ScarletLion's 10 Most disappointing movies ever.

[ScarletLion]

Not the worst movies ever. But the most over-hyped, over-blown, overrated waste of effort and money flicks I've ever had the misfortune to watch.

10. About Schmidt
9. The 51st State
8. Melancholia
7. Jaws 2 or 3 or 4. Take your pick.
6. Knowing
5. Titanic
4. War of the Worlds
3. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
2. Locke
1. The Avengers Assemble

[MovieMeditation]

Not the worst movies ever. But the most over-hyped, over-blown, overrated waste of effort and money flicks I've ever had the misfortune to watch.

10. About Schmidt
9. The 51st State
8. Melancholia
7. Jaws 2 or 3 or 4. Take your pick.
6. Knowing
5. Titanic
4. War of the Worlds
3. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
2. Locke
1. The Avengers Assemble
Agree with the bolded out of different reasons of course. And I'm not sure overhyped, overbloated etc. is the right word, but these movies wasn't that great or even sucked.

[Justin]

Not the worst movies ever. But the most over-hyped, over-blown, overrated waste of effort and money flicks I've ever had the misfortune to watch.

10. About Schmidt
9. The 51st State
8. Melancholia
7. Jaws 2 or 3 or 4. Take your pick.
6. Knowing
5. Titanic
4. War of the Worlds
3. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
2. Locke
1. The Avengers Assemble

Could you elaborate a little?

[Citizen Rules]

8. Melancholia...that movie was over hyped? Actually it's not talked about much at all, so maybe under hyped? Or at least under seen. I liked Melancholia, it's visual in a odd-yet-stylish way. It was strange, in the way the story narrative didn't follow a standard pot boiler story. It was quirky without being obvious.


5. Titanic...The quintessential love story, set agaisnt real events that were so tragic and yet full of human emotions...from greed, prejudices, class snobery, to self sacrifice.

4. War of the Worlds, Which one? The original was near perfect. The Tom Cruise version wasn't bad either.

[Sedai]

Is The Avengers Assemble the animated show? Or are you talking about the film The Avengers?

[ScarletLion]

8. Melancholia...that movie was over hyped? Actually it's not talked about much at all, so maybe under hyped? Or at least under seen. I liked Melancholia, it's visual in a odd-yet-stylish way. It was strange, in the way the story narrative didn't follow a standard pot boiler story. It was quirky without being obvious.

It was overhyped by a lot of film buffs and a lot of critics. I thought it was dreary (yes I know the subject matter caused this). I thought Kieffer Sutherland was horribly miscast and I just thought it bored me.


5. Titanic...The quintessential love story, set agaisnt real events that were so tragic and yet full of human emotions...from greed, prejudices, class snobery, to self sacrifice.

It was beyond sentimental. It was gushing, overacted and overrated. Just because it was set against real events doesn't mean it instantly stirs more emotion.

4. War of the Worlds, Which one? The original was near perfect. The Tom Cruise version wasn't bad either.

The Tom Cruise one. I thought it was pretty dreadful. It felt rushed and I didn't feel any empathy towards anybody in the film. It wasn't chilling enough.

[ScarletLion]

Is The Avengers Assemble the animated show? Or are you talking about the film The Avengers?

The Avengers (2012)

It was just a fight that lasted 2 hours. In CGI.

I may as well have watched somebody play Tekken on the XBox. Awful, awful waste of time and money.

[TylerDurden99]

I love both Titanic and The Avengers, but the others are pretty bad, excluding the few I haven't seen.


War Of The worlds does indeed suck, and that's coming from Australia's biggest Tom Cruise fan.

[Gideon58]

I can understand About Schmidt making your list...if anyone but Jack Nicholson had played the lead, the film would have been completely intolerable.

[Derek Vinyard]

totally agree with Titanic and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

totally disagree with Locke and The Avengers

[Mr Minio]

Maybe by Melancholia he meant Philippinean 450 minutes long monster of a film directed by Lav Diaz?

[Gideon58]

I agree regarding the Tom Cruise version of War of the Worlds...terrible movie.

[Voigan]

The Avengers (2012)

It was just a fight that lasted 2 hours. In CGI.

I may as well have watched somebody play Tekken on the XBox. Awful, awful waste of time and money.
And what made you expect anything else from a Marvel superhero movie? Complaining about Marvel blockbusters being filled with CGI filled fight scenes is like complaining about Hitchcock's movies having lots of crime, violence, and twist endings; it's a staple of that particular type of film. (And now I'm probably going to burn in cinephile hell for mentioning Marvel and Hitchcock in the same sentence.)

[The Gunslinger45]

And what made you expect anything else from a Marvel superhero movie? Complaining about Marvel blockbusters being filled with CGI filled fight scenes is like complaining about Hitchcock's movies having lots of crime, violence, and twist endings; it's a staple of that particular type of film. (And now I'm probably going to burn in cinephile hell for mentioning Marvel and Hitchcock in the same sentence.)

Or complaining that slasher movies are filled with blood, kills, and boobs.