Wall of Mouths

Not good ?

How about Jaws 2 - utter yawn fest.

Its still better than Jaws 3 though - absolute garbage :D

Not Michael Caine’s finest hour. :)

*Spoiler*

A few weeks ago I watched the Lost Boys 2 - The Tribe , to be honest it wasn’t as bad as I had thought it was going to be but the last 15 minutes or so were fucking shit , except a small part right at the end. Apparently theres going to be a third film coming out if the two coreys resolve their differences.

I still haven’t seen the fourth indiana jones or die hard. Seen Rambo 4 that isn’t as good as people were making out. I did like Rocky 6 though.

Star Wars episodes 1-3. The first one just screwed it all up. They did a great job in Ep3 with how Anakin finally became Vader, but then ruined it with the Principle Seymore Skinner “NNNNNnoooooo!” when he heard his wife was dead. I couldn’t help but laugh. Ruined all the dramatic effect.

Bourne Ultimatum fell flat. Can’t put my finger on one thing…it just didn’t do it for me.

Constantine wasn’t too bad..nowhere near as good as the Hellblazer comics it was taken from, but okay…but again they ruined it when he popped the stick of gum in his mouth at the end. He was supposed to light up a cigarette. (anyone who’se seen it and read the comics knows what I’m talking about)

Staying on the Keanu Reeve’s theme…Matrix 2 &3 were a letdown..great effects, bad story.

Twin Peaks- Fire Walk with Me, was nowhere near as good as the show. The first X-Files movie..the same (haven’t seen the new one yet)

Fims?

Taunty Dan wrote:

Fims?

Fucksocks - I’ve only just spotted that!

:D

Star Wars…well, given that the title of the thread is “films that SHOULD have been great” i don’t think you can include the new star wars films. I mean, who genuinely thought “yay! oh this is gonna be fantastic!” For me it was more “ooh…i’m not sure about this…”. And my concerns turned out to be true. :D

RE : Jaws 4 - I actually thought Jaws 3 was worse.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUkeyw7xdb4 - fucking brilliant

Star Wars prequals - don’t get me started, please.

I have to agree with that, I suppose - it went from funny to ridiculous quite dramatically, but at least it was a bit shit to start with. The worst ending to a film I think i have ever seen was ‘The Color Purple’. The film was absolutely brilliant, and the end was … well I’m not about to tell the end even though it’s so old, but I was gobsmacked. What a cheesefest.

RE : matrix 2 - yes it was bad - save for the freway chase - but 3 was much better IMO.

The first Matrix movie was good. The 2nd decent. The 3rd pretty much showed they had no idea how to tie up the story. Was it pants? Was it ever.

As for Indiana Jones, Star Wars etc. I think the backlash for the most part was due to the unreasonably high expectations. Most people saw the original films when they were younger, and have fond memories of them (I saw Indy 2 when I was a mere 11 years old), and they go in either expecting too much, or expecting to be disappointed, ie, a self-fullfilling prophecy.

Having said that, the “actors” that played Anakin were annoying (the youngest) or simply crap (the younger). However, I did like the 2nd half of Ep 2, and most of Ep 3, as the early signs of the empire popped up (stormtroopers, star destroyers etc.).

Die Hard 4 I did like, as it was good old fashioned over the top action, and Rambo 4 was rubbish.

Haven’t got round to it yet, but really should for the Kevin Smith factor.

I really liked Die Hard 4.. except for the bit with the plane.
Just as dumb as the bit with the Harrier in “True Lies” in both cases I think it held back the move from being even better.
Hollywood definitely needs to learn that just because you can do something with effects, it doesn’t mean it’s a good idea.

I also couldn’t help but laugh at the Mac commercial guy (I hate those fuckin Apple commercials!!) and his PCs.

The Star Wars prequels were just crap.
Horrible storytelling.
Part 1 was so bad, that it pulled down the other two because they had to cram so much into the rest to get it where it was supposed to go. They should have started with episode 2, fattened it out with another episode, then ended with Return of the Sith. It should have been a dramatic buildup to Anakin turning to the dark side. Instead they were in such a rush it was like “Okay we’ve only got an hour left…now you’re bad!” They needed a real scriptwriter…bad! Lucas should have gotten Lawrence Kasdan to write it. Look at the job he did on “Empire”…the best one by far.

Can’t speak to the Indy movie. Just the preview made me not want to see it (too much CGI). I’ll catch it on cable eventually.

Jay and Silent Bob strikes back was appaling.