# Movies that underwhelmed you **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 1, 2018, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-underwhelmed-you/825403 "2018-12-01T16:38:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2018, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-underwhelmed-you/825403/161 "2018-12-28T05:53:37Z")
> [@jaycat](#): > > The reason to watch Tootsie is to watch Jessica Lange undressing. > [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > It’s been a while since I saw this movie but wasn’t that Geena Davis? Jessica Lange and Geena Davis were both in it. Now I don’t remember which was undressing. Haven’t watched it in decades. I seem to recall Bill Murray went uncredited despite having a fairly substantial role. Is that true, or am I misremembering? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2018, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-underwhelmed-you/825403/162 "2018-12-28T06:00:59Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Jessica Lange and Geena Davis were both in it. Now I don’t remember which was undressing. Haven’t watched it in decades. Jessica Lange played the love interest. Geena Davis (in one of her early roles) played a supporting actress on the soap opera who shared a dressing room with Tootsie. I don’t recall any scenes where Lange got undressed in this movie but there were definitely scenes where Davis did. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2018, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-underwhelmed-you/825403/163 "2018-12-28T06:34:43Z")
My all time ‘do not understand the love/hype’ movie is 2001. Boring as shit and sloooooow. What’s the story anyway? And what’s up with the ending. Totally underwhelming. > [@DesertDog](#): > > [Blazing Saddles Reference]The groom’s a n—\[/BSr] Near? ---
**Author:** ![jaycat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat/32/3015_2.png) [@jaycat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaycat)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2018, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-underwhelmed-you/825403/164 "2018-12-28T13:15:29Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Jessica Lange and Geena Davis were both in it. Now I don’t remember which was undressing. Haven’t watched it in decades. > > I seem to recall Bill Murray went uncredited despite having a fairly substantial role. Is that true, or am I misremembering? OK, [here’s a scene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eQ9VXzSqyU) with Geena Davis that sort of fits the bill. But I still could swear there’s a part where Jessica Lange peels off her stockings, etc. Not willing to look thru the whole film to find it though, guess I’m getting old. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2018, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-underwhelmed-you/825403/165 "2018-12-28T20:21:04Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Jessica Lange and Geena Davis were both in it. Now I don’t remember which was undressing. Haven’t watched it in decades. > > I seem to recall Bill Murray went uncredited despite having a fairly substantial role. Is that true, or am I misremembering? Yes, Murray specifically declined being in the credits because he didn’t want people to think “Tootsie” was, “a Bill Murray film.” ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2018, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-underwhelmed-you/825403/166 "2018-12-28T22:21:56Z")
Dead man walking - saw it years ago amidst the fawning hype and it was Dull, left me cold and snarky Ocean’s 8 - saw it last night boring as hell, how could that be with that fricking amazing cast. I’ll blame Bullock though she was good as a blonde German, RHianna was a wall flower had no cred as hacker but she did shine in her couture gown at the end., Cate’s accent was all over the place, Helena wasn’t even funny, Sarah’s character was BS but Awkwafina was really funny. Anne was fun to watch but that’s it, and the cameo’s GMAFB! ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2018, 8:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-underwhelmed-you/825403/167 "2018-12-29T08:53:39Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > I love many of the movies mentioned here, but I’ll agree with _Blair Witch Project_. I also saw that with a group of friends and we just found it a boring mess of a film. Absolutely nothing scary or suspenseful about it. It was like the sort of shit we’d do in high school, crawling around the “haunted” graveyards with a camcorder, except when we did that, we were actually a little bit scared, but watching somebody else do it. Boring as fucking hell. There’s a comedian whose comment about _tBWP_ is, “What does it say about us as a culture that someone would find footage of children being murdered and think the obvious thing to do with it is to release it as a feature film?” Pretty funny, until somebody mentions _Grizzly Man_, I guess… ---
**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2018, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-underwhelmed-you/825403/168 "2018-12-30T03:26:22Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > There’s a comedian whose comment about _tBWP_ is, “What does it say about us as a culture that someone would find footage of children being murdered and think the obvious thing to do with it is to release it as a feature film?” > > Pretty funny, until somebody mentions _Grizzly Man_, I guess… That quote reminds of the controversy when _Faces of Death_ was released. When I saw it for the first time it was obvious to me that a lot of the footage was staged (which turned out actually be the case.) So I’d say I found _Faces of Death_ to be underwhelming for how much it was hyped by some as being the ultimate “horror” film. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2018, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-underwhelmed-you/825403/169 "2018-12-30T06:20:22Z")
> [@dorvann](#): > > That quote reminds of the controversy when _Faces of Death_ was released. When I saw it for the first time it was obvious to me that a lot of the footage was staged (which turned out actually be the case.) So I’d say I found _Faces of Death_ to be underwhelming for how much it was hyped by some as being the ultimate “horror” film. Heh, reminds me of when I saw _Faces of Death_. I’d heard about it, and then I was attending a meeting in Songkhla, southern Thailand in 1988. The venue was a restaurant. It was the afternoon, we had the whole place to ourselves, and I was not paying attention to what was being projected on a big screen in the dining area by the restaurant staff … until someone said, “Oh my God! That’s _Faces of Death_!” And it was. I just hope they weren’t showing it while the regular public was there dining. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2018, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-underwhelmed-you/825403/170 "2018-12-30T20:07:14Z")
Black Panther. Yeah, I get it, it’s the first _black_ superhero movie. It still sucked ass. It’s like someone pushed a button on the old script-o-matic and came up with tiresome cliche car chases, hand to hand combat, fighter aircraft tropes, and so on and on. If this was so important to black Hollywood, wouldn’t it have helped for the movie to be… you know… good? This was like it would have been if Jackie Robinson couldn’t hit major league pitching. Or if Barack Obama sat on the toilet all day and tweeted. I saw this for the first time a couple weeks ago and was positively bored shitless. Worse yet, I paid for it on PPV and didn’t wait for it to come to HBO or whatever. Worst $4 I’ve spent in forever. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2018, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-underwhelmed-you/825403/171 "2018-12-31T17:07:08Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Black Panther. Yeah, I get it, it’s the first _black_ superhero movie. Um, Spawn, Blade, Catwoman? Hell, even Hancock. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-underwhelmed-you/825403.md?page=8)