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Most disappointing movie

Abdul Alhazred

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Revenge of the Nerds.

I was for one thing expecting some real revenge involving blood, not some non-football-player callow youths finally getting laid and playing some lame rock guitar.

What a disappoinment! :p

Furthermore, callow youths cannot truly qualify as nerds. Not even if all their classmates call them that. To be a true nerd you have to still be that way at the age of 45.

Real revenge of the nerds is like this:

The characters are 45 year old nerd (ON) to poor zhlub (PZ), in some back alley.

ON: Remember me? (pulls knife)

PZ: No. Leave me alone.

ON: You went to high school with me. And now I'm going to kill you.

PZ: You're crazy, leave me alone! (tries to run away, but is kicked in the crotch by ON, lies on the ground).

ON: You called me a doofus in front of the girls and they laughed at me. I decided back then that you had to die! (places foot gently on PZ's neck).

Fill in the rest. :p
 
Nightfall. Allegedly based on the Issac Asimov classic sci-fi tale, it's so boring I failed to finish watching it on each of the three times I attempted it. No characterisation, no plot and no connection with the Asimov tale that I could make out.
 
Crash.

I actually walked out of the cinema halfway through. First time i've ever done that and I haven't since.

Crap movie about people getting off by watching car crashes - I'm not sure how you could make this a good movie subject, but they failed to even try it seemed.

Toni
 
That would have to be Spaceballs. I really like a lot of his earlier films. "history of the world" was the start of the slippery slope, with Spaceballs he hit rock bottom. The trailer had all the funny jokes, there weren't any more.
 
LuxFerum said:
The NeverEnding Story :D
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You shouldn't let your (necessary) brutality from the 'thread that won't die' override into other threads.
That was just mean.


:o not that I watch the neverending story whenever it comes on tv or anything.



shouldn't this be over in the entertainment forum?
 
Two that were very disapointing to me were Hotel New Hampshire and World According to Garp.

In both cases they were marketed as comedy films. Robin Williams making a silly comment after a plane hits a house? A bear riding a motorcycle through a large dinner party? Yup, looks like they are going for the laughs there.

Then when I actually saw the films... child suicide, grandpa dying on christmas morning, kid getting killed because of a stupid accident while mom was having an affair. Yeesh!!
 
The batman movies especially the Batman and Robin one. I've always been a fan of the Batman comics and graphic novels, his dark side mixed with his tremendous sence of justice just hits the mark with me. But the movies were horrible the first two weren't that bad but the last one with George Clooney was probably one of the worst movies I have ever seen.
 
Oh and I forgot to add. Just about any film with the actor Michael Pare. I remember when I was in the Air Force my buddies and I would stay up late drinking and watch cheesy Michael Pare movies on HBO. It seems during the 92-94 years that HBO really was in love with this guy.
 
"Congo" was an entertaining book and could have made a good movie. Could have, but didn't. Yuck. The story was butchered and all of the actors turned in sub-par performances. Tim Curry and Ernie Hudson in particular each deserved a hard kick in the pants for their performances.
 
Flame said:
Crash.

I actually walked out of the cinema halfway through. First time i've ever done that and I haven't since.

Crap movie about people getting off by watching car crashes - I'm not sure how you could make this a good movie subject, but they failed to even try it seemed.
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Well, your first mistake was assuming that it would be a movie. It was quite obviously a film, a study of the human condition blah blah blah and any entertainment value is strictly coincidental.

As for disappointing movies, I can't believe that we have got to double digits in replies and still no mentions of the Star Wars prequels. Very disappointing. WTF are C3-PO and R2D2 doing int these movies? Argh.
 
Thanz said:
As for disappointing movies, I can't believe that we have got to double digits in replies and still no mentions of the Star Wars prequels. Very disappointing. WTF are C3-PO and R2D2 doing int these movies? Argh.
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Those characters are quite common in a lot of movies.

I like to call them as " tension breakers".

They appear every time that the bad mood in the movie is too long. Then they show up, make some funny stuff, and the spectator can relief the stress. Which make the movie more tolerable.

and then profit.:D
 
Ian Osborne said:
Nightfall. Allegedly based on the Issac Asimov classic sci-fi tale, it's so boring I failed to finish watching it on each of the three times I attempted it. No characterisation, no plot and no connection with the Asimov tale that I could make out.
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That's the only one where I was literally bored to tears.
 
Men In Black

I was really looking forward to it and it just did nothing for me. It was predictable, the jokes weren't funny and it felt like they had cut half the story to bring it in at under 100 minutes. I wish Sonnenfeld had stuck to being a camera man. He was brilliant at that but wow is he a bad director.

Glory
 
Marc said:
Two that were very disapointing to me were Hotel New Hampshire and World According to Garp.

In both cases they were marketed as comedy films. Robin Williams making a silly comment after a plane hits a house? A bear riding a motorcycle through a large dinner party? Yup, looks like they are going for the laughs there.

Then when I actually saw the films... child suicide, grandpa dying on christmas morning, kid getting killed because of a stupid accident while mom was having an affair. Yeesh!!
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Seems you have a problem with John Irving, author of those 2 books.

How about scene in Hotel New Hampshire where Wilfred Brimley (right character?) knocks out a wall panel with a barbell, and a stuffed, dead dog pops out? That's funny stuff.
 
I'm putting all you "Jacob's Ladder" fans on notice. That movie was a vomitous pile of crap. Bring it on.
 
hgc said:
Seems you have a problem with John Irving, author of those 2 books.

How about scene in Hotel New Hampshire where Wilfred Brimley (right character?) knocks out a wall panel with a barbell, and a stuffed, dead dog pops out? That's funny stuff.
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Those movies bear little resemblance to the the books on which they were based. Aside from that, the marketing of the films was the problem. Irving's stuff is funny but it isn't comic. No one in Hollywood knows how to market films that don't fit neatly into the boxes they create in the market place. Invariably they want to sell dramas by playing up the funny parts and comedies by playing up the pathos. They want to make the audience think that "My Dinner with Andre" is a rip roaring frolick.

Glory
 
Many big movies of the last several years. Titanic. Leaving Las Vegas, Gladiator, Moulin Rouge, a few I forget...
 
LuxFerum said:

Those characters are quite common in a lot of movies.

I like to call them as " tension breakers".

They appear every time that the bad mood in the movie is too long. Then they show up, make some funny stuff, and the spectator can relief the stress. Which make the movie more tolerable.

and then profit.:D
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I have no problem with the type of character - the tension breaker or comic relief. I have a problem with these two specific characters being in the movie. It makes no sense from a continuity standpoint. Darth Vader made C3P0? R2D2 with jets? Doesn't it make more sense to have new tension breakers (I know, Jar Jar was supposed to be this) rather than some need to tie it ALL in to the other 3 movies?

Why do we need to go to Tatooine all the time? Why do we hide Darth Vader's son on Darth Vader's home world with Darth Vader's family, at a location that he has been to before?

Why is Boba Fett's dad the clone for all of the storm troopers? How do the Storm Troopers go from a super soldier army to bumbling fools in the other movies?

I just feel that too much time was spent trying to tie in all of the movies (dickens-style, it seems) that it detracted from the movies. I now here that Chewbacca makes an appearance in the third movie. Lord help us all.
 
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