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i saw a thread of "under-rated films of the year" but this thread is different.. . i am just asking about any film regardless of the time period that you had expectations that were positive in any manner and was let down...

for me it was:

snake eyes
congo
igby goes down
gosford park
true stories

..i gotta run but will add more later....

Eyes Wide Shut - some of you are going to kill me
Fight Club - I gave it two attempts
Unbreakable
Attack Of The Clones - bored by the lame acting
The Cell - lured in by killer previews
Dogma - I like his other movies except Mallrats

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:x I love Unbreakable

Quote from: freakerdudeAttack Of The Clones - bored by the lame acting

Yup, if you're going to combine the size of the expectations with the ultimate quality of the movie, then this thread begins and ends with "Attack of the Clones."

"Are you an angel?"

Sigh.

it's rare that it happens to me, cause i pretty much know what to expect when i go see a movie, but this cases were on that vein:

matrix reloaded
intolerable cruelty
the ring
from dusk till down
once upon a time in mexico
l'humanite

Quote from: NEON MERCURYi saw a thread of "under-rated films of the year" but this thread is different.. . i am just asking about any film regardless of the time period that you had expectations that were positive in any manner and was let down...

for me it was:

snake eyes
congo
igby goes down
gosford park
true stories

..i gotta run but will add more later....

I'll second Snake Eyes and Gosford Park

and add:

Lost In Translation
McCabe & Mrs Miller
Obsession (DePalma)
Ossessione (Visconti)
Voyage To Italy

Gangs of New York

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I agree in a large way worthy of this thread. I can easily dislike a movie, everyone knows that, but with Gangs of New York, I spent two years looking forward to it and defending all decisions by the filmmakers leading up to it because I was convinced it would be a modern masterpiece. I didn't even like it...............and yes, this can go into a flurry of disagreements and all, but its been discussed and most people in love with the movie know my position.

~rougerum

The Hours
Someone Like You
Life or Something Like It
Celebrity
Planet of the Apes (Tim Burton remake)
Batman and Robin (aka "Franchise killer")

The Hours
Matrix Reloaded
Maid In Manhattan (ok, just kidding...)
Underworld
Anything Else (although it was the most graceful letdown)
Mystic River

I catagorize them as Films That Didn't Live Up To All The Hype I Had For 'em:

Kill Bill
Punch-Drunk Love
Terminator 3
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Whale Rider
Alien 3
Alien: Resurrection

Quote from: MacGuffinI catagorize them as Films That Didn't Live Up To All The Hype I Had For 'em:

Punch-Drunk Love

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

I definitely agree.

So, Mac, was Kill Bill a let down for you? Or it just didn't live up to its huge expectations, but you still liked it?

Quote from: Alexandroit's rare that it happens to me, cause i pretty much know what to expect when i go see a movie, but this cases were on that vein:

matrix reloaded
intolerable cruelty
the ring
from dusk till down
once upon a time in mexico
l'humanite

Wow. L'Humanite was my favorite film of 1999, by far. I thought it was brilliant, and I didn't think it had that much hype... I mean, it was a nothing, 1-week-at-the-art-house movie in America, at least.

I'll second The Cell and Fight Club as huge disappointments.

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Lost In Translation

REALLY?? I thought it was really wonderful. What was the prob, SNT?

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Wow. L'Humanite was my favorite film of 1999, by far. I thought it was brilliant, and I didn't think it had that much hype... I mean, it was a nothing, 1-week-at-the-art-house movie in America, at least.

I'll second The Cell and Fight Club as huge disappointments.

L´humanite i son eof the worst experiences I've ever had on cinema. I hyped it myself I guess, since it won the Palme D'Or at Cannes...I spent the whole film scrathcing my head, moving, restless...I liked the oevrall felling and the theme, but I just don't understand why they need to bore people to death with shots like this:

Panoramic shot of road going up a hill, a bycicle is visible way way into the road, is coming. slowly. it gets nearer. veryu very slow. the bycicle gets pretty close to us. PAN. we follow it down the road, it goes away. slowly. very very very slowly. it's far away now, you can see a dot at the end of the screen...when it's not visible anymore, end of the shot...and of the SCENE...

that kind of crap just discourages me about european movies, there's aboslutely no point in doing this over an dover and over during the entire lenght of a film. it was really exasperating.

the cell was good...empty, but it was trippy. and fight club i didn't liked it the first time i saw it...more and mor eit becomes one of the greatest films of the nineteies...

Seabiscuit (went back to see it again, still didn't work)
The Runaway Jury
Minority Report (a good movie, but not as good as many made it out to be)
Carrie (hated every inch of this movie coming from a guy like De Palma)
Beloved
The Way We Were
Say Anything
Pearl Harbor

Matrix Reloaded
The Piano Teacher
Secretary
Y tu mama tambien (i think is an interesting movie but not that great)
Happiness

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Oh my god. Isn't this the truth of the day...fuck, it's Marty. Thought it would be great. It was boring and slow. I think it's DiCaprio...claim he's good, sure...let Fabio take a crack at serious acting...same thing.

