Napoleon. I was worried when I saw the trailer, but boy I could not have predicted such an unbelievable letdown.
Getting eerily similar vibes from Gladiator 2.
100% I spent ten mins on Wikipedia reading more about Napoleon. Baffled how that ten mins was infinitely more interesting and entertaining. It's a skill to make such an incredible life seem so fucking dull. Scott has lost it. Many years ago.
The extreme compression and unnecessary fictionalization of the Austerlitz victory was what ruined it for me. Was expecting some compression for the sake of time, but...
I’m a mod at quite a few more serious history subs and one of them is r/Napoleon… (I also mod r/warmovies and it was held in similar disdain)
For weeks it was post after post of pissed off users. I made a release thread for the movie and it was 200 angry comments pissed how they butchered what could have been an awesome historical epic
https://www.reddit.com/r/Napoleon/s/7kO1GSNi7k
The issue wasn’t historical inaccuracy: we expected issues to be streamlined and simplified…but this was a **total case of false advertising**. The trailers advertised a historical epic in the vein of Gladiator or the Kingdom of Heaven director’s cut…instead we got a weird sexually charged story that ignored the great historical figure to tell a meandering story more about Josephine and a weird, fictional relationship.
In a nearly three-hour film about the world’s greatest general they show about 15 minutes of war scenes. Absolutely no mention of Napoleon the statesman and his monumental civic accomplishments. The few minutes of battle shown look like a cross between medieval warfare and WW1; his Marshalls don’t even have speaking lines (the actor who played Marshall Ney actually apologized to Ney’s descendants for the piss-poor portrayal https://www.reddit.com/r/Napoleon/s/3FYAWIjUPx)
It was pure garbage. I was on my phone the 2nd half of the movie out of pure boredom.
"Lets make a movie about Napoleon ... but not the stuff he is famous for ... lets make it entirely about the other stuff"
Agree on Gladiator 2. The trailer is overstuffed. You know you’re headed for trouble when they release a double length trailer as they try to make it stick
Even though it was 3 minutes long, i didn’t want more and I lost interest after 2 minutes.
The unknown co lead looks completely out of his depth
It’s going to be a massive disappointment
Yeah they’ve all been t2 reshashes. Idk why they stick to that formula but they keep doing it.
For once I’d like to see the future war with the robots and humans
Exactly why I gave up on this series. It's like watching a lame tribute band. All I wanted to see was the future war. In the first two films, we get these brief glimpses of the future war. We kept getting told about this epic battle in the future where the human resistance rises up and destroys Skynet.
That was the next natural progression for the series, if at all, and we never really got it. *Salvation* got close to giving us this, but not close enough.
Ahh, a fellow redditor of class. T2 is also my favourite movie of all time. T1000 is quite possibly the greatest villain ever created. He's the reason why no other terminator movies have felt "right." The scene where the milk carton is sliding down his knife arm as he's stabbed it through that dudes throat, nothing will ever compare to that for me. Every other bad guy has seemed watered down compared to t1000.
I remember feeling more enthusiastic once they announced it would carry an R rating, alleviating concerns that it would be hamstrung by a more box-office friendly PG-13, and yet the final product still felt watered-down. All in all, T3 is not a terrible movie, but it's vastly inferior to its predecessors, and the comedic elements are simply out of place.
Ultraviolet, a "vampire" movie with Milla Jovavich, from the folks that made Equilibrium? I was expecting Gun Kata 2.0, and I left the theatre thinking, "What the hell was that?"
Corporate greed ruined Ultraviolet.
Sony took over because they needed an action movie in theaters. They basically forced the original team out and "finished" it themselves real quick. They used placeholder footage that we were never intended to see.
The intro sequence with the wall-riding motorcycle and the helicopter was just roughly cobbled together action concept footage, wasn't meant to have appeared in the movie in any capacity.
The cast filmed some shots under Sony's management, but were not happy with the decisions being made.
It's been condemned by pretty much everyone involved in the project.
Eragon. I loved that series when it came out and was very excited for the movie and what I saw was a lot of bad decisions made by someone who didn’t read the book.
I think the author of the books would even agree with you. I’ve seen some comments on Reddit from him that seem to sympathise with those that feel this way.
Me and my wife went. I turned to her regarding leaving and saw her chuckle so I let it lie (her one solitary chuckle in this agonising bloody film). Turns out, she turned to me at one point regarding leaving and saw me chuckle (likewise at the single time in this bloody thing) so we both thought the other was enjoying it.
When we left we both discussed how utterly awful the damn thing was
The message is kind of nice at the end. Take care of the people/world around you now not in a possible future. But man. The journey to get to the end of the movie.
Omg, I loved this movie. Me and my wife still go back and forth about "what kind fuck you give me?" I'm sorry you were disappointed, but we went in blind and loved it.
Thor love and thunder, Ragnorok, was my favorite MCU movie, and they teased the teamup with the Guardians of the Galaxy and that lasted all of 5 mins. Such a let down
Same. Love & Thunder was such a turd. Like we had already got mopey Thor across all the previous avenger movies, way too much fawning over Jane. There wasn't enough fighting. Was a waste of a pretty cool villain too.
I don't know how many people were actually excited for these movies, but I was stoked for them and then felt super let down ....
1. Gangster Squad - Incredible cast, good plot, but a horribly written and executed movie. One of the worst I've ever seen honestly. I came out of the movie so incredibly disappointed. It had potential to be an all-timer with that cast, but the direction and writing was atrocious.
2. The Predator - The previews looked incredible and I love these movies, but this one was also a huge let down. The plot just wasn't very good IMHO.
Regarding the OP .... Yes, I also agree that Tenet was **NOT GOOD**.
I absolutely **HATED** having to turn my volume up to 90 to hear the dialogue between characters and then back down to 40 during the action scenes because of how freaking loud they were. The plot was also hard to follow and a tad bit confusing IMHO.
Oh god, gangster squad. With the cast, I was so excited for a new noire gangster film.
The action and editing were so bad. When the camera does a flinch whenever a character throws a punch (wince)
Find one of the fan edits online. You'll be shocked to find that a real movie of The Hobbit exists once all the crap is removed. Martin Freeman's performance as Bilbo is just lovely when it's the entire focus of the movie.
I love a good fan edit. I remember watching one of Django Unchained in Tarantino's older style and it cut out a lot of the pointless nonsense. You wouldn't happen to know where I could find that one would you?
This is the definitive "fan" cut, made by a professional film maker and editor and the link to their official page and safe download is [here](http://www.maple-films.com/downloads.html)
It shouldn't be 3 movies long.
Look at Lord of the Rings on the bookshelf, mine takes up a good 6 inches of reading material. This was Tolkien's best work. He wrote one story, was told how it was lacking and how to improve it. Instead of "just" improving it, he built on it and wrote Lord of the Rings. The first story he wrote was The Hobbit, which takes up about an inch of bookshelf.
The Hobbit had no ability to live up to LOTR. I knew that going in and it fulfilled my expectations.
I posted Star Wars the last Jedi but the Hobbit movies were equally as bad. Great post.
