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Old 09-11-12 | 09:24 PM
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Old 09-11-12 | 09:27 PM
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Wild Wild West and Godzilla are the first two that come to mind.
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Old 09-11-12 | 09:40 PM
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Old 09-11-12 | 09:47 PM
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Matrix sequels
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Old 09-11-12 | 09:53 PM
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The Phantom Menace
Prometheus
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Old 09-11-12 | 10:06 PM
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Old 09-11-12 | 10:16 PM
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The Phantom Menace
Prometheus
can't believe it took 6 posts
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Old 09-11-12 | 10:28 PM
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J. Edgar

- Leonardo DiCaprio coming off of Inception
- Clint Eastwood directing
- Completely drawn-out, boring story
- Rating 2/10 (worst I've given a movie since I started grading a couple years ago)
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Old 09-11-12 | 10:38 PM
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The Matrix sequels. They were horrible.
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Old 09-11-12 | 10:40 PM
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The Hunger Games - didn't read the book, and I thought the movie was very humdrum.
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Old 09-11-12 | 10:48 PM
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Snakes on a Plane.
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Old 09-11-12 | 11:11 PM
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screw you! I loved every minute of both flicks and the faux trailers.
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Old 09-11-12 | 11:46 PM
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Any Michael Bay movie. Any.
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Old 09-12-12 | 02:20 AM
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Re: Movies that didn't live up to the hype?
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screw you! I loved every minute of both flicks and the faux trailers.
I seem to recall this was a box office flop, but both films are excellent. I had a lot of fun watching this in the theater, and so did the rest of the (sparse) audience.
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Old 09-12-12 | 05:39 AM
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Re: Movies that didn't live up to the hype?
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The Phantom Menace
End the thread now, as this is the most hyped movie of my lifetime that fell short of expectations.
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Old 09-12-12 | 07:27 AM
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Re: Movies that didn't live up to the hype?
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Matrix sequels
Originally Posted by PopcornTreeCt
The Phantom Menace
Prometheus
I'll add to that Watchmen and Iron Man 2.
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Old 09-12-12 | 08:34 AM
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Old 09-12-12 | 08:40 AM
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Highlander 2: The Quickening (although it is delightful in "so terrible it's good" sort of way).
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Old 09-12-12 | 10:24 AM
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The Dark Knight Rises
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Old 09-12-12 | 10:34 AM
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Re: Movies that didn't live up to the hype?
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Snakes on a Plane.
+1. Also The Expendables.
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Old 09-12-12 | 10:45 AM
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Re: Movies that didn't live up to the hype?
Originally Posted by majorjoe23
Snakes on a Plane.
I wouldn't say there was much hype for that. I think internet people just thought the title was funny and weren't really expecting it to be good. The box office take shows that not many were interested in actually seeing it.

Now, as for Indiana Jones 4...
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Old 09-12-12 | 10:48 AM
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Ghostbusters
Hunger Games
The current Spider-man
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