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The Enders Game movie. Just WTF, every part of it was worse than the book.

Except possibly Harrison Ford. He is great as a gruff arsehole, past his prime, but still awesome.

Just looked it up on IMDb, how can it possibly have a 6.6?

Here, try this: https://m4studios.github.io/hobbit-book-edit/

Battlestar Galactica, and any other time the writers are just writing down the rabbit hole without having any clue what story they're going to tell. The writers of Battlestar introduced one mystery after another and worked to sell the audience on the belief that they were going somewhere good with all this. They had jack shit and I'm not getting that time back.

Some other offenders:

Star Wars sequels: how the fuck did that get greenlit for like a billion dollars without any living soul knowing what the plot was gonna be

Mulholland Drive: fuck you David Lynch, explain this shit or GTFO. If I want dream logic I'll go to sleep

Lost: J J Abrams you spoiled little rich kid fuckass

Times that didn't happen:

Andor: just an adamantine brick shithouse of storytelling

I have so much trouble excusing anything with the Hobbit though.

The song "I see fire" was good, if you think of it singing about a volcano eruption/nuke instead of Smaugh.

I guess a decade of slop media where nothing is sacred and everything must be exploited has hardened my heart from caring about anything anymore. A younger me cared about why the Star Wars sequels are bad or that they cancelled Firefly too quickly or that Community fired Dan Harmon. But all these properties are just tools of corpo oppression at this point. Art doesn't have the same impact if they are just trying to squeeze every last dollar out of them.

Are videogames media also ye? Cause I can think of many many examples that I could honestly just do a new post about it

Disney ruined the Star Wars sequels. All the money, all the talent, so much potential, and they pushed out those turds.

They gave the star trek movie reboots to a director that didn't like or watch star trek.

Every time a company does a tax write off and trashes the film. If they're canning it, it's ours. It's public domain. Take it as a loss, we subsidize it, then it's ours. Coyote vs Acme is the unicorn that got released. It should never have been thrown away.

Fox screwing Firefly with that stupid broadcast schedule (although it was cancelled before Joss could make it weird)

Star Wars: A LOT of things, but I'll focus on Episode 9 being absolute dog shit

Game of Thrones, I don't think I need to expand on it

Probably the most unforgivable thing is the legacy and ongoing sexual exploitation of minors in the entertainment industry, but I don't think that's what OP had in mind

Bill Maher has had a prime television slot since 1993.

That ignorant asshole has been pretending to represent the "left" for 33 years while being a smug reactionary idiot.

LotR should have been 6 movies and The Hobbit should have been 1

The abdication of the 4th estate in guarding the public interests and freedoms people fought and died for.

I haven't forgiven the fact that the Star Wars sequel trilogy doesn't include more of Anakin

The end of Battlestar Galactica.

They literally tied up all the loose threads into a bundle labeled "God did it" and then refused to speculate about God because that's distasteful.

It's sci-fi. You speculate. It's what the genre does.