# Movies that you thought you'd love but wound up hating. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 4, 2010, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-thought-youd-love-but-wound-up-hating/534900 "2010-04-04T11:38:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Enuma\_Elish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5e9695/32.png) [@Enuma\_Elish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enuma_Elish)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2010, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-thought-youd-love-but-wound-up-hating/534900/141 "2010-04-08T03:28:38Z")
Dangerous Liaisons I went to see it is part because I enjoy period pieces and liked the actors in it. I left literally nauseated at the moral emptiness of the characters. ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2010, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-thought-youd-love-but-wound-up-hating/534900/142 "2010-04-08T03:54:00Z")
300 ---
**Author:** ![Illuminatiprimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/illuminatiprimus/32/11520_2.png) [@Illuminatiprimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Illuminatiprimus)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2010, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-thought-youd-love-but-wound-up-hating/534900/143 "2010-04-08T10:35:19Z")
Another one who didn’t like 300, and I thought I would because it had tons of buff half naked men in it. That wasn’t enough to sustain me through a shit story though, I ended up switching off about 40 minutes in. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2010, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-thought-youd-love-but-wound-up-hating/534900/144 "2010-04-08T12:17:44Z")
My friend is a huge Kenneth Branagh fan so she dragged me to see “Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein,” which he directed. It had Robert DeNiro, Kenneth Branagh, Helena Bonham Carter, and John Cleese in it, so it couldn’t possibly be bad, right? Wrong. It was horrible. Melodramatic and cheesy and badly acted. There were parts where we were supposed to be horrified by The Beast, but we ended up groaning or giggling because it was just too campy. That was the movie that ended my friend’s undying admiration for Kenneth Branagh. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2010, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-thought-youd-love-but-wound-up-hating/534900/145 "2010-04-08T12:26:40Z")
Another vote for **Royal Tennenbaums**. Only time I’ve ever walked out of a cinema well before the film was over. I’ll add **The Interpreter** (Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn). Should at least have had a little more \*lingustic \*interest. And finally, **The Piano.** Granted, I was pretty young when it came out. But I could still tell, when I saw it, that it was a piece of overbloated, overhyped crud. (But I suppose Anna Paquin acted well, so there’s that.) ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2010, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-thought-youd-love-but-wound-up-hating/534900/146 "2010-04-08T12:51:52Z")
_My Dinner with Andre_. I trust Roger Ebert, and he loved this movie so much he wanted to take it out behind the grade school and get it pregnant. I want my two hours back. **heraldgwena** , I loved _Where the Wild Things Are_ but thought _Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs_, which we rented at the same time, was twice as long as it needed to be and really didn’t need to be made at all. And **JKellyMap** , ITA with _The Piano_. My husband’s parents came back from seeing it at a film festival all raving about it, and so we went to see it. We were so traumatized we came out of the theatre and just sat in the car for about 10 minutes before we were able to do anything. And then we needed an antidote so we went and rented _Hot Shots Part Deux._ ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2010, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-thought-youd-love-but-wound-up-hating/534900/147 "2010-04-08T12:56:47Z")
> [@Illuminatiprimus](#): > > Another one who didn’t like 300, and I thought I would because it had tons of buff half naked men in it. That wasn’t enough to sustain me through a shit story though, I ended up switching off about 40 minutes in. I’m not a buff naked man fan, but I know my ancient history. Unfortunately, in this case. ---
**Author:** ![Electric\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9de0a6/32.png) [@Electric\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electric_Sky)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2010, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-thought-youd-love-but-wound-up-hating/534900/148 "2010-04-08T13:49:58Z")
_The Matrix Revolutions_. I loved the first film, and I liked the second well enough, although I thought it suffered from being the second film in a trilogy. I thought the third would wrap up the loose ends and provide a satisfying conclusion as well as have some awesome action scenes. Boy, was I wrong. Also, the second Transformers film. I had a lot of fun watching the first, flawed as it was, but the sequel was like chewing glass. ---
**Author:** ![FordTaurusSHO94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f07891/32.png) [@FordTaurusSHO94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordTaurusSHO94)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2010, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-thought-youd-love-but-wound-up-hating/534900/149 "2010-04-08T13:57:12Z")
I liked the first Transformers movie, so I was looking forward to the second one. I’ve never wanted to walk out of a theater so bad in my life, but I rode with some friends. I rewatched the first one after seeing the second and now I don’t like the first one anymore either. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2010, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-thought-youd-love-but-wound-up-hating/534900/150 "2010-04-08T13:57:59Z")
> [@Enuma\_Elish](#): > > Dangerous Liaisons > > I went to see it is part because I enjoy period pieces and liked the actors in it. > > I left literally nauseated at the moral emptiness of the characters. Well, that was kind of the _point_. 😉 Read the novel if you want more of the same, only turned up to 11. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Alka\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Alka\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alka_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2010, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-thought-youd-love-but-wound-up-hating/534900/151 "2010-04-08T14:57:03Z")
