What movie sucked that you thought should've been great

[mtnsnake]

I hate it when movies you expect to be great turn into wastes of time. Here's 3 of them off the top of my head:

1- "Vertical Limit" was a joke. What a cheesy production.

2- This next one was one of my biggest disappointments in recent years....."The Perfect Storm." After reading the book, and hearing all the hype about the movie, I was really let down by this one. It should've been soooo good and it wasn't. I don't care about that big tank they built; the movie still sucked.

A more recent movie that I thought would be real good because of all the hype, but it ended up being a total stinker, was "Open Water."

[Pirate Smile]

1. Magnolia. It was supposed to be good. I hated it.

[LSdemocrat]

2. Spiderman

I thought it was a dopey teen flick with a few mediocre action scenes thrown in.

[mtnsnake]

3. Wow, that one surprises me. I liked it okay.

[VTdem]

6. I agree, spiderman was a letdown

[SemiCharmedQuark]

27. Ugh, finally! I don't get what the big deal about this is!

Kirsten Dunst's falsetto voice the entire way through made me want to retch.

[flygal]

30. Agree - I saw it on a flight and unplugged the headset half-way

through. But, it's my husband's all-time favorite.

[LynneSin]

85. I hated Spiderman! I think Sony owes me a refund for renting it

:P

[Shadowen]

107. Agreed.

Spider-Man sucked. Rather hard.

Spider-Man 2, on the other hand...that was a work of freakin' art.

[AngryAmish]

4. "Enemies at the Gate"

How could a movie about Staligrad be boring? However, they managed.

BTW, MAgnolia was an amazing film. And I hate Tom Cruise.

[JohnKleeb]

5. I disagree, I thought Enemy at the Gates was a good one

but I would love an epic film about Stalingrad honestly.

[MrModerate]

77. The first five minutes, with the anihilation of the . . .

unprepared recruits (redefining the term "meat grinder" in a way I find unforgettable) made the movie worthwhile for me. Said everything that needs to be said about how the Soviet Union fought (and "won") that war.

And the moment when our hero comes up the hill and sees the attack on the city under way -- froze me in my tracks.

The rest of the movie was OK too.

[alphafemale]

7. Star Wars - Epsode One nt

[Yavin4]

8. Star Wars, Ep. 1 and 2

The original trilogy made me a movie lover for life. It defined adolesence for my entire generation, and we waited for almost twenty years for a new trilogy. What did we get? We got Phantom Menance and Attack of the Clones. We got Jar Jar and a really bad love story that was so bad that the audience was laughing.

[AngryLizard]

28. Lucas completely fucked with his own mythology

And Hayden Christensen, or whatever the hell his name is, is just awful. Sneering is not acting.
Just god-awful. And, of course, I have to go see the third one. Not looking forward to it. Will be going to a matinee.

[Darth_Kitten]

49. it's Natalie Portman who is a bad actor.........

ugh, she's bad, probably as boring and dull as that Spiderman chick, uh, Kirsten Dunst. :puke: :)

[Rob H.]

71. She was good in "Garden State," though

I think a big part of the problem with Lucas' movies is that the man can't write even halfway-decent dialog.

[Left Is Write]

70. Agree.

[mtnsnake]

9. What about The Perfect Storm? Anyone besides me disappointed in it?

I waited all year for that to come out, and after seeing it, was sooo let down. I think someone like Spielberg should've directed that movie.

[tigereye]

51. the book was excellent

the movie didn't seem to really reach to the core of the characters.

[skygazer]

55. The Perfect Storm was very cheesy

Diane Lane doing an excruciatingly bad Massachusetts accent - aghhh! It was like fingernails on a blackboard to me. And they had to make a love story out of the relationship between George Clooney and the woman who ran the other boat there - whatever her name was - when there wasn't one. Why do they have to do that? Why do they think people will not be interested in a story if there's not a love story shoved in your face?

Yeah, book was great. Movie was VERY disappointing.

[A HERETIC I AM]

10. "The Ring" and "Event Horizon"

Quite possibly 2 of the worst films ever made. No point, lots of hype and a combined 5 hours i can never get back.

[Seabiscuit]

104. Both good nominations. But "The Blair Witch Project" takes the cake.

Worst hype - "the scariest movie you'll ever see". What a joke.

Whether or not you fell for the hype, it was:

"the worst conceived"
"the worst written"
"the worst scripted"
"the worst acted"
"the worst filmed"
"the worst scenery"
"the worst edited"

... film ever made.

