Spawn
As a closet comic book geek years earlier, I was hopeful that this movie would live up to the comic it was based on. I didn’t like it one bit. Although, it was nice seeing the guy who played Merlin in “Excalibur” getting work.
Mystery Men
I went in thinking that there was no way, given the cast and the concept, that this movie could be anything but fantastic. I was sorely disappointed. It seemed that everything interesting (like “The Shoveler’s” home life) was was underdeveloped, and one-line gags (like the superhero audition sequence and the superhero guru) were beaten to death.
Sua
As an added bonus, I’ll toss in my aunt’s pick:
Chariots of Fire
When she saw it (in the early 80’s) it had just won the Best Picture Oscar. When she came home, she said, “If that’s the best picture of the year, I don’t see the point of watching movies.” And to this day, she has never gone to a movie theater again.
Sua
The Blair Witch Project.
I loved the previews. It sure sounded like a great idea for a movie.
But then came the actual film. What a disappointment. No scares and not even any tension for me.
I was asleep with terror! :rolleyes:
The French Connection
I know its an old movie, but I just saw it recently. Every time I read a review of it, someone always mentions how it has the greatest car chase ever. So I finally rented it, and I was disappointed. Not that it was a bad movie, but the action scenes weren’t exactly overwhelming.
Besides the twist ending, it was a pretty average horror movie.
And I recently saw “Billy Elliott”. Not quite as touching or emotional as critics made it out to be.
There are a few “Fight Clubs” in, of all places, BYU in Utah.
Don’t laugh. There have been footage shown on the local news stations and these guys are brutal.
As for disappointing movies -
, what a piece of crap that was. Most recently,
. Yawn.
What a dipshit.
Pretend my “quote” coding about is actually bold.
OK… mabe I haven’t waited that long, but long enough! It’s my favourite book.
Me too. See below.
I was ready for the shock because I’d seen all the interviews with folks like Jake Busey and Caspar Van Dien, and they showed some behind-the-scenes footage of the MI without armour.
I liked the movie, but only for what it was - I was seriously disappointed that there was no powered armour.
Maybe some day, they’ll make John Steakley’s Armor (which, as one might imagine, is sort of an homage to Heinlein’s work) into a movie and do what should have been done with Starship Troopers.
The reason, Verhoeven explained, that they did without the armour was two-fold:
1). They’d have to do a lot more computer animation and modeling for the Marauder suits - they’d already spent enough on some of the space battles (the main model of the Rodger Young was 18 feet long!) and the bugs.
2). He wanted the characters to have a “buddy-buddy” closeness, not unlike classic war movies such as Kelly’s Heroes. It wouldn’t work for the troops to try to relate to one another and to the audience from behind a suit of armour that obscures not only their face, but the entirety of their physique as well. You couldn’t tell who was who!
Might I suggest a solution, although it could be an equally disappointing one: find a copy of the anime Starship Troopers - the one Kenichi “Bubblegum Crisis” Sonoda designed the suits for. I hear it’s not very close to the book, but at least Rico cruises around in powered armour.
To respond to the OP, movies that I had hyped myself up to see but were disappointed:
Escape from LA, featuring my two favourite actors, Kurt Russell and Bruce Campbell.
Soldier, starring my second-favourite actor, Kurt Russell.
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace - I don’t have to explain this, do I?
Eraser, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger - it sucked compared to Commando! I wanted more of the same.
I just hope Gladiator and The Patriot turn out the way I want.
Pete
Long time RGMWer and ardent AOLer
Mine was the opposite of Anake.
I’d seen Austin Powers 2: The Spy Who Shagged Me in the theater and loved it. Then Austin Powers, Man of Mystery was on TV last week and I was so excited. But it really dragged. And the “running gag” of English have bad teeth had been used a couple scenes too often for the payoff of being saved by dental floss.
The Matrix
I try not to get myself hyped up over a movie (too many dissappointments), but everyone had told me how great this was. By the last half hour, i was so bored i was ready to gnaw my way through the people next to me, just to get out.
Classic movies everybody else liked that were big letdowns for me:
Chinatown
Touch of Evil
The French Connection
Sleuth
*The Red Badge of Courage
Forrest Gump *
Poor or mediocre movies that I expected to be good:
A Time to Kill
The Matrix
The Postman
Independence Day
The Phantom Menace