Movies you wanted to see badly

[DrVenkman PhD 0]

Mortal Kombat Annhilation. Big fan of the 1st film, was looking forward to this movie since the day I saw the original, and MAN did it suck.

 

Also, Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle

[Guest JMA]

I second Van Helsing and Mortal Kombat: Annihilation.

[Mole 0]

The Ring really dissaponited me, i had been reading that it was super fucking scary, the second coming of horror, etc.

 

It sucked IMO, maybe because of the hype or something, i'll have to watch it again someday.

Do you mean the amazing original Ringu, or the crap american remake?

 

i mean the american version

 

i think since everyone talked about how good the japanese one was and hyped it alot, and i hadn't seen a good horror movies for quite some time in theaters when it came out i got really excited about it. And then...it sucked.

 

another one that dissapointed me was The Mummy Returns. The first one was a fun popcorn adventure with good special effects and nice charecters. The second one was just 95% of pure CRAP CGI, the FX totally ruined the movie.

I am sure the hype around the movie didn't help either. I saw it thinking it would be another horror movie. Then I realized it wasn't and was scared out of my mind.

 

I showed a lot of people the movie when it came out on DVD and told them how scary it was. I over-hyped it for them because they saw it and was like, wait, that is it?

[Vyce 0]

I'll go with Van Helsing, although, honestly, I didn't see it - I heard it was awful from pretty much everyone who had seen it. I mean, literally, there wasn't a single person that I know who had seen it - and there was quite a few - that would even give it an indifferent "eh". It was all, "That film is crap. Don't bother." I didn't really expect the film to be fantastic, but I thought that it'd be a fun little horror-action movie, in the same vein as The Mummy or even Underworld.

 

Oh, and Ebert is a stupid douchebag for giving it 3 stars. I swear the guy is going senile or something.

 

My theory is that Ebert went senile a few years back, not long after Siskel kicked it. The man's entirely untrustworthy these days, because for the past couple years at least, he's been giving good reviews to movies that have absolutely no business getting even TWO stars, let alone three or more. Van Helsing is just the latest example.

 

Other disappointments: I was suckered into watching Episode One, back in the day when I thought that Lucas actually cared about the franchise and was going to do a good job with the prequels. Then this came out, and after 10 minutes of Jar Jar, I realized I was wrong.

 

That didn't bother me so much as the Matrix sequels. I loved the original movie, and was very excited about Reloaded. Then I saw it, and realized that, outside of a few good fight scenes, the film sucked balls with more gusto than I thought was possible.

[Masked Man of Mystery 0]

When Akira came out on DVD, I remember being SO excited because there were other people who actually wanted to see anime. Haven't seen anything like it other than when Spirited Away came out, but these were like, twenysomething seemingly normal guys who wanted to get an anime. It was fun for me as a big anime fan. If you recall, orginally the two dic version of that movie came in a metal case. I work at Best Buy, and there was one copy in the metal case left sitting in the back that was reserved for someone to pick up, but he never came for it, so I got it, caem home, and said "What the heck was that ending about?" I still contend that Akira is a huge disappointment and the whole "you have to think about it" is nonsense. It bwas a rushed version of an incomplete manga. Nausicaa is a far, FAR superior film that took the material of the first fourth to half of the manga(been a while since I read it, my memory's a bit fuzzy) and then put together an ending that made sense and set up Princess Mononoke, which Hayao Miyazaki did to express the ideas he didn't have time to do in Nasuicaa, and probably reflect the changes in his beliefs as time went on. Also, the Neon Genesis Evangelion TV series turned out to be a bloody SHAM. They rushed the show, and the ending ranks among the worst of all time. I've seen things that made me go "huh?", but that one really boggled my mind.

[Corey_Lazarus 0]

I still don't get the ending to Akira. It's a great, great movie...until the ending. The ending is complete horseshit. I was told that Tetsuo and those ghost-children become pure energy or something...what's the common explanation?

 

A movie I was hyped to see and left disappointed? The Crow: City Of Angels. I love, love, LOVE the first one. In fact, one of my top 10 films of all-time. But this movie? Took everything cliché about the "avenging hero" archetype and combined it into barely 90 minutes of footage. Hell, the only DECENT character in the whole movie is Iggy Pop's, and that's only because it's IGGY FUCKING POP.

 

Chock up these to my "disappointed by hype, be it advertisements or personal" list:

Die Hard 2: Die Harder (not With A Vengeance, though, as that ROCKS)

Alien Resurrection (grew up watching the trilogy, and I get an Alien Queen getting smacked around like a bitch...WHAT THE FUCK?!)

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (basically took everything great about T2 and said "haha, fuck that"; makes me wish they brought Cameron back aboard, so then maybe the script wouldn't have sucked the meat whistle)

[Henry Spencer 0]

For all the hype and praise it gets/got, I found Fargo to be extremely underwhelming. Maybe somebody here can try to explain to me what I missed, because I just don't see a great movie in there.

[strummer 0]

Without a doubt Coneheads. Now I wasn't expecting a masterpiece, but what I got was the most boring 2 hours of my life. With the comedic talent in the movie, it should have been MUCH better, not great or anything, but better. Copland I was stoked to see and was thoroughly disappointed

[Ravenbomb 0]

My theory is that Ebert went senile a few years back, not long after Siskel kicked it. The man's entirely untrustworthy these days, because for the past couple years at least, he's been giving good reviews to movies that have absolutely no business getting even TWO stars, let alone three or more. Van Helsing is just the latest example.

I just figure he's been doing this for so long he gets bored and gives good reviews to undeserving movies that nobody will care about either way

 

 

*Didn't care about Van Helsing*

[Guest Nanks]

Ringu.

 

I saw The Ring in the cinemas twice and absolutely loved it. Then all I heard was how unbelievable the original, Japanese version was compared to the remake. Not too long ago Ringu was on SBS and I thought it was vastly inferior to the remake.

[Lil' Bitch 0]

Mortal Kombat Annihilation, worst video game EVER! next to Super Mario Bros. All the hype quickly turned to regret. Whoever wrote the script needs to have the crap beaten out of them.

[Vanhalen 0]

After renting out a DVD last night, Matrix fucking Revolutions, I thought, nahhh it couldnt be as bad as people say, and it was, the worst ever dialogue ever on the history of this planet(i was going to through a fucking can at the TV if someone said Goddamn it again), and who hired those actors, the fucking supporting actors were some of the worst I've ever seen in my life.

[converge241 0]

Big Fish

 

 

huge letdown

[Mecha Mummy 0]

Van Helsing stands above the rest, as it had a good trailer, and then I actually saw the movie and it's pretty much the worst movie I've ever seen in theatres.

 

Matrix Reloaded, of course, was terrible, but not bad to the point where I was laughing my ass off like I did at Van Helsing.

[Black Lushus 0]

I think Hugh Jackman and Kate Beckinsale have the WORST chemistry of any pair I have ever seen in big budget "blockbuster" movies...

[JJMc 0]

Narc-

 

Big Ray Liotta fan....shut it off after 10 minutes.

 

the 25th hour-

 

Big Edward Norton fan....maybe it was because I watched a shitty VCD of it, but it felt like it just dragged on and on then ended without any payoff.

[Guest Reservoir_Kitty]

One movie that stands out in my mind and probably always will as being the biggest disappointment was Queen of the Damned. I had been waiting for this movie... it was my favorite book of the series, and it was butchered. Horribly, horribly mangled. I bitched through the entire movie. My fiance and his sister were like, wheee, that was such a great movie! Worthless tripe.

 

The Matrix sequels are close runners-up.