The Most Disappointing Movies You Have Seen?

[MadBadger]

I was thinking about this when I finally got around to watching The Matrix Movies, and boy did that third one Revolutions blow. The first one was great, second one was decent, and the third just sucked.

[Crazy Dave]

1. "No Country For Old Men" only because of the ending

There was no ending.

Even bad movies have a clear ending or one you can somewhat figure out. The movie was pretty good throughout but the ending was worse than the Sopranos one.

[Paladin]

7. Aw, Come On. (Slight Spoilers)

The ending dialog was a made by a tired, frustrated, old law enforcement officer, meditating on his own mortality. Think back on the movie itself---were you really expecting a standard, triumphal Hollywood ending, with Tommy Lee Jones blowing all the bad guys' shit away and dancing on their graves while the end credits were running?

I thought the ending was perfect---but I'll admit that a lot of my friends thought otherwise......

[Crazy Dave]

14. I was thinking the sheriff was in on it somehow

From what I hear the book made things more clear like Carl Jean did in fact call the coin toss and lost and that Chigurh did get the money but that's stupid in my opinion, having to read the book to figure out what happened at the end of the movie.

My favorite part was Chigurh asking the old man in the gas station twice in disbelief, "You married into this?" :rofl:

[Paladin]

18. Great Flick. (n/t)

[deutsey]

37. I agree...my favorite Coen Bros movie next to The Big Lebowski n/t

[fishwax]

20. I thought the ending was great

I thought The Sopranos ending was perfect too :)

[Skittles]

39. it was a great ending to that movie

disappointing only to people force-fed on Hollywood endings

[JonLP24]

123. Open to interpretation endings do bother me

Mystic River and Balast are a couple of ones off the top of my head.

I hate that! I want to know what happens but it doesn't mean the ending isn't perfect for the movie. I think the fact that it leaves you wondering about several things that would happen if there was a complete ending makes those kind of endings good.

But they sure do bother me! :)

[MadBadger]

32. That movie ruined motels for me...

[Crazy Dave]

34. I wouldn't want to run a gas station out in the middle of nowhere either

:scared:

[Orrex]

48. What the heck are you talking about? There were no fewer than three endings, all of them solid!

1. The ending with Moss
2. The ending with Chigurh
3. The ending with Bell

Excellent, excellent, excellent.


But YMMV.

[chrisa]

125. Why? (Spoilers)

What ending would you have prefered? The ending was perfectly in line with the movie. Any other ending would have just ruined the message.

If Chigurh had died in some grand shootout, that would have invalidated the entire message of the movie.

One of my favorite endings to a movie ever.

[Forkboy]

2. Godzilla '98

[alphafemale]

9. The monster looks cheesy and stupid so let's "shoot it" through the heavy rain...

...or on a really grainy video? That one?

:rofl:

[Forkboy]

107. Surprisingly, the design didn't bother me.

It was the fact that the creature had nothing to do with Godzilla in any other way that bugged me.

The movie is watchable as a remake of The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms, but that was no Godzilla. :)

[Touchdown]

70. Or Godzilla 2008

with that hand held shaky camera making everybody sick in the theaters, and a video cam of the monster? Whatever!

[Forkboy]

108. I'll say this about Cloverfield...

I didn't mind the movie at all, but I do understand many of the complaints others had. But, for me, it was great to see someone take a chance on another big monster movie, and I have no doubt that it's success is why they're making a new Godzilla movie for 2012.

For me, that's reason enough to be grateful for Cloverfield. :D

[joeybee12]

3. Sideways...

that was just all around awful.

[Richardo]

35. I wanted to like that movie so much

But it was really really awful.

[joeybee12]

36. Yeah, it wasn't simply that it didn't live up to the hype...

it was that is out and out stunk!

[uncommon]

78. I concur. I was so excited to see it and then it was just blah for me.

[Midwestern Democrat]

102. It was actually the only Alexander Payne movie I ever liked.

Not a movie I would watch a second time, but it was easily the best thing I've seen from this director.

[Bossy Monkey]

4. Episode 1.

Though I've been wondering if somebody who was 17 when they saw it (like I was when Star Wars came out) would have a different reaction.

