The Gunslinger45's top 12 Biggest Film Disappointments

Not sure why anyone would be angry. I'm a fan of Tarantino but I will say he has disappointed me before.

I didn't like Alien vs Predator, but I wasn't disappointed.

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The Hateful Eight and Django made me feel like Quentin should stop jerking off to his own scripts and instead register for a screenplay workshop. Too long and exhausting stuff man.

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I liked Hateful Eight but can see why some don't. Not too crazy about Django.

If Tarantino is the cinematic equivalent of communism then Michael Bay must be the cinematic equivalent of capitalism - a broken system that is the logical conclusion of man's willingness to favour self-preservation over altruism where those who are most vocal about its flaws matter very little to the people who keep the system going out of greed or ignorance or both.

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I will never understand your hatred for Tarantino. He should be tailor made for you.

In any case, I don't rank him as a personal favorite but I LOVE Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained and really liked The Hateful 8. I like Pulp Fiction too, but haven't watched it in a long time. Reservoir Dogs is good but it didn't blow me away. I HATE both Kill Bill movies.

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From your top five i've not seen Machete, Prometheus or Alien vs Predator. Have saw one of the Alien vs Predator sequels though, the one with the temple it was awful. I can agree with Shaun of the Dead, i quite like it but i've never been as into the Cornetto Trilogy as everyone else seems to and i don't find them that funny. I like Tarantino but alot less than i used to, Reservoir Dogs is the only one of his films i really love.

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Shaun of the Dead I agree with. Seen it a few times now and still don't really like it. But it's pretty fun. The two sequels however, I love!!

Alien vs Predator. Yeah, a huge let down.

For me, Fight Club was not about the twist. I think I might have known about the twist too and I wasn't huge on it at first. But it gets better and better and there is so much put into that movie it's crazy. It's the script/ dialogue, story and attention to detail that amazes me everytime. But what I hate is not that you find it overrated because you just didn't click with it. The problem is those who think they are great cinephiles if they talk the movie down. "I used to love it but now not so much. It's a wannabe cinephile movie to like." Like, it's popular so you won't say you like it? Jeesh...

Promethues was a let-down for me at first, but now I really like it. It's only a loose spiritual compagnon-piece to the Alien universe, but what it really is, is an exploring of the human existince or just life in general and a philosophical journey that has so many interesting ideas and angles throughout - and on top of that it's really entertaining when it kicks in!

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What got me was the complaint about how little screen-time the actual Basterds had in Basterds as if that wasn't actually a good thing in the end. Tarantino's been subverting expectations for much of his career (at least as far back as Jackie Brown) so I didn't mind at all that the heart of his war movie wasn't the team of gung-ho soldiers causing sadistic and largely fruitless mayhem but the orphaned refugee finding a way to fight back against her oppressors.

I wonder how much of that is due to the fact that Fight Club can be so easily misunderstood and that people who missed the point at first (i.e. not realising that Tyler is actually a hypocritical villain instead of a smart and cool anti-hero) end up denouncing the movie as an ineffectual attempt at satire once they realise their error. At least, that's kind of where I'm at with it. I don't hate the movie or anything, but now that I've realised that my original appreciation of the movie stemmed from a misguided interpretation I feel like I need to re-evaluate it completely. The twist doesn't even factor into what I think of the movie now.

I'm a Fincher fan, but I'm no fan of Fight Club.

And yet Michael Bay can make a movie I actually like.

It is not hatred. If it was hatred this would be a far different list. But you are right he should be tailor made. He should be an all time favorite director. But he is not. Hence he is the biggest cinematic disappointment.

I can understand being disappointed with Tarantino as there are a few of his films that I thought were quite boring and not that great (Inglorious Basterds being the biggest one) but I really can't understand it when people say Reservoir Dogs is boring. Its starts off with such a bang when you have a guy in the back of a car convulsing due to being shot in the stomach and there's blood everywhere. I just can't see how people find a beginning like that boring and uninteresting.

Anyways, great job on this and looking forward to the next list!

I always knew that Tyler was a bad guy but he was one of those charismatic bad guys that most people can't help but like. I think the ending makes it obvious enough that Tyler wasn't really an anti-hero but an evil entity who wanted to bring about chaos. Even the Narrator ended up realizing that which is why what happened at the end, happened.

I agree with Movie Med that there seems to be quite a few people that say they once liked it but then all of a sudden act like they're "above it" now and "outgrew" the movie. It's fine if they want to act like that but I've watched it a bunch of times over the course of 14 years and still think it's amazing, so I obviously don't agree with that sentiment.

I don't think i'm above it or have outgrew it, just think i've seen it too many times and i'm more into other kinds of films now. Still like it it's just not one of my favourites anymore.

That's ridiculous, sorry. I don't think I'm above it at all - I have simply not enjoyed it the last few times. Obviously everyone is different, and that's why you like it on repeat viewings while I didn't. Not because I think I'm "above it".

You got to try harder Guns to be controversial so far I agree with you!

Well the only reason I say it like that is because I remember a while ago someone literally said they "outgrew it" like it was some kind of kids movie, which kinda irked me. I have no problem with people just not liking it that much but giving odd reasons like that is when it sounds silly to me. I wasn't aiming at a particular person just talking about past experiences when discussing Fight Club.

If nothing else, this has made me wonder what films I'd put on a "biggest disappointments" list. Some of the major contenders would be Crank, Zombieland, Hobo with a Shotgun, Zack and Miri Make a Porno, Superbad, Pineapple Express, Grey Gardens, The Departed, and the films of Woody Allen.