And II. And III. 
Pulp Fiction. Oh, Sali, you MUST see this! they said. One of the greatest movies EVER MADE!
Ghastly. Appalling. Unwatchable.
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Based on the strength of the first 3 and a temporary tolerance for Shia LaBeouf I was expecting it to be the best movie I saw last year.
Fuck you Spielberg.
Are there no redeeming qualities in your let-downs? Like, even if you were let down by There will be blood, didn’t you still enjoy Daniel Day-Lewis’ performance? Or, even if you hated Pulp Fiction, didn’t you still enjoy the soundtrack?
Agree with so many named, so I’ll just add Shrek 2. Its the most disappointed I have ever been in a movie.
How funny. I watched both of these movies recently. I HATED Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and really enjoyed The Sting.
I’ll also agree with what someone said about Lost In Translation. I found the movie very boring. Wow, in looking through this thread there are so many movies that I agree, I just didn’t enjoy: The Darjeeling Limited, Election, The Royal Tenenbaums, Being John Malkovik, Rushmore…
I see a related thread coming out of this called "What movies did you originally like, but upon rewatching them… realized they might not have been that great, or perhaps they didn’t hold up so well.
I’ve always thought there should be an Academy Award for best picture for a movie > 10 years old (or something along those lines).
Oh, and I still rank Pulp Fiction as a top five movie.
Perhaps I did not make myself clear.
Ahem
“Episode I”
:rolleyes: 'Nuff said.*
As for “episode II” and “episode III”, I would have been prepared for the disappointment, had I bothered to watch.
*ETA: Oh, wait. There is one more thing to say, in addendum:
Yippeeeeeee!!!
There. Now are there any questions? :dubious:
I turned off Borat because I couldn’t stand him. I get the joke/point of leading people in songs about throwing Jews down wells, but his being such a horrible pain out in public made me want to punch him. I wasn’t surprised in the least that he was finally in fact punched (not in the movie, but after his appearance on SNL).
For me, it was because of Daniel Day Lewis. Without him, I don’t think the film would have been nearly as good.
Though the music and the cinematography was good too(paticulary during the fire scene).
W. by Oliver Stone.
I thought it was going to be pretty good, but I don’t know why. I get into the Oliver Stone hype every time he releases a movie and always find myself underwhelmed. He does seem to excel in cinematic masturbation, though, which is exactly was W. was. It was an extraordinarily disorganized plot that might have been saved with the excellent cast, but Stone’s I’m-Going-To-Make-This-Movie-All-About-Me shtick came out in full force.
When will I stop wanting to like Oliver Stone’s movies?
He was (a small) part of the problem with the movie for me. His acting was so over-the-top and scenery-chewing it took me out of the film - not that I wasn’t grateful to be taken out.
Forgot to mention Crash in my post. The only explanation I have for that Oscar is maybe a majority of the Academy voters live in white suburbs and their only experience with other races comes from giving orders to their maids.
No, it’s not just you. A Raimi horror flick with such a high RT rating! I’m there!
Except it just wasn’t that good. The ending was not that good, either, had you gotten that far. It didn’t help that
the big coin/button switcheroo was telegraphed. Once you realize that, as I did, the “shocking” ending is just meh.
And, yes, pumping the volume all the way up during most of the fright scenes was really annoying.
Another for There Will Be Blood. This would normally be right up my alley, I love gritty histori-dramas. However, it was meandering, pointless, and without a single interesting character or personality. Also, I now think D.D. Lewis is just becoming a method-actor parody of himself.
The remake of just about everything. There are no new ideas in H’wood , only regurgitated ones.
Gone with the Wind.
Yeah, the movie that many people speak of in hushed and reverent tones.
I sat through this four-hour dreck-fest filled with horrible people and fucking idiots, slaves who appeared to be quite happy in their servitude, plantation owners who deserved to lose everything and die, Prissy’s screeching bullshit voice and obnoxious behavior, Scarlett’s bitchy cruelty, Rhett’s scoundrel-ness, and much, much more.
Gad, what an ordeal.
Reign of Fire. Dragons resurrected in the modern world, that should be fun right? I fell asleep part way through and still don’t know how it ended.
Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy. One of my favorite stories of all time and they ruined it. Granted there were good parts but overall a massive disappointment.
The Dark Knight did it for me… I didn’t see it in the theatre, and after all the hype, I was expecting a great movie. I recognize that this is a ‘comic-book movie’, but part of the special appeal of Batman is that he has no inherent superpowers, he works within the realm of reality. There was no reality of any sort in this movie. Plot holes, bad acting, dumb script…
Oh YES! And I usually like ponderous movies. It also didn’t help that I didn’t notice the preacher’s brother was actually not the preacher for about hour or so. Anyway, it was much too heavy handed, pretentious, confused and none of the characters were interesting. And the preacher and his brother were just outright annoying.
I liked No Country for Old Men a lot better.
I hated the music in that film. In fact, it’s probably one of the reasons I dislike it (instead of just getting bored with it). Daniel Day Lewis is probably a good actor, but his character was completely uninteresting. As far as nasty uninteresting people go, De Niro in Jackie Brown was much more fun to watch.
Wow. You beat me to the punch.
A bunch of unsympathetic assholes in full Technicolor!