50 Movies That Sounded Great In Theory But Failed Us With Their Poor Execution

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Movies are great, but good movies are even better. Just like any other art form, people appreciate when a movie has a compelling story, nice visuals, and relatable characters. Sadly, not all movie-watching experiences are satisfying. Some leave us wanting more. Way more. Especially when it seemed to be so promising.

So when one netizen asked fellow movie lovers, "What movie had a 10/10 concept and a 3/10 execution?", lots of people had their one poorly-executed movie pick. Whether it was a lacking storyline, not enough chemistry between the actors, or something less tangible that's even hard to put into words, people didn't hesitate to share them.

Bored Panda decided to reach out to some experts on bad movies – the team behind the podcast The Flop House. It's a comedy podcast about bad movies, now entering its 17th year. The people behind the mics are comedian and screenwriter Dan McCoy, writer and comedian Elliott Kalan (both former writers for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart), and podcaster Stuart Wellington.

We asked them what makes a great movie concept and why sometimes filmmakers fail to deliver on its execution. The trio also shared their favorite "good concept but bad execution" movies. If you like their takes, be sure to check out their podcast or tune into their streaming event on April 27th, where they’ll discuss the legendary bomb Speed 2.

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50 Movies That Sounded Great In Theory But Failed Us With Their Poor Execution Eragon

All they had to do was follow the damn books.

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"A great film concept is not just one that feels clever, or gives a zing of 'I gotta see what that is,' but also illuminates something about human nature through the characters involved or speaks to something in society," the team behind The Flop House tells Bored Panda.

"Those themes don't have to be huge or overt, but if it doesn't have that core, you're in trouble. Some terrible movies have been made from fine premises, but they fail because you walk out saying, 'Yeah, I know the plot – but what was it about?'"

The podcasters point out that when it seems like a movie has a great concept but doesn't execute it well, it's probably because something went wrong along the line. "Sometimes, it's a 'too many cooks in the kitchen' situation," they give an example.

"Film is highly collaborative, and at its best, that means you get something more impressive than any one person could create, but if the people in charge aren't all on the same page, then there's no sense there was an overriding vision."

50 Movies That Sounded Great In Theory But Failed Us With Their Poor Execution The Hobbit. It should have been 1 movie but was artificially stretched out to 3 s****y movies in an obvious attempt to cash-grab.

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50 Movies That Sounded Great In Theory But Failed Us With Their Poor Execution Stephen King's Dark Tower series was his magnum opus.

I don't know what the s**t that thing they put on screen was but it wasn't any of the Dark Tower books.

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114points

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Other times, The Flop House team notes, these films fail because they are just a cash grab. The recent trend of never-ending remakes is an example. "Sometimes, projects are doomed from the start because they're just a cynical attempt at cashing in on IP the filmmakers hope audiences remember, but there's been no attempt to discover why that IP is being revisited and what new is being brought."

Can this be a genre problem? Just one glance at this list proves that fantasy and sci-fi may flop more often in the eyes of the audience than other genres. "Some genres become difficult through overfamiliarity," The Flop House hosts admit. "It's hard to do a giant fantasy epic that breaks new ground because post-Star Wars, everyone got obsessed with the same screenwriting models, and the stories started feeling the same."

50 Movies That Sounded Great In Theory But Failed Us With Their Poor Execution Avatar the Last Airbender

Still sad about that one. Nicola Peltz was a nepotism hire because her dad was in the biz.

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50 Movies That Sounded Great In Theory But Failed Us With Their Poor Execution The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Sean Connery's talents were such a waste. lackluster script. Would love to see this be remade.

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92points

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50 Movies That Sounded Great In Theory But Failed Us With Their Poor Execution The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. As a fan of the books, I was highly disappointed that we didn’t get more.

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88points

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According to the podcasters, a lack of institutional knowledge can also be a contributing factor in an anticipated movie's failure. "Musicals are much less frequent on the big screen than in classic Hollywood, and now, fewer people know how to shoot them," they point out. "They get cut all to hell when it would be more effective and impressive to just watch people sing and dance."

"Some genres get harder, just as they seem to be getting easier," The Flop House team says. "Action is less thrilling now that special effects can do literally anything because it loses any sense of reality that an audience can connect to." However, they do say that it’s likely that no genre is inherently more difficult. "They all just have different challenges."

