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I think the Eurovision Song Contest has lost the innocent magic it once possessed.

The Hobbit movies

One of my favourite books as a kid, I don't think I'll ever watch the movies again by choice

I know it's ancient history, but I still can't get over the spectacular train wreck of Star Wars Episode One. So much hype, so much hope, and then you get a two hour arcade game promo with Jar Jar Binks. It was like George Lucas had picked every single terrible trope of 90s movies and packaged it neatly into a movie.

Moving away from physical buttons and physical media. I don’t mind touchscreens and I do enjoy downloading, but there’s nothing more satisfying than a good click of a button and actually holding something in your hand that you purchased.

Great Expectations. It just wasn't all I'd hoped for.

The Netflix version of Cowboy Bebop.

The cast was great but the script was just horrible and really ruined the show.

The Last Airbender 2010 by Manoj Nelliyattu "M. Night" Shyamalan.

He ruined it. Nearly everything but the costumes were wrong. He should try again out of his own pocket to make amends.

my two favorite media franchises are Star Trek and Sonic. how long have you got?

The Dark Tower movie.

One cannot fit a 9 books series into 1 movie. What a just terrible idea to begin with. Also, if you haven't read the books and want an amazing Stephen King adventure, this is your series to read!

I think I speak for us all when I say the Eragon film attempt.

Episodes 7 through 9 of Star Wars. Yeah 7 was a retelling of the same story almost but we also live in a world where we're repeating history so... It provided some New Hope for the series but 8 was total subversion of everything though I doubt it was all that well planned out to begin with. There were some questionable decisions and characters in that movie. And 9, I didn't even bother to watch it after I found out Palpatine is back. Just...yeah.

Most of the MCU wasn't great but Iron Man 3 thoroughly disappointed me.

The suits that seem to be made of Lego while the older ones took a beating from Thor, Cap, and Bucky.

The Mandarin. That was unforgivable.

Extremis is armor, not fire-breathing people.

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.

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.

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.

2001; A Space Odyssey

I generally like older, slower paced movies. The Bridge over the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, and The Guns of Navarone are all great movies, despite them being very dated in some regards. With that in mind, I decided to give the movie a try, it being a very famous classic and all. Despite that, my expectations weren't unrealistically high, but the movie still fell very short.

So, it consists of four chapters/acts, basically. The first one (with the monkeys) was very "meh" and could have been shorter, but I didn't mind it too much because, again, old movie. The second act on the moon was better, but honestly was "OK" in my books. The third act, now that was really good in my opinion. I though; "looks like the story is really taking off now!" And then came act 4...

I thought that, while the beginning wasn't great, it was still perfectly salvagable if the ending was decent. Here is where it fell really short, in my opinion. It is, in essence, just a light show with music. Now sure, I bet that for the time that was all very advanced, so I want to give them credit. But it didn't need to last for 15 fucking minutes! Even for that time, that is extremely long. I found myself starting to skip ahead to see if anything else was going to happen. And it did, I guess. Wasn't exactly blown away though.

Now what I think they were trying to achieve was what we now typically describe as eldritch horror, to see something we simply cannot fathom. And I think they did that very well with the tools that they had. But it was just way too long, and that thoroughly put the nail in the coffin for me.

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.

it's quite fresh in my mind, but the last season, and especially the last episode, of The Boys was nothing compared to what it could've been.

The Outer Wilds. Just really boring and frustrating for me.

Just recently, Daft Punk's album Homework.

I like the song Around the World and decided to listen to the rest of the album. It was awful! It was electronic dance music, but was so boring and repetitive it almost felt bored with itself.

I then listened to their album Discovery. WOW! What a difference. So much energy and movement. It's a complete and total 180 to Homework.

The TV adaptation of Preacher. The comics were more like a western but with a dark sense of humour that popped up when the moment called for it. The tv show was ‘wow, this is so wacky and wild!’ I get the impression Seth Rogan liked the comics but didn’t actually understand them at all.

I was an obsessive fan as a kid and had to (try to) defend this shit:

WHERE'S THE DAMN LAMB, GARTH!?

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.

The first MCU Doctor Strange movie. To be fair, I collected the comics when I was a kid, so I had high expectations. I was bound to be disappointed. I saw it on Election Day in 2016, so an all-around shitty day.

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.

Since I'm already thinking of Spongebob, I'll say that the Sponge Out of Water movie was the first large-scale disappointment that I experienced from a delivery perspective.

All of the advertisement showed almost entirely the scenes where they were, per the title, out of water. Once out of water, per the title, Spongebob and the crew were 3D, superimposed into the real world, and they had superpowers. It should've been great.

In the actual movie, they did not become "out of water," per the title, until approximately the last 20 minutes of the movie, if my memory serves me correctly.

I was also a bit disappointed with Avatar: The Legend of Korra. It's not a bad show—it's just that The Last Airbender set the bar so high, and TLOK did not measure up.