Aaron Schneiderman
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What was the original question? Oh, movie disappointments. Well, it would have to be Brokeback Mountain 'cause everyone got it in the end! JUST KIDDING.
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Aaron Schneiderman wrote: What was the original question? Oh, movie disappointments. Well, it would have to be Brokeback Mountain 'cause everyone got it in the end! JUST KIDDING.LOL - made my night shift! After all, it is now 2.20am here in Sydney Australia...
Bubble - just don't watch it with high expectations like I did
I just saw Raging Bull today for the first time. I gotta say I was totally disapointed in that. It bored the hell out of me. I was expecting a great boxing picture, but instead I got a dummy abusing his wife in every other scene. I suppose it could have been a tragic story about selfishness, but there wasn't enough character development for that.
I finally went to see Brokeback Mountain and while it was a good movie, I was expecting so much more. There are too many movies about "forbidden" love already from Romeo and Juliet, on down the ages. It seems it is more the novelty of the concept than the actual movie that gets the raves. The first 30 minutes when they were actually on Brokeback were great, but the rest was fairly slow and boring. In some ways, it reminded me of Same Time Next Year, except that was more of a comedy.
Jonny "Me You" wrote: I just saw Raging Bull today for the first time. I gotta say I was totally disapointed in that. It bored the hell out of me. I was expecting a great boxing picture, but instead I got a dummy abusing his wife in every other scene. I suppose it could have been a tragic story about selfishness, but there wasn't enough character development for that.
What?!?
What?!?
Wild Wild West
Another 48hrs
Godzilla
Last Action Hero
Rainman
Chariots of Fire
Another 48hrs
Godzilla
Last Action Hero
Rainman
Chariots of Fire
Wedding Crashers was much better than Virgin!!!
I have a long list of disappointments, but I'll make it short.
Hostel - I knew the director and his tendencies through interviews, but the movie lived up to none of the billing it got. Scariest and goriest movie in years? Not by a long shot to me.
Open Water - There was tons of atmosphere, but what good is that if there's no real payoff? I thought there'd be at least 1 shark attack and you get the feeling they did, but then who knows? Shame that it was overhyped or it would have been good. Great on a home theater though.
King Kong (2005) - It was about an hour too long. I could have been put on the ship on the way to the island and had the story told to me there and been content with 2 hours. 3 hours? My God.
Hostel - I knew the director and his tendencies through interviews, but the movie lived up to none of the billing it got. Scariest and goriest movie in years? Not by a long shot to me.
Open Water - There was tons of atmosphere, but what good is that if there's no real payoff? I thought there'd be at least 1 shark attack and you get the feeling they did, but then who knows? Shame that it was overhyped or it would have been good. Great on a home theater though.
King Kong (2005) - It was about an hour too long. I could have been put on the ship on the way to the island and had the story told to me there and been content with 2 hours. 3 hours? My God.
40 Year Old Virgin - Why does everyone keep saying that this movie is funny? I didn't even crack a smile once. Wedding Crashers was way funnier then this piece of garbage.
Sin City - I know I know this is supposed to be a great movie but I was only interested in two of the three stories. The Marv story and Hartigan stories were great but the story with Clive Owen bored me to tears. You could predict exactly what was going to happen and I literally almost fell asleep during that story.
Hostel - where's all the gore? This movie is tame compared to most movies out there and at least the other movies held my interest for more then 10 minutes.
Blade Trinity - this is pretty much self explanatory.
The Chronicles of Ridd**k - Pitch Black was at least good dumb fun but this one took it in a whole new direction and not a good one at that.
Cursed - Wes Craven and werewolves what could go wrong? Apparently everything.
Sin City - I know I know this is supposed to be a great movie but I was only interested in two of the three stories. The Marv story and Hartigan stories were great but the story with Clive Owen bored me to tears. You could predict exactly what was going to happen and I literally almost fell asleep during that story.
Hostel - where's all the gore? This movie is tame compared to most movies out there and at least the other movies held my interest for more then 10 minutes.
Blade Trinity - this is pretty much self explanatory.
The Chronicles of Ridd**k - Pitch Black was at least good dumb fun but this one took it in a whole new direction and not a good one at that.
Cursed - Wes Craven and werewolves what could go wrong? Apparently everything.
jaded25 wrote: 40 Year Old Virgin - Why does everyone keep saying that this movie is funny? I didn't even crack a smile once. Wedding Crashers was way funnier then this piece of garbage.
I think comedy is especially hard to gauge for people. You have to be able to relate to the characters to find the humor. 40 Year Old Virgin is definitely one of those movies where the humor can be at times painful.
I think comedy is especially hard to gauge for people. You have to be able to relate to the characters to find the humor. 40 Year Old Virgin is definitely one of those movies where the humor can be at times painful.
jaded25 wrote: 40 Year Old Virgin - Why does everyone keep saying that this movie is funny? I didn't even crack a smile once. Wedding Crashers was way funnier then this piece of garbage.
