Top 50 Disapointing movie sequels, adaptations or simply overhyped
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Posted on: 2012-08-28 09:47 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture
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I agree with this. While Indy4 might deserve a spot on the list, it should be nowhere near the number one spot.|
Originally Posted by BrandX
Personally, I don't think IJ4 was as bad as many others think. And not deserving of #1 spot at all.
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(As an aside, it really should be Indy 5. Indy 4 is, and will always be, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
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There are a number of movies on the list I didn't find particularly disappointing, even if I thought they were bad (mainly because they were exactly as bad as I expected), as well as several that I rather enjoyed.
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I do concur, I thought they could of made that film spectacular, as the core story was an interesting one. |
Originally Posted by Father Xmas
One that I thought they missed was The Last Airbender. However the whole race bending controversy about the cast may have turned the hype down enough that the poor acting and special effects wasn't as disappointing.
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I didn't find the acting so bad, perhaps the little ones acting stuck out the most for me, but all that being said I'd still give the film a 6/10.
Dusk till Dawn 2 and 3 would have made my list, also the new adaptation of Nightmare on Elm St was a big let down for me.
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Slazenger, Area51, Area53, Area54, Erruption, Mind Plague, Thresher, Sheath, Broadside, Debt
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For a movie that made almost 800million, I really do think it was just a let down to a vocal internet fan base while the rest of the movie going fanbase enjoyed it.
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Originally Posted by Slaunyeh
I agree with this. While Indy4 might deserve a spot on the list, it should be nowhere near the number one spot.
(As an aside, it really should be Indy 5. Indy 4 is, and will always be, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis ) |
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Which is part of the problem. There are critics. There's the 'vocal internet fan base'. And then there's the people who pay money to see movies. Part of the same reason the Transformers movies will usually make an internet 'top ten worst' list, yet they kept making the movies: the people who matter to the industry liked them enough to pay to watch them..
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Originally Posted by BrandX
For a movie that made almost 800million, I really do think it was just a let down to a vocal internet fan base while the rest of the movie going fanbase enjoyed it.
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4 was pretty good, at least for the training montage, as was the last one (6?). I hear Rocky 5 hooked up with Highlander 2 and are busy producing progeny who will usher in the end times.
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Originally Posted by Vox Populi
The Phantom Menace made $100 million this year.
Obviously a lot of people weren't that disappointed. |
To be honest while Phantom had its problems (Jar Jar Binks for one) it wasn't that bad (no where near as good as the original trilogy but still watchable. The one that still has me shaking my head is Clone Wars.
Can someone explain how in movie 1, 4 whatever its supposed to be, Anakin is like 9 or 10 (if that old) and in Clone (clown) wars suddenly he's all grown up and courting the princess... who through some miracle of science doesn't look like she has aged a day? When Phatom ended did she decide.. " Hey that Anakin Skywalker is a great guy. I bet he'll look really HOT when he's older. I think I'll have myself frozen so I can date him when he's like 19." lol Of course we can also add that in all those years mentoring the future Darth Vadar Obi Wan looks alomst the same except we added a beard and slightly longer hair.. "Hey that makes him look decades older right? Umm wrong George
A new hope wasn't much better but by then my expectations were no where near a high .. I simply had to go and see them show HOW Akakin became Darth Vadar.
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See, now, at first she was just like "Aw, my little brother Annie." Which was fine, and made sense. Course he was crushing all over her, but she just sort of tolerated it. Then, after hearing how he murdered an entire sand raider camp, yes even the women and children, apparently she suddenly decides that he is REALLY hot. I guess women like bad boys...|
Originally Posted by Wicked_Wendy
To be honest while Phantom had its problems (Jar Jar Binks for one) it wasn't that bad (no where near as good as the original trilogy but still watchable. The one that still has me shaking my head is Clone Wars.
Can someone explain how in movie 1, 4 whatever its supposed to be, Anakin is like 9 or 10 (if that old) and in Clone (clown) wars suddenly he's all grown up and courting the princess... who through some miracle of science doesn't look like she has aged a day? When Phatom ended did she decide.. " Hey that Anakin Skywalker is a great guy. I bet he'll look really HOT when he's older. I think I'll have myself frozen so I can date him when he's like 19." lol Of course we can also add that in all those years mentoring the future Darth Vadar Obi Wan looks alomst the same except we added a beard and slightly longer hair.. "Hey that makes him look decades older right? Umm wrong George A new hope wasn't much better but by then my expectations were no where near a high .. I simply had to go and see them show HOW Akakin became Darth Vadar. |
In reality, that was my major problem with the second film. The...romance? Was just sort of wedged in. 'LOOK! LOOK! NOW THEY ARE IN LOVE! THIS IS WHERE LUKE AND LEIA WILL COME FROM!" And it...didn't really work for me.
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I have only one major issue with that list.
Did anyone think that "The day after tomorrow" was going to be good?
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I enjoyed it. Did I think it was going to be some big action adventure movie? No.
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Originally Posted by ryu_planeswalker
I have only one major issue with that list.
Did anyone think that "The day after tomorrow" was going to be good? |
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The ones I probably would quibble with the most are Quantum of Solace, Troy, and Kill Bill 2.
