Films you were disappointed were bad

oxygen

What film have you seen that you were disappointed was bad?

I thought Hanna was going to be an epic movie. Soairse Ronan, Eric Banna, Cate Blanchet in a movie about a trained child assassin and her assassin father. It even had a original score by the Chemical Brothers.

Aside fro some great fight scenes, it was an uneven slow paced film with a weak ending.

Nate--IRL--

Dune.

Nate

TomCleverly

Inglorious Bastards

loveBBhate

Man of Steel.

Littlehorny

^^^ Yeah big hope going into Man of Steel but thought it was a mess.

The Backwards Man

World War Z

Only thing it had in common with the book was the title.

NIMAN

Avatar.

So much type, so little delivered.

A2LUE42

Around Ireland with a fridge.

Colash

Gravity ! Looked amazing in previews but wasn't as amazing to watch . Although I watched a bad quality copy so it made it seem
Worse

Lago

The Hobbit

Mickeroo

Colash wrote: »

Gravity ! Looked amazing in previews but wasn't as amazing to watch . Although I watched a bad quality copyso it made it seem
Worse

There's your problem right there.

Man of Steel disappointed me more than any film in the last few years I think, especially after that awesome trailer the released for it.

Missyelliot2

Colash wrote: »

Gravity ! Looked amazing in previews but wasn't as amazing to watch . Although I watched a bad quality copy so it made it seem
Worse

I liked Gravity...only because I felt my head reeling for most of the film (and I was sitting down, with popcorn!) My entire family HATED it.

I thought 'Insidious" was just awful and promoted to death. Tom Cruise is just so brutally bad.

TBH, am bored with films (how pompous does that sound?) ....there are some really engaging documentaries, which are far more enjoyable.

krudler

Colash wrote: »

Gravity ! Looked amazing in previews but wasn't as amazing to watch . Although I watched a bad quality copy so it made it seem
Worse

Why, oh why, would you watch a film that's pure spectacle on a crappy cam version? if there's one movie deserving a viewing in the cinema right now it's Gravity.

CastorTroy

Green Lantern. I've been reading the comics since Rebirth so was looking forward to it. But then it was like Geoff Johns decided he wanted to see everything he did on the big screen whether there was room for it or not.

MrStuffins

Fargo!

razorblunt

Missyelliot2 wrote: »

I liked Gravity...only because I felt my head reeling for most of the film (and I was sitting down, with popcorn!) My entire family HATED it.

I thought 'Insidious" was just awful and promoted to death. Tom Cruise is just so brutally bad.

TBH, am bored with films (how pompous does that sound?) ....there are some really engaging documentaries, which are far more enjoyable.

Insidious Cruise?
Oblivion?

Missyelliot2

Winter Bones

Missyelliot2

razorblunt wrote: »

Insidious Cruise?
Oblivion?

Oblivion! Thank you!:D

SweepTheLeg

Prometheus

oxygen

Some good suggestions up there. Films I particularly agree with

Man of Steel
Oblivion
Gravity
World War Z
Green Lantern
Prometheus

krudler

SweepTheLeg wrote: »

Prometheus

Had so much potential, beautiful looking but dumb as a hammer movie.

Colash

On the flip side of this . I was fully convinced I would be dissapointed by Jack Reacher and I was surprised to acutally enjoy it .

Looper007

TomCleverly wrote: »

Inglorious Bastards

Oh big time never understood the love thrown its way. I thought Django Unchained was Tarantino's return to form.

Lost in Translation- Take out Bill Murray's performance and the soundtrack and you have one superfacial and empty film.

Little Miss sunshine

marcy martha may marlene

Looper007

loveBBhate wrote: »

Man of Steel.

I was disappointed in it that it didn't live up to the hype but still thought it was a good popcorn film.

Sir Gallagher

Great shout on Hanna, that film pissed me off.

I'll add Looper to the pile. Looper had an interesting premise and started off well, then, all of a sudden it turned into an M. Night Shyamalan film. They should have stuck with the time travel and left the supernatural sh1te out.

charlie_says

List thread.

I hated the way that it started and continued.

edit: the end parts had drama though....

e_e

Slumdog Millionaire. That film just made me angry.

Staplor

God damn Matrix sequels.

