Quoted from Dreamscale No, not even close, but 3 From Hell was a cheapass DTV release.  I was merely going with big budget, or at least high profile wide screen releases...that I saw...and assumed would be at least good.

OUATIH - surely had the largest gap between the expectations from the trailer vs. what you got the final product. Couldn't wait to see it after seeing the trailer.  Movie - not so much.

Quoted from Heretic Interested to hear what would have been different in that other universe. I thought Midsommar was truly, astoundingly boring and pointless. I've always wondered since then if it might have caught me differently on a different day. But I'm not gonna watch Florence Pugh do nothing for two and a half hours again to find out.

I was all in for the first hour. Maybe there wasn't much distinction between the first and second half (I'm not saying that, but others might've felt that way), but it worked for me for whatever reason. And while the film was rife with issues from then on, I did leave the theater feeling like I'd watched something pretty wild and original. And for all its flaws, I ultimately found the film's ambition and attempts to be bold pretty endearing and admirable, possibly even more so for the fact that I don't believe it fully achieved what it set out to do.

Definitely too long. In fact, it's been one of the main films recently that's helped turn me off from 2+ hours films in general. My main issue, though, was the forced humor and the tendency to make the "horror" moments feel hacky and stupid. Almost as if the director's saying, "This is all bullshit. No reason to take this seriously." This is a problem I have with lots of these types of films these days. I suppose here, perhaps it didn't occur as often, wasn't quite as overt, or simply didn't irk me as much as it usually does for whatever reason. In another universe, it would've been this stuff that really tipped the scale for me -- the sense of throwing your own film under the bus so you and the audience can feel like you're all in on a joke that's not funny.

Quoted from James McClung This is a problem I have with lots of these types of films these days. I suppose here, perhaps it didn't occur as often, wasn't quite as overt, or simply didn't irk me as much as it usually does for whatever reason. In another universe, it would've been this stuff that really tipped the scale for me -- the sense of throwing your own film under the bus so you and the audience can feel like you're all in on a joke that's not funny.

Yep, that's what got me. The ambition and strong first hour (which we're agreed on) just made me hate it more for this.

We're gonna have an entire generation of films that never get watched again because even talented filmmakers are more concerned with generating the proper sense of ironic detachment than doing justice to a good genre story.