Okay..IT SUCKED!

[ria 75]

Disappointment often happens to me with overly advertised auteur movies from my own country or the Third World, that my mother (or, in my student days, the magazines I read) convince me to see.
I don't make lame choices alone or myself any more, though.

One epic fail (1994): I'd liked 'A River Runs Through It' in general and Brad Pitt in particular, so I was eager to see 'Legends of the Fall' (and 'Interview with the Vampire', which was no disappointment. ). I read the novel by Jim Harrison and discovered that great author in the process.

Then on the matinee the movie was realeased, I saw it... and I just wasn't satisfied, I couldn't put my finger on it, I stayed for the second show (ushers weren't very watchful ) and saw it a whole second time until I understood the editing was total crap* and the general movie-making was... just awkward and artless and leaving you dissatisfied.
[*That's what happens when you adapt and shoot for a 3-hour movie (that needs the 3 hours) and edit a 2-hour one. Shouldn't they have known?]

Another big mistake: seeing 'The Prince of Egypt' because I'd liked 'Mulan'. Fortunately, I was alone.

 

[RobertScorpio]

Disappointment often happens to me with overly advertised auteur movies from my own country or the Third World, that my mother (or, in my student days, the magazines I read) convince me to see.
I don't make lame choices alone or myself any more, though.

One epic fail: I'd liked A River Runs Through It in general and Brad Pitt in particular, so I was eager to see Legends of the Fall. I read the novel by Jim Harrison and discovered that great author in the process. Then on the matinee the movie was realeased, I saw it... and I just wasn't satisfied, I stayed for the second show (ushers weren't very watchful ) and saw it a whole second time until I understood the editing was total crap* and the general movie-making was... just awkward and artless and leaving you dissatisfied.
[*That's what happens when you adapt and shoot for a 3-hour movie (that needs the 3 hours) and edit a 2-hour one. Shouldn't they have known?]

Another big mistake: seeing 'The Prince of Egypt' because I'd liked 'Mulan'.

I'm with you on ...Egypt..I took my neice to see it, and expected more after Mulan as well..I thought Mulan was well done..

Rob

 

[DWF]

The Princess Bride, I just didn't like it as much as other people I know do.

 

[Candlelight]

The Phantom Menace.

 

[Orintho]

The Phantom Menace: I was very excited when this came out. The prequels were finally going to see the light of day (Star Wars had initially been planned as three sets of trilogies). Lucas was free of nonsensical studio interference and had proven, over time, to be an effective and interested manager of his Wars empire. There was a good cast. It seemed like a win-win situation. What could possibly go wrong?

Sadly, it turns out the Lucas, for all his talent, does require a little bit of outside input.

 

[wamdue]

The Princess Bride, I just didn't like it as much as other people I know do.

I was working in the Disney store when that movie came out, so I ended up seeing/hearing the trailer a few thousand times, I still have yet to see the actual film.

 

[Nerys Ghemor]

Two notable ones I went to see with friends...

The Village
Oceans Twelve

At least my friends were cool about it...especially in the case of The Village, we MST3K'ed it right there in the theater. Annoyed the hell out of everybody else in there, but we had so much fun. All three of us were laughing the first time the "monsters" showed up--nobody else was, but screw them!

 

[Lookingglassman]

Madagascar 2
Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull

 

[Barbados Slim]

The huge disappointment for me was Chronicles of Riddick. After seeing that I vowed to never again see big event movies based on the trailer alone. So now I scrutinize reviews before seeing a movie in the theaters. I'll sometimes get sucked into something awful by friends or family who aren't movie-saavy, most recently the god awful Righteous Kill (no, you shouldn't rush to see a movie just because it stars someone). For the most part, it works to see the reviews first. I skipped X-Files and Indy IV once reviews came out and saved them for DVD. Both sucked.

 

[RobertScorpio]

The huge disappointment for me was Chronicles of Riddick. After seeing that I vowed to never again see big event movies based on the trailer alone. So now I scrutinize reviews before seeing a movie in the theaters. I'll sometimes get sucked into something awful by friends or family who aren't movie-saavy, most recently the god awful Righteous Kill (no, you shouldn't rush to see a movie just because it stars someone). For the most part, it works to see the reviews first. I skipped X-Files and Indy IV once reviews came out and saved them for DVD. Both sucked.

This is pretty much my strategy...and having kids helps cut back too...the only holiday movie I have wanted to see, all year, is this one with Brad Pitt...I will go see that movie, and it will be the first movie I have seen in the theatres since Tropical Thunder...

Rob

 

[Electric Coleslaw]

Star Trek V

My friends actually had to guide my shock-ridden form from the theater as the credits rolled. They tell me I was saying things like, "It can't be over ... that sucked ... no, I mean that really sucked ..."

"It's OK, Joe. Let's go home now."

My Dad and I had read the novelization of the movie prior to seeing it so we were pumped for it. But the movie was only a bare shadow of the novelization. I think the author helped fill in a lot of the plot holes and 2D characters.

 

[backstept]

y'all are going to kill me but . . . The Dark Knight

 

[Augustus]

As was already mentioned, Spiderman 3, I tried to love, but I can't.

X3, hated it 5 minutes in. Still the worst movie I have ever seen in the theater.

 

[Lapis Exilis]

I wasn't wildly excited about it, but I did get in trouble for taking a couple of friends to see Van Helsing. I looked at them about an hour in and said, "We can leave anytime you want to." But they're both cheap skates so they stayed to the bitter end. I still hear about it.

 

[The Squire of Gothos]

GODZILLA 1998--I told my friends this movie would be the greatest action, kick ass movie of all time...WRONG...talk about a limp noodle

Quite the opposite, I went in thinking it would be a big monster movie (literally speaking) and went away quite undisappointed.

Snakes on a Plane was a group hype. We all kept thinking how great it would be from that one line, about "motherfucking snakes on a plane". Then I heard it, bleeped, on the Daily Show and the whole thing was spoiled.

I quietly hyped the Blair Witch Project amongst friends, however much they protested before, they were as silent as anyone else come the close of the film.

 

[DigificWriter]

My best friend and his wife wanted to go see Dodgeball because the film had gotten pretty good reviews, and I went with them even though the film didn't really interest me all that much... long story short, all 3 of us wanted to walk out of the movie within 10 minutes, both because of how lame it was, and because of some of the film's content.