Movies you thought that were going to be awesome but ended up being AWFUL

[Andrew NDB]

Let's see...

"Star Wars: The Force Awakens." DEEPLY disappointed. I'd dreamed about a sequel trilogy for decades and this is what they do? An ANH remake? Inexcusable.

I was disappointed with Prometheus but not as much as I was devastated by "Alien: Covenant." I thought Ridley would have been able to lick his wounds after Prometheus and right the ship instead of doubling down on everything that was BAD in Prometheus.

"The Predator." Just sad. Pretty horrible, largely the fault of the studio forcing 1/3 of the movie to be reshot. I don't even know if we can blame Shane Black. The man hasn't said even one word about the movie since it came out. After watching "Alien: Covenant" snuff out the Alien franchise I really was hoping this would be a win. It wasn't.

"Iron Man 3." This one I do blame Shane Black for, for the most part. BAD movie that I was looking forward to seeing, following the same bad choices in Iron Man 2. I still want the movie that was promised in this trailer, not some "subvert your expectations" Iron Man 2 do-over:

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"Matrix Reloaded." BAD! Like between "Revolutions" and "Reloaded" they had about one movie's worth of anything, barely, so this one didn't feel like much of anything. Whole characters and storylines end up being pointless.

"Machete Kills." First one was awesome until it maybe got a little too crazy at the end. This sequel was BAD, through and through.

"Austin Powers 3: Goldmember." I enjoyed part 1 and REALLY enjoyed part 2, so I was pretty shocked to see how HORRID this was. Every joke fell flat to me, every bit of humor forced.

"Neverending Story 2." I swore by part 1 and couldn't wait to see part 2. Ghastly!

"Lawnmower Man 2." Same story! Super looking forward to part 2, super aghast at how bad and far off the mark they could get. It's pretty amazing, really.

"Highlander: The Source. To say I was expecting it to be "awesome" might not be true, but I was at least expecting something... decent. Or at least passable. Nope, what they delivered was a straight-up cinematic throat-slice.

[CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy]

Definitely agree with you on Iron Man 3. I can't think of another movie that I was that hyped for and that disappointed by. That's when I learned "huh, awesome trailers don't automatically equal awesome movie, even if the previous movies were decent."

[Andrew NDB]

Definitely agree with you on Iron Man 3. I can't think of another movie that I was that hyped for and that disappointed by. That's when I learned "huh, awesome trailers don't automatically equal awesome movie, even if the previous movies were decent."

Yeah, I'd never encountered that level of trickery and deception in marketing until then, or since.

I mean, you can point to things like Marvel deceptively inserting Hulk into the "Avengers: Infinity War" trailer... but the final movie is still the movie I was expecting. Iron Man 3, I was expecting literally a whole other movie.

[Autbot_Benz]

Justice League. Trailers looked so good but final product was Ass.

The Dark Knight Rises looked good but Movie was just bland and really boring. Also Bane's voice was really silly.

[CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy]

Yeah, I'd never encountered that level of trickery and deception in marketing until then, or since.

I mean, you can point to things like Marvel deceptively inserting Hulk into the "Avengers: Infinity War" trailer... but the final movie is still the movie I was expecting. Iron Man 3, I was expecting literally a whole other movie.

Exactly! It still baffles me that so many people claim to like that movie.

[snake]

Iron Man 3 is a huge one, but my biggest are probably the Disney Star Wars Sequels. Awful, awful sh*t.

[Redeemer]

The Dark Knight Rises looked good but Movie was just bland and really boring. Also Bane's voice was really silly.

Those are fighting words!!!!!!!

:x:x:x:x

:lol:

[Andrew NDB]

Iron Man 3 is a huge one, but my biggest are probably the Disney Star Wars Sequels. Awful, awful sh*t.

But expectations were pretty well killed with TFA, weren't they? Were a lot of people walking into TLJ, RO, or Solo after that honestly expecting an "awesome" movie?

[CyberCubed]

I don't know, a lot of movies than turned out to be bad/lackluster I kinda had a feeling they wouldn't be good before they released so I can't say I was ever surprised by how bad a movie turned out. Like of course when a new movie is announced everyone has high hopes and wants it to be good, but as we get along to trailers and then interviews and casting and everything, it becomes obvious how a movie is going to go.

