Exactly. I wasn’t expecting the best film ever. I was just hoping to at least like it, and I did. That’s all I hope for in any movie.
I am surprised by the positive comments about this film from people here.
I actually thought it was worse than what critics stated.
I would like to join the positive comments.
I don’t thing the film was that flawed.
People should read the book, then re-watch. It may clarify.
Fair enough, everyone has a right to their own opinion.
Those were just my thoughts on it.
I don’t think it’s so much that people hated it but that the film was overhyped. So expectations were so high that they were disapointed.
But disappointment, while devastating to your enjoyment, does not make the film any less good. The same thing happened with Brave, but oddly it was a success! Weird.
Not really. A lot of how you feel about a movie depends on expectations. We learned in film appreciation that film is an expectations game. And how you feel about the movie after you see it, largely depends on how you felt before you saw it.
The movie was over-hyped? Not to question it, it’s just that I thought there was not very much hype for it. Unfortunately, even though a lot of the elements of the story were original in the book’s time, they had already been done in other films before this one came out. My impression was that it did not get very much promotion, but from what you did see, it kind of looked a couple of cliches in this new film. Of course, they weren’t cliches since they were supposedly the book’s original concepts, but it was all in the timing to me.
By the way, sorry if I brought up discussion at a random time a few posts back. It’s just that I barely watched the film a few days ago and wanted to share my thoughts! 
I agree with this.
I think this is true, the only difference in my view being that sometimes I don’t think general audiences have expectations so much as they have basic thoughts. Ideas of what they think a movie will be.
And I’m not accusing anyone of doing what I’m about to say, but I think that the more focused someone’s expectations are, (perhaps) that’s less likely to enjoy a film you’re just curious about. Like, perhaps that could mean “expecting” people (sort of like some critics) have a mental notepad in their head and analyze a film while they watch it, making a checklist of story/film structure in their mind: they got this part - check, they missed that part - miss – and that might determine their enjoyment of it, maybe without them even realizing it. Whereas some people might just follow what’s actually in the film as they watch it - given they have their own earlier thoughts based on trailers or things they’ve seen so far. I belong in the latter case where I don’t really develop an opinion as I watch a film exactly…I just watch it and enjoy things, think about it when it’s over, and then I have an opinion on it. I’m also willing to change that opinion if I want to have future re-viewings.
Sorry if that was confusing…I was thinking about this for a while now and finally thought of a way to say it, possibly.
I’d rather enjoy a movie(or not) for what it does have rather than be upset about elements I think it should have had. After all, it is the director’s vision, not ours. Besides, I think disappointment still doesn’t lessen the objective quality of a movie. This one isn’t a masterpiece, but it’s not Plan 9 From Outer Space either. 
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That’s sort of what I think too (above), even though I said it confusingly.
Sorry I missed that, I just skimmed your post as, like you said, I kind of got lost in it.
Don’t worry, it’s my fault. I basically just wanted to show that I agree. I just didn’t know how else to say that long thing 
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Disney was expecting it to be the next Pirates, and the marketing reflected this.