Your Most Anticipated But Most Disappointing Movie You’ve Ever Watched?

For me it had to be the remake of “The Stepford Wives”.

I was 17. I loved the poster, I remember the cool teaser (attached below) that won an awards before its release, I even bought the book!

And it was one of the worst movies I’ve ever watched. It was heartbreaking how bad it was.

And a little less more of an actual movie but as someone who grew up with “Batman Returns” and The Animated Series, every Catwoman portrayal since has been an utter disappointment.

I was very excited about Halle Berry’s “Catwoman” and had been following it since it was originally Ashley Judd.

Boy was that movie stupid.

“Magnolia” because I loved “Boogie Nights” and had impossibly high expectations.

“Ghostbusters”. I waited months for it to reach my local small town theater, I was underwhelmed to say the least.

Blair Witch Project. Looked like something made by a bunch of kids with no script and no budget.

'Eyes Wide Shut'. It has watchable elements, because of course Kubrick - but never really transcends the sum of its parts to be great. A disappointing swansong for a great director indeed.

Kenneth Branagh’s Murder on the Orient Express.

I was so disappointed I haven’t given Death on the Nile a try.

R7 Yup it sucked.

Titanic. Everyone I knew was telling me it was the best film they had ever seen and their favorite of all time. Really disappointing when I saw it. DiCaprio was the only good thing about it.

What bothered me the most about Titanic was the cheap CGI in some scenes, especially when they'd show bird's-eye views of the ship sailing in the daylight.

“The Great Gatsby” in 1974.

If you were around then it was the most hyped movie of the time with articles in every newspaper and magazine and much press given over to the costumes in the film, both for men and women.

Mia Farrow as Daisy was on the cover of a new magazine called People.

I think Kenneth Branagh was too vain to play Poirot as an effete dandy so he made him tougher and ever gave him a fistfight scene. He was director so there was no one around to tell him that he was ruining the character with his dumb acting choices. I hope he understands that his movie is vastly inferior to the 1974 version.

My biggest disappointment is World War Z. The book was a slow burn showing what a zombie apocalypse would look like from the perspective of people living in every corner of the globe. The movie had about four different locations and CGI zombies. Don't even get me started on Brad Pitt's lazy performance as Invincible Everyman. All these years later and I'm still mad about the wasted opportunity.

Out Of Africa . In fact I was so resentful at spending $7.50 to see that piece of shit it made me hate Meryl forever . I mever saw Redford as sexy . Handsome? yes. and a good actor . But never sexy , Same with Meryl . Only pretty when she was very young. Looked middle aged at 35 and just swears she is the last great thespian .

Also Titanic. It was a good popcorn movie theater distraction, but it was not Academy Award caliber.

The Brutalist was the most recent disappointment. What a piece of crap.

Halloween Ends. They built it up as the most epic battle between Michael Myers and Laurie Strode, the one for which we’d been waiting decades. Instead we get some random punk on a motorcycle, completely hidden from all the marketing, taking up most of the screen time and the “battle royale” with Michael and Laurie is a minor five minute skirmish in a kitchen seemingly tacked on after the writers finally remembered what we came to see.

The Magnificent Albertsons. The graphic novel was lyrical and intense, but Welles just had to go balls to the wall, as usual.

^^^ Ambersons

The English Patient. I felt like I’d been left in the middle of a desert of boredom.

Is The Magnificent Albertsons about the supermarket chains?

[quote]Is The Magnificent Albertsons about the supermarket chains?

That's what Larry King asked Orson Welles.

Love fucking Story. OMG that thing was everywhere the year it came out, and was the biggest nothingburger in the history of film.

I feel like Love Story was the first film that I know of which caused frau hysteria

Two of a Kind

[quote] The Magnificent Albertsons. The graphic novel was lyrical and intense,

the graphic novel?

To R5- Fucking A... I agree with you! Laughable movie made no sense& wasn't scary.

It SUCKED more than I did back in the day!!!

Of recent times, the POS known as “Maleficent”.

“Sleeping Beauty” is one of my all-time favorite Disney films. I thought, how could they mess this up? And they fucking did. I didn’t need a revisionist tale about how Maleficent was misunderstood, that the king was an ass, that the fairies were so stupid and incompetent that they didn’t even know how to feed a baby…

I left the theater annoyed.

