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I'm going to say Fury again, not that I was disappointed but because the end was bad, even worse than I was expecting. Firstly giant German column in 45 in broad daylight when the allied planes are swarming above Germany?If they spiked their tank, fell back and warned the infantry, the Germans would march into entrenched machine guns mortars and artillery support. Every American solder had a repeating firearm, a lot of firepower. This is what they advocated against.

Instead it's an unsupported tank in a blatantly self indulged M'erica moment. It should have taken less than three minutes before it was a burning wreck.


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I mean if you want to do nationalistic shirt thumping at least put the tank on a hillside with good lines of sight and in a hull down position. Maybe with a section of infantry backing you up. That'd be great.

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 OldMate wrote:
Battleship. Not much of it even made sense.


It's very much in the "action flick turn your brain off" category. That said it had one scene I liked, which was when one of the aliens showed a mysterious amount of sympathy/mercy to one of the characters. It's a tiny scene, but its a sign of diversity of thinking within an otherwise unified "alien" threat. All too often most action flicks the "enemy" are a unified evil - aliens, zombies, nazis, terrorists. Whatever they are they are typically between totally evil and just evil "Goons". It's a higher level of sophistication that you don't expect from the film.

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There are exactly 2 good things about Battleship: 1. the AC/DC montage with them getting the battleship ready. 2. in the beginning with the main character breaking into a convenience store, but only because it is a shot-for shot remake of an actual burglary where the burglar got stuck in a liquor store. It's pretty obscure, but the video did the rounds on the internet for a while and even got mocked on The World's Dumbest.
   
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 Overread wrote:
 OldMate wrote:
Battleship. Not much of it even made sense.


It's very much in the "action flick turn your brain off" category. That said it had one scene I liked, which was when one of the aliens showed a mysterious amount of sympathy/mercy to one of the characters. It's a tiny scene, but its a sign of diversity of thinking within an otherwise unified "alien" threat. All too often most action flicks the "enemy" are a unified evil - aliens, zombies, nazis, terrorists. Whatever they are they are typically between totally evil and just evil "Goons". It's a higher level of sophistication that you don't expect from the film.


Love that film - just great fun and even managed to make the game work as part of the film.

The Aliens in the film are remarkable in that they actively avoid civilian casulties throughout the film - several occassions to their detriment. We never know why - TOE, honour code, habit, what but its part of thier entire military effort.

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For me, the most disappointing movies are the movies about aliens. I am very interested in this subject, and there is no standard or an exciting film about them. So for me, each film regarding this subject is a big disappointment.
   
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 Mr Morden wrote:
 Overread wrote:
 OldMate wrote:
Battleship. Not much of it even made sense.


It's very much in the "action flick turn your brain off" category. That said it had one scene I liked, which was when one of the aliens showed a mysterious amount of sympathy/mercy to one of the characters. It's a tiny scene, but its a sign of diversity of thinking within an otherwise unified "alien" threat. All too often most action flicks the "enemy" are a unified evil - aliens, zombies, nazis, terrorists. Whatever they are they are typically between totally evil and just evil "Goons". It's a higher level of sophistication that you don't expect from the film.


Love that film - just great fun and even managed to make the game work as part of the film.

The Aliens in the film are remarkable in that they actively avoid civilian casulties throughout the film - several occassions to their detriment. We never know why - TOE, honour code, habit, what but its part of thier entire military effort.


Also, bunch of old boys clearly having a whale of a time. That alone is worth the price!

   
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Battleship is simultaneously terrible, and incredible. At no point is it anything but dumb, but you're still on your feet all "lets powerslide this thing!"

Probably my most disappointing movie was The Musketeer. It's just painful and the stuntwork never comes close to making up for it.

Ultraviolet also deserves a nod. It's just dreadfully dull to the point where the theater I was in stopped paying attention and little discussions popped up between strangers making fun of it.
   
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Underworld 2.

The first is kinda oddly brilliant. The politics are convoluted on the first watch, but encourage further views to figure it out.

The second? I’ve seen it. I know I’ve seen it. Still couldn’t tell you a thing about it, because it was that forgettable I’ve actually, genuinely forgotten it.

