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The most hyped up you have been after watching a film at the cinema? or when you felt let down.

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  • LudovicoLudovico
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    talos7 wrote:
    Ludovico wrote:
    One come easily to my mind: Star Trek: Generations. I was a fan of TNG, borderline trekkie, I had loved, loved, loved the series, which I had discovered late (a year or so before the movie's release). I rank it far higher than any scifi franchise. I was very excited about the team coming on the big screen at last... I left sorely disappointed and I slowly stopped caring about Star Trek.
    I agree and was also disappointed. Had there been a bit of foresight, the script for the episode Yesterday's Enterprise could have been held back for a feature film. It could have been adapted to the original series crew and would have been an outstanding way to combine the two generations. :(

    So many things went wrong with that movie. It was basically an unimaginative, mediocre two hours TV episode with more budget and even then it often looked like TV. This is when TNG jumped the shark for me. I still enjoyed DS9 and some of Voyager afterwards, until I grew disappointed in them too, but this was the beginning of the end between Star Trek and me.
    pachazo wrote:
    The biggest disappointment of all time to me would have to be The Phantom Menace. Although, to be fair, it would have been difficult for any film to have lived up to the enormous hype. Still, it could have and should have been much better.

    I knew it was going to be poor, so I was not disappointed. I went there with a friend very skeptical, then laughing at Star Wars fan all the way. We were very cruel.
  • 4EverBonded4EverBonded the Ballrooms of Mars
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    Let downs? Oh yes, The Phantom menace. Hugely disappointed.

    And both sequels to The Matrix, which is a crying shame because the first one was genuinely awesome and a lot of fun.

    For me, also Indy and The Temple of Doom. After a good beginning, I really disliked the film and did not enjoy much of it. Quite disappointing.
  • MurdockMurdock The minus world
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    I was really hyped up after seeing The Avengers. (I was expecting it to be bad to be honest but I'm glad it wasn't.) And the time I was let down. When I went to see Kingdom of the Crystal skull. I went in my Indy style outfit. Mega disappointment.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    No one has mentioned DAD here? I guess it is growing on people. :|
  • LudovicoLudovico
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    Thunderfinger wrote:
    No one has mentioned DAD here? I guess it is growing on people. :|

    hey, you are employing emotional blackmail! I thought I would leave it out for a bit to focus on non Bond movies. But yes, it is one that obviously made me feel let down. I was not overhyped about it when I entered the cinema though. I had avoided spoilers and at the time I was more excited about the second LOTR movie. And there were a few things that had worried me about the movie, mainly the look of the trailer.

    But yes, whatever I was fearing, it was not that. I lef the cinema stunned and it took me a while to really take it all. I was actually angry. And I was genuinely afraid that this would mean the death of the franchise the way Generations had been the beginning of the end for Star Trek (at least for me), or Nemesis was looking like to be.
  • RogueAgentRogueAgent
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    pumped = 40 year old virgin!
    Deflated = Brokeback mountain! ;)
  • LudovicoLudovico
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    Something else that got me sorely disappointed: Coppola's pseudo-Dracula. I was HYPED about my then favourite novel (and still favourite horror novel) being finally adapted faithfully... Then I saw the movie and the important changes, I lef the theatre disappointed and lying to myself all the way home. It took me a few years to discover I hated it.
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    Yes, that totally blew.
  • LudovicoLudovico
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    chrisisall wrote:
    Yes, that totally blew.

    It sucked, but not blood. A monument to Coppola's vanity and maybe the most arrogant movie I ever saw.
  • SaintMarkSaintMark
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    SW The Empire strikes back - up till then my scifi taste had been Star Trek, Buck Rogers, Battlestar Galactica and then I saw TESB and I was in total awe with scifi and its special effects.

    Star Trek the motion picture - was a fan of the original tv show and this movie enhanced that including the bit of starship porn that has rarely done better than in this movie. Kirk, Spock and company took a major step in being bigger than life with this movie and there was even more to come.

    Christiane F, wir Kinder von Bahnhof Zoo - my first real outing in the world of drug users and it made me want to smack some people I knew that were heavily into drugs on the head. It is the not so glorious view on the live of drugs users.

  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Ludovico wrote:
    chrisisall wrote:
    Yes, that totally blew.

    It sucked, but not blood. A monument to Coppola's vanity and maybe the most arrogant movie I ever saw.

    Hmmm...one of my fav movies, but I will let it pass.
  • BAIN123BAIN123
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    I've not seen Coppola's Dracula but can it be anymore disappointing to his fans than Jack was?
  • LudovicoLudovico
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    Thunderfinger wrote:
    Ludovico wrote:
    chrisisall wrote:
    Yes, that totally blew.

    It sucked, but not blood. A monument to Coppola's vanity and maybe the most arrogant movie I ever saw.

    Hmmm...one of my fav movies, but I will let it pass.

    One of my favorite novels. Which makes Coppola's claims about his movie being faithful to the source material borderline fraudulent.
    BAIN123 wrote:
    I've not seen Coppola's Dracula but can it be anymore disappointing to his fans than Jack was?

