and over the years, all the "big" houses got cut up into shoeboxes...
Now 2010-- that I love without reservations. Sometimes I'll watch the 2 of them back-to-back (a day or so apart). 2001 is an amazing technical achievement... but 2010 is a great MOVIE.
Posted by Cobalt Kid on :
All of the National Lampoon's Vacation movies. Probably the movies I hate more than anything else. 5 minutes of one of those and I feel like the Hulk when Rick Jones is killed every few years--ready to start punching people in the face!
Posted by Set on :
quote:Originally posted by profh0011: Let's see... saw E.T. once... ONCE!! More than enough. Bordered on nauseating.
A girlfriend took great umbrage to the fact that I hadn't seen E.T. and made me sit down and watch it. We're not together anymore.
quote: CLOSE ENCOUNTERS, if I hadn't read the comic-book adaptation first, and knew the ending and was waiting to see the ending, I swear, I would have walked out halfway thru. That's how annoying that film was. (My sensibilities and Steven Spielberg's must be so far apart, only a tiny handful of his films I've ever gotten to really like at all...)
Excruciatingly boring movie (and I say this as a big fan of Star Trek: the Motion Picture and A.I., which are widely panned as being boring).
The only thing that made me wake up was when the dude started sculpting Devil's Tower out of mashed potatoes. I thought 'I've been there' and then I thought 'bastard is ripping off Call of Cthulhu...'
Posted by Blockade Boy on :
quote:Originally posted by Vee: Dances with Wolves ~ I saw it when it was already on the "C" circuit at a neat little place called the Brewhouse
It was so god-awful boring
Different setting, I saw it while traveling Indonesia, in a little Kinabalu movie house not much more than a painted white wall. I marveled at the reaction of a peoples barely a full generation out of the longhouses, bones in the noses and stretched ear lobes, freaking out when a Pawnee showed up. And Buffaloes (Bison)? They LOVED those.
I still really don't know what the movie was about but the visuals were stunning.
OT: for me I guess, Caddy Shack but then I'm not a huge Bill Murrey fan.
Posted by Fat Cramer on :
Ironclad. One sentence movie review: Awfully bloody and bloody awful.
Posted by Dave Hackett on :
quote:Originally posted by Eryk Davis Ester:
quote:Originally posted by DrakeB3004: But one disappointment for me was "Citizen Kane". I'm sure it was very innovative at the time and I can appreciate the craft behind it, but when something's been called the "Greatest Movie Of ALL TIME" so many times, it's hard not to be let down.
Agreed. It's not that I think it's a bad movie or anything, it's just I could probably easily name 100 movies that think are better than it, so I find it puzzling that so many people consider it the greatest thing ever.
I'll agree with you guys that it's not the most engaging movie ever, and I don't personally enjoy it either, but I do think it is justified in the praise it gets solely because it's level of innovation literally changed the way films are made. There is so much in terms of tracking shots, narrative structure, shot composition, etc. that really seem commonplace when you watch it now, but were absolutely unheard of at the time. That it seems pedestrian now is a testament to just how much it set the standard for film.
Posted by Dave Hackett on :
Biggest disappointments for me:
The Crow: The book was such an amazing piece of dark and uncomfortable poetry, and then this "MTV KEWL Dark" thing comes along and turns it into something completely different. Even more frustrating because Lee looked GREAT.
Lord of the Rings (particularly Two Towers): I understand that things needed to be cut, but to add stupid BS and arbitrarily change plot points really frustrated me. Jackson could have stayed more faithful and still achieved what he wanted.
Watchmen: Awful, Awful. awful. Snyder completely missed the entire point. Total letdown.
Guess I'm just a purist at heart.
Posted by Iam Legion on :
Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian. The actor playing Caspian was FAR too old. The addition of the slight romantic interest between Caspian and Susan made me want to puke. The addition of the failed attack on the castle wasn't needed. Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Where do I start? They cut out nescessary scenes, changed the order of how things occured in the book, added a scene with the White Witch that was totally unnescessary and basically just butchered the entire story. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows part2. C'mon... I can't be the only one that was dissapointed (despite knowing full well they would never do it) that Harry wasn't nude (as he was in the book) when he met Dumbledor in the 'Kings Crossing' afterlife.
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
quote:Originally posted by Dave Hackett:
quote:Originally posted by Eryk Davis Ester:
quote:Originally posted by DrakeB3004: But one disappointment for me was "Citizen Kane". I'm sure it was very innovative at the time and I can appreciate the craft behind it, but when something's been called the "Greatest Movie Of ALL TIME" so many times, it's hard not to be let down.
Agreed. It's not that I think it's a bad movie or anything, it's just I could probably easily name 100 movies that think are better than it, so I find it puzzling that so many people consider it the greatest thing ever.