The Hobbit was my favorite book as a kid and it’s a story that is hard to ruin but they ruined it perfectly. It did not need to be more than 1 movie. And it did not need to have so much filler. Stick to the main story. They made it into multiple movies to make a ton more money.
Napoleon. I find that era really interesting and was hyped to see another Ridley/Joaquin teamup, but the final product felt so flat and clearly in need of the 4-hour cut
I can’t tell you how excited I was for Batman Forever.
I absolutely loved Batman and Batman Returns, which reignited my childhood love for Batman and were the early catalyst for the modern comic book movie boom.
While I was disappointed that Michael Keaton left the franchise, I was a big Val Kilmer fan and was really optimistic. After all, nobody thought Keaton was a good choice for Batman but he hit it out of the park.
Throw in Tommy Lee Jones (still hot off The Fugitive), Nicole Kidman, and the introduction of Robin… it had all the pedigree I needed. I wasn’t the biggest Jim Carrey fan, and I regret we never got to see what Robin Williams could do as the Riddler, but I couldn’t argue with choosing Carrey for the role.
If there was one major hesitation, it was knowing Tim Burton wasn’t involved. But Joel Schumacher had a string of hits and I figured they wouldn’t mess around too much with Burton’s template, considering how successful the previous two films were.
A bunch of friends and I got tickets to the very first showing when it opened, and I was so stoked I threw an after party, turning my parents’ basement into a Batcave by covering the walls with cheap black plastic garbage bags and labeling things in the basement “Bat-[Whatever]” as a throwback to the ‘60s Batman TV show. My Dad, who was in the lighting business, was even able to set up a special spotlight in the shape of the Bat Signal to shine on the driveway, which still feels incredibly cool to pull off.
Basically, it was my personal geek prom night.
I’m pretty sure I figured out within the first fifteen minutes that this whole thing was turning out to be an utter disaster. None of what made the first two films great was there, and everything felt… off. Looking back on it now it felt like when a beloved chain restaurant gets bought out by a private equity firm and they raise prices, lower quality, and gut the heart and soul of what made that place a familiar comfort.
I didn’t like Batman Forever. Not even one little bit.
I was kinda in denial about it for a while. I *wanted* to love that movie so badly, and I had invested so much excitement in it that I couldn’t handle my disappointment. I got angry that other people didn’t like it. I wanted them to like it so I wouldn’t feel so embarrassed about my excitement beforehand.
In retrospect, I was to Batman Forever what some voters are to President Cheeto. I knew it was messed up and I was stupid for having high hopes, but rather than admit I was wrong I probably would have told people to see it again and again and not buy tickets to see something like Apollo 13 because that mission was clearly a disaster.
I guess the moral of the story here is that if a movie you were excited to see turns out to be an awful mess that begins the downfall of a major franchise, just admit it and move on or your friends will start to think you’re a stubborn idiot and the laws might change so Batman Forever becomes the only film anyone can ever watch again.
You just brought back memories of exactly how I felt about Batman Forever. I loved the Burton films and was so excited for this and immediately let down. The hype was huge, the sound tracks, MTV videos, Jim Carey and Tommy Lee Jones were both on top of the world. Seemed like a slam dunk
Making it worse I went to see it on opening night, like a 9pm showing and some older kids behind me must have stayed from the 7pm showing. They had already seen the movie and talked through the whole thing spoiling each scene. They were older than me so I was too scared to speak up and say anything.
I pinned my initial reaction to the movie a lot of them ruining it for me and like you was kind of in denial until I watched it again and was nope I don't like this at all. Still to this day have never seen Batman and Robin.
I found Tenet to be overwrought & difficult to follow but mostly I was just annoyed at the sound editing. I couldn’t hear people talking AT ALL & then an explosion or some such thing would occur & I’d be deaf. The music varied between being nearly unhearable to shockingly loud. I saw it at home in surround sound, but was it not that bad in the theatre?
I wanted to like Tenet so badly. It had so much going for it, but I just couldn’t. At first, I thought the chaotic sound mixing was just meant to create an immersive effect upon the audience, but as it continued on, I realized it was just making it difficult to hear important dialogue. Very alienating as a viewer. I’m a big fan of Nolan, so I plan to revisit it, but I’m not in a hurry.
My issue is that John David Washington has all the charisma of a piece of plywood. In scenes where he’s fighting for his life, it looks like he is watching paint dry.
I was gonna say the same thing. It seemed like it was going to be a return to form for the Alien franchise, but then it just because a dumb mess of a movie with plot holes everywhere.
It was fun to watch. In the end I felt like they were simply trying too hard to confuse the fuck out of everyone. They succeeded in doing that. The "time" bullets seemed cool at first. Then they just made it unnecessarily confusing. My favorite part was when the skinny blonde woman was diving off the boat near the end. "Oh cool, she mentioned that before". But everything else was so fucked I just didn't care about anything at all anymore.
I remember thinking it was a gimmick that the cast claimed even they didn’t understand what was happening in the movie. After seeing it I completely believed them.
fun to watch. horrible to listen to. needed subtitles cause you cant hear anyone speak. i cant believe it released with such shit sound mixing. its as if they just wanted you to watch and and be thrilled by the explosions but not care about understanding anything…
I was really hoping Nolan learned his mistake from how hard it was to understand Bane in The Dark Knight Rises. Instead the whole cast of Tenet sounded like a bunch of Banes lol
I liked it a lot and still do. I think not giving him a name was pretty annoying, as you said, trying too hard.
Also, the end scene did not show the enemy team clearly enough and it seemed like they were fighting themselves on a paintball course.
Hard agree. That final scene is like one of those "name a single item" pictures. First watch I figured Nolan was just huffing his own farts a little too hard. Now I think the whole fact that half the movie is damn near completely incomprehensible is Nolan using the medium of film to critique the slop of modern superhero movies. Complete gibberish, just vfx and silly "the floor is lava" type game rules to create the cheapest drama known to man. Adding to this theory, I think Oppenheimer is his apology for helping popularize superhero films.
Jarhead really hits me. That scene where a Skarsgard freaks out on a superior for not letting him take the shot. So good. Jamie Fox’s “hurrah” in the oil is one of my favorite moments in cinema. God I do love Roger Deakins cinematography. The oil horse and all of those night shots. Amazing.
As an adult who's served, it hits me too.
The initiation branding, PT in chemsuits/gasmasks, the adultery video, and the overall boredom on tour are relatable.
But as a kid excepting to see a Rambo-styled movie on the big screen, riding the high of sneaking in, Jarhead was terrible.
The reveal that Blofeld was Bond’s long lost stepbrother was hilariously bad. I mean Bond movies and books are cheesy, but with that iteration they tried to be more serious and that kind of twist stuck out like a sore thumb.
The Phantom Menace.
SO much hype.
SO much excitement.
Was meeting with equally excited friends regularly to discuss possible plotlines. Went so far as decorating my office door - something I have never done, before or after.
SUCH a terrible movie.
Not a movie, buuuut I have read the wheel of time book series multiple times as it is in my top 3 book series and I was SO excited when I heard it was being made into a show and I was picturing the first handful of seasons of GOT type quality.. never been so disappointed on so many different levels. Acting, plot changes, characters not looking anything like they are supposed to in the books, personality changes.. the list goes on
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It's Apocalypse Now in space and it has some really awesome scenes.
