“The Master” was unwatchable.
“Zero Dark Thirty” was a huge disappointment.
“Gangster Squad” sucked big time.
“Anna Karenina” was literally impossible to sit through.
I haven’t seen any of those. They must not have been overhyped enough to cause me to watch them.
That was a major disappointment. So much talent on screen but so little point.
Paul Michael Thomas took a lot of risks with There Will Be Blood, and they more or less paid off, probably because Daniel Day-Lewis carried the movie over the awkward, hard to figure out spots. He took all the same gambles with The Master but they failed miserably.
FWIW, The Thin Red Line was another big disappointment. Hollywood waited twenty years for another movie from Terrence Malick and all they got was almost three hours of maunderings and meanderings in the jungle. I suspect he got so into voice-over narration in his earlier movies Badlands and Days of Heaven that he just couldn't resist overusing it to no point in the later movie.