Movies that should have been good...

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Underworld.

 

Epic battle of Vampires vs Werewolves....great plot.

 

Studio Exec: You think we could make this another incarnation of Romeo and Juliet...with Romeo turning into this weird green creature that still gets his ass kicked at the end of the movie. That would SELL BAYBEE~!

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Oh, and the Score and Harlem Nights.

 

The Score was cool, but if you put Robert Dinero, Marlon Brando(when he fells like trying) and Ed Norton and Angela Bassett in a film to gether, it better fucking rule all.

 

Same for harlem Nights. This film had Richard Pryor, Redd Foxx, Robin Harris, AND Eddie Murphy in it. This should simply be the funniest film ever when it feature 3(arguably 4) of the greatest standup comedians ever.

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Oh, and the Score and Harlem Nights.

 

The Score was cool, but if you put Robert Dinero, Marlon Brando(when he fells like trying) and Ed Norton and Angela Bassett in a film to gether, it better fucking rule all.

 

Same for harlem Nights. This film had Richard Pryor, Redd Foxx, Robin Harris, AND Eddie Murphy in it. This should simply be the funniest film ever when it feature 3(arguably 4) of the greatest standup comedians ever.

[Youth N Asia 0]

I thought Harlem Nights was funny as shit. Although I felt it lost some when they went away from the comedy turned into the crime drama deal.

[Nighthawk 0]

I'll have to disagree with you on Harlem Nights. Yeah, it sounds like it should be funny, but that's not really what they were going for. If you watch it as a crime drama, it's really pretty good. The choice of making a serious movie with those guys in it though... they had to know people would get the wrong idea.

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I know a lot of people liked it, and I thought it was good, but the premise of Minority Report was bloody great. A police force that can see murders ahead of time, but then one of their officers discovers that he's going to be the murderer? That's a really good and intriguing plot. But the movie just never really lived up to that for me. And not just because I don't like Tom Cruise, it just didn't flow well. I don't know what it was, but I just didn't think it was anywhere near as good a film as it should have been.

 

Ditto for Mystic River. Yes, everyone loves it, and I quite liked it until possibly the worst explanation for a murder mystery I've ever seen. If the movie had ended before *SPOILERS* Marcia Gay Harden tells Penn that she thinks it was Robbins who did the murder prompting Penn to overact for the rest of the film, I would have quite liked it. But they discover it was the kids who did the murder (so as to scare her, they violently beat her, yeah I guess that would work) on the same night as Penn kills Robbins who killed the pedophile the exact same night Penn's daughter was killed. It was just too much for me to handle.

 

*END SPOILERS*

 

And I thought Saving Private Ryan could have been much better if it actually had a plot. Or decent characters, much of a muchness.

[Ted the Poster 0]

I waited almost a year for Ali to come out, and was seriously hyped. While the main performances were great(Smith, Foxx, and Keitel were all very good) the movie itself was pretty damn unsatisfactory.

 

I liked The Sixth Sense, even though you saw the ending A MILE AWAY, but Signs fucking blew. The only way the ending could've sucked more is if it was all revealed to be either a dream or in the imagination of an autistic kid(the worst TV finale ever).

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the imagination of an autistic kid(the worst TV finale ever).

what series had THAT ending?

 

Passion of the Christ

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I know a lot of people liked it, and I thought it was good, but the premise of Minority Report was bloody great. A police force that can see murders ahead of time, but then one of their officers discovers that he's going to be the murderer? That's a really good and intriguing plot. But the movie just never really lived up to that for me. And not just because I don't like Tom Cruise, it just didn't flow well. I don't know what it was, but I just didn't think it was anywhere near as good a film as it should have been.

 

I think the BIG problem with this movie was that it ended 20 minutes too late. I would've loved the movie a million times more if they would've gone with the potential sad ending. It just came across like they wanted to end it that way but studio execs forced them to tag on the happier ending.

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the imagination of an autistic kid(the worst TV finale ever).

what series had THAT ending?

 

Passion of the Christ

St. Elsewhere.

 

It's already been mentioned, but Star Wars is the king of letdowns. When it came out I liked it, because I was so drawn into the hype, but looking back man did that movie have some bad ideas. Endless Political banter? Vader is JESUS?! Lucas must have been high.

[Kahran Ramsus 0]

Minority Report didn't go on too late. The problem was that there was a decision that Max Von Sydow's character had to make at the very end of the movie, and Spielberg chose the wrong one. That was the key point in the ending sequence.

[LivingLegendGaryColeman 0]

I would agree with Matrix Revolutions. I actually liked Reloaded, but really did not like Revolutions. The thing that may have made me like Reloaded also was I hadn't seen the first one until about a month before Reloaded came out, so I wasn't waiting a long time. I then saw Reloaded and was extremely disappointed when I went opening night of Revolutions.

 

Another movie I would throw on was Adventures of Pluto Nash. I mean, if you look it at, you could say yikes automatically, but I figured with a cast that included Eddie Murphy, Randy Quaid and Rosario Dawson, there might be something good out of it, or at least one laugh... not once. Very disappointed with that given the cast.

[DMann2003 0]

Ali... great performance by Smith, and it even had a good director. But the movie itself was horrible, choppy, and felt completely rushed

I agree, but I don't know if it felt rushed, I felt it was just muted. Here was this increidbly vibrant man and the film lacked energy

[DMann2003 0]

I waited almost a year for Ali to come out, and was seriously hyped. While the main performances were great(Smith, Foxx, and Keitel were all very good) the movie itself was pretty damn unsatisfactory.

I think you got your actors confused, Harvey Keitel wasn't in Ali.

 

Now Jon Voight was as Howard Cossell