Sin City - I know I know this is supposed to be a great movie but I was only interested in two of the three stories. The Marv story and Hartigan stories were great but the story with Clive Owen bored me to tears. You could predict exactly what was going to happen and I literally almost fell asleep during that story.
Hostel - where's all the gore? This movie is tame compared to most movies out there and at least the other movies held my interest for more then 10 minutes.
Blade Trinity - this is pretty much self explanatory.
The Chronicles of Ridd**k - Pitch Black was at least good dumb fun but this one took it in a whole new direction and not a good one at that.
Cursed - Wes Craven and werewolves what could go wrong? Apparently everything.
I like Trinity,Ridx2ick,Hostel
and I love every story in Sin City and Dwight McCathey is a true Mr.Badass unlike me
Sin City - I know I know this is supposed to be a great movie but I was only interested in two of the three stories. The Marv story and Hartigan stories were great but the story with Clive Owen bored me to tears. You could predict exactly what was going to happen and I literally almost fell asleep during that story.
Hostel - where's all the gore? This movie is tame compared to most movies out there and at least the other movies held my interest for more then 10 minutes.
Blade Trinity - this is pretty much self explanatory.
The Chronicles of Ridd**k - Pitch Black was at least good dumb fun but this one took it in a whole new direction and not a good one at that.
Cursed - Wes Craven and werewolves what could go wrong? Apparently everything.
I like Trinity,Ridx2ick,Hostel
and I love every story in Sin City and Dwight McCathey is a true Mr.Badass unlike me
aristocrats was awful!!!! and don't say I dont have a sense of humor, just ask tony... I do. and bloodrayne was also a disappointment... same thing with house of the dead... doom was also kind of a let down but it was kinda good. (notice 2 of the 4 are Uwe Boll movies. if he makes the metal gear solid movie I think the sony ppl are gonna kill themselves b/c you know they will make it.)
Any Uwe Boll film is a disappointment. Also, I remember that the person who made the game wouldn't give the rights to Uwe Boll, so at least Metal Gear Solid is saved for now.
Uwe Boll is my hero, if he can make films, I can
Mr.Badass wrote: Uwe Boll is my hero
damn straight, he is my hero
40 Year Old Virgin, Uncut on DVD.
After all the hype, I was totally let down, except for a couple of good laughs.
After all the hype, I was totally let down, except for a couple of good laughs.
Tony DeFrancisco wrote: Any Uwe Boll film is a disappointment. Also, I remember that the person who made the game wouldn't give the rights to Uwe Boll, so at least Metal Gear Solid is saved for now.
How can you be disappointed by a Uwe Boll movie? You know going in that it is going to be awful. Was it not bad enough for you?
How can you be disappointed by a Uwe Boll movie? You know going in that it is going to be awful. Was it not bad enough for you?
jaded25 wrote:
Sin City - I know I know this is supposed to be a great movie but I was only interested in two of the three stories. The Marv story and Hartigan stories were great but the story with Clive Owen bored me to tears. You could predict exactly what was going to happen and I literally almost fell asleep during that story.
On the contrary, the ONLY segment I thought was absolutely GHASTLY and HORRIBLE was "That Yellow B*****d", It was DREADFUL all of the actors in that segment (sans the cameos by Brittany Murphy and Clive Owen) were as wooden as a tree (especially Bruce Willis and Jessica Alba) and the story was BEYOND predictable (ripping out his manhood was the only part that I was midly interested in, but it got old fast). It was also the least memorable in my mind, and the only one of the segments I yawn at everytime I watch the movie (and when I first saw it in theaters, it was the first time I checked my watch during the whole thing). At least "The Big Fat Kill" was interesting and had loads of better acting and an interesting story.
and besides if you like 2 out of the 3 segements how exactly are you dissappointed in the film itself??
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Anyways, I was greatly dissappointed in the following:
Resident Evil: Apocalypse (so dissappointed)
Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (same as RE:A)
Scary Movie 3 (where the series got extremely bad)
Queen of the Damned (Aaliyah and the soundtrack were the only redeeming factors)
and sadly to an extent: Aeon Flux (mainly because it didn't capture the feel of the TV series)
Sin City - I know I know this is supposed to be a great movie but I was only interested in two of the three stories. The Marv story and Hartigan stories were great but the story with Clive Owen bored me to tears. You could predict exactly what was going to happen and I literally almost fell asleep during that story.
On the contrary, the ONLY segment I thought was absolutely GHASTLY and HORRIBLE was "That Yellow B*****d", It was DREADFUL all of the actors in that segment (sans the cameos by Brittany Murphy and Clive Owen) were as wooden as a tree (especially Bruce Willis and Jessica Alba) and the story was BEYOND predictable (ripping out his manhood was the only part that I was midly interested in, but it got old fast). It was also the least memorable in my mind, and the only one of the segments I yawn at everytime I watch the movie (and when I first saw it in theaters, it was the first time I checked my watch during the whole thing). At least "The Big Fat Kill" was interesting and had loads of better acting and an interesting story.
and besides if you like 2 out of the 3 segements how exactly are you dissappointed in the film itself??
