Most dissapointing/deceptive movie

[MellowFellow]

The only movie I can think of that was deceptive to me was Inglorious Bastards. I liked the movie, but I seem to remember the trailers not even bringing up the blonde girl who is the main character for most of the movie. I could be wrong, but I swear the trailers made it look like it was all about Brad Pitt's character and his unit and how they were going to go kill a bunch of nazis.

 

[RandV80]

Hero with Jet Li...

I went in expecting another cool kung-fu flick like Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, and I love me my kung-fu. What I got was some weird Chinese cultural piece that was more interested in creating pretty scenery with contrasting colours than actual fight scenes. I've never been more disappointed in a movie.

 

[Rylot]

Spider-Man 3. I was looking forward to it. One of my favorite directors, actors I didn't hate, my favorite comic book hero and villain and then that giant pile of shit. Emo Spider-Man... sigh.

 

[Cursed Frogurt]

Social Network. Unredeemable and predictable protagonist, shallow characters, nothing impressive film-wise, predictable story, overbearing music, and a lame duck of an ending.

Everyone I know, told them to stay far away from it. My non-movie friend hated it even more, and laughed at how melodramatic they made simple stuff. Like, HEY LET'S RUN TO SOMEWHERE TO WRITE DOWN MY THOUGHTS ON A NEW PROGRAM EVEN THOUGH I COULD JUST USE A NOTEBOOK OR SOME PAPER ANYWHERE! RUN ACROSS SNOW!

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I could go on for pages.

I haven't seen it but I want to since I'm a really big fan of David Fincher (Fight Club, Se7en) but I'm skeptical because even Zuckerberg was quoted saying, "Wow, they made my story interesting? That seems unlikely."

 

[CharrHearted]

Resident evil afterlife.

I myself am a big fan of RE, however when I saw this movie I wanted to puke out my insides and burn them. Such a travesty to a wonderful game series.

 

[HT_Black]

Transformers 2. It was billed as two hours of gigantic robots beeating the everloving tar out of one another with big pointy objects made of LASERS; it was actually half an hour of robots not doing too much of anything and an hour and thirty minutes of some army guys without names doing some...thing. I've literally tried to rub the memories of that movie out of my mind, to moderate success.

 

[CharrHearted]

Wolverine Origins because they completely mucked up Gambit's character. Anyone else remember the 90's version (back when Wolverine wore a yellow costume.) when Gambit was cool?

Don't forget what they did to deadpool. My brother and I felt like killing the sonofa gun that decided to shut him up!

 

[Thespian]

"Go see Inception, the new Psychological Thriller with so many twists and turns it's probably too smart for the average joe viewer!"

Translates to

"Go see Inception, the latest generic action movie which uses some poorly explained mind-dream-McGuffin as an excuse to suddenly have a kickass snow shoot-out for no good reason, quickly wrapping it up with the Tarantino-esque illusion of being clever by posing an unnecessary question with no lead up to it just to make your average third-rate movie novice say "Ohh, I are smart.""

But, the second one is a mouthful.

Seriously, Psychological Thriller my glutus maximus. I have nothing against action movies, but just BE an action movie. Don't pretend to be something else.

 

[Sassafrass]

The 2010 Predators remake.

Dear God, how could they make it suck so damn much? It fails to entertain me even as a dumb action flick. The acting is terrible, all the possibly likeable characters are killed off in the first 30 minutes and the finale is just mind-bogglingly stupid and trying to be the finale of the original Predator which it totally cocks up in this film.

It's just...horrible.

 

[Mr Companion]

Any movie described as a "Thriller" that turns out to be a courtroom drama. You wouldn't think this would happen often but it happens all the damn time to me. I dont get it, whats to thrilling about courtrooms?

 

[Rylot]

Resident evil afterlife.

I myself am a big fan of RE, however when I saw this movie I wanted to puke out my insides and burn them. Such a travesty to a wonderful game series.

Had you not seen the previous RE movies? Afterlife was the best of the series (ie it was almost watch able from a movie perspective)I'm just curious why you picked that one as opposed to the first one since they've only ever had the most tenuous connection with video games they're "based" on.

 

[Woodsey]

"Go see Inception, the new Psychological Thriller with so many twists and turns it's probably too smart for the average joe viewer!"

Translates to

"Go see Inception, the latest generic action movie which uses some poorly explained mind-dream-McGuffin as an excuse to suddenly have a kickass snow shoot-out for no good reason, quickly wrapping it up with the Tarantino-esque illusion of being clever by posing an unnecessary question with no lead up to it just to make your average third-rate movie novice say "Ohh, I are smart.""

But, the second one is a mouthful.

Seriously, Psychological Thriller my glutus maximus. I have nothing against action movies, but just BE an action movie. Don't pretend to be something else.

No lead up to it? One of the film's major themes is questioning your own reality, how is that not a lead up to the ending?

There are also more literal points throughout the whole film to help you interpret the ending, also. It's not just there for the sake of it.

