The most disappointing film you've seen
Discussion
te.B17NNS said:
Rotaree said:
Lost in Translation; it could well be me but I just didn't 'get' it and yet it still seems to be considered by some to be one of the greatest films ever.
One of my all time favourites. Very rare that I don’t watch a film to the end but Slumdog Millionaire, The Grand Budapest Hotel and 12 years a slave all bored me to tears.
Lost In Translation is one of my all time favourites also. The sensation that you aren't watching actors, because of quality low key performances - I love it.
Grand Budapest Hotel I found to be borderline unwatchable for some reason, despite The Royal Tenenbaums being in my top five.
12 Years A Slave I consider to be one of the most affecting films ever made. How could anyone not be moved, knowing that it is a true story?
Vive la difference!
mrtwisty said:
Interesting, the endless variety of taste.
Lost In Translation is one of my all time favourites also. The sensation that you aren't watching actors, because of quality low key performances - I love it.
Grand Budapest Hotel I found to be borderline unwatchable for some reason, despite The Royal Tenenbaums being in my top five.
12 Years A Slave I consider to be one of the most affecting films ever made. How could anyone not be moved, knowing that it is a true story?
Vive la difference!
I'm not big on action films. There's got to be a strong story-line for me to enjoy it. Lord of the Rings was nearly ruined for me by all the time given to battles, and Hobbit was. Lost in Translation is a favourite of mine. 12 years a slave was moving, but I'm not sure I would see it again. A bit like The Railway Man. My wife's father was in a Japanese PoW camp, his run by Koreans. He survived, but was as marked mentally as Firth was. I watched it with my wife, holding hands with her. The most moving film I've ever seen. One watch was dreadful.Lost In Translation is one of my all time favourites also. The sensation that you aren't watching actors, because of quality low key performances - I love it.
Grand Budapest Hotel I found to be borderline unwatchable for some reason, despite The Royal Tenenbaums being in my top five.
12 Years A Slave I consider to be one of the most affecting films ever made. How could anyone not be moved, knowing that it is a true story?
Vive la difference!
Waterworld was quite disappointing the first time I saw it. When on TV though I wondered what my problem was. It was great.
I'll join in with the mob and say Prometheus and its sequal/prequal/whatever. Both were dreadful.
I was well disappointed with Alien 3 in the cinema but when I saw the director's cut I thought it pretty good.
Last of the Jedi; a real downer.
I was really disappointed I didn't see Leon in a cinema. I was told it was rubbish so ignored it, despite Oldman being in it. I mean, I've liked everything he's been in. When I saw it on TV I was, if you'll forgive the pun, blown away.
But pride of place goes to Gravity. If it was an art film I might have expected all visuals without plot. But it wasn't, so I didn't. It was appalling.
Edited by Derek Smith on Wednesday 11th December 16:25
The Royal Tenenbaums. The trailer sold it as a comedy and as it starred Gene Hackman, one of my favourite actors, and Bill Murray a group of us went to the cinema expecting great things. Turns out all the humourous bits were in the trailer and the rest of the film was somewhat deeper and considerably more sad. It was very highly rated at the time by critics though, so perhaps my disappointment was partly based on it not being the type of film I was expecting.
mrtwisty said:
Lost In Translation is one of my all time favourites also. The sensation that you aren't watching actors, because of quality low key performances - I love it.
Grand Budapest Hotel I found to be borderline unwatchable for some reason, despite The Royal Tenenbaums being in my top five.
How interesting. I didn't spot your post before I wrote about how disappointed I was by The Royal Tenenbaums. By contrast I really enjoyed the Grand Budapest Hotel.Grand Budapest Hotel I found to be borderline unwatchable for some reason, despite The Royal Tenenbaums being in my top five.
Life would be boring if we all liked the same thing.
Tron Legacy - one of the best soundtracks, but the film is dull.
Downsizing - great initial premises but the plot went very rapidly downhill and not where I thought it would go.
The Lego Movie - gets great reviews but I found it had too much going on. I think you'd need ADHD to enjoy! (Maybe I was just tired!)
Downsizing - great initial premises but the plot went very rapidly downhill and not where I thought it would go.
The Lego Movie - gets great reviews but I found it had too much going on. I think you'd need ADHD to enjoy! (Maybe I was just tired!)
This might be controversial...
Started to try and make myself watch some classics.
Tried Lawrence of Arabia, and while it is utterly beautiful, I felt I needed to understand Middle Eastern politics of the era to work out what on earth was going on.
Then I realised it was 3 and a half bloody hours long and gave up after one and a half!
Started to try and make myself watch some classics.
Tried Lawrence of Arabia, and while it is utterly beautiful, I felt I needed to understand Middle Eastern politics of the era to work out what on earth was going on.
Then I realised it was 3 and a half bloody hours long and gave up after one and a half!
bloomen said:
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. 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.
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.
Hub said:
Tron Legacy - one of the best soundtracks, but the film is dull.
Downsizing - great initial premises but the plot went very rapidly downhill and not where I thought it would go.
Tron Legacy is great to look at. That's just about enough for me. Downsizing - great initial premises but the plot went very rapidly downhill and not where I thought it would go.
Downsizing goes gradually bonkers. I wonder whether the director snuck his cut into the cinema while feeding the studio a fake one.
STe_rsv4 said:
Schmed said:
Goldeneye. Hated Brosnan as Bond.
Get out I was reminded of an older "disappointing film" last night.
I seem to get reeled in every time, too. Spot "Mosquito Squadron" on the TV guide, and tune in. There's (potentially, at least) loads to love about this movie. Real De Havilland Mosquitoes in abundance, for a start. So abundant that they destroyed a real one staging a landing accident. And a plot based on several real missions fictionalised into one big set-piece precision raid at the end. Loads of scope for aerial scenes and action. Then you realise that it was made about 12 years too late, or 20 years too early. Because in 1969 the "war movie" genre was firmly in the grip of a film industry that couldn't get enough of pointless love interest characters to fill out the middle portion of the movie, complete with soppy back stories, and quite obviously tiny costume/hair/makeup budgets, because the sheer number of characters, both male and female, who would have easily strolled off set unnoticed as being in "period costume" in 1969 was shocking.
But at the same time, every time it's on screen, I love seeing the Minley Manor which I knew so well appearing as the German-held French Chateau. I'm torn with this one. On the one hand it is very, very disappointing, but on the other? Merlins engines, Mosquitoes, and low level bombing raids are all kinds of awesome.
I seem to get reeled in every time, too. Spot "Mosquito Squadron" on the TV guide, and tune in. There's (potentially, at least) loads to love about this movie. Real De Havilland Mosquitoes in abundance, for a start. So abundant that they destroyed a real one staging a landing accident. And a plot based on several real missions fictionalised into one big set-piece precision raid at the end. Loads of scope for aerial scenes and action. Then you realise that it was made about 12 years too late, or 20 years too early. Because in 1969 the "war movie" genre was firmly in the grip of a film industry that couldn't get enough of pointless love interest characters to fill out the middle portion of the movie, complete with soppy back stories, and quite obviously tiny costume/hair/makeup budgets, because the sheer number of characters, both male and female, who would have easily strolled off set unnoticed as being in "period costume" in 1969 was shocking.
But at the same time, every time it's on screen, I love seeing the Minley Manor which I knew so well appearing as the German-held French Chateau. I'm torn with this one. On the one hand it is very, very disappointing, but on the other? Merlins engines, Mosquitoes, and low level bombing raids are all kinds of awesome.
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