Most dissapointing/deceptive movie

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Dragon Wars (Or D-Wars) I saw it and saw a friggin dragon on the cover and I thought.. hey... why not it might be tacky and such but at least I'll get some good fantasy action. Turns out there are 1 TRUE dragon in the entire MOVIE! And just to top it off, it looke like a chinese dragon mated with a moose. Also the "Evil dragon" was a giant snake that just hid around in places... the ending was so bad I literaly cried. No really, it was that bad.

 

[Donald L]

10,000 B.C. for me. The sabretooth was in it for all of 5 minutes, despite being on the poster. If it was called: A Guy Goes After His Kidnapped Girlfriend, I would not have seen it.

 

[kaiser1245]

Men Who Stare at Goats.

All of the funny parts were in the trailer, and some of the funny bits in the trailer were only funny because they were taken out of context. The rest of the movie was just retarded.

 

[RedEyesBlackGamer]

Have you ever seen a film that was not only bad, but it felt deceiving beforehand? I would have to say "Lord of War" for me. My brother recommended it and I heard it was an action film, but it was more like a "Political Drama"

Yeah, I got caught out on that one.

Calling any of the Epic/Date/Superhero Movies comedies is a total lie though.

Friedberg and Seltzer need to die. Horribly. In a fire.
OP: The Transformers movies. 70 minutes until Optimus Prime's first appearance? Complete fail.

 

[McNinja]

Splice[/i[ and True Grit.

Splice because it was just the most insane and moronic thing I have ever seen.

True Grit because it was slow and never really picked up the pace, and the ending was forced and needless. Seriously, who pulls poisonous snakes closer to them?

 

[Sutter Cane]

To me, the most deceptive description given to movies is "good"

Seriously, I really hate the cinema

If you hate movies so much, why did you come to this thread and add nothing to the conversation?

OT: Also inception. I actually do like the film, and it was pretty clever, but i went in expecting it to be really confusing (like Paprika) like quite a few reviews said, however it turned out to be pretty much a straightforward heist film with a twist.

 

[DefunctTheory]

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

I agree that it was fairly straightforward, but I absolutely loved Inception. If you want a total mindfuck go see Shutter Island

Are you kidding? That movie would go on this list, except it would have to surprise me to be deceptive.

Its so by the numbers that I had the entire plot, along with every twist, figured out 5 minutes into the film.

Men Who Stare at Goats.

All of the funny parts were in the trailer, and some of the funny bits in the trailer were only funny because they were taken out of context. The rest of the movie was just retarded.

Its called drama. I agree the movie belongs here, but only because the trailer was so misleading. Movie was still awesome.

Don't think so? Watch it again, but without your pre-conceived notion that its a comedy. It suddenly turns into a good film..

 

[AwesomeExpress]

Yes, Ocean's Twelve was a big dissapointment, and so was The New World and The Road.

 

[Dragonforce525]

Zombieland, I expected a zombie comedy about rules to live by in a zombie apocalypse, what I got what a road trip, with 6 zombies and a serious list that didn't make you laugh but think "Hmmm yes that is sensible...". And the amount of people that acted like this was God's gift to comedy was astonishing, the Bill Murray bit was awesome, but not worth paying for.

 

[gostlyfantom]

joke: twilight, i was expecting a dramatic romance and i got a comedy!
real: the green hornet, fucking time vampire

 

[The3rdEye]

Transformers 1

It's supposed to be 5 minutes of humans and then "make way for the ****ing robots". Just... ARGH. It didn't completely ruin my childhood memories, it just put it's hand in my pocket and fumbled around for a bit. ('net cookies to whoever gets both references)

The Mist

I get the entire "the less you see of something the scarier it is" but considering how much creature screen time was given to the ho-hum designed spider and insect/bird critters I really hoped they would have done more with all that potential for other-dimensional oddities.

Spoiler: Not REALLY a spoiler but if you plan to see it don't read this.

The tentacle sequence was pretty interesting, played out well if not predictably, but the Aklay-esque monster and the huge thing they see walking over them on the highway were infinitely more interesting in their 10-20 seconds of screen time than the entire spider sequence.

Avatar all the way. Don't get me wrong, I like pretty pictures, however I also like some meaning and originality to my entertainment. And that's coming from a sci-fi nut...

To be fair, people were saying "It's not insightful to compare Avatar's storyline to Dances With Wolves" before the movie even released. The meaning was there, it's just the same meaning as a film made almost 20 years ago, but using current technology. If Cameron wanted to do fully CG cowboys and indians, the production companies would have tossed him into a sack, tossed the sack into a river and hurled the river into space for trying to needlessly burn away their money. The alien angle was jsut a justification to make a spectacle, and really that's all anyone should have expected. Shiny new pictures, old story.