 

[Alon Shechter]

Inception, "yeah it's really good but is a total mindfuck"
Seemed pretty boring and straightforward to me really

Was just an OK movie that might surprise you with its ideas, but a mindfuck it is not.
Now Audition, that's a mindfuck *shiver*

 

[Mr Companion]

Inception, "yeah it's really good but is a total mindfuck"
Seemed pretty boring and straightforward to me really

Boring? Bwuh? It wasn't a mindfuck at all but boring is pushing it! Unless you have the attention span of a speed addict on pixie sticks I think at least the shifting gravity combat and the explosive shootouts should keep you from nodding off! I am guessing idiots who didn't pay any attention because they were being distracted by a procession of naked ladies next to the screen probably found the movie hard to follow and then told everybody how mindfucking it is, leading to the midiration you experienced. But in all I wouldn't say it was a dissapointment, just not the mental bulldozer you were led to believe it would be. I still agree though, people must be pretty slow to loose track of that plot so easily.

 

[Thespian]

No lead up to it? One of the film's major themes is questioning your own reality, how is that not a lead up to the ending?

There are also more literal points throughout the whole film to help you interpret the ending, also. It's not just there for the sake of it.

Yes, but specifically the end. As in, the last three seconds. There was no lead up to that precise question that was posed, other than, from what I can see "Hey, some crazy shit happened before, what if it happened again :O"

I guess my point was...

Spoiler

The fact that he placed the seed of doubt in his wife, that her world was fake, in order to bring her home, made sense. That doubt was retained, she thought Earth was fake, la-de-da. It made sense. It was a fairly clever plot movement. The ending was different. It seemed, to me, to just be "Whoa! Is he still in a dream world? Does he just think he is? Did they never get back? Did HE never get back, but the others did?" It was spread too thin and didn't have a focussed view of what it was trying to say.

If you ask me, it was trying too hard to be clever, but didn't show any of the real bizzareness of the human mind, which is what I went to see in a film that delves into the unconscious. The extent of the Dream-World and it's relation to the Sub-Conscious was... Well, it rains when you need to pee.

Oh, and Daddy Issues.

Sorry, I was just heavily disappointed.

 

[Mr. Omega]

Dissapointing: Xmen Origins Wolverine. see above posts
Deceptive: Inglorious Basterds. Not a bad movie by any means, but a much different movie than what was advertised.

 

[supermariner]

Inglorious Basterds for me
definately NOT disappointing
but the trailers were slightly misleading
i thought it'd be another Tarantino bloodfest with brutal quips and more deaths than there are people in the world
but it was totally more subtle and wonderful than that
it was misleading in a pleasant way
and i thouroughly enjoyed it

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Skyline. The trailer made it look like a very awesome movie what with all those scenes of the people being vacuumed up en masse. But it turned out to consist mostly of the characters sitting around in a penthouse apartment hiding in fear and arguing over what course of action to take. Kinda like Big Brother with aliens.

 

[Moeez]

I haven't seen it but I want to since I'm a really big fan of David Fincher (Fight Club, Se7en) but I'm skeptical because even Zuckerberg was quoted saying, "Wow, they made my story interesting? That seems unlikely."

I wouldn't even say watch it if you want to know more about Zuckerberg and how Facebook came about, because it's based on a smear campaign book (Accidental Billionaire) that demonises Zuckerberg and he wants nothing to do with the film.

Nothing impressive about it at all. Not the acting, not some amazing scene. A better related movie is the social network thriller/mockumentary, CATFISH.

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[Flamma Man]

The most disappointing movie I've ever seen? "Avatar" is the answer to that question.

Yes, it may sound like I'm hating the movie just because everyone else seems to love to hate it, but I just couldn't get over how shallow and manipulative the story was, I mean, the performances were good, but the characters and plot were so boring and predictable.

That and the aliens were way too perfect to be an alien race, I mean, the design is just so lazy just to pull every trick in the book to make them more sympathetic to the audience. I just thought it was lazy design to be honest, along with everything else on Pandora. Yes, the effects were spectacular, but the design of everything was a bit too 'magically' for a world based in reality such as the weird floating rocks and the light up forest.

I also just couldn't get over the forced theme and moral of the movie. Yeah, District 9 had an obvious theme and moral of racism, but it wasn't like it was shoving it down your throat the entire movie.

Along with that, it didn't have any real gray area to speak of. All we had was the stereotypically evil military general and the asshole corporate CEO to portray the humans as an evil and destructive race of planet killers. While we had the Na'vi portraying a perfect race in complete harmony with nature.

Then it just got kind of stupid near the end like the large mech having a comically large knife, yeesh.

Again, this movie just disappointed me with how shallow and manipulative it was. It was by no means a horribly movie, but I just didn't like it at all and came out of the theater disappointed.

The most deceptive movie I've seen was "Inglorious Basterds." Now, I loved this movie, but most of the commercials and advertising portrayed it as a movie about a bunch of guys killing Nazis. I was expected a bit more action, but still enjoyed the dialogue none the less.

It was good, but I'm still slightly sore that it tricked me.