HOWEVER, I think it suffered massively from Brad Pitt's extremely boring narration. Ironically I think Martin Sheen's narration in Apocalypse Now is fantastic and greatly enhances the movie.
Both Pitt and James Gray, the writer-director, are on-record as preferring the film without the narration, which was included at the behest of the studio.
At least, IIRC.
They just don’t get superhero movies (meaning DC). They have to be a *little* fun or at least have meaningful, emotional stakes. Marvel excels at this. Captain America Civil War is a masterpiece.
But that warehouse fight scene in BvS almost saves the movie on its own. The Arkham Batman come to life on screen, it was so epic. Made the Nolan movie fight scenes look silly.
I still don’t understand Justice League. This was fucked beyond anything. I was furious how they even could bring out such bad thing. I would have pulled the plug and made great effort to make sure the public does not see it. Instead they brought it out with the baddest cgi i have ever seen. I nearly walked out in de openingscene where superman face was cgi. I don’t care that they had problems with producers. Have some respect for the fans.
Then they made the flash with even more fucked up cgi. Are they trying to make us angry? I don’t get it. Im done with DC.
You only need to see the scene where that woman explained all that time travel shit to the "protagonist" and he is like, ye, whatevs. Absolutely horrendous
Couldn’t agree more, easily worst film I’ve seen. Dialogue was horrific, very cringe and why do they say “bro” so much, just felt out of place. Not only did they recycle the plot from the last movie (going from learning to fly animals to learning to ride sea animals), they even recycled the plot WITHIN the same movie, I’m talking about kids getting kidnapped like 4 times? How can that just keep happening. And don’t get me started on the intriguing conversation they had with the whale, then when you think he is about to tell you and continue the plot, the whale just says “it’s too painful to say.” I was dumbfounded leaving the theatre that such a shit movie could be produced and I am perplexed by people who have such an affinity towards the movie. Not hating, I just can’t believe people love this movie to the extent they do
Star Wars Episode 2. I heard there was a Yoda fight and I was all in. What I got instead was a fucking love story. By the time the Yoda fight scene came on, I couldn't even get that excited about it because I fell asleep in the middle of the movie and woke up in time to catch it.
*The Many Saints of Newark*. I'm always cautiously optimistic about prequels, but as a Sopranos fan since the beginning, I thought this one would be at least interesting. With so much flashback and anecdotal material from the series, there were so many directions they could go. Instead we got an absolute mess of a plot, some terrible acting, and baseball for blind kids. I knew I was in for a disaster of a movie when it started with a Christopher Moltisanti voiceover. It all went downhill from there.
The entire Jurassic World series. I give them the benefit of the doubt every time, and every single time I am bored to tears and my eyes are rolling down the street
Sucker Punch! Snyder may have lost the plot, but back then, he was at the top of his game coming off of Dawn of the Dead, 300 and Watchmen. From the trailer I was super psyched, but what a letdown.
The Dark Tower. I was so excited after reading the whole book series. When I finally saw it I was so disappointed, I couldn't believe Stephen King was ok with this.
Damn, I thought Oppenheimer was worse than Tenet.
I liked Tenet. Does it make 100% sense to me? No lol.
But like, Oppenheimer had zero stakes. Security clearance? Who cares
There was a solid half hour leading up to, and including, the trinity experiment explosion, and the rest I don't care about.
Cotillard’s death scene is one of the funniest things I have seen from a good actor.
Also, was the plot really that the bad guys were “hiding” a nuclear warhead on a flatbed semi truck that circles and drives through downtown Pittsburgh? Can you imagine every 9 hours, the warhead semi trying to find a gas station to fill up? Hmm, maybe I’ll pull into this Shell Station and get a hot dog while we are filling up the gigantic, obvious semi with a huge nuclear bomb. Jesus, who wrote that smelly bastard of a script? So bad.
I got my wife to watch the Nolan batman movies with me but I made the mistake of having us watch the Dark Knight and Rises back to back. Man the flaws of Rises were clear as day when quickly compared to DK.
Star Wars the Phantom Menace and nothing comes even remotely close. Even as an 11 year old I still remember how I couldn't believe how ridiculously BORING the movie was. Also my father fell asleep next to me and he NEVER falls asleep in movies. I was so sad.
My big 3 are :
* Tenet - Inception is my favourite movie of all time, and 2 other Nolan movies make my top ten too so I was absolutely convinced I'd love it. By half way through I had a sinking feeling sat at the cinema that the critics and friends had been right after all, and by the end I was so unbelievably disappointed.
* The Irishman - this is the only movie I've ever sat through it's entire length in a bad mood, mainly that I was wasting my time on something I wasn't enjoying *at all* but also just how utterly indulgent it was and laughably bad the CGI and "fight" scenes were. I couldn't believe this was the same director as Shutter Island.
* The Golden Compass/The Dark Tower - I've lumped these two movies in together as they both came from source material I loved with a huge supply of story and had the potential to spawn a long reaching movie franchise, both had big budgets and huge stars and both fell absolutely flat in sucking the life out of the books they referenced, to instead bring wooden paint by numbers spectacle with hideously put together screenplays and editing.
Transformers: The Last Knight, or as I call it, Michael Bay Giving Up For 2hrs & 34m.
You could tell he had enough of the franchise, so he makes the entire thing die a slow and agonising inevitable death. The film literally throws at you retcons, plot holes and inconsistencies every 15 minutes, gaslighting you to believe everything of what's being said.
Bumblebee arrived on Earth to take care of the Allspark and Sam Witwicky. Nope, he was there since World War II.
Sam Witwicky is just an ordinary human who had a grandfather make a remarkable discovery. Nope. He's part of a family of magicians and a descendant from Merlin.
The only things that made me want to see the film was Barricade's return and Nemesis Prime, but instead all I remember is falling asleep and going for two piss breaks.
Jurassic World. Lets be real - the only good JP movie was the first one, but after so much time I had high hopes that the magic of the original could be somehow recaptured.
Instead we get a made-up movie monster because dinosaurs are apparently no longer cool, "scientists" who inadvertently unleash the previously mentioned massive movie monster because they are unable to use their **eyes**, Chris Pratt as a male lead ripped straight out of a bad self-insert fanfiction, and Bryce Dallas Howard running from a T-Rex in heels.
Now, if you want any sort of JP-related merch you have to weed through a bunch of JW shit.
Matrix 2 and 3. I can’t remember a movie I was more pumped for - saw midnight screenings each time on the day of release! And was so let down I have never seen either movie again since. I hear Matrix 2 is not too bad….
I really like it too! Alien Covenant was pretty meh though. But I think was also just disappointed that Elizabeth Shaw was actually dead - I really like Noomi Rapace as a leading lady.
I’m probably gonna catch heat for it but I’m gonna say The Creator by Gareth Edwards.
There’s no denying that it’s a visual effects masterpiece. The way it was shot was brilliant. The action sequences are incredible.
However, the story is predictable and the ADR was off in some clips.
