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down our picks for the top 10 movies
that didn’t live up to the hype if you
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list we’re looking at various movies
that were insanely hyped but ended up
being massive disappointments we’re
ranking our list based on the amount of
hype and the subsequent levels of
letdown we all experienced these movies
don’t necessarily need to be bad movies
as long as they were considered
disappointments that didn’t live up to
the pre-release rhetoric they will be
included number 10
prometheus rumors of an alien origin
story began as early as 2002 with
director Ridley Scott expressing
interest in exploring the origins of the
aliens and the famous space jockey from
the first movie although interest in the
alien series had petered out mostly due
to the awful Alien Resurrection a lot of
people were excited for a well-made and
appropriately budgeted prequel that
would answer the series most tantalizing
Prometheus was finally released ten
years after the rumors began and many
people were left disappointed by the
quality of the writing and the movies
lack of answers number nine
The Hobbit franchise Peter Jackson’s
Lord of the Rings trilogy is arguably
the greatest trilogy in cinematic
history and many people would argue that
they are some of the greatest movies
ever made and while excitement for the
Hobbit trilogy was high
some fans expressed hesitation upon
hearing that it would be a trilogy their
fears were unfortunately realized as
many critics condemned the series
willfully bloated lengths other people
criticized the high frame rate and
devout Lord of the Rings fans abhorred
its use of mediocre CGI on Rotten
Tomatoes the trilogy ranged from only 59
to 74 percent whereas all three Rings
films scored within the 90s
number eight spider-man three Sam Raimi
spider-man is one of the earliest
examples of the modern day superhero
blockbuster and spider-man 2 is damn
near universally regarded as one of the
better superhero movies of all time and
then spider-man 3 happened while the
quality of this film may divide
audiences and critics
there’s no denying it’s the weakest film
of the original trilogy Sting’s doesn’t
it there were far too many characters
and storylines venom was completely
miscast and wasted and we think we’d all
like to forget symbiote Peter there is a
great movie in here somewhere
but it’s buried under a lot of
questionable filmmaking choices number 7
the Matrix Reloaded and the Matrix
Revolutions The Matrix is one of the
most important movies in history and it
redefined what was possible with visual
effects and a little imagination and
while some people were hesitant about a
sequel many others were excited at the
prospect sure these movies did contain
some kickass sequences like the freeway
chase but the sequels were dreadfully
disappointing I am the architect I
created the matrix the story went in a
really weird and confusing direction the
special effects were borderline bad like
the CGI late in burley brawl and
revolutions barely featured any of the
characters we actually cared about while
the movies were hyped many fans like to
think the story ended with neo flying
number six Indiana Jones and the Kingdom
of the Crystal Skull put down gun you
got it pal bringing back an action
franchise after 20 years is always a
risk on the one hand you could redefine
the franchise and introduce it to a new
generation on the other you could end up
with this fans were left extremely
divided with this fourth Indiana Jones
film has many hated the casting of Shia
LaBeouf and the story based in science
fiction rather than history and legend
it also received quite a bad rap for the
infamous scene in which Indiana survives
a nuclear blast by hiding in a fridge
the term nuking the fridge even became
one of times top 10 buzz words of the
year number 5 a wrinkle in time so you
fall the space more likely wrinkly hey
nobody’s perfect
even legendary Studios yeah even Disney
releases a clunker every now and then a
wrinkle in time was touted to be a
surefire hit after all Disney was
putting up 100 million dollars to bring
this beloved children’s book to the big
screen but we all let out a collective
myth when we ended up watching it you’re
kidding
many people were disappointed with the
plot holes in writing awkward
performances questionable casting
choices and the addition of unnecessary
action scenes this movie proves it takes
more than extravagant sets costumes and
number four alien 3 following up two of
the greatest science-fiction movies ever
made is difficult doing it with a
first-time director and terrible 90s CGI
is even harder alien 3 suffered quite a
turbulent development period and it
shows in the finished product viewers
were immediately pissed off when they
learned that Newt and Hicks had been
indiscriminately killed off off screen
and what followed was two hours of
paper-thin characters running around
with a horribly integrated CGI alien
many people associated with the
franchise including James Cameron and
David Fincher have disowned the movie
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number three x-men The Last Stand I’m
the President of the United States boom
mr. president shut up the x-men
franchise is quite similar to Spider Man
the first entry in the series is
regarded as one of the earliest modern
superhero blockbusters and the sequel
even better and then the third movie is
a huge disappointment fans hated the
focus on Wolverine and gene at the
expense of other characters and found
the film to be a poor adaptation of the
Phoenix saga fans also hated the
treatments of Cyclops and mystique the
poor quality of the plot and the
stupidity of the characters in short it
number two Batman vs Superman dawn of
Justice if it wasn’t for one other movie
which we’ll get to shortly this would
probably go down in movie history as the
greatest disappointment of all time like
this is frickin Batman and Superman
finally duking it out on screen this is
what superhero fans have been waiting
for for decades and as with Suicide
Squad and Justice League after it we
were all left terribly disappointed by
the final result of course the film does
have its fans and it isn’t entirely
terrible but a large majority of viewers
found the movie and particularly the
before we unveil our number one pick
here are some honorable mentions number
one Star Wars Episode one The Phantom
Menace they need a midi-chlorian count
the amount of hype surrounding the
Phantom Menace was simply unreal this
was going to be the movie to end all
movies and the resulting crushing mass
disappointment is now the stuff of
cinema legend the characters were so
forgettable in lame Jar Jar Binks anyone
it was filled with lots of boring
exposition the writing was often
laughable and perhaps worst of all and
tragically for him Jake Lloyd just
didn’t cut it
are you an angel but hey at least Darth
Maul was pretty cool with a whole double
lightsaber thing oh and George Lucas
made a ton of money right so do you
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