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Movies that you got really excited for that turned out to be AWFUL. Not just in your own opinion, but something that got a bad reception. Movies that disappointed everyone.

GANGS OF NEW YORK tops that list for me.  What a long, boring, pointless movie!

The Star Wars Prequels
Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of The Crystal Skulls
Avatar
Titanic
The Matrix
Jurassic Park
Star Trek (2009)
Anything starring Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie or Will Smith.
The Hangover

Different strokes, I guess, 66!  I liked ALL of those . . . the prequels probably the least, but ST and JURASSIC PARK are both aces in my book!

I said that critics hate. Movies that overall weren't well received. It's one thing to name popular movies you hate, it's harder to name ones that made both you and your friends mad. As for me...

Thor. Both my Dad and I were very disappointed.

My Dad is a huge Thor fan. Only comic he read as a child.

Napoleon Dynamite

not saying it is without merit, but from all the hype I was expecting a laugh -a-minute romp. what I got was virtually a silent movie on methodrone


edit: it's impossible to answer this according to my own taste and what the critics thought, I don't really pay much attention to 'the critics'

The Phantom Menace
Attack of the Clone
Gigli

I like a lot of the movies mentioned, especially Gangs of New York.

I would easily second Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. I actually halfway enjoyed the movie, but it should never have been made. It certainly isn't Indiana Jones.

The Star Wars prequels are also pretty bad. Even there, I really enjoyed Attack of the Clones, but I have one word for you. Midichlorians. Shut up, George Lucas! Shut up! Don't ever talk again!

The A Team disappointed me a lot: Sharlto Copley was good but the rest  :buggedout:

The Transformers movies. They get hyped and make billions of dollars yet audience and critics seem to hate them.

I remember James Cameron giving an extremely lengthy presentation on Avatar at the Electronic Entertainment Expo a few years ago.  I thought it sounded like crud.

Is this the hype you speak of?   :bouncegiggle:

I dunno, I guess I'm either immune to hype or I just ignore it entirely.

While audiences enjoy Transformers, I'm counting it for how the critics reacted. That is some over-hyped s**t.

Well, when I was at the movies over the weekend I saw the trailer for TITANIC 3-D, which is coming out in the spring.  I assume KING KONG, THE LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy, and many, many others will follow shortly in 3-D.

I thought the following were pretty silly and/or boring as far as overhyped blockbusters go:

* DUNE
* INDEPENDENCE DAY
* 2012

I'd say at least three quarters of major studio releases are overhyped, or garbage, or both. But that might just be me.

Especially the second one...it really blew.

Having never seen the original Star Wars trilogy as a kid, for some reason I was really kinda excited to see Episode 1: The Phantom Menace.  Figuring, well, it'd be best to start at the beginning and work my way through.  I hated Episode 1 enough I never bothered with 2-6.

The Matrix- I was hoping to like this.  Felt like somebody pooped on my lap as I watched it.

The Incredible Hulk with Eric Bana,  Godzilla with Mathew Broderick,  Masters of The Universe

THE EXPENDABLES was pretty disappointing.  Not garbage maybe, but pretty disappointing.
AMERICAN BEAUTY
PHANTOM MENACE
HANCOCK  -- in fact, everything Will Smith's done since PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS has been a serious letdown.

And my big controversial picks - not that they're garbage by any stretch, but I was majorly underwhelmed by both THE HURT LOCKER and HISTORY OF VIOLENCE (I'll show myself out....)

-Anything by Christopher Nolan
-Almost anything by Steven Spielberg (I can only name three that deserve any praise they get, at least in my eyes)
-Anything by Peter Jackson
-Anything by Pixar
-Most of the Disney so-called "Renaissance" films.

 Please read the other posts. I mean movies that critics hates too. Nolan, Spielberg, and Jackson are considered great modern directors. Movies expected to be good that actually bombed.

Ah.  Gotcha.  On that note, nevermind my last post.   :twirl:

They can be deleted. Just delete your own and I'll delete all posts relevant to your post. Assuming somebody else doesn't quote you before you do that.

It appears you seem to think that "The Critics" operate like some undercover organization, dishing out their unanimous opinion on everything that comes out like it's the ultimate verdict.

a) "The Critics" opinion is no more or less valid than any one of ours

b) "The Critics" don't have an overall opinion. A film praised by one "critic" may be panned by another, and given the 'so-so' by another...

Leo Dicaprio was the cause of that. The actor of the villian put in a great performance.

I believe that's Daniel Day Lewis