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Added 2021-04-25 19:19:46 +0000 UTCWhat is a movie you were super excited to see, but it ended up disappointing you in the end? Topic video to follow.
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One that immediately comes to mind is cloverfield paradox. I liked cloverfield, was very surprised by 10 cloverfield lane and was therefore hyped for the third installment only to be disappointed.
minesweeper501
2021-04-26 10:29:15 +0000 UTCScarface (1983). It's one of my favorite films of all time, but I hate seeing what Tony has become and people he loved the most because of it.
Oskitello
2021-04-26 08:27:33 +0000 UTCSuperman: The Movie (1978) came out when I was ten years old and an enormous fanboy of Superman comics. I read every issue I could get my hands on and watched every cartoon I could find on our cable-less TV. I had Superman toys, and clothes, and bedding, and lunchboxes. I even had a Superman trivia book, and memorized the answers to every single question. To call me obsessed would be an understatement. So when I heard there was going to be a Superman MOVIE ... well, you can imagine how beside myself with excitement I was! If memory serves, I even talked my mom into taking us to see it opening night. The lights went down, the projector went on, and then... ...then they got everything WRONG!! 😮 Jor-El has black hair, not silver hair. Jor-El isn't supposed to wear the "S" symbol. You send guys to the Phantom Zone using a projector, not some weird flying mirror-looking thing. The ship that takes baby Kal-El to Earth is supposed to look like a rocket, not one of those spiky seed pods from a sweet gum tree. Pa Kent is supposed to wear glasses. Lois Lane doesn't smoke! Perry White is supposed to be balding and stocky, like Lou Grant. The Fortress of Solitude is in a cave, not a weird crystal place that grew itself or whatever! Lex Luthor doesn't have a goofy sideskick named Otis or a girlfriend named Miss Tessmacher! And he's supposed to be this amazing evil scientist guy, not some lame-o in a wig! Etc. ad nauseum. You get the idea. 🙂 To say I was disappointed is putting it mildly. But of course, on later viewings, I realized what 10-year-old Derek did not. Namely, the things Superman: The Movie got "wrong" about the character and his mythos are unimportant things, and the things it got right mean everything. I was so busy nitpicking on how it got insignificant details of the comics "wrong," that I missed how it got the entire spirit and feel of Superman 100% RIGHT.
Derek H.
2021-04-26 05:39:45 +0000 UTCOh boy, The Snowman (2017). Tomas Alfredson had made Let the Right One In and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. He knows how to make a movie. Add on top of that the cast of: Fassbender, Rebecca Ferguson, Charlotte ginsbourg, and JK Simmons. How can this go wrong? It was one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen. Bizarre ADR from Val Kilmer. Huge chunks of the story missing. Actors falling in and out of accents. A huge mess that still has me thinking about it 4 years later.
Shaeffer Holt
2021-04-26 05:22:55 +0000 UTCNine, with Daniel Day-Lewis. You just expect all of his movies to be great, but I got basically nothing out of it. It felt like a long version of the trailer, which was already kind of confusing. I don't know if I should've learned more about the play or movie it was based on, but it's still gotta be perhaps the most forgettable film he starred in.
Jesse Albert Garcia
2021-04-26 00:12:13 +0000 UTCInteresting that the first time I saw it was the Ultimate Edition after it had been released on BD. I thought, "why does everyone hate this movie so much?" Then I watched the theatrical release and realized how much of a difference that thirty minutes add.
Atticus Xey
2021-04-25 23:12:40 +0000 UTCThe biggest disappointment of the past couple of years has been Avengers Endgame, a movie that turned me off to superhero films for over a year. I recently rewatched it, thinking maybe I had been too hard on it, but I like it even less now.
Atticus Xey
2021-04-25 23:10:31 +0000 UTCJust remembered another one... Suspiria (2017). I loved Guadagnino's Call Me by Your Name, loved the original Suspiria, and absolutely adore Thom Yorke's music, so you bet my expectations were high. The film was an average good, and I just felt like I was watching just another modern horror flick where style is way more of a priority than substance.
Diego Fagundes
2021-04-25 21:51:04 +0000 UTCJoker. To be honest my expectations were somehow skeptical. It was a superhero movie, after all. But the hype around this film was so big, that I couldn't help but being disappointed. The film wasn't bad, but it was trying so hard to be something way out of its league, that this ambition and the hype just flattened the experience for me.
Diego Fagundes
2021-04-25 21:45:25 +0000 UTCYes, this was the other film I was excited to see and hugely disappointed by. Unbreakable is my favorite Shyamalan film, and I thought Split was a return to form for him after a string of bad films, thanks to the wild premise and James McAvoy’s outrageously committed performance. So when it was revealed that the two films were linked, I was ecstatic for the third film. I have to say, the whole film was a dud, but that last third was a complete travesty.
Bennett Oliver
2021-04-25 20:02:29 +0000 UTCThis one is controversial mainly because the Ultimate Cut of it was actually really amazing and is now one of my absolute favorite movies. I'm referring to the THEATRICAL cut of Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice. Obviously the big hype is Batman entering this new cinematic universe and I couldn't wait to see Affleck's take on the character and what direction Snyder was going in. Sadly a lot of pivotal scenes were cut out so the film made very little sense. So I was MAD disappointed walking out of the theaters.
Tony Moro
2021-04-25 19:58:23 +0000 UTCPublic Enemies. I was a huge Michael Mann fan (to a lesser extent, I still am). I read the book on which it was based, and was excited to see Mann do the John Dillinger story with Johnny Depp playing him. It turned out to be an inert, bloodless film (as in no passion or feeling to it). Mann had rendered the characters into his usual cool professionals when in fact there was more to them than that, and demonstrated no understanding of the greater social implications of the public enemy era (the end of Wild West outlaw theatrics and the rise of a national police force under Hoover). Just an uninvolving cops-and-robbers drama with tropes that Mann recycled from better films that he’s made. Colossal disappointment.
Bennett Oliver
2021-04-25 19:51:44 +0000 UTCAlso, you should do the reverse of this: a movie you had no expectations for and it ended up blowing you away.
Ryan
2021-04-25 19:42:46 +0000 UTCHereditary. I eventually got around to it after hearing so much praise and it was deserved... for the first half. Then the amazing psychological elements of the story were thrown out the window and it turned into a Paranormal Activity knockoff. I was so pissed off because the first half was so hard to watch but unflinchingly real with the family trauma speaking from recent personal experience. I know there were hints in the first half but it easily could've been a part of the trauma instead of being a dumb ghost story.
Wolfman Brandon
2021-04-25 19:40:06 +0000 UTCTenet. I am usually a big fan of Christopher Nolan's movies so I was pretty hyped for it. However, it ending up being a lot of exposition, boring characters I didn't really care about, terrible soundboard mixing (I couldnt hear the character dialogue at key parts), and was fairly confusing to follow during the first watch. Overall, it ended up being okay but I was expecting something greater considering Nolan's previous works.
Ryan
2021-04-25 19:30:31 +0000 UTCPrometheus, wtf was that!?
Jestergambit
2021-04-25 19:24:50 +0000 UTCGlass was a recent one. Really enjoyed Unbreakable and Split, was really hoping M Night would come through and cap off a trilogy in a satisfying way. I've never been more bored and frustrated with a movie in recent memory.
Tyler Shobe
2021-04-25 19:22:59 +0000 UTC
