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Most dissapointing/deceptive movie
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I was really disappointed with the movie "9" back in 2009. I thought the trailers looked epic but when I watched in I thought it was rather dull.
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you know, that one that showed Robin Williams acting all silly as a comedian who becomes president? (think Stephen Colbert)
yeah, turns out it's an action/drama with about 15 minutes of Robin Williams in it. it's also riddled with plot holes. theis girl discovers that Williams won because of a flaw in her company's voting machines. she tries to alert the company, and what do they do? own up to the mistake? call for a revote? even just sweep it under the rug? NO. THEY TRY AND HAVE HER FUCKING ASSASSINATED. BIGGEST LOAD OF BULLSHIT I HAVE EVER SEEN.
you know, that one that showed Robin Williams acting all silly as a comedian who becomes president? (think Stephen Colbert)
yeah, turns out it's an action/drama with about 15 minutes of Robin Williams in it. it's also riddled with plot holes. theis girl discovers that Williams won because of a flaw in her company's voting machines. she tries to alert the company, and what do they do? own up to the mistake? call for a revote? even just sweep it under the rug? NO. THEY TRY AND HAVE HER FUCKING ASSASSINATED. BIGGEST LOAD OF BULLSHIT I HAVE EVER SEEN.
Deceptive: the Princess Bride
Hey look, they kidnapped the Princess, oh la-de-da - Hang on, what? What's Andre the Giant doing there and why is he rhyming? When did this get so awesome!
Disappointing: Tron:Legacy. That thing looks like an eyegasm, but is a very shallow middling action piece about as subtle as being slapped in the face with a wet fish. Soundtrack is pretty much brilliant though.
Hey look, they kidnapped the Princess, oh la-de-da - Hang on, what? What's Andre the Giant doing there and why is he rhyming? When did this get so awesome!
Disappointing: Tron:Legacy. That thing looks like an eyegasm, but is a very shallow middling action piece about as subtle as being slapped in the face with a wet fish. Soundtrack is pretty much brilliant though.
Pan's Laybrinth. All the posters and trailers showed it as being some fantasy alice-in-wonderland type thing, and it turns out that it was really some period-piece about Spain in WW2 or something, with fantasy bits sprinkled in here and there.
I'm not saying it was a bad movie, just had I known that I wouldn't have bothered renting it.
Probably the biggest dissappointment movies for me were Evil Dead 3: Army of Darkness. I loved #1, #2 was iffy but 3 was just shit. And "The Box", because they took a cool short story and turned it into some shit about aliens and portals and crap like that.
I'm not saying it was a bad movie, just had I known that I wouldn't have bothered renting it.
Probably the biggest dissappointment movies for me were Evil Dead 3: Army of Darkness. I loved #1, #2 was iffy but 3 was just shit. And "The Box", because they took a cool short story and turned it into some shit about aliens and portals and crap like that.
We all knew that one was going to be shit after they said, Shyamalan wrote and directed it. THEN there was the white-wash casting.xdom125x said:
I agree with the movie review. The director in married to Milla Jovovich so then it becomes easy to see that the point of the movie was to say "Hey, look at my wife".fare777 said:
I have to ask though, have you played the games? I only ask because other than the occasional character name they have nothing in common with the movies. Also, the games we're all mediocre until RE4 when they threw out all the shit from the previous games. Unfortunately RE5 tried to pile all the shit back in and tie it off with a damned bow. As it stands now the whole IP is just over hyped trash, destined to turn out more and more shit, not unlike the Silent Hill series.
It's kind of sad to see one good game spawn a chain of continual disappointment, and you just keep getting back in line for the next release hoping that something of the original will come back... on a related note Mass Effect 2.
Agreed, The trailers we're very misleading. I was expecting Kill Bill meets Dusk Till Dawn with Nazi's and centering around the bastards. What I got was Pulp Fiction meets the Diary of Anne Frank.MellowFellow said:
We're nearing the end of the second page, and no one mentioned reign of fire yet?
It started out with what could have been the setup for a fantastic epic battle against dragons in today's world, then skipped the interesting events to deliver a basic postapocalyptic B-Movie.
It started out with what could have been the setup for a fantastic epic battle against dragons in today's world, then skipped the interesting events to deliver a basic postapocalyptic B-Movie.
If that's the impression your friend got, and gave you, then your friend completely missed the point.RedRussian said:
OT: Vanilla Sky. I expected to be able to follow what was going on with the fucking thing. Then again, I was about 13 or 14 when I watched it, so maybe it'd make more sense if I were to watch it again. Although it still wouldn't be good...
I was so psyched about Inception but when I finsihed watching it, it just seemed like the plot was straightforward but surrounded by an artificial cloud of fuzziness that was only there to be fuzzy instead of being generated naturally by the plot. So I guess my vote is for Inception too.baconsarnie said:
Most disappointing: The Expendables a.k.a. what wasn't even a movie more like a one season show put into a barely one hour product of everything is the show. Did I forget to mention that is sucks because it sucks
From what I've heard, Social Network was deceptively... poignant? ...or something.
Also, The Prestige was hugely deceptive (at least to me). I was introduced to it as 'a film about magicians', which is nothing less than a huge understatement.
Also, The Prestige was hugely deceptive (at least to me). I was introduced to it as 'a film about magicians', which is nothing less than a huge understatement.
Essentially, it was The (main concepts of The) Matrix revisited. I still think it was a good film though.baconsarnie said:
Oh really? I pretty much gave up on the films after RE: Extinction... good heavens, what did ANY of that film have to do with RE? So it doesn't sound like it's worth bothering with Afterlife either then? Well that's a couple hours of my life saved.fare777 said:
Audition as in the Japanese horror? Is it good? If so, I have it in a dvd collection that I am yet to watch properly and may look it out.Alon Shechter said:
OT: I would say Max Payne... because, oh stupid me, I thought it could actually be as good as the games were! Turns out that it was in fact nothing to do with the games. I mean come on... you've got two very compelling stories RIGHT THERE, in the damn games... either one will do. Needless to say I never even finished watching, thank the gods it was only a rental.
Also: John Carpenter's The Ward - I know it's not out in America yet but... seriously? The most predictable and laughable horror I've seen in a long time, and I'm not sure that was the tone he was going for. Good story, nice twist, but not good enough to save what was mostly a very silly film.
