Justified: City Primeval
I LOVED Justified… The new series was pure shite… Timothy seemed like a fucking side character and went from being a cool badass with a heart, to a joke.
And don’t get me started about his forced love interest… Holy shit that was awful.
fucking Starfield
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.
I was holding out hope until recently that things would be improved with updates kind of like No Man’s Sky or through DLC like what Phantom Liberty did for Cyberpunk 2077.
I haven’t read a lot of reviews because I like going into games blind but from what I’ve heard a lot of the issues really seem baked into the core of the game.
They added a car and a shitty side quest. That’s about it.
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.
If you want a hate binge on this topic I’d suggest watching Lindsay Ellis’ two-part piece in the hobbit trilogy.
💯 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.
Yep. Leading up there were red flags but, like you said, so many green flags as well. What a let-down! Helped nerds brace for impact when Star Wars came back though
Good answer.
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.
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.
All the rock does is lie. I can’t stand his fake persona.
Star Wars: Episode One - The Phantom Menace.
Yeah I was a senior in high school and everyone was skipping class on opening day to see it. What a goddamn disappointment!
Mass Effect Andromeda. I loved the original trilogy, even the third one, and I was hopeful that they’d live up to what they were promising. Instead, we got a garbage game that completely tossed the idea of exploring a new galaxy. I tried to play it 3 different times, just to give it a chance, and I couldn’t go through with it.
I was mostly disappointed by the story, acting, and stiff characters. The environments? Top notch. The gameplay? Pretty solid, although the gunplay left some to be desired. The return of Mass Effect 1 style tooling around in the Mako? Everything I’d hoped for.
Too bad the game being so poorly received pretty much killed any forward momentum on similar games in that vein.
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!
In general this was my experience as well. There is one important exception for me which was Google Earth. Being able to sit in a chair and drag a huge model of the earth beneath me and view distant places like I was a bird is just magnificent. Doesn’t make me motion sickness the way most games do.
Oh, that’s interesting! My son has the MetaQuest3 and I wonder if that’s available for that to try out some time. Might be cool!
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.
What is the interesting stuff you’re interested in? The only things that appeal to me would be Star Wars flight sims, being a superhero of some kind, or that survival game in the Alien universe.
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy movie. Gawdawful, glad that Douglas Adams didn’t have to see it.
The weirdest part was they included the setups for the jokes, then skipped the punchlines.
I really liked how they had Mr. Prosser (the guy with the bulldozer), wearing a fur lined Mongol hat, but if you hadn’t read the book, you’d have no idea why that was funny.
“Mr L Prosser was, as they say, only human. In other words he was a carbon-based life form descended from an ape. More specifically he was forty, fat and shabby and worked for the local council. Curiously enough, though he didn’t know it, he was also a direct male-line descendant of Genghis Khan, though intervening generations and racial mixing had so juggled his genes that he had no discernible Mongoloid characteristics, and the only vestiges left in Mr L Prosser of his mighty ancestry were a pronounced stoutness about the tum and a predilection for little fur hats.”
He wrote a significant part of the script before he died. Personally I think he would have approved.
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.
I thought it was a really good sequel with a nice twist and redemption arc. Considering the first one was almost 30 years ago, it was a test to see if they could capture the humor of the time while updating it.
Now, the most recent Bill and Ted? That did NOT work, and I turned it off after 30 minutes despite wanting so incredibly badly to want to like it.
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.
You’re gonna die, clown!
Percy Jackson series. Followed the production religiously and when it came out didn’t even watch the last episode. It was just so unexciting
Not just unexciting, but completely wrong. Despite Rick Riordan, the author, being fully involved in the show, he made so many changes that took away from the books. The series sucked for sure to the point that the first Percy Jackson Lightning Thief movie was actually more accurate to the book.
3D TVs. Not that 3D and very little content. Not worth the money.
Probably same reason why the Nintendo 3DS died.
Very gimmicky.IMO: VR is better anyway.
The original Super Mario Bros Movie.
You mean this one? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108255/
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awww. I liked it D:
as a standalone, non-mario movie, it was decent. As a mario movie, it left a lot to be desired.
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Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 3, I don’t think I’ve ever matched this level of disappointment while sitting in a Movie theater since.
Oh, I guess it’s cliche but Star Wars Ep 1 for me
I was 12 when that came out, and while I recognized it wasnt good, the pod racing was cool enough I wasn’t too upset to have seen it. I did not watch the next two in theaters, we just rented them.
I’m old enough to have been a big fan of the originals and drove with friends to see it opening night
It was a really fucking bizarre experience. The crowd in the theater was packed, and ecstatic for new Star Wars. There was cheering and whooping when tbe title came up, etc. It was all fans.
But during the walk out of the theater…NO ONE TALKED. Like, literally no one. Everyone just silently shuffled out.
