Top 5 Disappointments of 2008
12-20-08, 10:01 AM
#76
DVD Talk Special Edition
There was not one redeeming quality for me about this movie. Everything in it was horrible - animated groundhogs, fridge nuke, tarzan Shia, cartoon ants, treasure that looked like a rejected mock-up from the skull in House 2, catatonic John Hurt, ever smiling Karen Allen on prozac, aliens, getting hit in the nuts repeatedly while straddling two cars, i could go on and on.
The only thing I can compare this to is maybe Phantom Menace, but even that isnt anywhere close to this debacle. At least phantom menace had some redeeming qualities that made it at least a little entertaining.
Again this is just my opinion. Is it the worst movie ever made? Probably not, but for me I can not think of one movie that I hate more.
12-20-08, 03:39 PM
#78
DVD Talk Legend
The Dark Knight
It's not that I thought it was a bad movie, I just expected a lot better based on all I had read and heard. A plot full of holes, lapses in logic, a running time that seemed to go on forever, and short shrift given to Two Face really took this one down from great to merely slightly above average for me.
It's not that I thought it was a bad movie, I just expected a lot better based on all I had read and heard. A plot full of holes, lapses in logic, a running time that seemed to go on forever, and short shrift given to Two Face really took this one down from great to merely slightly above average for me.
12-21-08, 03:40 AM
#79
Quantum of Solace disappointed mainly because Bond films are relatively foolproof. Marc Forster makes maudlin Oscar bait; he was totally wrong here.
Pineapple Express was laughless and joyless.
Australia exposed all the worst of Baz Luhrmann's ADD, headache-inducing style and empty, over the top storytelling.
Doomsday failed on every level. I'm including this because Neil Marshall's The Descent was highly effective and I'm a sucker for post-apocalyptic movies. Expected nothing and was STILL disappointed.
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: Nearly two decades and THIS was the best premise they could come up with?
Others: Street Kings, X-Files 2: I Want to Believe, Repo! A Genetic Opera, Be Kind Rewind.
Pineapple Express was laughless and joyless.
Australia exposed all the worst of Baz Luhrmann's ADD, headache-inducing style and empty, over the top storytelling.
Doomsday failed on every level. I'm including this because Neil Marshall's The Descent was highly effective and I'm a sucker for post-apocalyptic movies. Expected nothing and was STILL disappointed.
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: Nearly two decades and THIS was the best premise they could come up with?
Others: Street Kings, X-Files 2: I Want to Believe, Repo! A Genetic Opera, Be Kind Rewind.
12-21-08, 01:11 PM
#80
DVD Talk Legend
How anyone could put WALL-E in a worst of list, I'll never know. However, anyone who says the film hits you over the head, over-and-over-and-over again with any kind of heavy handed political message, really read too much into that. That, or the film hit a nerve, and held a mirror up to humanity, which people would rather ignore. Either way, WALL-E ranks as my TOP film of the year. Excellent film!
