The most disappointing film you've seen

[irocfan]

as the title says what was the most disappointing film you've seen - the build-up has been great, the hype-train steaming down the rails and then you're finally sat there, cinema ticket in your sweaty hands awaiting the promised masterpiece and......

it's st. Not just "it could never live up to the hype" st but genuinely WTF were they thinking/smoking to make this pile of bantha dung?


I'll start off with.....

Prometheus

Edited by irocfan on Wednesday 4th December 11:31

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generationx said:

The Last Jedi - just didn't feel like a Star Wars movie to me and caused me to forego Solo when it was in the theatres

Solo was actually quite fun - waaay better than TLJ (though that wouldn't be hard!).


Interesting that there's been no mention of The Phantom Menace given the SW mentions here

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SS2. said:

The Matrix Revolutions, very closely followed by Reloaded.

Both efforts prove that simply throwing loads of money at something doesn't guarantee it'll be any good.

I'm sure I read that there's going to be a forth one....

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zb said:

This was the start of me losing respect for Kermode, his Last Jedi review put the tin lid on it.

can I hazard a guess that he loves it?

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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

Digby said:

Oh and Mad Max Fury Road.
Drive across a desert, turn around, come back again.

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I still can't understand the fuss about E.T. tried watching it three times and fallen asleep 3 times

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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