Which movies disappointed you?

I took in movie rent place two dvds of "Tudors", which have been advertized in us magazines like a year ago, like good movie. I was so dissapointed.
nothing actually interesting happens, too much sexual scenes.(even those kinda stupid too) I thought like

Happy Feet and Dreamgirls. Both were wastes of time energy and money. (time and money are pretty obvious, but they cost me a lot of energy in the loathing which followed...)

I can't think of one in the past year that hasn't been disappointing... which would explain my considerably higher usage of ThePirateBay rather than MAXX theatre ticket booth across the road.

woof.

I'd agree with BD, haven't had a goosebumps cinematic experience in the last year that knocked me for six, challenged my cinematic sensibilities or left me feeling like I'd been to the cinema and not witnessed a formula or an elongated soap opera episode with added bouncy sound.

It's easy to be disappointed with most new films these days, especially when trailers currently consist mostly of that voice and all the setpieces/highlights/spoilers you can shake a sweaty fistfull of last years goatporn at. You've essentially seen the film in Hollywood shorthand before you've even seen it.

The remake of Day Of The Dead. Holy Batcolon it's bad. Having said that the remake of Dawn Of The Dead is quite good. Just don't mix your Dawns up with your Days.

I've been dissapointed with latest Pirats of Johny Depp. that was really waist.
I used to watch "Desperate housewives" in US "abc" channel, so when we moved to Germany I've boght 2nd and 3d seasons, the 2nd was ok, but the 3d season-kinda boring, nothing interesting to watch. so, I won't spent money for the next one.
who orders movies in Netflix.com?

I've said it before and I'll say it again, "A History Of Violence" is the worst piece of shit movie that I've seen in years. I had high hopes given its 7.6/10 on IMDB and 81% on Metacritic, yet I've met no real person who actually thinks it's good.

Beowolf. it just didnt bring any awe as it is supposed to bring.. perhaps i should have seen it in Imax!

The I see dead people movie and every M night whatshisname movie, all overrated predictable shit.

Alien vs Predator 2 sooooo owns AHOV on shit movies.I liked AHOV. Impressive and genuinely sexy chic in it who gets naked. Thumbs up.

American Beauty, i just never understood the hype.

Happy feet was really cute and my daughter loved it and as for Dreamgirls - one of my favourite movies ever. Loved it. I've got it on DVD and it makes me cry at the end everytime I watch it!

Having said that, most people think my taste in movies is shit. Two of my favourites are Titanic and Dirty Dancing.

Sunshine.

I am the Legend

Obviously we haven't met. Thought it was fantastic.

Jacobs ladder, 2 hours to find out it was all just in his head.

The hellraiser in space and the 1 after that.

The friday the 13 part blah in space. Almost saved by Jason zipping the 2 hologram girls up in their sleeping bags and beating them with each other. Almost saved...

Freddy vs Jason, this along with Aliens vs Pred proved that you should never mix things and when you do, you are in effect saying 'we cannot run with just the one thing anymore, lets stick them together'.

However with the Alien vs Pred films, it could work if the scripts were good enough.

Judge Dredd, you had years of stories to rip off and you still manage to not only come up with a bad film, you 'actually' (thanks sin :-) manage to take one of the better ones and butcher it, mix up the charactors until it makes no sence.

Alien 3, do not try to remake alien, leave it alone. This is why Aliens worked, it was different.

The German film based in a nuke missle silo. terrorists come in (helped by an insider), they want to nukes but they forget about one man, he cooks food in the kitchen. Sound familiar...

And as much as I would like to add the resident evil films here my brain just switches off while watching. I cannot help liking them even though I think they are quite bad.

Oma Stelzbok!! What blasphemy is this?


See Briggs original AVP script here - it's completely different to Andersons detritus and a bloody good read at the same time.

Kung Pow, Spirit of the Fist. Though a very good idea and pretty original, it just got way weird (gerbil-chucks, kung-fu cow). But whenever my wife starts bitching, I use my favorite line from that movie (in a VERY high pitch) "wee-o-wee-o-wee-o-wee-o-wee". ** By the way, Kung Pow 2 is in the making. I'll buy it just to see which movie he remakes **

The Royal Taunenbaums. Can you say STUPID?

Mullholland Drive (or whatever the hell it's called). BOOOORING

Twin Peaks. ok, it's not a movie. But I did buy it on DVD and ended up mutilating the discs and chunking them the same day.

Pluto Nash. Eddie Murphy's worst movie.

Topic cross-reference: worst movies ever.

Brilliant movie I thought. Especially for it's time.


Naomi Watts is unreal in that movie. Lesbo scene and scene where she's auditioning with some older dood are two examples of best acting scenes in last 20 years.

Not only the worst movies but very disappointing, considering how much I like the books.

Pirates of the Caribbean. All of them. Cannot understand the fuss whatsoever.
Am still trying to find the charm in "Napoleon Dynamite", I keep on starting the DVD but never finish it.

I love A History of Violence although the shooting was a bit silly, but I got past that daft bit.
parnell is quite right - Maria Bello is seriously sexy in the role and that's some of the best screen sex ever.
Yeah I got the DVD.
And Eastern Promises (come on, Viggo fighting naked in a sauna for 5 minutes - what's not to like?).

BUG

Inland Empire

"Pirates of the Caribbean"
"Bewitched"
Hollywood "comedies" where the actors prance around self-consciously trying to be funny and not succeeding.

But the most excruciating one of these I've ever seen is "Patch Adams" with Robin Williams. The guy is so funny when interviewed that it's amazing how he can end up in something so schmalzy and direly unfunny.

Thank you, I thought I was the only person who hated that..

