Comments | kobold: [Movies] "But I wanted to love it!"

kobold

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

Sep 23, 2010 18:04

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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typbrunette September 24 2010, 05:35:24 UTC

Any movie that sounded cool originally but then wound up having Tom Cruise in it.

kobold September 24 2010, 11:09:25 UTC

... statements like this? Just one reason I adore you.

historychick49 September 24 2010, 13:37:12 UTC

Now now, he WAS really good in Interview with a Vampire.

mattwolf September 24 2010, 06:45:44 UTC

Avatar. How anyone can stand that movie boggles my mind! I suppose twelve year old boys might think Pocahontas might have been better if you added robots and dinosaurs, but some of us prefer this weird thing called 'plot'.

historychick49 September 24 2010, 13:38:34 UTC

The visuals are amazing, pure and simple. But that doesn't entirely make up for the "Fern Gully IN SPACE" plot.

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historychick49 September 24 2010, 13:39:47 UTC

I agree, although of the three, I think Revenge of the Sith came closest to emulating the originals.

Plus the final battle between Qui-Gon Jinn, Obi-wan Kenobi, and Darth Maul kicked ass.

polarisdib September 24 2010, 09:56:06 UTC

This is not, uh... this is not in the same "I love the material but wtf did they do with it?" situation, but it is a "Everything about this concept made me very excited and then I saw it annnnddd..."

There's a documentary filmmaker named Frederick Wiseman who makes these fly-on-the-wall form of social documentaries, generally revolving around institutions (High School, Titticut Follies (mental asylum), Juvenile Court). They are very, very good.

So he has this movie called The Last Letter, which is about the Holocaust. I think to myself, "If there's any documentarian who could outdo Night and Fog and make a legitimately good Holocaust documentary, it is Frederick Wiseman."

Instead, he turned the Holocaust into a piece of performance art.

YEAH.

Still vibrating with an undercurrent of rage about that one.

--PolarisDiB

bigangry September 24 2010, 11:16:22 UTC

Not so much a movie, but I really, really hope Sony doesn't fuck up DC Universe Online after this...