50 Movies That Sounded Great In Theory But Failed Us With Their Poor Execution Jurassic World Dominion... Dinosaurs have to co-exist with humans, will they survive? eh, who cares lets talk about LOCUSTS.

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50 Movies That Sounded Great In Theory But Failed Us With Their Poor Execution Hancock had two good concepts combined into one bad movie.

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50 Movies That Sounded Great In Theory But Failed Us With Their Poor Execution I always thought Passengers would’ve been a much better movie if it was revealed that Chris Pratts character had woken up Jennifer Lawrence’s character at the end as a twist.

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The Flop House has covered its fair share of stinkers, but what about those that had a really promising premise? Sometimes, it seems that the movie can't really figure out how to handle it. The team gives Next (2007) with Nicolas Cage as an example. "[It's] about someone who always knows what's going to happen, well, 'next.' The problem is that [this] overpowers the main character so much that the movie never figures out how to appropriately challenge him."

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Jumper. Cool idea of a secret society of teleporters, and the idea of someone becoming aware of their powers, and running a afoul of them. Lotta missed opportunities and Hayden Christensen was terrible.

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50 Movies That Sounded Great In Theory But Failed Us With Their Poor Execution Jupiter Ascending Seemed like a pretty great concept but that movie was just awful. I think it could’ve made a fantastic Netflix/HBO series.

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Enders game. I loved the book as a kid. I absolutely hated the movie.

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The podcasters also name a more recent film, Don't Worry Darling (2022), as an example that failed to deliver on its solid concept. The problem with this one was overfamiliarity, according to them. "[It] was a movie we all kind of enjoyed because it was well acted and beautifully presented, but the central twist has become overfamiliar, and the film didn't quite bring enough new elements to it."

#13

I thought valerian and the city of a million planets could have been amazing. But even as someone who liked the movie, man it was bad.

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Gonna say Wild Wild West. Steampunk western? Hell yeah.

Admittedly, I enjoyed the movie as it is, despite many valid reasons not to.

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The Golden Compass.

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"Then there are movies that don't go far enough," The Flop House team points out. "If it were made in the '70s in Italy, I Know Who Killed Me (2007) might be a fun giallo thriller, but the version we got, while over-the-top, never quite pushed itself into the kind of stylish absurdity that would let the audience know that it could have fun and not take it seriously."

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50 Movies That Sounded Great In Theory But Failed Us With Their Poor Execution Antman and the Wasp Quantumania had the potential to be an absolutely genre changing movie if they utilized the different parts to their full potential (kang as a character, the quantum realm as a concept, the family dynamic of the Lang’s/ Pym’s) but instead it came out like a burnt pizza, so much potential wasted to the point of it barely being serviceable at all.

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50 Movies That Sounded Great In Theory But Failed Us With Their Poor Execution The Island (2005) had a great premise. Would have been good if it was sci-fi horror genre instead. Like if they focused on the mystery and suspense of slowly revealing the truth about "The island". Instead we got a 3/10 movie filled with car chase and explosions.

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The Assassin's Creed movie. I was so excited, but I don't think I've ever left a theater more disappointed. If they made a tv series (I know I heard Netflix was supposed to, but that was a long time ago) it could work better than a movie.

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A captivating idea is a great foundation for a film. However, it's not enough for it to stand on its own. And the movies in this list might just be proof of that. There are far too many things needed for a movie to do well at the box office or become a cult classic many years after its release.

A film historian and filmmaker Wheeler Winston Dixon, a professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, told CNN that there is a great deal of things that can go wrong for filmmakers. "It's always a crapshoot because there are so many factors you don't know about before you're going into something. Even with all the elements in place, there's always an element of chance."

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The 2005 War of The Worlds with Tom Cruise.

The book is good and so is the movie from the 1950s. The 2005 adaptation was such a good concept but those kids (one of which being a very annoying young Dakota Fanning) are so damn annoying.

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ί𝔫ＣίŦᵃт𝐔𝐬 7 months ago (edited)

I loved the movie, but the actor who plays his son is so very terrible...

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Moosy Girl 7 months ago

Poor guy, everybody hated him already and then his agent made him play Goku in that Dragonball movie. :p

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WindySwede 7 months ago

Though the ending suckade so much. Tobias frank..

