Unexpectly Bad Movies

[KCJ506]

What movies did you think were going to be good, but after you saw them they turned out to be pretty bad? Mine are:

Batman & Robin
Mortal Kombat Annalation(sp?)
The Chronicles of Riddick
Alien vs Predator

[James]

Star Trek X - Nemesis. I don't ask too much at the cinema. Hell, I even found Batman And Robin vaguely amusing... but this just irritated me. Heck, maybe Batman And Robin would have bugged me more if I didn't have my mate's clenched jaw and tense irritation to amuse myself with.

For me Batman And Robin was just a silly Westish movie lacking the charm of West but still watchable in a brainless way.. I suppose I didn't expect much.. but with Nemesis.. I expected so much more.. and the potential was there underneath the dreadful character writing, a convulted plot made to scatch two leads at once, some sloppy editing and a poor ending.

Okay, yeah, while I didn't expect much from Batman & Robin, it was still a disappointment - has to go there.

Minority Report - I expected great things here, but it was predictable if well executed. Cruise seems to trample subtlety in all he does.. Spielberg doesn't help either.

I, Robot - Waste of space, ignores the whole point of Asimov's laws and descends from detective thriller to Will Smith leaping of a bike firing two machine guns... I'm not sure what catagory that latter falls in other than cringeworthy.

Hulk - I enjoyed the film as I'm a big hulk fan, and it wasn't BAD, but it could have been so much more. As with Nemesis, the potential was there, but there was just TOO much going on that didn't need to be. Army story or father story, not both. A pity.

[Delthayre]

Red Dragon: Oh my, this was a dissapointment. The cast was good and the story itself was okay, but this was just such a dissapointment. The music seemed to be trying to do the job of faking a sense of tension while the film itself plodded inanely along.

[BluFire1213]

Into the Mouth of Madness
Ginger Snapps:2
The Darkness
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
The Lion King 2: Simba's Pride
The Underworld
The night of the living dead(1991)
cheaper by the dosen
freaky friday
and many more. . .

[Tobias]

Spider-Man 2: I waited for two years for... that? Most diappointing film... EVER.

Matrix Reloaded - Same deal. Although if that rave scene had been cut, and the film didn't have so many talking head scenes, I'd have enjoyed it a LOT more.

Matrix Revolutions - At least with Reloaded, I'll take time out to watch the freeway chase scene when it's on HBO. With Revolutions, I won't even take a second glance passing through the channels.

Child's Play 3 - I love the Child's Play series, I even have the 'Seed of Chucky' Glen doll and Chucky actions figures, but this installment was just unforgivable. I begged my dad to take me to this one when I heard it was playing, and regretted it as soon as the end credits started rolling.

[Kathy Kane]

Hulk - I enjoyed the film as I'm a big hulk fan, and it wasn't BAD, but it could have been so much more. As with Nemesis, the potential was there, but there was just TOO much going on that didn't need to be. Army story or father story, not both. A pity.
I agree about Robot. As for the Hulk, too much talky not enough Hulky.
You should never expect too much from movies with major FX, I recently got digital cable, with like 800 channels so I've been able to see a lot of bad movies.
I got to see Hulk, but I was really upset about the League of Exordenary Gentlemen. I know it was bad, but there was not a shred of the original comic book in the movie at all.

[Wesyeed]

Garfield the movie.

Bill Murray was inspired casting and he did an exellent job, but the movie just sucked as a whole. I hope the sequel is good.

[rrarbecy]

I'm shocked that you guys didn't like I, Robot. One of the best movies ever.

AND YOU WERE DISAPPOINTED WITH SPIDER-MAN 2? You must be insane.


As for mine, I thought Napoleon Dynamite would be half decent, but it was the worst movie I have ever seen.

[halinar]

I'll leave it with just movies that I wanted to get up and walk out of.....

Matrix Revolutions. I thought I had figured it all out with reloaded but nope... it was just a lame arse story with a serious jesus/trinity backdrop. What I had figured out would have been so much better but I didn't have to sell out apparently.

Garfield: Just vile bad, but I had my son so I couldn't leave. Not like I wouldn't have seen it if he didn't want to. Absolutely nothing good about this one.

