Third Man

I was always disappointed with Roland Joffe's 'Killing Fields' I just remember thinking that there could of been so much more to it, they seemed to run out of money towards the end of the film which came abruptly and awkwardly with the awful use of John Lennon's ' Imagine'.

Other honourable mentions Jack Cardiff's ' Girl on a Motorcycle' a barren waste of time and Antonnioini's 60's London farce ' Blow Up' although the cinematography in Maryon Park was gorgeously done and the peculiarity of the dead body in the copse was intriguing, nothing can save this film for me.

Aaryk Noctivagus

I dislike Jude Law. I think the only role he ever won me over with was in 'Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow' which I loved him in. Otherwise its either abide or dispise. The other highlight was when he was OK in 'The Wisdom of Crocodiles'.

tali122

Hello its tali here to offer an explantion!.I watched those movies first when i was a teenager and horror to me was monsters and scary things with fangs, Don;t Look now , Dead of Night had no monsters, as for Repulsion -some bird going dolally in her house .I was expectiing horror but got suspense .Well supernatural horror always appealed to me , psychological horror has never got my boat going.I am not going to bullshit and intellectualize my liking of horror and pass off as reader of The Guardian and Telegraph and come over all high brow
I have a liking for hammer horror , amicus, Night Of the demon is one of my faves aswell as salems lot(all other stephen king are poor) I was pleasantly surprised by coppolas dracula.Never liked HItchcock - but Psycho is truly impressive as is Frenzy )All time fave is probably christopher lee in The Mummy
As for Neil Marshall , the guy is a genius, he churns out populist box office hits on the back of scripts written on a fag packet.
Anyone truly lacking the qualities needed to appreciate movies would have never ever have heard of the films i was disappointed with let alone watch them
I trust this goes some way to offer an explantion.Now im off to,watch hulk hogan in Suburban Commando
:)

Aaryk Noctivagus

Seems I was somewhat correct

Disappointment due to taste and associated bias. I'm fine with that. Though I think you are being unfair towards the scripts behind Neil Marshall's movies... which are so far very intelligent and not 'fag packet' fare.

Perhaps had you read a little about the movies which disappointed you... then perhaps you would have passed them by and thus not been disappointed

I must say you have a very limited and incomplete view of the Horror Genre.

tali122

LOL -limited in what? because i don;t "tow the line" or sycophantically cling to a critics glorification of "great movie" that in reality is simply okay?
I can't see the point of umbrage taken simply because i dare to have an independant view on so - called "great movies" I prefer not to be a movie lemming.
And i did read about the movies prior to watching them -why would i pass them by , when thery were consistently appaluded(glorified)?
"Incompltete view of horror" , mmmm a sweeping generalization don't you think? i've been watching them for over 30 years. , everything fron universal classics to video nasties

Aaryk Noctivagus

I didn't intend to cause offense... I was simply meaning what I was saying. 'Limited' meaning that you don't embrace the whole church of the Horror Genre... not 'limited' as an insult just because you have a different (and inferior - JOKE)taste to me.

Though... as far as I was aware this thread was about disappointment rather than what constitutes a good or bad movie.

What I was meaning that the Horror Genre is a wider church that that which you were limiting it to in your post. That's all I meant, my Genre-Shrinking friend

I'm hardly a line-tower either... and would not be so hypocritical as to expect anybody else to be.

Joenoir

I think he has been disappointing as a leading man. I felt he showed a lot of promise earlier on in his career, certainly I thought he was good in Wilde and The Talented Mr Ripley.

Start every day with a smile and get it over with.

tali122

That's cool I'm fine with anyone questioning my choices -when they're controversial (not just for the sake of it) it goes with the territory.I mentioned my liking of hammer horror but even i will concede that they are not very good movies but they do have a certain charm.
Disappoitment is a very esoteric and subjective beast

Aaryk Noctivagus

I think some of the Hammer Horrors are really good movies. I bought the box set recently, and was amazed that they were much better movies than I remembered.

The thing is, I don't equate being disappointed with a movie, with it necessarilly being bad, or even not having entertainment value for me.

'The Phantom Menace' was increadibly disappointing as far as I was concerned... and a ruddy awful movie... but I enjoy it none-the-less.

'Rosemary's Baby' disappointed me when I first saw it... though I love the movie and, as always with Polanski, it is very well made.

I enjoyed 'Death Wish II' when I first saw it... but was recently rather disappointed when I saw it for the first time in years recently (whereas I still love the first)... but I still enjoyed it... it just wasn't all I remembered it to be, so I was disappointed.

I was so very disappointed when I went to the cinema to see 'Exterminator II' that I almost didn't go to see 'The Terminator' when it first came out a week or so later (fortunately I did attend the first showing after all), because the name sounded similar. 'Exterminator II' is disappointing, and a terrible movie, and one I hope never to see ever again.

I can be disappointed in a movie without thinking it bad, but just because it fails to reach my expectations for that particular movie.

tali122

I thought Death Wish3 was best film ever made on my first viewing - viewed again it is truly appalling

Aaryk Noctivagus

Gordon Bennett!!!!

Phew!!!

The first 'Death Wish' is a far better movie than it is often given credit for (I love it)... I think its sequels spoiled its memory somewhat. 'Death Wish II' is in my DVD collection, but I prefer to pretend the series ended there.

DaveLlandudno

The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse - truly abysmal.

Dave

tali122

My excuse was that i was 14 at the time :)