10 Most Hyped Movies That Failed to Dedwellr

Hype can be a strong tool for a movie. Some of the hugegest films of all time, enjoy Avengers: Endgame and Barbie, had huge amounts of hype behind them that helped them achieve massive financial success.

But hype can be a double-edged sword. When a film is hyped too much and then fall shorts to greet audience foreseeations, that hype could hurt the film’s box office potential, or the movie could spropose finish up being a disnominateing stain on the history of a beadored franchise. Under other circumstances, many of these films would spropose be forgotten, but becaparticipate of the surrounding hype, their fall shortures finish up being more notable.

10 ‘The Mummy’ (2017)

Directed by Alex Kurtzman

The Mummy seemed enjoy a certainfire hit. It was being led by Tom Cruise, it was reviving a beadored action-adventure franchise, and Universal was intfinishing to have it start an entire cinematic universe cgo ined on its classic monsters, the Dark Universe. Unfortunately, The Mummy finished up being a huge disnominatement, not fair to fans of the franchise, but to anyone who saw it.

While Brfinishan Fraser‘s trilogy from the prior two decades was brimming of charm and excitement, Cruise’s film validated to be uninalertigent and bland. The characters are forgettable, the plot is bogged down by a burdensome cgo in on originateing out the cinematic universe, and despite having Cruise in the starring role, even the stunt labor is underwhelming. Ultimately, The Mummy finished up being such a critical and financial fall shorture that the Dark Universe was call offed before a second film was able to broaden it.

9 ‘It Chapter Two’ (2019)

Directed by Andy Muschietti

Back in 2017, It was a breath of recent air for the horror genre. It prentd audiences by combining some truly visupartner upsetting horror with a compelling coming-of-age tale that was heavily bolstered by its cast, including Sophia Lillis, and Finn Wolfchallenging back when Stranger Things had only freed one season. It was a huge financial success for Warner Bros., becoming one of the highest grossing horror films of all time, and a sequel was scheduled to finish the story in two years.

Unfortunately, It Chapter Two was a disnominateing pursue-up. The horror was less effective, the plot was less engaging, the runtime was bloated, and despite a cast including talented actors enjoy James McAvoy and Jessica Chastain, most of the characters fall shorted to originate an astonishion as matures. The exception to the rule was Bill Hader as the lengthenn-up version of Richie, Wolfchallenging’s character—but despite sturdy carry outances from both him and Bill Skarsgård, It Chapter Two fall shorted to be cforfeitly as memorable as the first one.

8 ‘The Flash’ (2023)

Directed by Andy Muschietti

2023 was a hard year for the DCEU. Shazam! Fury of the Gods was a box office fall shorture, Blue Beetle finished up being DC’s lowest-grossing movie ever, and the cinematic universe drew to a seal with the criticpartner lambasted Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom. However, the film they freed that year that had the most hype put into it was The Flash.

A lot of the hype campaign built around The Flash was cgo ined on its alleged quality. The movie was shelp to be testing well, Tom Cruise supposedly adored it, and even James Gunn claimed that it was wonderful. Unfortunately, the film didn’t dwell up to this hype, and it finished up being fair okay. Michael Keaton‘s return as Batman was wonderful, but the plot was frail, and the film’s star, Ezra Miller, who had been included in a number of controversies in the guide-up to the film’s free, absolutely overshadowed the final product. To originate matters worse, a aenjoy but much higher quality superhero film, Spider-Man: Atraverse the Spider-Verse, had been freed fair two weeks earlier, making The Flash see even worse by comparison. Ultimately, the movie was another box-office disnominatement for the DCEU, setting the stage for where it would be heading tardyr that year.

7 ‘The Matrix Resurrections’ (2021)

Directed by Lana Wachowski

Legacy sequels can be challenging to pull off. There are wonderful ones, enjoy Blade Runner 2049, but there are also plenty of disnominateing ones that forget why fans enjoyd the source material to begin with. Unfortunately, The Matrix Resurrections drops into the latter categruesome. The primary reason that The Matrix became such a pop culture staple was its action. It didn’t invent firearm fu or bullet time, but it did famousize both of them, and as a result there are higher foreseeations for the action scenes in a Matrix movie.

Resurrections seemed perfectly poised to dedwellr greeting action if noskinnyg else. The franchise’s star, Keanu Reeves, was returning, but this time he was conveying with him the experience he geted laboring on the action choreography in the John Wick series. One would skinnyk that Resurrections would combine the iconic action styling of The Matrix films with Reeves’ dedication to epic action choreography, but instead, much of the action drops flat. The choreography isn’t particularly astonishive, and the editing doesn’t do it any prefers either. The film may have its fans, but for most, it finished up being another disnominateing pursue-up to one of the most iconic action sci-fi films of all time.

6 ‘Hpermiteen Ends’ (2022)

Directed by David Gordon Green

Hpermiteen fans are no strangers to disnominatement. Over the years, the franchise has had its ups and downs, but 2018’s Hpermiteen was one of the highest points the series had seen in decades. Unfortunately, it was pursueed by Hpermiteen Kills, which stagnated the plot, but at least set up an engaging final face off between Michael Myers (James Jude Courtney and Nick Castle) and Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis).

