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There's so many movies that have plot lines with such potential to be great movies! But, too much of the time they end up miserable messes! What movies do you think had potential but failed?
One that I would say, most recently, would've been, "I Know Who Killed Me" which, I will admit wasn't terrible and it was a fun movie due to that it didn't take itself seriously but I think if it would have it could've been a real good thriller with more twists!
Waterworld. This move didn't quite live up to its extrordinary potential, but it still earned it's place in my top ten list. a great movie that could have been a masterpeice.
The Village could have been a brilliant allegory about the current state of fear we are in as Americans and our suspicions of all things foreign. Of course it turned into a cliched, barely passable twilight zone episode!
There are a huge number of films that had extraordinary premises, but their execution ended up as cliched, tired messes. The thing is that you can tell that the concept sold the movie, and that the script was written afterward. It is a clear illustration of the importance of a killer concept over killer execution.
The Cell was an incredible idea. Getting into the mind of a serial killer and traipsing around in his thoughts to find the last victim. Unfortunately, old fashioned detective work saved the day, and the climax was sorry at best.
Pulse was another one. Our technology bridges a gap between the living and non-living and causes problems. Execution fell flat in both the Japanese and the American versions.
The Forgotten - wow, what a build up. What is going on here? And then, the let down...another freakin' alien movie. That sucks!
Stay Alive could have been so much better if they hadn't descended into tired, cliche territory. The concept of playing a video game that kills you in whatever way you died in the game was awesome. But being able to go into a public library and gain access to FBI case files through their internet connection? I don't think so.
There are hundreds of movies that are painful to watch just because you know how much better they should have been, but they opted to take the easy way out of a story instead of taking a path that would have taken some work to write, but have been more satisfying in the end.
Tim Burton's version of Planet of the Apes. Terrific cast (Mark Wahlberg, Tim Roth, Helena Bonham Carter, Paul Giamatti), great make up and effects, a flat out brilliant director, but the whole thing never comes together like it really should. I did like the movie, but it could've been a really grand epic.
Troy. Same deal. Great cast (for the most part), good director, lots of money. It could've been a glorious Hollywood epic in the tradition of Spartacus and Ben Hur, but what we get is a cliched pile of tripe. It's truly a godawful movie.
The Number 23 could have been a great journey into the paranoid psychotic mind, but instead became a trite and poorly executed murder mystery. I swear near the end Jim Carey was smirking as if he knew what a dog this movie was.
Jason Goes To Hell. I'm serious. That movie, had it been more cared for, could have been genre defining. Of course, the final product was nothing but a mess of gore and cliche.
In the Land of Women had an excellent trailer with the music selection, premise and cast looked like it was going to be a great teen movie, which would be nice due to the lack of them lately!! If only In The Land of Women was what it was marketed to be, it focused on all the wrong parts of the story and it could of been great!
Gorgeous ladies, muscle cars, Kurt Russell, Zoe Bell...should have been so much better. It had more of a grindhouse feel than Rodriguez's Planet Terror, but WOW did Tarantino miss the target in every other conceivable way. Too much lingering on legs and feet, too much talk about lap dances, too much Jungle Julia and not near enough Kurt Russell kicking ass and taking names. I haven't seen an actor's abilities wasted so carelessly since Donnie Yen showed up in Blade II.
Death Proof should have been the ultimate exploitation/b-movie. Instead, it's a flat, talky and altogether uninteresting peculiarity, and proof positive that Tarantino actually CAN do wrong.
From Dusk Till Dawn. The beginning was fantastic. It started off as a tense hostage drama, which had that edgy dialogue that Tarrantino was renowned for in the 90s. If it had continued down that path it would've been great, but once they reached the Titty Twister it deteriorated into a second rate vampire movie.
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