I'll agree with you guys that it's not the most engaging movie ever, and I don't personally enjoy it either, but I do think it is justified in the praise it gets solely because it's level of innovation literally changed the way films are made. There is so much in terms of tracking shots, narrative structure, shot composition, etc. that really seem commonplace when you watch it now, but were absolutely unheard of at the time. That it seems pedestrian now is a testament to just how much it set the standard for film.
See also its influence on comics, particularly via Bob Kane's Batman artwork.
One of the most important or influential movies of all time I'll grant it, but one of the greatest? Not by a long shot, imo.
Posted by Quislet, Esq on :
quote:Originally posted by MLLASH: 30 Days of night wasn't as good as I hoped it would be.
I saw the ending of this when my roommate watched it. I noticed right off that the vampire they ground up appears at the end. I hope the continuity person on the film never worked in continuity again.
Posted by Quislet, Esq on :
quote:Originally posted by Iam Legion: Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian. The actor playing Caspian was FAR too old. The addition of the slight romantic interest between Caspian and Susan made me want to puke. The addition of the failed attack on the castle wasn't needed. Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Where do I start? They cut out nescessary scenes, changed the order of how things occured in the book, added a scene with the White Witch that was totally unnescessary and basically just butchered the entire story. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows part2. C'mon... I can't be the only one that was dissapointed (despite knowing full well they would never do it) that Harry wasn't nude (as he was in the book) when he met Dumbledor in the 'Kings Crossing' afterlife.
I agree with the Voyage of the Dawn Treader.
Regarding the non-nude scene in Deathly Hallows part 2, after Rowling revealed that Dumbledore was gay do you really think they would have a young guy that many would still consider a kid be nude with him?
Posted by Exnihil on :
quote:Originally posted by Quislet, Esq:
quote:Originally posted by MLLASH: 30 Days of night wasn't as good as I hoped it would be.
I hope the continuity person on the film never worked in continuity again.
That was really the least of the continuity problems w/that film. The entire premise (that there is an overnight switch from a normal day to a month long period of sustained night) is a continuity error. It just doesn't work that way. And while I'm railing, why was it imperative that all planes out had to be off the ground before the sun set? Can planes not take off at night?
In any case, the movies in which I've been disappointed have been mostly of the sequel/prequel types... movies that by their creation actually decrease my appreciation for the original film(s). The Godfather III, both Matrix sequels, the entire Star Wars prequel trilogy.
But my absolute most disappointing film was Tim Burton's "Sleepy Hollow". Perhaps it's not fair, because I had absurdly high expectations for this film. I grew up in Kinderhook, NY... the basis for the fictional Sleepy Hollow. I went to "Ichabod Crane High School" for Pete's sake! At the time, Johnny Depp was my absolute favorite actor, I was a huge Christopher Walken fan, and I thought that Christina Ricci was about the hottest actress in existence (not to mention the fact that she bore an incredible resemblance to my girlfriend from my Kinderhook days). I felt like this movie was tailor made to be exactly what I wanted in a film...
...but it wasn't. I hated the liberties taken with the story, I found the performances to be almost caricatures, and the "horror" reminded me of nothing so much as "Large Marge" from "Pee Wee Herman's Big Adventure." All hallmarks, I found out as the years went on, that would typify so much of Tim Burton's output for me.
Posted by l.e.g.i.o.n.JOHN on :
Cool World!!
Posted by l.e.g.i.o.n.JOHN on :
quote:Originally posted by Quislet, Esq:
quote:Originally posted by Pov: Debbie Does Gitmo was low-class, even for porn. Not even worth a Sexflix rental...
But did it really disappoint you?
WHOA-WHOA WAIT!!!!,..there's such a thing as Sexflix???? Posted by cleome45 on :
I find most movies, disappointing, TBH. And the more they get hyped up as being some transcendent experience of either the high or lowbrow variety, the more disappointed I usually am.
Probably the main reason I enjoyed Thor recently was because I don't regularly read the comics, so I wasn't constantly comparing the movie to the comics and feeling shorted. It also helped that I avoided most of the discussions about it before watching, and that I paid three bucks to get in rather than whatever ridiculous amount they charge for first-run films these days.
Posted by MLLASH on :
As for "THE HAPPENING"... I enjoyed it.
It was creepy but also unintentionally funny. I've seen in 2 times in fact.
ALso, I read on ew.com that there is a "cult" audience growing for the film, who seem to dig it for its uniententionally funny scenes.
Posted by Fanfic Lady on :
Transformers: The Movie, the animated one from 1986. It wasn't released theatrically in Ecuador, and I didn't see it until after I moved to the States in 1990 and rented the video.
Having LOVED the majority of the post-movie episodes, I was expecting crazy Frank Welker Galvatron, and his awesomely evil lieutenant Cyclonus, not boring Leonard Nimoy Galvatron and speechless nonentity Cyclonus. Hell, ALL of the celebrity voices sucked, especially that talentless waste of flesh Judd Nelson.