[Prowler]

Not that I thought it was going to be awesome exactly, but...

Lost in translation disappointed me severely. It's a loved movie by a lot of people, therefore I was expecting it to be at least a solid movie, but it bored me to death. Ok, ScarJo is hot and Bill Murray is awesome, but the movie just bored me. Not saying it was AWFUL, but it wasn't that good, imo.

[CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy]

Those are fighting words!!!!!!!

:x:x:x:x

:lol:

I don't even bother defending Dark Knight Rises anymore. It was good enough for me. If people wanna prefer Batman 89 or "I'mma fvcking KILL this Kryptonian" Batman from BvS, be my guest. :tlol:

[neatoman]

Oh, this is hard. There are examples of movies thought were going to be bad but ended up being worse than I expected, there are also movies I though were going to be good but just kind of felt meh. It has happened, I just don't think my reaction have been that negative. I'll just list off some examples, not necessarily "awful" but certianly less than I expected.


Spider-Man 1977, This is probably the closest to a movie being way worse than I thought it would be. I thought it was going to try and get around the budget in some clever way but the only thing that can ever be called exciting is a fight scene with some kendo guys, the plot is the most boring thing ever. It's also the only Spider-Man adaptation I know of that skips uncle Ben, Pete just becomes Spider-Man right after getting his powers. I know some might not think it's "technically" a movie given that it was made for TV, but not me.
Speaking of Spider-Man, Amazing 2. Nobody likes Amazing 2, not that the first was good but still.
X-Men Origins Wolverine, really more of a "thought it was going to be a bit over mediocre" rather than "good" but yeah. Worst movie in the franchise, there's no way Dark Phoenix can be worse (I hope).
All the Disney era Star Wars movies. I know Last Jedi gets the most and I get why, it just bothers me the least because I see that it intentionally trolls people and it's so far the only one that does something other than feed us member berries (though it still does that).
Alita was a lot more bizarrely structured than I expected based on people's reaction, so I went ahead and watched the anime. I'm honestly surprised the anime has a fanbase, it's so obviously unfinished and what little was produced is such an empty pile of nothing. Is this a rare example of a manga being more popular than it's anime adaptation? That's pretty much the only reason I can think of for there being a fanbase.
I recently rewatched Aladdin, it's actually worse than I remember. It has a breakneck pace and is full of CGI that meshes far worse with the traditional animation than in the Great Mouse Detective, six years prior. It's not "bad" but it probably is much worse than what people remember.
Man of Steel seemed like it was going to be a fairly refreshing take on Superman but it was just... depressing to watch.
Most of the Dragon Ball movies are not good. I thought they were going to be better than I thought but between pretending they can somehow fit into the canon and refusing to allow character development, they really suck. The only ones I can honestly reccommend are Path to Power, Battle of Gods, Resurrection F, Super Broly and maybe Wrath of the Dragon. Other than that, they're a curiosity for fans, at best.
Akira is probably the best example of a praised movie to have an almost incomprehensive story. It makes sense after you read the manga and realise how compressed it is and the animation is still great, it's just that it's completely bonkers otherwise.

[Wesley]

Avengers: Age of Ultron. Didn’t like it at all. I might change my mind on a subsequent rewatch, though.

[neatoman]

Avengers: Age of Ultron. Didn’t like it at all. I might change my mind on a subsequent rewatch, though.

Yeah that kinda sucked too.

[Andrew NDB]

Avengers: Age of Ultron. Didn’t like it at all. I might change my mind on a subsequent rewatch, though.

It was oh-kay... definitely a misfire in terms of expectations, though, but I certainly didn't watch it and go, "Man, that sucked!" remotely.

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

Interstellar. I thought it was going to be about the first interstellar flight from Earth to a distant planet and the adventures there (only), and no stupid black hole time travel.

[Andrew NDB]

I thought it was going to be about the first interstellar flight from Earth to a distant planet

It was about that. You even got 3 distant planets for the price of 1.

[Leo656]

I didn't think "The Last Jedi" would be GREAT but I definitely didn't expect it to raise my blood pressure anywhere near as bad as it did.

