It could be an album, movie, tv show, whatever.
Lost never delivered on its initial promise of cool science fiction mystery. It became increasingly clear as the seasons went on that the writers had no fucking clue where they were going with any of this stuff and just gave up and everyone-was-dead-all-along was the only way out even though they promised early on that wasn’t the case. Fuck that show and Abrams in particular.
I felt utterly betrayed that they never explained the smoke monster!!!
I think this aimlessness is more common than people realize.
For instance, dare I say it: Half-Life. The games were made with questions never meant to be answered, and even the supposed “concluding episodes” have kind of landed with a thud. Even the release of Portal with Episode 2, tying Aperture Science into the world, didn’t end up making much sense or having direct effect on anything.
I honestly don’t remember much of the plot of any of those games. Great games, though!
The Korean Netflix adaptation of one of my favourite Japanese books called 終末のフール (shūmatsu no fūrū, roughly ‘translate to fools in the end of times’). The book was about a collection of stories told from the perspectives of different residents of an apartment building in a world that’s come to accept the fact that a planetoid is going to destroy the Earth in a few years. Some struggle to decide whether to have a child or not. Some question whether there’s even a point going to school. Everyone has hard decisions to make but they’re all oddly cool with the fact that their time on Earth is limited. They felt enlightened to me because I think most of us spend our days ignoring the finiteness of our lives.
On the other hand, the K-drama was a generic apocalypse survival show. Everyone just screaming and yelling. At least, that’s how it started off as and I lost interest immediately. Even the English title was stupid—Goodbye Earth. Ugh.
Star Citizen. I’m less disappointed in the tech demo than how Chris Roberts has handled the business end of it.
I grew up on Wing Commander, Privateer, Starlancer, and Freelancer. I still have all those games on physical media with original boxes. And the Wing Commander CIC is the one website I still visit daily since 1997-ish. So when Roberts pitched a new space game back around 2012 I was thrilled. Well, we all know how that turned out. I’ve given up waiting for any release of Star Citizen and Squadron 42.
Freelancer.
I know everyone hates games publishers but this was a perfect example of a publisher untangling a mess. Microsoft bought Roberts’ company and immediately dialed back the unworkable ambition, put Roberts in a consulting role where he didn’t have a final say over anything, and actually got the game finished and released.
Star Citizen is what happens when the same guy who made such an intractable mess of development discovers an infinite money glitch as long as he never stops developing and never releases a full game.
I know I will get hate for this… Breaking Bad. Everyone I know was hyping it up as the best series ever and how much of a complete bad ass Walter turns into - “it starts slow, but give it a chance and it gets so good”. It really set my expectation for what the show would be to something… else entirely I guess? I watched the entire series thinking I was still in the “give it a chance” phase and any episode now it will get proper good and I’ll stop hating Walter. Then the end happened and I was left so confused.
For the record I loved Better Call Saul. And I think it’s possible that in an alternate timeline where someone just told me “you should watch it, it’s decent”, I’d might have really liked it. But it was built up so much, and Walter was built up to be such a “cool bad-ass”, which he basically never is, that it just ruined it for me.
The biggest fault was walt being built up to be a good guy. He’s the main character, but he’s definitely not a “good guy”. That’s kinda the whole point of the show. Most people who walk away thinking walt was a badass have a relatively immature take on the story.
Something I never hear people talk about with BB is how it hit differently when it was first being broadcast, than when it hit streaming.
The original show spooled out slowly, an episode a week, and then nearly a year before the next season, then they broke the final season in half, and dragged that way out. So between episodes and seasons, you remember the excitement, and you apply that to Walter, and sort of forget all the atrocities he’s committing. He’s just a cool anti-hero.
But when you binge it on streaming, your shock at his behavior doesn’t dissipate, it accumulates, and by the end, he’s just a bad guy who got a lot of people killed, and deserves his fate.
I watched it during its initial run, then binged it, and I can’t think of any other show that had such a different dynamic between the two.
I didn’t finish the show but I got the idea pretty early on; he’s like Captain Ahab, right? Not a good man, at least not anymore - a tragic character.
That’s a pretty good analogy.
Yeah, it’s very obvious from the start that he’s a mediocre person. Saying he becomes a badass is false advertising
I was also disappointed in the series not because it wasn’t good, but because people overhyped it. I’ve learnt my lesson to never listen to people’s hype for series I am interested in watching.