Other points of contention -- I had no problem with the old-school Autobots getting massacred, but there was no character build-up, and we hardly even saw any of them die on screen; the plot, or what passed for it, was weaker than even the worst episodes of the TV show; and Optimus Prime stood around and LET Megatron kick the #$@#$@ out of him.
Posted by Dev - Em on :
quote:Originally posted by cleome45: I find most movies, disappointing, TBH. And the more they get hyped up as being some transcendent experience of either the high or lowbrow variety, the more disappointed I usually am.
I honestly used to be like this as well. I actually forced myself to stop expecting too much from movies and now just want to be entertained. If a movie can entertain me...it's a good movie for me. If not, then it really sucks and I will never bother with it again. I have no problem with Comic movies taking liberties with back-story and histories...as long as it makes sense internally.
Posted by Cobalt Kid on :
quote:Originally posted by MLLASH: As for "THE HAPPENING"... I enjoyed it.
It was creepy but also unintentionally funny. I've seen in 2 times in fact.
ALso, I read on ew.com that there is a "cult" audience growing for the film, who seem to dig it for its uniententionally funny scenes.
Lol, me too! My wife and I thought we were the only ones! In fact, I have a hard time taking Mark Wahlberg seriously on film--he's so unintentional funny sometimes.
Hangover 2 was a big dissapontment.
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom - as a kid I imagined it was going to be so awesome. Then when I saw it, I thought it was crap. 15 years later I gave it a rewatch, thinking maybe I was too harsh. Nope. It is a damn awful. Unlike Raiders and Crusade (which was entertaining) Temple had no charm to it.
Posted by Iam Legion on :
quote:Originally posted by Quislet, Esq:
quote:Originally posted by Iam Legion: Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian. The actor playing Caspian was FAR too old. The addition of the slight romantic interest between Caspian and Susan made me want to puke. The addition of the failed attack on the castle wasn't needed. Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Where do I start? They cut out nescessary scenes, changed the order of how things occured in the book, added a scene with the White Witch that was totally unnescessary and basically just butchered the entire story. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows part2. C'mon... I can't be the only one that was dissapointed (despite knowing full well they would never do it) that Harry wasn't nude (as he was in the book) when he met Dumbledor in the 'Kings Crossing' afterlife.
I agree with the Voyage of the Dawn Treader.
Regarding the non-nude scene in Deathly Hallows part 2, after Rowling revealed that Dumbledore was gay do you really think they would have a young guy that many would still consider a kid be nude with him?
I do believe I already said I knew they wouldn't do it: (despite knowing full well they would never do it). However, I am still disappointed that they didn't. The forced choreography to keep his 'bits' off camera would have been hillarious. Or maybe odd, stray banks of fog?
Posted by DrakeB3004 on :
GREEN LANTERN: SO disappointed. Bad. Like ... BAD bad. Like your football team losing by 50 points in the Super Bowl kinda bad. Like seeing your sister in a porn kinda bad. Just ... ugh - it gives me a knot in my stomach just thinking about it...
Posted by profh0011 on :
rickshaw wrote: "heard rave reviews about it, and then, years later watched it only to go "hunh, that was the great "x"?""
OUT OF THE PAST. Hopelessly pessimistic, downbeat, nasty sick F*** of a movie. Once was enough for me.
"This is Spinal Tap- i had two genuine chuckles in this movie. No real laughs at all."
I saw both Spinal Tap and The Folksmen on SNL. (they actually did The Folksmen on SNL around 18 YEARS before doing the movie A MIGHTY WIND!) Tediously dull would be putting it kindly. My favorite bit in THIS IS SPINAL TAP was actually seeing Fran Drescher playing the SAME PART she later reprised in one episode of THE NANNY (is that one really strange crossover or what?). I really like Fran, she cracks me up.
If I want a bogus rock documentary, I'll take Eric Idle's ALL YOU NEED IS CASH.
"I wanna protect you... from people... like ME." --John Belushi
He Who LSHes wrote: ""Animal House" . . . When I first saw it, I was 14 or 15, so most of the the college aspects were lost on me."
I saw it first-run. I thought it was okay. But the way i was at the time, I didn't "get" a lot of the humor, and the character stuff. Somehow, it took a while to sink in that the film portrayed the world completely upside-down from what you'd expect. The "slobs" were the good guys, the "clean-cut" types were VISCIOUS BADDIES. Over time, it became one of my all-time faves. (Ditto for THE BLUES BROTHERS, which didn't impress me in the theatre as much as ANIMAL HOUSE. Some things "grow" on you.)
Set wrote: "E.T., Close Encounters and 2001: A Space Odyssey are examples of movies that I *wanted* to like, being a fan of sci-fi, but found terribly disappointing."
