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.
💯 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.
Good answer.
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
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.
Few things have broken my heart quite like Bethesda’s downfall.
Star Wars: Episode One - The Phantom Menace.
I remember sitting there thinking “holy crap! I’m going to see a Star Wars in the theatre”!¡!
It came out when I was a kid and I thought it was okay. Seeing the amount of toys that came out of the prequels, I don’t think it was meant for anyone past the age of 15, lol.
Yeah. It was totally marketed for kids.
Nobody who had hit puberty enjoyed Jar Jar Binks.
MEESA WANTS TO KILL MEESA SELF
Yes I was a freshman in high school went it came out and me and my friends went opening nite and we were so excited afterwards, then I went by myself the next nite and yea it wasn’t good. Even now watching it it’s not great. The pad race was good but that’s it.
Probably BluRays. DVDs were much better than VHS, but storage got a lot cheaper to get me the quality I wanted from films from downloads.
I appreciate that BluRays have a need, so I wouldn’t call them trash. I just don’t need them.
Also not really a new form of media, but modern video games. There isn’t enough of a technological jump anymore. The last thing that got me excited (or at least curious) was VR. But that’s not really approachable for me, so I can’t enjoy it.
Probably BluRays. DVDs were much better than VHS, but
… sony lobbed a crazy amount of payola to beat Phillips, even though blu-ray had worse error-correction and became unusable faster.
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!
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.
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!
ET for the Atari 2600. Yes, I’m old.
Pac-Man might not have looked like the arcade version, but it was close enough, and we played the hell out of it. ET was a confusing snooze.
Wasn’t that the game that killed video games for six years? Or at least was pinned as such by reporters lol
Yes. They buried the unsold cartridges in the desert.
The origin of the term “shovelware” lol almost forgot about that
The old story is that the game was so bad that the unsold cartridges were buried in the middle of the New Mexico desert.
Supposedly it’s the origin of the term “shovelware” to describe horrible quantity-over-quality types of games. Often with marketing tie-ins to popular media, to entice unwitting customers into purchasing the horrible games without actually reading up on it first. Modern usage tends to refer to the lazy mobile asset-swapped games, or the “1000 in 1” game packs that are just bad recolors of old games.
No Man’s Sky. So much of what was promised was missing, the world just felt empty. It’s a much better game now.
Yes I fell for that game too. I was so hyped for it, I bought the soundtrack (which slapped actually) but yea it was bad.
I bought a kindle to do the ebook thing a while back to save space. It’s so buggy and slow it gave me the ick for ebooks. Like the way it looks, like the idea of it, but the way it works is another ballgame.
I’m using a very very old nook and enjoy it. I kinda want whatever I use to be just for reading, and nothing else. This way it all points to one thing. I also have like a first or second Gen kindle but it, while technically better, is slow as heck and filled with bloat.
I am tempted by modern colored e-ink, but I hear it isn’t super color accurate yet.
I was on vacation, under a shade tree on a beautiful beach, sipping a piña colada, and turned my Kindle on to continue reading this really interesting book I had started on the drive.
Brick.
I was so mad I just put it away. I wasn’t going to waste any vacation time trying to figure it out. Glad I decided that too, it was well and truly a paperweight.
Never again
I just use a crappy Android tablet I got for $20 on Amazon. Any yes, for that price it’s utter garbage, but all I need is an epub reader and an SD card.
The original Super Mario Bros Movie.
That movie is magical! … just … not exactly on purpose, nor too related to actual Mario.
You mean this one? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108255/
Oh yeah
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.
It’s a good tripping acid movie
Game of Thrones
WHY HAVE THEY NOT MADE ONE GOOD GAME OF THRONES GAME???
You’ve never played the board game or LCG? Those are analog gaming masterpieces.
That would require friends and disposable income. If I had all that, I would just buy the Dark Souls modular board game 🤤
Probably because the base material sucks (any “everyone is an arsehole” story sucks)
Plus, all the projects are cash grabs by capitalists with zero sense of taste or style.
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.
This.
Mulan. The live action remake was so bad, but I had high hopes because I like the original.
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 really excited that everyone was finally getting on the Internet.
