What was your biggest movie let-down/disappointment ever?
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Here's the way I look at it.
A fictional story should follow its own rules. Let's take "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly." The idea that someone would let himself be hung, trusting the other guy to be able to make that incredible shot over and over and never miss, is nonsensical. But we in the audience accept that premise for the sake of the story. We'd be disappointed if, halfway through the movie, an orchestra appears in the middle of the desert and they do a big musical number.
"Sky Captain" was ridiculous because of the way the story kept shifting and the rules kept changing.
I admit that I saw Sky Captain once, many many years ago, so I'm not going to be able to back this up with too many specific citations, but you've also not said specifically what rule they set up and fail to follow, so we're even.
It's a pastiche of pulp fiction concepts from the 30s-50s. Giant robots, airships, Nazi scientists, Shangri-La, dinosaurs, android assassins, the works. The whole thing is like a loving homage to Doc Savage's greatest hits. I don't see how any of that "breaks rules".
Like I said, I won't dispute your overall finding of the film being, "meh". I watched it once 20 years ago and haven't gone back since, so I'm not exactly leaping up to defend it's execution, but I also think "the rules kept changing" is an empty critique, as it stands currently.
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Fantastic four 2015, great first half and Phillip Glass soundtrack! But studio/publisher meddling destroyed the second half
I saw the Phantom menace on release, that was a huge let down
I actually agree that the first half was great and there were some solid bones and performances but I don’t think there was a break movie just below the surface of FF. Nothing we have seen or heard from that third act suggests Trank’s cut would have been demonstrably better.
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I admit that I saw Sky Captain once, many many years ago, so I'm not going to be able to back this up with too many specific citations, but you've also not said specifically what rule they set up and fail to follow, so we're even.
It's a pastiche of pulp fiction concepts from the 30s-50s. Giant robots, airships, Nazi scientists, Shangri-La, dinosaurs, android assassins, the works. The whole thing is like a loving homage to Doc Savage's greatest hits. I don't see how any of that "breaks rules".
Like I said, I won't dispute your overall finding of the film being, "meh". I watched it once 20 years ago and haven't gone back since, so I'm not exactly leaping up to defend it's execution, but I also think "the rules kept changing" is an empty critique, as it stands currently.
I'm not going to argue about a movie neither one of us has seen in over 20 years.
Have fun.
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I'm more of a usenet sailor, but the Pirate Bay seems to have "The Hobbit M4 Book Edit" available. It seems to be the most liked edit, although it is rather long, there are shorter ones available (see the linked post).
Awesome, I haven't heard of this before! I'm trying to download it via torrent from their website but it seems like it has zero seeds though
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It's been a while, but that would be Sin City 2 for me. Back then I was young and naive, and didn't know that 99% of sequels are soulless cashgrabs. And I was really hyped, I loved the first one and still think of it as the best comic book adaptation I've ever seen. You could see the love in every frame.
But Eva Green tho.
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Awesome, I haven't heard of this before! I'm trying to download it via torrent from their website but it seems like it has zero seeds though
There's a direct download for the m4 version on the internet archive.
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The problem with the Hobbit movies was that they were too much like the Lord of the Rings movies.
Maybe in the sense that they were aiming to be a long epic similar to the LotR, rather than the fun adventure the book that the Hobbit book is.
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Omg yes. The Hobbit movies were so terrible.
Imo worse than just them being bad is the gap between their quality and the potential of what could have been.
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Imo worse than just them being bad is the gap between their quality and the potential of what could have been.
Absolutely and factor who made them.
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I'm not going to argue about a movie neither one of us has seen in over 20 years.
Have fun.
You're under no obligation to continue the discussion, sure, but it seems disingenuous to me to open a thread saying "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow is a bad movie because it fails to follow it's own internal logic". Then, upon having that assertion challenged, you jump to, "I'm not gonna argue about this." Like, why comment at all if you're not interested in discussing, and yes, maybe even defending, your take? Regardless, if that's not what you're here to do, have a good day.
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There's a direct download for the m4 version on the internet archive.
aha! tysm!
Edit: Also found the subs and other related files
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Fury Road 2: They got rid of a lot of the practical effects that made the first one great. The plot and pacing was off. I was just annoyed because of how much I liked the first one.
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The Avatar the last air bender ( live action ) movie. I was a child when the movie came out so I had no clue who the director was and how shitty of a movie I was in for. The ending recked me since it didn’t even have a satisfying conclusion. Just pure garbage
I was in genuine shock of how bad of a movie I’d gotten into. Never again
Honestly same, left it early and was genuinely sad because we almost never had a movie we wanted to go out for
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Transformers. I was very excited when this was announced, but it became a cold-water shower when Michael Bay was mentioned as director. Still, I had a sliver of hope that it would be at least on par with The Rock... It wasn't.
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You're under no obligation to continue the discussion, sure, but it seems disingenuous to me to open a thread saying "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow is a bad movie because it fails to follow it's own internal logic". Then, upon having that assertion challenged, you jump to, "I'm not gonna argue about this." Like, why comment at all if you're not interested in discussing, and yes, maybe even defending, your take? Regardless, if that's not what you're here to do, have a good day.
If you actually thought I was under no obligation, you wouldn't have sent your note, which I consider a masterpiece of passive aggressiveness.
I throw it back at you. You had all afternoon to actually watch the movie and present extensive notes.
Like, why did you comment at all?
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The Avatar the last air bender ( live action ) movie. I was a child when the movie came out so I had no clue who the director was and how shitty of a movie I was in for. The ending recked me since it didn’t even have a satisfying conclusion. Just pure garbage
I was in genuine shock of how bad of a movie I’d gotten into. Never again
Kinda weird to mention a movie that doesn't even exist.
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I kinda liked it, not great by any means, maybe 3/5. But i liked the book way better
the book and the movie have absolutely nothing in common besides the name. it was such a disapointing mediocre zombie film, based on a really good book that used "zombies" to explore war, survival, refuge crisis...
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Absolutely and factor who made them.
True. Although to his defense my understanding is that Peter Jackson came in late as a replacement and at least partially did it because otherswise many people would have been out of a job (presumably people in new Zealand that he knew well). Watching the behind the scenes extras imo show a quite stark contrast compared to the LotR trilogy.
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Kangaroo Jack. Most misleading trailer ever.
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My biggest problem with
thisthe sequels is that Luke's character just got completely butchered.You really want me to believe that one of my childhood heros, who against all odds, against his mentors judgement, decided to go all in on the "There's good in my father, I'll save him or die."-train would grow old and wants to kill his own fucking nephew because he's seeing something evil in him?
That was last Jedi though, was it not?
I never watched rise of Skywalker, the Luke story ended with him vanishing into the force at the end of last Jedi if I recall correctly.
