I was fairly excited to rent Transformers. I figuerd it would be good, mindless summer entertainment, and that Bay’s skills would be ideally suited to the task of bringing the Autobots to life. Instead I was just…bored. I might have stuck it all the way through if I’d been in a theater, but as I was at home I just popped out the disc out and read a book.
But that’s just me. What movie have you most expected to love, but instead by disappointed by.
I’m a child of the eighties and was told that it was great by pretty much everyone I knew, so I expected to like *Transformers *as well. Nope. Hated it.
I didn’t like Transformers either. There was too much “wacky” humour, while I was hoping for a movie that took itself seriously.
I also didn’t like The Princess Bride. Given what I knew from pop culture about it I expected it to be great, only to discover there weren’t any other good bits.
Lolita (1961). Zzzzz. I guess I was expecting it to be droll because it had Peter Sellers in it.
Too many to mention and mercifully forgotten. Whenever someone starts a thread here about “Great movies that not many people know about”, I head over to Netflix and put a few of them that sound interesting in my queue. Usually when I watch them, it becomes obvious why not many people know about them.
Lord of the Rings.
My friends loved it, the internet raved about,and I think every nerd I knew blew a load in their pants during it. But I hated it. HATED HATED HATED it. They were so boring I fell asleep in the theater and have never watched a single one of them again.
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Heretic, kindling, blah blah blach.
I thought I’d like The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. I’m a big fan of Fincher and Pitt’s other outings together, and I love Cate Blanchett. The film was pretty to look at, but the story and characters just didn’t grab me like I expected them too.
Lost in Translation. I was traveling to Asia a lot when it came out and was really expecting to relate to a lot of it. Instead it was about a couple of the most assholish, self absorbed pieces of shit who totally missed the point of just about everything.
For a while, I thought I was the only person on earth who didn’t love Transformers. I’m glad to know that’s not the case.
I missed it in the theater, borrowed a roommates DVD of it and it didn’t take long before I found the main characters both annoying and cliched, and with a lack of hot Robot on Robot action, that started to wear down my endurance. Then the robots arrived and started talking jive.
At that point, I turned the movie off. Never looked back.
I saw Transformers in this fancy schmancy mall in Sofia, Bulgaria. Now, I’m not a big shopper as a rule, but I lived in a rural village of 3,000 people and it was exciting and strange to be in a mall with so much stuff.
I spent most of the movie wondering if my friends would be insulted if I left to go wander around the mall and look at all the shiny things. Boooorrrriiiinnng. And I like summer explosion movies!
Back in the late '80’s, a movie called “Amazon Women on the Moon” came out. It sounded like it would be irreverent and joke-a-minute, and I was looking forward to some silly fun. I was very disappointed. To this day I don’t know why I disliked it so much. Some of my friends still think it is hilarious. I just can’t agree with them. 
Kubrick’s version of The Shining. Loved the book; abhored the movie.
I heard all the hype about No Country for Old Men and ended up disliking it immensely. And after the credits rolled for *Star Trek Reboot *or 0.0 or whatever they’re calling it, I sat in my movie theatre seat, trying to wrap my head around the betrayal.
I thought it was hilarious. Gratuitous nudity helped, too. Arsenio Hall having a videotape ricochet off his forehead was funny, too.
My movie for this list would be “Borat”. I love the concept for Borat. Any individual minute-long segment is hilarious. The movie itself, however, was just blah.
-Joe
The Sting. I had never seen it until this last year. It has a great reputation. I loved Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. So I figured kick back and enjoy.
Grant you, it wasn’t bad. I’d rate it as good but hardly great. While I was watching it, it struck me that, if it wasn’t for the presense of Newman and Redford, it felt like a well-made TV movie.
Me too. I generally like movies that are a little non mainstream, but I wanted to kill everyone and then feast on their remains in that movie.
Also, Rushmore and all the Wes Anderson movies. Again, I like a lot of weird stuff, but what I’ve seen of Anderson irritates me. It just feels like weird for its own sake.
Tom Jones. It was on On Demand recently, so I decided to give it another shot. Classic, 4 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, comedy, sex romp, impressive cast . . . except it’s not funny. Like, at all. Nor is it interesting. About half an hour in, I decided I had more entertaining things to do with my time, and went and washed the dishes.
Both AvP movies. I mean, it’s Aliens and Predators. How could you possibly mess that up?
Well, they did. Twice.
Saturday Night Fever was one of the most lifeless, uninspired movies I ever saw. I couldn’t even finish it, due to my utter lack of caring about anything on screen.
Now I know this isn’t considered one of the pinnacles of 20th century film artistry, but I really like disco, and I think the soundtrack is a fantastic album.