Most dissapointing/deceptive movie

[Vrex360]

Skyline, that alien invasion movie set in Los Angeles.

I mean I see this trailer showing huge spaceships and fighter jets battling the spaceships and human being getting sucked up into the ships and people fleeing from gigantic extraterrestrial monsters. I was expecting something amazing, like a huge epic scale alien invasion movie with planet wide chaos and destruction, as humanity tries to fight for survival.

What I got, was a bunch of people locked in an apartment building and never leaving it for literally the whole damn thing. They never manage to leave the building, they just sit there for like two hours while every now and then we see some alien attack from the distance. The acting was subpar, the story was stupid, the characters were awful, there was no tension, no drama and it pretty soon became apparent that the only action moments in the movie were done to make the trailer look good. Not to mention one of the stupidest endings I've ever seen in a movie. Stupid, anti-climactic and confusing.
A complete waste, one of the worst movies I've ever suffered through and I was excited as hell to go see it. I was excited that I was going to get to see aliens destroying Earth once more.... and it LIED TO ME!!! IT LIED!!!

For the sake of the lives of millions of people who want to be spared from my wrath, Battle: Los Angelos had better be good enough to make up for Skyline.

Also as a side note, Splice was a good movie. But it wasn't the silver chariot from the heavens that MovieBob declared it to be, so while I enjoyed watching it at the time, it wasn't worth the THREE MONTHS of impatient waiting. Or the distance I had to travel to find a cinema that was showing it.

 

[elbrandino]

I'd have to say Inglorious Bastards. I expected a hilarious take on WW2. I got 2 hours of subtitles and confusion as to what was going on.

I was also disappointed about Avatar, but honestly it wasn't that bad. It was fun to watch, but I wouldn't ever watch it again. The plot was just too predictable for me.

 

[Squilookle]

OK Here we go-

Sequels like Pirates 2, Matrix 2, MI:2, Phantom Menace. So goddamn awful.

Then there's Tropic Thunder, which failed as a comedy AND a war flick. Plus... some others I can't really think of.

Full Metal Jacket. First half was really good. Second half was way under par, IMO.

Agreed.

 

[Xanian]

Yes, but specifically the end. As in, the last three seconds. There was no lead up to that precise question that was posed, other than, from what I can see "Hey, some crazy shit happened before, what if it happened again :O"

Meh, yeah...for me it just seemed like something tacked on to make people feel all introspective or whatever. But it's not like it hasn't been done better before (you know...with Greek Philosophers).

That aside...a lot of logical stuff killed it for me. Like...the feeling of falling waking you up...but then...weightlessness? Isn't that where the feeling of falling comes from?

Just one of many that made me kind of sad in general about the films willingness to explore the human mind.

 

[twistedmic]

I think that 'The Village' was a very deceptive, yet decent movie. If it had been marketed as what it was, more of a human nature piece, than it would have been a lot less disappointing than it was.
As for disappointing, that has to go to Skin Walkers. It looked and sounded like it could be an awesome movie, but it turned out worse than a Syfy original.

 

[-Ulven-]

Dragon Wars (Or D-Wars) I saw it and saw a friggin dragon on the cover and I thought.. hey... why not it might be tacky and such but at least I'll get some good fantasy action. Turns out there are 1 TRUE dragon in the entire MOVIE! And just to top it off, it looke like a chinese dragon mated with a moose. Also the "Evil dragon" was a giant snake that just hid around in places... the ending was so bad I literaly cried. No really, it was that bad.

 

[Donald L]

10,000 B.C. for me. The sabretooth was in it for all of 5 minutes, despite being on the poster. If it was called: A Guy Goes After His Kidnapped Girlfriend, I would not have seen it.

 

[kaiser1245]

Men Who Stare at Goats.

All of the funny parts were in the trailer, and some of the funny bits in the trailer were only funny because they were taken out of context. The rest of the movie was just retarded.

 

[RedEyesBlackGamer]

Have you ever seen a film that was not only bad, but it felt deceiving beforehand? I would have to say "Lord of War" for me. My brother recommended it and I heard it was an action film, but it was more like a "Political Drama"

Yeah, I got caught out on that one.

Calling any of the Epic/Date/Superhero Movies comedies is a total lie though.

