Most disappointing movie of 2012? (so far)

[PSYLENTGuardian]

Even though I didnt dislike the movie, The Amazing Spiderman was the most dissapointing to me, it wasnt nearly as good as the Raimi movie IMO, when I was at the very least expecting it to be on par.

As much as I really do like ASM for showing off potential, I'm sure I'm going to end up liking SM1 more than ASM as time goes on.

Prometheus and Bourne Legacy also disappointed me, just about as much as ASM. They show off potential but they also lack. And, I'm a little ashamed to say that I haven't seen the original Bourne trilogy I'll watch them, eventually.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

As much as I really do like ASM for showing off potential, I'm sure I'm going to end up liking SM1 more than ASM as time goes on.

As soon as I saw TASM I knew I liked Raimi's more, I thought the only thing TASM did better than Raimi's movie was the way Spidey moved, he was much more spider like. Other than that, give me Raimi's movie any day.

Prometheus and Bourne Legacy also disappointed me, just about as much as ASM. They show off potential but they also lack. And, I'm a little ashamed to say that I haven't seen the original Bourne trilogy I'll watch them, eventually.

The old Bourne trilogy is great, though the first movie is the best one for me, havent seen the new one, not sure I want to after the dodgy reviews, even though I love the cast.

Personally, I thought Prometheus was amazing, no other movie has got into my head from this year like that movie did.

 

[Gianakin_]

So far, it's TASM (though I kept my expectations in check) and the big winner is the mediocrity called The Hunger Games.

 

[Roose Bolton]

Bourne Legacy.

 

[Doctor Jones]

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

I went in knowing what kind of movie this was gonna be. But it was just the bad version of what it was.

ASM didn't disappoint me. But after Avengers and TDKR it's now like... I saw that movie. I liked a lot of aspects of it, but in the end, some of those aspects aren't really my Spider-Man. Raimi already gave that to me. But I'm glad for the people who have their Spider-Man film that they can enjoy now though.

 

[jmc]

The Dark Knight Rises. I've been having a very ordinary and at times terrible year and I was so looking forward to Rises more than anything else to help lift my spirits. But it just wasn't what I was hoping for, underneath the surface is a great film, I know it's there because I can see it, if just a couple of things were done differently, but what's done is done and there's nothing I can do about it.

 

[marvelman2006]

Um... What were you expecting for an ensemble-cast comicbook movie? They all follow the same formula anyway. Super-villain threatens city/country/world/universe and superheroes have to stop said supervillain. That was the formula in Iron-Man, Hulk, Thor and Captain America. Did you go into the theater expecting a Fellini film?

Oh I dont know an actual decent story and more focus on the main heroes and not to mention an archer who was thrown into it without more then 6 lines of dialogue. Also not to mention the annoying bickering they all did and then all of a suden one agent dies and there all firends and kick the "vanilla/ generic/ stockpile" aliens butts. Also cuppled with the fact that we saw the same kind of battle just last year in dark of the moons chicago city finale battle. Plus as good as loki is he wasnt exactly the ideal villian I would have liked to take on the entire team especially given the hulk took him out in 30 seconds.

 

[amazingfantasy15]

Unfortunately the Hunger Games was more like Twilight than Harry Potter. Still enjoyed it, but if the sequel doesn't improve on the series I might lose total interest in the finale.

For those that read the book, was Peeta portrayed the same way as in the film. He came off as such a creep lol

You thought The Hunger Games was like Twilight, really?!?! I actually think the comparisons to Twilight do that franchise a huge disservice.

Twilight is all about how much a girl needs a boyfriend. Katniss is friecely indepent and self-sufficient, sure she falls for a guy, but the relationship is nothing like the Twilight one, she's actually the one protecting the guy, not the other way around.

My opinion may change watching the movie again now that I've read the book, but it's one of my favorite and most surprising movies of the year.

As far as disappointing, I guess the Five Year Engagement, took my fiancee to see it for her birthday, I wasn't too excited, but the movie just felt really long and spent way too long on boring parts, it probably would've been better at an hour and a half instead of 2 hours. I could say Amazing Spider-Man, but I had so little hope going in to that movie I can't really call it a disappointment. Of the movies I was looking forward to, Avengers and Dark Knight Rises, neither disappointed me.

