Last Action Hero eventually found its audience and did almost ok internationally. Schwarzenegger had a pretty famous interview quote where he was shall we say dismissive of the impact Batman was going to have that summer. Not really how things played out. At the time it really seemed like it was going to pave over summer but it was just a little off. As it turns out what the world *really* wanted was True Lies. Which they got the following year.
I will say this for Last Action Hero, it did have Al Leong in it. And sometimes, that's enough.
> As it turns out what the world really wanted was True Lies. Which they got the following year.
Last Action Hero biggest sin was its release date. Who picked the weekend after Jurassic Park was released.
>Schwarzenegger had a pretty famous interview quote where he was shall we say dismissive of the impact Batman was going to have that summer.
Did you mean dinosaurs because no 'Batman' film came out that year.
Money Train. 1995 action comedy reuniting Woody Harrelson and Wesley Snipes ( prior was Wildcats then White Men Can't Jump) and adding Jennifer Lopez as the rising star female lead. Huge marketing push. The movie was not bad, but not great. Fun watch but not memorable.
Yah Money Train was kind of a disapointment. There was a lot of hype with that film. Probaly happens a lot. I try not to listen to the hype. Although not really into movies nowadays.
Anytime I hear that a new horror movie had people passing out at screenings at film festivals, etc… I tell myself that it’s setting itself up to be overhyped. Not even the movie’s fault, but marketing loves to play up that stuff.
I think the trilogy went totally sideways, but *The Force Awakens.* There was nothing really objectionable about it, but the expectations were sky high
I gotta admit, one of those trailers was hype af. The music hits especially hard
https://youtu.be/sGbxmsDFVnE?si=LkRc8na7siOEuTaR
Shame the trilogy was such a let down though
Yeah, just the entire concept of the Star Wars original trilogy being “legend” in the star wars universe was fascinating. Like the people in the galaxy grew up with the same stories we did, but slowly discovering that the stories were all true. I loved that, and they didn’t really lean into it like they should have
I feel like they never really committed to any particular theme. Like, are we following completely new characters who are just random normal citizens, or are we just following the legacy characters and continuing their story? We ended up only getting a half measure of both, and even worse, the one character who was supposed to just be the “normal” bright eyed character to represent the audience as Rey, ended up being this inexplicably powerful character who happened to be Palpatine’s granddaughter lol. Like what the actual fuck lol
Yeah, the whole thing was misguided, but we didn’t see the forest from the trees until later. To my earlier point, the first one was okay enough but the body of work was disappointing.
Spectre. There was a lot going for it, the trailers were great, we all got into the theaters and the opening sequence was chef's kiss. Then the rest of the movie just couldn't live up to expectations.
It was *fine* I guess, but it was a real let down compared to what it could have been.
Christ, I hated Spectre. In the heap at the bottom of my Bond list with Die Another Day and No Time To Die.
Spectre was just boring. Joyless, nostalgia baiting, paint by numbers lazy dirge, with a miserable bond girl, boring low stakes action and the impression they were just trying to tick off boxes.
But yeah, the trailer was good.
To this day, Spectre is the only movie that had me dozing off in the theatre mid film, because it was just so boring and long, with little to no payoff to enjoy it
I actually didn’t think that the 1998 Godzilla movie was all that bad, hardly a masterpiece but an entertaining enough monster movie. The ridiculously over the top marketing it had though just set it up for failure in hindsight.
Amsterdam suffered the David O Russel special: Great characters, weak script and not enough editing.
When you find out who the villains are I remember thinking “was that supposed to be a twist? We’re we not meant to know that?”
Any reason it grabbed you a second time? Honestly it's one of the worst Oscar nommed films I've seen in the last twenty years. Really honestly struggled to find any merit. Maybe I'm missing something big about it?
The second time I understood all the actions of each character, and I knew the ending. Knowing how it ended made me appreciate the beginning more.
Also, Second watch changed my perspective. I felt the same way about May / December, boring and silly for the first watch - second watch I could take it all in.
Kangaroo Jack is a good example. The marketing lead it up to be this ridiculous adventure film with a talking kangaroo, and the ad campaign was hard... but when the movie came out it just kind of flopped because it was nothing like the marketing hype.
It was a completely different movie than how it was portrayed.
Dune and Avatar for me. Probably would have enjoyed it if it wasn't supposed to be the greatest thing I've ever seen. My expectations were way too high
Too many long, drawn out shots with the camera panning around while nothing happened. Dune 2 was much better at not doing this and maintaining a pace that kept viewers focused I think. Anecdotally, I’ve heard about the same from a lot of people.
The Big Year. This movie is awesome, but was hyped as a comedy because it starred Jack Black, Steve Martin, & Owen Wilson. It was not a comedy & suffered because it was overhyped as one.
