Missed Opportunities in Entertainment

[Glongpre]

A thought popped back into my head today, and that is that Enter The Dragon missed a huge opportunity to have an awesome Bruce vs Bolo fight, that could have rivaled Van Damme vs Bolo.

Instead we get a very lackluster and funky looking fight between Bolo and some white guy. Incredibly disappointing. Damn execs thinking they know what the public wants!!

Spoiler: Scene in question

Bruce was all ready to go too!

Does anyone have any other examples of this kind of bad directing? It can be from any kind of entertainment (movie, game, novel...music video?!)

 

[Silentpony_v1legacy]

As much as I think its the best thing since people invented idioms, Zootopia should have had more of Nick's background. The cup scout meeting wasn't enough in my opinion. I would have liked them to keep some of the original story arc and have Nick's dad try to start a tailoring business. It would have added something to the character. And then you can have his dad be at Nick's police graduation.

Also when did we establish Nick's dad died? 'cause I can't find that even in the cut expanded cannon.

 

[Saelune]

The entirety of The Force Awakens.

Would have wanted it to have the good guys start off as in power and fine, and the bad guys be the rebels who make them realize they were not paying attention. Also Luke's kid being the main character (if Rey is Luke's daughter though, that is stupid).

And Luke and his kid aren't getting along well. Luke wants them to be a good Jedi, but he tries to instill the old ways that were too stuffy, while his kid is more rebellious. And..at some point (though probably in the sequel) Luke tries to have a heart to heart talk with his kid, and says "Look, I am your father...I just want what is best for you" or something like that. I suppose the response being "That's not true, that's impossible...you don't understand how I feel"

Basically Luke trying to be the father Vader wasn't, but finding it hard...and also new Jedi everywhere, cause for all the flaws of the prequels...I like having Jedi and Sith fighting each other.

 

[Silentpony_v1legacy]

Not going full Cthulhu in True Detective.

You never go full Cthulhu.

 

[the December King]

I think that if you cut the first ten minutes off of The Sixth Sense, it could have been an actual, delightful twist that worked and made the audience feel like a part of the process, instead of the ham-fisted way it went down in an otherwise excellent film.

 

[Catnip1024]

The fact that to this day there is no Batman v Predator movie.

Or if we are talking about films that actually exist, the fact that Star Wars the Force Awakens wasn't a musical. Come on, Disney. You got my hopes up and everything...

 

[Silentpony_v1legacy]

Not going full Cthulhu in True Detective.

You never go full Cthulhu.

Did any show actually did try to go full Cthulu?

South Park went full Cthulhu, and they had to make him an adorable sidekick to Cartman with a funny little song. That's the only way anyone can take Cthulhu seriously.

 

[Zontar]

also new Jedi everywhere, cause for all the flaws of the prequels...I like having Jedi and Sith fighting each other.

Plus without the Empire to violently suppress force users it would naturally happen anyway.

Personally I'm greatly disappointed the Imperial Remnant didn't even get a mention in the movie. I'm still unsure if it even exists given how the First Order was stated to have been in the shadows, something the rest of the Imperials simply would not have done.

Then again, if I had a crack at it the movie would have been very different indeed (and much more in line with the Thrawn Trilogy)

 

[Saelune]

The entirety of The Force Awakens.

Would have wanted it to have the good guys start off as in power and fine, and the bad guys be the rebels who make them realize they were not paying attention. Also Luke's kid being the main character (if Rey is Luke's daughter though, that is stupid).

And Luke and his kid aren't getting along well. Luke wants them to be a good Jedi, but he tries to instill the old ways that were too stuffy, while his kid is more rebellious. And..at some point (though probably in the sequel) Luke tries to have a heart to heart talk with his kid, and says "Look, I am your father...I just want what is best for you" or something like that. I suppose the response being "That's not true, that's impossible...you don't understand how I feel"

Basically Luke trying to be the father Vader wasn't, but finding it hard...and also new Jedi everywhere, cause for all the flaws of the prequels...I like having Jedi and Sith fighting each other.

I wouldn't make it about their children. The Skywalker story went on long enough. I didn't really want another story about a naive child learning the force either. I'd make Rey a wandering battle-hardened jedi, formerly of Luke's school, who has lost faith and forsaken the jedi ways after seeing some shit in the battles following the Battle of Endor. She has no biases one way or the other. The question throughout the trilogy would then be whether she joins the dark side or the light. We see her lean both ways. Remnants of the Empire would still remain in the corners of the Galaxy, slowly reorganizing, like you said. No desert planet, no droid with secret information, no Death Star imitation, put Han Solo in an important military or rebuilding position, make Leia a politician instead of a freedom fighter. They're too old to be doing the same thing.

I just think it would be neat to see how Luke, someone with -major- father issues, handles it himself. But not a must.

Also, as cool as Jedi seem, they are kind of a super stuffy religious cult, and I don't like the almost literal black and white it tries to present. The Dark Side as presented makes no sense. Id certainly like greater moral ambiguity in how The Force is treated. Emotions of anger and hate can lead to good too, if the anger and hate is directed at evil.

And being a remake of a New Hope was also the biggest failing of the movie. People didn't wait decades for more of the same.

