I may be crucified for this but when I was a 7 year-old boy in 1977, I was completely underwhelmed by Star Wars. I never had any real interest in it, didn’t ask to go see it, and after going to see it with my friends family, had no interest in seeing it again.
I never owned a single Star Wars figure and not because my parents wouldn’t buy them for me, but because I never wanted them.
Sure over the years I’ve seen all the Star Wars films multiple times like everyone else, it just wasn’t this life changing event that defined so many kids childhoods back then.
Black Panther. Points for all the social consciousness and the concept of an African superhero. But the story was just an excuse for bad CGI fights. The opening fight scene made no sense and you could see the writers trying vainly to make it seem other than a silly plot contrivance to set up the later fight scene. There were a handful of minor twist, but, ultimately, it was just another superhero film, with all the cliched tropes that rob the genre of any imagination. Most of it went by the same old tired playbook.
And T’Challa’s decision at the end to reveal themselves to the world could have been done at any point after Killmonger mentioned it.
It would have been a much better movie if they started with the final scene and actually dealt with the issues of bringing that technology to the world. We would have been spared the tedious fight scenes, whose outcomes were obvious from the very first punch.
Just out of curiosity: were there any high-adventure kinds of movies that you did like?
As a kid I remember being blown away by Close Encounters of the Third Kind. I even had the trading cards for that movie. And a few years later I was again blown away by Raider of the Lost Ark. Planet of the Apes and Beneath the Planet of the Apes were probably my favorite movies at the time when I’d see them on TV.
Yet another movie that was OK, but not “blew me out of the water” good.
Cool! 
I dug all them, too, but CE3K, PotA, and BtPotA were more mind blowing in the sense of good sci-fi (at least to my young mind), but SW and RotLA were edge-of-seat, nail-biting, high-adventure exciting for me.
I strongly dislike Dirty Dancing myself, but is it really legally statutory rape? According to wikipedia “Baby” is 17, the age of consent in NY state where the film takes place; she’s on her way to college at Mt. Holyoke so she’s probably going on 18.
And I was also underwhelmed by Amelie, thought it was cute enough but mostly meh.
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My brothers think it’s the funniest movie EVER, but I watched it thinking “self-indulgent” the whole time. It’s like a very long version of a very bad sketch from the Carol Burnett Show.
The Blair Witch Project was all build up and no pay off.
As far as “underwhelmed” rather than “actively disliked”, I will go with ET: The Extraterrestrial. Saw it once, have no desire to see it again. It was OK, but no more than that. I had no expectations going into No Country for Old Men, and they were fulfilled, so that is another in the same category.
Regards,
Shodan
Are you kidding? The greatest dolly shot of all time alone makes it worth watching.
Besides, if you think the Magnificent Seven is bloated, you should try Seven Samurai, clocking in at 407 minutes. I mean, I liked Kurosawa but his motto seemed to be, “Never say something in ten minutes when you could take forty.”
It’s not quite as long as you think. It’s called Seven Samurai, not Seven Hours. Wikisays it’s 207 minutes.
Yep, they laughed all the way to the bank. It wasn’t much more sophisticated than a home movie production, and it made a bundle. They spent more money on the sequel but, somehow, it was even worse.
The Artist I know it won Best Picture and all, but I found it really boring.
The Hobbit films weren’t bad, but could have been a lot better, like if there were only one or two of them.
I’ll grant you, that dolly shot is awesome. That was the first thing I had in mind when I said the battle scenes are great. It doesn’t even matter that you can clearly see that it isn’t Eli Wallach on that horse.
That’ll teach me for converting 3h 27m in my head. Still long, though.
Well, NY-bred Wallach had no clue about what to do with a horse; the vaqueroes they hired to be bandits took him in charge so he didn’t look like a complete idiot but stunt riding was out of the question.
That wasn’t Andre the Giant riding a horse at the end of the Princess Bride either.
Oh, we used Pocahontas for Avatar. I never thought of Dances With Wolves! We finally watched it. Eh.
I also liked Titanic for the historical information. It would have been shorter if they removed all the romance stuff.
ah – Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Totally underwhelmed. The damned movie ended right at the interesting part – the aliens land and come out. That’s where the movie ought to start – like with the original The Day the Earth Stood Still. (The remake, by the way, totally underwhelmed me).
I’m also underwhelmed by the recent remakes of Paul Verhoeven films – Total Recall, Robocop. The remakes have better CGI, but totally ignored the dark humor that made the films fun to watch. I found both movies a chore to sit through.
Mike Myers’ Austin Powers movies. I find myself wanting to watch them, because, Og knows, there’s plenty in the James Bond concept that deserves to be sent up, but these films waste all that on adolescent humor.
Recently, Incredibles II. Only because I figured with so much time passing that they must have been waiting for the PERFECT script/story. Nope.
I would have been much more forgiving of it if had come out a couple years after the original.
Since CalMeacham brought up pointless remakes, I’d have to add Gus Van Zant’s 1998 remake of Psycho to the list.