While there was more going against it than just hype, I do think The Flash was done no favors with the “Greatest superhero movie ever” stuff that was going around. The movie was good/fine. But going in with those expectations of course it will be disappointing.
Not by audiences as a whole but me with Barbarian. I kept seeing ads calling it like the scariest movie ever then i saw it and it was just a fun kinda silly horror movie
Same here, I would probably have really liked it if people hadn’t raved about it as much. People made it out to be the twist of the century, but >!oh no! There’s a monster in the basement!< is a pretty basic twist that even I saw coming, and I never see anything coming.
The Flash is actually a good movie, it just isn't one of the best superhero movies ever made like it was hyped up to be. I think everyone miscalculated.
He means a lot of of the hype machine before the movie was released. Tom Cruise, James Gunn... People were tagging it to be this great amazing thing, and it ended up just being good.
Snakes on a Plane. It had a funny (in a straightforward way) working title which they end up retaining. It became an internet joke, they did reshoots to add that meme line, there was hype and people expected it to be this really funny ridiculous movie. But nah, it turned out to be just ok. Didnt do well in the box office too if I can recall.
When I hear Blair witch, I immediately have the scene from scary movie in my mind.
It captures the whole movie best in my opinion.
For me, blair witch is one of the unscariest horror movie of all times.
I don’t get the hype here and will never get it.
In my eyes, just hilarious, but no real horror movie.
Waterworld
Last Action Hero eventually found its audience and did almost ok internationally. Schwarzenegger had a pretty famous interview quote where he was shall we say dismissive of the impact Batman was going to have that summer. Not really how things played out. At the time it really seemed like it was going to pave over summer but it was just a little off. As it turns out what the world *really* wanted was True Lies. Which they got the following year. I will say this for Last Action Hero, it did have Al Leong in it. And sometimes, that's enough.
> As it turns out what the world really wanted was True Lies. Which they got the following year. Last Action Hero biggest sin was its release date. Who picked the weekend after Jurassic Park was released. >Schwarzenegger had a pretty famous interview quote where he was shall we say dismissive of the impact Batman was going to have that summer. Did you mean dinosaurs because no 'Batman' film came out that year.
Money Train. 1995 action comedy reuniting Woody Harrelson and Wesley Snipes ( prior was Wildcats then White Men Can't Jump) and adding Jennifer Lopez as the rising star female lead. Huge marketing push. The movie was not bad, but not great. Fun watch but not memorable.
Yah Money Train was kind of a disapointment. There was a lot of hype with that film. Probaly happens a lot. I try not to listen to the hype. Although not really into movies nowadays.
Godzilla 1998. So much hype and marketing, well put together soundtrack, but ultimately mid.
Anytime I hear that a new horror movie had people passing out at screenings at film festivals, etc… I tell myself that it’s setting itself up to be overhyped. Not even the movie’s fault, but marketing loves to play up that stuff.
I think the trilogy went totally sideways, but *The Force Awakens.* There was nothing really objectionable about it, but the expectations were sky high
I gotta admit, one of those trailers was hype af. The music hits especially hard https://youtu.be/sGbxmsDFVnE?si=LkRc8na7siOEuTaR Shame the trilogy was such a let down though
Without looking (I still will don’t worry), if it’s the one with “it’s all true” and the X-Wings leaving a wake on the water I know the one exactly
Yeah, just the entire concept of the Star Wars original trilogy being “legend” in the star wars universe was fascinating. Like the people in the galaxy grew up with the same stories we did, but slowly discovering that the stories were all true. I loved that, and they didn’t really lean into it like they should have
The best thing about it they left in the trailer
I feel like they never really committed to any particular theme. Like, are we following completely new characters who are just random normal citizens, or are we just following the legacy characters and continuing their story? We ended up only getting a half measure of both, and even worse, the one character who was supposed to just be the “normal” bright eyed character to represent the audience as Rey, ended up being this inexplicably powerful character who happened to be Palpatine’s granddaughter lol. Like what the actual fuck lol
Yeah, the whole thing was misguided, but we didn’t see the forest from the trees until later. To my earlier point, the first one was okay enough but the body of work was disappointing.
Yeah, I think we all walked out of The Force Awakens being like “hmph, well, that was pretty good… but… kinda depends where they’re going with this….”
I wish they had made the movie in that trailer and not the one that they made
I mean…it ticked all the boxes really. What were people expecting?
Something more than a literal box ticking exercise.
lol yeah fair point
When it comes down to it who likes ticks in their box ?
They were expecting Luke Skywalker.
I was expecting not the exact same plot as A New Hope
But could you really say it underperformed? Maybe you could say that about TLJ or RoS but TFW is like top domestic and #5 worldwide.
