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Any movies that you thought you would love--especially after seeing the trailer--and ended up hating instead?

For me there are tooooo many to mention.......But If I gotta give an example--Hulk would be one of the first ones to come to mind!!!!!!!

I went and saw it expecting "HULK SMASH!" and stuff like that.


Instead what I got was an extremely boring two hour origin story that was longer than it needed to really be with only fifteen or twenty minutes near the end of the film for a sub-par battle. People go to these things for the Hero V.S. Villan aspect-most people do anyway-not Hamlet.


What really ticked me off was that we got where the whole "Hulk persona" came from after seeing ten minutes of "the evil father" ---after ten minutes they coulda gone into a real story dealing with "The Hulk" and any number of Super villans--instead they kept up the story of the evil father character for close to two more hours.

Heck even having Hulk go after a group of mobsters or non-supervillian type baddies woulda been fine.

Instead they decided to try and be "Dramatic" and "Artistic" too bad they didn't watch the old TV show from the 70's.......It was quite cheesy at times of course.....but it also had it's "dramatic" and "artistic" moments as well.

The theme song along was dramatic enough to make you feel sorry for the character.

The Matrix: Revolutions   :hatred:

I was one of those people who loved the first and second Matrix movies.  Reloaded upped the ante from the first movie and it had a great cliffhanger ending.  Then, Revolutions happened.

Too much CGI.  Too little story...and what little story they did have didn't make any damned sense.  I tell people who have see the first two and not the third that anything that they could have come up with to end the story is waaaaay better than what the Wachowski brother and sister came up with.

Plus, when the main baddie ends up being a ripoff of the MCP from Tron you know your movie has problems.  And that little Indian girl in the beginning was scary.

Oh yes--what about the Bourne Identity flicks?

Looked cool and exciting--but was boring and overly complicated--I only saw the first one because there are rare times  when the sequel is better.

In the case of the Bourne movies though the second was just as bad as the first. Haven't even seen the third yet.

not sure I want to.


And let's not even mention "Are We There Yet?" looked like a "Home Alone" type of movie with cute likeable kids--ended up hating the kids for being cruel brats and the mother for never taking care of them and the bratty things they did--some folks made excuses for her like "she never knew what they were doing" and such--well what kind of mother is she if she can't put a simple equation of all her boyfriends nearly getting killed and her kids being always close-by? Ice Cube was also a little annoying.

The movie wasn't as similar to  "Home Alone" as the ads led one to believe--closer say to those crappy Problem Child movies with that kid who deserved to die.   

anything with nick cage in it except maybe con air or leaving las vegas

GANGS OF NEW YORK!!!!!

I was fully prepared to love this historical epic, but it was SOOOO long and the essential plotline was so simplistic that it totally failed to pull me in.  Yes, Daniel Day Lewis chewed up the landscape as Butcher Bill, but they could have cut this thing by an hour and still had a very slow paced movie!

I've got to go with The Matrix.  Up until Neo took the pill, it actually was pretty good.  Then it turned into a pile of dried dog turds.  It was one of those movies that managed to do everything wrong.

Gun fights inside a virtual reality?  They'll have laser guns and other neat stuff, right?  Nope, just a regular gunfight but with some guy hopping around pillars in slow motion.

Kung fu fights inside a virtual reality?  They'll be tearing arms and legs and heads off and punching through people, right?  Nope, just a regular kung fu fight but they'll freeze the action at random moments to swirl the camera around the combatants.

In the end, it was just ... an action movie that hardly even made an attempt to take advantage of its nifty premise.  It was really quite amazing the extent to which the Wachowski brothers sqandered the potential of their movie.

Ultraviolet

Aeon Flux

Pirates 3 (not hated, just really disappointed)

Sunshine (see note above)

All of the Spiderman movies.

Starship Troopers 2

I thought Sunshine was amazing.

Probably the most egregious example I can think of is Unbreakable. I loved The Sixth Sense, so I was pretty excited to see Shyamalan's new one. Surprise, surprise, I hated almost every minute of it. People were laughing at the movie, laughing at it. What should have been a taut, suspenseful thriller was a pretentiously, plodding pile of poop. Sorry to alliterate, but I really did not like this movie.

Shyamalan has yet to live up to his original promise, now five or so films later.

I'll throw in the LoTR movies as well.  I was expecting something amazing but they were really just regular "Hollywood" movies: big, expensive, and dumb.  (I didn't hate King Kong, but combined with these three movies, it made me unable to watch ANY Peter Jackson film, even Dead Alive.)

