For me it might be the Hobbit Trilogy.
The LotR Trilogy are my all time favorite movies and the contrast couldn’t be greater. Really goes to show what a perfect storm it was that we got the movies we got with LotR.
There’s a fan cut out there on the high seas, where they basically condensed those three shitty movies into one which follows the book as close as possible. That one is bearable and as far as I am concerned the official Hobbit movie now.
Omg yes. The Hobbit movies were so terrible.
Imo worse than just them being bad is the gap between their quality and the potential of what could have been.
Absolutely and factor who made them.
True. Although to his defense my understanding is that Peter Jackson came in late as a replacement and at least partially did it because otherswise many people would have been out of a job (presumably people in new Zealand that he knew well). Watching the behind the scenes extras imo show a quite stark contrast compared to the LotR trilogy.
The Matrix Resurrections. I already had a feeling it would suck but it managed to be worse than I could ever imagine, they weren’t even trying to hide how much of a cashgrab it is.
The previous two were utter dogshit… how could you expect anything different?
Matrix 2 & 3 were masterpieces by comparison, not as good as 1 but they were at least enjoyable.
They were steaming piles of dogshit…
There was nothing enjoyable about those dogshit movies.
“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.
Gladiator 2. If anyone can do spectacle, it’s Ridley Scott. But good goddamn, the action in that movie sucked so hard. And all the best lines were quotes from the original. Denzel was the only half enjoyable thing because I think he realized how bad the movie was and just had a blast with it.
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
Honestly same, left it early and was genuinely sad because we almost never had a movie we wanted to go out for
Kinda weird to mention a movie that doesn’t even exist.
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.
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?
The Legend of Ochi.
The trailer made it look like a great indie-fantasy movie with Willem Dafoe and Emily Watson. But the actual movie is full of AI-generated environments, the acting is subpar and Dafoe and Watson don’t have a lot of screentime.
Sometimes I really question my AAA24 membership. 😅
Megalopolis was equally disappointing. Granted, the movie has some amazing VFX and practical effects, so they cut all of the best shots into the trailer and made this trainwreck look competent and interesting. The actual movie then felt like a fever dream, you can really see respected actors like Adam Driver and Nathalie Emmanuel struggle with their own script. Plus all of the really bad VFX shots that did not make it into the trailer, of course.
At least we got the “Get back to the club” meme out of it.
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.
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”.
It is the most overrated movie of all time. Four hours of nothing… every single scene is 5times longer than it needs to be.
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
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.
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.
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.
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original with Robin Williams or the reboot with The Rock?
I’m assuming the one with Rock
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Suicide squad (
20182016) was a disaster and a tremendous letdown.Though that was clear by the time it actually hit cinemas, so more of a continuous descent from its first announcement to its actual release
*2016
WB hired the people who put together the trailer to edit the movie. The results were…not good.
True, although I think that was not the first of its failings… There has been a lot of post-mortem analysis, some real gems among the video essays that got made on it, at least.