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Kathy O'Sherry 7 months ago

I disagree. I liked him and I really liked the movie.

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Spencer's slave no longer 7 months ago

The original movie is far superior to the Tom Cruise version, especially when you consider the time in which it was set. Tom Cruise, in my humble opinion, has too high an opinion of himself when it comes to movies, a 6ft plus Jack Reacher springs to mind.

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Vix Spiderthrust 7 months ago (edited)

God yes, this was such bollocks. Especially the bit where they fudge the voiceover at the end so as not to offend the creationists

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James016 7 months ago

The scene where the tripod first comes out of the ground is pretty cool. The rest of the film is just meh.

2points

Dash Junior 7 months ago

I loved this movie. I thought that it was exciting, and often intense.

2points

AtMostAFabulist Premium 7 months ago

I was enjoying the movie until the plane crash. Despite the fact that the plane and the houses should have been toast, Cruise carrying his daughter out telling her not to look, and then they get in the car and go? Please.

2points

Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 7 months ago (edited)

The Martians spent all this time hidden underground and never once dug up?

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ί𝔫ＣίŦᵃт𝐔𝐬 7 months ago

They weren't underground, just the infrastructure. They traveled down to the buried tripods via lightning.

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Jahl 7 months ago

Definitely not his best acting. He's become a mission impossible franchise actor and everything I've seen him in since then has just been meh.

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T'Mar of Vulcan 7 months ago

"His best acting". Like he can act.

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Nerd Groupie 7 months ago

Dakota and Tom run. Then stop and watch something off screen. Then run again. Then stop and watch something off screen. Repeat for entire movie. Blegh.

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Stephanie Did It 7 months ago

You forgot Dakota's insane screaming at whatever was offscreen at the moment, again & again

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TotallyNOTAFox 7 months ago (edited)

I really hoped the little girl in the story would bite the dust, usually not a good sign for a movie if you hope for the bad guys to get rid of a protagonist....

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Jack Burton 7 months ago

Directing was awesome obviously but the happy end was awful, absolutely awful.

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alaina66 7 months ago

I loved Cruise in this and YES!! Dakota was totally annoying!

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Moosy Girl 7 months ago

That movie should’ve been titled Scream. :p

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Stephanie Did It 7 months ago

Not Dakota's best moments.

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Pete Nosal 2 months ago

The interminable close-ups of Cruise crying

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Josh David Whitmore 6 months ago

I can't believe people diss the KIDS in the movie. The real bummer in the movie was Tom Cruise! Simply awful. When I'm at a party, I tell people I do a great Tom Cruise impression. I proceed to pretend I am running at full speed and looking back over my shoulder repeatedly. Because THIS is about all Cruise is capable of. He totally ruined what could have been a good movie. So....I'll take the 50s version over this one, thankuvermush.....

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ZuriLovesYou 7 months ago

Any action or horror/thriller movie with children is so annoying to me!

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Stephanie A Mutti 7 months ago

The movie in total is a little meh but there are some scenes that are amazing, like the train going through the city completely enflamed, and when the storm and lightning are in his backyard. And I don't know what magic they used to film it but the whole movie had this dream like quality..a filter or the type of film or something.

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Brandon Parisien 7 months ago

Ah yes, the Martians came to Earth, thousands of years ago, installed their technology; and then waited for humanity to grow and improve their technology and grow to billions before deciding to finally invade.

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CP 7 months ago

I enjoyed that movie a lot.

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Lee Henderson 7 months ago

SciFi did a version that was ridiculous. They travel from Hopewell. Va, to Washington, DC (a straight run up I95 north, about 130 miles) by way of the high Sierras. Through Winchester, Va, 75 miles west of DC. The movie was so stupid....(A Va resident)

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Steve Hall 7 months ago

I gave up on everything with Tom Cruise years ago.

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Trisec Tebeakesse 7 months ago

I liked this one. I am a MASSIVE fan of the George Pal version from 1954. I liked the change in point-of-view more than anything else. Dr. Clayton Forrester was at the point of the spear in the 1950s; we saw all the top people trying to defeat the martians. Tom Cruise and his family dynamic in the 2005 version was the point of view of the ordinary man. Good movie all around, IMHO.

