Not pinning this thread as it’s probably nicer to focus on the best shows than the worst, but curious to see what everybody’s biggest disappointments where
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Madame Web. Like half of the movie is just her going “what, I’m time traveling?!?” and it wasn’t even meme-worthy like Morbius. I genuinely regretted being awake for the film.
I walked away to do something else for 30 minutes in the middle and I don’t think I missed anything. It was very much like a Hallmark movie. Doesn’t help that Dakota Johnson can’t act her way out of a paper bag, and the rest of the cast just phoned it in.
I think she didn’t realize what she had signed up for until filming starts, like all the interviews on the press tour are her trying her best to pretend she knows wtf is going on.
Hot take, but Wicked. It’s an average movie with a huge marketing budget preying on nostalgia for a much better film.
Like, it wasn’t bad, but it certainly was my biggest letdown of the year.
Also — movie starts, title card… “Part 1”? Fuck right off, Disney.
I’m just annoyed at how all of a sudden people are Wicked fans. It’s been a massive hit broadway show for over 2 decades. It toured in pretty much every American city. I saw it in Des Moines, Iowa for 40 dollars back then. It is not some crazy new franchise people, it was just marketed like crazy because they wanted their own barbie movie.
But Americans think going to see a live show is pretentions and musicals are stupid. Unless advertisers shove pink and green in their faces for hours on end, then all of a sudden Wicked is the best thing everrrrr
Some people just don’t live theater, that doesn’t mean people are wrong for liking it as a film. And I would posit that the majority of the hype you are seeing for the film is because of its history as a Broadway hit.
After reading the wikipedia summary of Wicked the musical, it seems like the movie followed the plot pretty much exactly - which is where all of its problems come from, IMO. The singing was great. Ariana Grande absolutely killed it. Great performances by Elpheba and the hot dude. Set design and costuming, great. But the story is absolute trash. The glowing reviews from critics don’t seem to take this into account…
I see how they wanted to stay faithful to the original - they’d have gotten major blowback from fans. But so much of the plot is completely uninspired, thin, or even nonsensical. The 1st and 2nd acts were pretty solid, but no spoilers, the plotline with the animals, basically the entire 3rd and 4th acts, all of the stuff with Jeff Glodblum and all of Elpheba’s interractions with him and the lady from EEAAO were rushed and wafer-thin plotwise. I feel like they try to cover that fact up by bombarding the viewer with visuals, racing to major plot points, and leaning on the strength of the performances - sort of gish galloping their way past the plot holes. It felt like the macro pacing was pretty much bang-on with major events happening at a satisfying cadence, but pacing between each plot point - getting from a to b within an act - was often rushed without adequate character development to support their actions/interractions with other characters.
I’d agree with you. The actors, singing, set design, choreography, are all amazing. The story is just uninspiring and I think it’s reflected in the performances outside the musical bits.
And _ jeeeezus_ was it about 90 min too long.
A bit off topic but the
film industryHollywood has stagnated quite a bit since a lot of investors have pivoted into video games a decade ago.
Combined with the craphouse that is streaming, and you don’t have a good environment for new & fresh ideas to be taken seriously.
All that remains is franchise monoliths that studios have been aggressively recycling for content, and poor executions thay don’t have any resemblance of an artistic vision or concept.
Don’t worry, there are still a lot of interesting and great films out there, just maybe not in the same capacity and/or quality as before.
Going through old one off films from the 80s and 90s with mediocre or poor reviews often seem like they’d do pretty well if released today, especially in the streaming space.
Bear in mind half of that is real-money charges inside “free” games. An abusive business model that should be illegal.
Yeah, I was going to comment how a lot of that must be coming from
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Very interesting, would you like to post this picture as its own post?
Longlegs. Weak. Not worst but maybe, biggest disappointment?
I accidentally watched The Substance, and now I want 2.5 hours back.
Spaceman sucked.
I saw Rumours last night.
That’s a couple of hours of my life I want back.
I think there was meant to be some laughs in there but I didn’t laugh. There was probably meant to be a deeper message but frankly I was too bored and irritated to care.
It kept almost starting, right up till it ended. And it went on forever.
Glad to see everyone agrees that Werewolves was a masterpiece deserving of many Oscars.
I haven’t heard a single good thing about the Borderlands movie
For an average moviegoer its a below-average action comedy with bad action scenes and weird shit.
