# 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:** 14\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2010, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-thought-youd-love-but-wound-up-hating/534900/161 "2010-04-08T23:49:04Z")
THE AVENGERS- Ralph Fiennes and Uma Thurman as John Steed & Emma Peel, with Sean Connery as the ubervillian with the all-time campy name of August DeWinter- that would HAVE TO ROCK! Fortunately, I heard how awful it was before it actually reached the theatres here. Unfortunately, one afternoon, it was on HBO & curiosity got the better of me. Oh dear. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-thought-youd-love-but-wound-up-hating/534900/162 "2010-04-09T00:27:47Z")
> [@DiggitCamara](#): > > [Jackie Brown](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Brown_%28film%29). I loved \*Pulp Fiction \*(one of the few movies I’ve watched in the theater twice), and thought that Tarantino could do no wrong. ☹ _Jackie Brown_ is the best film Tarantino has directed so far. It’s the only one that has actual real human characters in. ---
**Author:** ![FordTaurusSHO94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f07891/32.png) [@FordTaurusSHO94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordTaurusSHO94)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-thought-youd-love-but-wound-up-hating/534900/163 "2010-04-09T02:32:57Z")
I also hated Land of the Dead. I figured I would like it, but I was wrong. “He’s just looking for a home” sealed it. He’s not looking for a home, he wants to eat you. ---
**Author:** ![Carl\_Corey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Carl\_Corey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carl_Corey)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-thought-youd-love-but-wound-up-hating/534900/164 "2010-04-09T19:03:15Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > THE AVENGERS- Ralph Fiennes and Uma Thurman as John Steed & Emma Peel, with Sean Connery as the ubervillian with the all-time campy name of August DeWinter- that would HAVE TO ROCK! > > Fortunately, I heard how awful it was before it actually reached the theatres here. > > Unfortunately, one afternoon, it was on HBO & curiosity got the better of me. Oh dear. I wasn’t so lucky. My friends and I hadn’t heard how bad it was, so we saw it in the theater. To this day we call it “That movie we did NOT see.” That’s how bad it was. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-thought-youd-love-but-wound-up-hating/534900/165 "2010-04-09T19:12:06Z")
> [@control-z](#): > > 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? So very wrong. The problem is that Nick Cage is a giant flaming geek, and he’s not a good enough actor to hide it. So when he’s in a comic book role, he marks out. It’s not pretty. He’s in that new movie Kick-Ass. It looks weird and gory, but interesting, except for him. He just comes off as smarmy, annoying, and way too pleased with himself in the trailers. IIRC, he originally made a bid to be Tony Stark in Iron Man. Can you imagine how badly that would have gone down? ---
**Author:** ![DiggitCamara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df788c/32.png) [@DiggitCamara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiggitCamara)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-thought-youd-love-but-wound-up-hating/534900/166 "2010-04-09T21:22:12Z")
> [@Baron\_Greenback](#): > > ☹ _Jackie Brown_ is the best film Tarantino has directed so far. It’s the only one that has actual real human characters in. Heh. Maybe that’s the reason I didn’t like it? (I expected caricatures, over-the-top action, etc. And that’s not Quentin’s specialty, isn’t it?) ---
**Author:** ![FordTaurusSHO94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f07891/32.png) [@FordTaurusSHO94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordTaurusSHO94)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-thought-youd-love-but-wound-up-hating/534900/167 "2010-04-09T21:37:07Z")
I’m on the edge with Star Trek 90210. As a Star Trek movie, I absolutely hate it. The worst episode of Voyager has more to do with Star Trek than the new movie does. It screws with all kinds of continuity and took out all of the intelligence that every other thing with the title of Star Trek had. On the other hand, it’s a fun, but dumb, space action movie and it shows off a nice home theater perfectly. ---
