The Most Disappointing Film You've Ever Seen?

Bonfire of the Vanities

The Tom Wolfe epic is one of my favorite books of all time, but the film was utter shit.

Almost everyone is miscast, which is sad, because there is so much talent- Tom Hanks, Melanie Griffith, Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, F. Murray Abraham, Sir Robert Stephens, Alan King, and Kim Cattrall.

Brad's status. Lisa Kudrow recommended it but it was meh.

Not so much disappointing as angering, but The Boy in the Striped Pajamas.

The premise that the accidental death of a little blond-haired Christian boy somehow matched the brutal murder of millions of others really pissed me off.

Every Star Wars movie released since the day "Return of the Jedi" opened.

Titanic.

"A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets."

Titanic Cunt

To R3-You got "pissed off" about a Holocaust film.

Isn't there a "special circle of HELL" for people like you.

The most disappointing film I saw recently was HALE COUNTY THIS MORNING, THIS EVENING. So many raves and, even at a mere 75 minutes, I found the film interminable. Scenes drag on and on for no reason and there are times you can't hear people are saying (though it's not likely they're saying anything interesting). It was a shapeless mess pretending to be some "impressionistic" reverie about a place.

The same director managed to screw up NICKEL BOYS and turn it into an self-conscously arty mess where you couldn't always tell what was going on. The brilliant book deserved much better.

Shoah

Vivarium. I love horror movies but this one was just stupid.

I was so looking forward to Gosford Park, but couldn't even sit through the whole thing.

Anatomy of a Fall. No details because I don’t want to spoil it for those who want to see it but the middle falls apart.

R12 I'm not sure I was disappointed so much as just WTF.

Dawson's 0.5 Load Weekend

r12 this thread may interest you.

Everything Everywhere All at Once. And how..

Kubrick's crappy film of "The Shining".

American Psycho.

R17 is Stephen King

I'm sure I'll get blowback, but I felt Once Upon a Time in Hollywood was 2:40 minutes of non-connecting vignettes with little to no plot. Watching Di Caprio whine about his shitty career while Pitt drives around for most of the film was boring beyond belief. I kept waiting for something to happen, but I must say that scene with the building tension of dog food being slowly expelled from its can was riveting. Except not. As for the last five minutes of the film? Too little too late,

Maleficent.

I was taken in by the promo photos and was looking forward to more on one of my favorite villains.

What I got was a piece of shit revisionist story like so many other live action films where she was just misunderstood and the good guys in the original were actually the bad guys and the three benevolent fairies were brainless idiots and a whole lot of CGI.

The Fucking English Patient

R22 = Elaine Benes

Batman (Burton's 1989 one).

I was a teenager. It's a decent film, but nothing could live up to the hype/PR campaign they did for that thing.

I remember leaving the theater and thinking, "That's it?"

1st film-BROS-WTF happened-Billy, you turned it into a political garbage shit speech!! Luke and the Hockey player buddy was Hot.

2nd-The Shining-R17 is right, it was a shitshow& it fucking sucked.

3rd-American Psycho-As a financial advisor& stockbroker, that movie fucking sucked too. Not one of BEE fans, but I loved Less than Zero book and movie.

There Will Be Blood

Lucy/Mame.

It's not always a bad picture this happens with. [italic]Les Enfants du Paradis[/italic] ("Children of Paradise") is a rather good film; but for some reason many feel motivated to breathlessly enthuse that it's the best French movie ever, or forsooth the best movie ever of any country; and so one comes to it expecting something superbly extraordinary . . . and what one gets is a mildly distinctive melodrama with fairly good acting, moderately intelligent writing, and high production values (wow, costuming all those extras!) . . . but there is no character development, much time is spent on sequences which don't contribute much if anything to the plot, and the movie ends leaving every thread of the plot up in the air. Everyone should see it! But don't go around saying it's the best this or that or everyone who watches it with that recommendation in mind will be disappointed.

Any of the Jurassic Park sequels: every Aliens after the second one

Licorice Pizza. So much potential, but cast with ugly people and not much of a plot.

Oppenheimer left me completely underwhelmed and puzzled by why there had been so much praise for the film. I plan to rewatch it some day to see if my opinion changes.

Barbie. All the hype heightened expectations. It was actually sort of a bore, and some of the actresses playing the Barbies were really hard to look at.

Showgirls 2 Pennies from heaven

The Frog Princess. All this build up about Disney's first black princess.

Then she spends most of the movie as a frog. The movie's set in Jazz Age New Orleans, and her competition for the racially ambiguous prince is the whitest white girl who ever whited. I know it's supposed to be a fairy tale but COME ON, Disney.

As a huge Jurassic park fan...i saw Dominion and next day i asked my bf had i fallen asleep and missed most of it as i just couldnt remember it. It was so boring.

Forrest Gump -- hated it! As a poster here once put it...it is a maudlin glorification of stupidity, ignorance and happenstance.

And R7, R3 is correct. The Holocaust is a uniquely Jewish tragedy. John Boyne, the author of the novel on which the movie is based, has been rightly criticized for it. The novel and the film put the "suffering" of the German perpetrators on the same plane as that of their Jewish victims.

Barbie. Aside from being a visual feat, the storyline felt haphazard and disjointed like the plot had no idea where to go to end up at its conclusion.

For that matter, Oppenheimer as well. It was a decent fictional biography, but nothing earthshattering.

r37 I don't even remember how Barbie ended ...

Yeah Barbie was underwhelming especially considering all the hype. It was amusing and visually it was good but not a remarkable movie at all. I regret paying to see it in the theatre. The marketing was outstanding

Gummo.

Also won previous DL awards for "most repulsive" and "last film I walked out of."

I was a big fan of Harmony Korine and Larry Clark after watching Kids, and Gummo was a gut punch

I really enjoyed Barbie. I wouldn't dare sit through Oppenheimer. Chris Nolan movies are always BORING.

That's because Chris Nolan movies are consistently all about Chris Nolan.

Since it was a three day weekend, Dawson really sold himself short by stopping at 50 loads.