Also, any mystery film or TV show where the key to the solution is something not disclosed to the audience. Because frankly that is a cheap shot. Part of the fun is the guessing whodunnit. Rug pulls such as “oh yes then there was this time that person did something we didn’t refer to at all and all happened conveniently off-camera but complete explains whydunnit” are just bloody lazy.

   
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 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Underworld 2.

The first is kinda oddly brilliant. The politics are convoluted on the first watch, but encourage further views to figure it out.

The second? I’ve seen it. I know I’ve seen it. Still couldn’t tell you a thing about it, because it was that forgettable I’ve actually, genuinely forgotten it..


Same. They've got all the cool elements, but they've just got forgetful stories and don't feel like they've got passion behind them

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 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Also, any mystery film or TV show where the key to the solution is something not disclosed to the audience. Because frankly that is a cheap shot. Part of the fun is the guessing whodunnit. Rug pulls such as “oh yes then there was this time that person did something we didn’t refer to at all and all happened conveniently off-camera but complete explains whydunnit” are just bloody lazy.


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 Overread wrote:
 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Underworld 2.

The first is kinda oddly brilliant. The politics are convoluted on the first watch, but encourage further views to figure it out.

The second? I’ve seen it. I know I’ve seen it. Still couldn’t tell you a thing about it, because it was that forgettable I’ve actually, genuinely forgotten it..


Same. They've got all the cool elements, but they've just got forgetful stories and don't feel like they've got passion behind them


I feel the opposite as like the Res Evil Films they were made by a husband and wife team of Director/Lead Actress and hence seemed to be more than easy money action flicks for them. Whilst Kate Beckinsale is not as enthuisiastic about the action genre as Mila (it did not help she was very ill on the first film I think)

Hurt Locker is a film i just don;t get why people rave about - especially consdering how bad the main characters are.


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While I also forgot the second, I found e third Underworld to be pretty good.

   
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The Underworld discussion is interesting. I honestly really like Evolution, better than the OG to be honest. It might even be my favorite in the series. Rise of the Lycans and Awakening are also really solid. It's just Blood Wars I didn't care for.
   
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The Black Death. Just a tip, if you're going to a village to root out heresy and witchcraft don't eat their food and drink their ale or fratenize. Also if you're goining to make a movie and build up the idea of witchcraft, demons and magic remeber the audience will probably feel cheated when you pull a: "But its science and to the primitive and superstitious medieval people it looks like magic." Because the audience will feel insulted as by this stage there is so much wrong with the movie that they are hanging onto the barest thread of a hope that there will be an exciting ending. Rather than an anti-climax and things that would have been bad if ever they were able to care for any of the characters. Shaun Bean and his entourage of "authentically" dull and frankly filthy medieval(i use the term loosely fqntasy is probably more appropriate) soldier characters fighting a legitimate demon cult with a witchand/or demon would have made enduring the rest of the pile of trash the movie actually worth it. Instead, we see a season 1 game of thrones ending for Shaun Bean. Also the main character is unlikeable and goes through an illogical charcter change.

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Stories of interrogations I've heard, where interrogators didn't torture their subjects but instead cleverly maneuvered them into revealing more than they intended, tricked them into thinking they were in control, or got them to come around and flip by tackling their ideas methodically have all be way more excited than torture stories. Mind games are way more thrilling and excited than a torture scene, especially when the torture scene is turned into some kind of glorified sacrifice where the good guy does a bad thing for the 'right reasons'.


I remember a clever scene (think it was one of the Mission Impossible movies?) where they use faked TV footage to make the prisoner believe his master plan has already succeeded....so of course he brags in detail about how he pulled it off.

"The 75mm gun is firing. The 37mm gun is firing, but is traversed round the wrong way. The Browning is jammed. I am saying "Driver, advance." and the driver, who can't hear me, is reversing. And as I look over the top of the turret and see twelve enemy tanks fifty yards away, someone hands me a cheese sandwich." 
   
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The most disappointing film I’ve seen recently was the Edward Norton Incredible Hulk film. I really like Norton, Tim Roth and Liv Tyler, but that film is the dullest thing I’ve ever seen. The action scenes are flashy but unsatisfying, the dialogue is staid and predictable, and it’s all just a bit crap.

