The Hobbit (trilogy)
I love the LotR trilogy, just so well done. I knew De Toro started the Hobbit and I was hyped! Then he departed and it was a bit concerning, but Jackson was coming to the rescue so it couldn’t be that bad, right?
It did not need to be a trilogy. Adding more characters who are women was a good idea, but doing it for a romance subplot was stupid. Legolas didn’t need to be included at all, there were enough characters already and another dude didn’t help out.
Then there was the inconsistent tone, the stupid barrel ride crap and goblin caves super mario scene and the whole thing missed the point of the book which was about a bunch of bumbling dwarves, most of which were past their prime, hiring a hobbit to be a spy to raid a dragon horde. Instead we got superhero dwarves doing outrageous stunts and a ton of side characters padding out a trilogy.
Ugh.
💯 so much garbage. The 2-3 hour fan made cut-down versions are good though.
Made me even more pissed that they left Tom Bombadil out of LotR.
Good answer.
Starfield.
All Bethesda had to do was make it at least as good as Skyrim. Not Oblivion or Morrowind, but Skyrim.
But they couldn’t even manage that.
Few things have broken my heart quite like Bethesda’s downfall.
It’s weird, because OP says “form” of entertainment, but everybody is reporting “piece” of entertainment.
I’m drawing a blank of form of entertainment. On piece of entertainment… I mean, I don’t know. I don’t get excited for things pre-release. Hopeful, at most.
I’ll say that the first Spider-Man movie is SO much worse than you remember.
I feel like dictionaries are over rated as a form, since they lead to nit-picky comments like this :P
I don’t know, I don’t like throwing dictionary definitions around in arguments as if they carried any authority, but in this case those two phrases mean very different things. I genuinely misunderstood what the OP meant. I think if people don’t understand what you mean it’s not really nitpicking.
It’s not a well-phrased question even beyond your mention of form vs piece. My brain kept freezing up the second half because one word didn’t make sense following another. I had to turn my mind off and unfocus to read the title as a whole to understand what they were asking.
You asshole! By asshole I mean kind, loving gentleman!
Kind of a free for all if there is no dictionary
Diablo III
Star Wars: Episode One - The Phantom Menace.
I remember sitting there thinking “holy crap! I’m going to see a Star Wars in the theatre”!¡!
It came out when I was a kid and I thought it was okay. Seeing the amount of toys that came out of the prequels, I don’t think it was meant for anyone past the age of 15, lol.
Yeah. It was totally marketed for kids.
Nobody who had hit puberty enjoyed Jar Jar Binks.
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Probably BluRays. DVDs were much better than VHS, but storage got a lot cheaper to get me the quality I wanted from films from downloads.
I appreciate that BluRays have a need, so I wouldn’t call them trash. I just don’t need them.
Also not really a new form of media, but modern video games. There isn’t enough of a technological jump anymore. The last thing that got me excited (or at least curious) was VR. But that’s not really approachable for me, so I can’t enjoy it.
I largely agree on the modern games thing. The problem isn’t even technology for me. It’s scale. Modern AAA gaming is made by such large teams, often multiple studios each with hundreds or thousands of people. With that many people, you just end up with generic crap, and the studios are investing so much money on any one game that generic crap is all they’re willing to risk making.
Take that budget and spend it on 100 small games made by teams of ~100 people or so and we’d get some really interesting stuff. Sure, a lot would fail, but they can afford that. Let artists make art, not business-people.
Probably BluRays. DVDs were much better than VHS, but
… sony lobbed a crazy amount of payola to beat Phillips, even though blu-ray had worse error-correction and became unusable faster.
That’s because HD-DVD was the real new standard, but Sony killed it.
Happy Gilmore 2. I absolutely adore the first one, and I thought “Well, the second one can’t be bad. it’s such a great first movie!” Ugh. I was wrong. So very wrong.
Worst. Movie. Ever.
The excessive flashbacks were what got to me. If any movie could expect that fans would’ve watched the first movie 50+ times and be able to quote most of it, I think Happy Gilmore would be on that list.
the Dragonball movie. fucking RUINED my birthday it was so bad.
The Doom movie.
It wasn’t even originally written to be Doom; just a bullshit, mediocre sci-fi nobody would have cared about until they forced the Doom franchise upon what would have worked better with Resident Evil because it was less Doom and more Resident Evil in spaaaaace. It also made me dislike The Rock because he lied his fuckin’ ass off about the movie.
