Wasted movie potential

Started by Surtur6 pages

Yeah, "The Path of Neo" video game thankfully made up for it. I still have it on PC.

Oh well here is some massively massively wasted potential: Avatar. The airbender, not the one with aliens.

If done right it could have been a cool movie and potentially a trilogy, but nope..they f*cked it up.

I am also going to throw one out there that some people might have issues with, but that's just how I feel about it: Age of Ultron. It's not a bad movie by any means. But I feel like it just retread a lot of the same stuff from the first Avengers film. It could have been really great, like the first one was, but it didn't quite live up to its predecessor. And like I said, this isn't just a thread for bad films. Average to good films can also be mentioned if people feel that they could have been even better.

Originally posted by TheVaultDweller
I am also going to throw one out there that some people might have issues with, but that's just how I feel about it: Age of Ultron. It's not a bad movie by any means. But I feel like it just retread a lot of the same stuff from the first Avengers film. It could have been really great, like the first one was, but it didn't quite live up to its predecessor. And like I said, this isn't just a thread for bad films. Average to good films can also be mentioned if people feel that they could have been even better.

I agree. Also suddenly they just drop storylines on you. Like hey Hulk and Black Widow have a romance now because..I don't know.

The live action transformer films, they had potential because it's transformers but they chose Bay to direct

Yet most of us will probably watch the next one in the cinemas, and it will still likely break a billion at the box office.

Originally posted by TheVaultDweller
Yet most of us will probably watch the next one in the cinemas, and it will still likely break a billion at the box office.

Yeah, what the hell is wrong with you people? Just stop already.

What was wrong with Man Of Steel?

Originally posted by Patient_Leech
Yeah, what the hell is wrong with you people? Just stop already.

I think most of us are trapped in that "maybe the next one will be better" mindset. 😆

Originally posted by TheVaultDweller
I think most of us are trapped in that "maybe the next one will be better" mindset. 😆

Fool you once shame on them, fool you 6 times shame on YOU!

Originally posted by TethAdamTheRock
What was wrong with Man Of Steel?

Everything after the Kal/Faora fight in Smallville. Act 3 was flaming turds.

Originally posted by TheVaultDweller
Yet most of us will probably watch the next one in the cinemas, and it will still likely break a billion at the box office.

Nah I'll wait for it to hit Netflix or something.

Originally posted by TheVaultDweller
I am also going to throw one out there that some people might have issues with, but that's just how I feel about it: Age of Ultron. It's not a bad movie by any means. But I feel like it just retread a lot of the same stuff from the first Avengers film. It could have been really great, like the first one was, but it didn't quite live up to its predecessor. And like I said, this isn't just a thread for bad films. Average to good films can also be mentioned if people feel that they could have been even better.

👆

That wasted potential is compounded by the fact that Ultron plays a major part in Annihilation: Conquest. If the MCU ever gets around to adapting that post Infinity War they've already shot themselves in the foot.

'Passengers'

i recently watched that movie, and although it wasn't a shit movie, I felt like it could have been much better. They could have made it a really good thriller with the guy being a total creep, but instead the writers half-stepped and made to a romance.

Originally posted by marwash22
'Passengers'

i recently watched that movie, and although it wasn't a shit movie, I felt like it could have been much better. They could have made it a really good thriller with the guy being a total creep, but instead the writers half-stepped and made to a romance.

I disagree. I actually rather enjoyed the film. The sets and production design were phenomenal. Makes me want to go on a Space Cruise.

Sin City: A Dame to Kill For.

The Star Wars prequels.

Originally posted by marwash22
'Passengers'

i recently watched that movie, and although it wasn't a shit movie, I felt like it could have been much better. They could have made it a really good thriller with the guy being a total creep, but instead the writers half-stepped and made to a romance.

Me and my friend enjoyed it

Originally posted by Patient_Leech
I disagree. I actually rather enjoyed the film. The sets and production design were phenomenal. Makes me want to go on a Space Cruise.
i didn't say anything about the production values of the film, my issues with it were script-related.

a visually stunning movie with a mismanaged story is an even bigger affront to me.

Mouth has a very good point, imo. If they had turned it from a sappy romance into a psychological thriller midway through where Pratt's character suddenly isn't just a nice lonely guy looking for a human connection, but a dangerous creep in disguise, it could have been a much better film. The bait-n-switch.

edit: Something like 'What Lies Beneath' (2000), to the backdrop of a space ship.