Sin City: I know that's against the trend but was just 2 hours of nothing. The visuals were nice but nothing else. I so wanted to enjoy that movie.

Aliens 4: Wow... holy, incredible bad. It started off OK, but took a left turn half way though the movie and fell totally into the toilet.

Aliens 3: Did the director and writer actually watch the first 2 movies?

[Tobias]

AND YOU WERE DISAPPOINTED WITH SPIDER-MAN 2? You must be insane.


Why, yes. Yes I am. But that's beside that point...

[TimTwoFace]

The Blair Witch Project. When I first saw it in theatres, after all that hype, I thought it was a great movie and an interesting, unique piece of filmmaking. When I saw it the second time on DVD...ugh. It is not a movie you can see twice - once the surprises and mystery are gone, there isn't much there.

-Tim

[SirLemming]

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. Yes, I understand. It was supposed to be campy, retro, whatever. I don't care because I simply didn't enjoy it. It never engaged me. I totally didn't get into the adventure at all, and somehow the movie actually wound up being confusing, which you would think is impossible. It looked pretty cool, but at the same time, I'd bet a lot of money that the greenscreening had something to do with what went wrong with it. It really just felt so shallow. And even a stupid movie has to have depth in the sense that you can get "into it". You know, "into it", "depth"... something you can jump into...

Peter Pan (the newest live action one). Ahh, the first Peter Pan live-action movie done with a good budget and using a young male actor for the lead role instead of an adult woman! Too bad it was such a mess. Like Sky Captain, this movie managed to somehow be really confusing. It was hard to follow because the director seemed to be on too much caffeine or something. He gave the movie a good look, but there was always just too much happening at once. It felt like there was no dialogue in the movie. Sure, the characters talked, but there was no dialogue. It was all just a bunch of stuff happening, with the camera cutting to another scene before you could get immersed in the current one. Or just spinning out of control, whatever.

Batman & Robin - Well, duh. But at least this one is fun to watch, not because it's "camp", but because it fails at everything including "camp".

[Kury Wagner]

Off the top of my head:

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban -- I am a HUGE HP fan, as I'm sure most people here know, and I was really looking forward to this movie, (as it is my second favorite Potter book) and I was really depressed when I saw it and found out that it was sooo bad! Oh geez, it was just... just gah. The cheesy lines, the so-called artistic directing, and all the cool stuff from the book that they took out and replaced with crap that made no sense. I was just really disappointed by that movie.

The Incredibles -- Now, this wasn't too bad of a movie, but still it wasn't what I expected and a bit of a let-down especially with all the hype.

Hellboy -- It was so boring. I dunno why, it looked superb, but when I was watching it I couldn't get into it and I even fell asleep.

[RD!]

I bled anticipation to see The Village and well..

...well, you know...

Because I mean...

...God. >=[

[Metroid_spy]

Hellboy -- It was so boring. I dunno why, it looked superb, but when I was watching it I couldn't get into it and I even fell asleep. Same here. It looked cool and I was looking forward to see it in the theaters but I just decided to wait till it came out on PPV or DVD. So I watched it and it didn't turn out to be as good as I thought. Pretty boring...

Alien vs. Predator - So the action and all the fighting looked cool. But it turned out to be another boring movie. Everyone dies cept the girl. The girl goes with the other Predator and they run away from the aliens and the aliens die... Pretty boring.

[Delthayre]

I bled anticipation to see The Village and well..

...well, you know...

Because I mean...

...God. >=[
Yeah, and I saw it in a double feature with Catwoman at a drive-through in mid-summer, so imagine how I feel about that overblown excretion.

[Mike Spartz]

Haven't we had enough of these threads already???

Major Disappointments:

Keep in mind, the following movies aren't exactly bad, just rather overhyped.

Spider-Man 2 = boring and not nearly as original as part one
Pirates of the Carribbean = Didn't really dig the treasure thing, just not my cup of tea. Not a terrible film, just very average.
Sky Captian and the World of Tommorrow = Stunning visuals do not a good movie make.
The Matrix Reloaded = Two hours and 1/2 of non stop yapping. My goodness, if I wanted to bore myself to death I'd of watched Jay Leno.