Also, and I'm going to be crucified for this, I cannot understand why Gone with the Wind is considered one of the best movies of all time... its like a racist soap opera with horrendous overacting... But not funny racism like blazing saddles.

Had the misfortune recently of watching "Deathproof", although I usually like Tarantino's work this one built up to one of the most ridiclouis endings I've ever seen, really pissed me off.

V for Vendetta - What was the point?

Second instalment of the Matrix
Shrek, the third

That Batman shite with Schwarzenegger and Thurman.

Bram Stroker's Dracula - Posters everywhere - got to cinema early to make sure we could get tickets - waited 3 hours - rubbish, boring, never ending.

Like the book it has to be seen in the context of its own era. Making it was a tour de force, they were months into shooting before they found their Scarlett (Vivien Leigh). It is an outrageous period piece but the atmosphere is a remarkable success.

The New World. 2.5 hours of crap. I can't believe I wasted the money I spent in watching it.

While I hate Colin Farrell, I found The New World actually quite moving, and beautifully shot. It is a bit slow, though.

As a big fan of Pixar films, I was really disappointed with The Incredibles. But they more than made up for it with Ratatouille.

Yes, I never got into the whole romaticism of the south. Same thing with midnight in the garden of good and evil.. Having relatives in Savannah its amazing how some backwards ass people there view themselves as some sort of aristocracy.. NOLA 'blue bloods' are the same (hate to break it to them, their city is a cesspool not a kingdom)..

I understand the importance for the time, but I just never appreciated the movie. I mean I got citizen cane and understood why it was such a big deal for the time, but not gwtw..

Well any cliffhanger/suspense movie that I already knew the ending to has usually been a disappointment. Some ass told me the ending to The Usual Suspects before I saw it, so that was blown. Having read plenty of Stephen King, The Shawshank Redemption was no surprise and hence no pay off satisfaction. I certainly wouldn't rate it as high as IMDB did.
The Coen Brothers are really hit and miss with me, so I've stopped thinking it'll be great like Fargo or Barton Fink because I end up seeing Raising Arizona or The Man Who Wasn't There and being unhappy.
The first time I saw The English Patient I was disappointed because I had just read the book and felt the movie left out so much. Having seen it since, I'm not as disappointed anymore.
Cold Mountain was a disappointment too, having not read the book recently and finding it a bit jumpy in plot and feeling.

I think any movie I see after reading or hearing lots and lots of hype about how great it is often disappoints, so I usually try and see things I'm really interested in within a few weeks of their release so as not to be overly influenced by the hype.

Oh, my. This was a fantastic movie! And there are so many "points" referenced. It is nothing but alleogircal/topical. The use of fear to control society, when is terrorism terrorism vs freedom fighting, is there a difference? should we make a differentiation or does the act rather than the motive define the deed? Erosion of rights under a government at the expense of security (read Bush)... much much more. If this movie does nothing else, it should make you think, but throw in the great performances by Weaving, Portman and Hurt and some seriously kick-ass action... What a brilliant film.

The visuals were pretty - granted. But then for beautiful visuals, there're quite a few other movies with better story lines. I'm sticking to my evaluation - 2.5 hours of crap!

I love how people think V for Vendetta was some Bush criticism when it was written in the early 80s and really more of a response to the Thatcher administration.

The movie was entertaining but it should have stayed truer to the source material. (What, natalie portman didnt wanna play a hooker?) Then again the source material was a mouthpeice for nonsensical anarchism, so maybe they should have watered it down for the masses...

Well, it was a Terence Malik film, so you knew it was going to be beautifully shot, but I have to agree with the overall movie assessment. Wouldn't go as far as crap, though.

Uh, we're talking about the movie, not the graphic novel (which is fantastic). The movie is defintely intended to be more relevant to today.

My Blueberry Nights. Long, boring, pointless. Why would 5 Oscar/Grammy nominees/winners bother with that shit movie? Terrible.

V for Vendetta is a great film; I'd heard of the comics (sorry, graphic novels) but had never seen any of them but the plot and script dropped you straight into that world.

Sorry I didn't like it (V for Vendetta) - The world would be a boring place if we all liked the same thing!

Amen!

what else?
how Beowulf can be bad movie, if there Angelina Jolie was filming? first my impression on movies, how I rate them, look who is filming in if there some titans of Hollywood, them I guess it must be interesting
2 of soap operas that never dissapointed me "Lost"(watched 1-2-3 seasons) and "24" (1-2-3 seasons) they are the best! lot of action ig going on

1st and 2nd Pirates of the Caribbean were ok,not great by any means
the 3rd Pirates of the Caribbean was very disapointing

when we went to 3d Pirates with 3 y.o daughter I was worried, if it's gonna be too scary for her. my daughter even didn't care, so I thought if tiny child doesn't get scared , what kind of scary movie is that? even those monsters like octopus, looked kinda funny

Agree completely with many of the films listed here. But I thought Deathproof was one of the best films I saw last year (along with Zodiac and The Prestige). Kurt Russell worked brilliantly as a psychopathic stunt-driver, the killings you were expecting were sudden and sparsely placed and therefore wonderfully unpredictable. Hot Tarantino girls and the "twist" ending were also a plus.

Admittedly there were moments towards the end there when I thought "Why doesn't she just STOP!", but the film as a whole left a great impression. Got to get me a stunt car!

Matt T; I agree with everything you said I guess my main problem was with the pace, it started in fairly evenly, got fast paced then slowed again and the ending had such a pace that the film seemed to end right where the story could have taken off again.

Just my opinion. They had me till mid to end way through. Just a pitful way to end it.