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Post by Kings_Requiem on Dec 13, 2018 14:26:50 GMT
Halloween Sicario 2 The Wife A Star is Born Eighth Grade Incredibles 2 Leave No Trace The Other Side of the Wind Mute
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Post by jakesully on Dec 13, 2018 16:34:04 GMT
easily MUTE . I was soooooo hyped for this Duncan Jones' film and was taken back how poorly made it was . Not only that but it was insanely stupid & down right laughable in a lot of parts. I was embarrassed for all the cast members involved in it.
(Still think Mr Jones has another good to great film in him though but damn Mute sucked! haha)
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Post by notacrook on Dec 13, 2018 18:13:29 GMT
Hereditary was a major disappointment, while Widows was definitely not on the tier I was hoping for. I was also letdown by The Tale and to a certain extent Eighth Grade, though the latter is a perfectly solid film that simply fell victim to extreme overhype.
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Post by bruinjoe96 on Dec 13, 2018 18:29:24 GMT
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Post by Miles Morales on Dec 13, 2018 18:36:40 GMT
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Post by bruinjoe96 on Dec 13, 2018 20:07:19 GMT
For one, it wasn't the most exciting Damien Chazzelle movie, both Whiplash and La La Land were far more entertaining and better. The VFX and the moon landing scene was amazing though. I just expected so much more from this, especially because Damien Chazzelle is starting to become one of my favorite young directors.
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Dec 13, 2018 23:24:12 GMT
Sorry to Bother You Beautiful Boy You Were Never Really Here
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Post by dadsburgers on Dec 16, 2018 3:26:58 GMT
Incredibles 2 You Were Never Really Here
Then A Quiet Place, which wasn't bad, but wasn't what it was made out to be
Sounds like Suspiria will join the list
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Post by chris3 on Dec 16, 2018 3:44:40 GMT
Avengers: Infinity War. I wasn't expecting a great movie or anything, and I'm not really a fan of the MCU. But I thought the elevator fight in Winter Soldier and the airport brawl in Civil War were both outstanding, so I was hoping for some great action scenes alongside the novelty of seeing a 150 minute comic book splash page come to life. And the first twenty minutes were pretty fun. But then it quickly turned into the exact same thing over and over and over and over again. It was like a two and half hour version of that interminable Man of Steel finale, only with added quips. By the halfway point I was bored out of my mind. And then that utterly moronic ending hits and I was nauseated. All I could think of was: two years ago, everyone (rightly) criticized BvS for that Superman death fake-out because we all knew he'd be back in the next film. And yet now when Marvel does the exact same thing (only TO THE EXTREEEEEME) suddenly everyone is praising it as this bold, audacious, brilliant plot twist? WHAT?! God that movie is infuriating. A movie like The Last Jedi takes real risks with its character deaths and gets shat on, and then one year later everyone calls Infinity War risky for its obviously fake character deaths? Not to mention the fact that the movie itself provides ZERO character arcs or story development for any of these characters? It wasn't even a movie, it was a string of walk-on cameos and endless bland CGI mayhem. At least Civil War attempted to organically involve the characters into one specific, semi-interesting narrative. This was just a bunch of "find the MacGuffin" video game quest subplots cross-cut between each other. God I hate that movie.
I was also disappointed by Halloween and Incredibles 2, but at least both of those had some positive qualities and were actual movies.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2018 5:00:11 GMT
Haven't seen much, but so far it's Annihilation. That movie had potential.
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Post by moonman157 on Dec 16, 2018 5:42:35 GMT
I expected every movie to be trash and they all were
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Post by countjohn on Dec 16, 2018 7:39:18 GMT
I think it has to be Incredibles 2 for me. I'd been looking forward to an Incredibles sequel for over a decade and it was so mediocre.
15:17 to Paris might apply. I was a bit dubious as to what its quality would be going in, but god, what a piece of shit. I didn't think Eastwood was capable of directing anything that bad.
I was also a bit dubious of Sicario II, but I thought it would be better than it was.
I wasn't exactly "anticipating" a Quiet Place way in advance, but the reviews built big expectations for me the week it came out and I didn't think it was very good. The fact that it got such rave shows how hard up we are for truly good horror movies these days.
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Post by sirjeremy on Dec 16, 2018 9:34:44 GMT
A Star is Born.
