Top 5 most disappointing movies of the year.

[def28]

Elysium
GI Joe Retaliation
Riddick (loved the first act though)

 

[Nathan]

or "Iron Man 3's Mandarin twist ruined a perfectly fine movie because I've been a massive Mandarin fan of his since forever never."

You didn't even need to be a Mandarin fan. You have Trailers that constantly hype the Mandarin as this badass villain, and in the end he's some random drug addict.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

Then is it the movie's fault or the trailer?

Besides, Iron Man 3 had bigger flaws than the twist so I honestly can't help but think using the Mandarin thing as a reason, personally (and being very blunt), is a crappy excuse.

The bigger problem was that [BLACKOUT]Aldrich Killian's[/BLACKOUT] whole motivation was very paper thin, even more so than previous Iron Man villains when it needed to be stronger.

Still with that said, I wasn't disappointed by it. Mostly because RDJ is so incredibly entertaining in every scene. I don't know about you guys, but I go see Iron Man for Tony Stark more so than the villain, unlike most superhero sequels.

I don't know about top 5, but Number 1 for me by a mile is Only God Forgives. Number 2 is Gangster Squad. At least Ryan Gosling has Place Beyond The Pines to make up for those 2 movies. I'd put Spring Breakers but I didn't have that high expectation for it.

 

[Nathan]

The twist alone definitely didn't ruin the Movie. There was a ton of stuff I didn't like. But it would have helped somewhat, if the most serious character in the movie hadn't been turned into another joke.

 

[The Joker]

I liked Elysium but I was expecting it to be more epic. It felt like it should have been longer and everything needed more development.

Also, I hate to say this, but Jodie Foster was not good. She just wasn't.

Agreed. I don't know why she took that role. She wasn't in it much and her character was wafer thin.

 

[redhawk23]

You didn't even need to be a Mandarin fan. You have Trailers that constantly hype the Mandarin as this badass villain, and in the end he's some random drug addict.

The trailers portrayed a version of the Mandarin that was a mishmash of the general political bogeymen American culture has constructed: The-Vaguely- Asian-Bearded-Tech-Savvy-Ideological-Terrorist. He looked like a focused grouped to death update of a character that has always been a racial stereotype to begin with.

The movie, quite smartly pretty much just admitted that and incorporated it into the plot. Just the real life conglomerate of Marvel needed a non-offensive all purpose villain aimed at the lowest common denominator, the giant conglomerate in the story constructed one of their own. This is mirrored by the "re-branding" of Iron Patriot. Fantastic writing.

 

[redhawk23]

1. Star Trek Into Darkness

2. The Lords of Salem

Other than that pretty much everything was about as good or bad as I expected.

 

[Rowsdower!]

1. Star Trek Into Darkness - Apparently all you need to do these days to please critics is shamelessly ape the sh** out of a better movie once you run out of your own ideas. Most facepalm-worthy moment of the year goes to Spock's "KHAAAAANNNNN!" It was right up there with Darth Vader's "Noooooooooooo."

2. Pacific Rim - Felt like it was trying to be two movies at the same time: one super-serious and one super-slapstick. Neither one of them good.

3. Elysium - Very solid film but not nearly as ambitious or impactful as it could have been.

Those are the only ones I can think of.

 

[CyclopsWasRight]

Iron Man 3, Star Trek Into Darkness, Evil Dead. Enjoyed most others.

You didn't even need to be a Mandarin fan. You have Trailers that constantly hype the Mandarin as this badass villain, and in the end he's some random drug addict.

Classic bait and switch.

 

[Rowsdower!]

Thought of another one: Oblivion. A great looking film with some good performances (Cruise and the two female leads were very strong) but very derivative of other post-apocalyptic and alien invasion sci-fi films. It had very few original ideas and the ones that it did have made little to no sense.

Spoiler

The whole thing about the aliens making a Tom Cruise clone army was the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard.

 

[Nathan]

I didn't have an issue with that. They cloned the first biological being they came into contact with.

 

[jacobed]

It would have been ridiculous if we saw it

 

[jacobed]

My number one disappointment is easily Pacific Rim. It's giant robots vs giant monsters how just how does anyone screw that up. Del Toro was like well I will show you how. Its 2 hours unbelievable cheesiness most of it unintentional. Horrific cringe worthy dialogue. Uninteresting characters and some of the worst acting to be on the big screen this year. Also Clifton Collins playing a Chinese man, why just why. It has one great action scene in Hong Kong and the Australians were awesome, movie should have been about them at least they were interesting. It has the biggest anticlimatic ending battle.of the year which it shouldn't have, don't build up the level 5 monster and then not have him do anything. The monsters were huge disappointment as well other than knifehead they all basically looked the same. Characters made dumb decisions like why use that gun that has to charge when the sword proved to be much more effective. It's just a horrible movie with one excellent scene. Easily my most disappointing movie of the year.

Elysium number 2, just thought it was pretty bad and on top of that it had the worst shot action scenes of the year
everything else either met or exceeded expectations

 

[Rowsdower!]