[HomeMoviesFan]

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: OK, I'll admit to admitting to liking this...to my major HP loving friend, OK? I wouldn't want to...she would say I didn't "understand". Of course she loves it, she's a fan, she sees past the criticisms (hey! I've stood up for some really bad Home Movies episodes, I know what it's like!)

But...WOWWWWWWWWWWWW. This is the first movie I ever was expecting so much more out of and was just left waiting for it to happen. The movie had no substance compared to the other two, and I hate to say it, but I blame the director. Did it even occur to him what KIND of movie he was making?! A FANTASY FLICK, NOT AN INDY YOU IDIOT!! Every single shot was straightfoward and the art direction was atrocious, having the characters in regular, homebound clothes doesn't bring a connection to today's youth, it ruins the fantasy aspect of the film. Much including the stiff angle shots and crafty decisions to film all on a overcast day. (unless that was in the book, but still it just did not work for the mood trying to be conveyed) and the entire last half hour went by as if nothing was happen.
They just went back in time and saved everything and made a few dozens revelations!...and why do I feel like all I've seen was as exciting as washing my hands?!

Big, big disappointment. Goblet better be good, because this is the official forgotten HP movie. Over and out...

Oh, yes, and I was majorly disappointed with "A Night at the Roxbury" (so damn boring with stilted jokes that never work), more recently "Christmas with the Kranks" (okay, so it looked stupid, but I didn't think it would be an absymal mess) and of course, "The Ring Two" (no, no, NO!)...

This gives me an idea for a new thread...

[SirLemming]

I agree with Spontaneous Mike about Pirates of the Caribbean. While I certainly wouldn't mind watching it again (unlike the other movies I've mentioned), it was definitely overhyped. It was fun, but not a classic fun movie. People made it sound like it would totally prove wrong one's expectations of a movie based on a Disney ride, and... it didn't completely.

[Cogliostro]

Well here is a list of movies that were unexpectly bad movies, which means I thought they would be atleast decent yet turned out to be bad in my opinion:

-Elektra: The character has so much GOOD potential which wasn't looked at.

-Matrix Revolutions: Matrix Reloaded was okay and if Revolution was done well it would have made Reloaded seem better but no Revolution sucked and brought down the whole Matrix triology.

-Anchorman: In the previews this looked funny but sadly the movie wasn't.

-Napoleon Dynamite: Everyone was talking about how funny and great the movie was, it had a few funny moments but overall was a pointless and stupid small time movie.

-Hulk: I liked almost all of the film, Nick Nolte I think did some wonderful acting. What I felt ruined the movie was the fight between Banner and his dad, too much shifting and too much going on for people to see and understand (I doubt anyone really liked or understood the big blob bubble), if it was a good one on one brawl that was easy to see and enjoy that ended with Hulk standing over his dad as the bomb came flying at him then the movie would have been much better in my opinion.

-Spyder: A movie I bought on DVD before viewing because it really interested me but after viewing it, wish I had just tried to rent it. Slowest pacing.....ever.

[Daughterof_Evil]

Van Helsing: I dunno, maybe I expected more from Hugh Jackman. Damn X-Men for teaching me to trust his judgment.

Spider-Man: Apparently I have to go against the grain, here, because I thought the sequel was much better. Spider-Man was campy, unintelligable, without nearly as much characterization (cheap word for "realism") as the second; people might rag on 2 for being too angsty, but I think that's what we needed to see from the characters. Because of its proximity to 9/11, they had to tone certain things down in 1, while making other things moronically obvious. It was painfully optimistic with an uneven villain who was either so dorky he was laughable or so ridiculously threatening (I mean, c'mon, attacking Aunt May while she's praying? What, is he Satan?) that it was really hard not to imagine him in some Bella Lugosi film.

Matrix Revolutions: 'Nuff said. I expected a huge twist at the end, but they went for a predictable Hero Sacrifices Himself and Saves Humanity ending. The actors were obviously tired and the dialogue reflected that the Wachowskis were, too. The Super Brawl wasn't even that entertaining; a friend sitting next to me commented that the movie had lapsed into Dragonball Z.

[Spongebrain2.0]

-Anchorman: In the previews this looked funny but sadly the movie wasn't.

