disappointing films

[Balgin Stondraeg]

Aliens (Alien 2). It was rubbish. Where was the claustrophobic lots of people and one lethal monster thing? You didn't have to worry about where the monster might be coming from because you knew they'd be coming from all directiona at once very quickly. In that respect I found it very boring and not scary at all (unlike the others which were pretty cool).

You can see where the genestealers came from (but that's not a bad thing).

I suppose my first impressions weren't helped by the fact that the first time I watched it some psycho had the remote control and kept on insisting on rewinding to see "good bits" again (and insisted on rewinding perfectly to catch the swear words, he thought the swear words were the good bits ).

[Wristaction]

Dawn of the Dead remake: See above

Land of the Dead: George Romero should not be allowed the budget he asks for for his films

Cannibal Holocaust: It needed better effects for it's concept to work

Gladiator: I still can't stick with it all the way through, Sparticus was so much better

Resident Evil and it's sequal: It just sucked ass

Pitch Black: Nothing Happened and the characters sucked

Underworld: It's the poor man's blade

Return of the King: I'm not even gonna start, there's too much wrong with this film from Tolkien's sucky cop outs to Peter Jackson's poor editing, i can't enjoy this film

anything with "based on a true story" in the description (of course these filmsaren't dissapointing, i have no hopes for them to begin with)

I enjoyed all these films and Alien 3 as well.

With Cannibal Holocaust you have to remember the age of it as it was banned in the uk since 1982 and so is about 25-26 years old now.
It was mostly shock horror with a weak story and bad acting but some real nasty bit's in it.

True storys:
If you want a name of a good one then watch "The Lost Battalion" as it is a very good true story.
It's about an American battalion in WW I that gets trapped behind enemy lines because the other battalions on there left and right don't reach there objectives.
They only have what water, ammo and food they were carrying and must search the dead bodies for more, all the time they are under enemy shell fire, sniper attack and assault from enemy troops.
This is a good one for you to watch Kev for the 1st world war uniforms and weapons.

[carsjr]

S1ND3X I loved the Dawn of the Dead remake.

I did too!  In fact, much more than the 1979 one.

The first RE movie wasn't too bad.  I was ok.  I saw part of the second one on HBO - the jive 'Thunderdome' duel there at the end with Milla and the Nemesis was the part I saw - what a Load.

I liked Pitch Black (have yet to see the sequel), and Gladiator.

My 2 pesos worth of Alien 3 and Resurrection is that as stand-alone Sci-fi movie, they're pretty good - as part of the "Alien" franchise, they are a bit lacking compaired to the first two films.

[S1ND3X]

Aliens (Alien 2). It was rubbish. Where was the claustrophobic lots of people and one lethal monster thing?

the thing about Aliens is when they made it trying to recreate Alien would have been pointless, so they went in a completely different direction, they made a sci fi action movie which in my opinion surpasses the original

[Balgin Stondraeg]

Aliens (Alien 2). It was rubbish. Where was the claustrophobic lots of people and one lethal monster thing?

the thing about Aliens is when they made it trying to recreate Alien would have been pointless, so they went in a completely different direction, they made a sci fi action movie which in my opinion surpasses the original

Well the only decent part of the film for me was when a vehicle or light craft exploded fairly early on. Suddenly this scafolding pole which looks like it was never part of the thing in the first place, comes flying out of the explosion seemingly too late to have been blasted out, and lands with a really loud clang that you can hear over all the other sounds very clearly.

[Lonewolf]

Balgin - make a sentance out of these 3 words...

Life A Get

     

[Klute]

Aliens......rubbish.......

One of the all time classic sci fi horror flicks everer.

I wont even begin to anwser Sindix or whatever the name spells.
Practically everyone of those films is most bodacious.

Like totally dude.

[Big Boris]

Serenity: Before anyone (esp. Andy and Kev) gets their knickers in a twist, This movie is great provided you have seen the Firefly series first. Without Firefly, Serenity has huge plot holes that never really get explained in the movie, but make sense within the context of the show. BTW, I hated the fact that they killed off two of my favorite characters. But River is as mean a fighter as they come.

I hadn't seen the show before I wnet to see the movie. I loved the movie. Loved it so much I bought the firefly DVD series the next day. Now I'm just waiting for the movie DVD to arrive so I can watch it in a new light, having seen the TV show. Knickers....twisting....oh, wait, don't wear any.

