Most disappointing movie ever

well?

These are the ones that most let me down, how about you.

man I was excited for that

But I cut it a break since it LOOKED so good. But what a stinker of a story.

When Aykroyd popped up on screnn I knew we were in for a bumpy ride. That movie made me sick.

When ? What?? Where?

It must have happened during a " Dots " run

He was always looking at the big planning board of the Pacific Ocean. That mus thave been some "dots" run.

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matrix 2

awesome action...

STUPID ending
30 minutes of fluff that could/should have been cut
STUPID 5 minute speech by the dude with the white beard at the end..

lots of ass kicking though

The trailers seemed to hype it as a more historical based movie with it's photography and special effects. Nobody warned me I should have taken a vial of insulin to the theater to combat the after effects of the contrived, sickening sweet, ridiculous love traingle tragi-drama it turned out to be.

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My wife and I were expecting a story about crop circles - instead, we got Mel Gibson's right-wing crap.

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3 great stars + pathetically bad plot = MAJOR SUCKAGE

oddly enough the series was pretty cheesy too, plot wise. But the chemistry between Rigg and McNee was just so good, plus McNee & Rigg played Steed & Peel with a certain energy and wit and irony that was really lacking in the movie. Casting was pretty key here, and they really bit the big one.

The sad thing was that I was looking forward to seeing "The Avengers" in the theater and am now happy that I waited until it was on HBO.

"America's Sweethearts" also sucked despite having a good cast.

"Cannibals: The musical".

BOTH were so filled with actors mumbling their lines, you couldn't understand virtually ANY of the characters. In "Fifth Element", the only character you could really understand was Bruce Willis'. In "Jurassic Park", I could only understand Sam Neal and Laura Dern. In the second "Raiders" movie, much the same problem occurred. Plus, that one tried to be too "cutsie"--it fell terribly short of the first "Raiders of the Lost Ark", and well short of "The Last Crusade", as well.

I'd have to give all three of the above-mentioned flicks "Two Thumbs Down" :thumbsdown: :thumbsdown: WAAAAAAAAAY down!

B-)

For me its sort of tough to take sci-fi seriously anyway (unless its something like Alien..horror movie masquerading as sci-fi), so I really appreciated the Fifth Elements over-the-top hi-camp take on the genre. It was a fun movie to watch.

great fun!

I hated Free Willy much more.

There was a scene in the film where the whale doesn't perform on cue, and all the spectators start screaming and throwing things at the whale, stomping feet, etc.

Sorry, but I really think most people who go to marine parks actually have some semblance of affection for sea animals and wouldn't deliberately terrorize a killer whale. I walked out of the theater after that scene, in what had up to that point been an incredibly typical, boring dim-witted kids' film.

Worst movie I have ever seen, followed closely by Batman Forever

But that wasn't so much a dissapointment because I expected it to suck. I have to agree with Avengers. Boy, what a huge let down! I fear that The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen might take that title when I see it today or tomorrow, the reviews I've read seem overwhelmingly negative. That's a damn shame too considering the graphic novel was just awesome. Why can't we get good graphic novel conversions to film? The last decent one I saw was 'From Hell', but I even thought that one was lacking.

That one had me angry for a week.

Don't even get me started on it now -- I'll get angry again...

That movie really really sucked on many levels.

When we left the theater, the whole audience was pissed-off. So bad...

And I usually love Tim Burton.

I liked Ishtar. It was hilarious, in a disaster kind of way. I still walk around sometimes with "Dangerous Business" running through my head.

As for most disappointing - there are too many possibilities. But Signs is up there.

Ice Cube has the best line in that movie:

"You mean there's snakes in this thang?!"

with Ice cube and the big snake. Congo was the one with Laura Linney and Tim Curry, wasn't it? Or am I just going nuts?

OK, bad question.

you're right, I stand corrected...Congo was that really crappy movie with the huge white gorillas...Yep, that movie sucked big time!

I liked Ishtar. It was hilarious, in a disaster kind of way. I still walk around sometimes with "Dangerous Business" running through my head.

As for most disappointing - there are too many possibilities. But Signs is up there.

Not even good mushy sentimentality, and that's hard to wreck.

n/t

Sheesh.

The film was pure 80's crapola

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I Love love love Chris Guest's brand of improv humor, and I LIVE for Spinal Tap and Best In Show. But this movie was simply not funny. Not a single audible laugh in an audience of maybe 50-55 people. I felt bad for the performers. And, I had been looking forward to this flick for months! (movies come to Nashville long after they play anywhere else). What a disappointment!

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Eugene Levy, totally miscast, too.