**Author:** ![Valgard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@Valgard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valgard)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-thought-youd-love-but-wound-up-hating/534900/168 "2010-04-09T22:08:54Z")
> [@MOIDALIZE](#): > > **Aliens vs Predator** > > I love Aliens, I love Predator, surely both of them together was guaranteed to be a great time, right? No way they could screw this up, right? Right?! > > **WRONG** Aah, the “Two great tastes that taste great together” fallacy of movies. I can just see the studio execs taking this to the (il)logical conclusion: “Everybody loves sex, right? And everybody loves cute lil’ puppies, right? Get me a script for **Puppy F–ckers** , it’ll be a smash hit!” For my part I’d heard amazing things about “The Discrete Charm Of The Bourgeoisie”. One of my housemates rented it. It’s exactly what you’d think a bad stereotypical impressionist film would be, only worse. It evidently won an Oscar. And it’s got 8.0/10.0 at IMDB. Have any of those people actually sat through the whole thing sober? ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-thought-youd-love-but-wound-up-hating/534900/169 "2010-04-09T23:07:13Z")
> [@FordTaurusSHO94](#): > > \took out all of the intelligence that **every other thing with the title of Star Trek** had. Oh, come now. _Star Trek V: The Final Frontier_ was intelligent? It was absolutely the biggest bucket of stoopid in the franchise. ---
**Author:** ![FordTaurusSHO94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f07891/32.png) [@FordTaurusSHO94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordTaurusSHO94)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2010, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-thought-youd-love-but-wound-up-hating/534900/170 "2010-04-10T07:52:59Z")
> [@squeegee](#): > > Oh, come now. _Star Trek V: The Final Frontier_ was intelligent? It was absolutely the biggest bucket of stoopid in the franchise. I had forgotten about that, thanks for bringing it back into my brain. :smack: Most buildings skip the 13th floor. Star Trek skipped a 5th movie.😃 ---
**Author:** ![HelloKitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecccb3/32.png) [@HelloKitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelloKitty)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2010, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-thought-youd-love-but-wound-up-hating/534900/171 "2010-04-10T23:59:42Z")
I thought of a couple others. I was soooo excited about the first _Pirates of the Carribean_ sequel, as I adore the original. Couldn’t have been more disappointed in _POTC: Dead Man’s Chest_. I suffered through the 3rd one just to watch Johnny Depp. All those crustacean people were not nearly as interesting as the skeleton people, and it just got too serious, all that Davy Jones Locker stuff. What a shame. I see someone else pointed out _No Country For Old Men_. I love the Cohen brothers, so I thought I would really enjoy it. I was surprised that it was based on a book, because it totally felt to me like _Fargo_ (one of my favorite movies) retold in a different stark setting. The more I think about NCFOM, the more I hate it. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-thought-youd-love-but-wound-up-hating/534900/172 "2010-04-11T00:18:50Z")
Bah, I love _No Country For Old Men_. Your opinion is invalid. :3 ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-thought-youd-love-but-wound-up-hating/534900/173 "2010-04-11T00:37:17Z")
“A Wrinkle in Time.” It was so bad that I actually cried, because it’s one of my favorite books. ---
**Author:** ![Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f08c70/32.png) [@Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crowbar_of_Irony_3)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-thought-youd-love-but-wound-up-hating/534900/174 "2010-04-11T03:28:26Z")
The last entry of the Pirates of the Carribean. The first one was great and I was looking forward to the sequels when they are announced. The second one was weaker, but I chalk it up to the middle child of the trilogy syndrome. The third one…meh, what is going on? They develop plot points only to abandon it for something else all together later on. The worst part is the whole Pirate King business. They spend a good chunk of the movie gathering ships, armies and etc, and in the end the final, epic battle boils down to three ships duelling it out over a whirlpool, while the entire aramada and fleets just watch from afar. Then there is Clash of the Titian. Boring and predictable action sequence, lifeless character, not enough sense of wonder (note: scaling a creature up by 3x or 4x doesn’t make it anymore awesome or terrifying) and I watch it in _3D_. Which makes absolutely no difference at all. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-thought-youd-love-but-wound-up-hating/534900.md?page=8)