Most disappointing movies you ever saw in the cinema/theater?

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That's an awful film, but considering how the series had diminished in quality with the past entries, I really had no expectations for it, so I was not disappointed. I mean, it's awful, but I was expecting it to be awful.
I would agree the 4th movie was not a Die Hard movie but rather a good action film but the 3rd movie was excellent. The drop off in the 5th was massive. It's hardly a movie.



I would agree the 4th movie was not a Die Hard movie but rather a good action film but the 3rd movie was excellent. The drop off in the 5th was massive. It's hardly a movie.
I know I'm alone but I don't like the third. Have serious issues with it. Like you, I mildly enjoyed the fourth one as far as mindless action goes, but I was already tuned off the franchise to the point that I didn't really have any expectations about the fifth one.
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I don't know how high my expectations were going into The Predator, but it did astound me how bad it managed to get with each passing minute, somehow landing on the most obnoxious artistic decision at every opportunity. One of the most ambitiously ****ty major releases I can think of.


There's also The Strange Colour of Your Body's Tears, which I waited three hours in the cold to see during TIFF and left the theatre with a sore neck thanks to a scene involving alternating split screens while I sat in the front row. I have since learned to buy tickets in advance.



I know I'm alone but I don't like the third. Have serious issues with it. Like you, I mildly enjoyed the fourth one as far as mindless action goes, but I was already tuned off the franchise to the point that I didn't really have any expectations about the fifth one.
I've made this point before, but it bears repeating that, over time, the Die Hard sequels became increasingly "Flanderized", and more and more like the kind of excessive, ridiculously over-the-top Action movies that the original film was deconstructing in the first place, either getting more generic (Die Harder), more ridiculous (Vengeance), or both (Live Free Or Die Hard). Plus, they lost a lot of the personality that the original had, to the point that, by the fourth film, it's gotten so generic that you could've swapped out McClane for any other random action hero and nothing else would've changed, and by the time John's surviving a fall down a 15 story building with nary a scratch and fighting to stop the theft of nuclear weapons in Russia in A Good Day, it might as well be a Bond movie, you know?



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I've made this point before, but it bears repeating that, over time, the Die Hard sequels became increasingly "Flanderized", and more and more like the kind of excessive, ridiculously over-the-top Action movies that the original film was deconstructing in the first place, either getting more generic (Die Harder), more ridiculous (Vengeance), or both (Live Free Or Die Hard). Plus, they lost a lot of the personality that the original had, to the point that, by the fourth film, it's gotten so generic that you could've swapped out McClane for any other random action hero and nothing else would've changed, and by the time John's surviving a fall down a 15 story building with nary a scratch and fighting to stop the theft of nuclear weapons in Russia in A Good Day, it might as well be a Bond movie, you know?
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The thing about the thread title is that it begs the question of how high a given person's expectations really were when they went in to a given movie. I didn't have high expectations for The Last Jedi because I thought The Force Awakens was middling (and knowing that Abrams would direct Rise of Skywalker tempered my expectations for that). It's that same tempering of expectations that means I have to go ages back to find something sufficiently disappointing for this thread - while part of me also wants to pick Quantum of Solace (a fair answer considering that it wastes the potential offered by the Bond franchise returning to form in Casino Royale) but I think my pick has to be Zack and Miri Make a Porno for effectively burning me on Kevin Smith, who I considered one of my favourite filmmakers at the time.
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Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. After the Star Trek II, III, and IV trilogy was so good, Star Trek V was a huge disappointment.
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THE PHANTOM MENACE!!! I saw it in the theater with my college friends. That's an awful film I certainly enjoyed.



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Freddy Got Fingered - wasn't my idea but one night, my friends and I got bored and one of them came up with the idea to see this. I was so grossed out and rolled my eyes throughout the film. I will never forget the look I gave my friend when we went to the diner afterwards.

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Transformers

I'd somehow made it to 2007 without ever having seen a Michael Bay film so I was completely unprepared for the stupidity. I went solely because the trailers looked awesome. Imagine my disappointment when I later found myself with robot testes swinging in my face.

And I'm not even a Transformers guy. I was too old for the toys and the cartoons back in the day, so I had no investment in any of it. Blech. Still the only Bay film I've seen, in a theater or otherwise.
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Transformers

I'd somehow made it to 2007 without ever having seen a Michael Bay film so I was completely unprepared for the stupidity. I went solely because the trailers looked awesome. Imagine my disappointment when I later found myself with robot testes swinging in my face.

And I'm not even a Transformers guy. I was too old for the toys and the cartoons back in the day, so I had no investment in any of it. Blech. Still the only Bay film I've seen, in a theater or otherwise.
Oh, I had investment; and I remember those balls well, a scourge on the silver screen, literally tea-bagging my childhood. I couldn't move. I couldn't turn away from his.... from his lifeless balls, metal balls, like a doll's balls. When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be livin'... I remember that day all too well. Sometimes, I think it was a dream, oh giant, horrific robot balls---a nightmare---but then I remember my young cousin speaking, he was speaking to me. On and on. About how great the movie was. Poor bastard. That poor, wretched soul.
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Well, I'm going to cheat because this was on the tube. But given the film he came from and the character portrayed had so much potential, only to fall flat on its face. That film is "The Jesus Rolls".