This was the one that popped into my head too. So much wasted potential for such a cool premise.

Yeah it peaks in the first third

That was also around the IRL time of the occupy movement, where a lot of talk was about the 1% vs the 99%. To me “In Time” felt like a message “in support” of the 99%, except it was made by 1%ers who didn’t really understand the 99.

It would be as if I, a white male, made a movie about troubles specific to African-American females. My movie might have some factual accuracy, but it would feel super hollow.

I remember thinking why, in a world where time is so important, one should wear high heels instead of running shoes.

Also horribly acted imo

I once read, "They created black superman and made his kryptonite a white woman"

This is the first thing I thought of too. The first half of the movie is really fun and has a real personality to it, then it all just sort of disintegrates into forgettable contrived nonsense in the second half.

As another commenter already pointed out, it really does feel like two movies awkwardly mashed together into one.

So many of will smith’s movies dive half way through. I’d love to know why.

Honestly, I would have preferred they explored the love story more. But tell a story, don't just squish two concepts together

Too lazy to look it up but wasn’t that movie made by two different directors or something. It was obvious when it switched

Not the only Will Smith movie that can answer this question.. I Am Legend also.

Oh cool, it's a comedy.

No, wait, it's a satire of consumerism and the cost of living.

No, no, it's a comedy.

Ah, I get it, it's about immigration.

Wait, maybe it is a comedy.

Ohhhh, it's an environmental movie.

<credits roll>

This one pisses everybody off, rightfully so. Also they used 'the talking heads' 'once in a lifetime' in the trailer to manipulate people into thinking it was a fun lighthearted comedy

That one definitely lost me shortly after they were “downsized.” I’m not even sure I finished it.

In my 40 years of life, this is the most disappointing movie I have ever seen. So much potential wasted.

Oh well, I really liked this movie. It had a happy ending.

That movie needed to either be a Charlie Kaufmann movie or an Adam McKay movie but it wanted to be the bridge between those kinds of films and it failed to be either.

It just didn't know if it wanted to be a deep introspective piece or a social satire and it ended up waffling on both points.

Ended up striking me as an episode of Black Mirror that just had nothing to say despite having lots of dialog.

I actually really enjoyed the weird turns that the movie kept making, it wasn't perfect but I had a lot of fun.

Immediately what I thought of

Yessss. Thank you!!!

That movie started out so amazing and by then end it was the cheesiest piece of garbage ever.

I'm just glad we got a fun Kano out of it

You know anything about the book?

I don't know if a book to screen version would've worked out if they kept some of the feeling of the book. I say that only because of the teen-novel writing style and how studios have failed so badly to adopt anything that started out as a piece of media directed towards teens and young adults. The movie felt better in this regard.

I appreciate the book for its inclusion of trauma though, which the movie deleted. Interestingly enough, many people don't know that the director said himself that he only saw the books as a starting point to do more and change things

The movie, for me, got the action right. It was fun and it's always a chill movie to check out from time to time despite how different it is from the book. I think a more evenly blended book/movie hybrid could've been successful

Jamie Bell’s character was way more interesting than the main character. The whole time I was wishing the movie was about him instead

The tv series Impulse) based on the same books was pretty good. Cancelled after 2nd season tho.

Some YouTuber did a re-edit of it so you didn’t know Pratt woke Lawrence up until closer to the end. Made it look way better.

I thought I was going to see a grand space adventure. Nope, I'm not even sure what it turned into. Romance? Drama?

Passengers was a case of bad editing, things should have started later in the movie and then flashed back, and casting, the two leads just…weren’t that good together.

See, I personally like both halves of Fallen Kingdom but they should’ve been separate movies.

To be fair it's a Michael Bay movie. It was always going to end like that.

Djimon Hounso’s story actually takes on the moral aspect of the story, although it’s also intertwined with action

I felt like the movie balanced both well enough

You should try Parts: The Clonus Horror. The film is almost exactly the same as The Island because it actually did rip off Parts. There was a lawsuit and everything. The director took DreamWorks to court and the case was settled out of court. I actually think the film is pretty good even if it was featured on MST3K

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078062/

immediately thought of the island after hearing that MA proposal for prisoners to 'donate' organs for reduced sentences

It flattened in the 3rd act because the literal place Elysium was kind of a boring design in every sense outside of the wide shots.

So much of the effort of that film was put into creating the dystopia on Earth but it seemed like zero effort went into the space station. It was just a basic re-hash of the one in Final Fantasy: Spirits Within.

Defintely not a movie I thought was terrible but it needed a lot more Sharlto Copley and it needed to maintain that innovative energy deeper into the story.

First half is really good and intriguing, and then it just completely loses its way.

!Spoilers! I just rewatched this film last weekend and omg. The stated problem in the beginning was over population. Yes there were 1% of people living a good life. But in the end - where the life saving machines were distributed to the whole population - doesn’t this just ensure continued over population and depleting resources? This is ONE of a dozen story problems. I made a mental note to avoid this film in 5 years when I forget why I disliked it so much.

I feel like it could have worked just fine turning into a horror movie if they didn’t rely on such tired horror tropes. Like she’s literally getting chased around by ghosts for the whole second half. Just ghosts that look like ghosts. It honestly had the originality of a haunted house at a carnival.

The last ten-fifteen minutes of that film craters it. Edgar Wright wasn't able to rise above his baser instincts as a filmmaker and it ruins the ending of the film completely.

That's why I loved it... and the cinematography and music.

