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:



"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]

Originally Posted by 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."

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]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

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]

Originally Posted by Autbot_Benz

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!!!!!!!

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by snake

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]

Originally Posted by Redeemer

Those are fighting words!!!!!!!

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.

[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]

Originally Posted by Wesley

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]

Originally Posted by Wesley

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]

Originally Posted by Original TMNT Cartoon Fan

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]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

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

It should stay there.

[Redeemer]

Originally Posted by CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy

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.

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

Originally Posted by Wesley

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.

Originally Posted by neatoman

[*]Speaking of Spider-Man, Amazing 2. Nobody likes Amazing 2, not that the first was good but still.[/LIST]

If this movie is on your list, then Sam Rami's **** master piece "Spider-man 3" needs to be at the top. 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.