Ever been disappointed by a special interest?

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The short version - Has a special interest ever disappointed you in some way? For example, your favorite band releasing an album you didn't like, your favorite actor starring in a movie you didn't like, a video game series releasing a sequel you didn't like, your favorite tech company releasing a product you didn't like, etc, etc.?


The long version - I have been obsessed with Tim Burton, Johnny Depp and the movies they have made together since January of 2010. I've been through a good deal of both highs and lows with this interest over these past 2 years, and right now I have hit a low point.

Ever since Burton and Depp had first announced that they were making Dark Shadows shortly after the release of Alice in Wonderland, I couldn't wait for it. For many months, I practically drove myself insane over every little tidbit of news I could get my hands on regarding the movie.

I freaked out the first time photos of Johnny Depp in costume as the character Barnabas Collins were released back in September of 2011, as well as when the first trailer premiered on the Ellen Degeneres Show back in March of this year. About two or three days ago I finally got what I had been waiting for: actually going to see the movie.

And guess what? It disappointed me. Even though initially I had praised the movie on both this website and on my Facebook page, in reality I was in denial over my feelings of disappointment over it, which I finally admitted to myself a day or so later.

I wanted to love it, I really did, I wanted to walk out of that theater with a mile-wide smile on my face, giddily talking about how much I loved Depp's character and how the story was perfect and the atmosphere was magical, which is exactly what had happened two years earlier when I had gone to see Alice in Wonderland. But this time, there was no magic.

I don't know whether it's because I have been less enthusiastic about Burton and Depp's movies in general as of lately, and I would have fallen in love with Dark Shadows during a time when my obsession with their movies had been stronger, or if they really did make a movie of lower quality than average. All I know is, I'm still not ready to completely let go of this as a special interest. I have made multiple attempts to try to find new interests and none of them have worked out. So for now I have decided to redirect my focus towards researching Tim Burton and Johnny Depp as people rather than just obsessing over their movie collaborations, because even though I have spent the past two years obsessed with what they have done as a director/actor team, I only have a very vague idea of what they themselves are like. Heck, I don't even have their dates of birth memorized!

sort of knows how it feels.
I've always been on the alternative side of computing and liked tinkering around very much. While home pcs are still own assemblies it is all pretty much the same. I have seen sgi disappear (ok, they still live... so does amiga... it just isn't the same), alpha is ditched, sun was the final 'not just plain pc'. So I worshipped McNealy (had been for years really) until the one time I got the chance of meeting him. It was a session hosted for our company, only for our people so he was ours and freely available to play with. Manager had warned me to be careful and think she was afraid I'd ask stupid questions or declare my love or anything crazy... After his presentation I just knew it was over. I just went to my desk. My faith in the future of legacy unix was already very low and this was the final blow. Right now, every computer is just a plain pc, perhaps a bit more steel around it and different shapes but a common pc anyway.

People also know I can be overly dramatic and enthousiastic about gpl, patents and other stuff. I've seen people marching against patents with mp3 players (and no, they weren't using open codecs), their defence being 'it is now free'. Frauenhover made hell to the people responsible for that (is now from someone else) and free isn't what it is all about (+mp3 isn't free at all). But apparently that is what matters and I really don't like that people always come at me that I want everything for free (as in 'no price'), I'm bloody well the only one in the company that pays for his own software, licenses, movies, music and games. On the other hand, I often worry about Linus', Stallman's or other real fighter's views and very often don't agree. It even became worse and I became an mp3 user (currently switching to flac but mp3 still used for the smaller stuff). For very long even on vista (well, at least I'm not using apple products....). Obviously I gave up fighting.

Be careful learning to much of your idols, they might be different from what you expect. (+ you might get a restraining order if you take it too far )

I hoped for the last 10 years Burton & Depp would make a movie about Lord Byron but seemingly they have to recycle stunningly obvious ideas. Meaning they are out of ideas. Good news, they haven't made a terrible movie about Lord Byron.

When I was young I was disappointed when they released more Pokemon beyond the first 151, and thereafter completely disowned Pokemon as an obsession. And holy s*** am I grateful for that...

Yeah. I'm obsessed with a bus company, and when they changed the bus service that I always use, I got extremely angry with the company because the bus kept turning up, like, 45 minutes late to the bus station, and me (and probably a lot of other passengers too) phoned up and complained.