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Corinne Wheeler 7 months ago

Loved the cameos at the end....so brilliant and moving...not a bad film at all really.Although, Tom Cruise as a docker....come on.

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Karen Bird 7 months ago

It would've been better without Tom cruise. Everything would be better without him tbh.....

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August 7 months ago

Wait, I loved this movie too. Maybe I’m just easily entertained lol

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Doofnuts 7 months ago

worked for me

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Richard Rice 7 months ago

What is amazing about the book and the UK is that almost all the places and roads in the book, written in 1897, still exist, including an Inn the character stayed in.

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Aniviel 7 months ago

The ending of this movie grates so hard, I cannot watch it again. It was an okay movie until they turned the corner to a middle class, suburban paradise, untouched by the aliens 🤬

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censorshipsucks 7 months ago

I'd have preferred it if they had stuck to the story and instead of the typical spielberg "i have daddy issues" with divorced parents etc (really , watch all his movies, there's almost always something about divorce/dad being an asshat)... they should have just remade the origina 1950s movie with modern special effects, because that movie at least was close to the original novel. Minus the vague love story.

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JayWantsACat 7 months ago

There were so many great scenes and set pieces in the film, but as a whole it was a let down. I'm still annoyed they showed the major battle off screen, obviously for "budgetary reasons".

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Octavia Hansen 7 months ago

Got really bored with Cruise having so many close ups, really slowed down the film . . . things just happened to him instead of making decisions.

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Downsizing.

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The Matrix sequels had some really interesting ideas, but generally sucked as movies.

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Director John Jacobsen writes that it's not a good concept that moves us, it's a good story. "Concepts do not move us, stories do. They are the currency of human exchange and how we touch and move each other," he claims. According to him, people go to the movies to learn something, and in order for that to happen, they need to find the characters and the story relatable.

"I look at it this way – a concept is the promise you make, but the story is how you deliver on that promise, or a concept is something that asks a question, and the answer to the question is your story," he writes.

#22

50 Movies That Sounded Great In Theory But Failed Us With Their Poor Execution Cowboys & Aliens. Ohh it could’ve been so good….

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50 Movies That Sounded Great In Theory But Failed Us With Their Poor Execution World War Z. Just do the actual book.

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50 Movies That Sounded Great In Theory But Failed Us With Their Poor Execution Alien VS Predator movies

They have Soooo much potential, yet always seem to under deliver.

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An example that does both the concept and its execution right is Good Will Hunting, Screencraft writes. It has a compelling concept, as well as characters that go through their respective arcs as the movie progresses.

Interestingly, the original idea Affleck and Damon pitched was about a mathematics genius pursued by the government. But, after reading the draft, filmmaker Rob Reiner told them to get rid of that plotline and focus on the characters.

#25

50 Movies That Sounded Great In Theory But Failed Us With Their Poor Execution Recently 65(Million) starring Adam Driver.

I went in, not expecting high art or anything. But if you explained the premise, "Sci-Fi spaceman Adam Driver goes to prehistoric earth with a space gun and fights dinosaurs." I would GUARANTEE the movie would be a blast to watch.

It was not a blast to watch. They somehow made that movie boring. Incredibly boring. They gave the only two humans a language barrier. It was awful.

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The first modern Transformers. The OG (1985) was in my VHS player every day of my childhood. I was so excited to see what Hollywood CGI could do with the series.

I was so disgusted by the incessant interjection of f*****g humans that I haven't watched any of the sequels. The story is about the f*****g autobots vs decepticons not the goddamn meat bags in between the intergalactic battle of transforming metal f*****g warriors.

It's such a wasted franchise right now. Like holy s**t how about a good video game too?

Guess the robots don't have tits so we'll just not put money into the actual story.

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Congo, a dangerous expedition into the jungle to rescue the son of a corporate tycoon. You have a lost city of diamonds, killer apes, and a cast that includes Ernie Hudson, Tim Curry, Laura Linney, and Delroy Lindo.

What we got was a mess of a movie, that is just a chore to watch.

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Another two examples they give are genre movies Get Out and A Quiet Place. Both have interesting, original concepts, as well as great character stories. A good concept, according to Screencraft, is what gets you noticed. "Yes, the more compelling your concept is, the more doors may open. But always remember that there's a place for every type of screenplay — as long as it's written well."