I didn't have an issue with that. They cloned the first biological being they came into contact with.

Spoiler

It wasn't the cloning aspect. It was the fact that they used a clone army to conquer the earth when they already had much more powerful weapons of their own.

 

[amazingfantasy15]

The only one that's really disappointed me so far is This is the End, although I haven't seen too many movies this year, have a bunch Netflix'd. I just felt This is the End dragged in the middle, the first hour is great and the ending when they almost all get raptured is fun too, but it could've easily cut 15-20 minutes or kill some people off more slowly.

As for the two biggest movies on this list I've seen Iron Man 3 and Man of Steel. I liked Iron Man 3, it wasn't what I expected, but it was good, liked seeing Tony deal with Avengers PTSD and thought the Mandarin twist was great, the ending destroying all the suits and fixing his heart was cool, we know he'll be back with even better armor, but the "security blanket" armor is gone. I loved Man of Steel, thought it was amazing, everything about it worked. People *****ing and moaning about the ultra violence, it's a movie about the most overpowered character ever, also the destruction was on par with last years Avengers, if superheroes were real and fighting in the city, it'd would get decimated. I don't know, I rank it on par with Donner's Superman 1, that movie may have had more heart, more Synder's actually gave us a credible villain.

 

[Lasirius]

Elysium

Star Trek Into Darkness

 

[Rowsdower!]

The only one that's really disappointed me so far is This is the End, although I haven't seen too many movies this year, have a bunch Netflix'd. I just felt This is the End dragged in the middle, the first hour is great and the ending when they almost all get raptured is fun too, but it could've easily cut 15-20 minutes or kill some people off more slowly.

As for the two biggest movies on this list I've seen Iron Man 3 and Man of Steel. I liked Iron Man 3, it wasn't what I expected, but it was good, liked seeing Tony deal with Avengers PTSD and thought the Mandarin twist was great, the ending destroying all the suits and fixing his heart was cool, we know he'll be back with even better armor, but the "security blanket" armor is gone. I loved Man of Steel, thought it was amazing, everything about it worked. People *****ing and moaning about the ultra violence, it's a movie about the most overpowered character ever, also the destruction was on par with last years Avengers, if superheroes were real and fighting in the city, it'd would get decimated. I don't know, I rank it on par with Donner's Superman 1, that movie may have had more heart, more Synder's actually gave us a credible villain.

Yep, agree with all of that. I really enjoyed both films.

 

[Lord]

On par with The Avengers? I don't even think the death and destruction there were as bad as 9/11, while The Man of Steel's destruction was some 10 times worse.

 

[jacobed]

It seems like not one citizen died in The Avengers. Man of Steel had actual consequence and 95% of the destruction happened before Superman got to Metropolis so I most certainly do not understand the complaints.

 

[Figs]

I loved Man of Steel, thought it was amazing, everything about it worked. People *****ing and moaning about the ultra violence, it's a movie about the most overpowered character ever, also the destruction was on par with last years Avengers, if superheroes were real and fighting in the city, it'd would get decimated. I don't know, I rank it on par with Donner's Superman 1, that movie may have had more heart, more Synder's actually gave us a credible villain.

One thing that I loved was when some fans pointed out that in the comics and even some of the Superman cartoons, Superman throws and gets thrown into skyscrapers, destroying them. Those get a pass while the movie gets torn apart.

I do understand the complaint that it should have shown more of the consequences in regards to the lives lost, or even what Superman plans to do to help with the aftermath, but I still think some of the crying over that was ridiculous.

 

[Senator Pleasury]

On par with The Avengers? I don't even think the death and destruction there were as bad as 9/11, while The Man of Steel's destruction was some 10 times worse.

Theoretically. But within the fiction the destruction was so much they rather have an atomic bomb all over Manhattan that have it going on.

 

[StarLord]

It seems like not one citizen died in The Avengers. Man of Steel had actual consequence and 95% of the destruction happened before Superman got to Metropolis so I most certainly do not understand the complaints.

I'm not complaining but IIRC, The Avengers does have a few short clips after the battle in NY, with candles being lit and people pinning cards up etc.

 

[Rowsdower!]

That may be true, but I still didn't feel like The Avengers had the heart and soul that MOS did. Don't get me wrong; I really enjoyed TA. But overall, it just felt like a great popcorn flick. At least for me, MOS was a popcorn flick with many more emotional highs and lows and the first real character study we've gotten on Kal El since Superman '78.

 

[MrMaooz]

MOS was like a salted popcorn flick lol.

 

[Lord]

That may be true, but I still didn't feel like The Avengers had the heart and soul that MOS did. Don't get me wrong; I really enjoyed TA. But overall, it just felt like a great popcorn flick. At least for me, MOS was a popcorn flick with many more emotional highs and lows and the first real character study we've gotten on Kal El since Superman '78.

I wasn't even a major fan of The Avengers and have to agree on it being a popocorn flick, but the rest just makes me laugh