What is the one movie that you waited all your life to see . . .

[Dave]

When I was twelve I heard about this movie called "Creepazoid" I heard it had killer rats and a monster stalking these soliders in a base during the a nuclear explosion or something. The giant killer rats sounded cool and for a while I forgot about it. But two years later I found it at my movie store and rented it. It was dull and bad but I was not disapointed because I saw "Rat Night of Terror" and discovered that giant rats are not always cool so I was expecting the worst movie ever and that sort of buffered the hit of disapointment.

-"The first rule of the fat club"-

[Gerry]

STAR WARS: THE PHANTOM MENACE - what a disappointment.

[Damien01]

STAR WARS: THE PHANTOM MENACE... I agree here too... If it wasnt for Jar Jar (the Alien Rapper/gangster character) that movie would of really blow chunks.

[JohnL]

I can't think of any movies that I really waited all that long to see, at least not ones I really wanted to see. I do recall reading about the original 13 Ghosts a long time ago and then finally seeing it on one of the cable channels a few years. It looked like the Patty Duke show with shadow-puppet ghosts.

[Juan Apagado]

Starship troopers....... According to my girlfriend I am not allowed to pick out movies anymore. I declared it the "Movie Event of the Summer." It ended up licking  ass. I have never been so embarrassed over a movie pick.

[Sam]

X-Men. For years and years me and all my friends dreamed of how great this movie would be, until it came out and everything was shattered

[Johnny Blister]

2001:A Space Odyssey.Everything beyond HAL´s parts were just ununderstandable.

Also Leprechaun.

[Evan3]

AMEN SAM, what a disappointment, the rest of the hero flix are good though

[akiratubo]

Aye, big letdown there.  I figured out the ending almost as soon as the movie started.

[jmc]

DEAD ALIVE.  I didn't wait "all my life" to see it, but I did wait a while before I was able to rent it, and was very disappointed.  I was expecting more of a straight horror film.  I wouldn't call it a piece of crap, but I was very let down by it.   It was no more of a horror film than Monty Python would be.

[Steve B]

For me, it would have to be Yentl. As long as I remember, I grew up listening to Babs and then finally I got to see her wondrous voice in Yentl....and I was extremely disapointed....she can't act to save her life if it depended on it....after that, I decided to stop dressing up like her for school. My mom was glad because she said it would save me years of thereapy and medication. Still to this day when I see her, I shudder thinking "that could have been me"

[ad]

I haven't seen it, but apparantly its the Citizen Kane of Kung Fu movies, and perhaps Chan's best...

[lester1/2jr]

would actually have to be "legendary weapons of China".  It was like the first "modern" kung fu movie, plus it had virtually every future (hong kong) star in it.  The type of movie where the historical significance does actually add to the experience somewhat.

In terms of the build up and let down thing.  I have alt of the shaw brothers (kung fu) stuff.  Sme of the non kung fu stuff is great ( Twinle twinkle little star and buddha's palm need to be n this site) but some of the romantic comedies are really bad, as thse things tend to be.

[Hero]

"The Haunted Mansion", based on the Disney World ride. Actually, it's coming out in November, so I don't know yet if it's disappointing, but my hopes are high on that end: it stars Eddie Murphy and Jennifer Tilly.
What's next, "It's A Small World", starring Reese Witherspoon, Meg Ryan, and Julia Roberts?


Hero