Likewise, I didn't think "Street Fighter: Legend of Chun-Li" would be fantastic, but I thought that mathematically it HAD to be better than the Van Damme movie. Instead, not only did it make the Van Damme movie look like a masterpiece, it turned out to be one of the all-time worst... THINGS that I've ever seen, rivalled only by "Ghostbusters: Answer The Call".

This one is tough because I generally keep my expectations in the middle.

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

It was about that. You even got 3 distant planets.

It should stay there.

[Redeemer]

I don't even bother defending Dark Knight Rises anymore. It was good enough for me. If people wanna prefer Batman 89 or "I'mma fvcking KILL this Kryptonian" Batman from BvS, be my guest. :tlol:

Where there is ignorance I will be there to fight it!!!! :lol:
I love the movie, but I think most people just wanted Dark Knight 2, unfortunately Heath Ledger......:cry:........Yeah......

Avengers: Age of Ultron. Didn’t like it at all. I might change my mind on a subsequent rewatch, though.

I had such high hopes for that movie and it was the biggest let down ever....... It did make me enjoy infinity war that much more though.


Speaking of Spider-Man, Amazing 2. Nobody likes Amazing 2, not that the first was good but still.
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If this movie is on your list, then Sam Rami's **** master piece "Spider-man 3" needs to be at the top. :lol: That movie is the most garbage super-movie I have ever seen.

I actually like Amazing Spider-man 2. I wish they didn't cut the ending out with Peter meeting his dad. The Gwen Stacey death scene is the best movie scene of any Spider-man movie. That movie does not deserve the hate it gets, it it a an amazing movie? No, but I believe that movie is far superior than Spider-man 3, its about on par with the original Spider-man movie.

[Leo656]

I've often said that somewhere in between the first Raimi film and the first "Amazing" film is the "perfect" Spider-Man movie. I think "Amazing" is fine, its biggest sin is merely coming out "too soon" after the previous trilogy, but in a vacuum it's Perfectly Fine. Except for the pointless origin changes, but again, "too soon" so they had no choice. I didn't like the changes but they were forced upon them by "Corporate", so I mostly forgive them.

Amazing 2 had some good moments in what was ultimately a very bloated and meandering affair with far too many competing subplots, each of which could have been its own film. Far from the worst CBM I've ever seen, and not as bad as its reputation, but it definitely needed to reign in some of those creative choices. Electro, for example, was... creative, but ultimately terrible. But the film does have its moments.

[oldmanwinters]

Likewise, I didn't think "Street Fighter: Legend of Chun-Li" would be fantastic, but I thought that mathematically it HAD to be better than the Van Damme movie. Instead, not only did it make the Van Damme movie look like a masterpiece, it turned out to be one of the all-time worst... THINGS that I've ever seen, rivalled only by "Ghostbusters: Answer The Call".

Hoo-yeah, I picked that Chun-Li feature up on DVD at a pawn shop, and hoped to be pleasantly entertained. But things got so weird in that movie.

[Leo656]

I just... I want something bad to happen to every single person involved in it. They deserve it.

IT'S SO F*CKING TERRIBLE!!!

Like HOW the... I mean who could possibly... WHY, would anyone.... how could anyone on this EARTH even... just... just... COME ON!!! WHAT THE F*CK?!?!?

Every single review of that goddamn movie should just be a close-up shot of someone giving the finger. Words cannot describe.

[drgon78]

Iron Man 3, so disappointing.

The Matrix sequels, so horrible.

Every Stars movie made after the original trilogy.

Alien 3, killed the franchise, never recovered.

Mortal Kombat 2.

[Leo656]

I used to totally hate "Mortal Kombat: Annihilation".

...Then I saw "Legend of Chun-Li" and realized that a whole other level of "Suck" existed far beneath and beyond anything I'd ever dreamed of. Turns out the barrel had a false bottom! "There's MORE garbage, way down here!"

MK:A is terrible. But oh, man. It's at least "expectantly terrible". Possibly even "Understandably terrible".

I think "Chun-Li" is some sort of suicide cult's Doomsday Weapon. "We need to trick more people into committing mass suicide." "Have you tried giving 'em THIS?" It's the only thing that makes any sense.