I’m with you on it. And you can’t even have an honest discussion about Breaking Bad with anyone because if you say you didn’t like it you’re just dismissed out of hand.
Dr Who after Peter Capaldi left.
The plots went to crap. The retconning destroyed decades of canon. I’ve nothing against the actors involved but the writers should be taken out and beaten.
I keep trying to give it a chance and don’t understand what the fuck happened, but I feel so bad for Jodi Whitaker and Ncuti Gatwa. The writing is so awful it’s like they don’t even get to play the same part.
I agree it’s a mixed bag, but there’s still some Stephen Moffat episodes in there that are fantastic, though.
Avengers End Game - after years of build up and creating the entire MCU, it felt like a cop out for them to fix everything with a time travel plot that they set specific rules for. It was just lazy writing.
Cyberpunk 2077. Hands down.
Disappointed doesnt even fully encapsulate my feelings throughout knowing this games existance
Heres a list of a 100 words that describe what I felt at various stages; Since its been announced all the way to the last hour I sunk into playing this game
7 years of developement time for one of the worst releases in gaming history
Not even an RPG as orignally promised, just another futuristic shooter.
Just missed damn near every mark, I’d time machine back just to tell myself to let that game go
I’m kind of annoyed that it’s still used as a benchmark performance basis despite the game coming out in a buggy and subpar visual state lol.
Batman Arkham Knight being peak visual fidelity a decade later is really not so funny anymore when no one seems to use actual high fidelity games to compare instead of the latest EA or Ubisoft slop.
Have you played it? Like after the stability fixes it’s probably one of the best modern rpgs.
From start to finish, and its not that I didn’t have fun with it after they made it stable. Its that fact that as someone who is heavily into the genre of cyberpunk and love rpg gameplay with wide range of customization and choosing your own adventure in a content rich world, it was underwelming for all the hype.
At first, it was severly lacking, not getting what was a major selling point for what could of been a revolutionary AAA cyberpunk game was a big slap in the face for peeps like me who waited so long to play the game.
Sure its fun now, it was fun even with the hilariously game breaking glitches; however, thats not what was promised and that disappointing part of the experence cant be push asided
thanks for the dictionary piece! i watched a lot of videos but it didnt get me.
65 was such a missed opportunity. It’s about a guy who crash lands on Earth right before the asteroid that kills the dinosaurs. Spoiler alert: he escapes just in time to avoid the asteroid. It’s just a generic survival movie with generic monsters. Waste of a premise. It should have shown the beautiful side of the dinosaur world and made us sad when they died
Dragon Age 2 just that one at some point it was unbearable. 1 and 3 (inquisition) are awesome.
cant think of anything other atm (but probably incoming)
Everything Everywhere All At Once. People hyped it, I watched it and thought it started out OK and then just became a stupid mess. And I really like off beat movies.
FDR American Badass.
It’s a B-movie starring Barry Bostwick as Franklin D. Roosevelt, fighting against Nazi werewolves with a heavily weaponized wheelchair.
The trailer was hilarious. And then I actually watched it with a few friends for one of our monthly film nights.
You know when someone tries way too hard to be edgy and vulgar and it goes from funny to downright uncomfortable? This was like the film equivalent of that. Some scenes genuinely drag on way too long because Bostwick needs to crack another half-a-dozen sex jokes. He genuinely comes across as lecherous, creepy and giving me Chevy Chase vibes (not in a good way.)
We made it about 30 minutes through the film until we had to switch it off because it was just so bad. And I genuinely had to apologize to everyone for even nominating this movie.
You quit too early! It totally redeemed itself by the end!
Just kidding, I’ve never even heard of it, but your review of it made me want to check it out right away. It’s sounds like my kind of movie.
I knew a Piccolo once.
I am still mad that I paid actual money to see Valerian and the city of 1000 worlds
I found that movie simultaneously really good and really bad. Somewhere under there is a deep story about colonialism, but it’s really poorly executed
Payday 3. I had 2k hours in Payday 2, done every heist on death sentence one down and when the beta for Payday 3 came out my friends and I tried it and wow it was bad. We tried it again after it came out and had a few patches and it’s still bad.
Yeah, Payday 2 used to be my friend group’s go-to “we don’t know what we want to play, so we’ll just default to this” game. Easily have like 2k hours, just from chilling with friends after work. And somehow, Payday 3 just completely failed to grab our attention.
I’m still mad about Interstellar
Assassin’s Creed has been going downhill since Revelations. The movie wasn’t good either.
