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For me, the Mass Effect 3 ending at launch. It's still aggressively mediocre after several patches and DLCs, but the original at launch was genuinely insulting. I have only been invested in a piece of media like that a few times in my life—the shittiness of that ending really ruined me for a few days. It was an entire decade before I could muster up the desire to replay the trilogy. I'll still be mad about it when I'm on my deathbed.
Game of Thrones ending was less disappointing for me.
DISNEY take over of X-men spinoffs, resulted in thier cancellations. they were much better series than mcu slop we have now. gifted, runaway,,,,etc, it had alot of potential.
also with the Lord of the Rings, just deleting the scouring of the shire.
There's so many, but one that I can never forgive is Disney & Sony cancelling Spectacular Spider-Man
or all the x-men spinoffs, like gifted, runaway.
Firefly being canceled
Fox never gave it a fair shake. It premiered in a time slot where TV shows go to die, and they aired episodes out of order. The pilot episode, which sets up basically everything wasn't the first episode aired. Damn shame.
"Second screen content"
In reference to books words->minutes of film
Peter Jackson’s movie version of The Hobbit (in three parts and clocking in at a full eight hours) is an outlier, spending five minutes per 1000 in visualizing that story
When I was 11, I was annoying my mom a lot so naturally, she lunged at me with a butchers knife.
When I was 16, she beat me in the head with her fists.
I'm 55 now and she died when I was 30. You know what's weird? I wish she had stabbed me when I was 11. She would have had to explain that. Then again, if someone had seen her threaten me for once. My half-sister saw her beat me in the head with her fists and Mama suffered no consequences so she probably wouldn't have then either.
The Electric State movie.
Product placement along side fundamental changes to the tone and world.
Firefly getting cancelled.
The Expanse getting cancelled.
I was upset about the expanse too. Talked to a coworker for a while about it and he said go read the books, just start at book 7 you really won't be missing much. So I did and immediately knew the 30 year time jump wouldn't have worked on screen. We still might get more a few years down the line when the actors age up. Also I'm glad I got into the books it was the spark that got me into audiobooks. Started listening to the expanse authors new series and I think that's getting picked up by Amazon as well.
I actually did start reading the books and then decided to stop and just watch the show, but then I forgot the books existed, so that's fun I can go and read them now
I’m not a dumb man but I never could figure out the expanse, I’d always get lost of what was going on
It was always too agro for me. I watched the first season at the request of a friend, but after that I hated every minute.
Edit: It was great at first because the plot was breakneck and focused on the cast, but around episode 6 of season one it starts out witn "11 years earlier" and I knew the good part was over.
I had a hard time with season 1 because it kept jumping between so many different things. I gave up on it then tried again after a couple years after hearing. It got sooo good and then got even better. Then I read the books. In the show they needed to introduce a character earlier in the story whereas in the books it's not until book 2. So that contributed to some of that disjointedness.
Yeah, I had to rewatch Season 1, because I didn't get hooked the first time. Afterwards I think it gets much better.
Star wars. I just have such a love/frustration relationship with it. This includes stuff produced by George Lucas btw.
I feel like it tries to appease all crowds. The family friendly crowd, the autistic nerdy crowd, the politics obsessed crowd and so on.
Andor for example is peak star wars, because it's made specifically for one audience. No one's taking their 6yo to watch this.
The problem is when a kids' show has the prerequisite plot for a show with a totally different audience.
Take the clone wars for example. It started as nothing more than a kids' show. Then, it ended dark. Same with rebels. Look at episode 3. Amazing amazing plot with the transformation of the Republic into the empire. And then you have jar jar binks.
Let's not even begin to talk about Disney.
Star wars just has so much potential due to its huge world and the Jedi/sith stuff. But it's just so frustrating to see how such art can be wounded by the will to earn money.
I know this isn't "the most unforgivable sin" or whatever, but I suppose it's definitely up there. It's the sin of painting an angry face emoji on top of a beautiful and detailed painting of an unimaginabley cruel monster, just so that more toys can be sold.
The biggest problem with Star wars is how each subsequent movie keeps inventing bigger bigger lasers to destroy more and more planets. It's as if they can't think of anything else.
In the last movie the first order destroyed multiple planets in one shot, despite the fact that they supposed to be this scrappy little fighting force that's all that's left of the empire. They're supposed to be terrorists or something and yet they have technology that can rival the empire at its peak. How's that supposed to work?
Eh, all 3 movies were pretty good.
What is it with Harrison Ford only being in trilogies.
Air Force One was a trilogy?
Air Force Three was a really solid ending to the series imo. The Blade Runner series is out of control though. No series needs 2,000+ entries.
CNN leaving the mics on so Elizabeth Warren could try and embarrass Bernie Sanders on national TV and hurt his campaign.
A lot of the original episodes of Pokemon were never dubbed in Danish. I will never forget. Never forgive.
This is the level of petty im here for.
Almost everything JJ Abrams has touched.
nutrek is based in his style of directing, made the shows kinda garbagy, only the animated shows are better.
I would agree but with the caveat- everything jj Abrams has touched that he didn't make originally
His original works are fine. Super 8 is up there with some of the better modern scifi movies, his work on lost is legendary. But then you have both star trek and star wars... what a failure to both.
I liked Lost for the most part, but he is way too fond of throwing out too many unresolved mystery boxes.
