Failed Films With Potential

[Kriss_Kringle]

Gamer comes to mind.The idea isn't very far from what's gonna happen in a decade or so with all this facebook and twitter frenzy going on and that's kind of scary when you think about the outcome.In terms of editing and storytelling the movie is a bloody mess!Too bad though,it could have been something cool.
Hanna had potential but kind of failed since in my opinion the movie wasn't bad but wasn't good either.It was somewhere in the middle and it was also too repetitive without very much action.
Takashi Miike's 13 assassins was a let down too since I was expecting some cool samurai movie but what I got instead was a mess with characters you don't care about that kill each other like animals with Miike's weird and irrational signature.In the end the movie is pointless and hollow.

 

[DoomsdayApex]

I enjoyed 13 Assassins very much so. Could it have been better? Yes, but the film was still impressive, in my opinion.

 

[DoomsdayApex]

I second Halo. It would've been the first truly amazing video game adaptation

Also,
At the Mountains of Madness directed by Del Toro
Battle Angel directed by James Cameron

I think Mountains of Madness will get the green light if GDT's Pacific Rim does well at the Box Office (which more than likely will).

Battle Angel will eventually get made just as Halo will, but, by the time it gets approved, Cameron will probably not be attached to the project.

 

[ironwez20]

Sucker punch. Nuff said about that

 

[BlackLantern]

I think 'Gamer' had a serious identity crisis.....it flipped between a novel concept for an action movie and social commentary

both had their highlights in the film (especially with his wife playing that Society game just to make ends meet) but it didn't mesh well

 

[Lord]

Clash of Titans remake is a good example

 

[amazingfantasy15]

Spider-Man 3. There, I said it. The idea had promise right up until some knucklehead thought Venom would be a good idea. Even then, the non-Venom content was pretty crappy and when your hero becomes an ******** performing Flashdance in the street, your movie could well have problems beyond studio interference.

I actually think adding Sandman was one of the movie's two big mistakes. Sandman just isn't a character that holds his own dramatically in the movie, his power is cool, but his motivations are very one note. Also having him involved in Uncle Ben's shooting was just lazy writing to shoehorn him into the movie.

The other mis step was obviously Pete under the influence of the black costume, forget the strutting down the street show him being way too aggresive with some common street punk as Spidey.

 

[Lord]

In spider-man 3 Sandman was at first used well but they shouldn't have made him Ben's murderer, and they should have found a good way to end his story, he's probably still assaulting banks.
I'm not a spider-man 3 hater and i still like to see it, and it kinda fits that spideys 3 arsh enemies were each used as the main villain in each movie they appeared in.
As you said Black costume should have showed us agressive spider-man not emo Peter Parker, Mary Jane (as Nostalgia Critic said too) was actually a better character here, and more likeable too.
Norman Osborn's appearances as some sort of illusion were great here too, Harry was well used, not counting with his costume.
Venom should have had more screen time, or in least he should have made more of an impact, look at Harvey Dent in TDK, he didn't have a big screen time as two-face but he was INCREDIBLE!!!
So, maybe they should have cuted Sandman or Venom out, i would have liked every Sinister Six member to have been introduced before their full appearance as a team in a spider-man 6 but still it would have been better for the story.

 

[Doctor Jones]

The problem was the inclusion of the symbiote. There had to be some way for Peter to have rage and for the black suit to empower him so they contrived the Sandman killed Uncle Ben thing. The inclusion of the symbiote was the catalyst that really ****ed the movie over.

 

[Lord]

They could have taken the sandman out of the movie and used Harry Osborn's mind games and how he killed his father as a way for Peter to use the black suit

 

[batman11]

The problem was the inclusion of the symbiote. There had to be some way for Peter to have rage and for the black suit to empower him so they contrived the Sandman killed Uncle Ben thing.

