What's the biggest let down in film history?

The sequels to Highlander. The original film was awesome, flawed and cheesy but a cracking watch with a top notch soundtrack. The sequels and crappy tv series destroyed the film for good.
 
This thread is really making me laugh. It's full of people going "oh i was really let down by Big Momma's House 6", "Transformers 2 was so underwhelming" and other crap. If you are watching a film with a bloody wrestler in it wtf do you expect? How can you be let down by something which you know must be piss-poor before you even step foot in the pictures.
 
manclad said:
stony said:
The sequels to Highlander. The original film was awesome, flawed and cheesy but a cracking watch with a top notch soundtrack. The sequels and crappy tv series destroyed the film for good.
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In the words of Connor Macleod - "There can be only one".
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"I am Connor MacLeod of the Clan MacLeod. I was born in 1518 in the village of Glenfinnan on the shores of Loch Shiel. And I am immortal......"

Love that film
 
I'm still waiting for someone to explain the meaning behind No Country for Old Men... till then I stand by my original opinion, pretty good film with a crap ending.
 
Flixton blue said:
This thread is really making me laugh. It's full of people going "oh i was really let down by Big Momma's House 6", "Transformers 2 was so underwhelming" and other crap. If you are watching a film with a bloody wrestler in it wtf do you expect? How can you be let down by something which you know must be piss-poor before you even step foot in the pictures.
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I thought The Wrestler was shit.
 
stony said:
The sequels to Highlander. The original film was awesome, flawed and cheesy but a cracking watch with a top notch soundtrack. The sequels and crappy tv series destroyed the film for good.
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jacko74 said:
I'm still waiting for someone to explain the meaning behind No Country for Old Men... till then I stand by my original opinion, pretty good film with a crap ending.
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Having not watched NCFOM since it first came out, my memory is a bit patchy. However, at the time, what I gathered from it, the film was largely about fate, free will and determinism.

Anton Chigurh, upon cursory viewing, is a natural born killer. He is what he is. Delving deeper into the Coen brothers' minds, he could very well be a metaphor for destiny. He adheres to this destiny as his 'code'. We see the coin toss with the old man where it transpires, or at least it is suggested, that the old man wins the toss therefore he is allowed to live. This fits in with the code. At the very end, when Chigurh offers the woman a coin toss, she refuses, saying something along the lines of it's your choice, not the coin's. Now, I am not sure whether this represents an epiphany, but this scene is very ambiguous. The epiphany might be in the form that Chigurh realises that he can change, instead of just being an agent of destiny. Either way it is a very powerful scene.

This is merely my opinion. Like I said, I've not seen it for a hwhile, so I might be wide of the mark.

Anyway, if you want a cliched Hollywood ending or a cheap Hollywood thriller, then it is understandable that you are disappointed. To say it's a crap ending is to not understand the work or appreciate the directors. One of the Coen brothers studied philosophy, so it is obvious the film has a deep-rooted ontological core.

IMO, I think the film centres on the thought that humans are not machines, times do change (in relation to Tommy Lee's monologue), and it is possible to repent in a seemingly harsh, Godless world.
 
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