Sometimes you just knew the movie was going to suck or it was going to Rock before you even watch ‘em, and they turn out to be exactly like you expected, but then there are movies that you hope to be the next big thing on the big screen but then they disappoint you and leave you feel rotten about going to the theaters.
The trailers, the images, the footage, the posters, the TV spots made me badly want to see these 10 movies before they hit the theaters, I anticipated them like there was no tomorrow, I’d drive all the way clear to L.A. to see the advanced screenings and boy they let me down! Every last one of them.
1. INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL
After Shia’s Tarzan stunt and the alien spaceship, I felt like I got whipped and it hurt like hell
2. RIGHTEOUS KILL
The reunion of two screen legends, that’s what the ads say. Well, This is one reunion that should have never happened at all.
3. HOW TO LOSE A FRIENDS OR ALIENATE PEOPLE
Simon Pegg was supposed to be funny. He was supposed to be the next British comedy star. O the Humanity!
4. NIGHTS IN RODANTHE
I enjoyed the romantic drama The Notebook, and I heard this one was based on another book by the same author, Nicholas Sparks, so that means it’s gotta be just as romantic, right? Wrong!
5. GHOST TOWN
Ricky Gervais is a funny man, no doubt. But this movie proves he should just stick doing TV gigs.
6. MAX PAYNE
The video game version is badass. The movie’s ads make him look badass. But the movie itself is anything but.
7. HAMLET 2
The song “Rock Me Sexy Jesus” is as funny as it gets.
8. THE HAPPENING
Years from now, we’ll be asking whatever happened to the great twist-ending suspense master M. Night Shyamalan? And we answer ‘THE HAPPENING was what happened’.
9. STRANGE WILDERNESS
Damn, I got tricked by the trailer, it already shows all of the funny parts of the movie and the rest was junk.
10. SEMI-PRO
I wanted to play Russian Roulette and shoot myself after watching this.
Not bad movies, but disappointments indeed :
1. VANTAGE POINT – Here’s a movie that thinks the audiance is dumb. It must be the most predictable movie I’ve seen in 2008. Hey, if one of the leading guys his rewind-story still isn’t there after the third time … then who is the bad guy?
It started out very well, but in the end it wasn’t clever at all. No suprise there. And when you think about 2 minutes while watching, the whole thing is full of plot-holes. At this moment there are a lot of TV-series you should watch instead of this.
2. GET SMART – Whoops! I love Steve Carell, no doubt. And the guy was mostly funny in this, no doubt either. But what if he wasn’t in it? It would have been shit. When you saw the trailer, you saw ALL the jokes. Didn’t expect that to happen with a wonderfull cast like this.
3. WANTED – Yep, I dare to say I was dissapointed. It had some great action, but the writers didn’t deliver what it could have been. This was the usual “guy discovers he a ‘chosen one’, learns, is getting good, faces the twist and saves the day” coolness movie. The Comic has soooooooo much more to tell and that story was brought into the movie in a very, very bad way. This could have been the greatest movie of the year, if it was done right.
4. TROPIC THUNDER – Besides the hilarious first five minutes and some hits here and there, where were the jokes? First I just couldn’t believe that in Europe the movie wasn’t doing any good with the critics, but in the end I had to agree with them. Robert Downey Jr. was great, but the movie lacked some funny stuff. Way too obvious, not absurd enough, not smart enough, just a movie with a great idea, but nothing else than that.
5. INDIANA JONES 4 – Great moments, no doubt! It was Indy as we know him. But I will never forgive George Lucas for turning down the script Frank Darabont wrote (Spielberg and Ford wanted his version) and I will never forgive him for those CGI-moles (I thought they were going to sing a song), the moment where Shia was being a monkey and the fact they actually showed waaaaay to much in the end.
I can agree with you on GET SMART,
we can all thank Steve Carell for starring in that movie because otherwise, if he wasn’t in it, then yes, it would’ve probably sucked, big time.
but I thought TROPIC THUNDER was hilarious… I guess in a way.. the humor wasn’t so much in its ability to come up with any jokes or slapstick.
The humor is more on the actors who take themselves seriously,.. like they’re the real deal when they’re not.
I thought it was funny.
I guess I’m the only person on earth who enjoyed VANTAGE POINT
yes, INDIANA JONES 4 was unforgivable.
Like I said,.. after the Tarzan stunt, I felt like I got whipped and it hurt like hell.
I can understand you thoughts on TROPIC THUNDER, but for me the actor-thing was only good for like … five minutes. Can’t help it.
There’s no doubt there will be a new Indiana Jones if George Lucas is in the game, so I hope Spielberg is able to do what HE thinks is the best. The Tarzan-thing almost killed the movie, indeed.