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Films you expected to be great but were terrible

sapta

12 months ago

Rashomon
Pulp Fiction, worse, Reservoir Dogs
Citizen kane
Andrei Rubylev
Inception
Donnie Darko

and many more

filmlif​e

12 months ago

^totally agree on fiction and dogs and kane.
darko and inception-why? just curious.
rashomon-mixed feelings

filmlif​e

12 months ago

^totally agree on fiction and dogs and kane.
darko and inception-why? just curious.
rashomon-mixed feelings

TakaAwe​some

12 months ago

Avatar and Prometheus would make for a good “disappointment double bill.”

HAL 9000

12 months ago

Pulp Fiction and The Avengers. Maybe The Avengers was slightly enjoyable but not by much. Curious Case of Benjamin Button. For the most part, the new Clash of the Titans. Sherlock Holmes with Robert Downey Jr.

HAL 9000

12 months ago

I really love Pixar but I couldn’t stand Cars and I only liked the beginning of Toy Story 3. Star Wars: The Phantom Menace and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

HAL 9000

12 months ago

Godard’s Contempt and Pierre Le Fou.

Loverof​LeCinem​a

12 months ago

No shit, Hal 9000, those are the two movies at the top at my Netflix queue.

ruby stevens

12 months ago

i can’t believe anyone expected crystal skull, a clash of the titans remake or guy ritchie’s sherlock holmes to be great. avatar was ridiculously overhyped. cameron hasn’t made a film i liked since T2. and two sequels are in the works AAGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH. sorry, l’ll go quietly

Monique

12 months ago

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
The Hurt Locker
Water for Elephants
Pulp Fiction
Avatar
….

are the ones I remember at the moment, probably have more, I really wanted to like… but… I can’t

Hellsho​cked

12 months ago

Either some people are confusing “not as good as I hoped it would be” with “i thought it would be great but it was terrible” or they got some ’splainin to do…

HAL 9000

12 months ago

@Ruby I guess I should have made clear that I thought the films would be enjoyable, but not in the category of a film like 2001, Vertigo or Fight Club which, among other films I like, I find to be truly great. I just thought Crystal Skull, Clash of the Titans and Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes would be fun films to see. Not really heavy pensive films, but just light entertainment. But, they were a waste of my time. I guess I wasn’t answering the question exactly right, but I thought it could apply as well to films that would be fun to watch as well.

HAL 9000

12 months ago

The Darjeeling Limited.

Jonas Silgali​s

12 months ago

1. Donnie Darko
2. A Single Man
3. The Social Network
4. Incendies
5. Falling Down
6. Warrior
7. Chicago
8. The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
9. Brokeback Mountain
10. The Milk of Sorrow
11. Certified Copy

Loverof​LeCinem​a

12 months ago

Andrei Rublev
Se7en
Thelma and Louise
Death Proof
Sin City
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Rachell Getting Married
Aliens
Predator 2
Dogville

Films I expected to be bad/mediocre but ended up loving
Troll Hunter
Evil Dead 2
Enter the Void
Death Proof (Kurt Russel was robbed of the Oscar nomination)
They Live

g legs

12 months ago

What’s wrong with Andrei Rublev??

ruby stevens

12 months ago

maybe they hate it cuz it’s too perfect ;)

Polaris​DiB

12 months ago

“EDIT: There should be a thread for films you thought would be “meh” but turned out to be incredible. :)”

Isn’t there?

I suppose it would be difficult to search since there’s a lot of ways of trying to say that. “Underrated films” is typical, or “Surprisingly Good” or so…

—DiB

g legs

12 months ago

I’d say so Ruby.

Polaris​DiB

12 months ago

Eh, this is another of a subgenre of forum posts where someone is going to mention not liking a movie that is otherwise not only canon accepted, but even closest to MUBI forum cohesion we can agree on. Andrei Rublev is fine.

—DiB

Caligul​a

12 months ago

most recently:

Take Shelter

The Son’s Room (this won a palm d’or – really???)

Duck Soup (hardly funny at all)

Gomorrah (nothing special at all. I get the feeling this Garrone director is seriously overhyped)

The Long Day Closes (a strident, unfocused mess. Davies’ latest, Deep Blue Sea is amazing, though.)

Pina 3D (confirmed Bausch’s unfettered brilliance, but it also confirmed Wender’s mediocrity as a director. he’s so hit and miss)

World On a Wire (very minor Fassbinder. my least favourite work I’ve seen by him)

Norwegian Wood (oppresively dull adaptation of an overrated author’s work. it was a letdown for me, because the only other Tran Anh Hung film I had seen was Cyclo, which was amazing)

Story of a Love Affair (minor Antonioni that is forgettable and not worth watching at all)

Jerichow (after hearing so much about this German guy, Petzold, I was doubly underwhelmed by this by-the-numbers neo-noir pulp)

also, to a lesser extent: Tree of Wooden Clogs (not the unforgettable Palm D’or winning masterpiece I was fully expecting. Overall, it’s pretty good, but as far as peasant epics go, Imamura’s similarly Palm D’or winning Ballad of Narayama blows Clogs away)

Emily Anderso​n

12 months ago

Tree of Life

ruby stevens

12 months ago

i also prefer imamura’s film to tree of wooden clogs. however i wouldn’t call it terrible by any stretch. in fact i think i gave them the same rating lol

Judicia​l Joe

12 months ago

Da Funk
Jumanji
Wild Wild West

Rock and Bull

12 months ago

I can’t really think of any films that I thought would be great but turned out terrible. Lots of films that turned out mediocre, but not many that turned out outright terrible. Maybe Before Sunrise, and I thought even that had a couple good points.

Loverof​LeCinem​a

12 months ago

I’m in no position to criticize Andrei Rublev or fault it, all my issues with it are personal and if you guys love it that’s great, Tarkovsky is no doubt a master and it’s good to see him praised. I just don’t feel Rublev is any where near his best.

T.J. Royal

12 months ago

The one obvious movie I want to post here, I’m not going to right now. Because honestly, I was so disappointed with it, I don’t even feel like mentioning its name. And it’s one of those supposed “great” movies from the ’70s. Blech, blech, and blech.

odilonvert

12 months ago

I have to say I don’t have big expectations going into a movie. I always take what the critics/other people say with a grain of salt, because sometimes I find my opinion varies wildly from the general consensus…

That being said, it’s annoying when you find a movie not only fails to meet your “meh” standard, but falls ridiculously far below that… I’d so much rather have it be way better than I expected.

Prewitt

12 months ago

Maybe terrible is a strong choice of words but I did not care for Inception and did not get all the fans…..a film where there was no discernible substance whatsoever……and the style was unimaginative for the most part…..

…and I would agree about Avatar…all I got from that was a massive headache.

sapta

12 months ago

I just couldn’t watch Andrei Rublev. It’s so much praised like any other Tarkovsky movie but I couldn’t watch more than 15 min of it in both my tries. Solyaris is the only Tarkovsky movie I have enjoyed so far. Just seems I’m not cut out for Tarkovsky’s movies which is sad because I like his movies’ plots.

Inception felt like a video game at times. Maybe I should remove it because I didn’t find it terrible but I was disappointed.

Donnie Darko. Didn’t get this movie at all, neither did I like it (unlike Mullholand Dr. for example).

The Notebook(got reminded from Ruby’s ratings). Romance overload. It seems nothing else happens in life.