[fizzgig]

38. i had just turned 18 when it came out

i was pretty meh about it

[petronius]

100. I've always wondered how I would react to Star Wars if it came out now

Was it as cheesy as the new trilogy and we just didn't notice?

[WildEyedLiberal]

109. Well, I was 14 when Ep I came out, and I still thought it sucked.

I SO desperately wanted to like it. I really did. I was a total geek kid and I loved Star Wars. But, Jar-Jar... Jake Lloyd... the immaculate force conception... I tried, I really did. But no.

[JCMach1]

5. Star Wars 1,2,3,6

Lucas, I got a bone to pick with u!

[HipChick]

6. Inception...

and I'm a huge sci-fi fan...

[alphafemale]

8. +1000

I was expecting much more special effect BANG!!! It was barely a poofcrackle.

[XemaSab]

29. Word

n/t

[pink-o]

31. I just saw that last night. What a bore!

A total rip-off from The Matrix and Minority Report--long, lumbering and pointless!

[LibDemAlways]

61. Agree. I dozed off. I know there are those who

loved it, but I found it boring and overly long.

[doc03]

99. It does me good to read this, I thought something was wrong with

me. I think our paper gave it 3 out of 4 stars. I'm not really much of a sci-fi fan but I thought it would be better since the critics liked it and I read on DU how good it was. I thought it was too long boring and confusing. I dozed off for a couple minutes maybe 15 minutes into it but I suffered through to the end.

[Zorro]

121. Reminded me why I hated Memento

Same director.

Should have known better.

[Doeed]

10. Dick Tracy

The comic strip storyline had so much potential for a great movie.

Warren Beaty has to be the absolute worst movie maker EVER.

[Rabrrrrrr]

27. Yep - that was a total stinker. Friends and I were totally excited about the movie,

we bought the expensive opening night tickets that came with the Dick Tracy limited edition t-shirts, had a Dick Tracy cookout that night and then went to the midnight showing (or whatever it was) and walked out hating myself for spending the money on the fucking ticket to get a t-shirt that I'm embarrassed to wear.

[backwoodsbob]

11. the remake of Dune..the sci fi channel version

just an awful movie

[MrScorpio]

12. Austin Powers: Goldmember

It paled in comparison to the first two movies in the series

[liberalhistorian]

63. ALL the Austin Power movies

sucked vacuums big-time.

"ducking and running"

[MrScorpio]

74. You better run

The first two were hilarious

[cemaphonic]

90. First one was good, but wore out it's welcome a bit by the end

Second one sucked except for some of the Dr. Evil/Scott Evil bits. Didn't even bother with the 3rd one.

[begin_within]

88. I thought the first one had some charm, but the sequels were worthless.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

105. I actually thought the second one was the worst.

But neither one should have been made. They should have just kept it at the hilarious original and leave it like that.

[Iggo]

13. Shutter Island.

Embrace the suck.

[JTG of the PRB]

15. Napoleon Dynamite.

I saw it a lot later than most of my friends, and they all told me it was hilarious. And I'll admit, there were a few pretty funny scenes in there. For the most part, I was left saying, "I can see why other people would like this." It just wasn't as funny to me.

[Crazy Dave]

21. A lot of my friends thought it was "SO FUNNY" and that I just didn't get it

Sorry folks but if you have to explain why something is or should be funny then it's not that funny. Things that are truly funny do not need explaining.

With all that said the best part is where the dork says, "don't be jealous that I've been chatting online with babes all day"

[fizzgig]

40. that movie bored me

my bf at the time thought it was great, but it didn't do anything for me

[uncommon]

79. I didn't find it funny at all on my first viewing but when I tried again awhile later

I enjoyed it quite a bit. Still not a favorite though.

[jesus_of_suburbia]

93. I actually made the same comment about 1 or 2 months ago...

on a Lounge thread where someone asked "What movie did you dislike on first viewing but enjoyed upon second viewing?"


I agree with you.... it was much more funny the second time around.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

16. Jurassic Park.

No plot. No script. No nothing. Just dinosaurs prancing around and tearing shit apart.

[kentauros]

42. It will forever be "Jurassic Plotless" whenever I see it in print

or mentioned. It was basically just a shoot'em up, or in this case, a chew'em up...

