What was your biggest movie let-down/disappointment ever?
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I know that knocking on it is overdone, but Phantom Menace. I was 13 when it came out, huge Star Wars fan, absolutely target market. Walked out so sad and confused.
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The Matrix. The 1st two movies seemed to set up the perfect twist for the 3rd movie...that Zion was still inside the Matrix, and there was no escape. But, then they went in a completely different direction, that made no sense, instead. Then they came out with the 4th movie, and still never fixed it. Why?
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I can't remember ever having been more disappointed in a movie theatre than I was when watching Jumanji.
I have since watched the movie again and liked it much better then, but it was so different from what the trailers had led me to believe and what I was expecting and I was so stoked for the movie that I believed that it was going to be that the disappointment was crushing.
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Once Upon a Time in America. Maybe I watched a bad version but it made little sense and the ending was dreadful.
Reading about it right now on wikipedia I probably saw the 'condensed' version which was savaged by the critics:
Some critics compared shortening the film to shortening Richard Wagner's operas, saying that works of art that are meant to be long should be given the respect they deserve. In his 1984 review, Roger Ebert gave the uncut version four stars out of four and wrote that it was "an epic poem of violence and greed", but described the American theatrical version as a "travesty". Furthermore, he gave the American theatrical version one star out of four, calling it "an incomprehensible mess without texture, timing, mood, or sense".
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The Matrix Resurrections. I already had a feeling it would suck but it managed to be worse than I could ever imagine, they weren't even trying to hide how much of a cashgrab it is.
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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
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I know that knocking on it is overdone, but Phantom Menace. I was 13 when it came out, huge Star Wars fan, absolutely target market. Walked out so sad and confused.
I never understood this. What's wrong with it?
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I never understood this. What's wrong with it?
Basically? It was a kids movie. Characters were one-dimensional and not very likeable to teenage me. Exposition by dialogue, and not great dialogue. Slapstick bits that really didn't land (Jar Jar). Etc, etc.
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"Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow."
The beginning is great. Giant robots attacking New York.
Then it just becomes boring and ridiculous.
Posters promised Angelina Jolie. she shows up for five minutes and doesn't do anything.
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I can't remember ever having been more disappointed in a movie theatre than I was when watching Jumanji.
I have since watched the movie again and liked it much better then, but it was so different from what the trailers had led me to believe and what I was expecting and I was so stoked for the movie that I believed that it was going to be that the disappointment was crushing.
original with Robin Williams or the reboot with The Rock?
I'm assuming the one with Rock
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Basically? It was a kids movie. Characters were one-dimensional and not very likeable to teenage me. Exposition by dialogue, and not great dialogue. Slapstick bits that really didn't land (Jar Jar). Etc, etc.
But imo at its core it still has a good idea, unlike the sequels, which really are just style over substance. Which is why i can forgive the prequels quite a bit more, especially considering Geroge Lucas did try to get other directors onboard to make them.
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Gladiator 2. If anyone can do spectacle, it's Ridley Scott. But good goddamn, the action in that movie sucked so hard. And all the best lines were quotes from the original. Denzel was the only half enjoyable thing because I think he realized how bad the movie was and just had a blast with it.
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For me it might be the Hobbit Trilogy.
The LotR Trilogy are my all time favorite movies and the contrast couldn't be greater. Really goes to show what a perfect storm it was that we got the movies we got with LotR.
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World War Z.
i was do hyped. and it single handedly ended the zombie movie genre that was popular at the time
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easy one: Jurassic Park (1993)
I had read the book, maybe, a dozen times before the film came out, and holy shit was I disappointed. crushed, really. Not just in what they changed, but also what they left out. it totally ruined for me books adapted to film. any time I see a film based on a book I've read, I'm always let down.
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Violet Evergarden: The Movie. My heart sank when I realized exactly where this was going, after all of her character development that's the ending they decided to undermine it all with.
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The Legend of Ochi.
The trailer made it look like a great indie-fantasy movie with Willem Dafoe and Emily Watson.
But the actual movie is full of AI-generated environments, the acting is subpar and Dafoe and Watson don't have a lot of screentime.Sometimes I really question my AAA24 membership.
Megalopolis was equally disappointing. Granted, the movie has some amazing VFX and practical effects, so they cut all of the best shots into the trailer and made this trainwreck look competent and interesting. The actual movie then felt like a fever dream, you can really see respected actors like Adam Driver and Nathalie Emmanuel struggle with their own script. Plus all of the really bad VFX shots that did not make it into the trailer, of course.
At least we got the "Get back to the club" meme out of it.
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"Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow."
The beginning is great. Giant robots attacking New York.
Then it just becomes boring and ridiculous.
Posters promised Angelina Jolie. she shows up for five minutes and doesn't do anything.
Not saying you're wrong, but praising the giant robot attack on New York before swerving into critiquing the latter half of the movie for being ridiculous is a funny juxtaposition.
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Arrival and Interstellar. Half baked cop out time travel shit
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For me it might be the Hobbit Trilogy.
The LotR Trilogy are my all time favorite movies and the contrast couldn't be greater. Really goes to show what a perfect storm it was that we got the movies we got with LotR.
Omg yes. The Hobbit movies were so terrible.
