Biggest movie Disappointments

[DaCrazyKat29]

The Last Jedi is easily up there!

Why?

 

[DaCrazyKat29]

Quantumania, and Maze Runner. Loved the book maze runner, felt the film didn’t really do what it could’ve. Quantumania just didn’t really work, had a good plot but added too much silliness to make it a good movie, but at the same time it wasn’t a comedy so I feel it didn’t really work.

 

[Toby Frost]

As a fan of Alien and Aliens, I am very used to disappointing sequels.

 

[BAYLOR]

As a fan of Alien and Aliens, I am very used to disappointing sequels.

For me , The first Alien vs Predator film is guilty pleasure .

 

[svalbard]

Napoleon

An absolute mess. I was so looking forward to it. I loved Scott's The Duelists, and wanted to see what he would do with a bigger budget and story. I do not think a Director's Cut will save this one.

 

[BAYLOR]

Napoleon

An absolute mess. I was so looking forward to it. I loved Scott's The Duelists, and wanted to see what he would do with a bigger budget and story. I do not think a Director's Cut will save this one.

I wonder how it fare at the Academy Awards?

 

[KGeo777]

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes

The poster lied.

 

[BAYLOR]

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes

The poster lied.

Since I saw that film, ive never been able to look at a salad without thinking of this Cinema Shlock Classic .

 

[Guttersnipe]

More recently: I expected The Blackening to be funny. The gag is, if the black guy always dies first, what happens when all the characters are black? I just didn't find any of it funny or scary, which is weird because it was a horror comedy. The Last Voyage of the Demeter did Dracula dirty.

 

[Orcadian]

Dune (1984) takes the biscuit. Completely missed the depth, mysticism and scope of the book. I went with a party of grad students & postdocs - 8 of us - and we were all poleaxed by how far off the mark it was. And don't get me started on miscasting and costumes. But ShaiHulud was good.

The best screen version of Dune is still the TV mini series with William Hurt and Saskia Reeves. The Director's Cut is 5 hours long. which is why it is so good. They have time to really get into the novel and develop the characters.

 

[BAYLOR]

Dune (1984) takes the biscuit. Completely missed the depth, mysticism and cultural overtones of the novel. I went with a party of grad students & postdocs - 8 of us - and everyone was poleaxed by how far off the mark it was. And don't get me started on miscasting and costumes. But ShaiHulud was good.

The problem with the 1984 film there as no possible way to do Dune any kind of justice 137 minutes film timeframe .

 

[Orcadian]

The problem with the 1984 film there as no possible way to do Dune any kind of justice 137 minutes film timeframe .

Agree, that is a big part of the problem. My post gives some info on what I think is still the best version - 5 hours long.

 

[JunkMonkey]

The Matrix - I remember thinking "Is that it?". I was led to believe I was in for some serious philosophical SF. I got mystic codswallop wrapped in eyecandy.

Blade Runner 2049 - least said about that the better

Alexander Nevski - Prokofiev's music is great but I was SO disappointed by the film - Eisenstein was one of those names. Big important name in film history. And Nevski was dull old fashioned (even in 1948) and vastly disappointing.

Ditto most of anything I've seen by Goddard. (Apart maybe for Alphaville).

Candy - my dad used to rave about this film. Though I doubt if he had seen it since its release. When I finally got to see it, a couple of years after he'd died, I thought it was a horribly dated, abusive piece of sh*t. I'm glad I didn't have to tell him I didn't like it.

 

[Swank]

I was led to believe I was in for some serious philosophical SF.

Then you were simply mislead. It certainly wasn't advertised as such.

 

[CultureCitizen]

Star Wars Episode VII , which was surpased by Star Wars Episode VIII. The later was so bad that I wholeheartedly skipped Episode IX.

 

[KiraAnn]

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes

The poster lied.

I was in San Diego when they filmed it. Local TV stations were posting what streets on the waterfront would be closed for filming. It was not originally a comedy, it just was so badly written, it could help but turn out that way.

 

[Orcadian]

[Re Killer Tomatoes] It was not originally a comedy, it just was so badly written, it could help but turn out that way.

Are you sure is wan't intended as a comedy? Why would someone whose a title like that, otherwise? (Full disclosure: I am a Brit, raised on Monty Python and later Douglas Adams.)

 

[KiraAnn]

That's the way it was presented at the time.

 

[Toby Frost]

Candy - my dad used to rave about this film.

There was some complete rubbish made in the late 60s under the pretense of psychedelia. The presence of a former Beatle is usually a bad sign.

The Matrix had the reputation of being "deep", and wasn't especially. It wasn't bad, but Blade was much more fun.

And Blade Runner 2069 was just overlong. This will be heresy to many people, I'm sure, but I reckon Villeneuve and Nolan are overrated. They make a certain kind of long, sprawling, grandiose film that many blokes absolutely love. I started watching Inception and it was like a clever film by numbers. I'd like to see either of them do a 90 minute comedy.

 

[BAYLOR]

There was some complete rubbish made in the late 60s under the pretense of psychedelia. The presence of a former Beatle is usually a bad sign.

The 1969 sci fi The Monitors come to mind . Its mistake was that it was being based on a very weak Kieth Laumer novel of the same name . But this one with its sheerer the top silliness does have entertainment value .

The Matrix had the reputation of being "deep", and wasn't especially. It wasn't bad, but Blade was much more fun.

The Matrix gets funnier and funnier every time I see it. It attempts at profound are really quite clumsy and ham handed . The silly moves that defy physics and martial arts are laugh out loud funny when sit back and really look st them objectively .

And Blade Runner 2069 was just overlong. This will be heresy to many people, I'm sure, but I reckon Villeneuve and Nolan are overrated. They make a certain kind of long, sprawling, grandiose film that many blokes absolutely love. I started watching Inception and it was like a clever film by numbers. I'd like to see either of them do a 90 minute comedy.

It bombed at that the box office for a very good reason , It was boring and, how could they really top the first film? They couldn't .