Saw 2001 first-run on a curved screen. It wasn't until recently that, reading up on it, I finally remembered and understood what my Dad meant when he said it "wasn't REAL Cinerama". It was projected with a SINGLE projector, not 3. The first time I saw it, the theatre was mostly-empty. And... 3/4th of the audience WALKED OUT halfway thru the "Star Gate" sequence. they couldn't take it!
However, shortly after, I read the novel, then went to see it again in a 2nd-run theatre. After that, I actually saw it on at least 3 different reissues, years between. It wasn't a "movie", it was a "visual experience". Sorta like FANTASIA.
Now, 2010-- that I LOVED!!!!!!!!! Still my favorite Roy Scheider movie.
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS I almost walked out of (except I'd read the comic version, and so knew it had a decent ending-- which I suffered thru the rest of the picture just so I could see). E.T., once was enough. Bleh. I got a HUGE charge out of Drew Barrymore's SNL appearance, especially when they did the "E.T." sketch. She tells her brother (Tim Kazurinsky) she killed E.T., bashed his head in with a baseball bat and stuffed his body in a trash bag, he was so ugly! At that point, MISTER T arrives by kicking in their front door. "Mister T!" "That's right, and I'm lookin' for m'boy-- E"! "But-- E.T.'s an extra-terrestrial!" "Where the hell ya think I'M from, Harlem?"
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Set wrote: "I'll be watching the Lost in Space remake, because it at least had some funny moments."
As a longtime LIS fan, I was disappointedf with parts of it, but thrilled by others. I was stunned when I realized they actually paid tribute to at least 20 DIFFERENT episodes of the original show. Also, when I figured out-- after much thinking-- that the "time travel" aspects of the story MADE SENSE!!! That was something neither LIS or ST ever seemed to get right back then.
The biggest surprise was how Gary Oldman's Dr. Smith turned out to be the BEST part of the film, where I can only tolerate Jonathan Harris in small amounts. Oh yeah-- and I love that Dick Tufeld got to play the SAME part in the remake as in the original (the VOICE of the Robot). It was like when you heard Douglas Rain in 2010.
"I am such a masochist. I keep watching Tom Hanks movies, and I haven't been able to *stand* one of them since Splash (and, frankly, I think that the only reason I liked Splash is because Daryl Hannah had her clothes off a lot)."
I liked him in DRAGNET, but that have been mostly for Dan Aykroyd. I finally saw SPLASH a couple years ago, and didn't care for it much at all. I DID really like APOLLO 13, mostly because the space program always meant to much to me back in the 60's. Finally saw BACHELOR PARTY a few years ago... WHO KNEW it would become my favorite film of his? On the other hand, I saw YOU'VE GOT MAIL, and was so deeply offended by the story and his character in it that I've barley been able to tolerate Hanks in anything since then. (Ironically, I saw the original some months later-- THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER-- and it immeidatley became a new favorite of mine.)
Drake B3004 wrote: "But one disappointment for me was "Citizen Kane"."
Same here. Which made me real glad the ONE time I ever saw it, it was on a THEATRICAL REISSUE! I love those. it's the way films were MEANT to be seen, and I've found even movies I SERIOUSLY DISLIKE can be better when seen that way. Like GONE WITH THE WIND, and THX-1138.
LancesRealm wrote: "but I absolutely loved "The Third Man.""
Speaking of which... saw this on PBS, loved it so much, 6 months later, I took my Dad to Philly to see it again, in a THEATRE! (When you pay for something you've already seen for free, that says a lot.)
Cobalt Kid wrote: "He made a strong arguement and I think 'Touch' is excellent"
And again... saw TOUCH OF EVIL in a theatre when it was restored. Somehow went without having the slightest idea what it was about!! The opening sequence is amazing (and notorious for how the studio screwed it over originally). the part that cracked me up was seeing Janet Leigh terrorized in a cheap desert motel by a halfwit manager. I suddenly realized, when she later was in PSYCHO, it was type-casting! (and I'm sure it made her murder in that all the more shocking, since many had already seen her escape a similar predicament once before...)
"Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom - as a kid I imagined it was going to be so awesome. Then when I saw it, I thought it was crap. 15 years later I gave it a rewatch, thinking maybe I was too harsh. Nope. It is a damn awful. Unlike Raiders and Crusade (which was entertaining) Temple had no charm to it."
What he said. Coming on the heels of RETURN OF THE JEDI, and just before a planned vacation by Lucas (or Spielberg, or both), the entire film, start to finish, felt like "THE KITCHEN SINK!!!!" they tossed in EVERYTHING. they tossed in TOO-- DAMN-- MUCH. It defines the phrases "over the top"-- and "overkill". Even the obligatory Spielberg reference to an old Disney movie was BADLY done.
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