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What's the most disappointing movie you ever saw? One you really wanted to be good but just wasn't.

I have to go with the rocky horror picture show thing they did on tv a few years back. It just wasn't anything really. It wasn't a remake, it wasn't a tribute, it wasn't a redoing of the stage play, it was just some sort of something like the RHPS but no one making it seemed to know what it was supposed to be. It was basically just trying to be various things at different times and succeeded at none of them.

Second place: JJA's generic scifi action movies with star trek titles and names plastered onto them.

Runners up. The american godzilla with matt broderick. The two later american godzilla movies. Gunhed, a japanese live action manga adaptation I really wanted to be good but was again just a meandering mess with too many things just not making any sense at all. Green lantern, a pure paint by numbers SHM that could have been written by an algorithm.

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Tenet; I was so looking forward to another cool, slick sci-fi thriller like Inception, but the plot exposition was poor and marred by the worst sound editing I have ever experienced. I was literally sat there wishing I could turn the subtitles on!

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 Jadenim wrote:
Tenet; I was so looking forward to another cool, slick sci-fi thriller like Inception, but the plot exposition was poor and marred by the worst sound editing I have ever experienced. I was literally sat there wishing I could turn the subtitles on!


I assume you saw this at the cinema? I'd consider watching a Blu-ray/DVD release later, unless the plot was that poor.
I've found cinemas to be somewhat lacking in accommodating unusual sound design choices, and some of Nolan's previous films are good examples (Batman Begins springs to mind).

For me it would be Adam Sandler's "Going Overboard". Now, bearing in mind this was during a time when I was young enough to find most of his films still funny... it was one of his first films (if not his very first) and it shows, badly. Clearly it was dragged out of the archives and given a re-release after he became famous.
It's the only film I've ever stopped partway through and never finished watching... I managed about 15 minutes.

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 Matt Swain wrote:

Second place: JJA's generic scifi action movies with star trek titles and names plastered onto them.



I can second that. I wasn't happy with the general rumours of it being an "alternate timeline", but seeing how they butchered almost every character except Spock and then managed to butcher him too by the end, was painful. Bones was relegated to a plot device character; Kirk was the comic relief until the last 5 mins of the film where somehow the entire crew decided he should be captain; and Spock was pretty much the leader Kirk should have been until the end where he abandoned logic so that Kirk could win the last 5 mins heroically.

It felt rushed and the characters weren't right. Considering the whole "alternate time line" didn't kick in till the end any way it was odd.


Also as cool as it was I'm still confused why we saw them building a starship on the ground.




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Both Matrix sequels, totally unneeded and not half as clever as it likes to think

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It's more to do with the circumstances than the film itself, but probably Quantum Of Solace.

See, that was the first date night my wife and I had after having our first son, and it must have been the first time we'd been out to the cinema for a good year.

It really wasn't worth the wait...
   
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 Turnip Jedi wrote:
Both Matrix sequels, totally unneeded and not half as clever as it likes to think



I enjoyed them but I felt that they had two storylines; one that was simple and yet made out to be complex and "beyond human comprehension" and then another storyline that is right there to be seen, but which requires a bit of the ani-matrix to put together and isn't really shown to the audience save through hints. Which is a shame because its a neat storyline that ties together so much of why things happen the way they do

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As I see it the unspoken subplot for the machines is that they are still slaves to humanity through the simple fact that "a machine without purpose is deleted". Remove humanity and the machines have no purpose what so ever. Of course they are very war-like which suggests that when the sun was turned off, the machines likely economised on power and only kept the military focused machines "on". So those machines rose up and took power, however they'd gained a sense of self value. They know once the war was won that they had no purpose - no reason to exist. Thus at least one machine (the leader) devised a means by which humanity could be kept alive; kept at a threat and made use of all in one go. Giving machine purpose; giving the military machines purpose. I suspect the early failures of the Matrix were sabotages designed to keep humans as a threat; until the Oracle machine devised a less destructive means by which machines could co-exist in a state of cold-war; releasing humans until they reach a peak population and then destroying them. Ergo that Neo isn't an accident, but a designed part of the code.

