Films that look like they'll be great but aren't.

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Jannix Quinn

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Ever see a trailer or hear about a film that looks so great that you can't wait to see it? Then, when you eventually do, it turns out so bad that it's even more disappointing?

Of course you have. What's yours?

Last night I watched Battle Los Angeles and it was really, really bad. It looked decent in the trailers, even for an alien invasion movie, but it was even worse than Independence Day. I even skimmed the end.

Very disappointed.
 
Black Dahlia

I loved the book (and the whole series its part of) but the movie just left me empty and sad inside
 
Most of the summer blockbuster fare, but I have to say I was PUMPED to see Transformers. Watched the trailer like a zillion times, then got to the theater and was just...gobsmacked. It was so, so ridiculously bad.
 
It seems that people don't write stories anymore, they just write "scenes". I'm willing to sit through a four hour film if it has a good story. I dislike the 1:45 time limit that many movies force themselves to adhere to. When the trailers before the movie are the best part of the experience, something has gone horribly wrong. I hate when historical movies get the history wrong, or have props from the wrong time period just to improve the look of the film. I hate when the science/medicine is inaccurate. It took you four freaking years to make the film and you couldn't do a bit of research? Great dialogue means nothing if it sounds like it doesn't belong in the scene. Blah blah blah etc.
At least the props look cool.
 
Alien 3 and Phantom Menace, definitely. Batman and Robin. I actually saw that one in the theaters and left saying "I'd have been more entertained if I'd simply lit my money on fire instead of watching this."
 
ItalianNinja86 said:
Black Dahlia
I loved the book (and the whole series its part of) but the movie just left me empty and sad inside
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See, I really liked that one. I purposely didn't read the book, so I could see how it stood up as a film and I thought it did rather well for itself.

But alas, so many films have great trailers but turn out to be ****e that I'm almost thinking the other way around, now - All my old 70s and 80s favourites had crap trailers but were MEGA films, so perhaps that's the key?

If I see lots of CGI, I'm unlikely to watch it. I only recently saw Iron Man 1&2 and they were quite fun, but I wasn't knocked out by them so much. Part of me wonders if past films have spoilt us, whether it's a massive flick like Blade Runner and Indy, or the 'special interest' ones like Buckaroo Banzai.
 
I think we aren't impressed because we've seen good movies in the past such as Indy and the 80s movies. We're not the audience being targeted these days. I have to say most movies I've seen since the late 90s haven't impressed me despite the good trailers.
 
Alien 4. Not a minute that I found the characters interesting and hoped this or that would survive. A lame story and not much of a horror scenario like the predecessors had been.

Star Wars Prequels. Maybe it would have been better if GL wasn't the writer and if he would have made them the way he and his stuff let others describe the scenario. After all, why did they talk about Clone Wars that devastated many parts of the galaxy and brought complete chaos and gruelty to the whole AR all the years if it was only some small scale campaign. Also the contradictions in the details of the OT and PT are a pain in the a... and only real nerds with a lot good will bend and twist to explain them (see the ridiciolous parts about Leia's childhood memories).
 
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Wes R said:
I think we aren't impressed because we've seen good movies in the past such as Indy and the 80s movies. We're not the audience being targeted these days. I have to say most movies I've seen since the late 90s haven't impressed me despite the good trailers.
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This.

It's the triumph of marketing over substance. Eventually, they'll give out Oscars for trailers themselves, rather than the movies they advertise.

It's not just that, though. I was raised watching films from all different eras. 1930s up through the present. Once you have an appreciation for what film CAN do, sitting through schlock-fests that are blatant cash-ins or are just MICHAELBAYSPLOSIONS!!!! becomes increasingly difficult. Or it did for me, anyway.
 
Revenge of the Sith is at the top of my list. For some reason I fooled myself into believing Ol' GL couldn't do worse than he did in Attack of the Clones, boy was I wrong
 
Sucker Punch.....worst movie i have seen
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YES!!! thankyou, finally some one who agrees with me. I walked out of it in the middle.

- SKY CAPTAIN AND THE WORLD OF TOMORROW
- All SW prequels... nuff said.
- The HULK...any version...who cares!!!
- TEMPLE OF DOOM
- ROTJ....i hate EWOKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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The trailer for Skyline looked promising....i bought the blu-ray....sold it the very next day...absolute bag of crabs......

Rich
 
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