For me it might be the Hobbit Trilogy.
The LotR Trilogy are my all time favorite movies and the contrast couldn't be greater. Really goes to show what a perfect storm it was that we got the movies we got with LotR.
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There's a fan cut out there on the high seas, where they basically condensed those three shitty movies into one which follows the book as close as possible. That one is bearable and as far as I am concerned the official Hobbit movie now.
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Omg yes. The Hobbit movies were so terrible.
Imo worse than just them being bad is the gap between their quality and the potential of what could have been.
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The problem with the Hobbit movies was that they were too much like the Lord of the Rings movies.
Maybe in the sense that they were aiming to be a long epic similar to the LotR, rather than the fun adventure the book that the Hobbit book is. But i'd say that there are far more issues than just that.
The Matrix Resurrections. I already had a feeling it would suck but it managed to be worse than I could ever imagine, they weren't even trying to hide how much of a cashgrab it is.
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I know that knocking on it is overdone, but Phantom Menace. I was 13 when it came out, huge Star Wars fan, absolutely target market. Walked out so sad and confused.
I never understood this. What's wrong with it?
Basically? It was a kids movie. Characters were one-dimensional and not very likeable to teenage me. Exposition by dialogue, and not great dialogue. Slapstick bits that really didn't land (Jar Jar). Etc, etc.
Even as a child when I first saw Phantom Menace, I thought it was off. Maybe I would have rated the film lower if it weren't for the fun pod racing segment and the fight with Darth Maul. I think the Star War prequel trilogy excel more on the editing and choreography of action scenes than actual story telling and drama.
And the originals weren't kids movies?
I guess the massive amount of Star Wars toys I had as a child somehow led me to believe otherwise.
Original trilogy are also kids movies, fight me.
The Empire Strikes Back is definitely not a kid's movie in my opinion. The Return of the Jedi is more kiddie because of Ewoks.
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But imo at its core it still has a good idea, unlike the sequels, which really are just style over substance. Which is why i can forgive the prequels quite a bit more, especially considering Geroge Lucas did try to get other directors onboard to make them.
Granted, I was like 4 when it came out so it still holds some fondness in my view. Qui-Gon was like the father figure I always needed but never had, and Jar Jar laid the foundation for my sense of humor. Maybe that's why no one thinks I'm funny...
Dull dialogue. Wooden acting. Jar Jar Binks. What a disappointment.
"Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow."
The beginning is great. Giant robots attacking New York.
Then it just becomes boring and ridiculous.
Posters promised Angelina Jolie. she shows up for five minutes and doesn't do anything.
Not saying you're wrong, but praising the giant robot attack on New York before swerving into critiquing the latter half of the movie for being ridiculous is a funny juxtaposition.
Here's the way I look at it.
A fictional story should follow its own rules. Let's take "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly." The idea that someone would let himself be hung, trusting the other guy to be able to make that incredible shot over and over and never miss, is nonsensical. But we in the audience accept that premise for the sake of the story. We'd be disappointed if, halfway through the movie, an orchestra appears in the middle of the desert and they do a big musical number.
"Sky Captain" was ridiculous because of the way the story kept shifting and the rules kept changing.
I admit that I saw Sky Captain once, many many years ago, so I'm not going to be able to back this up with too many specific citations, but you've also not said specifically what rule they set up and fail to follow, so we're even.
It's a pastiche of pulp fiction concepts from the 30s-50s. Giant robots, airships, Nazi scientists, Shangri-La, dinosaurs, android assassins, the works. The whole thing is like a loving homage to Doc Savage's greatest hits. I don't see how any of that "breaks rules".
Like I said, I won't dispute your overall finding of the film being, "meh". I watched it once 20 years ago and haven't gone back since, so I'm not exactly leaping up to defend it's execution, but I also think "the rules kept changing" is an empty critique, as it stands currently.
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The Avatar the last air bender ( live action ) movie. I was a child when the movie came out so I had no clue who the director was and how shitty of a movie I was in for. The ending recked me since it didn’t even have a satisfying conclusion. Just pure garbage
I was in genuine shock of how bad of a movie I’d gotten into. Never again
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Gladiator 2. If anyone can do spectacle, it's Ridley Scott. But good goddamn, the action in that movie sucked so hard. And all the best lines were quotes from the original. Denzel was the only half enjoyable thing because I think he realized how bad the movie was and just had a blast with it.
Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker. I went in with very low expectations and it still managed to disappoint so badly that it makes me angry. I hate how the Palpatine plot point retroactively ruins the entire original trilogy.
My biggest problem with ~~this~~ the sequels is that Luke's character just got completely butchered.
You really want me to believe that one of my childhood heros, who against all odds, against his mentors judgement, decided to go all in on the "There's good in my father, I'll save him or die."-train would grow old and wants to kill his own fucking nephew because he's seeing something evil in him?
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World War Z.
i was do hyped. and it single handedly ended the zombie movie genre that was popular at the time
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Fury Road 2: They got rid of a lot of the practical effects that made the first one great. The plot and pacing was off. I was just annoyed because of how much I liked the first one.
It's been a while, but that would be Sin City 2 for me. Back then I was young and naive, and didn't know that 99% of sequels are soulless cashgrabs. And I was really hyped, I loved the first one and still think of it as the best comic book adaptation I've ever seen. You could see the love in every frame.
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Once Upon a Time in America. Maybe I watched a bad version but it made little sense and the ending was dreadful.
Reading about it right now on wikipedia I probably saw the 'condensed' version which was savaged by the critics:
Some critics compared shortening the film to shortening Richard Wagner's operas, saying that works of art that are meant to be long should be given the respect they deserve. In his 1984 review, Roger Ebert gave the uncut version four stars out of four and wrote that it was "an epic poem of violence and greed", but described the American theatrical version as a "travesty". Furthermore, he gave the American theatrical version one star out of four, calling it "an incomprehensible mess without texture, timing, mood, or sense".
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Violet Evergarden: The Movie. My heart sank when I realized exactly where this was going, after all of her character development that's the ending they decided to undermine it all with.
It made me want to never re-watch the series, too. The pedophilic undercurrent to the movie makes parts of the show so, so, much worse.
The Matrix. The 1st two movies seemed to set up the perfect twist for the 3rd movie...that Zion was still inside the Matrix, and there was no escape. But, then they went in a completely different direction, that made no sense, instead. Then they came out with the 4th movie, and still never fixed it. Why?
The Village followed closely by Joker: Folie a duex.
X-Men Phoenix - such a great grafic novel arch and solid movies before that flick. Phoenix writing and acting saddens me.
easy one: Jurassic Park (1993)
I had read the book, maybe, a dozen times before the film came out, and holy shit was I disappointed. crushed, really. Not just in what they changed, but also what they left out. it totally ruined for me books adapted to film. any time I see a film based on a book I've read, I'm always let down.
oh man I was so disapointed in the book compared to the moive. I feel crichton has great ideas but is not a good writer. It is one of the few writers where I prefer the movies.
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Suicide squad (~~2018~~ 2016) was a disaster and a tremendous letdown.
Though that was clear by the time it actually hit cinemas, so more of a continuous descent from its first announcement to its actual release
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The Legend of Ochi.
The trailer made it look like a great indie-fantasy movie with Willem Dafoe and Emily Watson. But the actual movie is full of AI-generated environments, the acting is subpar and Dafoe and Watson don't have a lot of screentime.
Sometimes I really question my AAA24 membership. 😅
Megalopolis was equally disappointing. Granted, the movie has some amazing VFX and practical effects, so they cut all of the best shots into the trailer and made this trainwreck look competent and interesting. The actual movie then felt like a fever dream, you can really see respected actors like Adam Driver and Nathalie Emmanuel struggle with their own script. Plus all of the really bad VFX shots that did not make it into the trailer, of course.
At least we got the "Get back to the club" meme out of it.
I fell asleep while watching James Cameron's Avatar in an IMAX theater on release.
Most tedious movie of his career until the sequels (guessing, didn't give the sequels a chance because why would I?)
Kangaroo Jack. Most misleading trailer ever.
Fantastic four 2015, great first half and Phillip Glass soundtrack! But studio/publisher meddling destroyed the second half
I saw the Phantom menace on release, that was a huge let down
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I Know What You Did Last Summer [2025]
Atrocious acting, annoying characters, terrible storyline and an abundance of plot holes! Literally nothing made sense. And in the process killing the legacy of the originals.
Worst reboot I ever saw. And there will probably be another sequel -_-
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