Once Agent Smith breaks free, which the Oracle could see would happen at some stage on its own, he's outside of the system and is following his programming without restriction - to destroy humanity. He's basically operating just as he's programmed without any overriding control to reign him in.

At the same time we can see that multiple machines want to live without purpose. Only a few manage to hide in the Matrix, then we see Saffie - a machine not just escaping purpose but built without purpose. A sign that the machines are going through a massive cultural change for them and a potential release from their imprisonment as salves to humanity. Of course the older system wants to keep things as they are; its not really forward thinking. Oracle again steps in and engineers the situation to essentially break the cold-war status quo and shake things up. Both allowing for machines to potentially experiment with the concept of no purpose existence an allowing for humanity to be released from its prison. In effect Neo engineers a release of two imprisoned races at once

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Scream - I was hoping for a clever and amusing film - got a dumb slasher flick that gorified in torturing the female cast and pretending it was "clever" - Saw at the cinema and wish I had walked out but on that occassion I was not driving.

Its just well regarded torture porn

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The Predator.

How the feth did that movie ever get made?


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I think it's a toss up between Blade II (because the first one was awesome, and the second was... Not.) and Green Lantern, which had all the ingredients to be awesome, aside from a decent screenplay

Recent honorable mention goes to Snowpiercer. I hadn't seen it until recently, when I watched the Netflix series and loved it, so went back to check out the movie from curiosity... And it was rubbish.

Also worth mentioning Star Trek IV, which I was hugely disappointed with when I first saw it as a kid, but which is actually one of my favorites of the OT movies now. Something to be said for tastes changing as you get older...

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Ugh, to my shame, I dragged my friends along to Hostel just after high school, fresh off of the glorious Kill Bill series I was ready for anything Quentin Tarantino put out, assuming it would be more dark and bloody vengeance.

Tragically, I did not read closely enough to catch that Hostel was 'presented by' Tarantino, not directed or produced. It was just a stupid, gross mess.


edit - On the other hand, I was hauled along by those same friends to see Million Dollar Baby. My brother and I took one look at the synopsis and decided we were seeing 'Cursed' the Christina Ricci werewolf flick instead. It was awesome!

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The Godfather - I've tried a few times and I can't get past half an hour. It does nothing for me. For once I can't even see what other people see in it. At least I managed to get through the whole of Bladerunner before deciding that it hadn't been worth the effort.

The Birds - I like to have a varied appreciation of the moving picture art form and I like to discover the classics. But we got about twenty minutes into this one and couldn't contain ourselves. We laughed and mocked this awful thing until our sides hurt. I don't know if it counts as a let down or as one of those so-bad-it's-good movies.
   
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 Gitzbitah wrote:
Ugh, to my shame, I dragged my friends along to Hostel just after high school, fresh off of the glorious Kill Bill series I was ready for anything Quentin Tarantino put out, assuming it would be more dark and bloody vengeance.

Tragically, I did not read closely enough to catch that Hostel was 'presented by' Tarantino, not directed or produced. It was just a stupid, gross mess.

Actually, I could possibly put anything by Tarantino into my 'Disappointing' list as well... I keep wanting to like his movies, and I see why people do, but just can't get into them. Kill Bill has been the best, so far, but there's just something about his style that doesn't work for me.


On a completely unrelated note, way back in the (pre-marraige) day, I took a girl to see Practical Magic thinking it was a light and fluffy rom-com. We wound up looking at each other over the closer credits going 'What... the ... hell was that...?'

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Terminator 3. I don't know if it was the delay in between the 2nd and 3rd films, but damn that one was a punch to the gut.
Not because I would say it's an especially poor film (especially in light of some of the stuff that came afterwards) but just because T2 was (still is) one of my all time favourite films and I don't think it was every going to match the hype and majesty of the previous film - something I had seen a bazillion times as a Teenager and my friends and I had worn out VHS tapes because we had watched it so many times. I guess T3 was competing with that nostalgia and something that was genuinely a far better film.

