moveis that have dissapointed you
 

Okay so over the summer we all watch alot of movies, so which ones were you anticipating to watch, and then when you finally got the chance, you felt ripped off? i can list a million, but here are a few....

The Number 23
Black Dahlia

Sleazy Riders

recently children of men dissapointed me quite a lot.

That movie, made me cry. Not because it was beautiful or anything, because I thought the premise could have been better.

hahahah

I haven't seen tha one. Was it that bad?

i haven't seen it either, i was just laughing at what he said

sucked...i really thought the scarlett jo and natalie po lesbo scene wouldve saved it, but it really didnt.

never heard of it

Crash. How that movie won best picture is beyond me. It's such a steaming pile of shit.

art school confidential.

I think many agree on this board that "The Science of Sleep" was very disappointing, as the follow up to the great "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" and the trailer made SOS seems really quirky and cool, and then once I saw it I was like, it was good, but just doesn't compare to "ESOTSM".

seconded life distortion's pick.
I add - napoleon dinamyte (and I wasn't expecting exactly a masterpiece from the start)
a scanner darkly (good. but not THAT good)
demonlover
bah there are quite a few

Spiderman 3, Boo.

I thought The Science of Sleep was very good. But whatever, I'm not arty enough to understand it I suppose.

I rarely ever disappointed by movies because I never expect anything when I go to see them. I do not read the reviews.

These two aren't recent. In fact they are from some time ago, but the feeling of being conned is as strong as ever.

Get Shorty. I wasn't expecting anything amazing, but I did think that it would at least be watchable. It's the only film that has ever made me (or my parrtner) walk out of a cinema before the end. Dreadful, dreadful film.

The Mummy Returns. We watched this on video because a friend told us it was quite good and lent it to us. We actually were expecting it to be pretty bad but I have to say that I had no idea of exactly how bad it was going to be. I was shocked. I never realised any film could be quite so dreadful.

The Mummy Returns is the worse of the two, but it's a children's blockbuster that's not attempting any great artistic merit. Get Shorty is supposed to be proper film, so the awfulness of it is more of a crime.

get shorty is GREAT!. just hilarity upon hilarity.

and the mummy returns sucked. the first one was much more enjoyable

painting bolivians and blacks as utter retards is not my idea of hilarity... :(

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shortbus was a disappointment. i expected more from john cameron mitchell than oprah with cocks and cunts.

I wanted to see Shortbus, but haven't felt like sneaking around to watch it without my parents knowing. Though, they probably wouldn't bother to check what's in the movies I decide to watch.

The Science of Sleep was a definite disappointment.

What's to understand? It's a date movie for people who went to art school.
I think it was made so these people didn't have to see movies with Meg Ryan in them.

I thought it was OK, but not as great as the trailers made me think it was gonna be. Without a doubt it is totally a "date movie" though.

The Machinist - if you need a movie to help you appreciate Fight Club more, it's this one
Renaissance - a plot trying to be deep but failing, a little less "wannabe Bladerunner" would have been nice

Heaven- The film directed by the director of "Run Lola Run" and staring Cate Blanchett and Giovanni Ribisi, both good actors, good director, (at least "Run Lola Run" and "The Princess and the Warrior" were good), and the concept came from the polish director Kieslowski who did the amazing Three Colors Trilogy, how could that movie be so underwhelming?

It is definitely a "date movie."

28 days after had a fucking terrible ending!!!

ohh yeah, that movie, princes laila and jabba the butt really dissapointed me. i expected something better.

90% of the movies i see are disappointing.

correction.

i know that this is a really unpopular opinion, but i was not that blown away by blade runner.
and tarence malick's the new world, was although visually pretty, and great directing, boring.

99.9% of movies i saw were disappointing.

pretty much any movie that gets a bunch of positive reviews ended up disappointing me (note the past tense here). see: donnie darko, the machinist (seconded!), requiem for a dream, etc. also, movies that people on the sonic youth board tend to like for some ungodly reason, like a scanner darkly, are fucking terrible. also, even movies i know i'll love end up just mildly pleasing me (see electric dragon 80000v). i guess that's what happens when you watched 300+ new movies a year...

that being said, films that hadn't disappointed me are usually quite low key and don't have people jacking off over them every day... films like body melt, slime city, street trash, rock n roll nightmare, night train to terror, combat shock, neon maniacs, the demon, pinnochio 964, psycho cop 2, happiness of the katakuris, incredible melting man, der todesking, burning moon, videodrome, killing spree, unmasked pt. 25, maniac, maniac cop 2, gore gore girls, deep red, rubber's lover, ya know.. gems like that.

so, i simply started assuming that most films coming out are going to be godawful... and when movies like the matrix and pirates of the caribean -- i'm talking really awful shit movies with no redeeming qualities -- make money, you just know there are going to be sequels and ripoffs, so you can assume it's all going to suck. so, there you go: problem solved. no more disappointment.

just go into films blindly, assuming it may not be good, don't expect anything, and you might be surprised. or just stop watching typical mainstream hollywood bullshit, since only about 0.0001% of those films are good (seriously, what's the last "big" movie that's come out that's actually been good? american psycho, memento, seven, the game, fight club.. uh... was "mysterious skin" a big movie? I don't think so.. but.. if so, that counts...... uh... yeah, I'm really drawing blanks here...). films, music, art, books, television, etc. haven't really been amazing or creative in any way since around the late 80's/early 90's. You can dispute this, but think of all the mainstream films back then that weren't disappointing. Aliens! Blade Runner! Terminator! Jesus.. it's crazy.

Expect the worst.

Watch Cronenberg's "crash" instead. That shoulda won best picture for whatever year it came out in.

James Spader is such a babe.

Isn't that the one with the guy who gets off on car crashes?

I wanna see!

Yeah, it's based on the awesome (and so far, only one I've read by..) J.G. Ballard book. That was an awkward sentence.

James Spader IS hot. secretary is amazing...

Hmm, this other crash sounds like a sexy fight club. I might have to check it out.

I 100% disagree with you....i i loved it.