[Movies] "But I wanted to love it!"

[kobold]

Are there any movies that you just wanted to love so bad but couldn't?

I wanted to love "Haunted Mansion" because that ride was so amazing. But I knew there were gonna be problems the minute Eddie Murphy was announced....

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[cinema_babe]

This isn't particularly geeky but The Avengers.

I grew watching that damn TV show (in reruns of course); I wanted to *be* Emma Peel! I like the cast of the movie, Uma Thurman sounded good, I could see Ralph Finnes as John Steed. I went opening night with my (then) boyfriend, and my best friend and her boyfriend.

What a piece of shit.

It was so bad that when the movie ended everyone in the theater sat in their seats in stunned silence. Well every one except for me and my BF, we were howling in laughter because e couldn't believe how god awful it was.

[salem_wikkat]

Pi. The plot was unique. It followed a man who was trying to find an equation to predict stock prices. However, he falls into a conspiracy between some Orthadox Jews and Bankers while the equation he finds slowly rots away his sanity.

trailer nsfw for language.

It's a highly advant-garde film but its just... I don't know. It just didn't meet the full potential of the plot or storyline.

Just throwing this out.

[salem_wikkat]

There was a movie I thought I'd hate but actually loved that I think should be mentioned. Darkon. It was epic but not for the reasons the participants and director intended it for.

[xanath]

Uh . . . Dune. By David Lynch.

I wanted to love this movie so much. I'd just finished reading Dune and Dune Messiah. I thought Kyle McLachlan and Sean Young made a perfect Paul and Chani. I was thrilled that Sting was playing Feyd-Rautha. (What the hell, I'm still a diehard Police fan.) I could just see the Space Guilders, the Bene Gesserit, the Fremen . . .

And then my friends and I saw it in the theaters.

My "OMGWTF" reaction quickly turned to wholehearted love when, the moment sandworms appeared, my best friend blurted out, "Oh, my God, it's a space penis!" We cracked up, and so did a few people near us. So it left me with warm memories to soothe the disappointment.

(I tried watching the USA Network remake. To say I wanted to claw out my eyeballs is an understatement.)

[xanath]

Note: I love the movie for its own wretchedness, but as a genuine translation of Frank Herbert's work to the silver screen? No. God, no. Even without wriggling space penii.

[historychick49]

Exactly. I thought the casting was pretty good (and even though Sting's Feyd-Rautha wasn't terribly true to the book, he was still awesome)... but. The entire ending was completely wrong, and as for the spaceworms...

I also didn't like the mostly-glowing blue eyes of the Fremen.

In the miniseries, the only two things I liked were Duncan Idaho (what? I thought he was cute) and Feyd-Rautha, who was indeed a lot closer to the book.

[madbaker]

Blues Brothers 2000. Good music, good actors, but not a good movie.

[cygnia]

I wanted to love the movie version of "The Avengers". :-/