This is actually incorrect, and it's a common misconception. Sandman was always going to be Ben's killer. In that really detailed SM3 production book by Grant Curtis, there's a section on the Vulture's early inclusion, and how in Raimi's first draft, Sandman and Vulture were cell mates and Sandman confesses about the murder - or something along those lines. You can find some of the actual pages via Google books if you search "The Spider-Man Chronicles: The Art and Making of Spider-Man 3." There are a few specific quotes regarding how the Sandman/Ben thread was there since the beginning, therefore having nothing to do with the symbiote's inclusion.

 

[Punisher_MAX]

Reign of Fire
Terminator Salvation

 

[amazingfantasy15]

This is actually incorrect, and it's a common misconception. Sandman was always going to be Ben's killer. In that really detailed SM3 production book by Grant Curtis, there's a section on the Vulture's early inclusion, and how in Raimi's first draft, Sandman and Vulture were cell mates and Sandman confesses about the murder - or something along those lines. You can find some of the actual pages via Google books if you search "The Spider-Man Chronicles: The Art and Making of Spider-Man 3." There are a few specific quotes regarding how the Sandman/Ben thread was there since the beginning, therefore having nothing to do with the symbiote's inclusion.

Still doesn't mean it was a good idea. I think the movie would've been much better without Sandman. He's a cool character visually, but he's always been very 1-dimensional.

 

[Kahoot]

I was thinking the other day about this actual topic because I wanted to watch Rain of Fire and then I remembered it was s***.

Kick ass CG (for the time at least) with really awesome Dragons fight helicopters. How did they mess that up? Oh right, they showed us nothing of the war that nearly wiped out humans. One paper clipping seen in the movie has a dozen dragons flying over new yours, that could've blown away the audience!

Really the movie we got should've been a bad sequel to the movie they should've made. I'd ask for a prequel but who'd want to see a prequel to a movie that just sucked so much? Any prequel they did make wouldn't get enough money or attention and would probably suck anyway.

 

[BlackLantern]

I liked Reign of Fire....decent concept, not so great execution

 

[Kahoot]

I like Reign of Fire because of the concept. And the dragons, I love the art style of the dragons. I could believe in those dragons flying around our skys. I just wish the movie had actually been good.

 

[Punisher_MAX]

I was thinking the other day about this actual topic because I wanted to watch Rain of Fire and then I remembered it was s***.

Kick ass CG (for the time at least) with really awesome Dragons fight helicopters. How did they mess that up? Oh right, they showed us nothing of the war that nearly wiped out humans. One paper clipping seen in the movie has a dozen dragons flying over new yours, that could've blown away the audience!

Really the movie we got should've been a bad sequel to the movie they should've made. I'd ask for a prequel but who'd want to see a prequel to a movie that just sucked so much? Any prequel they did make wouldn't get enough money or attention and would probably suck anyway.

this is the EXACT reason it irked me...the concept was awesome. the stories Van Zan or w/e the bald guy was called about hunting the dragons were awesome and i wanted to see more Man vs Dragon mayhem or even go deeper into the mythology/history of these real dragons.

its almost the same reason i felt upset after Terminator Salvation...how do you not show more Skynet vs Human carnage? the Terminator Salvation Arcade Game is far more interesting than the movie.

 

[zeptron]

X-men 3 and Spider-man 3. Both films failed to live up to the hype mostly due to studio inference.

X-men 3 due to Fox wanting to rush production to have it out in Summer 2006. They didn't even have a director until weeks before filming was to begin. And when a director is finally on board, it's Brett Ratner who had grown a reputation for being a hack, *****bag, MTV music video, action director. They also didn't wanna wait for several actors to take care of prior engagements before filming.(Marsden, Romijn, and Paquin) As a result several characters were either "killed off" or had very little screentime.

SM3 was the studio not wanting to wait until Raimi was done with the goblin storyline and cramming in Venom a character he didn't understand and had no place in the established storyline. The story arc had been set up for two films was for Harry to be come the big bad, not some alien symbiote who hadn't even had any foreshadowing. (except for that line in SM1 about "Eddie's" pictures, which seems to have been ignored). Venom overshadowed Harry and was put in to get symbiote fanboys in theaters.