#28

“Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow”—trailer promised pulpy sci-fi goodness but failed to deliver.

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#29

The Giver. The book was so good, and the movie they made was complete s**t.

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#30

Buffy the Vampire Slayer the movie.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer the TV show proved the concept worked if it just had the right execution.

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50 Movies That Sounded Great In Theory But Failed Us With Their Poor Execution Both Waterworld and The Postman.

I’m a big fan of the post-apocalyptic genre. Kevin Costner was coming off huge after Dances With Wolves and he had two shots at mega-funded films and botched them both. They were corny, badly acted, and way too cheesy for what kind of money was spent to produce them.

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Don't Worry Darling! I think the concept was great, the aestetics were lovely, Flo was amazing as per usual... everything else fell entirely flat and the film was altogether mediocre. Without Florence Pugh it wouldn't have been good at all.

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#33

Lucy.

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#34

I Am Legend.

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50 Movies That Sounded Great In Theory But Failed Us With Their Poor Execution Valerian and the City of A Thousand Planets - needed better casting

Ender's Game - should have been an animated movie instead of trying to work with child actors.

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50 Movies That Sounded Great In Theory But Failed Us With Their Poor Execution In Time starting Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried.

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#37

Renfield.

Nicholas Cage as Dracula and Nicholas Hoult as Renfield. Both characters in a horrible co-dependent relationship with Dracula being a narcistic abuser. On paper it sounds like a dream. On film...it was forgettable. They shoe-horned an unnecessary good cop versus the mob storyline in. Cage and Hoult didn't have many scenes together. Their relationship was barely explored. The cop story was so utterly cliche. It could have been better if they had dropped the cop vs. mob storyline altogether and made it about Renfield and the recovery group vs. Dracula.

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#38

After earth.

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The maze runner movies. Absolutely terrible excution desipte amazing concept/book. The movies change plot points/characters drastically and made them so dull and builds no connection with them. Think if maybe they made a tv series to have more time to not cut so many corners by changing so much it could work.

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Attack of the Clones. If it had better dialogue, and fleshed out Dooku's motivations better, it would be a great movie. I still think it was higher than 3/10, though.

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#41

Dragon Ball evolution has a literal 2,6/10 rating on imdb and even the writer apologized.

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#42

Prometheus.

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#43

50 Movies That Sounded Great In Theory But Failed Us With Their Poor Execution The first purge movie in 2013. The sequels became “better” and explored the purge more.

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#44

Beau Is Afraid. The cinematography was beautiful, and the first half was mysterious and suspenseful. But somewhere around the 2 hour mark, the wheels fell off. The rambling monologues were incoherent and felt out of place, and it seemed as if the movie was trying too hard to replicate the dream-like mood of Mulholland Drive.

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#45

M Night Shyamalan’s “Old”. The plot had so much potential.

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#46

The Butterfly Effect. Really cool premise but, yikes.

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#47

Not 3/10, but way short of the cult classic it could have been: *Brightburn*.

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#48

Army of the Dead.

A casino heist in the middle of a Zombie outbreak sounds like an amazing idea.

It's too bad the movie abandons the core premise immediately.

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#49

Reign of Fire. I wanted the movie on the poster, attack helicopters fighting dragons over a london in flames.

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#50

Sucker Punch.

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Moosy Girl 7 months ago

Now a movie with a 3/10 concept and 10/10 execution: the cabin in the woods!

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PFD 7 months ago

This would be a more interesting topic, actually. There are lots of dreadful movies that could have been much better, but it'd be fun to think of movies that should have sucked but hit the gold instead.

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DetriMentaL 7 months ago (edited)

This one deserves a damned series! I too wish to see the merman creating havoc and that sugar plum fairy is so so so pretty and disturbing (pretty disturbing)

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Sonja 7 months ago

Oh yes! So true! It was funny and campy and had great horror, but it also had a surprising depth, great acting and a shocking ending. It was a hidden gem!

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KillerKiwi 7 months ago

I’m surprised Twilight wasn’t on here but honestly, the books were kind of fücked anyway. I don’t know that you could’ve made them better, but they definitely made them worse.