When this film came out and if you didn’t like it you were deemed stupid..”you just didn’t get it bro” I’m in the camp with you. Exceptionally well made film that didn’t reach me.
I’m a horror film nerd/Junkie and had been waiting a year to see Malignant. There were a few good parts but ultimately I was massively let down. Probably my fault so being so jacked to see it.
It had no depth. What was it actually about? Can’t think of a film that was so complex and yet wasn’t really about anything other than BEING complex.
Really lost me with scenes of groups of soldiers running back and forth like NPC bots firing into buildings at non existent enemies. That was borderline silly .. I’m sorry.
When it came up, I remember reading a comment on Reddit that basically said “Christopher Nolan had that shot of a building exploding backward and forward in time and decided to build a movie around it.”
Pretty much sums it up, IMO.
Oppenheimer. I’ve probably seen too many Nolan films at this point because the tension rising endless crescendo was so overused. Truly one of the most boring films I’ve seen. After the extreme disappointment of the first successful Bomb test (the silence ruined it) there’s another agonizing hour of bureaucratic talking and nonsensical finger pointing.
Maybe I don’t enjoy political movies.
Here comes the onslaught of downvotes.
Everything Everywhere All at Once. I thought it had some great ingenuity with a small budget, but the actual story and acting felt incredibly boring to me.
Lol yeah. For a while I was like "This is what yall hyped about??" But once they put their foot on the gas, I got it.
Same thing happened with Bullet Train
I still maintain that Tenet would've worked as a comedy. It tried to hard to be smart instead of leaning into "look how funny it is to watch people fight themselves in reverse. Also we have Robert Pattinson looking extra hot!"
Godzilla that came out in 2014…too much focus on human beings and their drama instead of Godzilla. Also, the Brian Cranston tease only for him to die early on.
**Mortal Kombat: Annihilation**. LOVED the first movie and still do. The trailers for the second movie made it look like it was going to be as fun & enjoyable as the first. (They were full of action, cameos, & techno music). Unfortunately, the movie was incredibly stupid, cheap, boring, and terrible.
I saw it on opening day and, the next day at work, told everyone at my job how bad it was. (We were all in our late teens to mid 20s). Everyone else was seeing it that night (Saturday) and thought I was crazy because the trailers & commercials made the movie look good. On Sunday, they all told me I was right and we couldn’t believe how much the trailers tricked us into thinking it wasn’t going to be a shitty movie.
Wolverine. I am a big xmen fan. Not only did they screw up his origin movie but to make matters worse, they teased two other characters that were big fan favorites (Deadpool and Gambit) and it was just horrible. Horrible.
Star Trek Into Darkness
Abrams established a whole new timeline with the 2009 reboot... then proceeds to rehash a 1982 film because it was so popular among Trek fans.
He could have gone anywhere and done anything, for crying out loud! But noooooo... I guess ain't nobody had time for that.
I still watch it when it comes on TV, though... Cumberbatch was deliciously menacing and I wanted him to kill everyone!
I had to audition for Tenet when doing background in 2019. They had us train in a gym with leaders and get on the floor holding fake guns and do it all backwards. I will never forget going in and not realizing I had to do army training for the day on set.
I just remember watching it and going "what the hell are they even saying...?!" Like the audio quality alone in this movie was horrible. I still don't know how the hell it got approved to be released...you couldn't hear anything.
Napoleon. I was worried when I saw the trailer, but boy I could not have predicted such an unbelievable letdown. Getting eerily similar vibes from Gladiator 2.
100% I spent ten mins on Wikipedia reading more about Napoleon. Baffled how that ten mins was infinitely more interesting and entertaining. It's a skill to make such an incredible life seem so fucking dull. Scott has lost it. Many years ago.
The extreme compression and unnecessary fictionalization of the Austerlitz victory was what ruined it for me. Was expecting some compression for the sake of time, but...
Scott isn’t stupid and he’s still talented and for some reason he made a conscious choice to make a movie basically slandering Napoleon.
He’s Bri’ish. I viewed Napoleon almost as a satirical comedy.
I’m a mod at quite a few more serious history subs and one of them is r/Napoleon… (I also mod r/warmovies and it was held in similar disdain) For weeks it was post after post of pissed off users. I made a release thread for the movie and it was 200 angry comments pissed how they butchered what could have been an awesome historical epic https://www.reddit.com/r/Napoleon/s/7kO1GSNi7k The issue wasn’t historical inaccuracy: we expected issues to be streamlined and simplified…but this was a **total case of false advertising**. The trailers advertised a historical epic in the vein of Gladiator or the Kingdom of Heaven director’s cut…instead we got a weird sexually charged story that ignored the great historical figure to tell a meandering story more about Josephine and a weird, fictional relationship. In a nearly three-hour film about the world’s greatest general they show about 15 minutes of war scenes. Absolutely no mention of Napoleon the statesman and his monumental civic accomplishments. The few minutes of battle shown look like a cross between medieval warfare and WW1; his Marshalls don’t even have speaking lines (the actor who played Marshall Ney actually apologized to Ney’s descendants for the piss-poor portrayal https://www.reddit.com/r/Napoleon/s/3FYAWIjUPx)
Ridley Scott just hates french people
Even Scott said “Of course the French hate this film. No one hates the French more than the French.”
and xenomorphs
It was pure garbage. I was on my phone the 2nd half of the movie out of pure boredom. "Lets make a movie about Napoleon ... but not the stuff he is famous for ... lets make it entirely about the other stuff"
Also let's make Napoleon act like someone completely different from Napoleon!
Let's make fun of Napoleon, but not for the actual bad things he did. Let's make stuff up instead.
Ridley Scott is the only filmmaker who could direct an epic in his sleep. And in the case of Napoleon, he *literally* did.
I’m a big fan of period pieces and I couldn’t finish Napoleon. It is bad.
Agree on Gladiator 2. The trailer is overstuffed. You know you’re headed for trouble when they release a double length trailer as they try to make it stick Even though it was 3 minutes long, i didn’t want more and I lost interest after 2 minutes. The unknown co lead looks completely out of his depth It’s going to be a massive disappointment
Denzel's acting seems strange in it. Like he's not adjusting his usual movie personality for the roman times.
Now I’m picturing training day Denzel just walking around Rome shaking everyone down.
et tu my man?
This made me legit LOL. 😂
Marcus Aurelius ain't got shit on me!
>The unknown co lead Do you mean BAFTA- and Olivier-winner, and Oscar-nominee, Paul Mescal?
Only just realized that it’s starring Paul Mescal and Pedro Pascal. Now I want movies to have casting that is either alliterative or rhymey.
You’ll love *Vanilla Sky*, then.
Yes but that’s Cruise vs Cruth (in proper Spanish)
Open your eyes
I turned the trailer off when the hip hop song started.
Same. Also, It looks like they are showing clips from every single action scene to the point of it being a massive spoiler.
Even after hearing how bad it was I was still shocked by how truly le shit it is.
Terminator 3. T2 being my favorite movie of all time
We waited twelve years for a watered down rehash of *T2*.
With somehow worse CGI than a movie from 1991.