Spider-Man 2 was AWFUL.  Doc Ock isn't some tragic figure who lost his wife and became evil, he's a short, fat, socially inept sociopath seething with impotent rage who suddenly finds himself in command of real, physical power and decides no one is going to stand in his way ever again!  And WTF was with the rehash of Superman 2's plot with Spider-Man losing his powers because he feels they push him away from the woman he loves and then getting them back because he needs them to save her?  And the whole thing with Spider-Man stopping the train ... are we supposed to understand that makes him *gasp* just as powerful as Superman?  See this, Sam Raimi?  That's my middle finger!  (Much like LoTR and King Kong ruined Jackson for me, these movies ruined Sam Raimi.)

Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story- Family Guy movie, more or less a ripoff as it's just 3 episodes thrown together, and not all that 'unrated' either.  Lots of bleeps in the version I saw. 

Punch Drunk Love- Didn't necessarily 'hate' it, but didn't love it either.  Was kinda like, 'What?"

Body Slam- "Rowdy" Roddy Piper stars as a pro wrestler, with Kellie Martin as his daughter and Dirk Benedict as a promoter.  Also stars Charles Nelson Reilly, Tanya Roberts and John Astin.

Mannequin 2: On The Move- We kinda said everything we needed to with the first, didn't we?

These four initially come to mind.

I wouldn't say I ended up hating these films, but was just really disappointed in them.

Alexander
Godzilla (1998)
King Arthur
The Village
Blair Witch 2
Pirates of the Caribbean 3
Hulk
Gangs of New York
Alien 3 (the closest I have come to actually hating a movie)
Alien resurrection
A.I.

Blade Trinity

Matrix Reloaded - way to have a bunch of pointless random action scenes between the dumbest plot scenes in history
Godzilla (1998) - no explanation needed.
Spiderman 3
The Hulk
The Ice Storm
Star Trek X
Star Wars Episode I
Robovampire (my introduction to Godfrey Ho movies)
Batman and Robin
Snakes on a Plane

Resident Evil:  Apocalypse.  I loved the first movie, the characters were uber-cool, the film was very stylish, the soundtrack was awesome, and I loved the way the whole thing was edited together.  Then came the second film, and they made Milla into a freakin' superhero.  She's jumping a Harley through a church window while simultaneously firing two Uzis with pinpoint accuracy - in midair.  That's not cool, that's just stupid.  Then she has a fight with a 500 lb bulletproof monster, and it's edited in such a way that you can't see what's going on.  The ending was just the idiotic icing on the idiotic cake.

Alien Resurrection - good sci-fi is such a rare thing, all the big franchises are aimed at children.  So the Alien franchise was something near and dear to my heart.  And they take it and make a B movie out of it?  With a band of merry space pirates right out of the straight-to-video dumpster?  This was a franchise based on real, believable characters that we cared about, and we get these dopes making weapons out of wheelchairs and Winona Ryder whining and Ripley stopping to shoot a bunch of failed experiments while the whole damned ship is about to blow up?  And a human/alien hybrid that looks kind of sad? 

Anaconda:  Hunt for the Blood Orchid.  The first movie was okay, the trailers for the second looked pretty good and I was fairly excited to see it.  It was so cliched, so utterly unimaginative, so completely mind numbingly been-there-done-that a thousand times before, that it actually made me angry.  I hated the good characters and didn't give a damn about the bad ones, the comic relief idiot should have been bludgeoned to death, and the snakes...was this movie even about snakes?  It was about a guy who was greedy who wanted to put everyone else in danger.  And I wanted them all to die, so I wasn't very motivated to disagree with him.

I was excited as heck to see the new Transformers movie.  I was looking forward to a silly and fun movie, but it was annoying garbage.

Atlantis: The Lost Empire was a big letdown.  The previews looked awesome, but it was mostly a bore.

Armageddon (Figured it would be fun at least but aside from its special effects, there's really nothing to it...the characters seem to matter very little).

Natural Born Killers (just a repetitive mess of a film, like an insane music video constantly replayed over and over ad nauseum to the point I honestly fell asleep and was only awakened because the film was so noisy).

Interview With the Vampire (takes away the vampires' bite in so many ways and is dull as dishwater a lot of its running time. Fell asleep watching this too. Do actually own it on videotape. Actually does have its moments but it's very slow slugging. Could have used some tighter editing IMO).

Accident (I've seen this get rave reviews but I don't see what's so special about it and its characters seem totally unappealing to me).

I actually liked all of the Spider-Man movies---the only thing that I really hated was the Green Goblin---who looked like a Power Rangers ripoff, and New Goblin who looked like-well nothing much at all.


I really hope the rumored Spidey 4 is good--even with new writers and directors--no Raimi? I dunno, if it will be as good now, but I'll give it a shot.

Let us not forget the X-Men movies--they were fair and that's about it--some of the actors were dead-on perfect for their roles--such as the casting they got for Wolverine, Prof. X, Magneto etc.