In the end, it was:

"the worst waste of movie ticket $$ ever" (I didn't make this mistake)
"the worst choice of a movie rental $$ ever" (I made this mistake)

[msgadget]

11. Lost in Translation

The buzz about it was tremendous and both Sofia Coppola and Bill Murray were hailed for their brilliance so my expectations were high.

[mtnsnake]

20. Yes, that's the one I was trying to think of that REALLY pissed me off!

I hated that flick.

[SouthernDaisy]

37. most definitely! nt.

:(

[SCDem]

39. And you keep on watching the movie because you think there has to be

more.... Bad films are made worse by the fact that you watch the whole nightmare from beginning to end without fast forwarding it or anything because you keep on thinking well something is going to happen at some time.... it has to get better. But unfortunately it doesn't.

[Debbi801]

59. I agree, by the time it was over, I wanted a refund for the cost...

of the movie, the baby sitter, as well as compensation for having wasted that much of my time.

[mtnsnake]

68. Haha, it sounds like you were just as pissed about that movie as I was

I've been disappointed in movies before, but Lost in Translation was the first one that really made me PISSED OFF!!!:mad:

[MISSDem]

84. I just saw Lost in Translation for the second time and

I love it. Funny about tastes.

[mtnsnake]

93. I'd rather be locked up in a room with 5 priests from Boston

than to have to watch that movie for a second time! :evilgrin:

[LSdemocrat]

12. Armageddon

That movie was just terrible.

[mtnsnake]

13. Good choice. I was expecting to see a real good one and it sucked.

[Cadence]

14. About Schmidt.

It got all of these nominations. People were saying it was Jack's best work. Yada, yada, yada.

I watched it and thought...you gotta be fucking kidding me.

Oh and I didn't need the whole Kathy Bates nude scene in the middle of it. I wasn't expecting it and I was completely mentally unprepared.

[demgrrrll]

15. The last Matrix movie. I was expecting something else. eom.

.

[pres2032]

18. hi cadence!

:hi:

when we going to compete again??

[borlis]

22. I totally agree and American Beauty also sucked big time

My Dad told me how great About Schmidt was. Well maybe it is if you are 75 years old, but I thought it was really bad. American Beauty was another one. I just couldn't believe Oscars were given and nominated for this movie. At the end I was like "Ok, I didn't fall asleep but what did I miss?"

[MrModerate]

79. Needed to give it an Oscar for . . .

Most Overrated Drivel.

[flygal]

31. Noooooo! I loved this movie - ok could have done without the

hot tub scene. I love the whole "life after retirement" thing. I guess b/c most of our generation will never know what it's like to retire.

[Liberal Veteran]

16. The Mists of Avalon mini-series on tv....

It's almost like they skimmed all the major plot points without really capturing what made the book so appealing.

[loudestchick]

90. That one really pissed me off!!!!

The casting was so bad...I actually felt pain!

[pres2032]

17. Terminator 3

go ahead and flame me for even thinking it was going to be good at all, but i kinda did. Then the ending completely ruined not only that movie but the entire trilogy!

[Robeson]

19. ET...

...saw it, and it put me to sleep. Never got it, but then again, I'm not in to kiddie movies.

[tuvor]

21. Mystery Men and Mars Attacks

So many great resources in each, all squandered.

[Jean Louise Finch]

23. Gasp!

I loved them BOTH!

[tigereye]

52. I thought Mars Attacks was great

[democracy eh]

103. I thought Mystery Men was great

not oscar material, but entertaining, especially watched 5 years after the hype

the Sphinx!

[Doc_Technical]

24. "The World of Henry Orient"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058756/

I love Peter Sellers but this film sucked.

[barb162]

25. I liked the kids and Sellers and the scenes of NYC, of Val

walking in Central Park in the snow

[barb162]

26. the Great Gatsby, Mia Farrow was totally wrong as Daisy

[passy]

67. Mia Farrow is totally wrong as most characters

[barb162]

69. good point, although I thought she was good in "Radio Days" as the

high-pitched dimwit

[MISSDem]

86. I loved this movie, Mia Farrow and all.

I thought she was perfect as Daisy.

[Kazak]

29. A.I.

No Question. It would have been WAY better had it been produced as intended...

[passy]

63. I have to agree

Like getting Picasso to paint a Renoir, only the other way around.

[Skittles]

32. the remake of 1963's THE HAUNTING

lord it sucked so bad; the original is SOOOOOO good.

