The most disappointing film you've seen

[Se7enheaven]

ScottJB said:

Dunkirk

Have to agree , I thought it was a truly dreadful film. I watched it in IMAX and even that did nothing for it.

[irocfan]

yellowjack said:

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.

amusingly I caught about 5 minutes of that (where the 'German' tank is destroyed by bazooka) - it looked beyond redemption dire

[anonymous-user]

Derek Smith said:

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.

Riverworld 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.

Totally agree Derek! Gravity is absolutely appalling, literally nothing happens, visually quite pleasing, but as a story absolutely woeful, as a viewer i just didn't care and wanted it to be over.

[bonerp]

Starship Troopers is the only film I've ever walked out of.

[vixen1700]

bonerp said:

Starship Troopers is the only film I've ever walked out of.

Wow! Really?

It's a great film!

[bloomen]

vixen1700 said:

Wow! Really?

It's a great film!

I can see that if you didn't 'get' the approach you'd start off thinking it was sub 90210 garbage. It's had a long time to be reappraised since.

[designforlife]

Joker... populist mainstream garbage trying to masquerade as something greater than the sum of it's very average parts.

[Leithen]

Gangs of New York.

Pointless, meaningless.

[vixen1700]

bloomen said:

I can see that if you didn't 'get' the approach you'd start off thinking it was sub 90210 garbage. It's had a long time to be reappraised since.

Went into it completely unknown. It was on at the South Bank NFT a few weeks before general release. We'd gone to see something else but missed the start, and the bloke in the ticket office was laughing about Starship Troopers saying we must go and see it.

Even my wife loved it.

[OzzyR1]

Snakes on a Plane.

Still think Samuel L Jackson must have lost a bet to put his name to it.

[psi310398]

OzzyR1 said:

Snakes on a Plane.

Still think Samuel L Jackson must have lost a bet to put his name to it.

Au contraire, I'm afraid; he had a hissy fit when it was proposed changing the name to "Flight something or other" and said he'd only agreed to star in it because of the title.

[Halb]

Yeah, even at the time (most) people knew STarship Troopers was a massive piss-take of a way of thinking. Except the lead, he seemed to think it was something else.

[DS240]

I watched ‘Olympus has Fallen’ so I’m not sure I can really say the next film was disappointing, as you pretty much knew what was coming.

I watched ‘London has fallen’ today and my god! I knew it might be a bit fetched, but it was pretty awful. I don’t know where to start with picking things apart with it as too many to start ranting about individually.

[glazbagun]

Prometheus for me. After all the terrible sequels, finally Ridley Scott returns to do justice to his creation, only to give us the sttest movie of the whole franchise!

The Last Jedi was pretty disappointing, but I was only expecting a Star Wars by numbers so it didn't have as far to fall as prometheus.

[STe_rsv4]

designforlife said:

Joker... populist mainstream garbage trying to masquerade as something greater than the sum of it's very average parts.

So edgy...... .

[robemcdonald]

I’ve been contemplating coming clean on this as I know it’s very controversial:

Blade Runner.

I’ve tried so hard to like it. I’ve watched every special addition at the cinema. Each time with the hope that something will click and let me see what everyone else does.
I have several DVD, HD DVD and Blurays of other non theatrical releases. All watched in hope of a revelation.

I would say I have watched the film more frequently than most who would put it in their top ten.

But aside from the odd bit of dialogue and production design it’s soooo boring.

[bloomen]

robemcdonald said:

I’ve been contemplating coming clean on this as I know it’s very controversial:

Blade Runner.

You cannae fault the art design. As an actual tale it's... not really there.

[glazbagun]

vixen1700 said:

bonerp said:

Starship Troopers is the only film I've ever walked out of.

Wow! Really?

It's a great film!

Utterly brilliant.

If you want to talk about Paul Verhoeven disappointments he made a film called Showgirls just after he'd done Basic Instinct which totally bombed and sank the career of Saved-By-The-Bell actress Elizabeth Berkley, grabbing seven Golden Rasberries- including Worst Film, Worst Director, Worst Screenplay, Worst Actress (berkley) and Worst New Star (also Berkley. Ouch).

I can't remember much about it except that it basically doubled as soft porn back in the pre-internet days. There's a bit of reviosonism of late saying it wasn't that bad, but it must have been an epic disappointment at the time.

[Evolved]

STe_rsv4 said:

Schmed said:

Goldeneye. Hated Brosnan as Bond.

Get out

Great game though.

[Bradgate]

No contest. Star Wars Phantom Menace. Just laughably, embarrassingly crap. Still the only film I have ever paid to watch, then walked out of before the end.