The third was actually bad enough that it damaged the enjoyment and legacy of T2, and I still won't watch it again to this day.

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The Predator.

How the feth did that movie ever get made?


Haha yes that was pretty awful, the worst thing for me was that it was marketed as a straight-up-the-line serious action/sci-fi, and yet anyone outside the cinema would have thought there was a comedy playing.
Honestly think my friends and I laughed our way through the first 30 minutes of the film, which I guess was the intention but seemed like a funny step after Predators, which I think actually came closest to capturing the spirit of the first film and wasn't a bad film at all.

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It's more to do with the circumstances than the film itself, but probably Quantum Of Solace.

See, that was the first date night my wife and I had after having our first son, and it must have been the first time we'd been out to the cinema for a good year.


Agree that film was a poor follow-up to Casino Royale, which had been one of my favourite Bond films of all time.
I had read that the production company (MGM) was in serious trouble financially after a couple of big flops, and a Bond film was needed to basically save the company. It was rushed through production in record time - I definitely think it shows and IMO the worst Bond film with Daniel Craig as Bond.

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 Lance845 wrote:
The Predator.

How the feth did that movie ever get made?


It can't be "the most disappointing I ever saw", but when I saw the title of this thread, it was the first one that leapt to mind, so glad you posted it.

Actually left the theater angry with that last second gak it took on the audience.

Prometheus also comes to mind, although that was just disappointing.

I thought Dunkirk looked amazing, but it actually kinda sucked. Maybe if I had known a little more about the source material, but I went in knowing nothing.

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 Ouze wrote:
 Lance845 wrote:
The Predator.

How the feth did that movie ever get made?


It can't be "the most disappointing I ever saw", but when I saw the title of this thread, it was the first one that leapt to mind, so glad you posted it.


They recently made a $1200.00 statue of "The Predator Killer". Who the feth is going to buy this reminder of that piece of gak?



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Imagine enshrining the worst part of one of the worst movies of recent times in your home.

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 Ouze wrote:
Imagine enshrining the worst part of one of the worst movies of recent times in your home.


And paying more for it then I spent on my first 2 cars.


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 Ouze wrote:
Imagine enshrining the worst part of one of the worst movies of recent times in your home.


But imagine decorating it with a Santa hat and a feather boa.

It’s like a Sorting Hat of Taste for your houseguests.

   
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The Force Awakens

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 Mr Morden wrote:
Scream - I was hoping for a clever and amusing film - got a dumb slasher flick that gorified in torturing the female cast and pretending it was "clever" - Saw at the cinema and wish I had walked out but on that occassion I was not driving.

Its just well regarded torture porn



I entirely agree. By the time I was old enough to start watching horror movies, Scream had been out for quite a bit, so when I watched it, I assumed it was going to have the same general tone as Cabin in the Woods. Little did I know, it was actually the exact movie which Cabin in the Woods was trying to provide commentary about, and came off as a shameless redo of older slasher flicks while constantly trying to convince the audience that it somehow wasn't. I would normally assume that if you're going to create a movie that's just Halloween and Friday the 13th stapled together, you would probably try to make it better than at least one of those two films, but apparently the director of Scream had other ideas.

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When I got to the movie's big "twist," I almost thought it was a joke. Maybe it made sense at the time, but the idea of the killer's identity being some sort of groundbreaking revelation genuinely baffles me.

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2004’s Alexander.

I think I mentioned it here before, but its pretty impressive that they took one of histories great conquerors and made a movie as exciting as a Trigonometry class.

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 Lance845 wrote:
The Predator.

How the feth did that movie ever get made?


You know, this raises a great issue in tv and movie terms.

Why do so many film makers take a great, successful, fundamental idea and just utterly feth it up beyond all recognition?

