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Post by bjork on Jul 10, 2010 10:54:09 GMT -5
Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus. Went in expecting more Heath Ledger time than there was, left going "Why is Tom Waits so damned cool?"
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Post by Citizen Snips Has Left on Jul 10, 2010 11:02:01 GMT -5
Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus. Went in expecting more Heath Ledger time than there was, left going "Why is Tom Waits so damned cool?" I've been a HUGE Tom Waits fan for 15 years, and even I was shocked that he managed to completely steal a movie out from under Christopher Plummer, Heath Ledger, Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell. And of course, there was supposed to be much more of Ledger and it would've been fascinating to watch him descend into where his character ended up, but then fate took a hand....
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Post by i.Sarita.com on Jul 10, 2010 14:35:08 GMT -5
The Happening
By all indication it was some sort of creepy, ghost/zombie filled thriller.
Instead I had to spend 2 hours getting lectured on why humans are evil and killing the planet and that I should be "green". Also, Marky Mark played a douchebag.
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Post by wildojinx on Jul 10, 2010 15:30:54 GMT -5
Where the Wild Things Are. I worked at a summer camp a few weeks ago and they showed this film. I was expecting something cute and whimsical like the book. Instead i got a film that while visually amazing, didnt know if it wanted to be a kids film or an art film, with lots of depressing, sepia-toned colors in the film to boot. For a good example, Lord of War. I knew it was about an arms dealer, but i didnt know it was a character study rather than an action flick. Awesome film though.
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Post by Orange on Jul 10, 2010 15:36:48 GMT -5
Where the Wild Things Are. I worked at a summer camp a few weeks ago and they showed this film. I was expecting something cute and whimsical like the book. Instead i got a film that while visually amazing, didnt know if it wanted to be a kids film or an art film, with lots of depressing, sepia-toned colors in the film to boot. For a good example, Lord of War. I knew it was about an arms dealer, but i didnt know it was a character study rather than an action flick. Awesome film though. Yeah IMO Where The Wild Things Are was horrible, I couldn't even finish the whole thing, I gave up on it. I loved the actual monsters, but the movie fell flat.
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Post by Mozenrath on Jul 10, 2010 15:49:39 GMT -5
Not a movie, but while listening to Colt Cabana's theme song, it went into Copa Cabana. I had never listened to the full song before, so I did. What I expected was some light hearted fare.
What I got was an incredibly depressing story of a woman's life going to absolute hell.
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Post by Hulkshi Tanahashi on Jul 10, 2010 15:56:23 GMT -5
I thought Fight Club was just gonna be 2 hours of a bunch of meatheads fighting each other for no reason. Especially since the recommendation came from a friend who is into that sort of thing. Then he got pissed off when I figured it out after I saw that first flash of Brad Pitt early in the film. I, too, thought "Fight Club" was a mindless action flick instead of a satire of commercialism and the state of masculinity in the late 1990s.
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Post by Welfare Willis on Jul 10, 2010 15:57:35 GMT -5
I would say Last House on the Left.
Me and my friend I think were expecting something a bit more akin to Nightmare on Elm Street and The Hills have Eyes, not as horrific or realistic as LHOTL was.
On the same token, Day of the Woman aka I Spit on Your Grave. We were expecting a rape revenge movie, just not a twenty minute long rape scene.
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Post by SHAKEMASTER TV9 is Don Knotts on Jul 10, 2010 16:05:01 GMT -5
Little Black Book wasn't what I expected.
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Post by Koda, Master Crunchyroller on Jul 10, 2010 16:27:33 GMT -5
Taking Woodstock. I thought the movie would SUCK cause it is Demetri Martin. However, not only was the movie really freaking good, but Martin wasn't bad. Hell, he was good.
And Emile Hirsch gave a good performance, and oh my god, Liev Schreiber as a cross dressing transvestite? CLASSIC!
