Asklemmy

Not a film, but a novel:

Starflight 3000 by R.W. Mackelworth

If I remember, it was about this asteroid called "The Biosphere" that got hollowed out and sent on relativistic speeds through deep space to seed other solar systems with human colonies. The inside of it was set up like a giant rural town with massive skies, and a foot print the size of New York. And that's a cool ass premise.

But the book was so fucking milquetoast and bland. I could not tell you anything about the protagonist, their challenges, or anything.

Equilibrium

Mortal Engines

Downsizing

First 20 minutes (give or take) seemed like a solid start. But then they did absolutely nothing with the concept.

Mortal Kombat (2021) opened with a great "feudal China with elemental magic" clan story that could have been an amazing movie, but then they jumped forward in time and everything after that was a let down.

The ideas behind They Live are fascinating and deserved better treatment than a 20-minute alley fight about sunglasses.

Lucy

It’s entertaining as all hell. It doesn’t pretend to be anything more, so I don’t understand the hate it gets. Just turn off your brain, and have some fun. It’s not supposed to be hard sci-fi.

Jurassic World. Just give me 90 minutes of dino mutants fighting, I don't give a shit about Chris Pratt nor some random kids.

The original Purge. I thought all the background stuff and setting were super interesting, but the film itself was a generic home invasion movie. The sequel expanded on all the stuff I was interested in, though.

CATS

Cats is not a complicated musical. All they had to do was animate it and get actual voice actors/singers. I've seen sketches for what I think was a Tim Burton sketch, and that would have been a million times better. I don't know who looked at Cat's and was like, "Yup, we need CGI." It looks horrendous and sounds bad more often than not. The musical is already pretty out there, how much more fun would that movie had been if we had animators working on it. The creative visuals, colors, motifs. Not to mention a cat is a wonderfully complex animal to animate just because of how they move. That movie could have been a visual delight in part with the Spiderman movies if they let it, but noooooo. Let's make a nightmare.

Cabin in the woods