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What form of entertainment, movie, music, tv, video game etc that you were excited about only after it came out did you realize it was trash? (lemmy.world)

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[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 69 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

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.

[–] naught101@lemmy.world 29 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

💯 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.

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

Good answer.

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[–] MudMan@fedia.io 36 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's weird, because OP says "form" of entertainment, but everybody is reporting "piece" of entertainment.

I'm drawing a blank of form of entertainment. On piece of entertainment... I mean, I don't know. I don't get excited for things pre-release. Hopeful, at most.

I'll say that the first Spider-Man movie is SO much worse than you remember.

[–] naught101@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I feel like dictionaries are over rated as a form, since they lead to nit-picky comments like this :P

[–] MudMan@fedia.io 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't know, I don't like throwing dictionary definitions around in arguments as if they carried any authority, but in this case those two phrases mean very different things. I genuinely misunderstood what the OP meant. I think if people don't understand what you mean it's not really nitpicking.

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 30 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

The Doom movie.

It wasn't even originally written to be Doom; just a bullshit, mediocre sci-fi nobody would have cared about until they forced the Doom franchise upon what would have worked better with Resident Evil because it was less Doom and more Resident Evil in spaaaaace. It also made me dislike The Rock because he lied his fuckin' ass off about the movie.

Mario Bros would be here, but it looked like crap even from the trailers as a kid.

[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

The ending part with the FPS was kinda ok they should have just made the whole movie FPS like hardcore Henry.

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[–] npdean 25 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

3D TVs. Not that 3D and very little content. Not worth the money.

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[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 24 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

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.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 12 points 2 weeks ago

I largely agree on the modern games thing. The problem isn't even technology for me. It's scale. Modern AAA gaming is made by such large teams, often multiple studios each with hundreds or thousands of people. With that many people, you just end up with generic crap, and the studios are investing so much money on any one game that generic crap is all they're willing to risk making.

Take that budget and spend it on 100 small games made by teams of ~100 people or so and we'd get some really interesting stuff. Sure, a lot would fail, but they can afford that. Let artists make art, not business-people.

[–] AlexisFR@jlai.lu 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's because HD-DVD was the real new standard, but Sony killed it.

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[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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.

[–] Leg@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago

Few things have broken my heart quite like Bethesda's downfall.

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[–] WindyRebel@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

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!

[–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 20 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Star Wars: Episode One - The Phantom Menace.

[–] shyguyblue@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

I remember sitting there thinking "holy crap! I'm going to see a Star Wars in the theatre"!¡!

[–] ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah. It was totally marketed for kids.

Nobody who had hit puberty enjoyed Jar Jar Binks.

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[–] Legwarmer1411@lemmy.zip 13 points 2 weeks ago

I don't usually watch series. But I had so much hope after a friend made me watch Westworld. Then when Westworld 2 came out your title describes how I feel about it.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

I don't care what anyone says, Cyberpunk 2077 is still a snoozefest. So disappointing. I was so hyped for so long.

Full Disclosure: I haven't played Phantom Liberty because I can't justify buying it when the base game is still so mediocre.

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago

While I disagree, yeah why would you buy an expansion when you didn't enjoy the first campaign. That's just sanity there.

[–] rainwall@piefed.social 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The only good part of the game is the amazing original teaser trailer and the netflix show.

Man, that trailer. We thought we were going to get something with the depth of Disco Elysium and Witcher level worldbuilding, but instead got "future pew pew" fps railroading that barely worked.

[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

I got my PS5 just before this came out and almost bought it, but before it was released, I remember seeing a lot of reviewers online saying they had to sign agreements that they would not fully disclose the state of the game and I knew at that point this wasn’t going to be good. The memes were thought.

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[–] janus2@lemmy.zip 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

the Dragonball movie. fucking RUINED my birthday it was so bad.

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[–] Zos_Kia@lemmynsfw.com 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Hostel! It was mega hyped for a year and Tarantino wouldn't fucking shut up about it, but then it was shit and ushered in that period where no horror movies were made except torture porn :(

[–] QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I always thought that was Saw's doing

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[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Broadfern@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Wasn’t that the game that killed video games for six years? Or at least was pinned as such by reporters lol

[–] missingno@fedia.io 11 points 2 weeks ago

The Atari crash was a lot more multifaceted than that, but E.T. is often credited as one of the biggest factors. Though it was arguably more of a symptom of a lack of quality control as the market was being flooded with rushed titles.

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[–] uranibaba@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

No Man's Sky. So much of what was promised was missing, the world just felt empty. It's a much better game now.

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[–] Beebabe@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

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.

[–] VerseAndVermin@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

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.

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[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

The original Super Mario Bros Movie.

[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago

That movie is magical! ... just ... not exactly on purpose, nor too related to actual Mario.

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[–] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 9 points 2 weeks ago

Diablo III

[–] SlippiHUD@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] el_eh_chase@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Mulan. The live action remake was so bad, but I had high hopes because I like the original.

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[–] Bwaz@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy movie. Gawdawful, glad that Douglas Adams didn't have to see it.

[–] klugerama@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago

He wrote a significant part of the script before he died. Personally I think he would have approved.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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."

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[–] Sirence@feddit.org 8 points 2 weeks ago

Streaming for movies and TV series. The idea was great on paper but there is hardly anything worth watching and the execution is so awful. I did multiple trials for different services and they all sucked. Music streaming however is great, it's not even 2 Eur for one month and the execution is amazing.

[–] naught101@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Game of Thrones

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[–] frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

No Man's Sky

[–] Mithre@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 weeks ago

I was mostly disappointed by the story, acting, and stiff characters. The environments? Top notch. The gameplay? Pretty solid, although the gunplay left some to be desired. The return of Mass Effect 1 style tooling around in the Mako? Everything I'd hoped for.

Too bad the game being so poorly received pretty much killed any forward momentum on similar games in that vein.

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