People Are Sharing Movies That Had A 10/10 Concept, But A 3/10 Execution, And Valid Points Are Being Made

"I've never felt so cheated by a movie. I couldn't wait till it ended."

We've all experienced watching a film that had A LOT of potential going in, but then totally failed to deliver on it. So when Reddit user u/Marambal17 asked the Reddit community: "What movie had a 10/10 concept and a 3/10 execution?" Well, a lot of folks chimed in!

Here are some of the best responses...

1. Don't Worry Darling

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What it's about: A woman living a seemingly ideal existence in middle America begins to wonder if she is actually in control of her picture-perfect life.

Warner Bros. Pictures

"I think the concept was great, the aesthetics were lovely, and 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."

–u/cutie_rootie

"Harry Styles should not have been cast."

–u/shreKINGball11

"It was almost cruel putting him on stage with Ms. Flo. She outclassed him so much."

–u/Daddict

2. Jupiter Ascending

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What it's about: A young woman discovers her destiny as an heiress of intergalactic nobility, and must fight to protect the inhabitants of Earth from an ancient and destructive entity.

Warner Bros. Pictures

"It seemed like a pretty great concept, but that movie was just awful. I think it could've made a fantastic Netflix/HBO series."

–u/SpreadEagle48

"I was laughing my ass off every second Eddie Redmayne was on screen. The way he was either whispering or screaming was hilariously bad."

–u/Snurrepiperier

"Wachowskis – Eddie, we need you to either over or under-act to make your character memorable. Which do you want to do?

Eddie: Yes."

–u/Eode11

3. Downsizing

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What it's about: A social satire in which a man realises he would have a better life if he were to shrink himself to five inches tall, allowing him to live in wealth and splendour.

Paramount Pictures

"Great idea, terrible after about 30 minutes. I've never seen a movie plot change so drastically."

–u/dachshundaholic

"The fact that they were small didn't even affect the last two thirds of the movie."

–u/pinky997

4. 65

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What it's about: An astronaut crash lands on a mysterious planet only to discover he's not alone.

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

–u/DawnofDismay

5. After Earth

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What it's about: A crash landing leaves a boy and his father stranded on Earth, a millennium after events forced humanity's escape. With his father injured, the boy must embark on a perilous journey to signal for help.

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"I remember being excited about After Earth – it sounded like an awesome idea. And then everybody said it was the worst thing ever."

–u/writerpathologist

"I love the mix of post-apocalypse and sci-fi, it's fantastic, but man... It should not have starred Jaden Smith. Dude cannot act."

–u/dannywarbucks11

6. Eragon

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What it's about: In his homeland of Alagaesia, a farm boy happens upon a dragon's egg. The discovery leads him on a predestined journey where he realises he's the one person who can defend his home against an evil king.

20th Century Fox

"All they had to do was follow the damn books."

–u/JackCooper_7274

"It's a crime against humanity, and the producers should have gone on trial."

–u/Buerostuhl_42

7. Brightburn

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What it's about: What if a child from another world crash-landed on Earth, but instead of becoming a hero to mankind, he proved to be something far more sinister?

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"Way short of the cult classic it could have been."

–u/Bribase

"It just feels like it's missing something, it's such a slight watch. Does it deliver what it promised, an evil Superman? Yes. Could it have been much, much more? Also yes."

–u/Airbender7575

8. In Time

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What it's about: In a dystopian future, people stop ageing at 25 and are engineered to live only one more year, unless they accumulate more time. Society, therefore, begins using one's lifespan as its primary currency.

20th Century Fox

"Great concept, rushed script."

–u/jo-shabadoo

"I feel like this movie would've been better served as a 7-8 episode mini-series. They could've fleshed out the environment, added a couple of additional side characters, and made way for more screen time for Cillian Murphy."

–u/Slowest-Loris

"Great idea for a political commentary on class warfare, but it ended up coming across as a first draft."