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Stephanie Did It 7 months ago

I picked up the first Twilight in the store and read a page to see if it was worth buying. I was stunned to see a bestseller written by a thirteen year old. Did not buy the book.

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The Doom Song 7 months ago

For me it was the 2 Percy Jackson movies. Did not follow the book at all plus the fact Percy was an older teenager. The tv show however was fantastic

3points

Marinasongs1432 7 months ago

I’m surprised wish wasn’t on there

2points

ZuriLovesYou 7 months ago

I've seen so many negative reviews for Wish. Why do people hate it so much?

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Lotekguy 7 months ago

The quiz question has always intrigued me. Remakes are invariably based on successful films and virtually doomed to disappoint. Why not revamp underachieving titles that left room for improvement? The temptation to ride the coattails of a hit must be too strong to resist.

2points

Apatheist Account2 7 months ago

Because the studios will recommission a success, and not a failure.

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Amazonia 7 months ago

Congo got a mention, but for Michael Crichton adaptations, I'm shocked nobody mentioned Timeline. The book is glorious. The movie is WTF.

2points

Stephanie Did It 7 months ago

Agree on Timeline. One of my favorite books, but the movie should be done over.

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Rae Rory 7 months ago

I think the people who watched that move blocked it from their mind.

1point

TheBlueBitterfly 7 months ago (edited)

Most of Crichton's books are very technical and go into deep delves on the science and technology. The movies gloss over so much because either it would take too long to explain, have to be dumbed down, or just wouldn't translate well. Very sad, as I really loved a lot of his books.

1point

Claire Kroll 7 months ago

PJO movies, had such good potential, but screwed up so bad

2points

Aerial (Any pronouns/Canadian/Jewish) 7 months ago

When even the author of the original material says don't watch the movies, you know you goofed it.

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MILEY MASSENGILL 7 months ago

Umm Hunger games the movies didn't even add the fact that peeta lost his leg in the first book.

1point

Joanne Earle 7 months ago

They absolutely ruined Voyage of the Dawn Treader. It was my fave of the Narnia books and I couldn't wait to see a live action version of it.....and they made so many changes that it only vaguely resembled the book. I was getting more and more angry and nearly walked out but decided to stay till the end so that I could write a scathing review on my blog.

1point

Bec 7 months ago

Dr. Strange and the Multiverse of Madness. The What If cartoon had already done a decent look at Dr. Strange. The movie failed to develop America's character. Not awful but 3/10 is pretty accurate description

1point

InfamousBerry34 7 months ago

Tropic Thunder is one for me. It has so many amazing actors all in one film, yet the plot and script is terrible.

1point

gmf 7 months ago

Gamer (2009) felt like a screenplay written for a trilogy inexpertly cut to fit a single film.

1point

Johnny 6 months ago

The only movies that should be remade are those with made a good concept but poor execution -- stop remaking movies that were already done well, just do the ones that were done poorly.

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zovjraar me 7 months ago

i just watched Outbreak for the 50th time this past weekend and wow... there are a LOT of problems with that movie. aside from all the obvious factual errors, trying to turn it from a drama to an action movie by adding a helicopter chase scene and that whole angle was weird and unnecessary.

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Cass Malone 7 months ago

So many of these movies I've never seen

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Brandon Parisien 7 months ago

Not a movie, but Wheel of Time. The central character "dies" in the 6th book...there are 14 books. The show has left the books FAR behind.

0points

Witch with a B 7 months ago

Nobody mentioned the first two(?) attempts at Dune. Especially the one with Sting!

0points

Ola Polowczyk 7 months ago

This article only confirms that I'm super easy to entertain 😂 which is okay! Also, learning to treat a book and the movie based on it as two different pieces of culture saves LOTS od frustation.

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Apatheist Account2 7 months ago

Perfect Storm. To use a Barry Norman quote about another film - absolute rubbish from start to finish. Really could have been so much better.

0points

SBocker78 7 months ago

Hail Caesar! Amazing cast, costuming and sets, but absolutely no real story. I paid a dollar for it and wanted my money back.

0points

JayWantsACat 7 months ago

Men. Beautifully shot and acted, and I loved the premise. It just didn't get there for me.

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K_Tx 7 months ago

I have not seen even one of these movies.

