Movies you thought that were going to be awesome but ended up being AWFUL

[Leo656]

The fact that "DOA: Dead Or Alive" was equally "limited" and yet still somehow made out for a much better movie - while in itself still kinda being junk, albeit Faithful and Respectful To The Video Game Junk - sort of makes it a moot point.

No forgiveness for the lack of Hitomi, though. That's my guuuuuuurrrrrrrl, dawg.

Otherwise, yeah, "DOA" > "MK: Annihilation", all day. Which really speaks quite poorly of the latter. For one thing, MK:A has a noticeable and unforgivable lack of Kevin Nash, while DOA has an entire scene where Kevin Nash's character thinks he's just walked in on his hot "daughter" - played by the incomparable Jamie Pressley - having lesbian sex, and tries to have a conversation with her about it. Comedy!

See, THAT's how you make an entertaining "This movie's a piece of sh*t but whatever, let's go for it" kinda movie. You don't take Shao Khan's mask off. You CAN, occasionally, give Kevin Nash terrible hair extensions. But only because his personality overshadows it. Nash!

Two movies based on fighting games. One of them has Flea Market Raiden, the other has Super-Shredder doing bad Hulk Hogan cosplay. I think we know who the winner is THERE.

I will say, you are the Very First Person who I've ever seen try and defend MK:A. So I applaud you for being a trailblazer. I don't think I want to subscribe to your newsletter, but it's obvious that Consensus doesn't concern you, and I suppose that is commendable.

[ProactiveMan]

Spawn. I was pumped when I saw the trailer, then it turned out to be a glorified direct-to-video movie. I thought it sucked at the time, and that's saying something because I was way less discerning in those days. I read that ILM were involved, so I figured the special effects would be awesome... some of them look pretty good, some of them look like Hercules the Legendary Journeys, and some look like an FMV from a Playstation game.

Another would be Van Helsing. I wanted it to work so bad that I wasn't even positive that it sucked until seeing it a second time.

I guess Godzilla ( 1998 ) also fits the bill. It was hard not to get swept up by the marketing machine, but I knew it was poo-poo about twenty minutes in.

[Wildcat]

Leo656, Flea Market Raiden made me laugh but James Remar was alright. He’s a regular actor.

I’ve never seen the DOA movie. I want to but I’ve only played a bit of the games a long time ago though. Should probably beat a couple before getting into the movie.

[Leo656]

I don't think a whoooole lot of "research" is required to "prepare" oneself for the DOA movie. I think ten minutes on YouTube would suffice. And then the movie is Exactly That. They even managed to squeeze Beach Volleyball in there, because of COURSE they f*ckin' did. Not getting Dennis Rodman to play Zack was tragic, but to be fair, that movie's entire budget was probably like, $500 and they easily spent half of that on bikinis.

The rest went to stomach medicine because every single one of them caught food poisoning during the shoot, which made the entire One Week (singular) of principle photography a living Hell for all involved. Big Kev told me that the fact that there was copious amounts of Jamie Pressley Ass bouncing around in booty shorts made the situation somewhat tolerable, but just barely.

So yeah, you can watch like one video of DOA video game footage (and a little bit of the Beach Volleyball stuff) and know exactly what the movie is like, and that's either the Dumbest Thing You Can Imagine or it's not, really no middle ground. It's definitely not "good", but I have to give it credit for being a 1:1 live action translation of the video games. MK:A comparatively falls way short in trying to do essentially the same thing. It's not like either is "good", but MK:A also has the secondary burden of being a subpar sequel to a far superior film that actually is kind of good on its own.

Plus... y'know... Jamie Pressley. Bikini beach volleyball. Kevin Nash. No contest.
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Spawn... I was never overly impressed with. But I must say, I also was never a fan of the material. I do remember that when it was fresh, it got a lot of praise for its SFX, but they've totally aged like fruit. But altogether, my own opinion of Spawn aside, the movie was about as faithful as it possibly could have been for the time it was made, so I have to give it some credit for that. I didn't like the comic, so it's no surprise I also didn't like the movie, but I did appreciate the effort.