    At least Jack had no worthy source material.
  • fire_and_icefire_and_ice
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    Coppolas Dracula is pretty insane, Oldmans and Hoptkins are good value. Studied the novel a few times at university, the film is far from accurate though i think its full of great ideas and it sits proudly in my bluray collection next to Interview with a Vampire lol
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    Hammer Films are the only truly great Dracula movies.
  • fire_and_icefire_and_ice
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    chrisisall wrote:
    Hammer Films are the only truly great Dracula movies.

    Remember having Dracula, Brides of Dracula, Taste the blood of Dracula, Prince of darkness and Satanic rites of Dracula on beta max. Showing my age there lol must have watched these films hundreds of times as a kid. hammer made some good movies.
  • Matt_HelmMatt_Helm
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    chrisisall wrote:
    Hammer Films are the only truly great Dracula movies.

    Yes! Lee rules. Coolest Dracula EVER!!!
    I have to say though, I like the Coppola one as well. Beautiful filmed movie.
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    Matt_Helm wrote:
    I have to say though, I like the Coppola one as well. Beautiful filmed movie.
    *Beehive hairdoo*
    :))
  • OHMSS69OHMSS69
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    chrisisall wrote:
    Matt_Helm wrote:
    I have to say though, I like the Coppola one as well. Beautiful filmed movie.
    *Beehive hairdoo*
    :))

    I liked Copola's film as well. It was one Dracula that stayed true to the source novel (one of the scariest books I ever read).

  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    OHMSS69 wrote:
    chrisisall wrote:
    Matt_Helm wrote:
    I have to say though, I like the Coppola one as well. Beautiful filmed movie.
    *Beehive hairdoo*
    :))

    I liked Copola's film as well. It was one Dracula that stayed true to the source novel (one of the scariest books I ever read).

    Again, *Beehive hairdoo* =))
  • LudovicoLudovico
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    Matt_Helm wrote:
    chrisisall wrote:
    Hammer Films are the only truly great Dracula movies.

    Yes! Lee rules. Coolest Dracula EVER!!!
    I have to say though, I like the Coppola one as well. Beautiful filmed movie.

    Yes, Coppola's Drac is quality soft porn. But it is not horror, it is not faithful to the source material whatever he claimed and it is not Dracula.
  • LudovicoLudovico
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    OHMSS69 wrote:
    chrisisall wrote:
    Matt_Helm wrote:
    I have to say though, I like the Coppola one as well. Beautiful filmed movie.
    *Beehive hairdoo*
    :))

    I liked Copola's film as well. It was one Dracula that stayed true to the source novel (one of the scariest books I ever read).
    It did NOT stay true to the novel. None of the characters is done remotely faithfully!
  • NapoleonPluralNapoleonPlural
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    Most hyped? Superman: The Movie, Moonraker, AVTAK, Lethal Weapon 2, Pulp Fiction, Face/Off, Kill Bil Vol 1.

    Most let down? Star Wars (where is all this happening? Two camp robots getting bitchy with each other in a dessert? Where is this in relation to Earth?), a slew of Bonds, including TMWTGG, FYEO, NSNA especially, DAD especially etc, SF. Also, The Avengers (Fiennes and Thurman, meant to be rubbish but even so), Kill Bill Vol 2 (though it has its merits in retrospect).
  • SaintMarkSaintMark
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    OHMSS69 wrote:
    chrisisall wrote:
    Matt_Helm wrote:
    I have to say though, I like the Coppola one as well. Beautiful filmed movie.
    *Beehive hairdoo*
    :))

    I liked Copola's film as well. It was one Dracula that stayed true to the source novel (one of the scariest books I ever read).

    It has a really haunting and beautiful soundtrack and some really great moments I will give you that.
  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
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    NapoleonPlural wrote:
    Most let down? Star Wars (where is all this happening? Two camp robots getting bitchy with each other in a dessert? Where is this in relation to Earth?)
    Those are rather bizarre reasons for being disappointed in a film. Did you miss the opening crawl that explains it all takes place in a galaxy far, far, away?
  • SaintMarkSaintMark
    edited June 2014 Posts: 7,653
    I remember seeing Terminator 2 in the cinema, I walked out ready to walk in a bikershop and kick the living daylights out of all of them.



    Eddie told a great story.
  • LudovicoLudovico
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    I remember coming out if The Last Crusade really hyped and disappointed that this was going to be the last Indiana Jones movie. Then disappointed decades later that it was not the case.
  • MajorDSmytheMajorDSmythe "I tolerate this century, but I don't enjoy it."Moderator
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    chrisisall wrote:
    Hammer Films are the only truly great Dracula movies.

    I like Christoher Lee as Dracula. Though Lugosi, Kinski & Palance were better, imo. The Palance film even touches on the idea of Dracula once being Vlad Tepes, 18 years before the Oldman film.
  • LudovicoLudovico
    edited June 2014 Posts: 15,218
    MajorDSmythe wrote:
    chrisisall wrote:
    Hammer Films are the only truly great Dracula movies.

    I like Christoher Lee as Dracula. Though Lugosi, Kinski & Palance were better, imo. The Palance film even touches on the idea of Dracula once being Vlad Tepes, 18 years before the Oldman film.

    Something Bram Stoker never cared about, if he knew anything about Vlad Tepes apart from his nickname.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    The Coppola film is not very true to the novel, but it is such a beautiful film, and you can still just read the novel.
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