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Dec 16, 2018 16:38:14 GMT
Avengers: Infinity War. I wasn't expecting a great movie or anything, and I'm not really a fan of the MCU. But I thought the elevator fight in Winter Soldier and the airport brawl in Civil War were both outstanding, so I was hoping for some great action scenes alongside the novelty of seeing a 150 minute comic book splash page come to life. And the first twenty minutes were pretty fun. But then it quickly turned into the exact same thing over and over and over and over again. It was like a two and half hour version of that interminable Man of Steel finale, only with added quips. By the halfway point I was bored out of my mind. And then that utterly moronic ending hits and I was nauseated. All I could think of was: two years ago, everyone (rightly) criticized BvS for that Superman death fake-out because we all knew he'd be back in the next film. And yet now when Marvel does the exact same thing (only TO THE EXTREEEEEME) suddenly everyone is praising it as this bold, audacious, brilliant plot twist? WHAT?! God that movie is infuriating. A movie like The Last Jedi takes real risks with its character deaths and gets shat on, and then one year later everyone calls Infinity War risky for its obviously fake character deaths? Not to mention the fact that the movie itself provides ZERO character arcs or story development for any of these characters? It wasn't even a movie, it was a string of walk-on cameos and endless bland CGI mayhem. At least Civil War attempted to organically involve the characters into one specific, semi-interesting narrative. This was just a bunch of "find the MacGuffin" video game quest subplots cross-cut between each other. God I hate that movie. I was also disappointed by Halloween and Incredibles 2, but at least both of those had some positive qualities and were actual movies. I agree with a lot of this but I don’t think anyone was really saying IW was bold or risky for its ending. It was clearly a first half set up of a 2-film arc. I don’t think anyone was expecting those character to not return. The only real question marks are Gamora and Vision...I think it’s safe to say Loki and Heimdel and legit dead. And I get your point on character arcs although I’d say Gamora and Thor did have one. I’m expecting big ones for Cap and Stark in the sequel.
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Post by stephen on Dec 16, 2018 16:43:07 GMT
I think it has to be Incredibles 2 for me. I'd been looking forward to an Incredibles sequel for over a decade and it was so mediocre. I liked Incredibles 2 for what it was, but I think it really missed a trick when they set it mere minutes after the first one. I would much rather have seen a movie set fourteen years or so after the events of the first film. Imagine a movie where Jack-Jack, a moody teen with all those powers at his disposal, wants nothing to do with being a superhero because it keeps him from a normal life. The first film deals with superheroes forced into mundane existence, but imagine a movie where someone who is the most powerful being (ostensibly) in the world wants nothing more than to be an accountant. His parents and siblings try to cajole him into being this crime-fighting dynamo, but that's not what he wants.
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Post by Martin Stett on Dec 16, 2018 17:02:48 GMT
I think it has to be Incredibles 2 for me. I'd been looking forward to an Incredibles sequel for over a decade and it was so mediocre. I liked Incredibles 2 for what it was, but I think it really missed a trick when they set it mere minutes after the first one. I would much rather have seen a movie set fourteen years or so after the events of the first film. Imagine a movie where Jack-Jack, a moody teen with all those powers at his disposal, wants nothing to do with being a superhero because it keeps him from a normal life. The first film deals with superheroes forced into mundane existence, but imagine a movie where someone who is the most powerful being (ostensibly) in the world wants nothing more than to be an accountant. His parents and siblings try to cajole him into being this crime-fighting dynamo, but that's not what he wants. If it would mean Jack-Jack telling dad that he wants to be just like Wallace Shawn, I'd be all for it. The trouble with your idea is that the key The Incredibles is the family dynamic. If we move Dash off to college and Violet is married with kids, (ohhh, now that's an idea...) you'd have to do a lot to create a new dynamic. And I don't trust Pixar to manage that. Their only outside the box movie was The Incredibles (you could stretch and say that WALL-E is too), and telling them to go even further and deconstruct/reconstruct the family dynamic in a different way is past their ability.
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Post by stephen on Dec 16, 2018 17:07:03 GMT
I liked Incredibles 2 for what it was, but I think it really missed a trick when they set it mere minutes after the first one. I would much rather have seen a movie set fourteen years or so after the events of the first film. Imagine a movie where Jack-Jack, a moody teen with all those powers at his disposal, wants nothing to do with being a superhero because it keeps him from a normal life. The first film deals with superheroes forced into mundane existence, but imagine a movie where someone who is the most powerful being (ostensibly) in the world wants nothing more than to be an accountant. His parents and siblings try to cajole him into being this crime-fighting dynamo, but that's not what he wants. If it would mean Jack-Jack telling dad that he wants to be just like Wallace Shawn, I'd be all for it. The trouble with your idea is that the key The Incredibles is the family dynamic. If we move Dash off to college and Violet is married with kids, (ohhh, now that's an idea...) you'd have to do a lot to create a new dynamic. And I don't trust Pixar to manage that. Their only outside the box movie was The Incredibles (you could stretch and say that WALL-E is too), and telling them to go even further and deconstruct/reconstruct the family dynamic in a different way is past their ability. While it's true that the crux of the film is the family dynamic, having Dash and Violet doing their own things (Dash going off to college and realizing that his athleticism isn't going to be enough to see him successful in life, while Violet manages the anxiety of preparing for her first child or something) can speak to feelings that children who grew up with the first film might be feeling. Sure, it might be bolder than what Pixar normally goes for, but you have potential to set up different storylines later on rather than hitting the same basic beats over and over. I trust someone like Brad Bird to do that, which is largely why I'm disappointed he didn't.
