What was your biggest pop culture disappointment?

[saskganesh]

I expect ASOIAF not to be finished at all. 

Well, most likely not by Martin. He apparently doesn't know how to get there.

[Caliga]

Maybe not the biggest, but it was big, and it's a good story...

It's 1995 in Winnipeg.  The Manitoba Theatre Company has a special showing of Shakespeare's Hamlet, starring... Keanu Reeves!  Now Keanu must have agreed to this at least a year in advance, when he was a B-list movie star known for Bill and Ted, or maybe Bram Stoker's Dracula, but in 1994 a little movie called Speed came out which propelled him to super-stardom.  But he was a good sport, honoured his contract, and came to Winnipeg.

So I get a ticket, sit down to watch... and he was terrible.  I mean, in a few actions scenes he did very well (he is an action star after all), but To Be or Not To Be was wooden as could be.  I recall he just kind of stood there and said it in an almost monotone.

So there we go - big movie star bombs in local theatre show.  Except of course he didn't bomb - by strength of Keanu himself every show was sold out, and went for big bucks through scalpers.

Whoa... Count Drock-ula...

[saskganesh]

IRC the review of Reeves as Hamlet, was that he was the perfect Hamlet, because he really was Hamlet; post-adolescent, indecisive, uncomprehending, etc.

[Valmy]

I expect ASOIAF not to be finished at all. 

Well, most likely not by Martin. He apparently doesn't know how to get there.

And frankly I have zero interest in seeing somebody other than Martin finish it. Either he finishes it or I would rather it remain unfinished.

But I guess with that kind of money to be made somebody would.

[Savonarola]

I went into "Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" with low expectations, and still managed to be disappointed.  That was a bad movie.

Of the prequels "When Clones Attack!" remains the biggest disappointment to me.  The mystery is uninteresting and the love story is unbelievable; yet it ends with one of the greatest B-movie climaxes ever, in which Count Dracula and a muppet battle for the fate of the universe with laser swords.  Any story which had led to that climax should have been great; that the ending isn't really related to the story just underscores how bad the rest of the movie was.  I didn't go in with high expectations, though, so Highlander II was a bigger disappointment for me.

[dps]

Star Wars Prequels. That was kind of a surreal experience sitting there in the movie theater with the realization slowly dawning on me that what I was seeing was, in fact, bad. Then Tim convinced me to see the third one because it supposedly redeemed the prequels...but no it was also really bad. Thanks Tim.

Well, I love dissing Tim as much as the next guy, but to be fair, as I recall, Seedy was pushing that line, too. 

[Valmy]

Star Wars Prequels. That was kind of a surreal experience sitting there in the movie theater with the realization slowly dawning on me that what I was seeing was, in fact, bad. Then Tim convinced me to see the third one because it supposedly redeemed the prequels...but no it was also really bad. Thanks Tim.

Well, I love dissing Tim as much as the next guy, but to be fair, as I recall, Seedy was pushing that line, too. 

It was on Tim's recommendation that I went and saw it. I don't recall if anybody else felt the same way.

[crazy canuck]

Star Wars Prequels. That was kind of a surreal experience sitting there in the movie theater with the realization slowly dawning on me that what I was seeing was, in fact, bad.

I stood in line (I really hate lines) to get in to watch the first showing.  When the Force was reduced to a midichlorians blood count the the whole theatre groaned.  A collective WTF moment. 

[grumbler]

I had no positive expectations for the prequels because I had seen Return of the Jedi.  The Star Wars movie series was really only two movies long, with a bunch of pathetic efforts to make lighting strike the third time.

[katmai]

Star Wars Prequels. That was kind of a surreal experience sitting there in the movie theater with the realization slowly dawning on me that what I was seeing was, in fact, bad. Then Tim convinced me to see the third one because it supposedly redeemed the prequels...but no it was also really bad. Thanks Tim.

Well, I love dissing Tim as much as the next guy, but to be fair, as I recall, Seedy was pushing that line, too.

Ladies and Gents,

I have been asked to type the following statment

"DPS, you need to correct your motherfucking facts, i did NOT endorse anything remotely related to the prequels. Lumping me in with Tim saying episode 3 redeemed the series is a lying sack of dead wet fetuses.

Regards,

CdM"

[garbon]

Star Wars Prequels. That was kind of a surreal experience sitting there in the movie theater with the realization slowly dawning on me that what I was seeing was, in fact, bad. Then Tim convinced me to see the third one because it supposedly redeemed the prequels...but no it was also really bad. Thanks Tim.

Well, I love dissing Tim as much as the next guy, but to be fair, as I recall, Seedy was pushing that line, too.

Ladies and Gents,

I have been asked to type the following statment

"DPS, you need to correct your motherfucking facts, i did NOT endorse anything remotely related to the prequels. Lumping me in with Tim saying episode 3 redeemed the series is a lying sack of dead wet fetuses.

Regards,

CdM"

[Valmy]

Star Wars Prequels. That was kind of a surreal experience sitting there in the movie theater with the realization slowly dawning on me that what I was seeing was, in fact, bad. Then Tim convinced me to see the third one because it supposedly redeemed the prequels...but no it was also really bad. Thanks Tim.

Well, I love dissing Tim as much as the next guy, but to be fair, as I recall, Seedy was pushing that line, too.

Ladies and Gents,

I have been asked to type the following statment

"DPS, you need to correct your motherfucking facts, i did NOT endorse anything remotely related to the prequels. Lumping me in with Tim saying episode 3 redeemed the series is a lying sack of dead wet fetuses.

Regards,

CdM"

We have had a shortage of dead fetus comments over here for awhile

[katmai]

Why did I know this was going to be the Garbon response.??

[Eddie Teach]

Star Wars Prequels. That was kind of a surreal experience sitting there in the movie theater with the realization slowly dawning on me that what I was seeing was, in fact, bad. Then Tim convinced me to see the third one because it supposedly redeemed the prequels...but no it was also really bad. Thanks Tim.

Well, I love dissing Tim as much as the next guy, but to be fair, as I recall, Seedy was pushing that line, too.

Ladies and Gents,

I have been asked to type the following statment

"DPS, you need to correct your motherfucking facts, i did NOT endorse anything remotely related to the prequels. Lumping me in with Tim saying episode 3 redeemed the series is a lying sack of dead wet fetuses.

Regards,

CdM"

Agree. Say it yourself.

[garbon]

Yeah don't be a little bitch.