And then there were the cruddy ones like---well to tell you the truth the only crappy casting in the X-men flicks was Hallie Berrie--but she ruined all three films.....and she sucked as Catwoman too--then again she sucks in all of her roles......

I didn't hate Sunshine, and if I watched it again I'd probably see the brilliance that I missed before.  I made the mistake of going in with a preconceived idea about it.  I thought it would be like Even Horizon (which I loved).  So I think I let myself down more than anything.

And I liked Unbreakable.  It was an original idea amongst all the drek at the time.  I also liked Sixth Sense, but I thought Signs was a little lame.  I mean, lifeforms that are afraid of water? Why'd they come to a planet that is 80% covered in water?  Doesn't all life spring from the fact that water is present?  And aliens that can't use door knobs?  How the hell did they build space ships then? 

I haven't seen Lady In The Water or The Village, but I sussed out what The Village was all about before it was shown.  LITW I'm not interested in unless someone can tell me what happens before I see it   :teddyr:

With Shyamalan, his schtick is a shocking twist, so there's no real surprise in his movies, you just have to imagine an ending that is 180 degrees from the movie and you've got your ending.

There's a Blair Witch 2???   :buggedout:  I don't even know what happened in the first one.

I agree with you about Alien 3, although I didn't go the hate route.  I thought it was the weakest of the franchise.  Then I bought the uncut director's version and it was so much better.  It made heaps more sense and engaged me a lot more.  So now I actually like this movie, even though I think it's the weakest of the 4.

Yeah, they made a Blair Witch 2.  And Urban Legend 2 and 3.  And I believe they just came out with a third I Know What You Did Last Summer.

I loved the first I Know What You Did and the second one I thought was a little lame but not completely sucky.

Haven't seen Urban Legend yet, but it's in the queue.

Continuing with the actual thread.....

I thought the sequels to the Scary Movie franchise would be funny, but the first one is the best.  I absolutely loved it and it was funny as hell.  But the others left me cold, although there are a few funny moments.  But not enough for me to say I like them.

I'm shuddering at Scary Movie 5.  How much more blood can they wring out of this stone anyway?

I also thought I'd love Hollow Man 2, having loved the first one.  But I got about 20 mins in and I turned it off.

In the past few years...many of these already mentioned...

Transformers
Pirates 3
Superman Returns
Spiderman 2
The Fantastic Four movies
Anything directed by M Knight Shamalamadingdong (as I call him)...ever...
Blade Trinity
Hulk
Matrix sequels

big one here ...The Star Wars Prequels... :thumbdown: :thumbdown: :thumbdown:
I recall running out the night the toys went on sale and buying up a bunch of the figures.  Oh how I anticipated the big release and I recall going to one of the first afternoon showing the day of because I couldn't wait.  I smiled for the first 10 minutes thinking that things will get better.  They never did after 2 more prequels.  :hatred:

You know what's funny? I couldn't stand the first two, but I adored the third one. I liked the fourth one a little, but it doesn't compare to the third. That's just me. :P

I own the first 2 Scary Movies on dvd and think they're hilarious.  Scary Movie 3 was okay enough, but I wouldn't clunk down the money for dvd.  I haven't even attempted to watch 4. 

thats a little extreme dont you think? his old "trilogy" is nothing like his newer films, they have something special about them not to mention over the top antics that wouldnt be suitable for any theatrical release. basically they are alot of fun and you know it  :tongueout:.



im with Happy, watch the directors cut its a hell of alot better film. i have the quadrilogy 9 disc set, idk if Alien 3 is even more uncut on this particular set but it is the one i watched and like i said, it rocked.

Death Proof, The Fountain, Bug and Zodiac.

I don't really hate them but wow, was I ever underwhelmed.

The Fountain was a huge letdown for me as well.  I think it's OK, but the trailer gave me chills and I was excited about seeing it.  But once it was over it left an empty feeling.  It just wasn't emotionally engaging for me.

I feel the same way. I was hoping for something more.

Alien 3
Escape From LA
Goke, Bodysnatcher from Hell
Halloween 4-6
Pitch Black
War of the Worlds (every version except for the George Pal one from the 1950's)

I didn't see the first 3, but I'm with you about Zodiac.  Talk about a snooze fest.....

Really?  I thought Zodiac was gripping.  It was a good-to-great police thriller.  It was a bit long but I enjoyed it.  It each his or her own.  Anthony Edwards did a great job.  I liked his dry humor in the first 2/3rds of the movie.

I liked The Fountain but I usually like those kind of weird arty movies...sometimes.