It doesn’t help that my wife and I are watching all the marvel films in chronological order so it gets directly compared to much much better films on either side.

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 Elemental wrote:
 LordofHats wrote:
Stories of interrogations I've heard, where interrogators didn't torture their subjects but instead cleverly maneuvered them into revealing more than they intended, tricked them into thinking they were in control, or got them to come around and flip by tackling their ideas methodically have all be way more excited than torture stories. Mind games are way more thrilling and excited than a torture scene, especially when the torture scene is turned into some kind of glorified sacrifice where the good guy does a bad thing for the 'right reasons'.


I remember a clever scene (think it was one of the Mission Impossible movies?) where they use faked TV footage to make the prisoner believe his master plan has already succeeded....so of course he brags in detail about how he pulled it off.


That was in Mission Impossible: Fallout.

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I’m sure I’ve seen that used elsewhere.

It’s certainly interesting, but not entirely convinced it would work outside of narrative requirement!

   
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Recently? Wonder Woman 1984.
   
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Hands down the Star Wars movies after Return of the Jedi (and if I'm honest, RotJ wasn't very good either)

I saw the original trilogy as a kid, so it holds a bit of a mythical, nostalgia-induced place in my pantheon of God Like Movies. (I recently watched Star Wars New Hope again, and it was fine. Definitely not God Like at all, but perfectly watchable) So in 1999 (was it really that long ago??) when I went to see Phantom Menace I had high hopes and was absolutely stunned at how bad that film was. It was just rotten, by any metric (except perhaps ticket sales!). And what's worse: it killed Star Wars for me. I just couldn't get excited about it at all after that. Never saw any of the subsequent films when they were first released (still haven't gotten around to see Rise of Skywalker, the most recent). But the three that came out around the turn of the millennium were just abysmal. Terrible, terrible films.

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 Shadow Walker wrote:
Recently? Wonder Woman 1984.


I definitely have to say that while I wasn't really looking forward to this and watched it just cause I could, I was shocked at how bad a film it was. Even by the low expectations I have of DCU films, 1984 was bad.

   
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I can’t say I was disappointed with Rise of Skywalker. I was expecting it to be bad, but it was so, sooooo bad that I ended up laughing the whole time. Literally the whole movie, starting with “The Dead Speak!”

   
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I’d say Wonder Woman.

Billed as a turn around in DCEU fortunes and competence? It was distinctly Meh.

It’s another one where I’ve seen it, but it made such little impression I don’t really remember it.

About the only thing I do remember is her (admittedly pretty sweet) charge across No Man’s Land. And even then, it’s because we already knew she’s bulletproof.....but still uses her bracers to turn aside bullets, because reasons.

And as well documented, I find Gal Gadot to be a terrible actress. But, that may be down to me being unused to her accent, and so not a good judge of subtlety of tone.

   
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I’d put her in the dependable but not solid category of actors, alongside Schwarzenegger and Van Damme and the like. That doesn’t sound like high praise, but it puts her head and shoulders above actors who drain the life from their movies, like Jared Leto, later De Niro, later Willis, later Depp, Bonham-Carter, etc..

   
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 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
I can’t say I was disappointed with Rise of Skywalker. I was expecting it to be bad, but it was so, sooooo bad that I ended up laughing the whole time. Literally the whole movie, starting with “The Dead Speak!”

I just got more and more bored with it and tuned it out. I was playing total warhammer or something and just... stopped paying attention to the other screen at all.

My movie-watching is down a lot anyway. They're just not engaging enough to capture my attention and keep me focused on the film.
The good stuff will actually drag me away from whatever else I'm doing and get me to focus on the screen (awkward when I put something on in the background while I paint, and the brush starts drying out). But that's really, really rare with current films.


 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
I’d say Wonder Woman.

Billed as a turn around in DCEU fortunes and competence? It was distinctly Meh.

It’s another one where I’ve seen it, but it made such little impression I don’t really remember it.

