Disappointing movies you wanted to like

Hate to say it, but for me it's The Abyss. I loved most of it, but the ending of the theatrical release (only one I saw) really killed it for me.
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Warning: Spoiler! (Click to show) "They must've done something"--I thought that was a pretty lazily written way to get out of the bends.

ray, aviator, incredibles, and spiderman 2.

For me it was "I Robot".


Jon

The Village

Star Wars: The Phantom Menace

The Stepford Wives

The Forgotten

Spiderman (part 1)


All of these I really tried to like, but something about them was ruined.

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Warning: Spoiler! (Click to show) "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."


- Arthur C. Clarke

biggest disapointment I've had in a while was Once upon a time in mexico.

I was really hoping it would be more " Desporado-ish " and having cheech and that tatoo'd guy in it playing different characters than they played in the first one was a real bummer for me.

Now, I know some movies are let downs, because you wanted one thing to happen, but something else did. But, I'm referring more to movies that had some serious issues that almost makes them B movies instead. The question was hard to condense into a few words of the title but I'm looking more for movies that have major flaws in them that prevents them from being worthy of your approval. Spider Man 2 simply does not fall into this realm. There is nothing wrong with Spiderman, acting is good, story is good, action is good, editing and special affects are good, etc. That's also why I said no George Lucas films, I know SW has a lot of fans who want perfection every episode.



I think mostly I'm looking for movies that stunk but had some good points to them that made you not like the movie, even tho the good points made you want to. Does that make sense?

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

"Waterworld."


This was a movie with some promise: an interesting concept, a huge budget to realize the concept, and some reasonable acting talent.* But too much of the dialogue was just plain stupid, and the whole thing seemed to be played for laughs by some of the participants. Disappointing.


*Costner can act. See, for example, "The Untouchables" or "Field of Dreams." Hopper can act. See, for example, "Blue Velvet" or "Apocalypse Now."

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LOL! That's exactly what I thought when I saw it!

Queen of the Damned...


Not a good movie.

"I Robot" and "The Hulk." What WERE they thinking with the cgi in those movies?


htomei

iRobot was simply awesome. It is clearly reference quality. The faces are a bit odd on the robots and movements aren't fluid, but they look real, very well done.


As for Kosner, I should of had a disclaimer that his movies don't count because there isn't much in them that people want to like Waterworld wasn't as horrible as Mailman, or Postal Guy, whatever that movie was, haha.

The Village. What a waste of time.

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God I wanted to like this movie. As a designer, I was extremely excited about the original stills, and the incredible trailer. Poor acting, a weak script, and the oddest last minute plot additions just ruined the film for me.


-JR

I'm looking more for movies that have major flaws in them that prevents them from being worthy of your approval. Spider Man 2 simply does not fall into this realm.


Now you're being rather arbitrary, even though it is your thread. Though Spider-Man 2 was in the main pretty good- I suppose- it was one I was a bit disappointed in. The performances were just not really there, even the usually always reliable Kirsten Dunst, and James Franco was positively cringe-inducing. And I wanted to like it; I loved the poster art with Kirsten hanging on to Spidey.


You're asking "what you wanted to like and didn't" and then disqualifying a title because you didn't approve of the opinion.


I really wanted to like Donnie Darko and the second Harry Potter film, and years back, Pulp Fiction.