–u/PirateJohn75

9. Jurassic World Dominion

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What it's about: Four years after the destruction of Isla Nublar, Biosyn operatives attempt to track down Maisie Lockwood. Meanwhile, Dr. Ellie Sattler investigates a genetically engineered swarm of giant insects.

Universal Pictures

"Dinosaurs have to co-exist with humans... Will they survive? Eh, who cares! Let's talk about LOCUSTS."

–u/Remote_Pizza_9758

"I watched it recently and was so disappointed. Fucking wasted that trio's reunion on fucking locusts."

–u/SeagullsSarah

"I've never felt so cheated by a movie. I couldn't wait till it ended."

–u/nirvroxx

10. Cowboys & Aliens

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What it's about: 1873. A spaceship arrives in Arizona to take over the Earth, starting with the Wild West region. A posse of cowboys and natives are all that stand in their way.

Universal Pictures

"Better than 3/10 in my book, but yeah, great concept and not so great execution. Someone should try again."

–u/T-MinusGiraffe

"I forgot I even saw that movie; I watched it on an airplane. Promised overturn-the-toybox fun, delivered pure mediocrity."

–u/Schneetmacher

11. Bright

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What it's about: A detective must work with an orc to find a powerful wand before evil creatures do.

Netflix

"Conceptually, it sounded amazing, and my friends and I were excited to watch this new Netflix offering. Turns out it was a movie and not a TV show. There was so much potential for fascinating world-building that simply could not be done in two hours."

–u/sheogorath227

"The racism analogy that the film is kinda built around is super clumsy: they pose the question 'what if Black people orcs were discriminated against because people thought they were violent and aggressive?'

Then they made the Black people orcs have a genuinely in-built, racial disposition of violence and aggression. This includes a historic, genocidal war that kinda does justify persecution, and them having a culture built around violence and xenophobia."

–u/Nurhaci1616

12. Suicide Squad

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What it's about: A secret government agency recruits some of the most dangerous incarcerated super-villains to form a defensive task force. Their first mission – save the world from the apocalypse.

Warner Bros. Pictures

"Great concept, but the execution was like letting Joker design your prison tattoo."

–u/2012fomin

"Enchantress was such a weird choice of worst villain to use. There are so many great mid-level villains for them to fight."

–u/Apellosine

"I believe an ENORMOUS portion of the disappointment is related to the fact that the filming occurred very near to the public realisation that Jared Leto is a tremendous piece of shit. I believe it also affected his performance. It should have, presumably."

–u/youdubdub

13. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

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What it's about: In an alternate Victorian Age world, a group of famous contemporary fantasy, science fiction, and adventure characters team up on a secret mission.

20th Century Fox

"Sean Connery's talents were such a waste. It had such a lacklustre script! I'd love to see this be remade."

–u/Young_Old_Grandma

"I remember being psyched to see this when it came out, followed swiftly by disappointment."

–u/Schneetmacher

14. Hancock

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What it's about: Hancock is a superhero whose poor behaviour regularly causes damage in the millions. That is until a person he saves helps him improve his public image.

Sony Pictures Releasing

"It had two good concepts combined into one bad movie."

–u/AliJoof

"I loved the hobo drunk superman idea; the weird stuff with Charlize Theron lost me though."

–u/Wisdomlost

15. The Purge movies

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What it's about: A wealthy family is held hostage for harboring the target of a murderous syndicate during The Purge – a 12-hour period in which any and all crime is legal.

Universal Pictures

"Great concept, but why focus only on murder? If purge day happened in real life, I doubt murder would be the number one crime. I imagine most crimes would be burglary or sexual related."

–u/so_whaat

"Tbh, the Rick and Morty purge episode was better."

–u/GeeISuppose

"The whole concept doesn't even hold up. Okay, so it's legal to commit all sorts of crimes on purge night, but doing so is probably going to have societal consequences once the purge is over."

–u/WaluigisFacialHair

16. Ender's Game

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What it's about: Young Ender Wiggin is recruited by the International Military to lead the fight against the Formics, an insectoid alien race who had previously tried to invade Earth.