I don't like those movies, haven't even seen the last one, but it of course sounded the most interesting.   :thumbup: for you, but STAR WARS PREQUELS get  :thumbdown: 
TITANIC Okay, I don't hate this 'cuz it makes me laugh...!!!  :bouncegiggle:
MARS ATTACKS I lost the respect of a good friend because of the wretched parts of this film (some of which is damned funny).
LOTR RETURN OF THE KING They had to give the most tiresome of the three best picture?  :lookingup::thumbdown:
Speilberg's WAR OF THE WORLDS  :thumbdown: 
HALLOWEEN III "...the hills ran red with the blood of animals and children...?"   :lookingup: WTF?  Where's Michael Myers?

Mars Attacks owns.  I love that movie myself.  I don't know why people hate it.

Definitely a misunderstood flick.  Very tongue in cheek and an all-star cast.  I think what turned people off was the voice of the Martians.  I still don't like it...I mean, I get it.  Their language is supposed to sound crappy to our ears but it was a little much.

"Do not run.  We are your friends".   :bouncegiggle:

All I can do is pray for the souls of those who didn't like The Lord of the Rings . . . . because you are all so lost.  :bluesad:

Word!

It's become chic to bash LotR nowadays.  I remember the halcyon days when everybody was excited about them.  Now it more like "OMG, Frodo and Sam are gay" and "RofK sucked".  Whatever.  I'll continue to enjoy them.

Hey, I'm not "chic" with my film watching, I just didn't like the last LOTR... for that matter, I was kind of bored by the second one, too.  I loved the first one, so I thought I would love the others...

And I suggested to a friend we see MARS ATTACKS when it was still in the theatres.  I found MARS ATTACKS funny..., but, also in parts, revolting, silly, boring... I thought I would love it, but my friend so hated it, I haven't given it another shot.

I'm not bashing but I've noticed that a lot lately around teh interweb.  I enjoyed all three...but FotR is my favorite.

I guess you gotta add me to that list of people to pray for.  I tried watching the first and thought it was boring.  Maybe lasted 15 minutes.  Sorry. :question:

It's a great flick.  A favorite of mine.  But what do I know about good movies.  I hated The Matrix, and apparently that's a crime or something.

Yeah it's a crime, how could anyone hate The Matrix? I understand the sequels. I didn't mind Reloaded, even if everyone else did. I understand what people were talking about Revolutions though, that one sucked.

Man, I LOVE the Lord of The Rings trilogy!  I have the special edition boxed set with hours and hours of extra features.  I could spend a whole weekend just watching the features and be happy.

I think Peter Jackson did a superb job.

Too bad he was too busy dealing with the hernia he gave himself from patting himself on the back to make King Kong any good.

Right on and karma for you *lol*

I liked King Kong, but it wasn't as good as I expected.  I think after LOTR, he had a huge rep to live up to.  There are some bits I like better than others, like when they're searching for Naomi Watts - all the jungle bits.  But I just couldn't really get into it like I expected.

Maybe there's something wrong with ME . . . I loved King Kong, especially the Skull Island scenes!

Don't get me wrong.  I wanted to like King Kong.  The reviews were split about 50-50 and I went in with an open mind.

Some things I liked:  It was set in the 30's, the CGI was some of the best I've seen in a movie and the T-Rex fight

My biggest gripes:  It was too long (three hours to tell the King Kong story?  The original is half that length), Jack Black gets on my nerves, the dino chase scene and the bug pit (too fake looking and the movie really lost me with the kid, who had never fired a gun before, picking off a bunch of bugs that are crawling all over Adrian Brody with a machine gun), sub plots that don't add anything to the story and Kong's death scene (King Lear had a shorter death scene than the big ape).

If you're going to do a special effects driven movie, keep the pace brisk because after your audience gets past "Wow!", they invariably move on to "Seen it...".

Sorry LOtR fans, I'm with All Hallows on this one.  I thought the film had too many slow motion shots.  I just wished Frodo would have tossed the rings and got it over with by the end. 

There is no arguing the films are superbly made.  For some reason I just can't watch the LOtR trilogy with the interest I once had in it.  Perhaps I should put away for a few years.

She's Having A Baby - I thought and was mislead to believe by the trailer, that this movie was going to be about a married couple going through the ups and downs of pregnancy. Instead, I was treated to some of the worst two hours of my life! That lady was just so evil and selfish, and she made her husband go through some humiliating crap just so she could pop out a kid! He didn't even want a baby, and she couldn't get a clue! :hatred:

I would've liked it better if it had been somewhat like Notes From The Under Belly. It would've been funnier.

The Golden Seal - I thought this was going to be an enjoyable family movie, but the creep for a dad, the depressing storyline, (like the puppies and dog dying) and the crappy ending all ruined it for me. I now avoid this movie like the plague!

Ghostbusters II - Boy, this burns me to no end about this sequel. I have so many issues with this sequel. I thought this was going to be as good as the first, and was excited when I saw the trailer. But I was wrong. Instead I'm treated to a bunch of pink slime all over New York, an evil painting, a crappy storyline about the Ghostbusters fallen on hard times, boredom, and an ugly Janine. Even the ghosts were weak in the movie. They really didn't try. They had such a variety of demons and ghosts in the first, which is the reason I love the first so much.

