The most disappointing film you've seen

[Tycho]

AshVX220 said:

The Last Jedi.

Racist, sexist pig!!


I agree with you there. It looked amazing but the story was a mess and treated TFA like it didn't exist.

[Vantagemech..]

Mulholland Drive. I despise films where you leave puzzled with a WTF feeling.

R1 is IMO one of the only SW films to stand with the originals ( but they were also not perfect) possibly because the basis of the story was already told in Ep4 so there wasnt much to mess up.
Off the back of TLJ Ive not watched any of the other Disney spin offs - probably down to the way they chose to kill off the "untouchable" characters of my childhood.

[Halb]

BMW A6 said:

Alien V Predator

Considering how iconic the parent films were, I was surprised how badly wrong they got this.

Oh that's a good one, two decades of expectations? And we get...erm, a messy action fest. I think Alien³ showed they were clueless with that franchise in 1992.

Edited by Halb on Friday 6th December 09:46

[bloomen]

Halb said:

Oh that's a good one, two years of expectations? And we get...erm, a messy action fest. I think Alien³ showed they were clueless with that franchise in 1992.

I have a bit of a soft spot for it but you have to treat it like the other films don't exist. If you don't then you'll be in tears before the first act is over.

[Halb]

bloomen said:

I have a bit of a soft spot for it but you have to treat it like the other films don't exist. If you don't then you'll be in tears before the first act is over.

Yeah you're right, I can enjoy it on a simple level; it's cinematography is stunning in the snowy bits.
I do like the use of Bishop and I absolutely love the usage of antediluvian theories.

[DMN]

Two recent films: Atomic Blonde and Red Sparrow.

Both awful and too long.

[Evoluzione]

Destination: Dewsbury

Directed by a 19yr old and it shows. The worst film I have ever seen, no idea how it made it to the cinema, if I hadn't paid for drinks and popcorn I would have walked out.

[bloomen]

Evoluzione said:

Destination: Dewsbury

Directed by a 19yr old and it shows. The worst film I have ever seen, no idea how it made it to the cinema, if I hadn't paid for drinks and popcorn I would have walked out.

You went to a cinema to watch a film called that? I've been stung without fail going to films I've never heard of at the cinema.

It reminds me of a mate who buys pirate DVDs from mongolians who sell them from carrier bags in pubs in Coventry in a rather retro manner. I have literally never heard of any of them. I accused him of them running their own film studio because the crap he put on beggared belief.

[toon10]

DMN said:

Two recent films: Atomic Blonde and Red Sparrow.

Both awful and too long.

I enjoyed both to be honest. I thought Atomic Blonde would just be a politically correct (lets have an action woman in the lead) Jason Bourne movie but it had a great atmosphere and I enjoyed it way more than I thought I would.

I fancied Red Sparrow straight away when I saw the trailer. I'm not a big Jennifer Lawrence fan and struggle seeing her as a sex icon but again, the atmosphere and story worked for me. Both very different movies but both delivered in my view.

I think if we are talking about action espionage movies which disappointed then the Bourne Legacy is up there. Movie making by formula at its worst.

[LimaDelta]

First Man.

[bloomen]

LimaDelta said:

First Man.

Not sure I've ever been more bored by a film and it's a subject I love.

And why is Ryan Gosling? I can't tell any difference in performance between Drive, that and Blade Runner 2049.

toon10 said:

I fancied Red Sparrow straight away when I saw the trailer. I'm not a big Jennifer Lawrence fan and struggle seeing her as a sex icon but again, the atmosphere and story worked for me. Both very different movies but both delivered in my view.

I would've bought it much more if it had been a period piece. In some ways it seemed to think it was.

[LimaDelta]

bloomen said:

Not sure I've ever been more bored by a film and it's a subject I love.

Exactly. How did they manage to make the greatest human achievement ever so dull?

[ajprice]

Tom Cruise version of War of the Worlds. Yes, let's send in the army and fight the aliens, over on the other side of that hill. FFS!

[generationx]

LimaDelta said:

bloomen said:

Not sure I've ever been more bored by a film and it's a subject I love.

Exactly. How did they manage to make the greatest human achievement ever so dull?

Absolutely - I'm an Apollo Superfan but this took two goes to even get through.

[JonChalk]

Ad Astra.

Why?

I mean, nothing really happens to do with the "story"......pirates? escaped test animals? The Surge? Why was anyone doing anything.

Plus the physics were random and mostly badly and unrealistically done.

Looked good though *shrugs*.

[Blackpuddin]

Arrival.

[gr1340]

Simon-k41v9 said:

the one that really sticks in my mind is Shutter Island - I just didn't get it at all

I thought it was a good film, the twist at the end was unexpected, well for me anyway as I never see these things coming.

[karma mechanic]

I was hoping that First Man had some serious sound, after all rockets are incredibly powerful noisy things, right?. Instead rocket launches sounded like they were on a TV, and the excitement consisted of jiggling the camera about a lot.
I skipped ahead a lot, then gave up.

[Fast and Spurious]

Fury.
Total load of bks!

[ScottJB]

Dunkirk