That movie was hilarious. I can understand why people may not care for it, but it certainly wasn't horrible:shrug:

[Punisher]

Call me crazy, but I enjoyed The Matrix Revolutions a lot more than Reloaded, and I would hardly ever call it disappointing, though not as good as the first one.

For unexpectly bad movies, I blew $15 on the Animatrix, to help me understand the plot better, which it did, but it was horrible and I wouldn't watch it again. Along with it in horribleness is Spider-man 2, because I expected so much more than a repeat of the original.

[Arkangel]

Spider-Man: Apparently I have to go against the grain, here, because I thought the sequel was much better. Spider-Man was campy, unintelligable, without nearly as much characterization (cheap word for "realism") as the second; people might rag on 2 for being too angsty, but I think that's what we needed to see from the characters. Because of its proximity to 9/11, they had to tone certain things down in 1, while making other things moronically obvious. It was painfully optimistic with an uneven villain who was either so dorky he was laughable or so ridiculously threatening (I mean, c'mon, attacking Aunt May while she's praying? What, is he Satan?) that it was really hard not to imagine him in some Bella Lugosi film.
Well I agree with you. The first Spiderman is incredibly mediocre, much like the first X-Men.

[Zero-V]

Given some people are blasting Hulk and Spider-Man, I think I'll take a similar path

The Incredibles: I know for a fact this is prasied like Jesus, but in my opinion, if you take away the fact PIXAR animated this film, this film is'nt even that good.

Cliqhed superhero story containing jokes and situations I've seen more than a hanful of times in other series and movies, just because it's aimed at children in the usually beneficial and gracful Pixar manner does'nt neccersarily mean it's original what makes this better or worse than Shrek? What is the commotion about this?

Not to say every PIXAR film is bad, (Toy Story, Bugs' Life, and on repeated viewings, the charming, yet slightly overated Monsters Inc) but people react like they produce a great film almost every single time, it's all about the substance, not the style, FInding Nemo and The Incredibles were films with merly STYLE, and the occasional substance.

[James]

Given some people are blasting Hulk and Spider-Man, I think I'll take a similar path
You make it sound like we're taking sides... :p

Kathy Kane said it was too talky, I sort of disagree on the Hulk. I liked the build up and the talky bits. I also liked the Hulking bits, what I thought was lost was...

1) Hulk Outs: One of the things which has always drawn me to dramatised "hulk" is the Hulk outs. We relate to Banner through the frustration. What the TV show did so well was to relate hulk outs to common day situations. In the TV pilot we have a WONDERFUL build up starting with his frustration over his gamma tests... it's raining outside... his car won't start... the tyre blows... he can't pull the tyre out the back... he can't get the tyre on.. it's still raining.. he's tried... getting more frustrated... eventually BAM. We've all had that frustration where compounded issues have really driven us to the edge, the Hulk epitomizes that edge and the movie missed this critical bit of audience empathy. Each Hulk out misses this build up, this feeling of frustration, the viewer NEEDS to feel the anger that Banner is feeling. In his first Hulk out, it's too quick... he's annoyed about his dad, he gets his foot caught in bucket and bang, it happens. The subject isn't indentifiable with the viewer and it happens to fast.

Second Hulk out ALMOST makes it. He's being pushed and bullied, and eventually punched, but as drama is meant to really take emotion to the extreme, again this misses the mark. There is no frustration in being unable to get to Betty, you need to feel his entrapment, his need to get out, his concern and worry, not just a few punches by a "nasty guy". The Hulk is a deeper embodiment than that.

The third is dream orientated, which is fair enough, but again really lacks the dramatic build up required - especially as it's intentionally stimulated. The fact that the Hulk is a build up of human frustration and fear is lost.

The final time happens in a scene too messy to work out let alone idenitify with.

2. The Father. In any genre, be it comic, TV, film, novel. What you are audience to is the creme of the idea. Many ideas, bits of dialogue, scenes have been cut back to make it flow in the alloted time/pages. However, I felt with Hulk the father b story was utterly superfluous past the Flashback. It wasn't needed.

You have two key issues in the film. An A emotional plot and a B action story, you don't need the C parental madman plot. There isn't enough room and it just impinges on the other two storylines. When you could be expanding on Bruce's turmoil or the Army's situation, you are caught in a battle with C arc which simply just overcomplicates.