[sdp]

Star Wars 7, Matrix Revolutions, Iron Man 3

All 3 were franchise killers for me.

[CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy]

Star Wars 7, Matrix Revolutions, Iron Man 3

All 3 were franchise killers for me.

But does Iron Man 3 even count as a franchise killer when they stopped at three?

Same for Revolutions?

Or do you mean it retroactively made the previous movies worse just by existing? :tlol:

[sdp]

But does Iron Man 3 even count as a franchise killer when they stopped at three?

Same for Revolutions?

Or do you mean it retroactively made the previous movies worse just by existing? :tlol:

I mean they killed my interest in the properties. I was a huge fan of Star Wars, The Matrix and the MCU and after those movies I just didn't care.

I'm sure i'll watch and enjoy the MCU one day but I stopped going to the movie theater after Iron Man 3. I was able to revive my interest of the Matrix a few years ago when watching the original film again, but yeah the third movie kills it, the second one can be salvaged. Star Wars I wanted an Episode VII since I was a kid and before the prequels existed and we got a ****ing remake, that one hurt the most I think, I'm not sure if that one can ever be salvaged, I'll always love the OT.

[Andrew NDB]

Aw, really? I'd take Spider-Man 3 over either of the "Amazing" ones by far. The good parts in 3 are so much more better and earned than anything in either of those, no matter how much was rushed or truncated in 3.

And really? Matrix Revolutions is worse than Reloaded? How? Stuff actually happens in that. Nothing happens in Reloaded.

[sdp]

And really? Matrix Revolutions is worse than Reloaded? How? Stuff actually happens in that. Nothing happens in Reloaded.

Reloaded by itself is underwhelming but didn't disappoint too much, it did a lot of world building, introduced cool characters and set up a huge mystery and cliffhanger. It wasn't a very strong movie but it set up a third movie that had a lot to answer to make up for Reloaded. Revolutions was just a generic humans vs machine movie fort he most part, all the world building in Reloaded was for the most part ignored and gave unsatisfying answers to the mysteries. Revolutions retroactively made reloaded worse since you knew all that happened there was for nothing.

[Wildcat]

I really don’t know. I’ve seen some really bad movies but typically they’re not mainstream or even Highend DTV. I’m talking those really low budget ones with very cheap production and unintentionally funny acting.

I genuinely want to know why those people make them when they have nowhere near the resources for it. Some have interesting ideas but end up ridiculous.

One reason why I hate when people trash mainstream movies. Even though they’re not always great they’re at least passable, mostly. People take decent acting and proper production values for granted.

Legend of Chun-Li is not a good movie but it’s watchable once because it was “made properly”. If that makes sense. Plus Kristin Kreuk :D Don’t blame her for it being a dumb movie. A lot of actors have made dumb movies.

I loved MK:A. Don’t care if I’m in a minority. It’s cheesy but it’s game accurate. I give credit for that.

[Leo656]

MK:A may as well have been called, "Hey look! It's ______!"

Less of a "movie", more a game of "Let's cram in as many two-second cameos for every single game character as we possibly can."

I mean, none of them DO anything, and every single actor would be kicked out of even the most no-budget community theater group... But hey, they got 'em in there, kinda!

It's amazing that an actual (sort of) fan-film web series boasts infinity greater fidelity and craftsmanship than an actual Hollywood production. But then again not really.

[neatoman]

If this movie is on your list, then Sam Rami's **** master piece "Spider-man 3" needs to be at the top. :lol: That movie is the most garbage super-movie I have ever seen.

I actually like Amazing Spider-man 2. I wish they didn't cut the ending out with Peter meeting his dad. The Gwen Stacey death scene is the best movie scene of any Spider-man movie. That movie does not deserve the hate it gets, it it a an amazing movie? No, but I believe that movie is far superior than Spider-man 3, its about on par with the original Spider-man movie.

Aw, really? I'd take Spider-Man 3 over either of the "Amazing" ones by far. The good parts in 3 are so much more better and earned than anything in either of those, no matter how much was rushed or truncated in 3.

Well Spider-Man 3 has gotten worse for me every time I watched it but there was never any initial "This will be great... Oh no, it sucks!" moment. I was like 14 when that movie came out and back then I still naive enough to not really see the flaws quite as well.

