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 ZergSmasher wrote:
I actually thought of another movie I was massively disappointed with. That being the recent remake of Ben-Hur. Some elements of it actually do follow the book a bit better, but overall to me they butchered it. Yes, the classic one with Charlton Heston is a tough act to follow, but they could have tried harder I think.

I can't believe people actually watched that after how terrible the trailers appeared.

 trexmeyer wrote:

 ZergSmasher wrote:
I actually thought of another movie I was massively disappointed with. That being the recent remake of Ben-Hur. Some elements of it actually do follow the book a bit better, but overall to me they butchered it. Yes, the classic one with Charlton Heston is a tough act to follow, but they could have tried harder I think.

I can't believe people actually watched that after how terrible the trailers appeared.

I watched it because I wanted to know exactly how terrible it was (pretty terrible)

Hmm hard to put them in any kind of order. Ive seen so many terrible and dissapointing movies Ive wiped most of them from memory.

1. Whatever the last terminator was.. Both me and my Mrs went to cinema as shes a big fan of the old terminator movies (we remebered watching them as kids and being effin terrified by the morthing liquid metal teminator just being invincible!!)

Then we saw the last one..

2. The second star wars movie int he new trilogy (the one with CGI kerry fisher surviving the void of space "coz jedi powers bruh"). The last was far worse but at least I went in expecting to be fed garbage..

3. Batman vs Superman - This... should have not been made ever.

4. The last 3 transformer films - Enjoyed the first two.

5. The latest Teenage mutant ninja turtle movies.. God... was that aweful..

6. Eragon... I really liked the books

Oh god, I forgot about that awful Eragon movie. Fortunately I never paid to go see it at the cinema (I was irritated that I missed it at the time), but when I got round to watching it at home I switched off halfway through in disgust!

Battlefield Earth. Actually paid to see it in the theater. At least the popcorn was tasty...

 Necros wrote:
Battlefield Earth. Actually paid to see it in the theater. At least the popcorn was tasty...

I'm curious as to how you expected a film adaptation of a nonsensical book written by the founder of scientology, produced by and starring die hard scientologist John Travolta, to be anything but awful?

 A Town Called Malus wrote:

 Necros wrote:
Battlefield Earth. Actually paid to see it in the theater. At least the popcorn was tasty...

I'm curious as to how you expected a film adaptation of a nonsensical book written by the founder of scientology, produced by and starring die hard scientologist John Travolta, to be anything but awful?

Maybe he was lucky enough not to have read the book. Unlike me. A relative, well meaning, bought it for me at a yard sale and I felt obligated to read it.

Oh..my....gork.

If you've never read this you can simply not believe what I could tell you about it. It's like 1930's comic book science plus action movie physics.

Just a few tidbits:

The psyclo aliens were tougher and stronger than humans because they has greater density. They had greater density because they were not made of cells but viruses, and viruses were much smaller than cells so they had a denser structure that humans.

In another part two aircraft are moving at supersonic speeds, and a human jumps from one to another.

It's actually not a bad book! Definitely a lot better than the film (which admittedly wouldn't be hard! Whoever thought a 12ft tall John Travolta was a good idea? )

I really liked the Mission Earth series as well, very entertaining tongue-in-cheek sci-fi about an 'Ambassador' of a galactic empire that comes to earth.

Think he was actually a good writer if you separate out all of the Scientology stuff that came along (which I find in itself a really fascinating insight into sociology and how religion/cult behaviour is created - although think that is probably a discussion for another thread!)

Voss wrote:

Huh. Its been a great long while, but that seems later on. The original stories (in Captain Marvel and then Avengers) seemed pretty hinged on Thanos wooing Death, first with the help of the Cosmic Cube, and then later with the Infinity Gems. But this was in the mid 70s, not the early 90s Thanos Quest/Infinity Gauntlet stories.

Yes he was wooing Death, but the 'kill half the Universe' task which he did with Infinity Gauntlet was specificially given to him by Death.

Hollow Man.

For the most part, it’s pretty entertaining. But my recollection of it is he just goes completely off the deep end hatstand bonkers wibble with only the slightest provocation.

Then there’s the magically disappearing blood in the closing scenes of the movie. Smarty pants scientist does a genuine clever, flinging blood around, hoping to give him a good covering (arguably turning Bacon to Black Pudding). This works, and he can now be seen.

