Movies That Should Have Been So Much Better Than They Turned Out To Be

The Godfather Part III
The Manchurian Candidate (the remake w/Denzel Washington)
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
and???…

11 comments to Movies That Should Have Been So Much Better Than They Turned Out To Be

  • Aaron

    Star Wars Episode I.

  • Yes, and II and III are not far behind (oh, let’s face it – only the first one and Empire Strikes Back were really, really good)…

  • too many steves

    The Matrix Revolutions.

  • dmac

    I don’t know about the Manchurian candidate remake – how can you improve upon perfection?
    Streep is a great actress, but no one does matronly evil like Angela Landsbury did in that film.

  • Interview With a Vampire. I was sick when I found out Cruise would lead in it.

  • dmac, it was so obvious that Streep was doing a Hillary, too…and some of the leftwing subtext to the movie (if you can call anything that blatantly obvious subtext) was laughable…

  • Aaron

    I don’t see why they didn’t just come out and say that “the party” was the Democrats.

  • leelu

    Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

    Any of the Keaton/Kilmer/Clooney ‘Batman’ movies

  • leelu-

    Definitely!!

    I threw up my hands in disgust at the end of the opening credits sequence when it failed to deliver the single funniest line in the entire series of books: “…on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much – the wheel, New York, wars and so on – whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man – for precisely the same reasons.” — the only punch line which might have made a minute and a half of distinctly un-funny leaping dolphins worthwhile.

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