 

[Donnie Darko]

I liked Hunger Games a lot (even read all the books before the movie came out), but the only way I can defend the comment about it being more Twilight and less Harry Potter is that it wasn't anything like Harry Potter, nor did it aim to be. In that regard, I guess if you were to make a scale that was one end Harry Potter, the other Twilight, it was more Twilight. You could also say it was more like Twilight than it was Batman and Robin, Shawshank Redemption, and 101 Dalmatians.

 

[Lord]

The Hunger Games was good, i'm exited for the sequels

 

[amazingfantasy15]

Oh I dont know an actual decent story and more focus on the main heroes and not to mention an archer who was thrown into it without more then 6 lines of dialogue. Also not to mention the annoying bickering they all did and then all of a suden one agent dies and there all firends and kick the "vanilla/ generic/ stockpile" aliens butts. Also cuppled with the fact that we saw the same kind of battle just last year in dark of the moons chicago city finale battle. Plus as good as loki is he wasnt exactly the ideal villian I would have liked to take on the entire team especially given the hulk took him out in 30 seconds.

The story wasn't decent? It was about the heroes coming together, vastly different personalities and egos that have to figure out a way to work toward the common threat. This movie focused more on the heroes than most other movies, it was a huge character study. I liked that the bickering was there, I didn't want the heroes to just come together and be all buddy-buddy right away. I also don't think it was just one agents death that brough them together, it was the entire attack and them working as individuals rather than a team that made them realize they need to come together. For the end battle, at least I could tell who was fighting in this movie, had no idea with Transformers. Also Loki was the mastermind, he's an intellectual villian, not a physical one, it's like saying your disappointed in the Joker because Batman can beat him up too easily. Physicality isn't his strong suit.

 

[marvelman2006]

The story wasn't decent? It was about the heroes coming together, vastly different personalities and egos that have to figure out a way to work toward the common threat. This movie focused more on the heroes than most other movies, it was a huge character study. I liked that the bickering was there, I didn't want the heroes to just come together and be all buddy-buddy right away. I also don't think it was just one agents death that brough them together, it was the entire attack and them working as individuals rather than a team that made them realize they need to come together. For the end battle, at least I could tell who was fighting in this movie, had no idea with Transformers. Also Loki was the mastermind, he's an intellectual villian, not a physical one, it's like saying your disappointed in the Joker because Batman can beat him up too easily. Physicality isn't his strong suit.

The story was decent first and foremost but it was like I said a "vanilla" story that was safe for a movie this scale. I wouldnt quite associate a movie like this with character study because all they really did was take joke shots at each other fight for a couple minutes. The only character study was loki honestly while everyone else was rather bland except for maybe banner. No, Im pretty sure it was just coulson death that brought them together finally because after that everyone was just sitting around being sad until fury tricked them with the bloody cards.

When I say like dark of the moon Im not talking about telling who apart Im talking about the same set up. Device that is the bridge to another gateway that leads to an invasion, then the heroes fight an army to shutdown the machine then send close the portal and stop the main villian. I wouldnt have minded loki only if there was another villian to match the team physically. Someone for hulk to go one on one with besides the chiuatari. I never believed for one second in the avengers they were in any danger at all.

 

[redhawk23]

Prometheus and not just due to high expectations. The movie failed in some very basic ways, and the supposedly deeper elements I found to be largely uninteresting.

 

[amazingfantasy15]

The story was decent first and foremost but it was like I said a "vanilla" story that was safe for a movie this scale. I wouldnt quite associate a movie like this with character study because all they really did was take joke shots at each other fight for a couple minutes. The only character study was loki honestly while everyone else was rather bland except for maybe banner. No, Im pretty sure it was just coulson death that brought them together finally because after that everyone was just sitting around being sad until fury tricked them with the bloody cards.

When I say like dark of the moon Im not talking about telling who apart Im talking about the same set up. Device that is the bridge to another gateway that leads to an invasion, then the heroes fight an army to shutdown the machine then send close the portal and stop the main villian. I wouldnt have minded loki only if there was another villian to match the team physically. Someone for hulk to go one on one with besides the chiuatari. I never believed for one second in the avengers they were in any danger at all.

Was it because they wasn't a physical threat or the fact that the main heroes already had sequel movies announced.

 

[jmc]

^ It's because in order for the MCU to continue they have to live, so there's always going to be a lack of threat toward the hero, unlike TDKR in which you were never sure if Bruce was going to live or not. In fact I'm willing to bet few major characters are ever going to be killed off in Marvel's movies.