Mario Bros would be here, but it looked like crap even from the trailers as a kid.
The ending part with the FPS was kinda ok they should have just made the whole movie FPS like hardcore Henry.
Almost falls into the “so bad it’s good” category for me.
Almost.
Mulan. The live action remake was so bad, but I had high hopes because I like the original.
And it had questionable casting
VR seemed like it would be exciting, but in a small room and being older it is difficult to not hit something or to not get some sort of vertigo and feel sick. It just isn’t for me despite really wanting it to be!
As a kid in the 1990s I was really hyped up about the concept of VR, but lacked the ridiculously expensive gear to try any of the interesting stuff that was out there.
Nowadays I’m idly interested in the concept of VR, but lack the ridiculously expensive gear to try any of the interesting stuff that’s out there.
I bought a kindle to do the ebook thing a while back to save space. It’s so buggy and slow it gave me the ick for ebooks. Like the way it looks, like the idea of it, but the way it works is another ballgame.
I’m using a very very old nook and enjoy it. I kinda want whatever I use to be just for reading, and nothing else. This way it all points to one thing. I also have like a first or second Gen kindle but it, while technically better, is slow as heck and filled with bloat.
I am tempted by modern colored e-ink, but I hear it isn’t super color accurate yet.
3D TVs. Not that 3D and very little content. Not worth the money.
I really wish they’d been more successful
Yeah, the tech is there but content is not.
Probably same reason why the Nintendo 3DS died.
Very gimmicky.IMO: VR is better anyway.
VR is too expensive for mass adoption
So was 3D.
Remember the prices for 3D TVs?
I bought one. It was expensive but nowhere close to VR.
Phantom Menace
Rogue One
Last JediThe last Jedi was so bad I wanted to leave the theater after the fight with Rey and the red troopers but I had my 10 year old niece with me and she was into it so I didn’t lol.
I walked out of Rogue One when it hit “Yer a
wizardrebel now!”
Waaaah…
Menace and Jedi sure, absolutely trash. But Rogue One is the best Star Wars movie.
Unless you’re looking for characters and a plot that makes sense…
You do you, we’re all entitled to our opinions but super duper hard disagree there.
On characters alone it shows up the originals, Jyn and Andor have much more nuanced reasons to be in the rebellion than than either Han or Leia which leads to stronger story arcs.
I’ll give you an example of something that straight pissed me off as well as an explanation for how it happened.
Cassian is introduced by straight up murdering an innocent informant. Clearly they were going for a “Han shot first” moment, but picking an innocent target is something the Empire would do, not a Rebel. So bad characterization from the jump.
Roll forward, Cassian is assigned to assassinate a legitimate military target, the designer of the Death Star, but when he’s in position and sighted in, suddenly he’s all sweaty, conflicted, and OH - JUST - CAN - NOT - PULL - THE TRIGGER!
To be clear, there’s no character development between the two scenes. In one, he’s a cold blooded murderer. In the other, a conflicted assassin unable to do his job.
So why the difference?
Well… Gareth Edwards, the original writer director, was fired from the job and replaced with Tony Gilroy who claimed his super power was he never liked Star Wars.
Edwards burned time and money every day shooting footage off script that looked great, but had no purpose:
https://www.polygon.com/2017/1/6/14195898/rogue-one-star-wars-trailer-jyn-erson/
So Gilroy came in and found the film as it existed was an incomprehensible mess and had to write new material to try and salvage… something… out of it.
https://collider.com/tony-gilroy-saved-star-wars-rogue-one/
“I don’t like Star Wars—not that I don’t like it, but I’ve never been interested in Star Wars ever, so I had no reverence for it whatsoever, I was unafraid about that and they were in such a swamp… they were in so much, terrible, terrible trouble that all you could do was improve their position.”
So you get material like Cassian murdering an innocent person, or Vader force grabbing everyone and everything in the hallway EXCEPT the one thing he’s there to get (because the Death Star Plans have plot armor), or Vader watching the plans fly away with his own eyes, counter to the iconic opening of Star Wars.
Rogue One is a disaster of a film, not even as a Star Wars film, it’s a disaster of a film in general.
Streaming for movies and TV series. The idea was great on paper but there is hardly anything worth watching and the execution is so awful. I did multiple trials for different services and they all sucked. Music streaming however is great, it’s not even 2 Eur for one month and the execution is amazing.
