Worst hype to quality ratio EVER in a movie?

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

And I don't count the ones you KNOW are going to be bad a thousand miles away, like "Pearl Harbor" ("Director Michael Bay" = big clue).

For my money, the first "Batman" movie with Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson etc. Just hyped to death. Mediocre flick.

[NaturalHigh]

1. Alexander

For some reason, I expected a lot from that movie. It would have been a waste of time filling in for an afternoon soap opera slot.

[emanymton]

2. "Surf Nazi Must Die" No Hype Top Quality

Not hyped but "riders of the hard wave" know a winner.

[MrBenchley]

3. Two Lane Blacktop

The pre-movie hype was that it was the greatest movie ever...

Sucked big time...it was an unwatchable mess.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

4. I must admit I've never heard of this.

[MrBenchley]

7. 1969? 1970?

It was supposed to be better than Easy Rider or Citizen Kane....it was supposed to be the greatest American movie of all time...it bit the big one, in every way. Pretentious, tedious script, abysmal "acting", duller than cold dishwater in execution. Worst of all, not even bad enough to be entertaining....

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[Ariana Celeste]

5. I can't remember earlier on, but recently-

The Day After Tomorrow. Terrible. Yet I saw commercials making it look awesome ALL THE TIME. The man warned me it would suck. I told him sweetly that he has said that so many times and been wrong that I just can't take him seriously in that respect anymore. So I rented it.




He was right.

:dunce:


Why don't the good movies get any commercial airtime? Nowadays when we rent movies, most of the time we search out the ones we haven't heard of anywhere. Usually those are the ones we end up really liking.

[skygazer]

19. I agree wholeheartedly with this one

Terrible movie, beyond lame. And boring as well. How a movie about an apocalyptic situation can be boring is beyond me, but they managed it.

[RubyDuby in GA]

6. Blair Witch Project

I still want my damn money back!!!!!!

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

8. Actually I enjoyed that LOL

[gmoney]

9. Dukes of Hazzard is going to be right up there

...if it's as bad as everything I'm hearing.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

10. That would fall in my category of 'stinkitude you can smell a mile away'.

[gmoney]

11. My bad. How about "A.I." and "Signs" and "The Village"?

Big reputations, big hype, lousy results.

[dbonds]

14. Yes, those were awful.

Not quite as bad but not up to the hype was 6th Sense. How could people not know from the 10 minutes in that he was dead. The scene at the dinner table was the clencher.

[Merrick]

12. Star Wars Episode I - The Phantom Menace

More like the Phantom Load of Crap.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

16. Very good example. It cemented for me that Lucas was a hack. I had

no expectations for the last 2 movies, and was not "disappointed".

[Merrick]

22. Yeah, Phantom Menace is where I disembarked the

Star Wars marketing train. I hear the new one was decent, but I still have no real desire to see it. Maybe if it happens to be the in flight movie on a plane I happen to be in.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

25. Sith = Meh. Consider the awesome actors that have been in the new

SW movies.

Samuel L. Jackson
Ewan McGregor
Liam Nesson (sp?)
Natalie Portman

and consider the complete lack of dialogue for them. Think of them in the other films they've been in.

What I've been trying to figure out, is, was Lucas ALWAYS an artless hack but just lucked out with Harrison Ford in the first movie?

Clearly he's changed and become more of a hack. His decision to go back and edit the original Mos Eisley cantina scene so Greedo would shoot first instead of Han is clear cut evidence of his lameness. That scene helped DEFINE the Han Solo character in that movie, and the action is I think justified under the circumstance and context.

Lucas just has no clue anymore.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

13. Waterworld

[jobycom]

23. I can honestly say

I didn't really hate Waterworld. As for liking it... I don't think it left a strong enough impression on me to make me decide whether I liked it.

[WCGreen]

15. Anythng Michael Cimino made

after Deer Hunter.....

And Deer Hunter doesn't stand the test of time....

[freethought]

17. Have we already forgotten 'Fantastic Four"!

Lot's of Hype. Lot's of advertising. For what? To see Jessica Alba in a skin tight suit? I was so bored one day this week I nearly went to see the movie again. Someone put me out of my mysery!:smoke:

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

18. Yeah, but I could smell the stinkitude a ways off.

[youthere]

20. I can't believe that no one has said this...

THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST.

What do I win?

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

21. Didn't see it, so I couldn't really comment one way or the other.

[AlGore-08.com]

24. I'm showing my age, but: "IT'S ALIVE!!"

The commercials made it look like the most terrifying horror movie ever, so I went with my best friend, expecting a great flick.

But it was the lamest movie I ever saw. About halfway through, the audience was so bored they were all having their own conversations about how much the movie sucked. So I got my best friend to agree to scream in horror with me the next time something that was supposed to be scary happened. We both let out with a blood curdling scream and surprised the rest of the audience into a beat of shocked silence, and then they all laughed. When the next supposedly scary bit happened, there were other folks screaming with us. By the end of the film, the entire audience was playing along: screaming in absolute terror at the lame "terrifying moment", then cracking up.

When we left the theater, the management was standing at the doors, looking really puzzled.

[jobycom]

26. For me, Ferris Buehler

So full of formula and cliche I was predicting the lines as they were being said. I thought I would like it, I like other John Hughes films, I liked the cast... I really hated that movie. And unlike other movies, I couldn't see how anyone else liked it. I mean, I didn't like LOTR, but I understand how others did. But I still can't see what anyone liked about Buehler. Was kicking the principle in the nuts really funny to anyone else? You didn't see that coming before she did it?