 

[Saelune]

also new Jedi everywhere, cause for all the flaws of the prequels...I like having Jedi and Sith fighting each other.

Plus without the Empire to violently suppress force users it would naturally happen anyway.

Personally I'm greatly disappointed the Imperial Remnant didn't even get a mention in the movie. I'm still unsure if it even exists given how the First Order was stated to have been in the shadows, something the rest of the Imperials simply would not have done.

Then again, if I had a crack at it the movie would have been very different indeed (and much more in line with the Thrawn Trilogy)

I was mostly hoping that we would start with Luke leading a batch of new young Jedi-in-training. I do hope they up the count in the sequels though if they intend on winning me over.

The entirety of The Force Awakens.

Would have wanted it to have the good guys start off as in power and fine, and the bad guys be the rebels who make them realize they were not paying attention. Also Luke's kid being the main character (if Rey is Luke's daughter though, that is stupid).

And Luke and his kid aren't getting along well. Luke wants them to be a good Jedi, but he tries to instill the old ways that were too stuffy, while his kid is more rebellious. And..at some point (though probably in the sequel) Luke tries to have a heart to heart talk with his kid, and says "Look, I am your father...I just want what is best for you" or something like that. I suppose the response being "That's not true, that's impossible...you don't understand how I feel"

Basically Luke trying to be the father Vader wasn't, but finding it hard...and also new Jedi everywhere, cause for all the flaws of the prequels...I like having Jedi and Sith fighting each other.

I wouldn't make it about their children. The Skywalker story went on long enough. I didn't really want another story about a naive child learning the force either. I'd make Rey a wandering battle-hardened jedi, formerly of Luke's school, who has lost faith and forsaken the jedi ways after seeing some shit in the battles following the Battle of Endor. She has no biases one way or the other. The question throughout the trilogy would then be whether she joins the dark side or the light. We see her lean both ways. Remnants of the Empire would still remain in the corners of the Galaxy, slowly reorganizing, like you said. No desert planet, no droid with secret information, no Death Star imitation, put Han Solo in an important military or rebuilding position, make Leia a politician instead of a freedom fighter. They're too old to be doing the same thing.

I just think it would be neat to see how Luke, someone with -major- father issues, handles it himself. But not a must.

Also, as cool as Jedi seem, they are kind of a super stuffy religious cult, and I don't like the almost literal black and white it tries to present. The Dark Side as presented makes no sense. Id certainly like greater moral ambiguity in how The Force is treated. Emotions of anger and hate can lead to good too, if the anger and hate is directed at evil.

And being a remake of a New Hope was also the biggest failing of the movie. People didn't wait decades for more of the same.

You mean more grey zones and examinations of both sides of the force, like in Knights of the Old Republic II? That's kind of where I was going with this story. No amnesia, though. I would almost want her to become a Sith in the third movie.

An interesting twist, but still, we want the good guys to win. Though if she wants to force choke someone, I'm game.

 

[Padwolf]

Though it kills me to say it, being a mega huge harry potter head, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Damn that was a missed opportunity. It could have been brilliant, it had all the parts there, I was enjoying the idea of it. Then the twist happened. In my opinion, I've seen better stuff on fanfiction.net.

I spent over an hour going back over deathly hallows, trying to make sense of it all. Thinking that somewhere in deathly hallows there must be something, anything. Nope. Nothing. It really was like they pulled the plot out of their arses.

 

[Tanis]

The fact that there isn't an 'I, Jedi' movie.
And now, thanks to the 'legends' shit, there never will be.

 

[Glongpre]

Though it kills me to say it, being a mega huge harry potter head, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Damn that was a missed opportunity. It could have been brilliant, it had all the parts there, I was enjoying the idea of it. Then the twist happened. In my opinion, I've seen better stuff on fanfiction.net.

I spent over an hour going back over deathly hallows, trying to make sense of it all. Thinking that somewhere in deathly hallows there must be something, anything. Nope. Nothing. It really was like they pulled the plot out of their arses.

I was under the impression Rowling was done with Potter. I don't know why she decided to write another. And isn't it in play format? That would be annoying to read.

The entirety of The Force Awakens.

I rewatched it, and it wasn't near as good as I remembered. It was on par with Lucas writing, and I thought he was gone!!
Well, it can't get any worse, they should at least know now that fans want something original and perhaps, a little daring, a little risky.

Not going full Cthulhu in True Detective.

They were close though, with that whole black hole thing. Season 1 is my favourite show, and I thought the ending was good. I wouldn't have been mad if they went full on nihilistic, but the ending was nice, it wrapped up the show well.

And the villain was awesome, really scary dude.

The missed opportunity was the season 2 possibly gay, motorcycle cop, god warrior guy. And a lot of other things that I don't want to get into because I was disappointed by season 2. At least Colin Farrel's character was fun to watch. I was sold on his character after the first episode.

 

[Zontar]

The entirety of The Force Awakens.

I rewatched it, and it wasn't near as good as I remembered. It was on par with Lucas writing, and I thought he was gone!!
Well, it can't get any worse, they should at least know now that fans want something original and perhaps, a little daring, a little risky.

See, that's what I've been saying for months now. The movie is not that good when one actually looks at it without the hype and without the nostalgia.