For a Borderlands fans its a steaming pile of shit, with the worst casting choices, ignoring the source material, the lore. They just used the name and the idea if the BL world to create some nonsense story with an expensive soundtrack.
They were laser-focused to create a cast made out of big names and recreate the Guardians of the Galaxy formula. Even this didn’t work, there is little to no chemistry between the main characters and the whole plot is just stupid and makes no sense.
They didn’t even fuck it up in a fun way. Super Mario Bros (the first one) was batshit crazy, but still invoked a shocking variety of details from the games, back when there really was not much to those games. All of the Uwe Boll dreck is at least camp as hell. Resident Evil knows it’s stupid, and refuses to break eye contact.
Borderlands arrives years late, pleases nobody, and takes no risks. It is of low quality. It’s not even fun to talk about.
Well, I never played the game so I went in knowing nothing. I got it for free.
From that stand point, I’d give it a 7.5/10. It was no worse than Guardians/Galaxy 3. It had some funny moments and some good action. I watched it to the end, which puts it ahead of a lot of other movies that got way less hate.
the crow reboot has to be up in the top 3 of the worst this year
When the original came out I was a teenager who wore all black listened to NIN and was into comic books. In other words the perfect demographic for that movie. And I absolutely loved it. My friends and I would watch it all the time. I’ve continued to watch it and enjoy it throughout the years.
After seeing the first preview for the new one, I had zero interest in seeing. So much so, that I had completely forgotten about it again until reading your comment.
It sounds like I need to add this to my never watch list. Along with every single terminator movie after T2.
good call.
the original is so perfect, its timeless. it perfectly captures the source material.
this… reboot… is a moneygrab. a boardroom written and directed piece of waste that literally no one should ever watch. that it ever made it to actual theater screens shows what these big corporations really think of the general public.
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Matt Damon gave an interview and made this point. Back when he started producing in the 1990s the DVD release gave a movie a second life. That gave the creators a little leeway to play around. Now a movie is tie to a big opening weekend, so the makers have to stick closer to the formula.
Good point, would you have a link to the interview?
Thank you!
Merry Festivus
That doesn’t make sense anymore. Streaming is the post-theater “second life” for movies now.
It’s a different revenue stream. “Highlander” wasn’t a box office success, but it got a second life thanks to VHS/DVD sales.
That’s a good point I haven’t seen pointed out elsewhere. I suspect this really solidified the trend of playing it safe.
I just saw the Beetlejuice sequel and it stunk. I wanted to like it and remembered hearing good things, but in hindsight people stopped taking about it real fast and now i can’t wait to forget it as well
Did it have the story telling depth of a legendary movie? Gods no…but it was fun. Felt exactly like the old Beetlejuice cartoons when I was a kid. I think people need to lower their expectations and just have a bit of fun sometimes. Not every movie should be a life-altering experience.
I just watched it for the first time last night, it was a fun popcorn movie and gave me a few good laughs. My only real complaint is that they shoved too many plot lines into the movie. They could have completely left out Delores, Jeremy, and Rory and it would have been just as good if not a better movie. Each was met with a such unsatisfying ending to their stories it felt like the writers didn’t know what to do with them either.
Joker: Folie à Deux has to be on the podium
Just watched it and I feel like it was REALLY good, but maybe not to expectations.
Tap for spoiler
Did Lee die when she got the phone message? Did the Joker die, or was that only the death of Arthur Fleck? Was there significance to Arthur denying Joker 3 times?
I feel like there’s a lot of layers to be peeled off this onion.
im going to get hate for this… but i kinda liked it. if you consider it a stand-alone piece of art (not a sequel), its not terrible.
the ‘musical’ aspect wasnt as pronounced as i feared, and i had very much expected to hate it. definitely better than megalopolis
I’m with you. No hate here. I feel like many Joker fans weren’t quite edgy enough to admit that a movie with music could be good. I loved it. So dark, Jesus. Just like a Joker film should be.
Megalopolis was a waste of time and money
I watched Megalopolis yesterday while my wife did a puzzle. After the movie was done she asked me what I was watching. I told her, I have no clue as in I don’t know what that movie was about.
Mostly Coppola’s money tho
Reagan
I’m surprised the evangelical churches didn’t give out free tickets to this one.
I honestly wonder if it is because Reagan is waining and Trumps version is in power now. Ronnie isn’t as important a “saint” now.
Another great double standard. The GOP will tie FDR to Stalin in a heart beat, but cheerfully throw away the man who created the modern Republican Party.