What the hell is twisting??

[Wristaction]

Serenity: Before anyone (esp. Andy and Kev) gets their knickers in a twist, This movie is great provided you have seen the Firefly series first. Without Firefly, Serenity has huge plot holes that never really get explained in the movie, but make sense within the context of the show. BTW, I hated the fact that they killed off two of my favorite characters. But River is as mean a fighter as they come.

I hadn't seen the show before I wnet to see the movie. I loved the movie. Loved it so much I bought the firefly DVD series the next day. Now I'm just waiting for the movie DVD to arrive so I can watch it in a new light, having seen the TV show. Knickers....twisting....oh, wait, don't wear any.

What the hell is twisting??

I got mine before christmas from playusa.com and they have Zathura out on tuesday too.

Balgin Stondraeg

Aliens (Alien 2). It was rubbish. Where was the claustrophobic lots of people and one lethal monster thing? You didn't have to worry about where the monster might be coming from because you knew they'd be coming from all directiona at once very quickly. In that respect I found it very boring and not scary at all (unlike the others which were pretty cool).

You can see where the genestealers came from (but that's not a bad thing).

I suppose my first impressions weren't helped by the fact that the first time I watched it some psycho had the remote control and kept on insisting on rewinding to see "good bits" again (and insisted on rewinding perfectly to catch the swear words, he thought the swear words were the good bits Sad).

You didnot see it properly and was being annoyed while you were watching it too, thats why you didnot enjoy it.
Get hold of the special edition and watch it yourself and you will find it's a lot better than you remember.

[Mad McGobbo]

Yes Balgy, watch Aliens again on your own, trust me you'll like it

[Big Boris]

And try to ignore the 80's style clothing and hair. We all find big hair funny nowadays, of course.


Erm...oh. (remembers Balgin's pic on Frappr). Not funny. Alluring. That's what I meant.

[Wristaction]

And try to ignore the 80's style clothing and hair. We all find big hair funny nowadays, of course.


Erm...oh. (remembers Balgin's pic on Frappr). Not funny. Alluring. That's what I meant.

He look's like the guy in the add with that hair.

 

[Vermis]

What the hell is twisting??

There are far too many jokes about your... anatomy on the FoD these days...

You didnot see it properly and was being annoyed while you were watching it too, thats why you didnot enjoy it.
Get hold of the special edition

Or the double feature set of SE Aliens and SE Predator.

I can't think of many films that disappointed me.  With most, what I expect is what I get.
I could mention the LotR trilogy.  So many terrible changes from the books that didn't really have anything to do with film length or making the story more accessible to movie audiences.
And... *dons uber-geek helmet*  Godzilla: Final Wars.  Expected an all-out no-holds-barred earth-shaking monster battle.  The few tiny bits that actually featured monsters (swamped by wannabe X-men vs. shades+trenchcoat alien) could win the award for cheesiest Godzilla moments.

Now that's cheesy.

[Balgin Stondraeg]

Yes Balgy, watch Aliens again on your own, trust me you'll like it

Maybe it'll seem better after the 13 year break.

[libertee]

disappointing films??

land of the dead.

[Ray's Bat]

Is that what's put you off zombies for a while?

[Wristaction]

disappointing films??

land of the dead.

Too much hype which it didn't come near.
The Zombies seemed added so they could show more gore but could have been left out and make no real differance to the story.
Being a big fan of Zombie films i got some enjoyment out of it and it is better than quite a few i could name.
You keep exepecting the normal over running by Zombies like in his other films but it's more about the humans fighting among them selves.
The Zombies are starting to evolve more but they don't seem to do much with it in the film.
So unless your a Zombie nut or want to complete a collection, wait till it's on sky or tv.

[Lonewolf]

I quite enjoyed Land of the Dead  

[Balgin Stondraeg]

Dragonfire

Well, it was a lot better than it looked. I remember seeing trailers at the cinema for a really rubbish looking film that basicaly seemed to involve a skinhead with a machine gun standing on a wall telling us that dragons had woken up and were going to destroy all the humans and he was stupid enough to stand there on the wall shouting at them.

I also seem to remember that film having a name very like Dragonfire.

So I put off watching it even 'though it's been on the telly 2 or 3 times recently.

Now I've watched it. No machine guns , no skinhead standing on a wall with a machine gun taunting dragons , no post apolcolyptic "dragons waking up to destroy the world in a really contrived rubbish storyline!