[Andrew NDB]

MK:A may as well have been called, "Hey look! It's ______!"

Less of a "movie", more a game of "Let's cram in as many two-second cameos for every single game character as we possibly can."

I mean, none of them DO anything, and every single actor would be kicked out of even the most no-budget community theater group... But hey, they got 'em in there, kinda!

It's amazing that an actual (sort of) fan-film web series boasts infinity greater fidelity and craftsmanship than an actual Hollywood production. But then again not really.

MK:A is probably on my top 5 worst films of all time list. Concentrated sh**.

[ZariusTwo]

65% of MCU movies are this for me.

[neatoman]

65% of MCU movies are this for me.

Then stop watching.

[Prowler]

Aw, really? I'd take Spider-Man 3 over either of the "Amazing" ones by far. The good parts in 3 are so much more better and earned than anything in either of those, no matter how much was rushed or truncated in 3.

And really? Matrix Revolutions is worse than Reloaded? How? Stuff actually happens in that. Nothing happens in Reloaded.

I liked the Spider-man movies with Toby Maguire and James Franco when I was a kid tbh. I never watched the 3rd one, though. Supposedly that's the one that gets the most criticism of the trilogy?

[Wildcat]

MK:A may as well have been called, "Hey look! It's ______!"

Less of a "movie", more a game of "Let's cram in as many two-second cameos for every single game character as we possibly can."

I mean, none of them DO anything, and every single actor would be kicked out of even the most no-budget community theater group... But hey, they got 'em in there, kinda!

It's amazing that an actual (sort of) fan-film web series boasts infinity greater fidelity and craftsmanship than an actual Hollywood production. But then again not really.Well by then the games had a lot of characters. Some of them were part of Shao Kahn’s gang. It was about him opening the portals and breaking the tournament rules anyway.

They fit ok considering the storyline imo. They got their point across.

[Leo656]

Was "The Point", "In the games, Shao Khan is an invincible bad-ass, and in this movie, he's a Huge Pussy who looks like Dollar-Store Billy Zane?" And why the HELL won't he keep his goddamn mask on?

I think the "point" was, "We can't even afford Christopher Lambert. Christopher Lambert relented to do 'Highlander 2: The Quickening', but couldn't be assed to do THIS movie. Which means this movie probably isn't very good. Because our previous Big Star genuinely thought 'Highlander 2' was a better career move than being in THIS goddamn thing."

If the second MK movie had a more specific "point" - or at least a more easily proven one - I'd like to know what it is.

[Wildcat]

I don’t know the bios for every character but I’m pretty sure it’s not Shao Kahn vs Everybody. Some are actually on his side. The evil ones anyway.

Of course every character gets a specific ending in the games but it don’t how that’d fit in a movie. It’s still quite close to MK3.

Every character could not get a huge role. They’re either there to help the Earth Warriors or stop them.

They pick a fight with each other until they get to Shao Kahn...basically like the tower matches. I don’t know what you want me to say. Sure it’s cheesy and could be done better now.

[Leo656]

The fact that "DOA: Dead Or Alive" was equally "limited" and yet still somehow made out for a much better movie - while in itself still kinda being junk, albeit Faithful and Respectful To The Video Game Junk - sort of makes it a moot point.

No forgiveness for the lack of Hitomi, though. That's my guuuuuuurrrrrrrl, dawg.

Otherwise, yeah, "DOA" > "MK: Annihilation", all day. Which really speaks quite poorly of the latter. For one thing, MK:A has a noticeable and unforgivable lack of Kevin Nash, while DOA has an entire scene where Kevin Nash's character thinks he's just walked in on his hot "daughter" - played by the incomparable Jamie Pressley - having lesbian sex, and tries to have a conversation with her about it. Comedy!

See, THAT's how you make an entertaining "This movie's a piece of sh*t but whatever, let's go for it" kinda movie. You don't take Shao Khan's mask off. You CAN, occasionally, give Kevin Nash terrible hair extensions. But only because his personality overshadows it. Nash!

Two movies based on fighting games. One of them has Flea Market Raiden, the other has Super-Shredder doing bad Hulk Hogan cosplay. I think we know who the winner is THERE.