[liberalhistorian]

64. LOL, that's

a perfect name for it, 'cause that's what it was! Wish I'd thought of that.

[Touchdown]

67. You must not have read the book.

It was even more plotless and the characters were an even thinner 2 dimensions than the movie. The movie is guilty of what you say, but compared to the book it's based on, it's a masterpiece.

I tend to forgive JP for 2 reasons. It's ground breaking visual effects, which were astounding and breakthrough in 1993, and it's the first film recorded in DTS, and synced to specially made CDs that played along with the film. It was one of the first films who's soundtrack was not on the film strip itself. Both do not hold up so much 17 years later where all we see are lifelike creatures made with digital effects and DTS sound is in almost every multiplex and home stereo, but JP was the film that brought us all that.

[Touchdown]

68. Wrong pplace to post

[nuxvomica]

17. Originally, Kubrick's The Shining, then the TV remake

I thought the Kubrick movie was just "okay" mostly because I was disappointed that the topiary was replaced with a hedge maze. Over the years the movie kinda grew on me and when the TV miniseries was on and the topiary was restored, I was disappointed that it wasn't as good as the Kubrick version. I'm pretty fickle about movies but I still despise Forrest Gump.

[pamela]

23. Yep, The Shining was a huge disappointment

I had just read the book when it came out and was so excited to see it. I hated that they didn't give the background on the things Danny was seeing and I thought Nicholson's portrayal was way over the top. Like you, the movie has grown on me a bit over the years but I would still like to see a good remake.

[Rabrrrrrr]

26. Oh, God! Forrest Gump! I totally forgot about that shitpile. Add it to my list, too.

:puke:

The Shining - I never read the book, so can't compare, but it seemed a much better movie from a technical standpoint than from a coherent-story-telling standpoint.

Visually quite compelling and captivating - like most of Kubrik's stuff. Just absolutely wonderful to watch. Not always the best to listen to, though.

[liberalhistorian]

66. Amen on Forrest Gump! NEVER

understand why it was considered such a big deal. It just got dumber and dumber and more and more unrealistic. It also dumbed down and trivialized some major moments in American history. My mother was a history/social studies teacher and I have a BA in history and we were both really offended by that. And I didn't know anyone, including conservatives, who liked it at all.

True about the Shining, too.

[Rhiannon12866]

112. Forrest Gump.

I thought it was awful. x( :hi:

[Rabrrrrrr]

19. The last Star Trek movie. Matrix Revolution (yes! Awful!!!!). Star Trek Nemesis. Inception.

Star Wars Episode I, followed closely by Episode II.

Star Trek First Contact.

Ice Age III (or II; whatever the last one was)

And some others in the last couple years, but I can't remember them.

[Swede]

22. Holy crap! Matrix III was my first thought,too.

What a disappointing end to the trilogy.

[Bennyboy]

24. Show me one that isn't disappointing....

Movies suck ass. At least for quite a while.

BUT<
Man of The year has to take the cake.

[jah the baptist]

25. wicker man nt

[GoneOffShore]

41. Which one? Because the Edward Woodward/Britt Ekland rocked.

[jah the baptist]

84. the remake with n. cage.

stunningly bad, that movie

[fishwax]

52. i assume you're talking about the nicholas cage remake --

that movie was several shades of suck :puke:

[jah the baptist]

83. yeppers nt

[chrisa]

126. HOWD IT GET BURNED! HOWD IT GET BURNED!

OH NO NO! THE BEES! AGGGHHHH! MY EYES!!!

Haha! Best unintentional comedy ever made. The funniest part is that somebody who made this movie actually thought it was good.

[patrick t. cakes]

28. Crazy Heart

second half was horrible. Such a disappointment.

[hippywife]

30. The Prince of Tides

That was a long time ago. Don't really see movies anymore because I don't think they make any to appeal to our demographic anymore.

[Paper Roses]

33. Chariots of Fire. Boring!

[Ghost of Tom Joad]

43. American Beauty

why this film is so highly regarded is beyond me. Whine, whine and more whine

[Bennyboy]

51. The Grateful Dead album however is timeless....

Box of rain, Friend of The devil, Truckin.....

