Movies that fell below your expectations...

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it is to be expected that straight people would find dil's character to be unappealing. but for this reviewer, i'd have married "her" in a new york second, if only "she" would've had me. same for hansel/hedwig in "hedwig and the angry inch."

Well, i saw a few that, after buying, kicked myself for later:

Bloodrayne (both, and curse my eyes for eternity for getting them) I'll give some credit for an attempt at a gorefest, but it fell short of that too . . . at least it came with a copy of the game to redeem itself (if only a little).

Ultraviolet had serious lack of direction, and, for a movie involving vampires, it didnt EVEN manage to suck (har har).

Epic Movie did get some good cheap shots at those long epic movies, but it lacked overall direction and tried to do too many gags with not enough original satire.

AVP (the first, hadnt seen the second but heard the bad reviews) was a good attempt at throwing the two critters, but what it lacked was quantity . . . at 90 min, thats barely enough to whet my appetite for alien annihilation. But, it does deliver somewhat well otherwise.

There are likely others, but cant remember them this late at night.

Hannibal rising.
I like to believe that movie is apocryphal in the Hannibal Lecter saga. I just can't see Hannibal as an action hero - or a hero of any sort, for that matter. Committing serial murder and cannibalism out of righteous vengeance is a little hard to swallow. Or as one friend (who I suspect may also be an Aspie) has said of Hannibal Rising, "He eats people for good!"

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

^I agree about Hannibal Rising. I don't even count it as part of the Hannibal series. It has been erased from my mind, only the tiniest memory of its existence remains just to remind myself not to watch it again.

Beverly Hills Ninja fell way below my expectations. I was very disappointed.

LOL!! ! I have to say, (knowing nothing about the movie, mind you) that with a title like that, I don't think it could possibly fall below my expectations, unless it landed in the negatives.

I have to agree with many of the posts here.

-Pirates of the Caribbean. Not quite non-stop boredom, there were a few annoying moments as well. I couldn't have cared less about any of the characters. I expected little, and even even so it fell below my expectations.

-Harry Potter. They're decent films and everything, but not worthy of the hype. Besides, the actor playing HP is rather wooden.

-Rosemary's baby. The only good thing about it is that they never show the baby.

-Persona. It's a good film, but I had very high expectations.

Admittedly I'm no sci-fi fan, but:

-Star Wars. I didn't even think it was bad, I thought it was mediocre.

-Blade runner. Why is this famous again? Maybe it was original in its day, but in that case it hasn't aged well.

The last Harry Potter they released (Harry Potter & the Half Blood Prince) was TERRIBLE! They sucked away all the seriousness of the story for bland comic relief moments and moments completely unrelated to the plot while taking about important story and character developments at the same time. Even the whole Harry/Ginny hookup (which was constantly being promoted prior to the film) was downplayed and half-assed in the film.

It's pitiful that a franchise as popular as this one produced something of this sort. With all the material that was in the book, a good team of screenwriters could have easily put together a script that communicated the important aspects of the plot with special attention on the long-term Harry Potter story. That's the smart way to do it. And they can't blame earlier films for it. The Harry-Ginny hookup could have been told in very little time the way it was written, since most of Harry's growing interest and jealousy were expressed "visually" in that he didn't say anything about them, he thought them. They could have slipped in a few passing, lingering shots of him seeing her with another guy and reacting to it. Then there would have been time for the more serious points of the story, a few explanations possibly, and plot points leading to the last book's films. Maybe a few people showing up to the final fight, that would be nice! And think of the time they would have gained if they hadn't decided arbitrarily that a setting from the final book should be torched one movie before it was needed!

So, yeah, I agree. They could have done a lot better than turning the main characters into drooling maniacs who bounce from tantrums to hormones repeatedly. My 11-year-old was fairly foaming at the mouth when we saw this. "Ron's brother was supposed to be there! The werewolf bit him! They never burned the Burrow! Where are they gonna have the wedding in the last one? Only maybe they won't have a wedding, since they left out Ron's brother! This is so wrong!"

On the topic of Tarantino, I recently watched 'Jackie Brown' and was rather disappointed, considering the TV-Guide gave it a four star rating. And I've yet to see 'Pulp Fiction', 'Reservoir Dogs', and both 'Kill Bill's, but I won't let my opinion on 'Jackie Brown' colour future viewings of it...
After all, Hayao Miyazaki's "Howl's Moving Castle" didn't impress me much, while "Princess Mononoke" (which I saw later) blew me away entirely.

One movie that was a MAJOR disappointment, was "Stardust" (2007). Someone recommended it to me because it supposedly was a feel-good film with a great happy ending, but I didn't like it at all. I much preferred "Ella Enchanted", which imo pulled off the fantasy/comedy combination MUCH better.