movies

For me it might be the Hobbit Trilogy.

The LotR Trilogy are my all time favorite movies and the contrast couldn't be greater. Really goes to show what a perfect storm it was that we got the movies we got with LotR.

I know that knocking on it is overdone, but Phantom Menace. I was 13 when it came out, huge Star Wars fan, absolutely target market. Walked out so sad and confused.

The Matrix Resurrections. I already had a feeling it would suck but it managed to be worse than I could ever imagine, they weren't even trying to hide how much of a cashgrab it is.

"Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow."

The beginning is great. Giant robots attacking New York.

Then it just becomes boring and ridiculous.

Posters promised Angelina Jolie. she shows up for five minutes and doesn't do anything.

Gladiator 2. If anyone can do spectacle, it's Ridley Scott. But good goddamn, the action in that movie sucked so hard. And all the best lines were quotes from the original. Denzel was the only half enjoyable thing because I think he realized how bad the movie was and just had a blast with it.

The Avatar the last air bender ( live action ) movie. I was a child when the movie came out so I had no clue who the director was and how shitty of a movie I was in for. The ending recked me since it didn’t even have a satisfying conclusion. Just pure garbage

I was in genuine shock of how bad of a movie I’d gotten into. Never again

Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker. I went in with very low expectations and it still managed to disappoint so badly that it makes me angry. I hate how the Palpatine plot point retroactively ruins the entire original trilogy.

World War Z.

i was do hyped. and it single handedly ended the zombie movie genre that was popular at the time

Fury Road 2: They got rid of a lot of the practical effects that made the first one great. The plot and pacing was off. I was just annoyed because of how much I liked the first one.

It's been a while, but that would be Sin City 2 for me. Back then I was young and naive, and didn't know that 99% of sequels are soulless cashgrabs. And I was really hyped, I loved the first one and still think of it as the best comic book adaptation I've ever seen. You could see the love in every frame.

Violet Evergarden: The Movie. My heart sank when I realized exactly where this was going, after all of her character development that's the ending they decided to undermine it all with.

Once Upon a Time in America. Maybe I watched a bad version but it made little sense and the ending was dreadful.

Reading about it right now on wikipedia I probably saw the 'condensed' version which was savaged by the critics:

Some critics compared shortening the film to shortening Richard Wagner's operas, saying that works of art that are meant to be long should be given the respect they deserve. In his 1984 review, Roger Ebert gave the uncut version four stars out of four and wrote that it was "an epic poem of violence and greed", but described the American theatrical version as a "travesty". Furthermore, he gave the American theatrical version one star out of four, calling it "an incomprehensible mess without texture, timing, mood, or sense".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_Upon_a_Time_in_America

The Matrix. The 1st two movies seemed to set up the perfect twist for the 3rd movie...that Zion was still inside the Matrix, and there was no escape. But, then they went in a completely different direction, that made no sense, instead. Then they came out with the 4th movie, and still never fixed it. Why?

The Village followed closely by Joker: Folie a duex.

Fantastic four 2015, great first half and Phillip Glass soundtrack! But studio/publisher meddling destroyed the second half

I saw the Phantom menace on release, that was a huge let down

X-Men Phoenix - such a great grafic novel arch and solid movies before that flick. Phoenix writing and acting saddens me.

I fell asleep while watching James Cameron's Avatar in an IMAX theater on release.

Most tedious movie of his career until the sequels (guessing, didn't give the sequels a chance because why would I?)

Suicide squad (~~2018~~ 2016) was a disaster and a tremendous letdown.

Though that was clear by the time it actually hit cinemas, so more of a continuous descent from its first announcement to its actual release

easy one: Jurassic Park (1993)

I had read the book, maybe, a dozen times before the film came out, and holy shit was I disappointed. crushed, really. Not just in what they changed, but also what they left out. it totally ruined for me books adapted to film. any time I see a film based on a book I've read, I'm always let down.

The Legend of Ochi.

The trailer made it look like a great indie-fantasy movie with Willem Dafoe and Emily Watson. But the actual movie is full of AI-generated environments, the acting is subpar and Dafoe and Watson don't have a lot of screentime.

Sometimes I really question my AAA24 membership. 😅

Megalopolis was equally disappointing. Granted, the movie has some amazing VFX and practical effects, so they cut all of the best shots into the trailer and made this trainwreck look competent and interesting. The actual movie then felt like a fever dream, you can really see respected actors like Adam Driver and Nathalie Emmanuel struggle with their own script. Plus all of the really bad VFX shots that did not make it into the trailer, of course.

At least we got the "Get back to the club" meme out of it.

I Know What You Did Last Summer [2025]
Atrocious acting, annoying characters, terrible storyline and an abundance of plot holes! Literally nothing made sense. And in the process killing the legacy of the originals.
Worst reboot I ever saw. And there will probably be another sequel -_-

Kangaroo Jack. Most misleading trailer ever.

"The Man Who Killed Don Quixote" I guess.

12 Monkeys was great, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was brilliant, I liked The Brothers Grimm and Tideland. Gillian supposedly was trying to make Don Quixote for decades, it was his passion project and it turned out to be a big nothingburger. I never heard anyone mention if after the premier. I read the books and the movie simply used some characters and scenes from them. The movie was "inspired by" the books in the most boring, superficial way possible.

Transformers. I was very excited when this was announced, but it became a cold-water shower when Michael Bay was mentioned as director. Still, I had a sliver of hope that it would be at least on par with The Rock... It wasn't.