Recent movies you highly anticipated but ended up hating

[MessiahDecoy123]

I always had a bad feeling about Terminator Salvation. With McG involved I wasn't expecting much better than T3.

 

[Still Wynning]

I know this going to sound really weird, but Garfield: The Movie. Yeah, I'm serious.

I was a really big fan of Garfield at the time. I had read and collected the comics, so I was pretty excited when I saw the first trailer come out. I was pretty hyped. One of my favorite characters was finally hitting the big screen.

So, when I finally finished watching the movie, I was sorely disappointed.

Everything was just wrong. The characters weren't right. The acting was bad. The tone was off. The comedy wasn't even that funny. It wasn't the Garfield that I knew and love.

It totally killed the character for me so much, I just stopped reading the comics altogether.

Granted, I probably should have known better, but I was young, impressionable and naive, and my taste in movies hadn't quite matured to the point where they are now.

 

[C. Lee]

There's nothing that I anticipated that I wound up hating. There's been some things that were not as good as hoped for....but nothing I hated. I think some people throw around the word too easily.

 

[nocomics]

Thor,CA,GL, Ghost Rider; I wouldn't say hate but highly disappointed with. Act of Valor,Darkest Hour....
I wouldn't say Thor,CA, GL, Darkest Hour were recent, but I really haven't seen much movies since last year in the theatre.

 

[cabel]

Sucker Punch: As someone who liked, if not loved all of Zack Snyder's previous movies, I thought this would be his chance to prove his detractors wrong. Instead it was a confusing, insulting, self-indulgent mess.

The Last Airbender: I'll just say that the last I spoke at length about this film, a chainsaw got involved.

 

[warhorse78]

No! lol. I can never actively hate a movie. But i don't like it, and it was probably the most hyped for a movie i've ever been. It's not what I want from a Batman movie, I find it incredibly boring when Joker isn't on the screen. Batman being the most uninteresting character in his own movie is a big no-no from me

That's how I felt. I just don't like Batman in these new movies, and I am rooting for the villains to kill all the good people off. Best part was when the GF bit the dust. But, I don't hate TDK, I really, really do like it, when The Joker is on, or maybe Harvey. I liked him too, but when he became Two Face, I thought it was too soon.

But, the latest movie I highly anticipated, but ended up hating, Drive. Easily. It started out really, really good. But then, in the middle, it just got bogged down with an uninteresting love affair. The end finally picked up, but I was still expecting a slick action thriller, and it ended in a ridiculous gorefest.

 

[Rowsdower!]

Thomas Church and Topher Grace weren't that bad to me as actors, but as new characters they were horribly presented. Sandman wasn't even a villain, just a bum. The symbiote wasn't developed properly (as a result, neither was Venom), plus Gwen Stacy was thrown in for no reason.

I'd have liked either of the following;

- Genuinely evil Sandman, plus Harry as GG2. No Venom story.
- Harry as GG2, plus Venom. No Sandman story.

Yeah, that's a tad more accurate. Church and Grace are capable of being good actors (as they typically are) but their material sucked. Sandman was just boring and did nothing but beat up cops and look sad. Brock was just a whiny *****ebag who experienced a couple setbacks and inexplicable goes batsh** crazy. And yeah, throwing Gwen in like that was stupid and pointless and the first of many times the lovely and talented Bryce Dallas Howard was completely wasted in a movie.

 

[CGHulk]

Star Wars Episode 2
Star Wars Episode 3
Superman Returns
The Dark Knight
Inception
Clash of the Titans

 

[WildcatNC]

Clash of the Titans was the last one. I kind of knew it was doomed with Worthington in the lead though, just don't like that guy.

I loved the original though.

 

[Lily Adler]

Never hated... Disappointed? You bet...

 

[Naked Shia]

Clash of The titans
Iron Man 2
Valhalla Rising
Drive (I didn't hate it, but it was so hyped, I wanted to see a true story)
Sucker Punch (I didn't hate the movie, but I hated the story, and I kind of hated Snyder for trying too hard to be smart)
Transformers 2
Pirates 3

I saw Green Lantern after the heavy backlash, and I quite enjoyed it actually.

 

[R_Hythlodeus]

Clash Of The Titans
Green Lantern
Superman Returns

 

[ALP]

Spider-Man 3, X-Men: Last Stand, Cowboys & Aliens, and Project X. All a mega waste of time and money. But Sucker Punch takes the cake because Snyder is one of my favorite directors. I was really looking forward to Sucker Punch and it was flat out awful.