I will say, you are the Very First Person who I've ever seen try and defend MK:A. So I applaud you for being a trailblazer. I don't think I want to subscribe to your newsletter, but it's obvious that Consensus doesn't concern you, and I suppose that is commendable. :tgrin:

[ProactiveMan]

Spawn. I was pumped when I saw the trailer, then it turned out to be a glorified direct-to-video movie. I thought it sucked at the time, and that's saying something because I was way less discerning in those days. I read that ILM were involved, so I figured the special effects would be awesome... some of them look pretty good, some of them look like Hercules the Legendary Journeys, and some look like an FMV from a Playstation game.

Another would be Van Helsing. I wanted it to work so bad that I wasn't even positive that it sucked until seeing it a second time.

I guess Godzilla ( 1998 ) also fits the bill. It was hard not to get swept up by the marketing machine, but I knew it was poo-poo about twenty minutes in.

[Wildcat]

Leo656, Flea Market Raiden made me laugh but James Remar was alright. He’s a regular actor.

I’ve never seen the DOA movie. I want to but I’ve only played a bit of the games a long time ago though. Should probably beat a couple before getting into the movie.

[Leo656]

I don't think a whoooole lot of "research" is required to "prepare" oneself for the DOA movie. :lol: I think ten minutes on YouTube would suffice. And then the movie is Exactly That. They even managed to squeeze Beach Volleyball in there, because of COURSE they f*ckin' did. Not getting Dennis Rodman to play Zack was tragic, but to be fair, that movie's entire budget was probably like, $500 and they easily spent half of that on bikinis.

The rest went to stomach medicine because every single one of them caught food poisoning during the shoot, which made the entire One Week (singular) of principle photography a living Hell for all involved. Big Kev told me that the fact that there was copious amounts of Jamie Pressley Ass bouncing around in booty shorts made the situation somewhat tolerable, but just barely.

So yeah, you can watch like one video of DOA video game footage (and a little bit of the Beach Volleyball stuff) and know exactly what the movie is like, and that's either the Dumbest Thing You Can Imagine or it's not, really no middle ground. It's definitely not "good", but I have to give it credit for being a 1:1 live action translation of the video games. MK:A comparatively falls way short in trying to do essentially the same thing. It's not like either is "good", but MK:A also has the secondary burden of being a subpar sequel to a far superior film that actually is kind of good on its own.

Plus... y'know... Jamie Pressley. Bikini beach volleyball. Kevin Nash. No contest. :trazz:
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Spawn... I was never overly impressed with. But I must say, I also was never a fan of the material. I do remember that when it was fresh, it got a lot of praise for its SFX, but they've totally aged like fruit. But altogether, my own opinion of Spawn aside, the movie was about as faithful as it possibly could have been for the time it was made, so I have to give it some credit for that. I didn't like the comic, so it's no surprise I also didn't like the movie, but I did appreciate the effort.

[Wildcat]

YouTube would probably be enough and I believe you that it’s cheesy/silly but I feel like playing through a game would make me appreciate the movie more. I know some of the names but never really learned what it was all about.

I agree about Jamie Pressley.

[ProactiveMan]

Spawn... I was never overly impressed with. But I must say, I also was never a fan of the material. I do remember that when it was fresh, it got a lot of praise for its SFX, but they've totally aged like fruit. But altogether, my own opinion of Spawn aside, the movie was about as faithful as it possibly could have been for the time it was made, so I have to give it some credit for that. I didn't like the comic, so it's no surprise I also didn't like the movie, but I did appreciate the effort.

Speaking of SFX...

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... Impressive.

[ranger_scout]

I thought that the 2014 version of Annie was going to be good because I enjoyed the work that its director, Will Gluck, had done inEasy A. They also assembled a very talented group of actors, but man that film SUCKED! It absolutely deserved to win the Razzie for Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-off or Sequel. I would've been okay if Transformers: Age of Extinction had won too.

I was also actually looking forward to Dark Phoenix, but I was bored to death watching that film. What an anitclimatic way to end a nearly 20 year-old film franchise.

[Shark_Blade]

I like Amazing Spiderman movies too. The chemistry between Andrew Garfield & Emma Stone is off the chart, none of the other actors can create that magic so far. They’re award winning actors and look like A+ supermodels too.