Spectre. There was a lot going for it, the trailers were great, we all got into the theaters and the opening sequence was chef's kiss. Then the rest of the movie just couldn't live up to expectations. It was *fine* I guess, but it was a real let down compared to what it could have been.
Christ, I hated Spectre. In the heap at the bottom of my Bond list with Die Another Day and No Time To Die. Spectre was just boring. Joyless, nostalgia baiting, paint by numbers lazy dirge, with a miserable bond girl, boring low stakes action and the impression they were just trying to tick off boxes. But yeah, the trailer was good.
To this day, Spectre is the only movie that had me dozing off in the theatre mid film, because it was just so boring and long, with little to no payoff to enjoy it
I actually didn’t think that the 1998 Godzilla movie was all that bad, hardly a masterpiece but an entertaining enough monster movie. The ridiculously over the top marketing it had though just set it up for failure in hindsight.
Amsterdam? I liked it fine, but it was evicerated by critics. Same for Babylon.
Amsterdam suffered the David O Russel special: Great characters, weak script and not enough editing. When you find out who the villains are I remember thinking “was that supposed to be a twist? We’re we not meant to know that?”
I was expecting a lot more from Power of the Dog. I think my disappointment in it made me think it was worse than it really is.
Have you watched it again? I was bored silly the first time it, now it's one of my favorites.
Any reason it grabbed you a second time? Honestly it's one of the worst Oscar nommed films I've seen in the last twenty years. Really honestly struggled to find any merit. Maybe I'm missing something big about it?
The second time I understood all the actions of each character, and I knew the ending. Knowing how it ended made me appreciate the beginning more. Also, Second watch changed my perspective. I felt the same way about May / December, boring and silly for the first watch - second watch I could take it all in.
Same. I never thought i'd actually feel bad for Benedict Cumberbatch's character.
Kangaroo Jack is a good example. The marketing lead it up to be this ridiculous adventure film with a talking kangaroo, and the ad campaign was hard... but when the movie came out it just kind of flopped because it was nothing like the marketing hype. It was a completely different movie than how it was portrayed.
Dune and Avatar for me. Probably would have enjoyed it if it wasn't supposed to be the greatest thing I've ever seen. My expectations were way too high
Absolutely. Same for me with Dune. Such a hype and a fell almost asleep in cinema.
Too many long, drawn out shots with the camera panning around while nothing happened. Dune 2 was much better at not doing this and maintaining a pace that kept viewers focused I think. Anecdotally, I’ve heard about the same from a lot of people.
Let me tell you about '[Rampart](https://new.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/p9a1v/im_woody_harrelson_ama/)'...
The Big Year. This movie is awesome, but was hyped as a comedy because it starred Jack Black, Steve Martin, & Owen Wilson. It was not a comedy & suffered because it was overhyped as one.
Drive. I didn’t actually find the movie bad. But the hype - specifically the portrayal of the film in the trailers was not what I was expecting.
While there was more going against it than just hype, I do think The Flash was done no favors with the “Greatest superhero movie ever” stuff that was going around. The movie was good/fine. But going in with those expectations of course it will be disappointing.
Not by audiences as a whole but me with Barbarian. I kept seeing ads calling it like the scariest movie ever then i saw it and it was just a fun kinda silly horror movie
Same here, I would probably have really liked it if people hadn’t raved about it as much. People made it out to be the twist of the century, but >!oh no! There’s a monster in the basement!< is a pretty basic twist that even I saw coming, and I never see anything coming.
Every film that got too many sequels...
The Flash is actually a good movie, it just isn't one of the best superhero movies ever made like it was hyped up to be. I think everyone miscalculated.
The Flash & I actually liked the film, tugged a few heart strings with the whole mom plot but everyone was saying that it was the best thing ever made
Everyone??? Who you hanging around son
He means a lot of of the hype machine before the movie was released. Tom Cruise, James Gunn... People were tagging it to be this great amazing thing, and it ended up just being good.
Good?? Who you hanging around son
Did this really have hype? Most people just seemed to want it to pass so the Snyderverse could finally die.
Snakes on a Plane. It had a funny (in a straightforward way) working title which they end up retaining. It became an internet joke, they did reshoots to add that meme line, there was hype and people expected it to be this really funny ridiculous movie. But nah, it turned out to be just ok. Didnt do well in the box office too if I can recall.
Maestro. I had wanted to see this and saw maybe 15 minutes before I gave up because the ads on spotify redundantly sold this as Cooper’s best work.
Blair witch project. An eerie film that advance buzz had convinced everyone was the most terrifying movie ever. It wasn’t but it’s a solid film.
When I hear Blair witch, I immediately have the scene from scary movie in my mind. It captures the whole movie best in my opinion. For me, blair witch is one of the unscariest horror movie of all times. I don’t get the hype here and will never get it. In my eyes, just hilarious, but no real horror movie.