The most disappointing film you've seen
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cerb4.5lee said:
That is a good shout, and I'm not sure where the good reviews came from for it. Both me and my Mrs thought that it was dog turd.
Myself and most of my friends had high hopes. Even before the original Mad Max obtained cult status, we all loved it. The best I got was an "It was ok I suppose". Everyone else thought it was, as you say, a complete turd.Ozone said:
Trainspotting - everyone raves about it and after watching it i thought it was the most depressing film i have ever seen, just horrible
Agreed, I streamed it a couple of months ago and I know the subject-matter goes on but decided after about 10 mins that I didn't want to watch a movie about it.In recent times Terminator Dark Fate or whatever. I didn't have high expectations anyway but it ain't got no story.
Almost all DC films. I think the last one I tried was Batman vs Superman but started reading a book a few minutes in and noticed the odd weird thing as it played out like some s
t monster shouting but couldn't be bothered to check really.
Any Alien film after Aliens. But Prometheus and Covenant in particular look great but really are awful stories that either don't make sense or are plain crap.
Almost all DC films. I think the last one I tried was Batman vs Superman but started reading a book a few minutes in and noticed the odd weird thing as it played out like some s
t monster shouting but couldn't be bothered to check really. Any Alien film after Aliens. But Prometheus and Covenant in particular look great but really are awful stories that either don't make sense or are plain crap.
Agreed on Mad max fury road, utter drivel, but I watched it on one of those ultra tellies and it looked all a bit fake!
Someone mentioned Blair Witch, and I get it, I hated it at the flicks, but upon watching t alone at home decade or so later it really got to me, honestly one of the scariest movies I have seen!
One film I have never got and never will despite trying
Clockwork Orange!
Someone mentioned Blair Witch, and I get it, I hated it at the flicks, but upon watching t alone at home decade or so later it really got to me, honestly one of the scariest movies I have seen!
One film I have never got and never will despite trying
Clockwork Orange!
Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull. The original Indy's are some of my favourite films, so hoped the latest one was going to be okay, at least. When I watch a film at home and I have my PC on, I can rate it by the number of matches of Football Manager I play (easy to play and watch a film at the same time). No matches means an awesome film, 2-3 means good to average, more matches than that and it's rubbish. With Crystal Skull, at the point where the the bus went over a cliff (I think that was what happened, my mind had switched off), I gave up on Football Manager, put my headset on and was playing Call of Duty. I feel I was being generous in waiting that long.
The South Park creators seem to have the same view as I do.
https://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2008/...
The South Park creators seem to have the same view as I do.
https://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2008/...
I actually don't mind Valerian but when I first watched it I knew going in that it had been heavily criticised so my expectations were very low. I appreciated the visuals and grand scifi world building as it's just not something you see too often. The open scenes are also rather good until the main characters story kicks in.
I don't think I have ever seen a film so undone by bad casting though. If they had just cast someone who was remotely believable as Valerian it would have improved the film a great deal. Casting a charisma vacuum to play a character that seems like they are meant to be very charismatic is a real head scratcher as to how that could have happened.
I don't think I have ever seen a film so undone by bad casting though. If they had just cast someone who was remotely believable as Valerian it would have improved the film a great deal. Casting a charisma vacuum to play a character that seems like they are meant to be very charismatic is a real head scratcher as to how that could have happened.
Edited by dvb70 on Thursday 5th December 13:58
dvb70 said:
I actually don't mind Valerian but when I first watched it I knew going in that it had been heavily criticised so my expectations were very low. I appreciated the visuals and grand scifi world building as it's just not something you see too often. The open scenes are also rather good until the main characters story kicks in.
I don't think I have ever seen a film so undone by bad casting though. If they had just cast someone who was remotely believable as Valerian it would have improved the film a great deal. Casting a charisma vacuum to play a character that seems like they are meant to be very charismatic is a real head scratcher as to how that could have happened.
I thought that the visuals in Valerian were gobsmacking to put it mildly and there were a lot of really good elements - however the 2 leads seem to have had charisma bypasses I don't think I have ever seen a film so undone by bad casting though. If they had just cast someone who was remotely believable as Valerian it would have improved the film a great deal. Casting a charisma vacuum to play a character that seems like they are meant to be very charismatic is a real head scratcher as to how that could have happened.
Digby said:
Oh and Mad Max Fury Road.
Drive across a desert, turn around, come back again.
Drive across a desert, turn around, come back again.
Almost every modern "reboot/sequel/reimagining" has been dire for me but my most disappointing was the fault of the trailer - Unbreakable - where the trailer made out that it was an action film with train crashes and a man discovering he's a superhero, while in actuality its a psychological thriller with family drama in it etc.
Paul_M3 said:
It's a long while ago, but for me it's The Blair Witch Project. There was a huge amount of hype around it at the time.
I can still remember that when it ended in the cinema, all you could hear were loads of people saying things like "Is that the end?", "Was that it?", and "That was rubbish".
Totally agree. At the end in the cinema I was still sitting waiting on something to happen!I can still remember that when it ended in the cinema, all you could hear were loads of people saying things like "Is that the end?", "Was that it?", and "That was rubbish".
In fact I watched this in a cinema in one of Scotlands not so nice areas. The crowd in the cinema were scarier than the film!
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