She hot tho
Yeah they’ve all been t2 reshashes. Idk why they stick to that formula but they keep doing it. For once I’d like to see the future war with the robots and humans
Exactly why I gave up on this series. It's like watching a lame tribute band. All I wanted to see was the future war. In the first two films, we get these brief glimpses of the future war. We kept getting told about this epic battle in the future where the human resistance rises up and destroys Skynet. That was the next natural progression for the series, if at all, and we never really got it. *Salvation* got close to giving us this, but not close enough.
Well to be fair T2 is the perfect sci fi movie.
The end of T3 was pretty great, though. Hearing all the radio calls when nobody knows what's happening. Scary shit.
Ahh, a fellow redditor of class. T2 is also my favourite movie of all time. T1000 is quite possibly the greatest villain ever created. He's the reason why no other terminator movies have felt "right." The scene where the milk carton is sliding down his knife arm as he's stabbed it through that dudes throat, nothing will ever compare to that for me. Every other bad guy has seemed watered down compared to t1000.
For whatever strange reason I actually like this movie
It was alright I guess, had some good scenes. But T1 and T2 had raised the bar too high.
I remember feeling more enthusiastic once they announced it would carry an R rating, alleviating concerns that it would be hamstrung by a more box-office friendly PG-13, and yet the final product still felt watered-down. All in all, T3 is not a terrible movie, but it's vastly inferior to its predecessors, and the comedic elements are simply out of place.
Ultraviolet, a "vampire" movie with Milla Jovavich, from the folks that made Equilibrium? I was expecting Gun Kata 2.0, and I left the theatre thinking, "What the hell was that?"
Ultraviolet is close to the top of the list of worst movie I have ever seen.
Corporate greed ruined Ultraviolet. Sony took over because they needed an action movie in theaters. They basically forced the original team out and "finished" it themselves real quick. They used placeholder footage that we were never intended to see. The intro sequence with the wall-riding motorcycle and the helicopter was just roughly cobbled together action concept footage, wasn't meant to have appeared in the movie in any capacity. The cast filmed some shots under Sony's management, but were not happy with the decisions being made. It's been condemned by pretty much everyone involved in the project.
Is that the movie with the black woman with monkey feet?
Aeon Flux (2005)
Eragon. I loved that series when it came out and was very excited for the movie and what I saw was a lot of bad decisions made by someone who didn’t read the book.
I think the author of the books would even agree with you. I’ve seen some comments on Reddit from him that seem to sympathise with those that feel this way.
Paolini was furious.
Downsizing.
Couldn't even finish it, left the cinema at the beginning of the third act
Ugh. I hung in there. I wish I bailed. They advertise it as a comedy drama. But no.
Me and my wife went. I turned to her regarding leaving and saw her chuckle so I let it lie (her one solitary chuckle in this agonising bloody film). Turns out, she turned to me at one point regarding leaving and saw me chuckle (likewise at the single time in this bloody thing) so we both thought the other was enjoying it. When we left we both discussed how utterly awful the damn thing was
We saw it at home and my wife vowed never to watch any new Matt Damon films because it was such a disappointment.
The message is kind of nice at the end. Take care of the people/world around you now not in a possible future. But man. The journey to get to the end of the movie.
The one movie I wish I could get my time back from XD. Comedy my butt. The dropped the damn ball on that one.
Omg, I loved this movie. Me and my wife still go back and forth about "what kind fuck you give me?" I'm sorry you were disappointed, but we went in blind and loved it.
Thor love and thunder, Ragnorok, was my favorite MCU movie, and they teased the teamup with the Guardians of the Galaxy and that lasted all of 5 mins. Such a let down
What a waste of Christian Bale. That opening scene was great.
They never showed the god slayer killing gods!? I had such high hopes for this one too. The trailers were really well done
Same. Love & Thunder was such a turd. Like we had already got mopey Thor across all the previous avenger movies, way too much fawning over Jane. There wasn't enough fighting. Was a waste of a pretty cool villain too.
Love & Thunder was unwatchable. I turned it off halfway through. Get competent writers, Disney!
I don't know how many people were actually excited for these movies, but I was stoked for them and then felt super let down .... 1. Gangster Squad - Incredible cast, good plot, but a horribly written and executed movie. One of the worst I've ever seen honestly. I came out of the movie so incredibly disappointed. It had potential to be an all-timer with that cast, but the direction and writing was atrocious. 2. The Predator - The previews looked incredible and I love these movies, but this one was also a huge let down. The plot just wasn't very good IMHO. Regarding the OP .... Yes, I also agree that Tenet was **NOT GOOD**. I absolutely **HATED** having to turn my volume up to 90 to hear the dialogue between characters and then back down to 40 during the action scenes because of how freaking loud they were. The plot was also hard to follow and a tad bit confusing IMHO.
Oh god, gangster squad. With the cast, I was so excited for a new noire gangster film. The action and editing were so bad. When the camera does a flinch whenever a character throws a punch (wince)
I forgot about Gangster Squad! It did have a loaded cast, but didn't the movie have to get re-edited just before release?
Hobbit movie… started so promising and then once they left the shire it just got worse and worse
Find one of the fan edits online. You'll be shocked to find that a real movie of The Hobbit exists once all the crap is removed. Martin Freeman's performance as Bilbo is just lovely when it's the entire focus of the movie.
Got a link? I’m fascinated.
I just saw this yesterday, haven’t watched it, but I am planning to. https://m4-studios.github.io/hobbitbookedit/
I love a good fan edit. I remember watching one of Django Unchained in Tarantino's older style and it cut out a lot of the pointless nonsense. You wouldn't happen to know where I could find that one would you?
This is the definitive "fan" cut, made by a professional film maker and editor and the link to their official page and safe download is [here](http://www.maple-films.com/downloads.html)
It shouldn't be 3 movies long. Look at Lord of the Rings on the bookshelf, mine takes up a good 6 inches of reading material. This was Tolkien's best work. He wrote one story, was told how it was lacking and how to improve it. Instead of "just" improving it, he built on it and wrote Lord of the Rings. The first story he wrote was The Hobbit, which takes up about an inch of bookshelf. The Hobbit had no ability to live up to LOTR. I knew that going in and it fulfilled my expectations.
I posted Star Wars the last Jedi but the Hobbit movies were equally as bad. Great post. The Hobbit was my favorite book as a kid and it’s a story that is hard to ruin but they ruined it perfectly. It did not need to be more than 1 movie. And it did not need to have so much filler. Stick to the main story. They made it into multiple movies to make a ton more money.
Prometheus. I was so hyped to see this, and while it wasn’t bad, it was probably the most average movie I’ve ever seen. I expected so much more.
I still go back and watch the trailer from time to time. Shit had me thinking I was about to watch the most epic sci-fi movie of all time.
I love Prometheus
Such an odd movie but yeah it’s entertaining. Idk why they shoehorned in the Alien connection. That shit made it a circle that made no sense to me.
These are supposed to be brilliant scientists... ... enter the penis-snake.