[fishwax]

54. it's about as good as albums get

Seven of the ten songs are simply classics. Till the Morning Comes is the only track that's less than very good.

[Bennyboy]

89. They have been playing that song lately..

And knocking it out of the park. http://www.archive.org/details/furthur2010-05-29.mbho.flac16

At FURTHUR fest they did American Beauty, Working Man's and Anthem of the Sun in their entirety one night. Absolute sickness.

[Mad_Dem_X]

76. Well, any film that has Kevin Spacey

jerking off in the shower within the first five minutes is okay in my book. ;)

[pokerfan]

44. Return of the Jedi

After the first two films, especially Empire Strikes Back, everyone was anticipating a great finale but it was such a letdown.

[Steely_Dan]

45. I Can Think Of Two...

"Eyes Wide Shut" - I'm a big Kubrick fan. Eye Wide Shut was a disappointment.

"The Wall" - I'm a big Pink Floyd fan. The movie could have never met my expectations.

[Alexander]

46. Inglorious Basterds.

After several friends of mine acted like it was the greatest Tarantino movie ever, I had high expectations.

What a huge letdown that was.

I didn't care about any of the characters (except the girl), the ending was horrible and made no sense, and if I wanted to see a lot of Nazis getting killed without any kind of decent plot or character development, I would've used the time to play Wolfenstein instead.

[HEyHEY]

72. that movie sucked

So bad. Started strong then just tapered off.

[petronius]

101. "I would've used the time to play Wolfenstein instead."

That made me :rofl: and then :rofl: some more...

[chrisa]

128. Tarantino is a hack.

But I still think Inglorious Basterds was his best movie, because his other ones sucked so bad.

[MilesColtrane]

47. I admit to being suckered in by trailers for two movies:

'Independence Day' and 'Darkman'

I walked out of both.

[Orrex]

49. The Big Lebowski

No one who likes that film speaks of it as any less than the best movie in the history of movies forever and ever amen!


It was extraordinarily okay, I guess.

[begin_within]

87. seconded

After hearing how "great" it was supposed to be, I was extremely disappointed in it, and I could barely make it through. I'm still surprised that DUers, who supposedly have such good taste in everything, would hold "Lebowski" in such high regard. My neighbors show movies every other Saturday in the summer, and "Lebowski" was the movie once, and of 30+ people at the beginning, only 4 stayed until the end.

[MadBadger]

50. And I forgot "The Hangover"

[Lifelong Protester]

53. I'll bet I'm the only one who did not like "Up in the Air"

depressing. Kept waiting for the humor they showed in the trailers... when will I learn, that those trailers show the only (minimally) good bits...

[MadBadger]

55. I thought it was decent. It would have been disappointing if I had read the reviews before

Hurt Locker is another story. I had read the reviews and came away thinking it was just decent as well. The reviews alone made it seem like it would be a ridiculously amazing movie. And for me at least it wasnt

[fishwax]

56. I had the opposite reaction -- I thought the trailers made it look rather dull

But I enjoyed the movie when I actually saw it. :)

Different strokes, I guess :hi:

[Lifelong Protester]

57. Yeah, I tend to miss the point on a lot of films that are 'highly

recommended'.

[alphafemale]

60. possible spoiler...no definite spoiler

bf and I got it from netflix it literally bored us to sleep at least two or three times.

My bf finally made it though it and told me..."She was married. Had a family. You want to see it?"

I said no. Just show me what George Clooney's shocked sad face looked like.

He did it perfect.

:rofl:

[WildEyedLiberal]

110. Nope - I agree 100%, it was depressing and vastly overrated

[SeattleGirl]

58. The Nightmare Before Christmas

I usually love Tim Burton's movies, but that one put me to sleep -- TWICE.

[Broken_Hero]

59. A good handful of them,

the latest was The Road, on a scale of 1-10, I give this a 2.

Others that come to mind:

Meet Joe Black

Inglorious Basterds

Borat

Elf

The latest batch of movies(both old/new) that have caught my attention

Serenity

The Clone Wars(tv animated series)

Lonesome Dove series

[Touchdown]

65. In defense of Serenity, it really doesn't belong as a stand alone movie.

but as the final episode of the Firefly TV Series that Fox cancelled after 13 episodes.