 

[Lbsjr]

Personally "Surrogates" was for me in recent memory. Yeah its good but the trailers were like WOOO BADASS AWESOME ACTION MOVIE!!!! then it was a thriller sci-fi drama. I did like it its just... come on... dont do that to me people... thats just evil.

 

[shogunblade]

I thought of Tropic Thunder this way the first time. I will be honest, I think I might have enjoyed that movie more if I had been in on the joke the first time. Or if I could have understood HALF of what Downey Jr's Kirk Lazarus's Osiris Lincoln was saying (No, that's not a mind fuck sentence; that's one of the jokes I did get) It was disappointing, then I watched it again on DVD. It's one of my favorites from that year.

Deceptive: Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children. I think we all know why...

 

[Samurai Goomba]

Meh, I just finished watching Inception for the first time and was totally disappointed. I love slick, intelligent thriller movies. My favorite director is David Fincher, my favorite film is probably Collateral. So with that in mind, I have watched Inception and looked up a few of the more obscure details (wedding ring, the sound you hear at the end of the credits), and I still don't think it's deep at all. Without the acting, I don't know if I could recommend this movie. It's The Score or Ocean's Eleven inside dreams. That's about all we have going on here.

Also, why so many dream levels? No, I'm not asking from a plot perspective, but from a "writing the script" or "directing" perspective. Why are all the dream levels so similar? Why are the threats all consistent in an environment we know is changeable? Yeah, I know, we have to make dreams feel to the viewers like it could be reality. But it's not. It's fairly obvious what's real and what isn't, because crazy crap starts happening anyway (level 4 and the "real" world are the only two environments that feel like they even MIGHT be real). So if you were going to HAVE the crazy anti-gravity nonsense, you should realize the illusion is ALREADY spoiled, and go for the emotional big guns (dreams are way more creative than the way this movie portrays them). Sometimes I think the film is understated in ways that directly harm the dramatic impact of the story. The last act was good, but much of the action in the second act felt unnecessary. I just wasn't invested.

Also, DiCaprio can be a much better actor than he was here. He wasn't great in The Departed, but I thought his performance was still more convincing than in Inception.

Probably the funniest thing about Inception is that the most creative and effective dreamlike environment we ever see is the dream test at the beginning. I wish we could have had 2012-influenced, Bizarro world disasters and crazed mobs during the actual proper story, rather than when Cobb and the blank slate feel like playing in their dreamy little sandbox, or when Ken Watanabe is jerking Cobb around.

 

[IcyEvils]

Sex and the City 2. And there was me thinking there'd be attractive girls having sex, or at least a city...

 

[Thespian]

Meh, yeah...for me it just seemed like something tacked on to make people feel all introspective or whatever. But it's not like it hasn't been done better before (you know...with Greek Philosophers).

That aside...a lot of logical stuff killed it for me. Like...the feeling of falling waking you up...but then...weightlessness? Isn't that where the feeling of falling comes from?

Just one of many that made me kind of sad in general about the films willingness to explore the human mind.

That's pretty much what I was trying to say... But I said it more ranty and with less co ordination...

Yes, there were far too many plot holes, which they filled by spitting some techno-jargon at you, endlessly modifying rules that they introduced only moments ago, and the purpose always seemed to be nothing more than just putting in a new fancy action scene.
When I watched Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, I thought "THIS is what Inception should have been like..." Exploring the bizarre, nonsensical goings-on of the human mind.

And yes, the ending felt tacked on, crowbarred in there to make the film seem all philosophical. Bleh.

 

[danintexas]

Inception - A movie designed to make the masses feel smart. Brought nothing new to the table. Been done before many times and in a lot better package. Sub-par and predictable pretty much sums up that film.

 

[Crazy_Dude]

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 the Predators movie was just horrid.

 

[House_Vet]

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.

I could go on for pages.

YES! From the way the critics have been yapping about it I thought it would descend from heaven on impossibly awesome clouds of awesomeness. The characters were just twats to a man. Why would I want to watch them for 2 hours? But I still did... And it didn't get any better.

 

[Casual Shinji]

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.

Yeah, what the hell was up with that movie? I went in expecting the same thing, and what I got was a couple a stone-faced actors talking about honor and the glory of China. Most of the time it felt like I was watching some kind of propaganda flick produced by the Chinese circus.

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.

Everything the first movie did right, this movie does wrong.

- We're introduced to characters who are suppossedly badasses, but we never actually get to see why. We have to assume they're badass because the predators handpicked them, and how can they be wrong?

- It tries to be like Predator so bad that it would make Jennifer Jason Leigh in Single White Female blush.

- The actual predators were slow and lumbering compared to the swift and agile predator from the first movie. And the new uber-predators were a green-blooded spat in the face of the original design. Stan Winston must be rolling in is grave.

The movie does make for a good drinking game though.

OT: For me the most deceptive movie was Kangaroo Jack. The trailer made it look like I was going to go on an adventure through Australia with a talking kangaroo wearing a red hoodie. This was not what I got... Not exactly.