------
Anyways, I was greatly dissappointed in the following:
Resident Evil: Apocalypse (so dissappointed)
Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (same as RE:A)
Scary Movie 3 (where the series got extremely bad)
Queen of the Damned (Aaliyah and the soundtrack were the only redeeming factors)
and sadly to an extent: Aeon Flux (mainly because it didn't capture the feel of the TV series)
C M wrote: jaded25 wrote:
Sin City - I know I know this is supposed to be a great movie but I was only interested in two of the three stories. The Marv story and Hartigan stories were great but the story with Clive Owen bored me to tears. You could predict exactly what was going to happen and I literally almost fell asleep during that story.
On the contrary, the ONLY segment I thought was absolutely GHASTLY and HORRIBLE was "That Yellow B*****d", It was DREADFUL all of the actors in that segment (sans the cameos by Brittany Murphy and Clive Owen) were as wooden as a tree (especially Bruce Willis and Jessica Alba) and the story was BEYOND predictable (ripping out his manhood was the only part that I was midly interested in, but it got old fast). It was also the least memorable in my mind, and the only one of the segments I yawn at everytime I watch the movie (and when I first saw it in theaters, it was the first time I checked my watch during the whole thing). At least "The Big Fat Kill" was interesting and had loads of better acting and an interesting story.
and besides if you like 2 out of the 3 segements how exactly are you dissappointed in the film itself??
------
Anyways, I was greatly dissappointed in the following:
Resident Evil: Apocalypse (so dissappointed)
Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (same as RE:A)
Scary Movie 3 (where the series got extremely bad)
Queen of the Damned (Aaliyah and the soundtrack were the only redeeming factors)
and sadly to an extent: Aeon Flux (mainly because it didn't capture the feel of the TV series)
I was disappointed in that only 2 of the 3 stories were interesting. If the story with Clive Owen was good then the movie wouldn't have been a disappointment. I agree and disagree about the story with Bruce Willis. First I agree that some of the acting wasn't exactly great like Jessica Alba and Michael Madsen. But Bruce Willis, Powers Boothe, and Nick Stahl were all great in my opinion. The second story with Clive Owen was boring because of a couple of things. First the good was that Clive Owen was actually pretty good in it but thats where the good ends. The rest of the acting was horrible. Brittany Murphy is a horrible actress and it shows in this story, also Benicio Del Toro overacted to the point where I wanted to just walk out of the theater whenever the camera concentrated on him and his gang. Not to mention Michael Clarke Duncan who also was horrible in the story.
Sin City - I know I know this is supposed to be a great movie but I was only interested in two of the three stories. The Marv story and Hartigan stories were great but the story with Clive Owen bored me to tears. You could predict exactly what was going to happen and I literally almost fell asleep during that story.
On the contrary, the ONLY segment I thought was absolutely GHASTLY and HORRIBLE was "That Yellow B*****d", It was DREADFUL all of the actors in that segment (sans the cameos by Brittany Murphy and Clive Owen) were as wooden as a tree (especially Bruce Willis and Jessica Alba) and the story was BEYOND predictable (ripping out his manhood was the only part that I was midly interested in, but it got old fast). It was also the least memorable in my mind, and the only one of the segments I yawn at everytime I watch the movie (and when I first saw it in theaters, it was the first time I checked my watch during the whole thing). At least "The Big Fat Kill" was interesting and had loads of better acting and an interesting story.
and besides if you like 2 out of the 3 segements how exactly are you dissappointed in the film itself??
------
Anyways, I was greatly dissappointed in the following:
Resident Evil: Apocalypse (so dissappointed)
Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (same as RE:A)
Scary Movie 3 (where the series got extremely bad)
Queen of the Damned (Aaliyah and the soundtrack were the only redeeming factors)
and sadly to an extent: Aeon Flux (mainly because it didn't capture the feel of the TV series)
I was disappointed in that only 2 of the 3 stories were interesting. If the story with Clive Owen was good then the movie wouldn't have been a disappointment. I agree and disagree about the story with Bruce Willis. First I agree that some of the acting wasn't exactly great like Jessica Alba and Michael Madsen. But Bruce Willis, Powers Boothe, and Nick Stahl were all great in my opinion. The second story with Clive Owen was boring because of a couple of things. First the good was that Clive Owen was actually pretty good in it but thats where the good ends. The rest of the acting was horrible. Brittany Murphy is a horrible actress and it shows in this story, also Benicio Del Toro overacted to the point where I wanted to just walk out of the theater whenever the camera concentrated on him and his gang. Not to mention Michael Clarke Duncan who also was horrible in the story.
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