Most dissapointing/deceptive movie

[mechanixis]

Hancock. The first act seems like a brilliant Superman deconstruction, and then they pull out a bunch of nonsense about Greek gods and contrived magic rules. It's probably the sharpest downturn I've ever seen in a film.

I don't think Inception was bad, though it definitely got overrated. It's a comparatively intelligent action movie with cool visuals and a nice sense of style, but it's not really all that deep. With Nolan's The Prestige, you really get into the characters' heads and each time you watch it you find more and more clever foreshadowing of the ultimate twist. It's definitely Nolan's best work and a superior film.

 

[Thedayrecker]

Jarhead at first (after watching it again, I liked it), because I thought it would be a war movie with lots of gunfire exchanged with a faceless enemy, with at least one scene with the concussion effect.

EDIT: And this:

I would have to say Fight club. I don't mean it was bad (it was awesome) but judging from a friend's description I thought it was literally going to be a movie about a dude that becomes an underground boxer or something.

I put off watching it because I thought it would be some stupid beat 'em up. Like a remake of Rocky while trying to be edgy. Then, one night when I couldn't sleep, I saw it was on, watched it, and had my mind blown.

 

[Flatfrog]

Misleading trailers for good films are a big pet hate of mine. I understand the theory: 'This movie is slightly interesting, so we mustn't scare anyone away. Get all the explosions in there and keep the core demographic interested'. From this logic we get the trailers for, just to name two particularly heinous examples that pop into my head, Fight Club or Three Kings, both of which totally missed the point of the films. The result of this is that the people for whom the movies were actually made get put off and don't see them, while the ones that do go and see them are disappointed because they don't get what was advertised.

As for big disappointments, I saw Benjamin Button the other day and thought it was a bag of shit. I wasn't expecting it to blow me away, but I just couldn't see why I should care, and it didn't even make sense within its own internal logic (minor spoiler follows:.... he should have died an old man in a youthful, fully-grown body, not shrunk to an actual baby). I'm sure it's not my most disappointing ever, but it sprung to mind, so bleargh.

... and I was just on the verge of clicking Post when I thought of what almost certainly *was* the most disappointing ever - V for Vendetta. Not because it was bad - it's still far and away the best Alan Moore adaptation. But because it was *almost* good, which is worse. LOEG was so shit you could just forget it happened, and Watchmen was just soulless and boring, but V just had me feeling 'oh, you got so *close*!'.

 

[Kadoodle]

Probably the 3rd dirty harry movie. Totally sucked, simply because unlike the other films it was politically correct.

 

[ninja555]

Most disaponinting movie: Aliens. From what I had heard about it, it was the pinnacle of the Alien movies and one of the best sci-fi/horror films ever made. What I saw: One of the worst action movies I had ever seen, full of 1 Dimensional characters doing uber-macho space marine stuff. The aliens were still cool, though there loss of invincibility made a bit bland. A few memorable lines, some damn good special effects, and Bishop saved it from being a complete disaster.

Most deceptive movies: Alien 3 and Inception.

Alien 3: What the masses thought, "Worst movie ever, ruined franchies, killed Hicks and Newet, roar."
My thoughts: The best alien movie of the bunch. Fleshed out characters, moving story, alien made scary again, even more love for David Fincher.

Inception: What the masses thought: "Great movies, excellent action scenes, very deep and comlpex."
What my older brother thought: "Oh my god, that movie sucked!"
My thoughts: "Pretty meh movie, good action and special effects but not much more. Interesting idea and that scene in the basement of chemist could be a premise for a much better movie. Also, why the hell do they keep talking about trains?"

 

[harvz]

the last airbender, i enjoyed the cartoon even as a young adult and then they put Shyamalan as director and as a failing director he made a huge amount of mistakes.

needless to say, i was so disappointed i walked out on the movie

 

[ayvee]

Deceptive? Splice.

The trailers made it look to be an Aliens-esque sci-fi horror movie with a genetics twist. Thankfully, it was something else completely.

 

[Artina89]

Avatar, I win.
I only watched the 2d version (meaning I saw the real movie)so i got mad that it got so much praise and awards

Yeah, I felt decieved by Avatar, I'm glad I didn't go to the cinema to watch it, instead I went to a friend's apartment and they put it on. After the film ended, I wanted thoe hours I wasted back. In my opinion it is not the best film ever, which is what most of my friends believe.

 

[DefunctTheory]

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.

That was the whole point, to make you wonder if he 'made it.'

So, basically, you didn't like Inception because it left you with an question, instead of an answer?

Sorry if I got it wrong, but that's what I'm reading.

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.

This, one BILLION times over. How do you screw up Predator THAT BAD?

 

[CrysisMcGee]

Babel. Good movie but one of the most boring i have ever seen.

 

[Duruznik]

The Last Airbender. The trailers made it look awesome. That's because the trailers had no dialog in them.

 

[Delta2501]

Slumdog Millionaire was a decent film but with very deceptive advertising. Feel good movie of the year? More like a harrowing portrayal of grimy life in slum conditions that ends on an optimistic note. Excrement, child mutilation and torture all included for your pleasure.

 

[Tyrant T100]

Bladerunner.

I really don't understand the hype behind it, sure it had clever ideas but it just felt like a half boiled sci-fi to me. I was expecting to love it just because of it's huge fanbase including several friends of mine but I just didn't get the appeal.

 

[CarpathianMuffin]

The Hangover. I was expecting this uproarious comedy where I wouldn't have stopped laughing, but instead I got a mildly amusing movie that only got a slight chuckle out of me once or twice.

 

[HeySeansOnline]

I never saw it but a lot of people probably felt that way about Inglourious Basterds.

I felt that way about Legion and Book of Eli. I expected them to be a zombie esque defense movie with angel vs angels and a post apocalyptic journey story respectively. Then they became a bit too preachy for me, I knew they would be, but it was just too much, without enough of either of those two things for me.

 

[v3n0mat3]

Gamer.

Do I really even need to go further than that?

 

[Digikid]

Batman: The Dark Knight.

That crap was HORRIBLE!

 

[Grayfayce]

The Village. The trailer made it out to be an exciting and scary survival-horror film, but in actual facts was about a bunch of people in a nature reserve running away from retards in costumes. Massive spoiler alert, btw.

 

[ShadowsofHope]

Clash of the fucking Titans.

Not only do they completely fuck up contemporary Greek mythology involving the Titans and the future Olympians civil war, but the entire thing is done in less than an hour and a half. And the most impressive creature in the movie, the Kraken, get's roughly 5 fucking minutes on screen before getting turned to stone.

..And then there is the very awkward "romance" between Perseus and Io, no less.

*Sigh*

 

[ethaninja]

Ah good ol Lord of War. I loved it.
Mine would be Garden State.

Not saying it was bad. But everyone said it was funny as hell.
It was moving, maybe, but it sure as hell didn't make me shit myself.