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The Most Disappointing Film You've Ever Seen?

Based on the most disturbing/boring/charming film you've ever seen.

What are films that you were looking forward to and turned out to be an utter disappointment.

by Anonymousreply 43July 6, 2025 9:22 PM

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.

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by Anonymousreply 1July 3, 2025 5:27 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 2July 3, 2025 5:29 PM

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.

by Anonymousreply 3July 3, 2025 5:34 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 4July 3, 2025 5:36 PM

Titanic.

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

by Anonymousreply 5July 3, 2025 5:38 PM

Titanic Cunt

by Anonymousreply 6July 3, 2025 5:39 PM

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

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

by Anonymousreply 7July 3, 2025 5:43 PM

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.

by Anonymousreply 8July 3, 2025 5:44 PM

Shoah

by Anonymousreply 9July 3, 2025 5:49 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 10July 3, 2025 6:00 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 11July 3, 2025 11:18 PM

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.

by Anonymousreply 12July 3, 2025 11:26 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 13July 3, 2025 11:29 PM

Dawson's 0.5 Load Weekend

by Anonymousreply 14July 3, 2025 11:45 PM

r12 this thread may interest you.

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by Anonymousreply 15July 3, 2025 11:47 PM

Everything Everywhere All at Once. And how..

by Anonymousreply 16July 4, 2025 2:33 AM

Kubrick's crappy film of "The Shining".

by Anonymousreply 17July 4, 2025 2:36 AM

American Psycho.

by Anonymousreply 18July 4, 2025 2:55 AM

R17 is Stephen King

by Anonymousreply 19July 4, 2025 4:04 PM

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,

by Anonymousreply 20July 4, 2025 4:21 PM

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.

by Anonymousreply 21July 4, 2025 4:55 PM

The Fucking English Patient

by Anonymousreply 22July 4, 2025 4:59 PM

R22 = Elaine Benes

by Anonymousreply 23July 4, 2025 5:08 PM

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?"

by Anonymousreply 24July 4, 2025 5:12 PM

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.

by Anonymousreply 25July 4, 2025 8:03 PM

There Will Be Blood

by Anonymousreply 26July 5, 2025 9:19 AM

Lucy/Mame.

by Anonymousreply 27July 5, 2025 9:25 AM

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.

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by Anonymousreply 28July 5, 2025 1:23 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 29July 5, 2025 2:21 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 30July 5, 2025 2:47 PM

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.

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by Anonymousreply 31July 5, 2025 2:55 PM

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.

by Anonymousreply 32July 5, 2025 3:00 PM

Showgirls 2 Pennies from heaven

by Anonymousreply 33July 5, 2025 3:13 PM

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.

by Anonymousreply 34July 5, 2025 3:40 PM

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.

by Anonymousreply 35July 5, 2025 3:44 PM

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.

by Anonymousreply 36July 5, 2025 4:18 PM

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.

by Anonymousreply 37July 5, 2025 7:09 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 38July 5, 2025 7:11 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 39July 5, 2025 7:29 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 40July 5, 2025 7:42 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 41July 5, 2025 8:00 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 42July 6, 2025 4:27 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 43July 6, 2025 9:22 PM
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