Yet......not long after, he’s managed to clean it off entirely, despite blood being quite tricky to wash off? Especially out of hair.

Though perhaps this me nitpicking at a movie, rather than finding the overall thing disappointing.

Recently: The Gentlemen.

After listening to Matthew McConaughey narrating the story for about 30 minutes I stopped watching. Can't remember another movie I actually turned off.

Perhaps most disappointed I have ever been in a movie was Congo. I loved the book, it is one of the best Crichton novels, and some of the previous filmatizations of his work had been good (Jurassic Park, Andromeda Strain). So I was highly excited. And it was just AWFUL. Truly, incredibly bad with no redeeming features anywhere. It had none of the tension and mystery of the book, it was just straight-up monster story and very badly made one.

Lets be honest Marvel/DC reboots/restarts/reimagines their heroes quite regularly (heck spider man has 4 different film timelines now at least? - Hulk got two almost back to back and is on a 3rd?). So the stories shift and change and yet remain the same all the time.

kind of cliche but batman v superman: dawn of justice was genuinely the first time I looked around in a movie theatre and said "I'm not having fun here today. this is bad" normally even bad movies I enjoy during the film and then dissect and form an opinion on later.

 Overread wrote:
Hulk got two almost back to back and is on a 3rd?). .

The first Hulk movie (with Eric Bana) pre-dates the MCU. The reboot 5 years later with Edward Norton was to pull out into the MCU. There's no third... Ruffalo is supposed to be the same Hulk, he just took over for Norton.

Backfire wrote:Perhaps most disappointed I have ever been in a movie was Congo. I loved the book, it is one of the best Crichton novels, and some of the previous filmatizations of his work had been good (Jurassic Park, Andromeda Strain). So I was highly excited. And it was just AWFUL. Truly, incredibly bad with no redeeming features anywhere. It had none of the tension and mystery of the book, it was just straight-up monster story and very badly made one.

Yep - suicide apes jumping into lava and laser beams, pretty awful. I agree I enjoyed the book too, and Congo fails especially if you consider the films that have come out of Crichton's other work (Jurassic Park, The Andromeda Strain etc.)

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:Hollow Man.

For the most part, it’s pretty entertaining. But my recollection of it is he just goes completely off the deep end hatstand bonkers wibble with only the slightest provocation.

Then there’s the magically disappearing blood in the closing scenes of the movie. Smarty pants scientist does a genuine clever, flinging blood around, hoping to give him a good covering (arguably turning Bacon to Black Pudding). This works, and he can now be seen.

Yet......not long after, he’s managed to clean it off entirely, despite blood being quite tricky to wash off? Especially out of hair.

Though perhaps this me nitpicking at a movie, rather than finding the overall thing disappointing.

I thought it was disappointing too. I remember there was an awful amount of hype about it before it was released, and then it just failed to fit together very well.

Should have used Kevin Bacon better (who I think could have pulled off the creepy role well, back before he was advertising phone networks) - can't really remember particulars about it, other than I remember coming away from it feeling particularly non-plussed.

 Pacific wrote:
Should have used Kevin Bacon better (who I think could have pulled off the creepy role well, back before he was advertising phone networks)

Oh, he can absolutely do creepy. Go watch Stir of Echoes, you won't regret it.

The Last Jedi. I actually really liked the prequels and was determined to be open minded about the sequels. I liked TFA, but on the assumption we'd see a lot more of Leia and Luke in episodes 8 and 9. Well, it all went wrong in The Last Jedi (for me)

 Overread wrote:
See that makes more sense - sacrificing uncountable numbers of trillions upon trillions upon more trillions of life to DEATH in order to woe her to his arms.

Far more sane than such a vast death toll exacted to stave off resource shortfalls. Heck if you've got the power of creation just, I dunno, hobble the capacity for races to reproduce; advance them to an energy state of life; create more universe space and resources. I mean its supposed to show how he's insane, but it sort of comes off a bit odd when you consider how old, experienced and how wide travelled he is in the galaxy by the time he gets the powers he got.

That said my honest problem with the whole franchise is how it fragments into needing to watch so many other "adventure start" films to get to a point where you can watch the end films. Even then its still a mash-up.