Now here's the bad points. Apparently people in twelth century eastern europe use words like calibre (and all sorts of other very modern jargen), are very keyed up on science and military artillery, know what the obligatory chinese martial arts guy is and all speak with american accents.

Well it was fun to watch, I just had to ignore the stuff with the martial artist creating a double ended exploding gunpowder filled bola (and the gunpowder being added to the bolt thrower ammo was a bit rediculous as well).

It had it's good points (like being fun to watch) but was a real load of rubbish when compared to some other films.

And at least there was no machine gun waving skinhead telling the dragons to "come on then!" I just hope I never end up watching whatever that trailer was for because it looked even worse than this one (apparently Dragonfire is a science fiction film because the dragon "dive bombs" her eggs down onto the planet through the atmosphere in passing and is much larger than the hatchlings the people have to fight, that was a really contrived little few seconds at the beginning, and end of the film that really didn't need to be there at all especialy as the big dragon in space was never even seen, just heard and suddenly blocked out the light).

[S1ND3X]

Apparently people in twelth century eastern europe use words like calibre (and all sorts of other very modern jargen)

and you'ld prefer them to use english of the period? such a different language to what we speak now we'ld need subtitles

[Zordana]

I quite enjoyed Land of the Dead  

Me too!  

[mahon]

but they had to fill it full of American actors who can't be bothered to have an English accent.

you're all complaining about Americans and their accent in Robin Hood, but is it all this important? The thing you see even more often is Germans/Nazis talking English (usially with American acent) ...

And if you want more, the language used by the Polish paratroopers in "one bridge to far" isn't Polish. I believe it was supposed to be... I know what they are shouting, but ... let's better listen to American accent in Robin Hood

And a similar thing which made me laugh was a western in which I heard "Auf wiedersehen, Winnetou". I almost fell down from the sofa...

And bad movies? I don't remember too many now... even though I've seen a lot of poor ones.

I never managed to finish the first episode of Star Wars - Jar Jar was more than I could bear...

Matrix 2 was just a display of special effects not a movie, IMO.

I liked The Brothers Grimm because of its dark scenoggraphy and mood. I found it funny in several moments, too.

Scary Movie - seen two of them and don't know which one was worse. Both were as bad as I can only imagine. Definitely they would be among my top picks.

Ah, I know - Van Helsing also disappointed me. Really disappointed me. Stupid ideas, poor execution... Not my ikind of entertainment. I even prefer old horror movies from the '20s and '30s.

And there was also one of Polish 'superproductions' (you probably don't know it, but it's nothing to regret) called Ogniem I Mieczem (With Fire And Sword) which turned out like total crap. Bad choice of actors for some characters, bad acting, poor special effects, and totally stupid scenes. For example a regiment of Polish heavy cavalry (17th century), strictly speaking - hussars, charges across a relatively small puddle of water and mud and the horses fall to the ground, trip over, etc. But it is plain to see that it would be very easy to run around it...
In the original book the whole ground was damp and muddy, so the cavalry charge wasn't successful. In the movie it looks stupid. And there are more of such things. But OTOH some of the characters are really well portrayed and acting is excellent sometimes.

[Ray's Bat]

Well, it was a lot better than it looked. I remember seeing trailers at the cinema for a really rubbish looking film that basicaly seemed to involve a skinhead with a machine gun standing on a wall telling us that dragons had woken up and were going to destroy all the humans and he was stupid enough to stand there on the wall shouting at them.

I also seem to remember that film having a name very like Dragonfire.

Reign of Fire.

[Balgin Stondraeg]

Apparently people in twelth century eastern europe use words like calibre (and all sorts of other very modern jargen)

and you'ld prefer them to use english of the period? such a different language to what we speak now we'ld need subtitles

Nope because it's set in Coratia or something. They should've just avoided all the extremely modern slang they used because that really doesn't fit. There's enough generic language to go round without having to use slang that's out of context.

[Balgin Stondraeg]

Well, it was a lot better than it looked. I remember seeing trailers at the cinema for a really rubbish looking film that basicaly seemed to involve a skinhead with a machine gun standing on a wall telling us that dragons had woken up and were going to destroy all the humans and he was stupid enough to stand there on the wall shouting at them.

I also seem to remember that film having a name very like Dragonfire.

Reign of Fire.

And was it really as bad as the trailer made it look? (Stupid skinhead witha  machine gun taunting dragons).