Inglorious Basterds I also disagree with, but mainly because the dialog is so great. I'd be disappointed if it was a standard, plot driven WWII movie that's been done and cliched to death, even when it's done very well, like Pvt. Ryan.

I'd agree on all others, except Elf. I'd never get suckered into one of Whats-is-name's movies anyhow.:P

[Broken_Hero]

73. You don't have to defend Serenity

I love the movie, and I would love to get FireFly on DVD.. Serenity was one of the best Scifi movies I've seen in a while(saw it late last year or so).

I was hoping Basterds would be better, the movie was too saturated with dialog for my tastes, during the bar scene towards the middle of the flick I fell asleep, and woke up about 20 minutes later to find...that yep, the bar scene was still ongoing. One part that did stand out to me as very humorous was Brad Pitt's italian accent(attempt). :)

[Orrex]

98. Also in defense of Serenity

I haven't seen more than ten minutes of the tv series, and I still thought that Serenity was a terrific sci-fi film. In fact, since I had no idea of the back-story, I was required to view the film on its own merits, and it was still terrific!

It's actually sort of a lesson in how sci-fi films can be made without bothering to shoehorn a bunch of exposition into it; everything you need to know (to enjoy the film) is set up in the first ten minutes. The characters' relationships are solid and make sense even though I hadn't seen the preceding 13 episodes (and, honestly, I don't even really want to).

[liberalhistorian]

62. Forrest Gump, Peggy Sue Got Married, Terms

of Endearment, A Fish Called Wanda, American Beauty, Silence of the Lambs, Slumdog Millionaire. All of them hyped beyond belief and all of them just awful. At least to me. I think the reason I had such a problem with Nicolas Cage for years is that I first saw him in Peggy Sue, a horrible, disjointed, bad all around mess. Took me a long time to get over that and appreciate him for the great actor he really is, despite the mess his personal life is now.

I hate it when movies are so hyped that you're practically ordered to worship it and there's something wrong with you if you don't like them. I'll decide for myself, thank you very much.

[Touchdown]

69. Bonfire of the Vanities

Brian DePalma in my opinion is a great director. Some would say he's a hack and a Hitchcock copycat, but to each his own. The book, which I started reading each month in Rolling Stone back in my Army days, was great too. I was so looking forward to this, and told my college friends who hadn't read the book to come see it with me.

The film was truly awful. All 3 main characters were mis-cast with big name stars, and it was too self satisfied with it's smugness. Instead of a sharp satire on New York racial, class and power politics, it became the poster child of Hollywood excess and self destruction.

[femmocrat]

82. Agree. The casting was abysmal.

None of the actors even vaguely resembled the characters in the book, which I also enjoyed.

[HEyHEY]

71. virgin suicides

[MrScorpio]

75. Loved the soundtrack though

[JCMach1]

116. loved that movie...

[Mad_Dem_X]

77. Clueless.

There was so much talk about how great it was, but it bored me. I laughed exactly once - when the dad tells the boyfriend, "I have a .45 and a shovel; I doubt anyone will miss you."

[Tuesday Afternoon]

80. Avatar.

sorry :yoiks:

[blue_onyx]

92. I agree

I wanted to like it but it was just so cheesy.

[femmocrat]

81. "Signs"

Ok, it was a Mel Gibson movie.... but it was so dumb I couldn't stand it. I was lured in by the promo showing the crop circles. The rest of it was straight downhill.

[Stoic]

85. The Matrix sequels. n/t

[raccoon]

86. Independence Day. Titanic. Pearl Harbor. The English Patient.

Citizen Kane. The Star Wars movie with the 10-year-old Darth Vader.

[OmahaBlueDog]

91. Ralph Bakshi's "American Pop", "Far & Away" (Cruise / Kidman)

"Howard The Duck"
"Eyes Wide Shut"
"Barton Fink"

The last two Pryor/Wilder movies were huge disappointments, but in a different way. Richard Pryor was a shadow of his former self by the time he & Wilder make "Another You" and "See No Evil/Hear No Evil." It was like visiting a beloved relative with Alzheimers.