The Hulk deals with action and emotion. Those are the key attributes, and any good writer will know when you have such a strong premise as a man's battle with a monster and the world's reaction to it, you don't NEED another aspect to be added. You have ODDLES of material to work with there and adding the third section just makes the story "battle" against itself for relevance.

David Banner was required to set up the history to Bruce, he didn't need to be included in the contemporary setting and I think that was a detriment to the emotional talky issues, the action issues and the film as a whole.



The Incredibles: I know for a fact this is prasied like Jesus, but in my opinion, if you take away the fact PIXAR animated this film, this film is'nt even that good.

Cliqhed superhero story containing jokes and situations I've seen more than a hanful of times in other series and movies, just because it's aimed at children in the usually beneficial and gracful Pixar manner does'nt neccersarily mean it's original what makes this better or worse than Shrek? What is the commotion about this?

Not to say every PIXAR film is bad, (Toy Story, Bugs' Life, and on repeated viewings, the charming, yet slightly overated Monsters Inc) but people react like they produce a great film almost every single time, it's all about the substance, not the style, FInding Nemo and The Incredibles were films with merly STYLE, and the occasional substance.
I enjoyed the Incredibles, but I'm glad I saw it before the hype. I don't feel it's the ground breaking addictive film most people see and if I had seen it on a wave of hype I would have been disappointed!

[Zero-V]

I enjoyed the Incredibles, but I'm glad I saw it before the hype. I don't feel it's the ground breaking addictive film most people see and if I had seen it on a wave of hype I would have been disappointed!I guess you're the fortunate one then...as I watched it when the hype was set in stone, I can fully understand the appeal of Finding Nemo given how breath takingly animated it was, and the story would charm a great deal of critics, but it was overhyped in the same stand.

It'd be a shame if Pixar fell into a "comfort zone" because of their movies being praised no matter what, I feel Toy Stroy 2 sucked because they beleived it'd be just as good as the first one, but they did'nt keep it SIMPLIFIED, they had to take it to an Airport, they had to have an "evil Prospector"...what?

[ClockStomper]

Episode 1: WTF? The villians are robots controlled by some Trade Federation with no bearing on the overall plot, said robots are useless if some remote ship is broken, which is insane since we see a 10 year old make a droid that can survive under it's own power. Useless pod race, one-shot villian, only thing of use is some character introductions. This should have been a five minute flashback in ROTC. You know your movie sucks when the majority of the movie plot revolves around getting spare engine parts.

Also, Lucas is full of bs, he claims this trilogy will fit together chronologically with the other 3, but Episode 1 hinges on you having seen at least some of the previous trilogy since the movie never orients us with the Star War universe, the Jedi, etc. the way ANH did.

[SirLemming]

Wow. I'm surprised it took this long for someone to mention Episode I.

[Delthayre]

Oh mercy yes, it is a horrid dissapointment. Darth Maul was given such ominous airs beforehand and he ends up being an irrelevant flash in the pan.

And for some damned reason I went into Episode II thinking it would be better. The plot was more relevant, but everything else reached such heights of inanity that it hardly mattered.

[Zero-V]

The amount of people attacking this film before it even premiered was disgracful, they deliberatly lowered thier expectations, even when the trailer proved sufficently better than the one for Episode I, do you know how nauccisating it is to sit there watching the movie and hear little to nothing but loud boos every time Hayden acted a scene badly?

So Lucas adds more to the original trilogy and makes one or two bad movies, big deal, he's the creator of the movies you watch, stop spitting on him like he's Bermen and Braga, you're just making yourselves look like hypocrites.

The film was superior to The Phantom Menece in almost every way barring the acting and some of the utterly implausible fan-pandering I've seen (Jango Fett the template for the clones...woooooooooo, whose fanfiction did you rip off Lucas?)

[Artimus Gigan]

I may be the only one here, but I absolutely hated X-Men2

It really wasn't as exciting as it could have been. The first movie had a few memorable moments(i.e. The Statue of Liberty battle) but the second one was just missing alot of the elements.

[rrarbecy]

:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: Oh. My God. Somebody insulted X2. I think I'm going to faint.