[RUDUing2]

43. yes!!!! completely agree...difference is the original stuck to the book th

the remake changed too many things...and not for the better!

Have you read the book?

[Skittles]

82. yes; I also found the location of that house in the original

google "ettington park hotel" - it's in Stratford-on-Avon in England.

[Lilith Velkor]

33. Matrix Revolutions

sucked gigantic donkeyballs.

Spiderman and American Beauty didn't suck, but I didn't see what was so great about them. X-Men disappointed too, but X-2 absolutely rocked.

[Not a robought]

34. Mission to Mars and A.I.

I was hoping Mission to Mars would have had some profoundness to it. My friends and I had belly ache laughs for a half hour following Mission to Mars. They won the Academy for vacant maudlin sympathy at the end, my God it stunk.

A.I. left a bad taste in my mouth, the plot, action and dialogue were doing too many stupid contortions to fit some odd rationale from the world of Spielberg.

[demily]

60. Mission to Mars

Gets my vote for worst movie of the last ten years. I didn't expect it to be fantastic, and I'm not picky about movies, but it was just terrible! :puke:

[kodi]

35. dune

i understand that even dead, frank herbert still has a contract out on david lynch

[NewJeffCT]

45. they released an extended version on tape afterwards

that I thought was much better, though still not as good as it should have been. The Sci-Fi miniseries was better.

[mtnsnake]

36. Another one I had some hopes for but it sucked was Bruce Almighty

I tried watching it 2 or 3 times and could never get through it.

[seemunkee]

38. Not surprised at either of those

The trailier of Vertical Limit shows it all. NO ONE can jump and catch ice without pulling their arms out of their sockets. It looked lame and I was not dissappointed.
If you want to see a GREAT climbing movie see Touching the Void. Powerful story if survival.

I couldn't get through the book of The Perfect Storm. I put it down after about 50 pages and picked it up again at the urging of my wife. Read another 50 pages and tossed it. It must have been a good magazine article put the extra 150+ pages of filler was boring. The movie was far better but still kind of bleah.

[KurtNYC]

40. The Fifth Element, and every Star Wars movie besides the first one

George Lucas seems to have lost all sense of how to tell a compelling story.

[tigereye]

54. we love the campiness of the Fifth Element

we have watched it numerous times.

[DrDan]

41. Striptease

How could it miss with Demi?

It sure did

[flamingyouth]

42. The book is funny; the movie sucked

Too bad.

[NewJeffCT]

44. agreed, good book

Demi Moore was not the right choice, though the rest of the cast was good. Moore is intense & serious on the screen & the role called for an acress that didn't take herself so seriously, or could play it light & comedic (like a Cameron Diaz, though I don't like Diaz physically...)

[warrens]

48. That was awful

The book is hilarious, the movie just interminable. One I thought SHOULD have been good was Wild Wild West. Will Smith, good original show and all that. It sucked so bad it can't even be described.

[underpants]

75. It had its moments

:wow:

[NewJeffCT]

46. A lot to choose from

The 2nd & 3rd Matrix movies.

Star Wars Episodes 1 & 2 & 6

as mentioned above, Dune & Striptease

Charlie's Angels 2 (thought the first was good, light entertainment)

I still think the first Superman movie with Chris Reeve was a bore, 2nd one was good.

The first Star Trek movie.

The Incredible Hulk

[Forkboy]

47. The American Godzilla

[tigereye]

56. Memento

hated it. Sat through it to the end, praying for some redeeming qualities. No such luck.

[terrya]

58. You have to see "Memento" a couple of times.

I thought "huh?" when I saw it once. I saw a second time, and I appreciated the unique structure of it.

But, then again, what the hell do I know?? :-)

T

[tigereye]

74. no It was the existential negativity of it that bothered me

Even Being John Malkovich didn't bother me the way Memento did. I really wouldn't want to see it more than once. Clever Idea, but. I have seen plenty of weird art films, this one just left a bad taste in my mouth.

[ccarter84]

61. agreed, but probably not twice in one night

or else it might get a little repetative, but overall very unique movie

[Sequoia]

50. Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind

[edbermac]

78. What?? CE3K was great!

IMHO...

[terrya]

53. "Eyes Wide Shut"

A stupifyingly crashing bore. It didn't help that Tom "I only have one performance in me and it's not very good" Cruise was in it.