“Interview with the Vampire”.

The Hobbit. From 2012.

I loved the Lord of the Rings trilogy and was expecting something epic like that. Instead we got a cgi bloated mess. I watched all of the first one, part of the second (made it to the barrels on river scene), and none of the third.

Terrible.

Two major ones for me were "Bonfire of the Vanities" ..... totally boring. I felt the same way about "The Phantom Menace."

R23 I was only 12 when I saw this when I was on vacation with family in Europe in 1973 . My cousins in Italy took me along to see it. Even at that age I felt it was a low-brow maudlin tearjerker that could have been a TV movie of the week. I saw it again on cable about 2 years ago and my first impression remains the same.

MAME

I knew what was wrong with it and I did see it five times but I still had held out hope.

2001: A Space Odyssey

A Clockwork Orange

Saw both in the early1980s in repertory and consider them both good, but not the world-changing masterpieces I was told to expect by my elder siblings who saw them in first run. By then I had seen some great films of the 1970s and felt more moved by them.

The Blair Witch Project

The Dark Tower

everything Stephen King recently but I am so goddamed everlastingly bitter over TDT

The Hateful Eight. I think it was on Christmas day we drove a couple of hours to attend one of the "road shows" I was so looking forward to it. The theater was packed, but I was overall disappointed with the movie (though not exactly sure what I was expecting). I kept getting distracted by Samuel L. Jackson's Hollywood white teeth, which of course wouldn't have been a thing back in the Old West.

Barbie.

Though my biggest disappointment was Riding the Bus With My Sister.

I forgot, Wonder Woman. Both of them.

Hello Dolly! with Barbra Streisand. I expected to love it, and was so disappointed.

I loved the book "the Shining" so much I read it four or five times. Couldn't wait for the movie.

I hated it and still do. Wendy was a strong-willed blonde, not Shelley Duvall. There was supposed to be a topiary, and a boiler "she creeps". Everything that was terrific about the book was left out of the movie, because "Kubrick knows best". The TV version was closer to the book.

Plus how dare he treat Shelley like that! But I didn't know about that part till later. Made me hate that movie even more.

Bah Kubrick.

I've been disappointed with all the new Alien movies. Especially Covenant. That one was especially stupid. But, I did like Fassbender as the androids. He did a good job.

Alien vs. Predator was a let down. And part 2 was worse.

Ghostbusters. Ugh.

R39, yeah, it’s nothing like the book and I was disappointed when I first saw at 14 it that there were no topiary animals. But in the ensuing decades, I really think that they would have looked ridiculous onscreen.

Somebody who saw the TV version once said that indeed they did.

[quote]Love fucking Story. OMG that thing was everywhere the year it came out, and was the biggest nothingburger in the history of film.

At least it (and Ali MacGraw) gave Barbra something to make fun of at the end of [italic]What's Up, Doc?[/italic]

I'm with R29. I enjoyed the LotR movies, and since The Hobbit was my favorite Tolkein book and I liked Martin Freeman I thought I would be in for a faithful adaptation of a beloved classic, not what felt like 15+ bloated hours of videogame play.

1) The Titanic visual effects were not "cheap". They were state of the art...for 1997. And, for me, the only bad thing about the film was Cameron's horrible script/plot/dialogue. He's a terrible writer.

2) I know it's all subjective but how can you be disappointed by Ghostbusters? It was a silly, fun popcorn movie...what were you expecting?

3) "The Magnificiant Albertsons" was an early graphic novel by Daniel Clowes. They're collector's items now! Sadly, Clowes never followed up with "The Terrific J.C. Penney".

4) Kubrick's The Shining isn't perfect but Stephen King's TV production with a strong blonde female lead (who looked like a Playmate of the Year), the "scary" topiaries, and the Worst Child Actor in the history of awful child actors with bad bowl cuts, was an abomination.

5) Lord of the Rings was hugely disappointing. I foolishly expected Peter Jackson would do something interesting and visually creative with the material. He just made a very long, boring, middle of the road trilogy.

I've never heard someone call the LOTR trilogy boring and middle of the road. They are pretty much the gold standard for a fantasy adaptation.

I agree with the later Alien movies. I couldn't finish Romulus.