List of disappointing movies:
Blade Runner
Toy Story 3
Jurassic World 1 & 2
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Annabelle Comes Home
The entirety of Friday the 13th franchise (I was curious after playing the PS4 game)

[Egon1982]

Let's see...

"Star Wars: The Force Awakens." DEEPLY disappointed. I'd dreamed about a sequel trilogy for decades and this is what they do? An ANH remake? Inexcusable.

I was disappointed with Prometheus but not as much as I was devastated by "Alien: Covenant." I thought Ridley would have been able to lick his wounds after Prometheus and right the ship instead of doubling down on everything that was BAD in Prometheus.

"The Predator." Just sad. Pretty horrible, largely the fault of the studio forcing 1/3 of the movie to be reshot. I don't even know if we can blame Shane Black. The man hasn't said even one word about the movie since it came out. After watching "Alien: Covenant" snuff out the Alien franchise I really was hoping this would be a win. It wasn't.

"Iron Man 3." This one I do blame Shane Black for, for the most part. BAD movie that I was looking forward to seeing, following the same bad choices in Iron Man 2. I still want the movie that was promised in this trailer, not some "subvert your expectations" Iron Man 2 do-over:

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"Matrix Reloaded." BAD! Like between "Revolutions" and "Reloaded" they had about one movie's worth of anything, barely, so this one didn't feel like much of anything. Whole characters and storylines end up being pointless.

"Machete Kills." First one was awesome until it maybe got a little too crazy at the end. This sequel was BAD, through and through.

"Austin Powers 3: Goldmember." I enjoyed part 1 and REALLY enjoyed part 2, so I was pretty shocked to see how HORRID this was. Every joke fell flat to me, every bit of humor forced.

"Neverending Story 2." I swore by part 1 and couldn't wait to see part 2. Ghastly!

"Lawnmower Man 2." Same story! Super looking forward to part 2, super aghast at how bad and far off the mark they could get. It's pretty amazing, really.

"Highlander: The Source. To say I was expecting it to be "awesome" might not be true, but I was at least expecting something... decent. Or at least passable. Nope, what they delivered was a straight-up cinematic throat-slice.

Last Jedi was worse

[Andrew NDB]

* Alien Resurrection : I was greatly looking forward to it, digging through magazines to get any kind of scoops on it. Then I saw it and kind of convinced myself it was awesome for about a week and then it hit me. Nope, we all got bamboozled.

* Prometheus : Was vastly looking forward to this. Great visuals but horribly written. Still, it did NOT leave things unsalvageable by the end as long as a part 2 stayed the course on delivering on the Engineers' stuff, unlike...

* Alien: Covenant : Wow. Just horrible. Not as beautifully shot as Prometheus but fine enough. Just a "greatest hits" of moments from Alien, Aliens and surprisingly even Alien 3 with a doubling down on all of the characters behaving irrationally stupidly like Prometheus. Betrayed the promise of the end of Prometheus and simultaneously killed any possibility of continuing things. We have Ridley Scott and this thing to thank for killing both a proper Prometheus 2 AND the Blomkamp Alien 5 that would've reunited Ripley and Hicks.

* The Batman : I don't know that I was thinking it was going to be AWESOME, but I was definitely hoping I was going to be proven wrong on a lot of things and be blown away. Plus, to justify the many years of no Batman movie and the jettisoning of the Affleck version to make room for this. No, didn't really like it at all. One step forward and two, maybe three steps back in every meaningful way, IMHO.

[Autbot_Benz]

Hellboy 2019 Its literally the only movie I regret seeing in theaters. I would have rather had a 3rd Del Toro one. They turned Hellboy into a whiny bitch. I haven't seen it since I watched in theaters 4 years ago.

Constantine the Keanu Reeves one. Its nothing like the Comics. You have one of the most cynical complex british bastards in comics and you choose Mr Monotone himself Keanu Reeves to play him. ( I still love Keanu but Constantine you are not) I am glad we got Matt Ryan's comic accurate version down the road.

[DarkFell]

** The later Terminator movies. They should have stopped at Judgement Day.

** The later (or, the most recent) Star Wars films. There were a lot of people that didn't enjoy the Anakin Skywalker trilogy, but I think that it was better than what came afterwards.