We were dying laughing, and were stunned at what a fine job Eugene Levy did. (Eugene, while no doubt a lovely person, has never been one of my favorites.) The rest of the theater enjoyed it too. "Best In Show" was the one that left me cold; just mean-spirited it seemed to me. Different strokes, I guess.

thought it sucked - what a disappointment. There was a girl behind us - probably in her 20s that started laughing before the movie even started. The theatre was almost empty, so we listened to her laugh thru the whole damned thing because she thought she was supposed - or she was high - she was definitely something. Hey, BTW - we are 60's people.

I can't "remember the 60's" cuz I wasn't born then. But, I was raised by two very liberal parents (both anarchist librarians who played music, led demonstrations (my dad helped the Panthers shut down Yale for a day!!) and collected records. A sample of my dad's collection: Kingston Trio, Phil Ochs, Bob Dylan, Mimi and Richard Farina, Joan Baez, Dave von Ronk, etc.

In other words, I GET THE FUCKIN JOKES, THEY JUST WEREN'T FUNNY.

and I did get the jokes, and yes, the impersonations of the New Christy Minstrels and Ian and Sylvia and such were on the mark, but they weren't funny for some reason. Maybe they were *too* accurate and lacked the loopiness of the characterizations in Best in Show and Waiting for Guffman.

seemed to be a real drop in quality for Guest. I was even disappointed with Fred Willard (and I love Fred!)

How can you say such a thing, you have been a very naughty boy!!!!!

How is it possible to have Demi Moore taking off her clothes result in a bad movie?

Simple.

with crappy lines

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I was so looking forward to that movie, and so disappointed when I saw it. On the other hand, I expected to be underwhelmed by X-Men 2 and LOVED it. Just goes to show, I guess.

Cat

I didn't really like that movie. The books were good, but the movie hardly lived up to them.

the movies rocked!

Mostly because after that, I had low expectations of Ep 2. Despite my low expectations, Ep 2 turned out even worse that I had imagined.

And I guess I had high expectations of Ep 1 because I had forgotten the bad parts of ROTJ. The parts of the first trilogy I liked were the depth and complexity of ESB, the moments when Luke went over to the Dark Side, that sort of thing. Instead, we got a whole film of basically bad special effects, bad acting, and bad writing. Jar Jar wasn't even the worst of it.

Ep 2, don't even get me started.

It wasn't really disappointing, because I was expecting it to stink, but I caught it on HBO last week and it was SO BAD.

It looked like a middle school film project, peppered here and there with Hollywood special effects.

The '98 overhyped remake. It was boring and stupid, IMHO. I had been looking forward to it very much.

But boy was that a piece of shit.

A perfect example of special effects run amok and a story as flat as cardboard. It took me a long while to get over the fact that I paid full price to see it.

Too long, way too PC. I absolutely hated it and remember praying to the dieties to make it stop.
John
Worse...movie...ever.

that was a big crao indeed

I'm a big Halloween fan. Had been waiting 5 years for Halloween 7 to FINALLY come out. Sadly H20 goes and ignores H4-6 and I'm stuck with utter shit! :(

Add "First Contact" as runner-up.

"ill never let go"

nuff said..

First Contact was the ONLY good TNG movie!

The question was asked in the movie What....does....God...need with a ....starship??

Maybe it should have been Why does Shatner need to direct???

That movie DID suck!

There are no words....

Edit: this is for the DVD version. I expect it to be as craptacular as the original

After Pitch Black and the way he stole the show in The Fast and the Furious, I was expecting alot from Vin Diesel.

Somehow this movie never really "worked" for me.

That was far from disappointing a beauty imo. For me it would be Gods and Generals I liked the Fredricksburg scenes but it focused way too much on Stonewall Jackson.

I've already got a bit of a "thing" against Tom Hanks, but the Green Mile, with it's phony sentimentality and Hollywoodness, annoyed the hell out of me.

I hated the slo-mo of the lights exploding as the Giant Black Child/Man/Saint is electrocuted with swelling music.

I hated the anachronistic joke the Hanks character makes after he's healed by the Giant Black Child/Man/Saint about how he heels much better and now he and his wife are bangin' away all night long - LIKE PEOPLE TALKED THAT WAY AT A PICNIC IN THE 30's!!! Only if you were a merchant marine! Besides, I could see the lame joke coming a mile away. Then there was the fact that the film was three hours long, and managed to pack in every prison cliche ever done (pant pant) I hated that movie.

Shawshank Redemption was 100 times better.

Had big hopes for that one, and it was bad.