Lionsgate

"I loved the book as a kid, but I absolutely hated the movie."

–u/WrenchFan

"Fantastic source material, garbage execution. Wish someone (looking at you, Nolan) would do it again and make it good. Even a show would work well."

–u/madhaxor

17. The Last Airbender

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What it's about: We follow the adventures of Aang, a young successor to a long line of Avatars, who must master all four elements and stop the Fire Nation from enslaving the Water Tribes and the Earth Kingdom.

Paramount Pictures

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

–u/regretoni

"Went to the midnight premiere dressed as a Kyoshi Warrior only for there to be none in the entire movie."

–u/eightdollarbeer

18. Prometheus

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What it's about: Following clues to the origin of mankind, a team finds a structure on a distant moon, but they soon realize they are not alone.

20th Century Fox

"The idea of exploring extra-terrestrial space and humanity's origin was brilliant, but the execution fell flat."

–u/6UadamspAO

"Let's assemble a crack team of scientists to explore a distant planet.... Oh wait, they're all idiots."

–u/thecarbonkid

"Not just idiots. They're idiots who hate their careers! Imagine arriving at an ancient extrasolar planet which contains the key to the origin of life itself, and nobody seems into it."

–u/Bribase

19. The Maze Runner film series

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What it's about: A young man finds himself thrust into a community who are all trapped in a maze. To escape, he must join forces with his fellow "runners".

20th Century Fox

"Absolutely terrible execution, despite an amazing concept and book. The movies changed plot points and characters drastically, and made them so dull. I think if they made a TV series and didn't cut so many corners or change so much, it could work."

–u/LucarnAnderson

"The movies are like 'oh, it's a dystopian future where everyone is in maz–NO. It's a hellscape desert nuclear winter earth where everything suc–NO. It's a rescue sequence in a high rise capitalistic city while the renegades try to make it on their own."

–u/ry_fluttershy

20. The Island

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What it's about: A man living in a futuristic sterile colony begins to question his existence when his friend is chosen to go to The Island, the last uncontaminated place on earth.

Warner Bros. Pictures

"It had a great premise, and could've been good if it was in the sci-fi horror genre instead. They should've focused on the mystery of The Island, and slowly revealed the truth about it. Instead, we got a 3/10 movie filled with car chases and explosions."

–u/rednryt

"The first half was cool, then it turned into a Bonnie & Clyde getaway chase movie."

–u/biggaybrian

21. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

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What it's about: Scott Lang and Hope Van Dyne are dragged into the Quantum Realm, along with Hope's parents and Scott's daughter Cassie. Together they must find a way to escape, but what secrets is Hope's mother hiding? And who is the mysterious Kang?

Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

"It had the potential to be an absolutely genre-changing movie IF they utilised the every part to its full potential – Kang as a character, the quantum realm as a concept, the family dynamic of the Langs/ Pyms. Instead, it came out like a burnt pizza, so much potential wasted to the point of it barely being serviceable at all."

–u/ryan_the_traplord

"Every time MODOK came on screen I was crying laughing 😂."

–u/Cummyshitballs

22. And finally, Passengers

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What it's about: A malfunction in a sleeping pod on a spacecraft traveling to a distant colony planet wakes one passenger 90 years early.

Sony Pictures Releasing

"I thought Pratt and Lawrence did an excellent job. Pratt was very good in the first act at selling the anguish about knowing waking up a passenger was wrong, but also being lonely. Lawrence was brilliant in the second act when she realised what he'd done. Whoever wrote the third act should be fired out of an airlock."

–u/munificent

"I always thought Passengers would've been a much better movie if it was revealed that Chris Pratt's character had woken up Jennifer Lawrence's character at the end as a twist."

–u/Bfife22

"Chris Pratt's character should've died in space. It would've been a way more interesting and poetically ironic ending, as now Jennifer Lawrence's character would have to live alone, and understand why Pratt's character did what he did."

–u/bedrockpanda45

Do you agree with these choices? Have we missed anything off this list? Let us know in the comments below!