What was your biggest movie let-down/disappointment ever?
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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.
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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.
There's a fan cut out there on the high seas, where they basically condensed those three shitty movies into one which follows the book as close as possible.
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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.
There are always exceptions. Andromeda Strain was an excellent book.
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original with Robin Williams or the reboot with The Rock?
I'm assuming the one with Rock
The one with Robin Williams, I had no expectations whatsoever for the one with The Rock. (When I wrote my comment, I didn't even remember that the remake existed so I didn't realize that it might have been useful to specify which one of them I meant.)
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X-Men Phoenix - such a great grafic novel arch and solid movies before that flick. Phoenix writing and acting saddens me.
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I Know What You Did Last Summer [2025]
Atrocious acting, annoying characters, terrible storyline and an abundance of plot holes! Literally nothing made sense. And in the process killing the legacy of the originals.
Worst reboot I ever saw. And there will probably be another sequel -_- -
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.
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.
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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.
Go find 'The Great Train Robbery'
Creighton directed the movie based on his own novel.