 

[Lord]

Was it because they wasn't a physical threat or the fact that the main heroes already had sequel movies announced.

I think the aliens weren't threatening at all, from the begining it allways seemed like the good guys were winning, i don't agree with reviews that say that the stakes were higher than in other movies like Transformers 3, that movie had a lot of problems but the ending battle and the stakes weren't one of them, from all the people killed by the Decepticon, to the dead allies, to the WHOLE FREAKIN CITY IN RUINS the stakes were obviously very high, and if the autobots lost there the whole world would end up like that.

People often compare the final battle of Avengers to Transformers 3, but while Avengers is the overall better movie it was Transformers 3 that had the better battle, like Quentin Tarantino once said, directing action is an underrated quality and Michael Bay was able to make that last battle epic. Even if the story until then and main couple weren't as good.

 

[def28]

People often compare the final battle of Avengers to Transformers 3, but while Avengers is the overall better movie it was Transformers 3 that had the better battle, like Quentin Tarantino once said, directing action is an underrated quality and Michael Bay was able to make that last battle epic. Even if the story until then and main couple weren't as good.

I kinda agree. But really besides the Driller scene, there wasnt much I would call better then Avengers battle wise. The whole team battle shot in Avengers was one of the most epic things Ive seen. I was disappointed with the rest of the end battles in DOTM. Its a bunch of randomness without much bot VS bot action or logic to follow. ROTF Forrest scene still steals the show on best battle in a Transformer film imo. The balance and fighting in Avengers were better done . It showed us the characters we wanted to see and was much easier to follow. But the driller scene in DOTM is one of the best set pieces Ive seen in an action film.

 

[Hammer!]

^ It's because in order for the MCU to continue they have to live, so there's always going to be a lack of threat toward the hero, unlike TDKR in which you were never sure if Bruce was going to live or not. In fact I'm willing to bet few major characters are ever going to be killed off in Marvel's movies.

lol or in keeping up with the comics, dying and subsequently coming back to life. I'd go all in that this eventually happens.

 

[Baneis8feettall]

ASM.

Not that it was okay movie but i always expect Spider-Man movies to be great movies (action wise & story) It's biggest name in Marvel after all and probably most beloved comic book character.

 

[Lord]

I think that The Amazing Spider-Man had a good director and the right cast (exept for aunt may ) but the script left much to be desired.

 

[Hammer!]

Man, so many movies I forgot on this poll. Chronicle, The Grey, The Woman in Black, etc.

 

[Lord]

That's what the "other" option is for, but nobody voted for that.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

I'm going to go with Prometheus as well. Some of the characters were stupid, and some parts of the movie felt incomplete. I wouldn't call it bad, and I wouldn't say that my expectations were extremely high, but it failed to meet the expectations that I had for it to be at least be good. I found it to be okay.

Amazing Spider-man met my expectations, in which I felt it was going to be a fine movie, but I knew it wasn't going to set the world on fire.

 

[DoomsdayApex]

Like TDKR, The Avengers lacked and/or featured several vapid countenances. For example, I found Coulson's death to be poorly executed. I felt no emotion when the time arrived. Then again, the character had minimal development/growth so I cared very little that Agent Coulson kicked the bucket.

Another one would have to be the plot that Joss wrote for The Avengers. It wasn't a mediocre one at all, but not once was I compelled or sucked into the story. I felt that Whedon focused much more time on his characters than anything else.

 

[Hammer!]

Like TDKR, The Avengers lacked and/or featured several vapid countenances. For example, I found Coulson's death to be poorly executed. I felt no emotion when the time arrived. Then again, the character had minimal development/growth so I cared very little that Agent Coulson kicked the bucket.

Another one would have to be the plot that Joss wrote for The Avengers. It wasn't a mediocre one at all, but not once was I compelled or sucked into the story. I felt that Whedon focused much more time on his characters than anything else.

But that was the goal of the film, to feature it on the characters and why they got together, etc. IMO if the film introduced new villains or had a more complex plot, the film would have fell off a little bit.

I honestly felt more emotion when Coulson died than any moment in the TDKR. All three times I saw it in theaters, the audience literally went silent; you could hear a pin drop. And this from the same movie that generated more applause than any I have ever attended.