huge dissapointments. in .cinema

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NEON MERCURY

October 30, 2003, 12:58:07 PM
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....

freakerdude

#1
October 30, 2003, 01:26:16 PM
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
MC Pee Pants

Sleuth

#2
October 30, 2003, 01:34:05 PM
Quote from: freakerdudesome of you are going to kill me

:x I love Unbreakable
I like to hug dogs

Find Your Magali

#3
October 30, 2003, 01:56:47 PM
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.

Alexandro

#4
October 30, 2003, 01:57:12 PM
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

SoNowThen

#5
October 30, 2003, 02:01:40 PM
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
Those who say that the totalitarian state of the Soviet Union was not "real" Marxism also cannot admit that one simple feature of Marxism makes totalitarianism necessary:  the rejection of civil society. Since civil society is the sphere of private activity, its abolition and replacement by political society means that nothing private remains. That is already the essence of totalitarianism; and the moralistic practice of the trendy Left, which regards everything as political and sometimes reveals its hostility to free speech, does nothing to contradict this implication.

When those who hated capital and consumption (and Jews) in the 20th century murdered some hundred million people, and the poster children for the struggle against international capitalism and America are now fanatical Islamic terrorists, this puts recent enthusiasts in an awkward position. Most of them are too dense and shameless to appreciate it, and far too many are taken in by the moralistic and paternalistic rhetoric of the Left.

SHAFTR

#6
October 30, 2003, 02:14:13 PM
Gangs of New York
"Talking shit about a pretty sunset
Blanketing opinions that i'll probably regret soon"

Gold Trumpet

#7
October 30, 2003, 02:37:46 PM
Quote from: SHAFTRGangs of New York

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

Gloria

#8
October 30, 2003, 02:38:16 PM
The Hours
Someone Like You
Life or Something Like It
Celebrity
Planet of the Apes (Tim Burton remake)
Batman and Robin (aka "Franchise killer")

TheVoiceOfNick

#9
October 30, 2003, 03:12:22 PM
The Hours
Matrix Reloaded
Maid In Manhattan (ok, just kidding...)
Underworld
Anything Else (although it was the most graceful letdown)
Mystic River

MacGuffin

#10
October 30, 2003, 03:46:10 PM
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
"Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art." - Andy Warhol


Skeleton FilmWorks

SoNowThen

#11
October 30, 2003, 03:48:59 PM
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?
Those who say that the totalitarian state of the Soviet Union was not "real" Marxism also cannot admit that one simple feature of Marxism makes totalitarianism necessary:  the rejection of civil society. Since civil society is the sphere of private activity, its abolition and replacement by political society means that nothing private remains. That is already the essence of totalitarianism; and the moralistic practice of the trendy Left, which regards everything as political and sometimes reveals its hostility to free speech, does nothing to contradict this implication.

When those who hated capital and consumption (and Jews) in the 20th century murdered some hundred million people, and the poster children for the struggle against international capitalism and America are now fanatical Islamic terrorists, this puts recent enthusiasts in an awkward position. Most of them are too dense and shameless to appreciate it, and far too many are taken in by the moralistic and paternalistic rhetoric of the Left.

godardian

#12
October 30, 2003, 03:51:48 PM
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.
""Money doesn't come into it. It never has. I do what I do because it's all that I am." - Morrissey

"Lacan stressed more and more in his work the power and organizing principle of the symbolic, understood as the networks, social, cultural, and linguistic, into which a child is born. These precede the birth of a child, which is why Lacan can say that language is there from before the actual moment of birth. It is there in the social structures which are at play in the family and, of course, in the ideals, goals, and histories of the parents. This world of language can hardly be grasped by the newborn and yet it will act on the whole of the child's existence."

Stay informed on protecting your freedom of speech and civil rights.

godardian

#13
October 30, 2003, 03:53:07 PM
Quote from: SoNowThen

Lost In Translation

REALLY?? I thought it was really wonderful. What was the prob, SNT?
""Money doesn't come into it. It never has. I do what I do because it's all that I am." - Morrissey

"Lacan stressed more and more in his work the power and organizing principle of the symbolic, understood as the networks, social, cultural, and linguistic, into which a child is born. These precede the birth of a child, which is why Lacan can say that language is there from before the actual moment of birth. It is there in the social structures which are at play in the family and, of course, in the ideals, goals, and histories of the parents. This world of language can hardly be grasped by the newborn and yet it will act on the whole of the child's existence."

Stay informed on protecting your freedom of speech and civil rights.

Alexandro

#14
October 30, 2003, 05:08:36 PM
Quote from: godardian
Quote from: Alexandroit's rare that it happens to me,

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...
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