Now for movies most people hated but I liked.

1. Van Helsing was a great movie. I don't see what the problem was.

2. Hellboy. I liked it. Why others don't, I'll never know.

[Daughterof_Evil]

Well I agree with you. The first Spiderman is incredibly mediocre, much like the first X-Men.
I liked the first X-Men, if only because it sets up a great movie series. At the time, I thought the special effects were awesome, but looking back on it after watching too much X2 and The Matrix, it looked ridiculous. Everything else, though, I hold is still good.

[Kury Wagner]

:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: Oh. My God. Somebody insulted X2. I think I'm going to faint.Why? It wasn't that good of a movie. Sure, I love it, as I'm a huge X-Fan, but movie-wise I don't think it was spectacular. =/

[James]

I found Episode II more disappointing than I.

I think Liam Neeson and Macgregor, while fairly dull characters (Jedi are prone to being a little bit yawnsome) had better chemistry and acting skills than Haydn and Portman (the latter suffering from poor chemisty, the former suffering from wooden acting..).

I had more hopes for Episode II than I. Afterall, I had to live up to the old trilogy, unlikely to happen, Episode II just had to be better than I.

Episode II paled compared to the chemistry and scripts for Spider-Man which was out at the same time. It just made the dialogue and chemistry between Padme and Anakin look even more wooden.

Another major mistake was making Anakin so utterly unlikable. He wasn't even respectable. He was just a selfish teenager. True, teenagers are like that, but it doesn't make good when he's your only charismatic main role. Ewan is a great actor, but as I said, straight Jedi don't make for stage presence. Anakin needed to have charisma as well as edge, he didn't and the script was a mess.

The comedy with 3P0 really did ruin the movie for me. More so than Jar Jar in the first. I suppose Jar Jar was a nothing character, C3P0 was a character whose eccentricies in situations were amusing rather than a character thrown into "amusing situations".

I'll add X-2 too. My disappointment was compared to the hype it got. I felt, while enjoyable overall, the finale - the last overlong 30 minutes was an utter mess of sloppy editing and awkward pacing. Jean's dead? Blink and you'll miss it... which is a pity, as after 30 minutes of overlong action, some emotional drama was really called for. Not a BAD movie, but I was disappointed - just a little.

[screw on head]

Matrix Revolutions: Even though I didn't have wildly high hopes for this film, I really was looking forward to it. The Matrix Reloaded didn't blow me away, but despite its faults, I thought it was just a stepping stone to a great finale in the next and final film.

I really wasn't expecting what this film turned out to be. My detachment from the story was getting greater and greater as the movie progressed. The 'human embodied Agent Smith blinding Neo scene' pulled me back into the movie, but it wasn't long after that I felt completely distant from what I was watching. There was nothing riding on that final fight for me, and despite how pretty it looked, I wasn't into it in the slightest. I haven't seen the film since that one time I 'observed' the film in the theatre, and I still don't know what to make of it. I found myself leaving as a very disappointed, and pretty robbed movie goer. I have no desire to see it again...

LOTR: Return of the King: This certainly wasn't bad, but it was an 'unexpectedly unaffecting' movie for me. I enjoyed the first film, and kinda liked certain bits of the second one, but this one really didn't do much for me. The last few minutes were absolutely maddening. Each time I thought the movie was truely coming to a close, it would fade into another scene, and my desire to leave became ever increasing. By the second or third fade, I couldn't care less what was going on, I just wanted to leave.

On the whole, this really didn't do much for me. Maybe it was my guilt of not reading the books before seeing this, but I really wasn't blown away by it. I still kind of want to read this book, just so I can read the explanation for the giant eagles that come out of nowhere to save the two hobbits (no, I wasn't terribly confused by them, I have a bit of knowledge about them from reading the Hobbit, but still, what a random rescue)...

[SirLemming]

I found Star Wars Episode II to be a better movie than Episode I, but at the same time, a more frustrating movie.

