What was your biggest movie let-down/disappointment ever?
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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.
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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.
The previous two were utter dogshit.. how could you expect anything different?
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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".
It is the most overrated movie of all time. Four hours of nothing.. every single scene is 5times longer than it needs to be.
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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.
oh man I was so disapointed in the book compared to the moive. I feel crichton has great ideas but is not a good writer. It is one of the few writers where I prefer the movies.
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I fell asleep while watching James Cameron's Avatar in an IMAX theater on release.
Most tedious movie of his career until the sequels (guessing, didn't give the sequels a chance because why would I?)
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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.
And the originals weren't kids movies?
I guess the massive amount of Star Wars toys I had as a child somehow led me to believe otherwise.
Original trilogy are also kids movies, fight me.
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Interstellar. That ending didn't do it for me at all.
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"The Man Who Killed Don Quixote" I guess.
12 Monkeys was great, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was brilliant, I liked The Brothers Grimm and Tideland. Gillian supposedly was trying to make Don Quixote for decades, it was his passion project and it turned out to be a big nothingburger. I never heard anyone mention if after the premier. I read the books and the movie simply used some characters and scenes from them. The movie was "inspired by" the books in the most boring, superficial way possible.
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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.
Granted, I was like 4 when it came out so it still holds some fondness in my view. Qui-Gon was like the father figure I always needed but never had, and Jar Jar laid the foundation for my sense of humor. Maybe that's why no one thinks I'm funny...
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The previous two were utter dogshit.. how could you expect anything different?
Matrix 2 & 3 were masterpieces by comparison, not as good as 1 but they were at least enjoyable.
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Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker. I went in with very low expectations and it still managed to disappoint so badly that it makes me angry. I hate how the Palpatine plot point retroactively ruins the entire original trilogy.
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Matrix 2 & 3 were masterpieces by comparison, not as good as 1 but they were at least enjoyable.
They were steaming piles of dogshit…
There was nothing enjoyable about those dogshit movies.
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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
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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.
The problem with the Hobbit movies was that they were too much like the Lord of the Rings movies.
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It made me want to never re-watch the series, too. The pedophilic undercurrent to the movie makes parts of the show so, so, much worse.