Friedberg and Seltzer need to die. Horribly. In a fire.
OP: The Transformers movies. 70 minutes until Optimus Prime's first appearance? Complete fail.

 

[McNinja]

Splice[/i[ and True Grit.

Splice because it was just the most insane and moronic thing I have ever seen.

True Grit because it was slow and never really picked up the pace, and the ending was forced and needless. Seriously, who pulls poisonous snakes closer to them?

 

[Sutter Cane]

To me, the most deceptive description given to movies is "good"

Seriously, I really hate the cinema

If you hate movies so much, why did you come to this thread and add nothing to the conversation?

OT: Also inception. I actually do like the film, and it was pretty clever, but i went in expecting it to be really confusing (like Paprika) like quite a few reviews said, however it turned out to be pretty much a straightforward heist film with a twist.

 

[DefunctTheory]

Inception, "yeah it's really good but is a total mindfuck"
Seemed pretty boring and straightforward to me really

I agree that it was fairly straightforward, but I absolutely loved Inception. If you want a total mindfuck go see Shutter Island

Are you kidding? That movie would go on this list, except it would have to surprise me to be deceptive.

Its so by the numbers that I had the entire plot, along with every twist, figured out 5 minutes into the film.

Men Who Stare at Goats.

All of the funny parts were in the trailer, and some of the funny bits in the trailer were only funny because they were taken out of context. The rest of the movie was just retarded.

Its called drama. I agree the movie belongs here, but only because the trailer was so misleading. Movie was still awesome.

Don't think so? Watch it again, but without your pre-conceived notion that its a comedy. It suddenly turns into a good film..

 

[AwesomeExpress]

Yes, Ocean's Twelve was a big dissapointment, and so was The New World and The Road.

 

[Dragonforce525]

Zombieland, I expected a zombie comedy about rules to live by in a zombie apocalypse, what I got what a road trip, with 6 zombies and a serious list that didn't make you laugh but think "Hmmm yes that is sensible...". And the amount of people that acted like this was God's gift to comedy was astonishing, the Bill Murray bit was awesome, but not worth paying for.

 

[gostlyfantom]

joke: twilight, i was expecting a dramatic romance and i got a comedy!
real: the green hornet, fucking time vampire

 

[The3rdEye]

Transformers 1

It's supposed to be 5 minutes of humans and then "make way for the ****ing robots". Just... ARGH. It didn't completely ruin my childhood memories, it just put it's hand in my pocket and fumbled around for a bit. ('net cookies to whoever gets both references)

The Mist

I get the entire "the less you see of something the scarier it is" but considering how much creature screen time was given to the ho-hum designed spider and insect/bird critters I really hoped they would have done more with all that potential for other-dimensional oddities.

Spoiler: Not REALLY a spoiler but if you plan to see it don't read this.

The tentacle sequence was pretty interesting, played out well if not predictably, but the Aklay-esque monster and the huge thing they see walking over them on the highway were infinitely more interesting in their 10-20 seconds of screen time than the entire spider sequence.

Avatar all the way. Don't get me wrong, I like pretty pictures, however I also like some meaning and originality to my entertainment. And that's coming from a sci-fi nut...

To be fair, people were saying "It's not insightful to compare Avatar's storyline to Dances With Wolves" before the movie even released. The meaning was there, it's just the same meaning as a film made almost 20 years ago, but using current technology. If Cameron wanted to do fully CG cowboys and indians, the production companies would have tossed him into a sack, tossed the sack into a river and hurled the river into space for trying to needlessly burn away their money. The alien angle was jsut a justification to make a spectacle, and really that's all anyone should have expected. Shiny new pictures, old story.

 

[Lbsjr]

Personally "Surrogates" was for me in recent memory. Yeah its good but the trailers were like WOOO BADASS AWESOME ACTION MOVIE!!!! then it was a thriller sci-fi drama. I did like it its just... come on... dont do that to me people... thats just evil.

 

[shogunblade]

I thought of Tropic Thunder this way the first time. I will be honest, I think I might have enjoyed that movie more if I had been in on the joke the first time. Or if I could have understood HALF of what Downey Jr's Kirk Lazarus's Osiris Lincoln was saying (No, that's not a mind fuck sentence; that's one of the jokes I did get) It was disappointing, then I watched it again on DVD. It's one of my favorites from that year.

Deceptive: Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children. I think we all know why...