[Wildcat]

YouTube would probably be enough and I believe you that it’s cheesy/silly but I feel like playing through a game would make me appreciate the movie more. I know some of the names but never really learned what it was all about.

I agree about Jamie Pressley.

[ProactiveMan]

Originally Posted by Leo656

Spawn... I was never overly impressed with. But I must say, I also was never a fan of the material. I do remember that when it was fresh, it got a lot of praise for its SFX, but they've totally aged like fruit. But altogether, my own opinion of Spawn aside, the movie was about as faithful as it possibly could have been for the time it was made, so I have to give it some credit for that. I didn't like the comic, so it's no surprise I also didn't like the movie, but I did appreciate the effort.

Speaking of SFX...



... Impressive.

[ranger_scout]

I thought that the 2014 version of Annie was going to be good because I enjoyed the work that its director, Will Gluck, had done inEasy A. They also assembled a very talented group of actors, but man that film SUCKED! It absolutely deserved to win the Razzie for Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-off or Sequel. I would've been okay if Transformers: Age of Extinction had won too.

I was also actually looking forward to Dark Phoenix, but I was bored to death watching that film. What an anitclimatic way to end a nearly 20 year-old film franchise.

[Shark_Blade]

I like Amazing Spiderman movies too. The chemistry between Andrew Garfield & Emma Stone is off the chart, none of the other actors can create that magic so far. They’re award winning actors and look like A+ supermodels too.

List of disappointing movies:

• Blade Runner

• Toy Story 3

• Jurassic World 1 & 2

• Godzilla: King of the Monsters

• Annabelle Comes Home

• The entirety of Friday the 13th franchise (I was curious after playing the PS4 game)

[Egon1982]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

Let's see...

"Star Wars: The Force Awakens." DEEPLY disappointed. I'd dreamed about a sequel trilogy for decades and this is what they do? An ANH remake? Inexcusable.

I was disappointed with Prometheus but not as much as I was devastated by "Alien: Covenant." I thought Ridley would have been able to lick his wounds after Prometheus and right the ship instead of doubling down on everything that was BAD in Prometheus.

"The Predator." Just sad. Pretty horrible, largely the fault of the studio forcing 1/3 of the movie to be reshot. I don't even know if we can blame Shane Black. The man hasn't said even one word about the movie since it came out. After watching "Alien: Covenant" snuff out the Alien franchise I really was hoping this would be a win. It wasn't.

"Iron Man 3." This one I do blame Shane Black for, for the most part. BAD movie that I was looking forward to seeing, following the same bad choices in Iron Man 2. I still want the movie that was promised in this trailer, not some "subvert your expectations" Iron Man 2 do-over:



"Matrix Reloaded." BAD! Like between "Revolutions" and "Reloaded" they had about one movie's worth of anything, barely, so this one didn't feel like much of anything. Whole characters and storylines end up being pointless.

"Machete Kills." First one was awesome until it maybe got a little too crazy at the end. This sequel was BAD, through and through.

"Austin Powers 3: Goldmember." I enjoyed part 1 and REALLY enjoyed part 2, so I was pretty shocked to see how HORRID this was. Every joke fell flat to me, every bit of humor forced.

"Neverending Story 2." I swore by part 1 and couldn't wait to see part 2. Ghastly!

"Lawnmower Man 2." Same story! Super looking forward to part 2, super aghast at how bad and far off the mark they could get. It's pretty amazing, really.

"Highlander: The Source. To say I was expecting it to be "awesome" might not be true, but I was at least expecting something... decent. Or at least passable. Nope, what they delivered was a straight-up cinematic throat-slice.

Last Jedi was worse

[Andrew NDB]

* Alien Resurrection : I was greatly looking forward to it, digging through magazines to get any kind of scoops on it. Then I saw it and kind of convinced myself it was awesome for about a week and then it hit me. Nope, we all got bamboozled.

* Prometheus : Was vastly looking forward to this. Great visuals but horribly written. Still, it did NOT leave things unsalvageable by the end as long as a part 2 stayed the course on delivering on the Engineers' stuff, unlike...