Kill Bill is basically one movie split into two movies so movie audience bladders don't explode. Its difficult to understand liking the first and not liking the second or vice versa, so I don't find the movie particularly disappointing or overhyped as a sequel.
While I think Casino Royale is the crisper of the two Craig Bonds, Quantum of Solace feels to me a perfect continuation of CR. I like that it changes things up a bit and brings the overall reintroduction story of Bond to a close. So I wasn't remotely disappointed in this movie.
Troy I think was a bit overhyped, but I don't think it was overhyped more than any other summer blockbuster, and to be honest I actually liked the angle the story took, sort of a pseudo-realistic story-behind-the-legend thing that a lot of people seemed to think should have been truer to the original myth of the story. Of the three, I think this is the weakest, but I don't think its weak enough to make a list of the worst offenders. I certainly cannot understand how it ended up so high compared to Catwoman, or Alexander, or probably the movie with the most wasted potential on the list, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
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I don't understand Troy on this list at all. This movie was incredible in my opinion. Also, I'm kind of shocked The Watchmen didn't make the list. I enjoyed this movie but I know a lot of people that didn't.
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Most of the best scenes were in Part 1, the second half was fairly dull. Kill Bill would have been better as a single film, with most of the edits coming from Part 2.
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Kill Bill is basically one movie split into two movies so movie audience bladders don't explode. Its difficult to understand liking the first and not liking the second or vice versa, so I don't find the movie particularly disappointing or overhyped as a sequel.
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I can see why Catwoman is on the list. People went in wanting Catwoman, and it got...something else
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Out of the Rocky films, I like the first movie second-best.|
Originally Posted by Darth_Khasei
Every Rocky picture after the first.
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
or probably the movie with the most wasted potential on the list, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
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If there were any movie that I could easily place on the top of my disappointment list, I think it might be Star Trek IV: Save the Whales. It *might* be the only movie I'd have on such a list. While there are numerous movies I dislike to varying degrees, there aren't that many that I was expecting to be better than they turned out.
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Nope.|
Originally Posted by BrandX
For a movie that made almost 800million, I really do think it was just a let down to a vocal internet fan base while the rest of the movie going fanbase enjoyed it.
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One really good gauge of popularity is whether a movie has "legs", meaning: does it keep earning money after its debut? For Indy 4, the answer to that is a resounding "Not."
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Agreed. Troy is a brilliant movie. If you want to teach people how to structure a movie or adapt an existing story, you can just pop Troy in and say, "Copy this."
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Originally Posted by Tanglefoe
I don't understand Troy on this list at all. This movie was incredible in my opinion.
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Since ID4 was so popular and it was the same director doing it, there was some hype among SFX/disaster movie fans. It's like in the 70s people actually looked forward to Irwin Allen disaster flicks or the next Airport: Even Bigger Air Mishap films.
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Originally Posted by ryu_planeswalker
I have only one major issue with that list.
Did anyone think that "The day after tomorrow" was going to be good? |
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I agree. Sucker Punch delivered what it promised, and nothing more.
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Originally Posted by Agent White
I actually really enjoyed Sucker Punch >> Dunno why it gets so much hate
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If what it promised was "20 minutes worth of several random MTV videos of cute girls Gun-Fuing with CGI" then I guess it delivered. Unfortunately I was dumb enough to hope there was going to be an actual -movie- there that I could care about to string all of that randomness together. Frankly I would've liked it better had it just been the 20 minutes worth of CGI and not even wasted my time trying to be a full-length movie. *shrugs*
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Originally Posted by Mental_Giant
I agree. Sucker Punch delivered what it promised, and nothing more.
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I though Quantum was one of the worst Bond flicks overall (ok, not as bad as Never Say Never Again, or some of the late Moore films). The plot was simply moronic. Yes, Craig was still a good Bond, and the action was fine, but the premise was simply too dumb to bear. |
Originally Posted by Arcanaville
While I think Casino Royale is the crisper of the two Craig Bonds, Quantum of Solace feels to me a perfect continuation of CR. I like that it changes things up a bit and brings the overall reintroduction story of Bond to a close. So I wasn't remotely disappointed in this movie. |
We'll see how this next one does. I suspect it will be better since it won't be filmed during a writer's strike.
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Disagree with:
Iron Man 2
Alien 3 (I really liked that one; Resurrection, on the other hand, was waaay to PC and cliche for me)
Phantom Menace (Darth Maul made the flick for me... otherwise; a New Hope rehash)
Terminator Salvation (better than T3; total homage piece - kinda like Highlander: Endgame)
The Hangover 2 (wasn't that great but between the tran-v dancer, drug dealer in the ice bin and the shitake mushroom; loooooooooooool!)
Wolverine (lots of cool characters; some even managed to have a little depth)
Kill Bill 2 (although less flashy than Kill Bill 1; I thought, again, there was more depth in the antagonists. It was a more fluid film (less hopscotching than much of his portfolio); more substance all around... and the Superman analogy is one of my favorite Tarantino monologues.
[and Troy... actually liked it. Realized that I didn't want anybody pacing the walk of my house screaming my name and calling me out. "Yooogggiiiiiiii! YOOOOOOGGIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!"]
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