All time? what was the number 1 let down? frustrating, insufficent, falling short...huge let down
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The Most Unsatisfying Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Disappointing Tv or Movies
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I dunno about "all-time"; but the ending that frustrated me the most in recent memory was NuBSG. I just felt they never knew what to do with Baltar after his acquittal and the twist were they just summarily dumped the fleet to be very unconvincing.
At least "Revelations" didn't turn out to be the ending. It would have been, though, if the writer's strike had gone on much longer.
With the tone that nuBSG always took, though, I expected it to have an ending like that, so it wouldn't have surprised me much.
I would've liked it if they ditched the fleet on Mars, began a settlement there and then cut to the 21st century where we have a panel show with an eccentric guy arguing for an old Mars civilisation with scratchy photos that look vaguely like ruins with everyone else chuckling at him.At least "Revelations" didn't turn out to be the ending. It would have been, though, if the writer's strike had gone on much longer.
With the tone that nuBSG always took, though, I expected it to have an ending like that, so it wouldn't have surprised me much.
So I go for Phantom Menace and Clone thingy. But I must say that the race in PM is not that bad if you increase the speed six times or more.
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not sure if this 'franchise' will ever be successful
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not sure if this 'franchise' will ever be successful
Star Trek: Voyager
I loved the series in first run (And still like it quite a bit now), but that ending felt like a slap in the face. Wait 7 years for them to finally get home and nothing happens once they got there. Would have loved for some things to be wrapped up. Heck, I think they should have gotten home a few episodes earlier so we had time to answer those unanswered questions from the series, like the Maquis, 7's adjustment to earth, stuff like that.
I loved the series in first run (And still like it quite a bit now), but that ending felt like a slap in the face. Wait 7 years for them to finally get home and nothing happens once they got there. Would have loved for some things to be wrapped up. Heck, I think they should have gotten home a few episodes earlier so we had time to answer those unanswered questions from the series, like the Maquis, 7's adjustment to earth, stuff like that.
Joel Schumacher's take on Batman. I don't understand how some people go on and on about how bad they thought Nolan's versions were, while Schumacher basicly forget to actually make a serious movie, and turned them into parodies.
That, and poor Marvel movies. Now, I'm not the biggest comicbook fan, so my problem isn't that they didn't follow the sourcematerial well enough. I don't mind that. WHat I mind, is that comicbook movies can be very good, and these simply weren't.
That, and poor Marvel movies. Now, I'm not the biggest comicbook fan, so my problem isn't that they didn't follow the sourcematerial well enough. I don't mind that. WHat I mind, is that comicbook movies can be very good, and these simply weren't.
Some of the movies in the list, I actually like quite a bit--but I think a lot of it has to do with what your expectations are going in. I enjoyed Cloverfield, for example, but I knew nothing about the movie before going in. I would second the Voyager finale for big disappointment, but also The Final Frontier was a big embarrassment. For Trek, though, Insurrection takes first place hands down.
I've read multiple posts ragging on Cloverfield, but I've never agreed with them. I really enjoyed Cloverfield. 
I've always thought that there was a faction of the colonists who wouldn't go along with Lee's plan to ditch the technology. Those that didn't (probably led by somebody like Hoshi) probably established their own civilization on some lost continent. And called it Atlantis...
I hate Cloverfield so I went ahead and voted for that one. I'm not sure about biggest disappointment though because I didn't really have any expectations going in.
I think Crystal Skull would be my tops on that list. I expected so much better, and the reviews were pretty positive. *Grumbles quietly about refrigerators and aliens*
I think Crystal Skull would be my tops on that list. I expected so much better, and the reviews were pretty positive. *Grumbles quietly about refrigerators and aliens*
Don't really get the Crystal Skull hate. No, its not a great Indy film ( neither is Temple of Doom), but it fits. The fridge never struck me as any worse than rafting down the Himalayas or the submarine ride to Nazi Island. The aliens are fine, since it was set in the 50s and that was significant element in the sort of films Indy is patterned after. If they did an Indy film set in the 60s I'd expect some trippy counter culture stuff.
I think for me it comes down to expectations. My expectations were so high for the movie that I was disappointed. Cloverfield on the other hand I enjoyed as a B-Movie style film. Super 8 got a similar reaction from me. I don't really have high expectations from Abrams because I already know his strengths and weaknesses.
This years Fantastic Four film, although it sucked, didn't hurt too much because I had low expectations and only went to see it because me super-hero fanatic kids wanted to see it. It turned them into Fantastic Four fans and they have devoured my collections of the early years and now want more--so that was positive for me even though the film was bad.
While they are bad, none of them truly it onto my "Most Unsatisfying/Disappointing" list. Some shows, such as Battlestar Galactica, Fringe and Speed Racer are actually on my "Average/Watchable" list, so they can't be that bad.
There are worse films/shows. Shows that I'ld like to forget I ever watched them. The truly bad ones I can still recall after trying really hard to scrub them from my mind are the Power Rangers movie, the Dragonball movie and the Street Fighter movie.
There are worse films/shows. Shows that I'ld like to forget I ever watched them. The truly bad ones I can still recall after trying really hard to scrub them from my mind are the Power Rangers movie, the Dragonball movie and the Street Fighter movie.
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