It sounds to me like he became obsessed with his solution when was young, and in his obsession he never reconsidered it as he gained experience. Thus, his insanity. Insanity is not rational. You can offer all the evidence in the universe that he's wrong, and his obsession and insanity will not - cannot admit it.

Newest Star Wars that came out. Destroyed the entire series for me and I probably won't watch anything outside of 1-6 and Rogue One for years to come

That was the last bad movie I saw

Currently watching The Equalizer 2. And it’s kinda disappointing.

See, I love the TV Show, despite almost certainly being too young to see it when I was a nipper.

McCall is a vigilante, and the TV shows played out like a darker A-Team, where he hired out his skills to the underdog.

The first movie seemed to be teasing him coming out of retirement, like a sort of prequel to the events of the series (albeit in a different continuity).

The sequel? Nah. It’s just another fairly, if not slightly above average Revenge Thriller.

Don’t get me wrong. I’ve seen far, far worse offerings. And this is nothing else if not visceral.

But I wanted to see McCall doing his thing of helping people. Hence my disappointment.

I was only mildly disappointed at Rise of Skywalker. I didn't have high expectations as I had totally lost faith in JJA.

I had also forgotten about Eragon. That movie was so bad. Like direct to VHS DnD movie bad. Like Any of the straight to video Disney sequel bads.

Another awful thing was that Arrested Development series that went straight to Netflix- and could only film with one or two of the cast at a time. I was so excited for the series to be continued.... and it was awful.I'm pretty sure there's been another one put out, but I couldn't bring myself to watch it.

Backfire wrote:
I was only mildly disappointed at Rise of Skywalker. I didn't have high expectations as I had totally lost faith in JJA.

That's how I felt about it. I still think TLJ was worse than TROS, although both were pretty bad.

After TLJ I haven't bothered with anything else DisneyWars. Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.

I have no intention of being shamed by DisneyWars. I learned my lesson the first time.

 Vulcan wrote:
After TLJ I haven't bothered with anything else DisneyWars. Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.

I have no intention of being shamed by DisneyWars. I learned my lesson the first time.

S1 of The Mandalorian was good. I don't know how it will tie into the Disneyverse at this point, but I think it will continue to work at least as a Samurai/Western homage.

Backfire wrote:
I was only mildly disappointed at Rise of Skywalker. I didn't have high expectations as I had totally lost faith in JJA.

Same. Bringing the emperor back was utterly bizarre and didn't work at all, but I went into the cinema knowing that was what was happening. Given TLJ and Palps returning with no explanation, the film was okay. Just okay. The damage had already been done

I still think they could have made a good, even great, trilogy after TFA. The Last Jedi buried that possibility.

I still don’t know how anyone could watch the assembly of studio notes and kewl scenes that is TFA and come away anything but disappointed.

I was about as disappointed at TFA as I was to TRoS. This is not to say they are equally good movies, but I had higher expectations going into TFA. "A Star Wars directed by competent people! This is it finally!" And while the movie wasn't bad, I walked out quite shocked just at how much it was a remake of New Hope. Couldn't they come up with anything new? And what's with the bad guy, he seems so generic and boring. What is their master plan to this?

And of course, it turned out, they didn't have one.

Backfire wrote:
I was about as disappointed at TFA as I was to TRoS. This is not to say they are equally good movies, but I had higher expectations going into TFA. "A Star Wars directed by competent people! This is it finally!" And while the movie wasn't bad, I walked out quite shocked just at how much it was a remake of New Hope. Couldn't they come up with anything new? And what's with the bad guy, he seems so generic and boring. What is their master plan to this?
And of course, it turned out, they didn't have one.

So much this. I enjoyed TFA, but did think to myself they played it a little safe. So I was genuinely really pleased with TLJ when they actually introduced new force powers, gave us an unexpected villain kill and replacement, and made Luke believably jaded from age and experience, and not just "cookie cutter good guy who hasn't changed at all in 40 years". Honestly, I really don't understand the TLJ hate - it was perfectly in the spirit of the original trilogy, which you'll notice introduced new ideas about the Force with every film.

But noooo, of course Disney had to backtrack because of the ravening hordes, and wound up allowing the continuation of what looks like a gak-flinging match between Rian and JJ, culminating in TRoS being an absolute pile that a 6 year old could have written.