They should have based the sequel on the early seasons of The Real Ghostbusters. I would've liked to have seen the demons and ghosts (like the Boogey Man), brought to life. I also liked the dark tone and the storylines in the series. I would've liked to have some moments that make me jump out of my seat. I also hated that Dana and Peter didn't stay together. I thought they had such chemistry in the first. So why bust them up? And Janine, what the hell did they do to her? She looks so ugly and geeky! Why fix something if it isn't broke? There is so much they could've done if that had played around with more ideas.

God forbid if they ever make a third sequel, and its either about the Ghostbusters' kids or Ghostbusters Extreme. :buggedout:

I'll post more later if I think of anymore.

Personally, I never liked them.  The first one was okay but I was left with the feeling of, "That's it?"  Two Towers was almost unbearably boring.  As long as Frodo wasn't around (I've always hated Frodo, even in the Bakshi and Rankin Bass cartoons), ROTK was at least not boring me.

However, around the time Frodo was hiding behind a rock while Sauron was looking right at him AND STILL COULDN'T DETECT THE RING I just gave up.  So, let me get this straight.  Sauron, the unstoppable force of evil (who was once defeated by a guy on his back, striking blindly with a broken sword) can't find his precious little piece of jewelry (which he is apparently helpless without) even when it's in his land and he's practically staring right at it, just because Frodo was hiding behind a rock?  What a $#! loser!

That was bad enough, but then later when Frodo collapsed on the way up Mount Doom and Sam picked him up and started hugging him and talking about the Shire instead of carrying him, well, that was the closest I've come to walking out on a movie  ... until began the almost endless series of endings.  When Viggo Mortensen starting singing, I was actually getting up but I decided to just keep watching out of some morbid desire to see how bad it could possibly get.  I needed a drink after it was over.

.......

Back on topic, another movie I was excited about but ended up not liking was the first Blade.  The vampire massacre at the beginning was great.  Then not a thing happened for the rest of the movie.  I saw it with my parents and we all three fell asleep.

FWIW, I feel asleep during all three of the LotR movies.  I cannot say that they disappointed me or that I hated them, because all I remember is bits and pieces.

Three words, Blair Witch Project.   :thumbdown:

28 Days Later

This one looked great but I walked out of the theater wanting my money back.

The Muppets Wizard of Oz- I wouldn't say 'hated', but was underwhelmed by it.  I should have just weilded caution when I found out Queen Latifah (who I don't like), was Auntie Em.  It had a few parts I liked, but overall, didn't do it for me.  I would've guessed that Rowlf woud've been Toto, but no.  Toto was Pepe the King Prawn (who I love), so that got a thumbs up.  Plus I liked the Quentin Tarantino cameo.

But overall, it wasn't as great as I felt it could've been, even though it was a tv-movie.  If this is the best Disney has to offer with the Muppets, it's a shame.

I was really looking forward to the first sequel to Nightmare on Elm Street and was so disappointed in the mess that it was.

Torgo, I have to disagreed with you about 28 Days Later it was a good film except for the stupid second one.  DeepBlue I agreed with Ghostbusters 2 they should let Peter and Dana stay together insead of her having a baby with that creepy guy she was talking in the first one. It made me sick they put Janine and Louis together she had the hots for Egon he had the hots for her what happen did I miss something?

Also Blade, Spider-Man, Xmen, and The Hulk should been made like the comic books which they came from that also goes to The Fantasic Four, and Iron Man. I didn't really want to see The Transformers but one of my best friends wanted me to see it also it was in a $1.50 theater. I really was a crappy movie they only good thing about the movie was Anthony Anderson and the two hot girls in it. They lied to us saying people who grew up with The Tranformers in the 80's will like it no we didn't.

When I saw the thread title, I immedately thought of "Brazil." I'd heard so much about this movie over the years, how it was like "1984" meets "Monty Python," how could you lose with that combination? Very easily, actually. The film sums up everything that's wrong about Terry Gilliam. Self-indulgent, incoherent, convoluted, annoyingly jumps between logic and dream-logic without warning leaving its audience sputtering... Maybe I need to rewatch it with altered expectactions but as it stands now, Damn, "Brazil" kinda' sucked. Pretty set design, though.

I think pretty much everybody agrees about "Hulk." I know, I know, how dare we chastise Ang Lee for actually being artistic and wanting to completely subvert the superhero/summer blockbuster forumlas, right? But if this isn't one of the biggest bait-and-switches in movie history. Here we are expecting ninety mintues of "Hulk SMASH!" and instead we got two hours of "Hulk BROOD!" I mean, that's just not fair, Hollywood. Bad form. Luckily, the new Hulk movie, starring Edward Norton, in the works promises to actually be an action film instead of an arthouse drama.

