Films that massively disappointed......

[Doseone]

Skyfall and the most recent Bourne.

I walked out of Howards End, but it wasn't really a disappointment as I was expecting it to be sh!t.

 

[alecstilleyedye]

ted. i love the dark satire of the film creator's family guy, but this fell well short; being a one-trick pony of a film about a swearing teddy bear…

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Waterworld I assure you is first rate.

I have never seen nor heard of Open Range.

Hope that clears things up for you re Costner.

I've edited out the meaningless waffle from your post. Waterworld = good, highly entertaining film. Open Range is a classic western, brilliantly done, even the Cozmeister is on good form. You just can't get over that shitty film where he pranced around as Robin Hood and it had that crap song in it.

 

[Hacienda71]

Absolute Beginners. The film was pants in comparison to Colin Macinnes book.

 

[alecstilleyedye]

Absolute Beginners. The film was pants in comparison to Colin Macinnes book.

a low point for bowie as well…

 

[ThinAir]

Rocky V

Green Street 2

Indian Jones... The Crystal Skull One.

The Simpsons Movie.

 

[swee'pea99]

I've never seen this one - or even heard of it - but I liked the reviews in Leslie Halliwell's book enough to cut them out and tuck them away somewhere, where I recently re-discovered them after, must be, 20 years...

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Inception.

Generally I am not disappointed by Hollywood films because I expect them to be bad, and the ones I am certain are going to be really bad, I don't bother going to see. But I liked Christopher Nolan's earlier films, particularly Memento, but Inception just shows what the Hollywood machine does to decent directors. It's basically just a load of previous plots mashed together as an excuse for 'cool' special FX fights. These are the worst kinds of films. As another example, see Colin Berry's review article on Elysium. Also Prometheus.

As for the people saying The Shining... a film from a great director, Stanley Kubrick, that took a typically flatly written Stephen King novel and turned it into something iconic. Stephen King stories almost always make better movies precisely because he is a workmanlike writer, and his books are all surface - they have so little beyond the words. They are just begging to be made into films. They are the opposite of unfilmable books.

 

[bianchi1]

Inception.

Generally I am not disappointed by Hollywood films because I expect them to be bad, and the ones I am certain are going to be really bad, I don't bother going to see. But I liked Christopher Nolan's earlier films, particularly Memento, but Inception just shows what the Hollywood machine does to decent directors. It's basically just a load of previous plots mashed together as an excuse for 'cool' special FX fights. These are the worst kinds of films. As another example, see Colin Berry's review article on Elysium. Also Prometheus.

As for the people saying The Shining... a film from a great director, Stanley Kubrick, that took a typically flatly written Stephen King novel and turned it into something iconic. Stephen King stories almost always make better movies precisely because he is a workmanlike writer, and his books are all surface - they have so little beyond the words. They are just begging to be made into films. They are the opposite of unfilmable books.

I thought inception was especially good as Nolan did not go or the standard fx stuff. Most of the fights, explosions were done using old fashion (real) big explosions and rotating rooms.

http://www.cracked.com/article_19872_6-mind-blowing-special-effects-you-wont-believe-arent-cgi.html

 

[Flying_Monkey]

I thought inception was especially good as Nolan did not go or the standard fx stuff. Most of the fights, explosions were done using old fashion (real) big explosions and rotating rooms.

My point wasn't about how the FX were done, more that the FX seemed to be the main point of the movie at the expense of things like story, character etc.

 

[Velo711]

The Expendables....1,2,3, and 4.

 

[brodiej]

TMN beat me to Shawshank
So I'll say Highlander 2
Im surprised so many people disliked Skyfall - it was never going to be Citizen Kane but I thought it was the best Bond film for ages

 

[asterix]

Shawshank Redemption, I still don't see why so many people think it's so good.

Have you never been in jail?

I nominate 'the Sicilian' . The film of the book of the real life Mafia bandit/folk hero Salvatore Giuliano. The scenery is good (probably hard to get that wrong in Sicily), nothing else is.

 

[Arch]

Almost everything so far in the 'Funny Gifs' thread....

 

[Over The Hill]

I would say all musicals but then there is The Blues Brothers which saves the whole genre.