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Kathy O'Sherry 7 months ago

Thanks for letting us know, we were really worried.

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Dread Pirate Roberts 7 months ago

I'm honestly surprised The Purge didn't make the list.

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Myo 7 months ago

It did

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Moosy Girl 7 months ago

Now a movie with a 3/10 concept and 10/10 execution: the cabin in the woods!

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PFD 7 months ago

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DetriMentaL 7 months ago (edited)

This one deserves a damned series! I too wish to see the merman creating havoc and that sugar plum fairy is so so so pretty and disturbing (pretty disturbing)

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Sonja 7 months ago

Oh yes! So true! It was funny and campy and had great horror, but it also had a surprising depth, great acting and a shocking ending. It was a hidden gem!

2points

KillerKiwi 7 months ago

I’m surprised Twilight wasn’t on here but honestly, the books were kind of fücked anyway. I don’t know that you could’ve made them better, but they definitely made them worse.

5points

Stephanie Did It 7 months ago

I picked up the first Twilight in the store and read a page to see if it was worth buying. I was stunned to see a bestseller written by a thirteen year old. Did not buy the book.

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The Doom Song 7 months ago

For me it was the 2 Percy Jackson movies. Did not follow the book at all plus the fact Percy was an older teenager. The tv show however was fantastic

3points

Marinasongs1432 7 months ago

I’m surprised wish wasn’t on there

2points

ZuriLovesYou 7 months ago

I've seen so many negative reviews for Wish. Why do people hate it so much?

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Lotekguy 7 months ago

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Apatheist Account2 7 months ago

Because the studios will recommission a success, and not a failure.

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Amazonia 7 months ago

Congo got a mention, but for Michael Crichton adaptations, I'm shocked nobody mentioned Timeline. The book is glorious. The movie is WTF.

2points

Stephanie Did It 7 months ago

Agree on Timeline. One of my favorite books, but the movie should be done over.

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Rae Rory 7 months ago

I think the people who watched that move blocked it from their mind.

1point

TheBlueBitterfly 7 months ago (edited)

1point

Claire Kroll 7 months ago

PJO movies, had such good potential, but screwed up so bad

2points

Aerial (Any pronouns/Canadian/Jewish) 7 months ago

When even the author of the original material says don't watch the movies, you know you goofed it.

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MILEY MASSENGILL 7 months ago

Umm Hunger games the movies didn't even add the fact that peeta lost his leg in the first book.

1point

Joanne Earle 7 months ago

1point

Bec 7 months ago

1point

InfamousBerry34 7 months ago

Tropic Thunder is one for me. It has so many amazing actors all in one film, yet the plot and script is terrible.

1point

gmf 7 months ago

Gamer (2009) felt like a screenplay written for a trilogy inexpertly cut to fit a single film.

1point

Johnny 6 months ago

The only movies that should be remade are those with made a good concept but poor execution -- stop remaking movies that were already done well, just do the ones that were done poorly.

0points

zovjraar me 7 months ago

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Cass Malone 7 months ago

So many of these movies I've never seen

0points

Brandon Parisien 7 months ago

Not a movie, but Wheel of Time. The central character "dies" in the 6th book...there are 14 books. The show has left the books FAR behind.

0points

Witch with a B 7 months ago

Nobody mentioned the first two(?) attempts at Dune. Especially the one with Sting!

0points

Ola Polowczyk 7 months ago

This article only confirms that I'm super easy to entertain 😂 which is okay! Also, learning to treat a book and the movie based on it as two different pieces of culture saves LOTS od frustation.

0points

Apatheist Account2 7 months ago

Perfect Storm. To use a Barry Norman quote about another film - absolute rubbish from start to finish. Really could have been so much better.

0points

SBocker78 7 months ago

Hail Caesar! Amazing cast, costuming and sets, but absolutely no real story. I paid a dollar for it and wanted my money back.

0points

JayWantsACat 7 months ago

Men. Beautifully shot and acted, and I loved the premise. It just didn't get there for me.

0points

K_Tx 7 months ago

I have not seen even one of these movies.

0points

Kathy O'Sherry 7 months ago

Thanks for letting us know, we were really worried.

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Dread Pirate Roberts 7 months ago

I'm honestly surprised The Purge didn't make the list.

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Myo 7 months ago

It did

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