"Closer" and "Elephant" are two examples of critically beloved dramas that I ended up aboslutly despising. "Closer" is filled with some of the most repungent characters I've ever seen literally and figuratively screwing each other over for two hours and we didn't even get to see Natalie Portman naked for our troubles. "Elephant" eschews things like, you know, characters with depth or an actually interesting, well-paced, driving storyline in favor of cliches, a hollow and obvious message, and artsy shots of the sky.

"Alien: Resurection" is probably the best example of this. You know, I was excited. Hey, its a new Alien movie with an excellant cast (Sigonory's back, Wynona Ryder, Ron Perlman, Brad Dourif, Michael Wincott!) an awesome French director, and a cool screenwriter! How did this end up sucking so rightously? I mean, it violently stomps its fan's expectations into the ground and makes every wrong decision it possibly can. I wish I could say the first "AVP" was a similar experience but I think most people knew that would be bad. Luckily, the second was pretty decent and at least delivered on some badass monster-on-monster action if nothing else.

Some others:

- "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen." Awful adaptation of my favorite comic book series of all time. I at least hoped it would be good.

- "Legend of Zorro." The first flick was such a fun popcorn muncher. The second one was a two and a half hour long family movie. What the hell?

- The Tenacious D movie looked like an awesome dude comedy but crossed over into the terriotory of really dumb, unfuny, boring dude comedy instead.

- "Art School Confidental" could have been another "Ghost World" but was just so painfully self-involved and angsty.

- "Hostel" Eli Roth seemed so cool but it turns out he's just a sex-obsessed ten year old boy trying to gross people out without entertaining them first.

- "Lost in Translation" Hey, I love slow paced character driven indie dramas as much as the next guy but, seriously? Did anything happen in this movie? At all?

- "THX 1138" Another example of a director placing his grand, deep artistic statment over things like pacing or characters we actually give a crap about.

- "Van Helsing" and Spielberg's "War of the Worlds" Well, you know, I liked "The Mummy" movies and this one was such a neat idea but it turns out Stephen Sommers is kind of a bonehead and doesn't actually know how to do things well. Spielberg doing "War of the Worlds" sounds like a dream project but it turns the story was completely against his strength as a director and it sucked.

- "30 Days of Night" Damn you, shaky-cam! You ruined another potentially awesome horror movie! Curses!

- "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" and "Skidoo" Ya' know, I had hoped that these would be spectactularly awful bad movies, pen-ultimate examples of studeo hubris and the combination of ideas that anybody in their right minds would realize could be nothing but fiascos. But I was wrong. They were just bad. Painfully so.

I'm not the grammar police or anything but using the word penultimate wrong is one of my pet-peeves.  Penultimate means "second to last".  i.e.- The football team scored on its penultimate drive giving them the lead  Or Full Metal Jacket is Stanley Kubrick's penultimate movie.

Now, if only I could get people to use "matriculate" properly...

sunshine

looked fantastic :thumbup:

to quote Armageddon though, "i wouldn't trust those retards with a potato gun", theres no way any space agency would send them up without thorough mental evaluation.
obsessive compulsive psych officer! what did the girl do again?!?! a mission to the sun with no back up computer located in a different part of the ship, a crispy psycho who's survived 7 years without disturbing any dust!! the 'kenny' suit! (why?! it can't go in the sun anyway, why not use a normal suit that you can actually work in and see out of?) too much bull for only 50 years in the future (i will always forgive artificial gravity from a logistical perspective though :teddyr:)

was led to believe it was something like '2001', but it turned into a bad cross of that and 'event horizon'(which i also like)

really did look good though :thumbup:

and lo all, noob member

Once Bitten, a vampire movie with Jim Carrey, sounds fun.  I only saw a few bits from when I was a kid, and those looked good while independent, but the whole movie put together was TERRIBLE!!!  :hatred:

Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind

I really like Jim Carrey.  The big teeth, the rubber face, the crazy antics.  And I don't mind him in serious roles either.  I saw Truman Show and thought it was okay.  But this one was bizarre.  Too many flashbacks and it was very disjointed.  I didn't like Kate Winslet's character either.  I just wanted to slap her.

When the movie was finally over, I understood it.  But when I watched it again the second time straight after, I still didn't like it.  Jim Carrey did good in the straight role, but the story itself was done very ham fistedly.  And as usual, Elijah Wood just creeped me out.

Elijah's creepy in everything.  Don't know what chicks see in him. 

I don't know either, HappyGilmore.  I've never found him attractive.  And with those huge blue eyes of his, he reminds me of a praying mantis.  I could absolutely believe that he'd be psycho killer material like his character in Sin City.