The overuse of CGI backgrounds upset me to no end. Freaking go to a desert again like you did for Episode IV, don't CGI sand and CGI the footprints as the characters walk through it. Or dump a bunch of sand in a studio somewhere. No matter how good CGI gets, it's probably never going to look quite as believable as the real deal.
The acting was also more of a problem here. Liam Neeson wasn't there, and more importantly, Hayden Christensen was. I don't know anything about his acting abilities in general, but he was absolutely horrible in this movie. Natalie Portman did a pretty poor job as well, and I know she can do good stuff. Certainly I believe the CGI backgrounds had something to do with their shallow performances, but there are probably other factors that I can't begin to fathom. Anakin was the main character, and he was stupid, so the movie lost a lot. And even though Anakin's actor in Episode I was also pretty bad, he was a kid, so it didn't matter as much. You don't expect much depth from kids.

Oh, and of course, C-3PO's character was mutilated. He never used to be so shockingly corny.

[James Bester]

I expected The Matrix to be really good when I first saw it on a Friday night at my friend's house(known as Punisher on the boards), but it just bored me and I fell asleep in the middle of it. Since Punisher is a big fan of The Matrix, he got pretty annoyed.

Another movie that was unexpectly bad for me was "Hulk." It was the most boring action movie I've ever seen in my life. For around 45 minutes, it was the hulk running in the desert. I was really anticipating it, but for once, the video game turned out better than the movie.

[rrarbecy]

People ripping Darth Maul, maybe that's why the movie was called The Phantom Menace. That's just what Darth Maul was. A phantom menace.

[BluFire1213]

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
holy sh*t man....that was basically the only one they've made so far that isn't boring...god i hate harry potter....I read half way through the 4th one and then thought to myself, "why am i doing this? i meen this is pointles, i'm just wasting my time..." wich i was...and i don't even wanna see the next 3 movies...crap they're so long!...

[DisneyBoy]

The Phantom of the Opera - I went out of my way to root for this film since day one. I thought it might stand a chance with Gerald Butler instead of Antonio Banderas, but in the end, I don't think it would have mattered. One reviewer compared watching the film to being "trapped in the frilly bedroom of an absurdly romantic, borderline psychotic 13-year-old girl for nearly two and a half hours" and I'd have to agree. A rediculously slowed down score pumped to death with electric guitars can't match the exquisite perfection that is the original cast recording...and speaking of the cast...only Rossum, Wilson and Richardson manage to bring some amount of authenticity to the roles which originated on the stage. All the other characters, props, sets and alterations hurl us far away from whatever heart this story was supposed to have, turning it into disaster of Schumaker proportions. He did not redeem himself with this one in my eyes, and Webber actually dropped a couple of points. The whole thing is such a crying shame that not even Crawford's involvement could have saved it. They wanted it to be bigger and better. Less is more, people. So next time you see an opportunity to throw in some leather-clad male tango dancers, Joel, DON'T!

Treasure Planet/Home on the Range/Brother Bear - This is what Disney's 2D animation legacy gets to bow out on? For shame.

Batman Forever/Batman+Robin - Thanks again, Joel.

Sin City - Too much hype over some 3D effects, violence and similarities to the source material. Maybe if they'd made the Phantom of the Opera movie the same way they'd saught to make this one like the graphic novels, I'd have loved it. But since I have no interest in Frank Miller as of yet, this one's popularity goes over my head and I don't particularily care to know why. Once was enough.

Man in the Iron Mask - Ugh. I know that's a dated reference, but when I saw it all I could think of was "ugh".

Minority Report - I'd actually forgotten that I'd seen in it theatres when it had come out until this week.

Hero/House of Flying Daggers - Pretty to look at...exotic to say the least, but also confusing, and with the latter, completely uninspired as far as the story is concerned. Can't anyone stay dead? Does everything always have to look beautiful? Certainly a lesson in sensory overload.

The Superman Films - Say what you want, you Chris Reeves fans, but Dean Cain and Teri Hatcher's little show that could brought more honesty and emotion to the Superman legacy than these films ever did. Frankly, these four have always creeped me out a bit. Wish the new film was a relaunch.

[Kury Wagner]

Ah, I've got a new one to add to my list: Anchorman. Urgh... such a waste of time. It looked funny, and everyone said it was hilarious so I finally saw it. I didn't even finish watching it, because it was just stupid. That's why I don't like watching comedies that often. I don't find stupidity that amusing. =/ The only thing that made me laugh was Steve Carell's lines.