Napoleon. I find that era really interesting and was hyped to see another Ridley/Joaquin teamup, but the final product felt so flat and clearly in need of the 4-hour cut
I can’t tell you how excited I was for Batman Forever. I absolutely loved Batman and Batman Returns, which reignited my childhood love for Batman and were the early catalyst for the modern comic book movie boom. While I was disappointed that Michael Keaton left the franchise, I was a big Val Kilmer fan and was really optimistic. After all, nobody thought Keaton was a good choice for Batman but he hit it out of the park. Throw in Tommy Lee Jones (still hot off The Fugitive), Nicole Kidman, and the introduction of Robin… it had all the pedigree I needed. I wasn’t the biggest Jim Carrey fan, and I regret we never got to see what Robin Williams could do as the Riddler, but I couldn’t argue with choosing Carrey for the role. If there was one major hesitation, it was knowing Tim Burton wasn’t involved. But Joel Schumacher had a string of hits and I figured they wouldn’t mess around too much with Burton’s template, considering how successful the previous two films were. A bunch of friends and I got tickets to the very first showing when it opened, and I was so stoked I threw an after party, turning my parents’ basement into a Batcave by covering the walls with cheap black plastic garbage bags and labeling things in the basement “Bat-[Whatever]” as a throwback to the ‘60s Batman TV show. My Dad, who was in the lighting business, was even able to set up a special spotlight in the shape of the Bat Signal to shine on the driveway, which still feels incredibly cool to pull off. Basically, it was my personal geek prom night. I’m pretty sure I figured out within the first fifteen minutes that this whole thing was turning out to be an utter disaster. None of what made the first two films great was there, and everything felt… off. Looking back on it now it felt like when a beloved chain restaurant gets bought out by a private equity firm and they raise prices, lower quality, and gut the heart and soul of what made that place a familiar comfort. I didn’t like Batman Forever. Not even one little bit. I was kinda in denial about it for a while. I *wanted* to love that movie so badly, and I had invested so much excitement in it that I couldn’t handle my disappointment. I got angry that other people didn’t like it. I wanted them to like it so I wouldn’t feel so embarrassed about my excitement beforehand. In retrospect, I was to Batman Forever what some voters are to President Cheeto. I knew it was messed up and I was stupid for having high hopes, but rather than admit I was wrong I probably would have told people to see it again and again and not buy tickets to see something like Apollo 13 because that mission was clearly a disaster. I guess the moral of the story here is that if a movie you were excited to see turns out to be an awful mess that begins the downfall of a major franchise, just admit it and move on or your friends will start to think you’re a stubborn idiot and the laws might change so Batman Forever becomes the only film anyone can ever watch again.
You just brought back memories of exactly how I felt about Batman Forever. I loved the Burton films and was so excited for this and immediately let down. The hype was huge, the sound tracks, MTV videos, Jim Carey and Tommy Lee Jones were both on top of the world. Seemed like a slam dunk Making it worse I went to see it on opening night, like a 9pm showing and some older kids behind me must have stayed from the 7pm showing. They had already seen the movie and talked through the whole thing spoiling each scene. They were older than me so I was too scared to speak up and say anything. I pinned my initial reaction to the movie a lot of them ruining it for me and like you was kind of in denial until I watched it again and was nope I don't like this at all. Still to this day have never seen Batman and Robin.
I found Tenet to be overwrought & difficult to follow but mostly I was just annoyed at the sound editing. I couldn’t hear people talking AT ALL & then an explosion or some such thing would occur & I’d be deaf. The music varied between being nearly unhearable to shockingly loud. I saw it at home in surround sound, but was it not that bad in the theatre?
If you spell Tenet backwards, it spells Tenet
I wanted to like Tenet so badly. It had so much going for it, but I just couldn’t. At first, I thought the chaotic sound mixing was just meant to create an immersive effect upon the audience, but as it continued on, I realized it was just making it difficult to hear important dialogue. Very alienating as a viewer. I’m a big fan of Nolan, so I plan to revisit it, but I’m not in a hurry.
My issue is that John David Washington has all the charisma of a piece of plywood. In scenes where he’s fighting for his life, it looks like he is watching paint dry.
It insists upon itself!
Godzilla (1998). All that pre-release hype for so much meh.
Same, but the vehicle full of everyone chewing gum to "look American" was funny to me, and I still remember the sound for some reason.
Thank you very much
“Why no sir, I’m fine.”
I was 8 and saw it in theatres. I'll defend this movie to my grave.
I must've been 11 or 12 when I saw it, and I also loved it, and still do.
I thought you said this was French roast?
It IS French Roast! Buh.
Ironman 3. Literally fell asleep in the theater.
Damn lmao
Anything other than 1 is so forgettable. The mandarin and mickey rourke with whips is all I can remember
It’s crazy how good 1 was. Like, even with _all_ the marvel films that followed it, I still probably go back and watch that one again the most.
Better than me, I walked out
Alien Covenant
I was gonna say the same thing. It seemed like it was going to be a return to form for the Alien franchise, but then it just because a dumb mess of a movie with plot holes everywhere.
It was fun to watch. In the end I felt like they were simply trying too hard to confuse the fuck out of everyone. They succeeded in doing that. The "time" bullets seemed cool at first. Then they just made it unnecessarily confusing. My favorite part was when the skinny blonde woman was diving off the boat near the end. "Oh cool, she mentioned that before". But everything else was so fucked I just didn't care about anything at all anymore.
I remember thinking it was a gimmick that the cast claimed even they didn’t understand what was happening in the movie. After seeing it I completely believed them.
Its a movie you have to see 3 to 5 times to understand. I hated it the 1st time and you expect me to put it on repeat???
fun to watch. horrible to listen to. needed subtitles cause you cant hear anyone speak. i cant believe it released with such shit sound mixing. its as if they just wanted you to watch and and be thrilled by the explosions but not care about understanding anything…
I was really hoping Nolan learned his mistake from how hard it was to understand Bane in The Dark Knight Rises. Instead the whole cast of Tenet sounded like a bunch of Banes lol
I liked it a lot and still do. I think not giving him a name was pretty annoying, as you said, trying too hard. Also, the end scene did not show the enemy team clearly enough and it seemed like they were fighting themselves on a paintball course.
Hard agree. That final scene is like one of those "name a single item" pictures. First watch I figured Nolan was just huffing his own farts a little too hard. Now I think the whole fact that half the movie is damn near completely incomprehensible is Nolan using the medium of film to critique the slop of modern superhero movies. Complete gibberish, just vfx and silly "the floor is lava" type game rules to create the cheapest drama known to man. Adding to this theory, I think Oppenheimer is his apology for helping popularize superhero films.
Napoleon was dogshit
Terminator Salvation and Venom
Venommm. It's time to go get 'emmm. Put on some denimmm. Movie wasn't great. I sort of liked the song though
A buddy of mine and I snuck into Jarhead while kids expecting an action-packed, high tempo war movie.
Jarhead really hits me. That scene where a Skarsgard freaks out on a superior for not letting him take the shot. So good. Jamie Fox’s “hurrah” in the oil is one of my favorite moments in cinema. God I do love Roger Deakins cinematography. The oil horse and all of those night shots. Amazing.