**X-Men - The Last Stand.** Thought the first two were a lot of fun, but I’ve coughed up more convincing mutants than those depicted in that film. ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2010, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-thought-youd-love-but-wound-up-hating/534900/152 "2010-04-08T16:36:20Z")
Grindhouse. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2010, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-thought-youd-love-but-wound-up-hating/534900/153 "2010-04-08T18:15:14Z")
Walk the Line - I didn’t hate it, but it was depressing and ended in 1970 or so. Ghost Rider - I didn’t think it would win any oscars, but how can you go wrong with Nick Cage with a flaming skull, on a motorcycle, and Eva Mendes? ---
**Author:** ![MOIDALIZE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@MOIDALIZE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MOIDALIZE)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2010, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-thought-youd-love-but-wound-up-hating/534900/154 "2010-04-08T18:19:56Z")
**Walk the Line** is a good one. I like Johnny Cash, but this movie made him seem like a whiny tool. And I agree that it ended too early. So much interesting stuff happened after the live prison albums. ---
**Author:** ![MTCicero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@MTCicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTCicero)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2010, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-thought-youd-love-but-wound-up-hating/534900/155 "2010-04-08T18:50:16Z")
> [@Alka\_Seltzer](#): > > **X-Men - The Last Stand.** Thought the first two were a lot of fun, but I’ve coughed up more convincing mutants than those depicted in that film. Yet another example of why Tom Rothman is the fucking devil. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2010, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-thought-youd-love-but-wound-up-hating/534900/156 "2010-04-08T19:02:43Z")
Sunshine Cleaning was marketed as a quirky dark comedy. And, hey, Amy Adams! She’s like America’s Sweetheart or something. In reality, it was a quasi-drama about some boring shit that happens and then stops happening. I’m just glad I watched it alone on DVD and didn’t tell anyone else “Hey, we should see this!” ---
**Author:** ![badbadrubberpiggy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/57b2e6/32.png) [@badbadrubberpiggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/badbadrubberpiggy)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2010, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-thought-youd-love-but-wound-up-hating/534900/157 "2010-04-08T20:40:00Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > Sunshine Cleaning was marketed as a quirky dark comedy. And, hey, Amy Adams! She’s like America’s Sweetheart or something. > > In reality, it was a quasi-drama about some boring shit that happens and then stops happening. > > I’m just glad I watched it alone on DVD and didn’t tell anyone else “Hey, we should see this!” Agreed. In a similar vein, **Brief Interviews with Hideous Men**. Netflix billed it as a quirky comedy about interviews (duh) with a bunch of different men from a woman with relationship troubles. About the only thing they got correct was “interviews” and “relationship troubles”. Lets see - two different characters telling detailed stories about their own rapes or someone elses, a really random (and quite long) monologue/free verse poem from a man whose father worked as a bathroom attendant\*, and lots of annoying people. Now, this may have been a good movie, but I was so disappointed that it was incredibly FUCKING DEPRESSING and NOT FUNNY and not what I was expecting at all that I hated it. \*I actually enjoyed this part the most - it wasn’t funny, but at least it was interesting ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2010, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-thought-youd-love-but-wound-up-hating/534900/158 "2010-04-08T20:57:14Z")
I had oh, so high hopes for _The Ladykillers_ by the Coen Brothers. I love the original and I love Coen Brothers movies. _The Ladykillers_ has a plot that seems tailor-made for the CBs: a carefully-planned crime starts to come apart and everything goes to hell. Meh. It sucked. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2010, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-thought-youd-love-but-wound-up-hating/534900/159 "2010-04-08T23:29:14Z")
> [@Ferret\_Herder](#): > > [The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_Skeleton_of_Cadavra). My husband and I grew up on Saturday reruns of old 50s and 60s horror/monster films, and this is a modern spoof filmed on a low budget. It got a lot of rave reviews from people who like the older monster movies so I figured this must be awesome. Oh no. We were both really, really bored. Reading the plot summary at that link, I can’t even remember exactly when we turned it off, so I must have repressed much of it. I really wanted to love this film, and I was so disappointed. Funny you should mention this one. Friends of ours have the DVD, and we watched it with them several years ago. I distinctly thought I remembered it being fun and funny, so a few weeks ago we borrowed it from them for a second viewing. HATED it. Boring, slow, the joke was worn out after the first 20 minutes. Same movie. How could we like it so much the first time and hate it so much the second? Why am I asking _you_? . ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2010, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-thought-youd-love-but-wound-up-hating/534900/160 "2010-04-08T23:34:28Z")
> [@Martini\_Enfield](#): > > Definitely agree with you there… I have no idea what the film was about or why people seemed to think it was so great. (The Royal Tennenbaums) Me three. Exactly my reaction. . [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-thought-youd-love-but-wound-up-hating/534900.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-thought-youd-love-but-wound-up-hating/534900.md?page=9)