[The Landstander]

The Ladykillers - I love the Coen Brothers. I love Tom Hanks. Old women can be hilarious. ...so what happened? =(

Anchorman - Found it to be a waste of time, sans Steve Carrell.

Matrix Revolutions - I personally found Reloaded to be a decent movie on its own (though it paled in comparison to the first), but Revolutions just left me bored most of the time.

Those three came to mind the fastest.

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Oh, and I found the first Harry Potter movie (though I admit I haven't read the books) a big disappointment.

[silvanoir]

The second 2 Matrix movies, definetly. I went in with high expectations... and meh. I was entertained by the fights but I really had to turn my mind off... the so called philosophy really came down to nothing at the end. Unlike others, I never thought it was at all hard to figure out.
They should have stopped after the first one.

Hellboy was another meh. I looked forward to it, and the first part was ok, but at the end when he fought the gaint cgi SQUID of all things... blah. They shuod have thought up a better big villian to fight for the finale.

I guess there a lot of movies that show you the value of good writing instead of depending on special effects. :sweat:

[Zero-V]

The Superman Films - Say what you want, you Chris Reeves fans, but Dean Cain and Teri Hatcher's little show that could brought more honesty and emotion to the Superman legacy than these films ever did. Frankly, these four have always creeped me out a bit. Wish the new film was a relaunch.
You prefer Lois and Clark, a series which featured Lois eating a frog, barly tolerable humour in the worst possible situations, "The Wedding Destroyer", and some utterly crass and stupid plots in the later seasons over movies that balanced the comics in the entertaining tone they deserved to be?

And "emotion?" You call Teri Hatcher's infrequent OVERACTING "Emotion?"

If you were talking about the first season, which I liked, I could see where you're coming from but the series became a joke to the point Season Four was worse than Superman IV.

...I think that killed the credibiltity of your entire criticism of Sin City dead there.

[Toon Capone]

Movies that I don't wasn't going to be that bad but was are:

Spider-Man / Spider-Man 2 (I admit their not the worst films but they don't exactly live up to their hype)

The Incredibles (it just wasn't that good)

Van Helsing (I knew it wasn't going to be that good but it was worst than imagined it to be)

Underworld (see Van Helsing)

Also and I know some Transformers fans will probably get mad at this but it is just my opinion and I know the G.I. Joe movie wasn't good either but have to say when I look back at Transformers: The Movie it was pretty bad.

[Zero-V]

Also and I know some Transformers fans will probably get mad at this but it is just my opinion and I know the G.I. Joe movie wasn't good either but have to say when I look back at Transformers: The Movie it was pretty bad.Only because they slayed Generation One characters and barly had a plot outside of the first thirty minutes, if you watch the movie after watching "Call of the Primitives", it makes much more sense

Transformers: The Movie, and G.I Joe The Movie>The Incredibles I might add, take away the Cobra-La origins and THAT "He's gone into a coma" dub, and that movie was excellent.

[Toon Capone]

^
I've seen Call Of The Primitives and it still doesn't like the movie any better and it's not that just killed off a bunch of G1 characters why I think the movie is bad it had several plot holes and the most embassing moment in any movie (you the scene where they were dancing to Dare To Be Stupid) the was just too much.

As for the G.I. Joe: The Movie your right it wouldn't had been so bad if they took out Cobra-La and Duke going to into a comma. It should had a better plot too (like the Cobra Civil War) and I didn't like how they portrayed Duke and Falcon and the complete disrespect of the character of Cobra Commander.

[Punisher]

I expected The Matrix to be really good when I first saw it on a Friday night at my friend's house(known as Punisher on the boards), but it just bored me and I fell asleep in the middle of it. Since Punisher is a big fan of The Matrix, he got pretty annoyed.I told you the first half would be boring to you, and you still insisted on seeing it. You feel asleep before the good parts, and I had to figure out how to work your dvd player and get it out.

Another unexpectly bad movie comes to mind-Alien vs Predator. Granted, I did know it would be bad, being dumbed down to PG-13, but good lord. I was expecting something somewhat reminiscent of the earlier movies, not garbage that could have been predicted by the first scene is over. It's really sad they ruined two great movie series with that.