Scartbeg

Captain Corelli's Mandolin - the book was a real tear jerker, however the film was a huge disappointment.

force eleven

Flight

The self indulgence of the lead character left me cold.

zl1whqvjs75cdy

Only God forgives. I loved Drive so the reunion of Ryan Gosling and Nicolas Refn had my salivating with anticipation. IT turned out to be a complete disappointment. Even worse I brought the missus to it promising it was going to be one of the best films ever. So I also looked like a complete tool.

Fandango

Have to say it....The Big Lebowski. Honestly thought it was a very average film.

gugleguy

Austin Powers sequels.
Men In Black sequels.
Escape Plan - Arnie and Sly survive. I WANTED Sly to drown. I wanted Vinnie Jones character to escape to fight another day. These prison guard masks were COOL!

e_e

donkeyoaty0099 wrote: »

Only God forgives. I loved Drive so the reunion of Ryan Gosling and Nicolas Refn had my salivating with anticipation. IT turned out to be a complete disappointment. Even worse I brought the missus to it promising it was going to be one of the best films ever. So I also looked like a complete tool.

The opposite for me, after the trashing it got here and elsewhere I was surprised by how good it was.

dandyo

Titanic really sank!

jonnyfingers

Agree with Man of Steel and Green Lantern.

I'd throw The Dark Knight Rises in there too. It just didn't do it for me when I first watched it. I've since watched it in DVD and it's has improved slightly for me, but it's still well behind The Dark Knight.

And lastly both Iron Man 2 and Iron Man 3, especially Iron Man 3 as it came after The Avengers, which I really liked, and thought they had some interesting places to take the character. Instead i found myself literally rolling my eyes at the "Mandarin" reveal. :mad:

Sugarlumps

Fandango wrote: »

Have to say it....The Big Lebowski. Honestly thought it was a very average film.

Same here.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

the dark knight. after batman begins i was all amped up for it but it just bored the pants off me, havent bothered with rises yet

same for the two towers after the wonderful fellowship. I walked out of return of the king in the cinema, always mean to go back and watch them again but.. they're too long and I'm so lacking in care.

Outrage. normally love kitano but this film just left me cold. i've only watched it the once so maybe a rewatch will change my opinion but I doubt it

SHANAbert

Transformers

I watched this as a 4/5 yr old kid and loved it. Then 20 years later they made the movie and I thought they would have targeted my age group now as the audience instead they made a children's movie with terrible acting and a cringingly bad script. They could have done so much.

gurl88

La vita è bella/ Life is beautiful; Everybody seems to love it and it's a nice story, but I had a hard time not falling asleep watching it

BrianJD

The Great Gatsby was anything but Great

wandatowell

The latest Die Hard movie, what a horrible piece of ****.

ZeroThreat

Alexander (the 2005 one, not the one with Richard Burton).

Probably a bad idea having Oliver Stone directing though, Ridley Scott would have been a more appropriate choice imho...

DvB

Prometheus, entirely underwhelming.

phatkev

The Counselor

Zubeneschamali

I've usually picked up enough about a movie from reviews to have a good idea what to expect (without watching trailers or reading spoilers).

Elysium was a bit disappointing - Jodie Foster was terrible, the ending was laughable.

Pacific Rim was awesome, but the plot, characters and dialogue could have been less stupid and it would still have been awesome.

The first Hobbit movie was a mess, but I was expecting that.

Gravity looked great, and if they had used anything about being in space or in orbit correctly, it could have actually been great, but they didn't, so a bit disappointing.

brevity

I found Cowboy's and Aliens really disappointing, I expected a lot more from it. I just didn't find it fun or interesting.

Elysium was another one, so boring.

Frank Black

One of my work colleagues told me that Olympus Has Fallen was a bit like Die Hard set in the White House.

I watched it on Netflix over the weekend.


I'm no longer seeking movie advise from this particular colleague.

lynski

Ali - thought will smith was good but it was cut to s*it
Battlefield Earth - i liked the book and the movie was so so so bad.
Will Smith again for After Earth - great looking movie, lovely tech but horrible acting

jonnyfingers

Frank Black wrote: »

One of my work colleagues told me that Olympus Has Fallen was a bit like Die Hard set in the White House.

I watched it on Netflix over the weekend.


I'm no longer seeking movie advise from this particular colleague.

I actually think it is quite like Die Hard set in the White House. And what's more I described it as such to my missus, who hates all action films except Die Hard, and she loved it!

Obviously it wasn't for you and that's fair enough.

Spins

The Hurt Locker

Not worthy of best movie Oscar imo