Fabio...wonderful hair though... :)

Almost forgot...

The Good Theif and Chicago

Gangs of New York
The Hours (hell, I bet you could put every Miramax Oscar movie from the past few years)
Solairs (The Soderbergh version-- I *like* it, but I expected a little more)
Eve's Bayou
Thesis
Miike's Graveyard of Honor (couldn't even finish it)
Charlie's Angels 2

Reboot: Season 4.

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Charlie's Angels 2

you had high hopes for this
?



Hulk
Wrong Turn
Clockwork Orange

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:shock:

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Charlie's Angels 2

you had high hopes for this
?

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I ask the same of you.

Signs
Elephant
AI

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Lost In Translation

REALLY?? I thought it was really wonderful. What was the prob, SNT?

All my friends hated too but I guess most of them put too much expectations on it... I try to keep on mind the main intention of the moive...like this one. It's a simple, light and melow film what turned it so good.

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I couldn't disagree more vile. I went to watch this movie nothing anything about and I lOVED IT....

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Charlie's Angels 2

you had high hopes for this
?

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I ask the same of you.

i kept hearing it was the ultimate homage to 70's horror and i am (like most on the site) a fan of Dushku.  What can i say.

Quote from: AKElephant

I hope you die a painful death.  Just kidding... Elephant, for me at least, is the best film of the year and I doubt I'll love, appreciate, and respect a film more than I do this one.  To each his own...

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I hope you die a painful death.  Just kidding... Elephant, for me at least, is the best film of the year and I doubt I'll love, appreciate, and respect a film more than I do this one.  To each his own...

Writing from hell- just died but didn't pain that much

I got a thing with Van Sant - thought I could change my mind with this one since I heard only good things about but didn't happen this time...

the matrix reloaded was the biggest disappointment of the year.  i bought into all the hype, i thought it was going to be the greatest film ever.  i think so did everyone else at the 10pm the night before it opened screening.  the silence during the movie was deafening.  all the geeks that were hootin and hollerin during the trailers and the excitement you could feel in the theatre before it started, was completely drained out in the first 15 minutes.  i was crushed.  a few weeks later i revisited the film as a matinee and do own it, but nothing can erase the disappointment.  i'm now going into revolutions with little to no hype, so hopefully i'll have a much better time.

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Charlie's Angels 2

you had high hopes for this
?

Uhh... yeah.  I loved the 1st movie, it was dumb, fun, and highly rewatchable.  Why wouldn't I expect the same, if not better from the 2nd?  I've written why part 2 is such a huge stinker somewhere else, but...

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Clockwork Orange

...Seriously.

i was really expecting something totally different.  Ever since i have never been a huge Kubrick fan.  I respect the fact that he is good but its just one of those things where you cannot connect.  I wish i could.

a few I didn't list but will have to second the motion on:

AI
Planet Of The Apes - remake
Gangs Of New York - stopped the movie right before the final bloodbath

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I couldn't disagree more vile. I went to watch this movie nothing anything about and I lOVED IT....

well in Peru was considered for some critics as one of the best films of 2001, so i was expecting for somethimg really great, and i found a movie with a narration excessively slow and soooo pretentious, the best was Isabelle Huppert (a great actress) and Benoit Magimel, but i didn't find that great and disconcerting movie everybody said it was

Dr Strangelove disappointed me.

Quote from: SHAFTRDr Strangelove disappointed me.

.you know..me too.... :oops:

I can understand how someone could dislike A Clockwork Orange, but how could anyone with half a sense of humor not like Dr. Strangelove?  MY LORD...

Quote from: Slobh:x I love Unbreakable

Possibly the worst film I've ever seen.

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Quote from: Slobh:x I love Unbreakable

Possibly the worst film I've ever seen.

I'm breaking up with you right now, Siggy Baby

Disappointed with Max

Quote from: RegularKaratebut how could anyone with half a sense of humor not like Dr. Strangelove?  MY LORD...

I don't know.  I'm a funny guy, I like funny movies; I did not laugh, though.

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Quote from: RegularKaratebut how could anyone with half a sense of humor not like Dr. Strangelove?  MY LORD...

I don't know.  I'm a funny guy, I like funny movies; I did not laugh, though.

The comedy for me is all in the viewings after the first. It grows. Ask me to review it sometime.

~rougerum

Quote from: SHAFTRDr Strangelove disappointed me.

Yup, me too I guess. I'm not sure cause it was quite awhile ago that I saw it and I might have been too dumb to get a lot of the jokes. I'll definitely give it another shot though. Didn't laugh once when I saw it...not one single time. Some others...

-Dirty Pretty Things
-Gangs of New York
-Happiness
-The Matrix
-Mystic River (biggest of recent)
-Old School
-Phantom Menace
-Rear Window (yes, the original)
-Shallow Hal
-Storytelling
-To Die For (big van sant fan)
-The Wild Bunch

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The comedy for me is all in the viewings after the first. It grows. Ask me to review it sometime.

