I know that knocking on it is overdone, but Phantom Menace. I was 13 when it came out, huge Star Wars fan, absolutely target market. Walked out so sad and confused.
The Avatar the last air bender ( live action ) movie. I was a child when the movie came out so I had no clue who the director was and how shitty of a movie I was in for. The ending recked me since it didn’t even have a satisfying conclusion. Just pure garbage
I was in genuine shock of how bad of a movie I’d gotten into. Never again
Kinda weird to mention a movie that doesn’t even exist.
Honestly same, left it early and was genuinely sad because we almost never had a movie we wanted to go out for
World War Z.
i was do hyped. and it single handedly ended the zombie movie genre that was popular at the time
Should have stuck to the book. Doing vignettes about how the invasion affected people would have been far more interesting.
the sad part is that few people will read the book because the movie was so bad.
I kinda liked it, not great by any means, maybe 3/5. But i liked the book way better
the book and the movie have absolutely nothing in common besides the name. it was such a disapointing mediocre zombie film, based on a really good book that used “zombies” to explore war, survival, refuge crisis…
“Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow.”
The beginning is great. Giant robots attacking New York.
Then it just becomes boring and ridiculous.
Posters promised Angelina Jolie. she shows up for five minutes and doesn’t do anything.
Not saying you’re wrong, but praising the giant robot attack on New York before swerving into critiquing the latter half of the movie for being ridiculous is a funny juxtaposition.
Here’s the way I look at it.
A fictional story should follow its own rules. Let’s take “The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.” The idea that someone would let himself be hung, trusting the other guy to be able to make that incredible shot over and over and never miss, is nonsensical. But we in the audience accept that premise for the sake of the story. We’d be disappointed if, halfway through the movie, an orchestra appears in the middle of the desert and they do a big musical number.
“Sky Captain” was ridiculous because of the way the story kept shifting and the rules kept changing.
I admit that I saw Sky Captain once, many many years ago, so I’m not going to be able to back this up with too many specific citations, but you’ve also not said specifically what rule they set up and fail to follow, so we’re even.
It’s a pastiche of pulp fiction concepts from the 30s-50s. Giant robots, airships, Nazi scientists, Shangri-La, dinosaurs, android assassins, the works. The whole thing is like a loving homage to Doc Savage’s greatest hits. I don’t see how any of that “breaks rules”.
Like I said, I won’t dispute your overall finding of the film being, “meh”. I watched it once 20 years ago and haven’t gone back since, so I’m not exactly leaping up to defend it’s execution, but I also think “the rules kept changing” is an empty critique, as it stands currently.
I’m not going to argue about a movie neither one of us has seen in over 20 years.
Have fun.
You’re under no obligation to continue the discussion, sure, but it seems disingenuous to me to open a thread saying “Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow is a bad movie because it fails to follow it’s own internal logic”. Then, upon having that assertion challenged, you jump to, “I’m not gonna argue about this.” Like, why comment at all if you’re not interested in discussing, and yes, maybe even defending, your take? Regardless, if that’s not what you’re here to do, have a good day.
If you actually thought I was under no obligation, you wouldn’t have sent your note, which I consider a masterpiece of passive aggressiveness.
I throw it back at you. You had all afternoon to actually watch the movie and present extensive notes.
Like, why did you comment at all?
Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker. I went in with very low expectations and it still managed to disappoint so badly that it makes me angry. I hate how the Palpatine plot point retroactively ruins the entire original trilogy.
My biggest problem with
thisthe sequels is that Luke’s character just got completely butchered.You really want me to believe that one of my childhood heros, who against all odds, against his mentors judgement, decided to go all in on the “There’s good in my father, I’ll save him or die.”-train would grow old and wants to kill his own fucking nephew because he’s seeing something evil in him?
That was last Jedi though, was it not? I never watched rise of Skywalker, the Luke story ended with him vanishing into the force at the end of last Jedi if I recall correctly.
Oh, you’re absolutely right, I mixed that up.
Fury Road 2: They got rid of a lot of the practical effects that made the first one great. The plot and pacing was off. I was just annoyed because of how much I liked the first one.
It’s been a while, but that would be Sin City 2 for me. Back then I was young and naive, and didn’t know that 99% of sequels are soulless cashgrabs. And I was really hyped, I loved the first one and still think of it as the best comic book adaptation I’ve ever seen. You could see the love in every frame.
But Eva Green tho.
Violet Evergarden: The Movie. My heart sank when I realized exactly where this was going, after all of her character development that’s the ending they decided to undermine it all with.
It made me want to never re-watch the series, too. The pedophilic undercurrent to the movie makes parts of the show so, so, much worse.
The Matrix. The 1st two movies seemed to set up the perfect twist for the 3rd movie…that Zion was still inside the Matrix, and there was no escape. But, then they went in a completely different direction, that made no sense, instead. Then they came out with the 4th movie, and still never fixed it. Why?
Once Upon a Time in America. Maybe I watched a bad version but it made little sense and the ending was dreadful.
Reading about it right now on wikipedia I probably saw the ‘condensed’ version which was savaged by the critics:
Some critics compared shortening the film to shortening Richard Wagner’s operas, saying that works of art that are meant to be long should be given the respect they deserve. In his 1984 review, Roger Ebert gave the uncut version four stars out of four and wrote that it was “an epic poem of violence and greed”, but described the American theatrical version as a “travesty”. Furthermore, he gave the American theatrical version one star out of four, calling it “an incomprehensible mess without texture, timing, mood, or sense”.
Fantastic four 2015, great first half and Phillip Glass soundtrack! But studio/publisher meddling destroyed the second half
I saw the Phantom menace on release, that was a huge let down
I actually agree that the first half was great and there were some solid bones and performances but I don’t think there was a break movie just below the surface of FF. Nothing we have seen or heard from that third act suggests Trank’s cut would have been demonstrably better.
easy one: Jurassic Park (1993)
I had read the book, maybe, a dozen times before the film came out, and holy shit was I disappointed. crushed, really. Not just in what they changed, but also what they left out. it totally ruined for me books adapted to film. any time I see a film based on a book I’ve read, I’m always let down.
oh man I was so disapointed in the book compared to the moive. I feel crichton has great ideas but is not a good writer. It is one of the few writers where I prefer the movies.
There are always exceptions. Andromeda Strain was an excellent book.
The original Andromeda Strain is an excellent movie.
You know I do recall that one not being bad. Rising son was maybe a little better book wise to.
Try reading “The Great Train Robbery.”
He wrote it as if it were a factual reconstruction of an actual crime. Long passages on things like rat baiting, penny hangs, tipping servants, and other Victoriana
I have not read that but I don’t read much now so I doubt I will get around to it. Top of my list is reading the wheel of time that jordan did not write to finish off the series.
Go find ‘The Great Train Robbery’
Creighton directed the movie based on his own novel.
X-Men Phoenix - such a great grafic novel arch and solid movies before that flick. Phoenix writing and acting saddens me.
I fell asleep while watching James Cameron’s Avatar in an IMAX theater on release.
Most tedious movie of his career until the sequels (guessing, didn’t give the sequels a chance because why would I?)
Kangaroo Jack. Most misleading trailer ever.