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Post by HELENA MARIA on Dec 16, 2018 17:10:08 GMT
WIDOWS is another one
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Post by AKenjiB on Dec 16, 2018 20:50:02 GMT
Mute and it’s not even close. Moon is one of my favorite films of all time and holds a special place in my heart as the first film I ever saw at a film festival (Duncan Jones even showed up after to answer questions). I’d been eagerly anticipating Mute for years as he kept putting it off to focus on other projects. When the trailer premiered, I was hyped. But then the movie came out. And it wasn’t just disappointing, it was bad. A messy first-draft of a script that jumps from scene to scene with nothing explored or developed in a meaningful way. Any individual scene that was actually interesting (like when Paul Rudd verbally confronts Justin Theroux) ends up being completely irrelevant by the next scene.
Also, The Shape of Water understood, unlike Mute, that having a mute protagonist is not an excuse to make them flat and uninteresting. Sam Bell in Moon is one of my favorite protagonists in any film, beautifully acted by Rockwell with so much depth to every scene. In contrast, Leo just goes from one place to the next and reacts to things by widening his eyes. He barely has a personality. And the concept of an Amish guy trying to adjust to a technologically-based world could’ve actually been fascinating if the film tried to actually explore that in any meaningful way.
Mute was one of my most anticipated films not just of the year, but of the decade. And I was left with a boring, incoherent mess of a film that completely squanders any good ideas it may have had.
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Post by IceTruckDexter on Dec 16, 2018 21:12:48 GMT
Black Panther
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Post by wilcinema on Dec 16, 2018 21:34:49 GMT
Given how much I usually like Lynne Ramsay's movies, I hate to say it's You Were Never Really Here.
The major disappointment is Hold The Dark though.
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Post by mrimpossible on Dec 16, 2018 21:40:28 GMT
BlacKkKlansman. The last half hour really fell apart.
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Post by ibbi on Dec 16, 2018 22:03:21 GMT
My bottom 4 movies of the year so far - Solo (I mean this is one of those movies that looked like a disaster from the off, but my love for the franchise and the strength of the cast allowed me to get my hopes up) Halloween (a director capable of doing genuinely great work and with a great care for details? Perfect choice!) The Crimes of Grindelwald (I enjoyed the first one well enough) The Seagull (should have been saved by cast and source material)
I'd throw Incredibles 2, Ant-Man and the Wasp, and Creed II all in as films that were not bad, but for me didn't do enough good to warrant existing.
I guess I'd also mention Shoplifters, a very good film, that to me just wasn't quite as flawless the experience that his best work is, and The Wife, which has a really, really, really interesting premise produced by people who turned out something frustratingly inconsistent. There's literally a scene in the movie where a first draft is criticized for having great ideas let down by bad characters. That's the perfect way to describe this movie.
Not sure I can single one out...
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Post by ibbi on Dec 17, 2018 21:35:09 GMT
Oh, and Peterloo. A film so disappointing I forgot it existed.
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Post by avnermoriarti on Dec 18, 2018 23:51:45 GMT
. Blackkklasman has to be the big one. Shallow politics, cop out ending, mess third act, Belafonte, wink at you humour, etc, etc. . Everybody Knows. Soap opera with “this is art” pretentiousness . The Wild Pear Tree. This time, Ceylan took way too long to get to his point, why didn’t he just wrote a novel instead ? And is surprisingly ugly to look at at several moments, nice ending, though. . 3 Faces. Such a wasted opportunity, it had the opportunity to be something great and is just an anecdote. . Widows, so broad and unrealistic, but Debicki rules
And to a lesser extent: . Birds of Passage. Many things to love, especially in the first hour but is also surprisingly straightforward, badly performed and no surrealist touch to be found. . Climax. Feels like is just there, it doesn’t have the punch of Irreversible/ Enter the Void, it’s just a wild party. . Shoplifters. Probably gonna make my top 20 of the year, and that speaks to the excellence of Koreeda but he’s been on a downhill since After the Storm, it just doesn’t have the emotion or is as engaging as his best.
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