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Post by Koda, Master Crunchyroller on Jul 10, 2010 16:29:19 GMT -5
Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus. Went in expecting more Heath Ledger time than there was, left going "Why is Tom Waits so damned cool?" Tom Waits certainly did surprise me. The dude is a character actor, always was, and sadly, probably always will be, but even so, he WAS the best performer in that film, despite all the heavy hitters he was acting next to. I must say, he was possibly the best version of the Devil I've ever seen.
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Post by Citizen Snips Has Left on Jul 10, 2010 16:29:52 GMT -5
Naked Lunch. I can think of two things wrong with that title.
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Post by Koda, Master Crunchyroller on Jul 10, 2010 16:35:38 GMT -5
M. Night's "The Village" Part of the blame is placed on the trailers, but I was really looking forward to a period piece that had villagers deal with unseen monsters that were invading their town. What I really got was... well... lame. The problem was, M. Night made it a weird romance from the beginning. He was PISSED when the studio made the ad campaign look like it was for a horror film.
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Post by Perpetual Nirvana on Jul 11, 2010 2:35:51 GMT -5
Southland Tales. I was expecting a story about humanity dealing with the aftermath of a nuclear attack on Texas, something like Jericho. Instead, I got a random biblical stuff, left wing politics and bizarre casting choices thrown in a blender to create an incoherent mess.
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Post by "Hollywood" Cactus Matt on Jul 11, 2010 10:21:30 GMT -5
Observe and Report.
I was expecting a more grown-up, Seth Rogen-esque version of Paul Blart: Mall Cop. Instead, I got freaked the f*** out.
Maybe I didn't pay close enough attention to the trailers or the reviews, or maybe I just have a crush on Anna Faris, but that movie sucked.
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Post by flatsdomino on Jul 11, 2010 11:18:00 GMT -5
Happy Feet was it for me. Got dragged to what I thought was going to be Shark's Tale levels of lameness...left damn near at the point of tears.
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Post by darthalexander on Jul 11, 2010 11:32:04 GMT -5
The Village was a big let down for me. The ending was a total bummer. Up until that point I thought it was pretty good, and I kept thinking why are people so against this film? Then I found out why.
Inglorious Bastards was not the movie I thought it would be but I still liked it somewhat.
Dead/Alive and Evil Dead 2 are two films I expected to be different but I was amazed at how they turned out. I figured they'd just be "ok" zombie flicks and was I ever happily wrong.
Edit: You'd probably have to ad the VHS/DVD cover that has a big pic of some famous star on it that you rent and it turns out they're in it for a minute or so. I got burned like this as a kid a few times and I'm sure a lot of people got burnt this way.
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Post by ohiofan1 on Jul 11, 2010 11:46:12 GMT -5
UP for me because who would have thought a movie about an old man and a flying house with talking dogs could get you to cry in the first 15 minutes. In fact, I cried multiple times watching that amazing movie.
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Post by psychokiller on Jul 11, 2010 14:27:53 GMT -5
Inglorious Basterds- I was expecting it to be a movie with them just going around on missions killing Nazis, but what I got was some movie about some womans' theater where the Nazis were going to be for some movie?! I mean seriously wtf. The Basterds were secondary characters in it which was pretty lame to me. I thought the movie overall was still alright, just it was nothing at all that I expected it to be. I was probably disapointed because for years I remember hearing it was going to have big name stars like Bruce Willis & Sylvester Stallone in it. So i expected a men on a mission movie, but it was nothing like that at all.
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Post by slasher911 on Jul 11, 2010 14:40:56 GMT -5
Annapolis was pretty terrible. The trailers made it seem like it was gonna be a good Navy movie, with submarines and aircraft carriers and battleships exploding. Instead, it was a lame-ass boxing movie with not ONE SINGLE scene on a boat (construction yard doesn't count). They added more than a handful of scenes that weren't even remotely in the movie.
It suuuuuuucked.
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