You thought it would be good......

[Loosehead]

Ok following on from "Worst Movie" asked below. What film is your biggest dissapointment, I mean where everyone said it's great and "you really must see it , you'll love it" and it turned out to be, in your opinion at least, a pile of cack! I've got 2 that spring instantly to mind, "One flew over the cuckoos, nest" so boring, so slow, so up it's own ****. Particularly dissapointing becaause I saw it recently for the first time and I was looking forward to ticking it off in my list as I'd never got round to seeing it before. The other is "Gosforth Park" for similar reasons.

[Priesty]

Because I actually got off my arse and took the trouble of going to the Cinema, because I persuaded a friend to come with me (which I will never hear the end of), because Spielberg was involved. I nominate the shower of sewerage that was AI.

[acw]

Ali (the Will Smith one), and the Road to Perdition (mind numbing - and I usually like tom hanks films). 

I also disliked People vs Larry Flint, but I think that was a dislike of the characters, not the film.

The latter two films I mentioned I too was watching to tick them off the list. 

[ICEMANSAV]

I'd say Ali as well, Could have been great, the wrong person chosen in Will Smith.

[MrsM]

For me it would have to be Independence Day (Shown last Friday on the TV).  It has to be said I hate the ending of this film due to the fact that in my opion it was way over the top

[georgit79]

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I was really looking forward to it, and was quite disappointed with the result.

[dk_psy]

Perhaps War of the Worlds as it didn't capture me as much as I'd hoped. Also the Rules of Attraction I found really disappointing.

Love ID4 though, probably because I was 12 when it came out. In the words of a popular magazine though, it is a bit like someone shouting 'USA, USA' in your face for two hours, Us poor brits just waiting for the heroes to come along.

Also love Gosford Park, so was the opposite of disappointed when I saw that as I wasn't expecting much.

[Pinotage]

Star Wars Episode 1 (the made third film) what a pile of boring crock that was.

[blueeyedlass]

i have to say the exorcist me and a group of my friends all went to see it when it was rereleased in the cinema a few years back we thought we were in for a good scare because it had been banned and heard of people crying and fainting over it etc well what a dissapointment it was crap i even went outside for a smoke in the middle of it. never again !!!

[buttons]

I agree with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and also nominate Erin Brockovich - the big oscar hype, the fabulous reviews and a rather mediocre film.  You could have cut an hour out of the middle of it and not missed a thing!

[littleoldme]

I was very disappointed in The Thin Red Line, which all the critics seemed to love. I don't expect many laughs in a war film, but this was just relentlessly depressing from start to finish. When a film's only attempt at light relief is to get you to play Spot the Celebrity Cameo (ooh look, there's John Travolta, ooh look, there's George Clooney etc), you know you're in trouble.

[delboy3]

Dare I say it? Lord of the Rings. Possibly the most overhyped nonsense of recent times.

[Sooper]

Well where do you start! I agree with every film that has been listed that i have seen and here are a few others that in my opinion shouldnt have been made.

Open Water

Last Samauri

Lost in Translation

Meet the Fockers

Kill Bill

[Haggisdj]

I agree with Priesty.  I'm a HUGE SS fan and I thought A1 was the biggest load of rubbish...

[Claza]

It's gotta be Gosford Park.  There are superb actors/actresses in it but I was disappointed.

Also Jackie Brown, it has nothing on Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs!

[lilyfrog]

Fifth Element

Texas Chainsaw Massacre (origonal)

yawn yawn yawn

[LAC83]

 It will have to be all the Star Wars films. I really tried my best to like them but they�re just rubbish!

Also any film in which America kindly saves the world (e.g. Independence Day and Armageddon)  

I disagree with all the comments about Gosford Park. Adultery, murder, deception, reconciliation, sub themes of any classic murder mystery!

[St Germain]

It has to be episodes 1-3 of the Star Wars movies. I was such an avid fan of the original films that "The Phantom Menace" seemed an almighty let down. The build up to it lasted years. Nobody wanted to say what they really thought of it when it first came out, it was all: "stunning special effects, great visuals...blah, blah," but it was totally awful. I was depressed for months. Bloody vandals, they ruined it!

[acw]

LAC83 - the ingredients are there, but maybe it was a film best left as a book?  I haven't seen it, and judging by the majority view here, I don't think I'll bother, but you may yet persuade me and others to change our minds!

I'm so glad other people don't like Star Wars - I've tried and failed to like those films.  I don't even like James Bond that much! :-$ (blush)

[Lovely Me]

Meet Joe Black.

Just kept hitting the fast forward button.

Vanilla Sky

Magnolia

Though those two would've been greatly improved by replacing Tom Cruise with, well, anyone.

[Impret-Sir]

The last two James Bond films have been terrible, especially the one before last, whatever it was called, some of the worst CGI I have ever seen, and a totally pointless story, even by JB standards. Cant believe no-one has mentioned Pearl Harbour yet, utter dross. Oh, and Id just like to say I thought artificial intelegence was OK, maybe a bit too long, but had some brilliantly original ideas and visually it was great.