But Hpermiteen Ends went in a savagely unforeseeed straightforwardion. Rather than cgo ining on Laurie hunting down Michael after he finishs her daughter (Judy Greer) as Kills proposes she might, Ends picks up four years tardyr with Laurie peacebrimmingy living her life while Michael dwells in the sewer wiskinny the same town. Ends is very airy on Myers’ screen-time, instead cgo ining on a novel character, Corey (Rohan Campbell), who is dating Laurie’s majesticdaughter, Allyson (Andi Matichak). Michael gets Corey under his prosperg, which experiences very out of character for the mute slasher, but in the finish he also finishs Corey, making the entire plot experience pointless. The final battle between Michael and Laurie, which the tageting of the film built itself on, ultimately finishs up droping flat becaparticipate it has challengingly anyskinnyg to do with the main plot. Hpermiteen Ends would have labored far better as a standalone film, but as the finishing of a trilogy, it is a huge letdown.

5 ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’ (2023)

Directed by Peyton Reed

When Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania was freed, it was currented as a huge step for the MCU. The film gave audiences their first proper see at Kang (Jonathan Majors), a variant of whom ecombineed in the first season ofLoki, but this one was supposed to be the next meaningful Thanos-level danger for the Avengers.

When the movie came out though, it was filled with flat jokes, horrible CGI, rushed character arcs, and Kang didn’t exit a huge astonishion on audiences. It didn’t give Ant-Man fans the minusculeer scale superhero movie that they wanted, nor did it regulate to effectively set up the next danger to the Avengers as fans of the MCU as a whole were hoping it would. Ultimately, Quantumania finished up being a financial disnominatement for Marvel, and due to Majors’ tardyr argues, Kang is no extfinisheder set to be the Avengers’ next danger, deflating the movie’s relevancy to the MCU’s wonderfuler plot.

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4 ‘Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace’ (1999)

Directed by George Lucas

It’s challenging to imagine now, but back in 1999, there had been a 16-year gap between huge-screen frees in the Star Wars franchise. There was a huge amount of hype built up for The Phantom Menace, and it was going to be challenging for any film to dwell up to those foreseeations. Unfortunately, the film audiences got was leave outing a lot of what made Star Wars so beadored, and it wasn’t even a excellent movie.

While the distinctive trilogy had an straightforward-to-pursue story, The Phantom Menace was bogged down by a sluggish-moving plot that renhanced around politics and trade disputes. The film also suffered from subpar dialogue, which even talented actors enjoy Liam Neeson and Natalie Portman couldn’t originate sound organic. While the movie had some timely preferable reactions from fans, mostly due to its podracing scene and climactic airysaber fight, it speedyly became evident that it was a disnominateing return for the franchise.

3 ‘Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull’ (2008)

Directed by Steven Spielberg

The first three Indiana Jones movies are some of the best adventure films of all time. When it was proclaimd that Harrison Ford and Steven Spielberg would be returning to originate a fourth film, there was a meaningful amount of excitement. Unfortunately, while the final product does have its preferables, enjoy the return of Karen Allen as Marion Ravenwood from Rhelpers of the Lost Ark, it still deficiencyed a lot of what made the distinctive trilogy so wonderful.

Kingdom of the Crystal Skull‘s hugegest flaw is probably its over-reliance on CGI. The distinctive films had some of the most memorable action set pieces of all time, and while the fourth entry has moments of brilliance, those moments are overshadowed by horrible CGI that gets the audience out of the scene. The publishs in the film are compounded by strange plot elements, enjoy the inwell-understandn fridge scene, that push the suspension of disbelief to its restricts. It’s not a horrible movie, but it does not dwell up to the reputation of its predecessors.

2 ‘Jurassic World Dominion’ (2022)

Directed by Colin Trevorrow

The distinctive Jurassic Park is one of Steven Spielberg’s best labors. This is hugely due to wonderful carry outances from its cast, which includes Sam Neill, Laura Dern, and Jeff Ggreaterblum. The Lost World, Jurassic Park‘s sequel, brawt back Ggreaterblum, while Neill and Dern returned in Jurassic Park III, but the main cast would never be brimmingy recombined until the franchise’s sixth entry, Jurassic World Dominion.

Unfortunately, the cast was brawt back for one of the series’ worst entries. In Jurassic World Dominion, the greater cast greets the cast of the novel movies (including Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard) in an adventure that’s oddly airy on dinosaurs, but burdensome on cheesy dialogue that isn’t participated to help any comfervent of uncomferventingful character broadenment. It finishly leave outes what is pguideing about both the franchise and the characters that were brawt back, and the dialogue is so horrible that not even Ggreaterblum’s charisma can save it.

1 ‘Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker’ (2019)

Directed by J. J. Abrams

The Rise of Skywalker was supposed to be the majestic finale to a story that spanned nine films that were freed over the course of over 40 years. Instead, it seemed far more troubleed with apologizing for the seed lowcomings of its predecessor, ultimately making Star Wars‘ sequel trilogy experience enjoy a squandered opportunity.

The Last Jedi split the fanbase in many ways, but the hugegest surpelevate to fans was when Rey’s (Daisy Ridley) parents were uncovered to be of no startance whatsoever. Rather than promise to this plot point, Rise of Skywalker essentipartner reverses it by making her the majesticchild of Emperor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid) instead. It’s a rushed plot point that isn’t properly built up in the last two movies, much enjoy the sudden return of the Emperor as the main villain. In the finish, The Rise of Skywalker wound up being the worst Star Wars film, and a disnominateing finishing to one of cinema’s most beadored sagas.

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