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Which Movies Have Disappointed You?

posted 7 years ago by R_Kane (15828)
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What movies have disappointed you? I don’t mean movies for which you had no hopes in the first place, and I don’t minor, direct-to-video dreck. I mean big movies that you’d been wanting to see. My list includes

Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows

Batman and Robin

Every Superman movie, except for the first two

Every Spider-man movie, except for the first two

Hulk

Every Pirates Of The Caribbean movie, except for the first one

Transporter 2, and the Transporter reboot

Every Fast And Furious etc., ad nauseum, except for the first one

All three ponderous Hobbit films

Return Of The Jedi

With the significant exception of Wonder Woman, every comic book and Star Wars movie released after the ones I’ve listed above.

[–] Kazak (2187) 7 years ago

A.I.: Artificial Intelligence, growing up as a huge Kubrick enthusiast, I’d been hearing rumblings for decades about what Kubrick had been planning for the project, including footage filmed over many years to depict natural aging, among others. Then the man died and Spielberg put out the hammed up atrocity that he did. Grumble, groan!

[–] R_Kane (15828) 7 years ago

It was terrible. I put this together with Jackie Brown as movies that needed to be edited not with a scalpel, but with a chainsaw. Both needed massive cutting. Mies van der Rohe: “Less is more.”

R_Kane: “Too much content is jerking off.”

[–] Otter (24464) 7 years ago

I've been disappointed by many, many films in my life, but no disappointment has ever been as crushing, demoralizing, and draining as those three godawful "Hobbit" films.

I've been a Tolkien geek forever and adored the "Lord of the Rings" films, and I've never been so let down! "Superman IV" and "Star Trek V" were NOTHING by comparison!

[–] RussellNash (2087) 7 years ago

You and me both, Otter. Those movies had every opportunity to be masterpieces but they failed miserably. I enjoyed a few scenes and artistic choices but overall the movies were such a disappointment. The barrel scene, the dwarf/elven romance, and Smaug chasing the dwarves, ugh, were probably the worst choices (of many).

[–] Otter (24464) 7 years ago

Yeah, I don't think I'll ever forgive Peter Jackson for that mess. Every choice he made was the wrong choice, and the result was a joyless muddle that lasted what, nine hours?

[–] [deleted] 7 years ago

The Thing (2011) = silent fart that had promise.

[–] yawkee24 (629) 7 years ago

man of steel

hide and seek

Chicago

I could name a hundred more

[–] [deleted] 7 years ago

2001: A Space Odyssey

[–] yellow (37) 7 years ago

The Grand Budapest Hotel.