Elijah's a big part of the reason I avoided Lord of the Rings, outside of the fact I just had little interest in it.  Dude's creepy.  Only 'good' movies of his I can say I liked were Back To The Future 2 and Forever Young.

I didn't know Elijah existed until Lord Of The Rings.  I thought he was really good in that part, but I love the franchise.

Then I saw him in Sin City and Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind where he's essentially the same character (creepy, weird, sick) but in Eternal, he's also a loser.

Dead alive
 when i rented it someone said it was better than the evil dead series so i guessed i hated it before i even saw it i guess but i thought i would like it . evryonetalked about the lawn mower scene but i was dfinetly unimpressed i thought it blew i like peter jackson but i hated that movie . Ill admit the priest scene was amzing though everything else blewsorry and hardcore dead alive fans but fact is evil dead owns dead alive

My big ones

Borat - I refuse to finish it, even if I was payed movie to watch it.  It was the first film that I truly turned off while watching an refuse to see it since then.

Kids and Bully I ended up not liking at all, but Kids was slightly better than Bully, but still awful.

Flesh Gordon was another one that I didn't like.  WAY too much nudity for my tastes and just bad acting.  I felt I was watching a porn movie instead of a regular movie.
 

wasn't that the point of the film???? i was never under any impression this was anything other than very softcore porn with a plot (i still watched it :teddyr:)

I though it cheesy and lame and I loved every minute of it   :thumbup:

Although, I still don't understand how people can get their gear off in front of random strangers.     :question:

"The Man With the Screaming Brain"-  what a disappointing and boring movie!  I expected it to be entertaining and fun to watch because I've liked other films starring Bruce Campbell, but this was a really awful (not in a good way) movie.  It was almost as painful to watch as a Troma flick.

I guess it would be the point of the film.  I don't enjoy softcare porn, so I guess that was part of it. 

definetly thought  shoot em up with clive owen was going to be good but halfway through the movie it just got really stupid and i kinda didnt like it at all . it was a bit too over the top like it was trying to hard to make fun of the typical shoot em up movie i  really like paul g. and clive owen but this movie sucked  the big one

X Men 3.

Part 2 was such an improvement over the first that I was really excited for another progression.

I have yet to, and will NEVER pay a penny to see another Marvel movie till someone there apologizes.

Honestly, I didn't like x-men 2 that much but I thought 3 was amazing.  Oh well, you might want to go see Iron Man though, it looks good.

Hmm. Maybe you really ARE an insane infant...  :lookingup:

OUCH, that stings.  Like a bee in the face.

What are you talking about, I have nothing on my profile that would suggest I'm an infant.


Yeah, you didn't anticipate an avatar change did you?

Karma for ZIM!!!!

Thank you kind sir.

WILLOW was the first movie I ever walked out of.

Dog Soldiers was a letdown after watching The Descent.

Scanners was just meh.  Good head explosion, too much exposition.

The Washingtonians was a huge letdown for me. George Washington was really a cannibal, and a secrect organization has been covering it up for centuries? I saw that and said, "Heck, yes!". I was wrong. It wasn't good at all. I could have been awesome, but it didn't live up to that potential.

Once (2007)

"Hate" is too strong of a word. "Disappointed" sounds better. I didn't have any issues with the ending. In fact, I thought the ending suited the circumstances best, but I didn't like the way it was filmed (like a home movie).

UPN movie Lost in the Bermuda Triangle when I first saw this in the summer of 98 I thought this is gonna be a good movie. The first part was good but the second half it starting to turn stupid then by the end it just became crap. :hatred:

Batroc I agreed on Dog Soldiers it was one of worst werewolf movies out there.

I just saw a commercial last night of the movie I thought I was gonna like but it was one of the stupidest vampire movie out there 30 Days Of Night. :hatred:

Boondock Saints
Swingers
War
Natural Born Killers
Sunshine
Identity
Mr. Nice Guy

The One

The premise sounded cool, the commercials made it look like an awesome thrill ride and while it had some cool action sequences, the big climax of the film with the two Lis finally facing each other was a big cliche-ridden letdown.

War

Jet Li vs Jason Stratham!  That alone was enough to sell me on the film.  I was like, "Say no more, I'm seeing that b***h!"  Well, actually, the "war" hinted at in the trailer doesn't even occur except for like five minutes or so of the movie's total runtime.  Then we have this "WTF?" lameass twist (I won't reveal it, but you'll probably guess it halfway in) and everything just peters out. 

The Covenant

Another one of my "interesting premise, bad execution" films (hey, I think I need to make a thread dedicated to that sometime).  Anyway, four teens, each with magical abilities, start getting stalked by something or someone who knows there secrets.  Well, it could have been good.  Instead we get a lot of lameass dialog, flatter than cardboard characters, and a big climax involving two guys throw CGI balls of energy at each other.  (yawn).