[gratuitous]

94. Matrix Revolutions contaminated the whole trilogy

But for disappointing, I'll go with "A.I." for reasons I've enumerated too many times before. I'll also name "The Two Jakes," the putative sequel to one of the finest movies ever, "Chinatown." I'll throw in "The Others" because I made Mrs. gratuitous go see that one, and have been apologizing ever since.

[TheMightyFavog]

95. The Hurt Locker

I didn't think it was as great as people said it was. It was kind OK, but not great.

[JCMach1]

115. Yeah, an ok war movie... How did that exactly win the Oscar???

[frogmarch]

96. Marie Antionette

is the first one that comes to mind.

[Bonobo]

97. Hands down, the last 3 Star Wars movies.

They nearly ruined my life.

A 20 year wait and they SUUUUUUCKED!

[Steely_Dan]

103. "2010"

Sorry...it could have never matched 2001.

[chrisa]

127. Bad movie, but another entertaining bad one.

I was dying at the Russian guy's dialog, just because of the combination of poor acting and cheesy lines.

[AngryOldDem]

104. The Bucket List.

What a great premise for a movie, with great stars. Too bad it didn't deliver.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

106. The Dark Knight.

Everyone raved and raved about it. They still rave and rave about it.

I watched it and thought, "Meh. It's a Batman movie." And kind of a sloppy, disfocused one at that. To be honest, I actually enjoyed watching the cartoonish Val Kilmer Batman movie from the mid 1990s more than The Dark Knight. At least it wasn't pretentious.

Perhaps I'm missing something?

[MadBadger]

114. Perhaps

I saw it three times in theaters. So Id have to strongly disagree with you on that.

[JonLP24]

124. I actually lowered my expectations for that movie

I expected it to be a typical Batman movie but it was so much more. Without the Joker character I don't think it would of been nearly as close as great IMO. The scenes he was in was great and he kept surprising me with the shit he was pulling. I was actually rooting for him to stay alive and not get caught because the scenes were so great. I'm not doing it any justice and it can be described better than I can. I didn't see it as sloppy or unfocused. I thought it was well done and I couldn't imagine it any better.

[WildEyedLiberal]

111. Star Trek Insurrection and Nemesis

Everyone has already mentioned the Star Wars prequels, all of which certainly earn a place on my list, but while I've always been a fair Star Wars fan, I was a HUGE TNG fan. HUGE. I was 14 and 17 respectively when Insurrection and Nemesis came out, and they collectively destroyed my childhood. I'm STILL bitter about how much those movies sucked and how thoroughly they destroyed TNG. I'm still secretly hoping for a made-for-TV TNG movie with the original cast that will right all the wrongs that those last two movies inflicted on my beloved show, even though I know that will never, ever happen. I will go to my grave knowing that Nemesis was TNG's swan song. GOD DAMN YOU RICK BERMAN AND BRANNON BRAGA... GOD DAMN YOU TO HELL.

[sarge43]

113. Aliens III & IV

Shop vac: Sucks and blows.

[gvstn]

117. Did I miss Titanic in the list?

Absolutely no chemistry between DiCaprio and Winslet. He looked way too young for her.
The sets may have been great but the movie was a bore for me.

After all the buildup..disappointing!

[darkstar3]

118. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Almost 2 hours of good cinema followed by the worst climax and ending I've ever seen.

Maybe I shouldn't have read the book first.

Oh, and Watchmen.

[HughBeaumont]

122. Seconded.

Worst Potter movie ever. Started off pretty decent, then collapsed into an emotionless pile of suck.

This is why I cringe that this director is doing the last ones instead of Peter Jackson, who would be much more adept at this sort of thing. David Yates better pull a huge rebound on these upcoming two.

[nytemare]

119. "Star Wars: The Phantom Menace"

Flat characters that you could care less about.

[RiffRandell]

120. Blair Witch Project

For all the hype, that movie fucking sucked.

[chrisa]

129. Both sequels to the Matrix sucked!

Huge disappointments.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

130. I have to agree about Matrix sequels and Star Wars prequels but that movie Juno.

The previous looked funny and clever but it was the most fucking annoying shit ever. Who talks like that (even for movie standards)?