Not pinning this thread as it’s probably nicer to focus on the best shows than the worst, but curious to see what everybody’s biggest disappointments where
Joker: Folie à Deux has to be on the podium
im going to get hate for this… but i kinda liked it. if you consider it a stand-alone piece of art (not a sequel), its not terrible.
the ‘musical’ aspect wasnt as pronounced as i feared, and i had very much expected to hate it. definitely better than megalopolis
Just watched it and I feel like it was REALLY good, but maybe not to expectations.
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Did Lee die when she got the phone message? Did the Joker die, or was that only the death of Arthur Fleck? Was there significance to Arthur denying Joker 3 times?
I feel like there’s a lot of layers to be peeled off this onion.
I just saw the Beetlejuice sequel and it stunk. I wanted to like it and remembered hearing good things, but in hindsight people stopped taking about it real fast and now i can’t wait to forget it as well
Did it have the story telling depth of a legendary movie? Gods no…but it was fun. Felt exactly like the old Beetlejuice cartoons when I was a kid. I think people need to lower their expectations and just have a bit of fun sometimes. Not every movie should be a life-altering experience.
I just watched it for the first time last night, it was a fun popcorn movie and gave me a few good laughs. My only real complaint is that they shoved too many plot lines into the movie. They could have completely left out Delores, Jeremy, and Rory and it would have been just as good if not a better movie. Each was met with a such unsatisfying ending to their stories it felt like the writers didn’t know what to do with them either.
Longlegs. Weak. Not worst but maybe, biggest disappointment?
Hot take, but Wicked. It’s an average movie with a huge marketing budget preying on nostalgia for a much better film.
Like, it wasn’t bad, but it certainly was my biggest letdown of the year.
Also — movie starts, title card… “Part 1”? Fuck right off, Disney.
I’m just annoyed at how all of a sudden people are Wicked fans. It’s been a massive hit broadway show for over 2 decades. It toured in pretty much every American city. I saw it in Des Moines, Iowa for 40 dollars back then. It is not some crazy new franchise people, it was just marketed like crazy because they wanted their own barbie movie.
But Americans think going to see a live show is pretentions and musicals are stupid. Unless advertisers shove pink and green in their faces for hours on end, then all of a sudden Wicked is the best thing everrrrr
After reading the wikipedia summary of Wicked the musical, it seems like the movie followed the plot pretty much exactly - which is where all of its problems come from, IMO. The singing was great. Ariana Grande absolutely killed it. Great performances by Elpheba and the hot dude. Set design and costuming, great. But the story is absolute trash. The glowing reviews from critics don’t seem to take this into account…
I see how they wanted to stay faithful to the original - they’d have gotten major blowback from fans. But so much of the plot is completely uninspired, thin, or even nonsensical. The 1st and 2nd acts were pretty solid, but no spoilers, the plotline with the animals, basically the entire 3rd and 4th acts, all of the stuff with Jeff Glodblum and all of Elpheba’s interractions with him and the lady from EEAAO were rushed and wafer-thin plotwise. I feel like they try to cover that fact up by bombarding the viewer with visuals, racing to major plot points, and leaning on the strength of the performances - sort of gish galloping their way past the plot holes. It felt like the macro pacing was pretty much bang-on with major events happening at a satisfying cadence, but pacing between each plot point - getting from a to b within an act - was often rushed without adequate character development to support their actions/interractions with other characters.
Megalopolis was a waste of time and money
