Re: Most disappointing films.

Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:

In article <f0dc1e8c-b338-1261-cf4d-5ff6d5f503e4@example.net>,
D  <nospam@example.net> 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. =(

 Rogue One is pretty good.

I don't subscribe to the SF channel, but they were on for free over the holidays and I taped a pile of Star Wars films.  So I was able to watch
Rogue one last night, and agree that it is better than most of the others.  Not a disappointment.
But it was just jam-packed with stupidity, which can work with a light hearted space opera like Empire, but not in this case.  It's nice that the moral landscape of the characters is more complex, but that requires
a concomitant improvement in plotting to have any real effect.
Still, I enjoyed the first half of the movie.  The second half I found to be dreadful.
I didn't realize that there's an actor out there whose entire career seems to be as zombie Peter Cushing.

 I actually quite enjoyed TFA, but then I didn't believe Han was
actually dead (I was pretty sure that with the big build-up on Maz,
her connection with the Force and having gotten a light saber
possibly through teleportational menas that she was going to pull
some mojo that would be revealed later.  TMF me.)

That I have yet to see.
William Hyde