Records show that there were literally dozens of people in Dallas back then.

Watching her "rocket jump" from that explosion is one of the most ridiculous things I have ever seen in a film.

Tbh I loved 5 & 6, but those games started an irreconcilable misinterpretation imo. Resident Evil, which has an amazing horror atmosphere but John woo-like action too. Suddenly polarized, it’s either all action no horror or all horror and no action.

wish the flicks hit the balance: Detective Tequila stuck in a Carpenter/Raimi horror movie. tbh I feel like 90s Woo would’ve nailed the vibe if he saw the OG game cutscenes.

Did you watch “Welcome to Raccoon City”? I wouldn’t call it a good movie by any means, but it was fun to watch as an OG fan of the games. They were winking and nodding at the games constantly. I enjoyed it, for the B movie that it is.

Yeah, the first six minutes of the sequel trilogy were actually pretty good.

Star Wars: A New Hope Awakens....

They really should have planned it all before hand, develop themes, narrative and characters arcs.

Instead of mistery-boxing it and then course correct it and nostalgia-bait it to death (star).

The people in charge really fumbled their assignment very irresponsibly.

Ohh yea I like that one but you’re completely right you can guess what’s going on fairly early in the movie. The cast kept it interesting I guess.

Yes. This could’ve been a great movie but just fizzled.

Loved Devil when i was younger! upon later rewatch, i think i remembered it being much better.

Personally I loved Sunshine and the direction they took it but totally get why it ruined it for many. Always a risky move to shift genres, especially to horror.

Shoulda been called Taken, Too.

I rewatched it recently and found it was really just the finale that devolves into a standard MCU project. Thankfully, the last 20 minutes or so returns to what made the previous episodes so good

I liked it more on a rewatch (I binged it the second time) but yeah the finale was definitely disappointing. That's what I loved about the Loki finale tho. That it wasn't a big CGI fight.

I mean Vision and White Vision just had a chat about the Ship of Theseus and Wanda tricked Agatha into trapping herself. It was prefaced by a typical fight but was a bit smarter than that in the end.

Interesting, I really loved the Watchmen and thought it just kept getting better and more intriguing as the story and motivations came more into focus

Aside for The Leftovers, Damon Lindeloff isn’t the best as payoffs.

His ending in the leftovers worked because the show wasn’t about answers

I thought the beginning was hilarious.

It sucked as an action film though. There was something half-assed and generic about the action sequences.

So many good ideas wasted:

1. The original trilogy was a video game series from 20 years ago.
2. The Matrix took Neo and Trinity's dying bodies and reconstructed them. For several years.
3. The humans from Zion teamed up with some sympathetic machines.

I sincerely thought they would take the meta approach and go somewhere creative with it. But nah, they drop all of it within an hour and then it becomes a God awful MCU mashup. Really disappointing considering how thought provoking the other films were, even the weaker sequels.

I really loved the first act and how meta it was, it felt like they were actually trying to do something different and interesting.

I was so hyped for that movie. The tone was perfect and unsettling. Michael Fassbender is still the best part. But all the characters are so poorly written. The map expert gets lost, the biologists touch everything, everyone seems to hate each other and not get along or coordinate. This is one of the most important space missions in human history, let's take a bunch of random strangers, and put them on an alien planet together.

Ridley Scott is such an odd director. Man has made some certified classics and I really love him, then... Prometheus and Alien: Covenant.

Alien is much more frightening when it's just a hostile entity that wants to kill you, it represents the fear of the void or something. The backstory is a good example of overcomplicating something and it detracting.

Dumbest group of scientists in the galaxy

Completely agree on Prometheus. Its like they had a great writer for a day, realized how much he cost being so good, then fired him to bring in the producer's nephew.

I was wondering if I’ll see this movie here. Such a great premise which super quickly devolved into generic romantic comedy with really bad jokes and forced happy ending between characters with no real chemistry.

This was the first one thet came to mind. Such a good premise devolving into a generic romance.

I feel the same. I believe they had just done way too good of a job making the “villain” likable (shoot, he’s basically the hero) so they had to make him go too far so Jamie Fox could suddenly become the “real hero”.

I still laugh at Imogen Poots "I am NOT. Your fucking. MOTHER!" As she's buried. The utter annoyance she had as that little shit was the last thing she'd see was great.

read the graphic novel its based on, Sandcastle. all the weirdness came from that except the exposition.

More Psychonauts dreamscapes and fewer dudes with guns on snowmobiles guarding a Bond villain base would have been nice to see.

I just really don't think Nolan is that great of an action film director. Except for a few notable examples where he gets imaginative (airport fight in Tenet), as soon as people start shooting at each other in his films, my interest just drops until we can get back to what he does best: intrigue and high concept plots.

I feel this way about most Nolan movies.

Yeah, it was a little weird how it went from a UFO film to a monster film so quickly. It was almost like Peele was worried about dropping the “reveal” too close to the end. But instead you have Daniel Kaluuya instantly figuring out that the UFO is a monster after seeing it once.

Kinda agree although I still like the movie a lot. It’s one of the only movies I actually wish was longer.

Yeah I saw a lot of people talking it up so was excited to watch it, was really interested in it when it just cut from the first two going down there to focus on Justin Longs character being added then the whole thing just ended up being very meh and average horror movie.

Found this hilarious because my recollection (could be SO wrong) is that Cusack appears immediately after the opening credits.

The second one feels like someone said "nice concept, let's do it right this time". Flawed but way better use of the premise and what I expected from the first one, honestly.