It had a decent enough setup, a passable middle, then a fethtastically ugly CGI finish where evil god of evil really is eviling it up and ripping all the nuance out of the story.
Then all the heroism gets sucked out of her because the love interest of a few weeks dies and she's sad and useless for decades without her Man, which _really_ guts the apparent story. The impression it left on me was really bad, but it helped make 1984 less of a disappointment simply because it carried on with the suck the first movie ended on, rather than its more positive beginning.

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Jurassic World. The plot did not make any sense, the characters were unlikeable, and they were obsessed with(and seemed to have doubled down this opinion for the next movie) of using dinosaurs in war(which to my mind is a comically bad idea(unless you're expecting a nuclear holoclast and want to use the dinosaurs*after* humanity is reduced to the stone age)), the big bad genetcially modified and mislabeled dino was just a gigantasurus with a skin condition and camouflage abilities. And AT rocket proof plot armour apparently as it shrugs off a direct hit from what seems to be an AT4. Maybe its quill things are ERA?
*Dino nerd rant*
Indomitus Rex? I was expecting something more than an ugly carcharodontosaur that has been mislabeled as a cross between Tyrannosaurus and Velociraptor. I mean both animals are at very different ends of the therapod spectrum. They're both specialist hunters in their own way, it's like crossing an A10 warthog with an F16. It's going to make an abomination.

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I have really grown tired of the 'bulletproof dinosaur' cliche. Amazingly, one Raptor actually was killed by firearms in JW! I was shocked.
While I sort of like Jurassic World, mostly because the climatic battle is SO GOOD, I agree that the Indominus itself was a disappointing design. Just a generic theropod.

That said, if you think JW was bad, then you probably have not seen Fallen Kingdom...

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 OldMate wrote:
Jurassic World. The plot did not make any sense, the characters were unlikeable, and they were obsessed with(and seemed to have doubled down this opinion for the next movie) of using dinosaurs in war(which to my mind is a comically bad idea(unless you're expecting a nuclear holoclast and want to use the dinosaurs*after* humanity is reduced to the stone age)), the big bad genetcially modified and mislabeled dino was just a gigantasurus with a skin condition and camouflage abilities. And AT rocket proof plot armour apparently as it shrugs off a direct hit from what seems to be an AT4. Maybe its quill things are ERA?
*Dino nerd rant*
Indomitus Rex? I was expecting something more than an ugly carcharodontosaur that has been mislabeled as a cross between Tyrannosaurus and Velociraptor. I mean both animals are at very different ends of the therapod spectrum. They're both specialist hunters in their own way, it's like crossing an A10 warthog with an F16. It's going to make an abomination.


ironically my friend you're righter than you probably know. At one time the air force considered retiring the A-10, rumor has it because some idiot with stars on his shoulders considered it to be 'ugly' and replacing it with an f-16 modified to specialize in ground attack.

My immediate thought, after i recovered from the mild concussion the involuntary epic facepalm had given me, was to try to figure out where to even begin savaging this inane notion. The f-16 and the a-10 are so any attempt to make one do the rule of the other would result in a flying abortion that did nothing well, well except maybe serving as a platform to transfer money from taxpayers into the pockets of defense contractors and their pet generals.

Onto a movie i find disappointing, i'm going to give a blanket call out t any movie that you must watch or read something else to understand.

Maybe i'm outdated today, but when i invest time and money into seeing a movie, i expect a finished product, i except something that is complete. I am not interested in paying for an unfinished product.

When i see a movie that has huge holes in it, i feel i have been cheated, even robbed. I do not want to spend more time and money to read a book or wait to buy a dvd release with extra footage that makes the movie work.

I've been told that stupid generic scifi action film with star trek names and logs plastered on it that Jar jar Abrams released is actually better if you watch the dvd and see the extra footage. As big a pile of plague marine gak that movies was i have no intention whatsoever of seeing a longer version of it.

Likewise people say if you go online and read the background on 'rise of skywalker' it makes more sense. I already paid to see the movie in terms of time and money, why throw more good time after bad?

Movies that require more than in on the screen to understand or make sense are unfished products and i have no desire to see them and be left with a sense what i jsut saw made no sense, had stupid plotholes in it, etc.

So any of them disappoint me.




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