Apocalypse Now

I know, I'm going to get flamed for this one, so bear with me.  This was on my "classic films I'd never seen yet" list, so I got it from Netflix.  First up, this film was looong.  I don't mean in a "We have a lot of story to tell and it's going to take a bit/epic movie" long, I mean, in a "Let's slowly pan...over...the....grass....now... onto.....the.....water." LONG.  A good scene here and there, then back to another looong sequence of staring at the scenery. 



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Then, for the long awaited climax with the insane guy, it's another loong sequence, "Hi, you're captured!  I'm going to torture you for a little bit, blab to you for a little bit longer, blab some more, then let you loose, so you can run all stealthy like and finally kill me.  HAHA!"

Er.. okay.
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I'm told the Redux version of this film that's even LONGER than the original.  WTF?  Like we didn't take enough time with the scenery in the theatrical version?

X men 3 - this movie killed the momentum for the xmen movies
the spiderman movies - Spidermans a cool hero and all but the casting suffers in these movies

Ultraviolet- Complete and total tripe.  Campy and artsy only works for some flicks, and this certainly isn't one of them.
Cheerleader Massacre- You know, I really wanted this to be a mindless slasher flick with lots of blood and nudity.  And what did I get?  Lackluster blood and an actual storyline.  WTF?
Unrest- The death scenes and lack of climax left much to be desired.
Wicked Little Things- Cookie cutter horror flick with no rewatch value.  And here I hoped for a great flick with loads of killing and zombie children.  Meh.  I got what I wanted, just not the right presentation.
Deep Impact- What do you expect from a science fiction/drama with what sounds like a pornographic title? 
Virus- When I saw the previews, I thought, "Woohoo!  Weird robot things killing people!"  I never thought such a concept could be so... boring...

Thank you. I might lift my X-3 inspired boycott of Marvel for Iron Man. Even though I was never into the character, Robert Downy might pull it off. I'll read a lot of reviews before I consider it.

If this 'forgetting sarah marshall' movie is anything but a frat boy flop, I'll see you all back here....after it comes out on dvd.


 

One movie, I had heard so many good things about and utterly despised was Cabin Fever.  The characters were totally unlikeable.  Gore effects cannot carry an entire movie.  Frankly, I don't think Eli Roth is as great a director as he'd proclaimed. 

This one might get me killed, but Jaws is on my list as well.  I didn't hate Jaws, I though it was a good film, but I though the film was a bit overrated. 

The film just seemed too long to take to dispose of the shark.

I haven't seen it but I know there was a lot of dissapointment over Waterworld.

Sweeny Todd ... if I wanted a musical I'd watch freakin Mary Poppin's! It's a good movie just didn't really care for the singing aspect of it.

Didn't you know it was a musical going in to watch it? :question:  I mean, it's cool if you don't like musicals or whatever (usually not my cup of tea either), but I do like musicals if done in a certain style, namely as a comedy or horror flick. 

I'm just curious as to what the reactions of the audiences were in theaters when they figured it'd be Johnny Depp slashing throats for 2 hours and they have to sit through him belting out songs for 70% of the flick.  They seemed to hardly mention it in commercials.

I like musicals, some of my favorite films are musicals (Amadeus, Moulin Rouge) but actually I didn't know this was a musical, I've been so covered up lately I've out of the loop. I saw the box, saw Johnny Depp on the box ... and rented it. popped it in and they started singing and I was like WTF? Checked the box and saw nothing on it about singing.

I think if I knew it was, I would have liked it if I knew it going in. 

Boy, howdy, but we've got some differences in taste here . . .
I can't believe all the slagging on Lord of The Rings -- Taken for what it is, I find it Epic in the best sense of the word -- none of the 3 films bore me at all, and I can see them over and over again.  Some things take time.  Anyone out there who hates the films ever read the books?  I'm very curious about that --
My one and only problem with the whole LOTR series -- which I've gotten over now -- is Jackson's decision to drop the entire The Scouring of The Shire sequence.  In the novels, this is the true culmination of everything that has happened in the books so far.  Tolkien was trying to create a Mythology of England, and without the cumulative sequence of the invasion and capture of the Shire & its subsequent liberation, you lack the That Which Was Large Writ Again Small that makes magic and mythology seem more real.  I would have loved to have seen Brad Doruf slaughter Christopher Lee on a dirt road leading out of town -- sort of Old West meets fairyland.
Also loved Apocalypse Now -- did you read Conrad's Heart of Darkness?  I don't care if characters talk alot in films if I find what is being said to be of consequence, and I felt that Apocalypse Now had real content in what was being said.  As Neitzche is often quoted:  Stare into the Abyss long enough and eventually the Abyss will look into you  . . .
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