 

[Pink Ranger]

"Hate" is too strong a word maybe, but in that spirit:

Iron Man 2
The Descendants
Avatar
Superman Returns

 

[CConn]

Green Lantern
Avatar
Iron Man 2 (slightly)
Spider-Man 3
X-Men Origins: Wolverine (I played the video game first, and ****ing loved it, and the story...boy, was I in for a surprise when I saw the movie)
All of the Matrix movies
POTC sequels
Star Wars Prequels
Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes
Alice in Wonderland
Cowboys and Aliens
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Fantastic Four (by the second one, I knew it was going to be awful)
The Prestige (I really it now, actually - but I saw it just a few weeks after I saw The Illusionist, and it just didn't seem to capture the same magic that The Illusionist did)

Ironically, movies like TDK, Superman Returns, Spider-Man 2, Drive, Inception, etc. actually surpassed my expectations by quite a bit.

 

[Rocketman]

Sherlock Holmes.
- Although the sequel was infinitely better.

Spider-Man 3
Wolverine
Avatar
The Social Network

I thoroughly enjoyed Green Lantern.

 

[Asgard]

Superman Returns.

 

[Still Wynning]

Sherlock Holmes.
- Although the sequel was infinitely better.

Spider-Man 3
Wolverine
Avatar
The Social Network

I thoroughly enjoyed Green Lantern.

*Does not compute*

 

[Rocketman]

Ironically, movies like TDK, Superman Returns, Spider-Man 2, Drive, Inception, etc. actually surpassed my expectations by quite a bit.

Agreed on a few mentions here. And to add:

- Inception
- The Dark Knight
- Drive
- There Will Be Blood
- Blue Valentine

These are some of the best movies I've seen in YEARS. Years. They fill me with so much joy, it actually makes going to the theater almost unbearable, because I know I'll have an inferior experience.

Here's to July 20.

 

[matrix_ghost]

Not hating just disappointed :

John Carter of MArs
Green Lantern
The Hangover part 2
Battle Los Angeles
Tron Legacy
Wall Street Money Never Sleeps
Salt
THe Last Airbender
Prince of Persia
Iron Man 2
Cop Out
The Wolfman
From Paris with Love
Edge of Darkness
Ninja Assasin
Gamer
Inglourious Basterds ( wasn't anticipating it ,still winded up hating it)
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
Brüno
Terminator Salvation
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Dragonball Evolution ( I REALLY DO HATE DB:E)


THis is up till 2009

 

[El Payaso]

I have to say that Spider-man 1 was my biggest dissapointment. It was the only movie I have bought the tickets in advance for. And I didn't hate it, but it was like a children version o what I was expecting to see. And SM3 of course. After the vast improvement with SM2 I thought the next one could be even better.

I enjoy SM3, as an unintentional comedy akin to Batman and Robin. And for the action scenes and Franco.

Well, when I saw the dancing scene I thought 'man, this is B&R all over again."

 

[Wesley Dodds]

The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button.

"Hate" is a strong word but I'm a massive Fincher fan and the idea behind this movie had sooooooo much potential for greatness that the saccharin, emotionally manipulative soap opera it turned out to be just came as a colossal disappointment.

 

[Naked Shia]

The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button.

"Hate" is a strong word but I'm a massive Fincher fan and the idea behind this movie had sooooooo much potential for greatness that the saccharin, emotionally manipulative soap opera it turned out to be just came as a colossal disappointment.

Agreed. Also, The Social network was just a made for tv movie with a big budget to me.

 

[Wesley Dodds]

Agreed. Also, The Social network was just a made for tv movie with a big budget to me.

Yeah. Again, I didn't 'hate' it but The Social Network was a story that just didn't fit Fincher's style at all.
A good example is at the start when Zuckerberg is walking through campus to the strains of that really foreboding, oppressive Reznor score.
What was that all about? Director and subject matter just didn't gel at all.

 

[Naked Shia]

Yeah. Again, I didn't 'hate' it but The Social Network was a story that just didn't fit Fincher's style at all.
A good example is at the start when Zuckerberg is walking through campus to the strains of that really foreboding, oppressive Reznor score.
What was that all about? Director and subject matter just didn't gel at all.

exactly how I felt. I didn't hate it either, but I was waiting for more than this.