As an adult who's served, it hits me too. The initiation branding, PT in chemsuits/gasmasks, the adultery video, and the overall boredom on tour are relatable. But as a kid excepting to see a Rambo-styled movie on the big screen, riding the high of sneaking in, Jarhead was terrible.
I fucking hate that scene where the guy gets the video from his wife, thinking it was going to be something good...
The wall of ex girlfriends is harrowing.
Spectre. Coming after Skyfall, which was incredible, and adding Christoph Waltz as Blofeld seemed too perfect. I guess it was. What a waste.
The reveal that Blofeld was Bond’s long lost stepbrother was hilariously bad. I mean Bond movies and books are cheesy, but with that iteration they tried to be more serious and that kind of twist stuck out like a sore thumb.
All the new Star Wars films for the last 40 years apart from Rogue One.
It's crazy that Disney has a winning formula with rogue one and andor but they just refuse to realise it.
The Phantom Menace. SO much hype. SO much excitement. Was meeting with equally excited friends regularly to discuss possible plotlines. Went so far as decorating my office door - something I have never done, before or after. SUCH a terrible movie.
Whoever designed that movie's trailer deserves an award, because they were working with an absolute dog of a movie.
Ok you win the best reply award for the op. Seems so obvious.
Ghost in the shell! Omg I was so excited for that film. Went to see it at the theatre and literally almost walked out.
Not a movie, buuuut I have read the wheel of time book series multiple times as it is in my top 3 book series and I was SO excited when I heard it was being made into a show and I was picturing the first handful of seasons of GOT type quality.. never been so disappointed on so many different levels. Acting, plot changes, characters not looking anything like they are supposed to in the books, personality changes.. the list goes on
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Ad astra is a great film for MOST of its runtime.
It's Apocalypse Now in space and it has some really awesome scenes. HOWEVER, I think it suffered massively from Brad Pitt's extremely boring narration. Ironically I think Martin Sheen's narration in Apocalypse Now is fantastic and greatly enhances the movie.
Both Pitt and James Gray, the writer-director, are on-record as preferring the film without the narration, which was included at the behest of the studio. At least, IIRC.
Bradpitt being depressed for 3 hour about daddy issue? Peak cinema
*Batman V. Superman: Dawn of Justice* and any other Zack Snyder Justice League-related movies. Underwhelming in every respect.
Our moms have the same name
They just don’t get superhero movies (meaning DC). They have to be a *little* fun or at least have meaningful, emotional stakes. Marvel excels at this. Captain America Civil War is a masterpiece. But that warehouse fight scene in BvS almost saves the movie on its own. The Arkham Batman come to life on screen, it was so epic. Made the Nolan movie fight scenes look silly.
That was hands down the single best live action Batman fight scene in existence. It makes me bitter that we didn’t get a stand alone Batfleck film
I still don’t understand Justice League. This was fucked beyond anything. I was furious how they even could bring out such bad thing. I would have pulled the plug and made great effort to make sure the public does not see it. Instead they brought it out with the baddest cgi i have ever seen. I nearly walked out in de openingscene where superman face was cgi. I don’t care that they had problems with producers. Have some respect for the fans. Then they made the flash with even more fucked up cgi. Are they trying to make us angry? I don’t get it. Im done with DC.
Thor Love and Thunder. It was so disappointing that they managed to fuck Thor up because Ragnarok was such a good movie.
Wonder Woman 1984!!
"You have to watch Tenet about 5 times before you get it" Yeah well fuck that
You only need to see the scene where that woman explained all that time travel shit to the "protagonist" and he is like, ye, whatevs. Absolutely horrendous
Avatar the water whatever. I was immediately rooting for the Space Marines and the humans again. Those blue aliens are so insufferable.
Hey, Jake! I've turned myself into a Navi. I'm Navi Quaritch!
Couldn’t agree more, easily worst film I’ve seen. Dialogue was horrific, very cringe and why do they say “bro” so much, just felt out of place. Not only did they recycle the plot from the last movie (going from learning to fly animals to learning to ride sea animals), they even recycled the plot WITHIN the same movie, I’m talking about kids getting kidnapped like 4 times? How can that just keep happening. And don’t get me started on the intriguing conversation they had with the whale, then when you think he is about to tell you and continue the plot, the whale just says “it’s too painful to say.” I was dumbfounded leaving the theatre that such a shit movie could be produced and I am perplexed by people who have such an affinity towards the movie. Not hating, I just can’t believe people love this movie to the extent they do
Star Wars Episode 2. I heard there was a Yoda fight and I was all in. What I got instead was a fucking love story. By the time the Yoda fight scene came on, I couldn't even get that excited about it because I fell asleep in the middle of the movie and woke up in time to catch it.
Attack of the clowns?
*The Many Saints of Newark*. I'm always cautiously optimistic about prequels, but as a Sopranos fan since the beginning, I thought this one would be at least interesting. With so much flashback and anecdotal material from the series, there were so many directions they could go. Instead we got an absolute mess of a plot, some terrible acting, and baseball for blind kids. I knew I was in for a disaster of a movie when it started with a Christopher Moltisanti voiceover. It all went downhill from there.
The entire Jurassic World series. I give them the benefit of the doubt every time, and every single time I am bored to tears and my eyes are rolling down the street
Indiana Jones and the skull thing. Way to ruin things.
Sucker Punch! Snyder may have lost the plot, but back then, he was at the top of his game coming off of Dawn of the Dead, 300 and Watchmen. From the trailer I was super psyched, but what a letdown.
Cloud Atlas. Trailer made it look like the greatest movie of all-time. Meh, it was alright.
Age of Ultron
For anyone who read the book first, Ready Player One was a gigantic disappointment.
Cars 2. Star Wars the Force Awakens. The Eternals. Thor Love and Thunder, Ant-Man Quantum Mania.
The Dark Tower. I was so excited after reading the whole book series. When I finally saw it I was so disappointed, I couldn't believe Stephen King was ok with this.
Phantom Menace will always be the benchmark
Damn, I thought Oppenheimer was worse than Tenet. I liked Tenet. Does it make 100% sense to me? No lol. But like, Oppenheimer had zero stakes. Security clearance? Who cares There was a solid half hour leading up to, and including, the trinity experiment explosion, and the rest I don't care about.
I felt if you forgot anyone's name whatsoever you'd be lost.
I forgot EVERYBODY'S names in Oppenheimer. Except Oppenheimer, that one I got down
Dark Knight Rises. Hated it
Cotillard’s death scene is one of the funniest things I have seen from a good actor. Also, was the plot really that the bad guys were “hiding” a nuclear warhead on a flatbed semi truck that circles and drives through downtown Pittsburgh? Can you imagine every 9 hours, the warhead semi trying to find a gas station to fill up? Hmm, maybe I’ll pull into this Shell Station and get a hot dog while we are filling up the gigantic, obvious semi with a huge nuclear bomb. Jesus, who wrote that smelly bastard of a script? So bad.
I got my wife to watch the Nolan batman movies with me but I made the mistake of having us watch the Dark Knight and Rises back to back. Man the flaws of Rises were clear as day when quickly compared to DK.
Man that movie was really hard to watch baked...
