The biggest film disappointment?

[irocfan]

As it says above which film (metaphorically, or otherwise) reduced yo to tears upon watching it?

I was going to go with "Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets" thanks to the charisma vacuum and dearth of talent displayed by the 2 leads - but despite all that I really enjoyed the film (the riot of colour and weirdness worked - barely!).

Star Wars VIII & IX also get (dis)honourable mentions but, to a degree, I can forgive them because they are (at heart) a children's film...


Leaving the clear winner (or indeed loser!) as Prometheus. What a pile

[skinnyman]

The Irishman.

It's 3.5hrs long, so I'd waited until a evening when the wife was out. So I ordered myself some food, sat down to watch it, and I found myself checking how long was left as I got bored, several times. In the end it was 3.5hrs of 'meh'.

[toasty]

Agree with Prometheus. So much wasted potential.

[zygalski]

Interstellar in the cinema.
Every 5 minutes "what'd he say?".

[vixen1700]

Highlander II

Loved the first one at the cinema and really looked forward to more of the same brilliance.

Wasn't to be and can remember nothing of it apart from shuffling out of the pictures mumbling "That was st".

[Muzzer79]

Suicide Squad

Justice League

Batman vs Superman (the last third, at least)


DC just can't nail the comic-book adaptation like Marvel.

[PixelpeepZ4]

Nicolas Cage, the last of us.

W T A F

[Radec]

Street Fighter the movie, was a massive fan of the game when I was younger and then when it was announced with Van Damme in the lead and Raul Julia playing Bison, the hype levels were off the charts.
How could it ever fail?

What followed was one of the most terrible films ever.

Currently I'd stick the new Star Wars trilogy in this too, it had the potential to be great, unfortunatly it turned out to be a horrible mess.

[UnclePat]

toasty said:

Agree with Prometheus. So much wasted potential.

I opened this thread intending to mention the absolute pile of pretentious poo that is Prometheus, but heartily approve of it being mentioned twice already in the first three posts. Had such high hopes for it, but what a letdown.

Also, I found ‘Seven Psychopaths’ to be unbearably smug & self-satisfied, thinking it was much better than it was. What a cast, and after ‘In Bruges’... just wasted. I also thought ‘Three Billboards’ was not half as clever as it fancies itself.

[RedAndy]

The Blade sequels

[ajprice]

Tom Cruise version of War of the Worlds. Yes there's a massive battle between the military and the aliens, over there on the other side of the hill.

First Man. Watch the Apollo 11 documentary film instead.

[Ace-T]

RedAndy said:

The Blade sequels

I thought 2 and 3 were better than 1 actually. They are not fantastic, but they are entertaining.

My vote goes to Prometheus. I would rather watch Valerian again than that utter bag of excrement.

[bigandclever]

The Hobbit trilogy.

[blingybongy]

I read the title and thought, that's easy.

Prometheus.

[Trevor555]

blingybongy said:

I read the title and thought, that's easy.

Prometheus.

I enjoyed it.

Ok, I'll seek help

[TCEvo]

ajprice said:

Tom Cruise version of War of the Worlds. Yes there's a massive battle between the military and the aliens, over there on the other side of the hill.

First half's OK w/ some decent set pieces. Goes off badly though & the rest of the film's a proper slog.

Huge disappointment for me was Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.

[PaulWoof]

Max Payne - One of the best video games made with enough story to make several movies in a neo-noir setting and they make the most naffest action movie about some weird norse mythology and flying super villans or some crap.

[QuartzDad]

Knowing, Nicolas Cage.

Great premise, good start, ok middle then ffs.

The Revenant.

156 minutes of nothing happens.

[blingybongy]

Trevor555 said:

blingybongy said:

I read the title and thought, that's easy.

Prometheus.

I enjoyed it.

Ok, I'll seek help

It was the curate's egg in film form.

[Johnnytheboy]

bigandclever said:

The Hobbit trilogy.

This.

It is fashionable to hate the LOTR films on PH but i enjoy them, but the Hobbit films are execrable, particularly impressive is how much worse and obvious the CGI is.