Instead of going with Raimi's original plan which was setting up Vulture as a criminal previously busted by Spidey and out for revenge and whose storyline would have been actually connected to Sandman, they opted for a much more complex story involving an alien symbiote and a grudge that should've been brewing for at least two movies but was forced into half of one.

And Gore Verbinski's Bioshock. A film director like him could make an epic Bioshock movie. And yet no studio supports it just because he wants to make it R.(most likely so 10 year olds could go see it)

 

[marvelman2006]

this is the EXACT reason it irked me...the concept was awesome. the stories Van Zan or w/e the bald guy was called about hunting the dragons were awesome and i wanted to see more Man vs Dragon mayhem or even go deeper into the mythology/history of these real dragons.

its almost the same reason i felt upset after Terminator Salvation...how do you not show more Skynet vs Human carnage? the Terminator Salvation Arcade Game is far more interesting than the movie.

I thought the exact thing, now everytime I go into an arcade and see that sitting there boom it automatically gets my $1.

I always laugh how in the final battle skynet only sends one arnold terminator after john in a TERMINATOR FACTORY. Another pet peeve about that movie is john connor doesnt come off that important at all and rather a crazy man claiming he is the savior and how they have to keep his future father alive.

 

[marvelman2006]

Wolfman (2010)
Alice in wonderland
GI Joe: Rise of Cobra
Knowing

 

[Victarion]

The Last Days of Man on Earth, or as it is known in Britain, The Final Programme. I've only read the short story Phase I, but the house rigged with mind-traps like narcotics and watchtowers that could induce epileptic fits in anyone who looked at them sounded like it would've made a solid opening act to the movie.

Apparently Moorcock hated it as well.

 

[Kriss_Kringle]

Reign of fire wasn't so bad but they did waste a lot of the movie's potential.
Wolfman was a flaming piece of *****!After seeing the movie and read that Johnston was directing Captain America I was a bit worried about it but after the recent trailer I think it's actually gonna be good.
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was weak as well.They had the chance to pump new blood to the series(kind of) but it was a rehash of the old stuff with too much CGI for my taste(I'm a fan of practical effects) and Shia wasn't very convincing,neither was his moustache which looked like dirt.

 

[NotFadeAway]

The American Godzilla - As a diehard fan of Godzill and his Kaiju co-horts, I think this film is one of the biggest pieces of **** I have ever seen and was such a wasted oppurtunity.

The entire Star Wars prequel trilogy.

The Friday the 13th reboot - how boring can you be? Yet another radar pictures classic.

Halloween H2O

Both Alien vs. Predator movies

Jumoer

Pearl Harbor

Terminator Salvation.....25 years of anticipation for a future war movie with humans vs. machines and we get this piece of garbage.

Eurotrip

Spider-Man 3.......Leave Venom and Sandman out. Just let Harry become the Hob-Goblin and assume the main villian position, and if you must have two villians then use The Lizard.

Kingdom Of Heaven

The J.J. Abrams script for a Superman movie that was never made once they had cleaned it up.

Spawn

Star Trek: Nemesis

 

[BlackLantern]

I liked Eurotrip....gave us one of the best songs ever 'Scotty Doesn't Know'

and I enjoyed Kingdom of Heaven

 

[NotFadeAway]

I liked Eurotrip....gave us one of the best songs ever 'Scotty Doesn't Know'

and I enjoyed Kingdom of Heaven

I couldn't take Orlando Bloom seriously, still can't. Horrible casting.

Eurotrip did give us Scotty Doesn't Know, and Jacob Pitts gave a great performance. But the rest of the film was just too corny and didn't have an edge whatsoever. I guess I couldn't let go that I had read it was originally intended to be a sequel to Road Trip with that cast coming back together.