Love Christopher Nolan. But this movie was unwatchable ..for me
Star Wars the Phantom Menace and nothing comes even remotely close. Even as an 11 year old I still remember how I couldn't believe how ridiculously BORING the movie was. Also my father fell asleep next to me and he NEVER falls asleep in movies. I was so sad.
Pirates 4: On Stranger Tides
Yeah Tenet was such a confusing movie the plot wasn't understandable in the slightest.
My big 3 are : * Tenet - Inception is my favourite movie of all time, and 2 other Nolan movies make my top ten too so I was absolutely convinced I'd love it. By half way through I had a sinking feeling sat at the cinema that the critics and friends had been right after all, and by the end I was so unbelievably disappointed. * The Irishman - this is the only movie I've ever sat through it's entire length in a bad mood, mainly that I was wasting my time on something I wasn't enjoying *at all* but also just how utterly indulgent it was and laughably bad the CGI and "fight" scenes were. I couldn't believe this was the same director as Shutter Island. * The Golden Compass/The Dark Tower - I've lumped these two movies in together as they both came from source material I loved with a huge supply of story and had the potential to spawn a long reaching movie franchise, both had big budgets and huge stars and both fell absolutely flat in sucking the life out of the books they referenced, to instead bring wooden paint by numbers spectacle with hideously put together screenplays and editing.
Oppenheimer. Face it, that movie was boring and all over the place. Nolan hasn't made a decent movie in a while
Transformers: The Last Knight, or as I call it, Michael Bay Giving Up For 2hrs & 34m. You could tell he had enough of the franchise, so he makes the entire thing die a slow and agonising inevitable death. The film literally throws at you retcons, plot holes and inconsistencies every 15 minutes, gaslighting you to believe everything of what's being said. Bumblebee arrived on Earth to take care of the Allspark and Sam Witwicky. Nope, he was there since World War II. Sam Witwicky is just an ordinary human who had a grandfather make a remarkable discovery. Nope. He's part of a family of magicians and a descendant from Merlin. The only things that made me want to see the film was Barricade's return and Nemesis Prime, but instead all I remember is falling asleep and going for two piss breaks.
The last 3 Star Wars Movies.
Jurassic World. Lets be real - the only good JP movie was the first one, but after so much time I had high hopes that the magic of the original could be somehow recaptured. Instead we get a made-up movie monster because dinosaurs are apparently no longer cool, "scientists" who inadvertently unleash the previously mentioned massive movie monster because they are unable to use their **eyes**, Chris Pratt as a male lead ripped straight out of a bad self-insert fanfiction, and Bryce Dallas Howard running from a T-Rex in heels. Now, if you want any sort of JP-related merch you have to weed through a bunch of JW shit.
Matrix 2 and 3. I can’t remember a movie I was more pumped for - saw midnight screenings each time on the day of release! And was so let down I have never seen either movie again since. I hear Matrix 2 is not too bad….
Matrix Resurrection makes these two movies look like masterpieces.
Prometheus. I recall great anticipation just before the release... then, wtf??
to each his own I guess.. I thought Prometheus was fantastic.
I really like it too! Alien Covenant was pretty meh though. But I think was also just disappointed that Elizabeth Shaw was actually dead - I really like Noomi Rapace as a leading lady.
I’m probably gonna catch heat for it but I’m gonna say The Creator by Gareth Edwards. There’s no denying that it’s a visual effects masterpiece. The way it was shot was brilliant. The action sequences are incredible. However, the story is predictable and the ADR was off in some clips.
When this film came out and if you didn’t like it you were deemed stupid..”you just didn’t get it bro” I’m in the camp with you. Exceptionally well made film that didn’t reach me. I’m a horror film nerd/Junkie and had been waiting a year to see Malignant. There were a few good parts but ultimately I was massively let down. Probably my fault so being so jacked to see it.
It had no depth. What was it actually about? Can’t think of a film that was so complex and yet wasn’t really about anything other than BEING complex. Really lost me with scenes of groups of soldiers running back and forth like NPC bots firing into buildings at non existent enemies. That was borderline silly .. I’m sorry.
When it came up, I remember reading a comment on Reddit that basically said “Christopher Nolan had that shot of a building exploding backward and forward in time and decided to build a movie around it.” Pretty much sums it up, IMO.
Tenant made no sense.
EEAAO
DUMBEST movie ever made.
Arguably yes
Oppenheimer. I’ve probably seen too many Nolan films at this point because the tension rising endless crescendo was so overused. Truly one of the most boring films I’ve seen. After the extreme disappointment of the first successful Bomb test (the silence ruined it) there’s another agonizing hour of bureaucratic talking and nonsensical finger pointing. Maybe I don’t enjoy political movies. Here comes the onslaught of downvotes.
Everything Everywhere All at Once. I thought it had some great ingenuity with a small budget, but the actual story and acting felt incredibly boring to me.
I found that movie really hard to get into, but once it started getting exciting I was really into it
Lol yeah. For a while I was like "This is what yall hyped about??" But once they put their foot on the gas, I got it. Same thing happened with Bullet Train
Challengers. Trailer made it seem like it would be a steamy threesome situation but it turned out to be a vanilla borefest.
I still maintain that Tenet would've worked as a comedy. It tried to hard to be smart instead of leaning into "look how funny it is to watch people fight themselves in reverse. Also we have Robert Pattinson looking extra hot!"
Most sequels
Godzilla that came out in 2014…too much focus on human beings and their drama instead of Godzilla. Also, the Brian Cranston tease only for him to die early on.
Barbie
**Mortal Kombat: Annihilation**. LOVED the first movie and still do. The trailers for the second movie made it look like it was going to be as fun & enjoyable as the first. (They were full of action, cameos, & techno music). Unfortunately, the movie was incredibly stupid, cheap, boring, and terrible. I saw it on opening day and, the next day at work, told everyone at my job how bad it was. (We were all in our late teens to mid 20s). Everyone else was seeing it that night (Saturday) and thought I was crazy because the trailers & commercials made the movie look good. On Sunday, they all told me I was right and we couldn’t believe how much the trailers tricked us into thinking it wasn’t going to be a shitty movie.
Wolverine. I am a big xmen fan. Not only did they screw up his origin movie but to make matters worse, they teased two other characters that were big fan favorites (Deadpool and Gambit) and it was just horrible. Horrible.
Star Trek Into Darkness Abrams established a whole new timeline with the 2009 reboot... then proceeds to rehash a 1982 film because it was so popular among Trek fans. He could have gone anywhere and done anything, for crying out loud! But noooooo... I guess ain't nobody had time for that. I still watch it when it comes on TV, though... Cumberbatch was deliciously menacing and I wanted him to kill everyone!
The Rise of Skywalker
Avatar 2. Awful movie
I remember seeing this in the cinema and people actually left halfway through it
I had to audition for Tenet when doing background in 2019. They had us train in a gym with leaders and get on the floor holding fake guns and do it all backwards. I will never forget going in and not realizing I had to do army training for the day on set.
I just remember watching it and going "what the hell are they even saying...?!" Like the audio quality alone in this movie was horrible. I still don't know how the hell it got approved to be released...you couldn't hear anything.