* Alien: Covenant : Wow. Just horrible. Not as beautifully shot as Prometheus but fine enough. Just a "greatest hits" of moments from Alien, Aliens and surprisingly even Alien 3 with a doubling down on all of the characters behaving irrationally stupidly like Prometheus. Betrayed the promise of the end of Prometheus and simultaneously killed any possibility of continuing things. We have Ridley Scott and this thing to thank for killing both a proper Prometheus 2 AND the Blomkamp Alien 5 that would've reunited Ripley and Hicks.

* The Batman : I don't know that I was thinking it was going to be AWESOME, but I was definitely hoping I was going to be proven wrong on a lot of things and be blown away. Plus, to justify the many years of no Batman movie and the jettisoning of the Affleck version to make room for this. No, didn't really like it at all. One step forward and two, maybe three steps back in every meaningful way, IMHO.

[Autbot_Benz]

Hellboy 2019 Its literally the only movie I regret seeing in theaters. I would have rather had a 3rd Del Toro one. They turned Hellboy into a whiny bitch. I haven't seen it since I watched in theaters 4 years ago.

Constantine the Keanu Reeves one. Its nothing like the Comics. You have one of the most cynical complex british bastards in comics and you choose Mr Monotone himself Keanu Reeves to play him. ( I still love Keanu but Constantine you are not) I am glad we got Matt Ryan's comic accurate version down the road.

[DarkFell]

** The later Terminator movies. They should have stopped at Judgement Day.

** The later (or, the most recent) Star Wars films. There were a lot of people that didn't enjoy the Anakin Skywalker trilogy, but I think that it was better than what came afterwards.

** Jurassic Park should have ended, but instead we got Jurassic World.

** Iron Man 3 was lame.

** Thor 2 and 3 were meh.

** Every Predator movie after Predator 2.

[TheBlueTurtle1]

The disney star wars trilogy

[ranger_scout]

The live-action Mulan looked very good at first glance, but when I saw it was nothing but a woke mess of a film.

[Mario500]

Originally Posted by ranger_scout

The live-action Mulan looked very good at first glance, but when I saw it was nothing but a woke mess of a film.

(wonders about the "woke" in this message)

[ZariusTwo]

The Batman is definitely something I think people are high on only because they've been conditioned to think everything with a dark Batman is automatically awesome, and the Phantom Menacing doesn't wear off until much, much later.

[CyberCubed]

I really didn't think The Batman was "dark" at all, it was the same as usual, just with a more unhinged Riddler. I mean how was it any more dark than any of the Nolan movies? It was actually the same more or less.

Anyway for me the new Jurrassic Park movies. I mean I was kinda excited when the first one was coming out and then it was just meh, and then the second one even moreso. Maybe last one is the charm.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

I really didn't think The Batman was "dark" at all, it was the same as usual, just with a more unhinged Riddler. I mean how was it any more dark than any of the Nolan movies? It was actually the same more or less.

Yeah, I wouldn't call The Batman super dark. Maybe by omission. You know the fun scenes in Nolan's trilogy, like Bruce showing up with supermodels and buying the hotel? Or the ongoing banter with Lucius? Yeah, The Batman just doesn't have any scenes like that. So what's left is just an even more grounded version of "the rest."

[MikeandRaph87]

For me it is The Last Jedi. I was eager to see what was going to happen next on Ahch-To. Instead of Rey bringing Luke back and him accepting the once lost lightsaber he flings it down the mountain. The action is symbolic not just in how Johnston views expectations, characterization, and legacy, but how I feel disrespected as a fan. There is so much to list and we all know the list. However it's the expectations built so up by the creators and my own imagination that I was extremely disappointed in the actual film.

Edit: I see above that I was beaten to it by a couple of years.

[Coola Yagami]

Originally Posted by ZariusTwo

The Batman is definitely something I think people are high on only because they've been conditioned to think everything with a dark Batman is automatically awesome, and the Phantom Menacing doesn't wear off until much, much later.

Also it's the flavor of the month. It's still new. Give it a few months for the movie to really sink in. Right now you're 'crazy' if you don't act like the new Batman isn't 'the bestest movie ever'.