Star Wars and The Towering Inferno

R39 Never go to see a movie expecting it to be as good as the book. It is almost always a variation and adapted for the screen. The number of films that were as good (although not exactly) as the book I can count on one hand.

Gladiator 2

Why would anyone have high expectations for Gladiator 2?

James Franco's Hart Crane movie. Maybe I should have known better than to trust James Franco but I'm a big Hart Crane fan so I was looking forward to it. But it stunk

Side note, I think the epitome of frau hysteria would have to be 50 Shades of Grey. I never saw it tbh but I'm sure it was fucking awful.

The plot of Gladiator 2 was extremely forgettable but I loved the animal fights. Especially the baboons.

Why is The Magnificent Albertsons so funny. Band name caliber.

Return of the Jedi, Star Trek V, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Batman (1989), License to Kill, the latter four were all released in the same summer. Just so awful.

R52 the film was a huge improvement over the abominable dreck of a “book” (which I read most of hoping it would improve but it absolutely did not).

[quote]"Bonfire of the Vanities" ..... totally boring

R30 Loved the book from start to finish, but as soon as I saw who was being cast, knew the movie would suck. Genial good-guy Tom Hanks as a Master of the Universe bond trader, trashy Melanie Griffith as the mistress, and Bruce Willis as British alcoholic journalist => el stinko. Never saw the movie, and was gratified that it flopped. See r48 — keep expectations low for film adaptations of highly enjoyed books.

I agree R55 that Star Trek V sucked balls but the first ST movie was the biggest disappointment to me. I remember waiting in a line that went around the block in Manhattan —it was freezing out in December.

Worth the wait? Hardly. The story was boring as fuck, it took ages just for the Enterprise to leave space dock to embark on this so-called adventure, and coupled with all the bombastic music that served as the soundtrack … I couldn’t wait for it all to end.

House Of The Spirits.

Such a rich and dreamlike Chilean novel. Such an all-star cast.

Such a failure.

Bewitched

I grew up watching reruns for hours every day in the 70s and know the dialogues of every episode. It remains one of my favorite sitcoms. I was wary of Kidman and think Farrell is a meathead actor, but Shirley MacLaine intrigued me. I saw it opening night in a mostly empty theater.

Nora Ephron tried to do something “meta” with this project and failed on every level. This film is a stain on the original series.

Crash

Oppenheimer. I thought it was going to be exciting but it was a snooze fest.

The Nun. I love horror movies but I almost fell asleep in the theater.

Smile 2. I liked the first one but this one was lame.

I heart Huckabee's, the royal tannembaums, my big fat Greek wedding,

[quote] I know it's all subjective but how can you be disappointed by Ghostbusters? It was a silly, fun popcorn movie...what were you expecting?

Were you by chance around that summer when it was being hyped to the stars and back?

R64 LOL..yes. It was hyped as a fun, pop corn movie with Bill Murray, Dan Ackroyd, Signourney Weaver all chasing very silly ghosts in NYC. With a kickass theme song that EXACTLY described what you were in for.

Were you expecting a sophisticated Woody Allen comedy?

R3, how could you be disappointed by Magnolia if you liked the work of Paul Thomas Anderson? Sounds like you didn’t have any real appreciation for Boogie Nights as a director’s triumph.

Philadelphia.

I went to the first showing on the first day and as the final credits rolled, all I could think was, “This must be how women and black people feel when they go to the movies.”

As a gay man, who at that point had lived through 14 years of the AIDS epidemic, I wasn’t the target audience for that film.

Brokeback Mountain. In the middle I turned around and said “this is not very good is it?”.

R68 I hope the person behind you told you to STFU.

Hausu the Japanese ghost movie. The first half was good but it quickly fell apart.

As a big fan of Brian DePalma, it would have to be The Black Dahlia, a truly awful movie that's as boring as it is convoluted.

Strangers with Candy, the movie--I laughed once--at the way Jerri calling Noblet a faggot. That's it. It was a silent theatre for an hour and half.

Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace--Opening night. Fell asleep in the theatre. Realized that I didn't give a shit about Star Wars cause I was no longer a child.

Kill Bill Vol 2- not as good as Vol 1, which I saw twice in the theatre. Really should have been one long movie.

I had forgotten how much of a disappointment The Phantom Menace was. Star Wars movies are by no means masterpieces but that was just terrible.

"The Hobbit" is one of the worst ever made and there was no excuse for it.