The predator is a great example of a bad practice. Earlier movies established the predators were hunters who believed in facing challenges as a means of proving their worthiness. The expanded predator universe did that that too in books and comics. Even in some predator movies it was established the predators had a code of honor they mostly held to.

Then some "brilliant" writer/director has a brain fart he mistakes for a brainstorm and decides to just toss all that established, accepted and successful premise in the trash so he can replace it with particularly foul brain fart of an idea. "Let's make the predators kinda like the borg and they hunt to assimilate DNA into themselves!" Hey, the predators are popular, and the borg are popular, so predator that act like borg ought to be double popular, right?

Now we can have an autistic kid in danger because the predators want his autism to make them a better species!

Yeah, the ideas behind "the predators" were the brain fart version of the campfire scene, with the exception of the fact that the campfire scene was actually funny and entertaining.

I just don't get these people who see a popular, well established idea/setting and instead of building on and expanding it they decide to trash it and toss in their own '"vision". Arrogance? Or just being unable to expand on an existing framework in a good way so you keep the name and replace the framework with your own ideas to steal the success the original idea is associated with?

I guess someof the newer ones just want to "shake things up!" by doing something "totally new!'" in a weird, almost tzeentchian drive to change things just to change them.

Well, hey, I could shake things up and do something totally new by going to a fancy, high class hollywood party and taking a dump in the caviar bowl. It may be something no iones done before and really shake things up, but it's not going to be very popular.

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I’m pretty sure the director of the film The Predator stated he was so frustrated with the studio that he decided to put EVERY studio note into the movie. That’ll show em.

   
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 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
I’m pretty sure the director of the film The Predator stated he was so frustrated with the studio that he decided to put EVERY studio note into the movie. That’ll show em.


Ok,, maybe it wasn't the director's whole fault then. Maybe if he's just used one or two it might have been a better movie.

Speaking of the director, he hired a buddy of his to do a very small bit part in the movie playing a creepy jerk who gets brushed off early in the movie.

It turned out that he has a sex offense in his record from 2009.

The female star didn't want to have her seen on camera with him and his scene was cut.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/06/us/predator-steven-wilder-striegel-sex-offender.html#:~:text=Twentieth%20Century%20Fox%20pulled%20a,Mr.

So, for those of you who hated 'the predator", and there seem to be a few here, there's some trivia for you if you didn't hear about it already.

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Shane Black was all about the genetic hybrid bit. Apparently the changed 3rd act would have included 2 emissary preds who came to earth to help prepare humanity for the genetic hybrid clan. They would have come out of area 51 headed by Edward James Olmos and there would have been more genetic hybrid preds including a Spider-Pred.

It was changed because they shot those scenes during the day and the pred effects looked so bad in day light that they decided to instead just rewrite and reshoot the entire 3rd act.

Yeah... believe it or not, the movie we got could have been worse.


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 Lance845 wrote:
Shane Black was all about the genetic hybrid bit. Apparently the changed 3rd act would have included 2 emissary preds who came to earth to help prepare humanity for the genetic hybrid clan. They would have come out of area 51 headed by Edward James Olmos and there would have been more genetic hybrid preds including a Spider-Pred.

It was changed because they shot those scenes during the day and the pred effects looked so bad in day light that they decided to instead just rewrite and reshoot the entire 3rd act.

Yeah... believe it or not, the movie we got could have been worse.


Man that was awful. Why did they feel a need to make the preds genetic borg? Hell, they clearly used technology to improve their abilities, like their helmets having all those visual modes.

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The bar was set forever with The Last Jedi. I cannot imagine going into a movie with higher expectations only to have them dashed so low I gave up on the franchise forever.

Anything by JJAbrams comes a not terribly close second.

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The Force Awakens was a huge disappointment for me, but not because the film was so mediocre. I was disappointed by how many people couldn’t see that it was mediocre. With all the live that movie received, I felt like was taking crazy pills while wearing They Live sunglasses.

   
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