Re: Most disappointing films.

On Feb 17, 2025, William Hyde wrote
(in article <vp0cna$1bbln$1@dont-email.me>):

D wrote:

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On Mon, 17 Feb 2025, William Hyde wrote:
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In a conversation the other day I came up with a list of these, and to
my surprise they were all SF/F.
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(1) The Return of the Jedi
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(2) The Lord of the Rings (Bakshi version)
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(3) Dune (Lynch version).
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Not that I haven't seen far worse movies, but in each of these cases I
was expecting something better.
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Of course other people may have different lists. And I did like Dune
somewhat more the second time I saw it.
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William Hyde

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I agree with Dune. LOTR (b) I saw when I was 12, haven't seen it since,
so cannot say. I like 1. On my list are all the new star wars movies.
Absolutely horrible! They should have let the original 3 stand, and not
produce prequels that dishonored the memory of hte original. =(

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Yes, but those are not disappointments. They were expected to be bad,
and fulfilled expectations perfectly.
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William Hyde

they exceeded expectations. Especially the third of the prequels. I’d
thought that it would be bad, given the first two. I didn’t think that it
would be that bad. it was so bad that even the last of the sequels looked
semi-not-too-bad in comparison. (Not good, of course. Never good. But not as
bad as it could be.)