Greed is not an excuse.

The Star Wars sequel trilogy. The Force Awakens has its moments, but Last Jedi and Rise of Skywalker are abominations. They killed my love for the franchise.

The film adaptation of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

I have wondered if it would have been better off as TV miniseries on a premium cable channel.

The Phantom Menace

R71, agree about The Black Dahlia. I've read a lot about the Black Dahlia murder and I like some of DePalma's films so I was excited to see the movie. But it stunk

"Star Wars". Everyone praised it; it flooded newspapers and magazines (it was1977). It was so over-hyped; I expected a colossal masterpiece. I wasn't impressed.

[quote]The film adaptation of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

[quote]I have wondered if it would have been better off as TV miniseries on a premium cable channel

Or if it would have been better off with a less workmanlike ponderous director than Eastwood.

R71, Hillary Swank as a femme fatale? No thanks. Josh Hartnett attempting to act? HA!!

Halloween Ends from a few years back. What a clunker that was. I remember everyone raving about There's Something About Mary back when it was a big hit. I thought it was stupid. Napoleon Dynamite wasn't my cup of tea, either. To this day I cringe when people quote that stupid movie.

[quote]Is The Magnificent Albertsons about the supermarket chains?

No, it's about us!

I just bought the 4K limited edition steelbook of Riding the Bus With My Sister. It comes with a bus pass and a whistle.

R67 I was also disappointed in Philadelphia but possibly for a different reason.

I was a big fan of TV's LA Law. About a year before, they did a 4-episode arc based possibly on the same case: an AIDS-stricken lawyer suing his own law firm for discrimination. (I'm probably misremembering some details). It was outstanding, devastating, and it broke barriers for television. Everything I was hoping Philadelphia would be, but it just paled in comparison.

Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band

Stupendous source material, awful movie. The cast is a who's who of 1970s music: The Bee Gees, Peter Frampton, Earth Wind & Fire, Alice Cooper, Billy Preston, Steve Martin, Aerosmith, and produced by Robert Stigwood. I went on the opening day at the Showcase Cinema in Seekonk, MA in 1978 and even had the glossy program for the movie release. 16yo me had such high hopes.

Who would have thought that those accomplished singers would create such a stinker covering Beatles songs (Sgt Pepper's and Abbey Road). I'm not sure which is worse -- the screenplay by a first-time screenwriter, the atrocious acting by the Bee Gees & Frampton, or the kitschy art direction. Steve Martin and EW&F's Grammy-winning cover of "Got to Get You into my Life" are the only redeeming elements.

“Dark Shadows”, what a big let down.

I agree with you about Kill Bill Vol 2, r72. It was supposed to be one long movie but the studio forced Tarantino to release it as two. I've always wondered how much of Vol 2 would have made it into the one movie had Tarantino gotten his way. It seems like he really blew his load with Vol 1's story and most of Vol 2 was him spinning his wheels.

R84, didn’t they include a pair of clean underpants?

Back to the future 3. The 2nd was interesting with all the scenes from the original, seen from different viewpoints, angles etc.... but 3 was just way too different...i still see it as a wasted opportunity. Return to Oz; despite huge queues where i lived, it bombed. It was an incredibly wasted opportunity..

Both the Strangers with Candy and AbFab movies were bad.

Most TV shows don't really make for good films.

Not a movie but the Netflix series 1899 from the same creators as Dark.

The Golden Compass. Looked great but was absolutely butchered in the editing room.

R20 No, it's about Jack and Mabel.

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

Tied with Traffic.

R94, meet R83.

No Time to Die.

... maybe Megalopolis?

On the other hand, despite it being a complete disappointment as a film (almost from the first few minutes), it was absolutely awesome as an experience - so much absurd fun.

r90 I think Return to Oz bombed because it scared young children or perhaps scared their parents. It was technically a great film, at least I thought so as a child, but I guess Dorothy getting shock treatment was too much for some parents. As a child I had no idea what shock treatment even was, hell, Margaret Hamilton in the original was scarier to me at the time.

Scream 4.

I appreciate the latter films to a degree but they are all disappointing watches.

All the X-Files movies have disappointed me, especially the first. I saw it in high school the day I graduated 10th grade. I went with a group (we were nerdy kids) and we were all so excited, but left confused and let down. Bees and Antarctica and black oil? I’d give it a C grade.

