Films that massively disappointed......

[threebikesmcginty]

...Although I cannot recall any good pirate based films.

 

[AndyRM]

Ted
Any of The Hangover Films
Pacific Rim
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All billed by friends as 'hilarious' or 'amazing'. All pish. I have other examples but those are the most recent.

That pirate film with Geena Davis, the one that bankrupted the film company, which had previously made lots of money from the Robocop, Total Recall and Terminator films.
Although I cannot recall any good pirate based films.

Cutthroat Island is the Geena Davis movie.

Mutiny on the Bounty was pretty good, and the first Pirates of the Caribbean was fun.

 

[thegravestoneman]

Mutiny on the Buses, wasn't good at all.

 

[AndyRM]

I've just remembered Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Gadz.

 

[PaulSecteur]

Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy.

Obviously I mean the recent one. The original was a masterpiece.

 

[Saluki]

Titanic sank without trace for me.

I got taken to that on a first date (last date too). I do remember joking with the chap I was with "It sinks you know" and he laughed. The two teenaged girls behind me got really huffy and said that we shouldn't spoil endings for people

 

[Saluki]

A.I. I went to see it and was so bored that I fell asleep half way through.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I got taken to that on a first date (last date too). I do remember joking with the chap I was with "It sinks you know" and he laughed. The two teenaged girls behind me got really huffy and said that we shouldn't spoil endings for people

It's like that when you say 'he gets shot at the end' in the Gandhi film.

 

[Cyclopathic]

Every Kevin Costner film ever.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Every Kevin Costner film ever.

Open Range and Waterworld are first rate!

 

[Boris Bajic]

Back in the 80s I and my then girlfriend used to take pot luck, go to one of London's more niche cinemas (Everyman , Scala and similar) and see whatever was on.

One day we saw Rocinante, by Eduardo Guedes.This piece of tripe had both Ian Dury and John Hurt in it, so it had to be excellent! It was poo.

A similar failure on these random trawls was Mishima: A Life in four Chapters. Even if you knew a little of the man and had read him in translation, it was a long, complex drudge. Poo heaped upon poo with wee-wee on top.

A third absolute failure was A Zed and Two Noughts. Anyone who likes Peter Greenaway films is still asleep or is trying to impress someone. I vaguely recall that the car crash involved a driver named Bewick, a Bewick's Swan and a Buick. That's about all you need to know, or more.

Nonetheless, the random approach to film viewing was hugely successful for the most part and I recommend it.

Despite the three above wastes of good coffee and carrot cake.

 

[BSRU]

Have not seen that one.

 

[BSRU]

Ted
Any of The Hangover Films
Pacific Rim
Avatar

All billed by friends as 'hilarious' or 'amazing'. All pish. I have other examples but those are the most recent.



Cutthroat Island is the Geena Davis movie.

Mutiny on the Bounty was pretty good, and the first Pirates of the Caribbean was fun.

I thought about Mutiny on the Bounty but realised it is not a pirate film.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Have not seen that one.

Kids loved it *cough*

 

[User6179]

Eternal Sunshine of a spotless Mind, great reviews but I didn't like it.