~rougerum

Same thing happened to me, first time that saw it didn't like it that much, by the second or third viewing thought it was a riot, mainly the scenes in the war room between Sellers & Scott and the Seller's phone conversation with the prime minister of Russia.

I assume you liked it, what was that worked for you and what didn't, if any?

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Yup, me too I guess. I'm not sure cause it was quite awhile ago that I saw it and I might have been too dumb to get a lot of the jokes. I'll definitely give it another shot though. Didn't laugh once when I saw it...not one single time.

Give it another shot, the scenes I mentioned above will make you laugh (I guess).

the guy who first made me want to be a director was tim burton. he was god. sleepy hollow was one of my favorite stories growing up. i could not wait to see the movie. opening night, the movie ended, i sat in the theater not knowing what to feel. then, opening night of planet of the apes, i could have gone to see the movie or i could have gone to hang out with my friends and get ridiculously trashed. i should have gotten trashed. that movie blew.

anyway, recently...
pirates of the caribbean was alright, but everybody was saying it was great when it just wasn't anything special. same thing with the ring.
bad boys 2 - i love the first, i nearly scraped my ear off during this one
hulk - nuff said
x2 - i guess i just wanted more

Quote from: people,  who by accident clicked  on this  thread but meant to choose the [i]biggest surprises[/i] thread

..the two towers
..dogma..
..gangs of new york.
the matrix.
mystic river.
star wars ep.II
the Godfather..
Pi
the ..salton sea.

fellini satyricon

That's a frustrating thread if there ever was one. Most, like 95%, of these movie are good or great.

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Quote from: Slobh:x I love Unbreakable

Possibly the worst film I've ever seen.

I hate when people say things like that.

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Yea, I definitely did too. I didn't hate all of them but those were some big disappointments. Especially The Matrix.

I have to second Pirates of the Carribean too, I thought that was suppose to be awesome. I didn't get into it at all. And I love Johnny Depp, he's one of my favorite actors. It was just such a mess, it just felt so uneven. Almost like Gangs, with Johnny being the Daniel Day Lewis of the movie.

Another big one is Lord of the Rings...god, I was so so so bored by it, but then of course I realized that it seems like being a fan of the books is almost essential to really love the movies in the trilogy. And I had never heard of them before 10th grade english. So I'm not as mad at LOTR, just wish it would end.

Quote from: ebeamanit seems like being a fan of the books is almost essential to really love the movies in the trilogy.

..with me it's th eopposite..I have never read any of the  books..its just that I HAVE to admire the  epic filmaking which The Lord of the Rings is..
in terma of epics thiese films are onlevels that I have never seen brfore IMO......ther're beautiful....

I'd still like to know the reasoning behind why one poster put "Say Anything" in this thread.  :?

Hahaha me too

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Quote from: ebeamanit seems like being a fan of the books is almost essential to really love the movies in the trilogy.

..with me it's th eopposite..I have never read any of the  books..its just that I HAVE to admire the  epic filmaking which The Lord of the Rings is..
in terma of epics thiese films are onlevels that I have never seen brfore IMO......ther're beautiful....

i agree

Quote from: Find Your MagaliI'd still like to know the reasoning behind why one poster put "Say Anything" in this thread. :?

i agree. that film makes me cry.  especially since im seventeen and understand and can feel every single emotion in that film.  one of my all time favorites.

Quote from: bonanzatazx2 - i guess i just wanted more

Aw man, I've been waiting for the DVD to come out on 11-25. I'll just lower my expectations and then possibly it will be better.........?

I know I had some big let downs.

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Someone Like You
Life or Something Like It
Celebrity
Planet of the Apes (Tim Burton remake)
Batman and Robin (aka "Franchise killer")

I don't know...I think the Batman franchise died when Tim Burton and Michael Keaton jumped ship. But clearly Batman and Robin was the nail in the coffin.

Ugh. I never thought to put it in perspective that the Governor of California is Mr. Freeze from Batman and Robin...

Quote from: pinkerton310I don't know...I think the Batman franchise died when Tim Burton and Michael Keaton jumped ship. But clearly Batman and Robin was the nail in the coffin.

I liked Batman Forever. I thought Val Kilmer was appealing enough as Batman. But, yes, Batman and Robin is the film from which I judge all bad films. I walk out of a bad movie and think to myself "At least it was better than Batman and Robin."

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Quote from: Slobh:x I love Unbreakable

Possibly the worst film I've ever seen.

I hate when people say things like that.

I know, I hate when people love Unbreakable, too.

Laurel Canyon
The Anniversary Party

Entertainers entertaining themselves by trying to entertain us with movies about entertainers (themselves) = bad.

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The Anniversary Party

Entertainers entertaining themselves by trying to entertain us with movies about entertainers (themselves) = bad.

I sort of agree with your premise, but I really liked both of those movies. I didn't find them self-indulgent. Not even Anniversary Party, surprisingly.

usual suspect, fight club, american beauty, and memento did very little for me, even after repeated viewings.

recently I'd have to say elephant and lost in translation were both meh.