Have you ever gone to a movie with great anticipation, and come away completely disappointed? Angry even? I'll nominate "School of Rock" to start things off.
Anchorman Windtalkers star wars episodes: I, II, and to a lesser extent- III orange county that's all i can think of now but i guarantee (sp?) that there are more
"Bonfire Of The Vanities" When they cast Tom Hanks, my heart sunk, but I still had hope. It probably ranks no.1 in my book. I really wanted this to be a great film.
Dune. There was a phase when I was trying to see a lot of the "classics" of the 60s that were just amazingly lame, like Easy Rider, The Wild Bunch, Night of the Iguana, Play Misty for Me, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Midnight Cowboy. Maybe you had to be there, and maybe they were too hyped in my mind after decades of reading about them, but I leave new-to-me 60's movies on the shelf. Also, anything my mom recommends as having "made her think". She was right on with the Pawnbroker and Heart is a Lonely Hunter, but since then, she's on an 0 for 40 streak.
Seconded. As a general rule, though, most sequels end up being let downs. Especially if they weren't an original part of the plan. So often, people just find a cash cow and decide to milk it. The Matrix franchise probably had 1,245 udders hanging from it. Most of the milk was bad, considering how good the original was.
Yeah, but by then, Matrix II had lowered the expectations from the trilogy being the next Star Wars (first trilogy) to the new Star Wars (esp. episodes I and II)
Open Water. It received some good reviews and I heard from some people who saw it in the theater that it was scary. Well I rented it on dvd and through the whole thing I was thinking WTF. Most boring movie I ever forced myself to watch.
besides Anchorman, the matrix sequels, from hell, to name a few, Napoleon Dynamite wasn't only a let down, it was disgustingly un-funny.
54. That movie was just god-awful. Edited to add: The Last Samurai. How can you mess up a movie that involves ninjas attacking a samurai village? How?? What a crapfest.
lol. NOT a testament to the human instinct for survival, was it? It's like, hey cousin, either you die floating out to sea, or you die TRYING to swim to shore. Major WTF movie there.