Titanic.

I know it is beloved on DL, and there are many who stand by it, but I was SO disappointed in To Die For.

I expected something more on a grand scale, as opposed to a small town tale. I think it was mostly the trailer that threw me off, which I thought was one of the greatest trailers I'd ever seen!

Watching it now, I still think so!

It works as a brilliant 2:30m short feature. It tells an entire story that I felt was severely lacking in the actual movie.

Now, had I never seen the trailer, or heard anything in advance about the movie, and watched it in a cold screening, I might have felt quite differently.

Part of the reason now, if there's a film I think I might want to see, I avoid the trailer at all costs.

Xanadu.

The first Hobbit movie. Went to the movie theatre after years and years, hoping to experience some of that LOTR magic again. Left the place not quite believing the pure shit I had just seen. Shameless, rushed cash grab.

R105 R104 Yes when I was a kid and saw the posters and the VHS on the back cover with her on top of Matt Dillon on leopard print I thought it was going to be like a “Basic Instinct”. It was much more light hearted.

Bram Stoker's Dracula. It had small charms, finally, but I expected something tighter and a bit less campy.

Oh, MAN. I forgot about that AbFab movie. Saw it in the theatre--hated it. I thought I would watch again years later and feel differently--I've had similar experiences with Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown--but it was WORSE. I don't even think turning it into a 4-part series would've worked.

Pulp Fiction. I haven't liked anything I've seen by Tarantino.

The Sting

R9- Hr was the WORST thing about that movie.

An hour into the movie I wanted to throw him overboard.

R86- Then in 1980 you went to see Can’t Stop The Music and it exceeded all of your expectations.

[Quote] Bram Stoker's Dracula

No he’s not, Dracula is a fictional character!

La La Land. I had no idea the second half was going to be so slow/dull.

The SATC movies - especially the one where the two megabottoms married and Samantha was menopausal.

R108, Winona's "take me away from all this...death!" didn't impress you?

Poltergeist II - loved the original so much I saw it in the theater at least a dozen times. I couldn't wait for the sequel and couldn't have been more let down. Well until Poltergeist III

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors - I know this one is controversial but it was the same situation as with Poltergeist. Loved the original so much and was so excited Wes Craven and Heather Langenkamp were involved again in part 3 after the bizarro first sequel. I really tried to like it but it was just overall a big letdown. Hated the cartoonish death scenes with the kid in the wheelchair and the drug addict. Craig Wasson was a complete void as the lead. It's certainly better than some of the other sequels but that's the best I can say about it

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me - I've come to appreciate it over the years but at the time it was a huge disappointment for fans of the TV show. The tone was so different and so many characters were missing. Lara Flynn Boyle being replaced as Donna was a huge blow. Sheryl Lee looked too old and her wig was obvious. My favorite part was the first 30 minutes with Chris Isaak and Kiefer Sutherland which kept some of the quirky humor of the series

The worst performances in Dracula were the most entertaining

Loved the stage version of “Jersey Boys,” but the film was a dud. Like a lot of stage-to-screen adaptations, if they’d just done the film like the show it would have been a hit!

In 2002 feature film versions came out of two of my favorite comedy series, Mr. Show and The Red Green Show, and both completely failed to either recreate what made them work on TV or reinvent them sucessfully for the big screen. I wasn't disappointed in the creatives involved, because I understood what they were up against, but I'd wanted them to be big hits and make big $ because I felt they deserved it. Of course the two main talents behind Mr. Show, David Cross and Bob Odenkirk, did go on to flash it around far more successfully later. Something similar happened when the core group of performers and writers from Horrible Histories made a feature film, Bill, but they went on to knock it out of the park with their own TV series Yonderland and Ghosts.

Poltergeist II is one of a handful of movies I’ve walked out on. In the first 10 minutes.

R105, you were disappointed with Xanadu?? WHAT were you expecting…?

A nude Matt Lattanzi?

R118, was that really a wig? I thought that was her real hair. I didn't notice how old she looked until many years later because I was distracted by her performance. She is a great actress.

Definitely a wig, r125. Lee had cut her hair quite short at the time. The FWWM wig is noticeable to me but not nearly as bad as the one she had to wear for the series finale the year before which looked more gray than blonde.