Also I've gotten disappointed with the bus-drivers that have come and gone in the past 5 years I've been getting the bus, especially being that it's always been my favourite one. Murphy's Law, or something up there not wanting me to be happy? It's happened too many times to just be coincidence.

used to be with something called warhammer and warhammer 40,000, idk what really happened, i just sorta stopped playing and stopped caring much about it after about 4yrs and puttting in like over $1300 for models and paint and stuff

I remember when I was obsessed with Benny & Joon, I visited the city where it was filmed and found all the locations after talking to people there and online who are from there and I looked at the house and was disappointed they had only filmed the exterior of it and the inside was very likely fake and done on a sound stage. I even found out how messed up the locations were and how implausible it made the movie. I felt very disappointed and the movie felt ruined for me. But I kept the obsession after thinking of logical reasons for why the way things were in the movie. But the house, forget it. They always do interior shots in the studios. I think it's about budget and also the fact rooms in the homes are not always big enough for the movie crew and their cameras and equipment.

Yes. The UK 70s Punk Movement. I was very depressed after a member dropped me as a friend, and by my need for protective underpants. Another member told me that I should develop a sense of humour and I took it literally and watched the trailer for Flushed Away and started to identify with Sid. I chose the punkish path and let myself go. I gained 85 lbs which I'm actually losing. I didn't care about my eating habits, because I didn't like myself at that time. My mind got darker and darker, until I told a bunch of youths at the park where to go, by flashing the backwards V which means F-Off in England and saying, "Take this, Mainstream Society!" My high society Ex-friend walked off on me, because she was angry and she's a b***h. I couldn't even bare to look at myself in the mirror for the rest of the summer without calling myself a monster.

I woke up one September morning and asked myself, "What if the Mod thing does work for me?" I washed that goop out of my hair, got a decent haircut, started listening to my favourite band again and found myself a proper role model within that band. I got my life back on track in the September of 2009.

I know that there are a lot of people who don't believe in role models, but I need a proper role model, because my parents didn't do a proper job in that department due to the verbal and emotional abuse that I got from them just because they wished I was NT.

Yes. Harry Potter. Only 'disappointed' would be too small a word in this case.

I was once a big fan of the franchise, but almost from the beginning it was going in the wrong direction for me. Namely, Harry having to suffer too much abuse that lasted too long from multiple sources: Abusive, magic-hating relatives, fair weather friends and classmates who keep turning their backs on him, a teacher, Snape, who keeps mistreating him and his friends for no good reason other than his personal grudges, and a newspaper reporter who repeatedly printed lies about him. The final straw was in 2003 when book 5 came out. I remember being so excited about it and hoping that everything would be fixed there. How could I have been so wrong? For in this book, the corrupt government saw fit to waste an entire year denying Voldemort's return and sent in a horribly abusive woman to take control of everything and plotting to get Harry expelled instead of facing and handling the situation. In the end, the corrupt government accomplished nothing with their lies. That is when I stopped being a fan. Although I still wanted to know how it all ended, I looked it all up online, because I couldn't bring myself to read the books or watch the movies anymore. Since then, I have hated Harry Potter and have long since removed anything related to the franchise from my home and my life.

Being a big ABBA fan I was disappointed when their marriages broke up as they weren't the happy group they once were anymore, but the biggest disappointment was when Bjorn grew that awful beard it just wasn't him anymore. I had a massive meltdown the first time I saw him with it.
Their last album "The Visitors" wasn't all that good an album not like all their other ones.

The last two seasons of "The X-Files" stunk.

I have autism so I only have like 3 real interest and when I get disappointed in one of my special interest I go mute for an entire week

Everytime one of my series gets cancelled.

My special interests have disappointed me when they've turned me into a hermit and messed up my social life. Obsessions are dangerous to everything else in your life.

They've also not often given me much satisfaction in terms of results. The mulit-track recording machines I made weren't really hi-fi. The recordings I made with them weren't all that good, in terms of recording quality and artistic merit. Photography? Well I got a few good shots, but mostly I wasted my time calibrating focus and light intensity, when that wasn't really the problem.

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OP: Seems like you built up expectations for something that's made by someone else. It's never a good idea to do that.