** Jurassic Park should have ended, but instead we got Jurassic World.

** Iron Man 3 was lame.

** Thor 2 and 3 were meh.

** Every Predator movie after Predator 2.

[TheBlueTurtle1]

The disney star wars trilogy:lol:

[ranger_scout]

The live-action Mulan looked very good at first glance, but when I saw it was nothing but a woke mess of a film.

[Mario500]

The live-action Mulan looked very good at first glance, but when I saw it was nothing but a woke mess of a film.

(wonders about the "woke" in this message)

[ZariusTwo]

The Batman is definitely something I think people are high on only because they've been conditioned to think everything with a dark Batman is automatically awesome, and the Phantom Menacing doesn't wear off until much, much later.

[CyberCubed]

I really didn't think The Batman was "dark" at all, it was the same as usual, just with a more unhinged Riddler. I mean how was it any more dark than any of the Nolan movies? It was actually the same more or less.

Anyway for me the new Jurrassic Park movies. I mean I was kinda excited when the first one was coming out and then it was just meh, and then the second one even moreso. Maybe last one is the charm.

[Andrew NDB]

I really didn't think The Batman was "dark" at all, it was the same as usual, just with a more unhinged Riddler. I mean how was it any more dark than any of the Nolan movies? It was actually the same more or less.

Yeah, I wouldn't call The Batman super dark. Maybe by omission. You know the fun scenes in Nolan's trilogy, like Bruce showing up with supermodels and buying the hotel? Or the ongoing banter with Lucius? Yeah, The Batman just doesn't have any scenes like that. So what's left is just an even more grounded version of "the rest."

[MikeandRaph87]

For me it is The Last Jedi. I was eager to see what was going to happen next on Ahch-To. Instead of Rey bringing Luke back and him accepting the once lost lightsaber he flings it down the mountain. The action is symbolic not just in how Johnston views expectations, characterization, and legacy, but how I feel disrespected as a fan. There is so much to list and we all know the list. However it's the expectations built so up by the creators and my own imagination that I was extremely disappointed in the actual film.

Edit: I see above that I was beaten to it by a couple of years.:lol:

[Coola Yagami]

The Batman is definitely something I think people are high on only because they've been conditioned to think everything with a dark Batman is automatically awesome, and the Phantom Menacing doesn't wear off until much, much later.

Also it's the flavor of the month. It's still new. Give it a few months for the movie to really sink in. Right now you're 'crazy' if you don't act like the new Batman isn't 'the bestest movie ever'.

[LeotheLateBloomer]

Also it's the flavor of the month. It's still new. Give it a few months for the movie to really sink in. Right now you're 'crazy' if you don't act like the new Batman isn't 'the bestest movie ever'.

I mean I wouldn't mind a Silver Aged style Batman movie if it's hilarious. Plus to appeal to those that miss that era. I don't necessarily think Batman needs to be dark to be good cause I do love the Adam West show and Brave and the Bold was entertaining for what's it's worth. It just needs to be done well.

[MikeandRaph87]

I mean I wouldn't mind a Silver Aged style Batman movie if it's hilarious. Plus to appeal to those that miss that era. I don't necessarily think Batman needs to be dark to be good cause I do love the Adam West show and Brave and the Bold was entertaining for what's it's worth. It just needs to be done well.

Why not meet in the middle of Adam West and Frank Miller? As in Denny O'Neil? That porridge is just right not silly yet not dark and gloomy. Batman: TAS 85 episodes perfectly exemplifies this.The new comic by Mark Waid is a solid example of the classic look, the fun yet epic feel. It's what I like anyway and I feel like it gives a little of both to make audiences satisfied without an overly analytical and gloomy and a nonsensical goof fest.

[Splinter the boss]

The batman movie was nothing spectacular to me, more or less the same as I've been seeing. Maybe DC should focus on more obscure characters coming to the big screen...

[Mario500]

The batman movie was nothing spectacular to me, more or less the same as I've been seeing. Maybe DC should focus on more obscure characters coming to the big screen...

"batman movie"?

[Splinter the boss]

Yup came released couple weeks back