I'm cursed to notice (bad) wigs in film and TV. Probably started with Jamie Lee Curtis in Halloween II

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

For DECADES I heard from everyone what a wonderful cool entertainment it was. Finally saw it…can’t believe what a steaming pile of crap this movie is. Stupid story, bad obvious jokes, no acting, the action isn’t even good.

Somebody please explain what I’m missing.

Lately, “Beach Rats”

R126, I am also distracted by her wig in the movie. It’s styled so oddly. I wish they’d tried to make it look more like her hair does on the picnic videotapes in the pilot.

She made a TV movie only a few months before filming FWWM (coincidentally with Moira Kelly) with the shorter hair.

I can forgive Dracula because of Eiko Ishioka’s costume designs. And because the vampire wives were so beautiful and scary.

Vanity Fair- Reese Witherspoon was all wrong for the part and her pregnancy was distracting. Her character was supposed to be someone you love to hate but instead the whole movie was kind of depressing.

TV series The Two Mrs. Grenvilles. I love the book but Ann Margaret was all wrong for that part as well.

Call Me By Your Name. Found Aiciman's book hypnotically lovely. Giordano mutilated it by mistcasting that middle age looking block of wood cannibal.

R131, I had pictured Aaron Tveit as Oliver as I read the book. He was the same age as Oliver at the time (24 y.o.) The cannibal was such a disappointment. His presence did not affect my liking Timothée as Elio, however. Timmy was an improvement over my mental picture of Elio in the book.

I found Armie Hammer to be fine in his role. Would Aaron Tveit been a better casting choice? Probably. It still worked though,

Avatar.

100% shit.

R127 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid was very much a movie of its time. What probably seemed dumb and hokey to you was somewhat innovative in 1969. It had an unexpected lightheartedness and seemingly lots of subtext between it's two stars. Newman, especially, came off as very charming.

If you saw and loved the movie when it came out, watching it again you'll notice how dated it is, but you might still reexperience the joy you felt on first viewing.

Watching it for the first time in the 21st Century, I could see how it would look really stupid and overrated.

I understand all that because I was around at the time, R135. It was irreverent and different for a western in 1969, irreverent like MASH was for a war movie in 1970. HOWEVER, Butch Cassidy continues to have this mass appeal even with those born 30 years after it's release. This has nothing to do with nostalgia.

The scene between father and son in Call Me By Your Name was amazing. The rest sucked.

R136 Just speculating, but perhaps you're underestimating the sheer joy people still experience watching Newman and Redford together.

The Village. Everyone was all up in the kool-aid about M. Night Shyamalan. I loved his first commercially loved 3 (Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, and Signs - all perfect, IMO) and really wanted to see this one. WHAT A STINKER.

Most sequels are unwatchable dreck because they are solely interested in being a cash grab. There’s no creativity, originality, emotional investment, or passion there. They just want more money.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 2. I was furious at how lackluster it was when it should have been an epic ending. It just felt like everyone involved no longer gave a shit and just wanted it to be over.

[quote] perhaps you're underestimating the sheer joy people still experience watching Newman and Redford together.

Any joy would be them in porn, not acting like lame outlaws

Deathly Hallows didn't need to be a two part movie...it draaaaaaaged in so many parts. The fucking endless scenes with Harry and Hermione in the woods.

[quote]Most sequels are unwatchable dreck because they are solely interested in being a cash grab. There’s no creativity, originality, emotional investment, or passion there. They just want more money.

As a kid I was spoiled because two of my favorite movies - Superman and Star Wars - got incredible first sequels so I assumed all movie sequels would be as thrilling. Didn't take long to learn those were the exceptions and most sequels are soulless cash grabs, just as you said

CATS

WTF was that?! It had none of the musical’s whimsy or heart.

And The Rum Tum Tugger wasn’t even sexy, unlike this guy. How rude.

People are going to laugh at me but Basic Instinct 2.

The first one is an erotic thriller classic and they spent almost a decade working on the sequel so I figured they must have come up with something.

I remember watching the trailer and Sharon Stone walks into the therapist’s office and says “Is this where we’re gonna DO IT” and I said uh oh.

The cinematography and set design and costume design was top notch.

The rest, not so much.

Sharon's apartment looked like a Marriott lobby and her costumes were too slutty for a women of her age. I don't remember the cinematography.