Bad Awful Hiss Boo


DEMMAN

I was so very highly disapointed with this movie. What I saw was a movie with very realistic war scenes. I never got into the story, I never felt any compassion for the private whom they were trying to save. It almost seemed like the story was secondary to the whole movie. As I said before I thought it was a movie with graphic war scenes for the purpose of having graphic war scenes.

Disappointed

I love John Hughes and Matthew Broderick, but that film was crammed with every teen cliche and device in the book, from the dumb-ass banal soliloquey about isms to the beat-up-the-principle fantasy. When it wasn't being completely inane, it devolved into toddler-level slapstick. And it's moral was so original: be yourself and wreck your daddy's car and maybe you'll get to see Mia Sara nude. Geeze, what tripe. I guess if I'd been seven it would have seemed profound.

Okay, that's been building up for a couple of decades now. I feel better. Move along, the insane idiot has been hauled away...

ALL the protagonists in ALL his films (with the exception of Some Kind of Wonderful) are filthy rich pretty white kids, but they are presented as though they are the norm.

He also loves to to racial stereotypes - most egregious being chinese exchange student "Long Duk Dong" (played by JAPANESE-American Gedde Watanabe) who couldn't even use a knife and fork, and a gong went off every time he entered the room.

I don't understand why more people weren't offended by the evil Hughes films.

HtD is an 80s classic. It was so bad that it surpassed all of my expectations. I love seeing reruns every once in awhile. I can still remember the rock theme from the concert scene........God, I am sad!

there were a way so I could vote for Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones. They both sucked and were real letdowns and sure didn't live up to all the hype before it.

I have a real problem when the historical narrative is good enough in itself to provide a great story---and then they have to foul it up with a fictional romance, thinking they really need to do that.

Even if the movies ends up as good entertainment--I did enjoy watching "Titanic"--it still is sad to see good history edited out in favor of fiction.

Following two of the very best sci-fi movies ever made (Alien, Aliens) were two of the absolute worst sequels in recorded history (right up there with the barely palatable but occasionally funny Superman 3 and the absolutely horrid and preachy Superman IV). The only redeeming feature of the unwatchable Alien 3 was that Ripley kills herself and supposedly saves us from any future sequels. And then, they find a way to release Alien Resurrection anyway, and make it so bad that it actually competes with 3 on the crapola scale. It's a travesty (like Rocky V, while I'm on the subject of sequel that should never have been made). So, the list of godawful sequels:

Rocky V
Superman IV
Alien 3
Alien Resurrection
Star Wars, Episode I (20+ years to make absolute crap)
Jaws 3D (actually, I didn't see this one, but its reputation precedes it)
Jaws The Revenge (Jaws IV) (Michael Caine will appear in ANYTHING)
Look Who's Talking Too (didn't see this either ... thank god)
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 ... (You just can't pull that stunt twice)
Speed 2: Cruise Control (Why couldn't they have killed her???)
Batman & Robin (This one could cost Arnold the governership)
Batman Forever
Jurassic Park 2
Star Trek V (but IV is a comedy classic)
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (only because it was so much worse than Raiders)
Home Alone 3
Beverly Hills Cop 3
U.S. Marshalls (sequel to The Fugitive)
Rambo III
Robocop 3
Men in Black II
Blues Brothers 2000
Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles
Conan the Destroyer
Escape from LA
Highlander 2: The Quickening
Weekend at Bernie's 2
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
Arthur 2: On The Rocks
The Bad News Bears Go To Japan
Caddyshack II
Crow: City of Angels
Exorcist II
Exorcist III
Grease 2
Highlander 3: The Final Dimension
Highlander 4: Endgame
Look Who's Talking Now

OK, that's my list. BTW, I still voted for Phantom Menace. The Great-grandaddy & reigning champ of bad sequels and disappointing movies.

Aka GINO or "Jurassic Central Park". A perfect example of one of the worst problems plaguing fantastic action/adventure movies: studios licensing established properties and then deciding they're above the material. Instead of using their resources to faithfully bring the material to more convincing life (cf. the excellent run of recent Marvel Comics movies), they apparently are out to show the original creators "how it's done".

I figure League of Extraordinary Gentlemen will be another choice disappointment in that vein -- replacing the wit and surprise value of the comicbook with a by-the-numbers Hollywood slugfest. Yippee.

I couldn't even watch past the first forty minutes...

What a POS. Waited YEARS to be old enough to see this. Then waited for the technology to watch movies at home. Finally I can rent it. 6 1/2 hours (or what seemed like 6 1/2 hours) of Marlon Brando moping in French. Zzzzzzzzz

2nd version. The original B&W with Clare Bloom was faithful to Shirley Jackson's classic book, "The Haunting of Hill House"
The latest version is a travesty

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