Originally posted by: zombie84
I was ready to love Terminator 3--I went to that theater excited as hell. I didn't expect it to live up to either two originals because I know that those are so above-average that its an unrealistic expectation. But when the credits rolled and i left the theater I realised that the film fucking sucked just because it fucking sucked. Okay, some nice action scenes, and a pretty neat last 10 minutes. But you know what--Wing Commander has redeemable qualities like this. Battlefield Earth has some interesting effects and a cool action scene. Scary Movie 4 has a few jokes I laughed at. Every movie has something good in it, something worth watching. When you get a pool of talent--Liam Neeson, Ewan McGregor, designer Doug Chiang and Gavin Boucquet, the best special effects wizards in existance, John Williams and hell, even George Lucas--of course there will be elements, scenes and moments that are watchable, good or even excellent. But the reason that people think Wing Commander sucked, Terminator 3 was poor and Phantom Menace was poor was because, for whatever good elements in there, they were swallowed up by ten times as many bad elements. Thats what matters.
I was ready to love Terminator 3--I went to that theater excited as hell. I didn't expect it to live up to either two originals because I know that those are so above-average that its an unrealistic expectation. But when the credits rolled and i left the theater I realised that the film fucking sucked just because it fucking sucked. Okay, some nice action scenes, and a pretty neat last 10 minutes. But you know what--Wing Commander has redeemable qualities like this. Battlefield Earth has some interesting effects and a cool action scene. Scary Movie 4 has a few jokes I laughed at. Every movie has something good in it, something worth watching. When you get a pool of talent--Liam Neeson, Ewan McGregor, designer Doug Chiang and Gavin Boucquet, the best special effects wizards in existance, John Williams and hell, even George Lucas--of course there will be elements, scenes and moments that are watchable, good or even excellent. But the reason that people think Wing Commander sucked, Terminator 3 was poor and Phantom Menace was poor was because, for whatever good elements in there, they were swallowed up by ten times as many bad elements. Thats what matters.
I totally agree. I didn't mean that people outright assumed the movie would be spectacular, but with any sequel to a franchise that is made many years later, the memory of the previous entries will cause everyone to build up images of what they think the film is going to be like in their head, and I don't mean necessarily good or bad, but everyone has a different perception, and when you get all those people into a theatre, after so long, there will undoubtedly (in my opinion, at least) be mixed reactions to what the audience is seeing.