[passy]

64. Maybe Kubrik wanted Kidman and got Cruise in the package.

[edbermac]

80. No way!! Check this previous thread...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=210x2566#2575

[Runcible Spoon]

57. Nobody's mentioned "Alexander"?

it had the pedigree: great director, solid cast, huge budget...WHERE did it go wrong? Cheesy overwrought script? Last minute hamfisted editing? I remember seeing previews and getting really excited......grrr

[Deja Q]

62. 'Sky Captain and the Space Pirates' - one of many made after 1999.

[passy]

65. For comic book fans "Tank Girl"

From a kick ass comic book of the same name.
Ended up being a dull makes-no-sense film due to the extensive editing to make it PG.

[DoNotRefill]

66. Battlefield Earth....

the book was excellent. The movie sucked. And no, I'm not a Clam.

[KitchenWitch]

72. Living Out Loud

One of my friends recommended that I see it, and I thought it was about the stupidest thing I ever saw. Totally did not get that film. (Not a big fan of Danny DeVito, but my friend said it was good, so I saw it anyway.)

[the Princess]

73. The Day AfterTomorrow

God it sucked!!!!1

[kitkatrose]

91. The tornadoes and that big-ass storm were cool, you have to admit.

I could have done without the semblence of a plot. Really, no one expected or wanted it, and they did such a shitty job, although that plot was a lost cause from the beginning. Just let me see the tornadoes, the tidal wave, and the land hurricane or whatever it was. That's all I ask.

[ScreamingMeemie]

97. It scared the wheaties out of me....

I'm odd that way. :hi:

[MrModerate]

76. This is an old one, but David Lynch's cornholing of "Dune" . . .

. . . one of the few truly great science fiction novels, suffocated by a wholly inept auteur's arrogance that his vision came within a light year of Frank Herbert's.

But then I hate EVERYTHING Lynch does, so maybe I'm biased.

[skypilot]

81. "Saw"

Crap. Pure, unadulterated, boring, unsuspenseful, poorly acted CRAP!!

[MISSDem]

83. Catch Me If You can and

Road To Perdition are tied with me for this honor.

[mtnsnake]

88. Catch Me if You Can disappointed you? I thought it was entertaining

and it's actually one of those movies I could watch over again. How come it was a let-down for you? :)

[WMliberal]

87. stepford wives. so much star power

Killed by a bad script and direction.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

102. The original is so much better

I saw the latest version on the plane back from Japan (It was a long flight, okay?), and unlike the gradually building creepiness of the original, it had all the subtlety of a circus clown on speed.

On the way TO Japan, I saw The Day After Tomrrow. Ay-yay-yay. That was another stinker.

I love flying ANA, but they definitely need to improve their supply of movies. Sad to say, those were the BEST two selections they had on the personal screens.

[LoZoccolo]

89. /Wag the Dog/

When people were talking about the premise of the movie, I thought it would be really good. Then when I saw it, it seemed way too subdued. The premise was great but they could have done much more with it.

[loudestchick]

92. King Arthur. You don't f*ck with the legend!

[kittycat1164]

94. Road To Perdition

first (and only) movie I ever got up and walked out of. Way too dark and depressing for me.

[babylonsister]

95. Waterworld w/Kevin Costner

The show got publicized to death prior to its release so we went to see it and were sorely disappointed.

[davis_islander]

96. The Day After Tomorrow

OMG, this was the biggest piece of CRAP I've seen in a LONG time.

[Seabiscuit]

98. 1. Matrix Revolutions;

2. The Bourne Supremacy;
3. Vertical Limit
4. The Ring
5. Rocky V (Stallone was pathetic!)
6. The Blair Witch Project (biggest disappointment of all time, what with all the phony hype about it - it reeeeeeeeked!)

[frogfromthenorth2]

99. THE TERMINAL sucked BIG TIME....

[nicolemrw]

100. the lord of the rings

i'm just to much of a purist i suppose. the first one was ok, the second one was... tolerable. but all through the third one, i was growling "no! no! how can they DO that!!!!" and visuallizing tolien spinning in his grave.

[livinginphotographs]

101. "Leaving Las Vegas."

Great idea for a movie, absolutely shitty result. I was severely disappointed in that one.

[corksean]

105. Any remake of a classic or foreign film, for example:

The Italian Job, Alfie, Desperado (El Mariachi was much better) or Three Men and a Baby (The original French version was actually funny).Waste of good film stock.

[T Bone]

106. The latest 'Stepford Wives'

just. not. that. funny. Was it? left me cold, thinking of about 3 or 12 other ways I could have spent that Saturday afternoon. Left me thinking it wasn't worth matinee price.