# Movie You Most Eagerly Anticipated **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 3, 2015, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-you-most-eagerly-anticipated/736521 "2015-11-03T14:37:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-you-most-eagerly-anticipated/736521/41 "2015-11-04T01:47:35Z")
BATMAN. Was not disappointed. ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-you-most-eagerly-anticipated/736521/42 "2015-11-04T02:04:12Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > While I agree with this I must admit I had shivers up and down my spine as the bridge of the Enterprise started to fill with familiar faces. When Spock finally came on board I was on pins and needles; it was momentous. The Spock stuff (aside from the Uhura romance) is riveting. His beam down…his youth. All they needed was a Sehlat. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-you-most-eagerly-anticipated/736521/43 "2015-11-04T02:07:16Z")
> [@Dale\_Sams](#): > > The Spock stuff (aside from the Uhura romance) is riveting. His beam down…his youth. All they needed was a Sehlat. I’m not sure we’re talking about the same movie here. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-you-most-eagerly-anticipated/736521/44 "2015-11-04T02:18:45Z")
> [@Dale\_Sams](#): > > Independence Day > > Was NOT disappointed. It was everything I wanted. Oy, really? I guess you are welcome to your opinion, but I came here to spew venom at that movie. I really was excited for it too. I mean really excited for it. But man, I was so disappointed with it as a movie (yes, monuments blowing up were cool visuals), that I always point to it as The Reason to not ever ever ever get excited about a movie again. Ever. It killed big Hollywood Action movies for me. It killed Science fiction movies for me. It killed my faith in humanity that it made tons of money. It taught me a great lesson on skepticism/cynicism. It killed me inside. It killed me for ANY excitement for ANYthing beforehand. One good thing that came from it though, I was certainly NOT excited about Phantom Menace, so when I saw how much it sucked, I was not destroyed, for i was already dead. The first movie since ID4 that I warily allowed myself to be the slightest bit outwardly excited for almost 20 YEARS later was Fury Road. And although it wasn’t everything i hoped for, it was still really good in a different way. ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-you-most-eagerly-anticipated/736521/45 "2015-11-04T02:18:47Z")
_Lord of the Rings - Fellowship of the Ring_: had been waiting for it for a long time. I would have been happy to walk straight back into the theatre and see it again. _Reign of Fire_ - the concept and poster were great - the movie not so much. ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-you-most-eagerly-anticipated/736521/46 "2015-11-04T02:25:42Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#): > > Oy, really? I guess you are welcome to your opinion, but I came here to spew venom at that movie. > > I really was excited for it too. I mean really excited for it. But man, I was so disappointed with it as a movie (yes, monuments blowing up were cool visuals), that I always point to it as The Reason to not ever ever ever get excited about a movie again. Ever. It killed big Hollywood Action movies for me. It killed Science fiction movies for me. It killed my faith in humanity that it made tons of money. It taught me a great lesson on skepticism/cynicism. It killed me inside. It killed me for ANY excitement for ANYthing beforehand. > > One good thing that came from it though, I was certainly NOT excited about Phantom Menace, so when I saw how much it sucked, I was not destroyed, for i was already dead. > > The first movie since ID4 that I warily allowed myself to be the slightest bit outwardly excited for almost 20 YEARS later was Fury Road. And although it wasn’t everything i hoped for, it was still really good in a different way. :\< Sorry. I just wanted bang shoot em ups with aliens…and I realized the virus thing was an homage, so that didn’t bug me. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-you-most-eagerly-anticipated/736521/47 "2015-11-04T02:32:41Z")
> [@Dale\_Sams](#): > > :\< Sorry. > > I just wanted bang shoot em ups with aliens…and I realized the virus thing was an homage, so that didn’t bug me. Oh, don’t be sorry. I know now that it was my fault for wanting/hoping for so much more…and I like to think I have learned that lesson, thanks to ID4. ---
**Author:** ![Kropotkin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kropotkin/32/18045_2.png) [@Kropotkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kropotkin)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-you-most-eagerly-anticipated/736521/48 "2015-11-04T02:39:09Z")
Mars Attacks! Martians! Jack Nicholson! Slim Whitman! I hated it. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-you-most-eagerly-anticipated/736521/49 "2015-11-04T02:57:39Z")
I, too, eagerly awaited _Starship Troopers_. I figured that they’d have to tone down the politics a bit to make the transition, but that’s OK, because what’s left is a perfect match for the kind of action movie fare that Hollywood loves. Powered armor! Nuclear hand-grenades! Talking twenty-second bombs! So what do they do? They distort the politics beyond all recognition, make that the focus of the movie, and cut out all of the cool stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_s\_Son](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19adc/32.png) [@Jim\_s\_Son](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_s_Son)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-you-most-eagerly-anticipated/736521/50 "2015-11-04T05:05:36Z")
“The Doors”. With Oliver Stone at the controls, it turned out to be an absolute disaster OTOH I always wanted to see a movie on the James Hunt vs Nikki Lauda F1 title battle and with Ron Howard at the controls, “Rush” turned out great. Few minor flaws, Hunt never punched out an obnoxious reporter by the thumbing for a ride scene is great. ---
**Author:** ![ENugent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/4af34b/32.png) [@ENugent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ENugent)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-you-most-eagerly-anticipated/736521/51 "2015-11-04T05:17:55Z")
_The Martian_ It was, indeed, everything I had hoped it would be, but feared that Hollywood would screw up. ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-you-most-eagerly-anticipated/736521/52 "2015-11-04T06:19:46Z")
_Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom_. When I first saw _Raiders_, I had no expectations whatsoever…and was totally blown away. I hoped _Temple of Doom_ would live up to its predecessor, but it didn’t. It wasn’t bad…but it was no Raiders, and had Willie and Short Round dragging Indy down. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-you-most-eagerly-anticipated/736521/53 "2015-11-04T06:23:14Z")
> [@Jim\_s\_Son](#): > > “The Doors”. With Oliver Stone at the controls, it turned out to be an absolute disaster. > … Val Kilmer was superb though. I don’t know why the story had to be so adulterated. The real story is interesting enough. Fucking Hollywood. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-you-most-eagerly-anticipated/736521.md?page=2)