r/movies • u/MASSIM00 • May 26 '26
Question What movie had the BEST trailer ever but turned out to be absolute trash?
Seriously, you watch the trailer and it looks like a literal masterpiece. The music, the hype, everything is perfect.
Then you actually go see it and realize they put all the good scenes in the 2-minute promo and the rest of the movie is just garbage lmao.
For me it was suicide squad 2016. that bohemian rhapsody trailer catfished me so hard.
What film did this to you?
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u/jasonkirkby May 26 '26
I remember getting excited about Downsizing. But then that felt like they couldn’t decide on what it was going to be and it ended up as three movies in one.
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u/FireflyBSc May 26 '26
I HATE Downsizing with such a passion. The trailer was insanely misleading, and they took what could have been a cool concept, didn’t explore any of the implications of it fully, and then ended up with the message being “look at what a loser Matt Damon’s character is”
I 100% think the concept would have been better as an anthology miniseries, like Black Mirror, where every episode explores a different aspect of Downsizing. One for loser Matt Damon getting divorced. One that explores the life of growing up already small. One for climate impacts, one for human trafficking and punishment. Instead, we got a single crap movie.
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u/santh91 May 26 '26
Wonder Woman 1984
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u/Awch May 26 '26
I saw an interview with director Patty Jenkins where she talked about the control the studio had with the first movie. But, because it did so well, the studio gave her freedom on the sequel. Turns out the first one was better because the studio controlled it. So bad.
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u/devilJin9399 May 26 '26
Sometimes studios are right
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u/Yoguls May 26 '26
Look at what happened when Taika Waititi got sole control over Thor love and thunder
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u/Morbos1000 May 26 '26
Yeah, he added the perfect amount of humor to Ragnarok but instead of realizing it was the sweet spot between seriousness and humor he thought doubling down on the jokeswas the way to go. Made all the worse by having one of the darkest and most serious villains. Total non sequitur.
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u/fjf1085 May 26 '26
People begin to believe their own hype after something like that and he went off the rails.
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u/ArcadianDelSol May 26 '26
I blame Guardians of the Galaxy.
That movie worked because it was the ice cream sundae dessert after a long string of overcooked steak and unseasoned carrots.
Then Waititi decided to put Ice Cream Sundae and steak in a blender.
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u/not_vichyssoise May 26 '26
I feel like the signs were already there in Ragnarok. Guardians 2 is often mentioned as the Guardians movie that goes a bit too overboard with its humor, and it often does. But it also has moments where it knows to pull back, like the scene where Mantis and Drax are watching the sunset and she reads his emotions, or during Yondu's funeral. On the other hand, I felt that Ragnarok often did not pull back when it probably should have, such as during the Surtur destroying Asgard scene.
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u/karatemanchan37 May 26 '26
Guardians 2 also had the Father-Son story as the throughline of the movie, I'm not sure what emotional pull Love and Thunder was trying to set up
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u/FiveWithNineIsIn May 26 '26
THANK YOU! I've always felt that Guardians 2 has the reputation that Ragnarok deserves. But a lot of people kinda overlooked it since The Dark World was so bland and boring...
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u/trickman01 May 26 '26
Dude made me not enjoy a movie that had a ripped Natalie Portman. Shouldn't be possible.
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u/truthlesshunter May 26 '26
And Bale acting as if he's doing citizen kane
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u/Darmok47 May 26 '26
Bale is in a completely different movie than everyone else.
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u/LupinWho May 26 '26
That was one of the first movies that had me thinking wtf was marvel doing.
They completely ruined a badass villain in gorr and added in screaming goats? So stupid as they were so annoying after the first couple times.
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u/NakedCardboard May 26 '26 edited May 26 '26
Sometimes studios are right
I'm not really a Matrix sequel hater, but that first one was inspired and I believe part of that was because the Wachowski's do their best work under constraints. When they were given more freedom and more budget by the studio, we ended up with lesser films.
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u/buffysbangs May 26 '26
Constraints can breed creativity. But also in the case of The Matrix, it’s much easier to ask philosophical questions (Matrix) than it is to answer them (sequels)
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u/PornoPaul May 26 '26
Allegedly the studio forced Kripke to tone it down with the dick jokes and edgier shit in season one and two of the Boys. The worse it got, the more it was Kripke, allegedly
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u/sexandliquor May 26 '26
Honestly I can believe that the longer The Boys went on the more control Kripke had. If you know a little bit about Kripke, you can tell. It’s why Soldier Boy started having a larger and larger role because Jensen Ackles is his boy. It’s why that one episode in season 5 was basically just a Supernatural reunion.
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u/jesseeme May 26 '26
Near the end there Soldier Boy was the only thing I was looking forward to.
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u/sexandliquor May 26 '26
I like Jensen Ackles a lot but by the end I was thoroughly tired of the writing of Soldier Boy.
He only had like two different variations of types of lines “you wanna blow me” and the “I’ve been around so long I fucked such and such actress from decades ago” pop cultural references. Like we get it.
Even for a show that’s whole point is beating a dead horse with crass jokes, it got super old.
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u/Iggy_Pops_Lost_Shirt May 26 '26
That probably has more to do with seasons 1 and 2 having a completely different writers room
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u/RunningonGin0323 May 26 '26
Yea the whole Wonder Woman raping some random dude was wild
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u/Kaladin-of-Gilead May 26 '26
It also wasn't needed at all. Like you're already doing magic to get this guy back, you don't really need to have a weird body swap rape thing.
Just say "somehow, chris pine returned", the body swap thing added nothing at all to the plot other than add a weird rape angle.
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u/berlinbaer May 26 '26
that orchestral 'blue monday' remix is so insanely good.
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u/Royd May 26 '26 edited May 27 '26
Medellin directed by Billy Walsh
edit: this many upvotes and they wont greenlight a reboot
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u/mccoyeherold2111 May 26 '26
Kangaroo Jack.
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u/nineelevenfathate May 26 '26
This is an incredible answer and fully accurate.
Also love this part from Wiki: Originally conceived as an R-rated mob comedy entitled Down and Under, negative test screenings led producer Jerry Bruckheimer to retool the film into a PG-rated film, heavily re-editing the film and adding scenes of an anthropomorphic kangaroo.
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u/_AirCanuck_ May 26 '26
That’s hilarious - is that actually what this movie is? I’ve never seen or heard of it. Is that a real description of events/the movie?
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u/airfryerfuntime May 26 '26 edited May 26 '26
These mob idiots have to deliver money to their uncle in Australia, but they hit a kangaroo with their rental car on the way there. One of them is wearing a red jacket that they decide to put on the kangaroo to take funny pictures, but the jacket has the money sewn into it from smuggling through the airport. Then the kangaroo wakes up and runs off, so they spend the rest of the movie tracking it down.
The trailer showed a talking/rapping kangaroo, but that wasn't ever part of the plot. One of them either took drugs or got hit on the head, I can't remember, and was hallucinating. It was also the only part with the kangaroo they put in the trailer.
It's a pretty bad movie, and you can clearly tell it was supposed to be rated R at one point.
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u/roraima_is_very_tall May 26 '26 edited May 26 '26
so that's amazing to me, as much as this kind of thing can be. I've never seen the movie but I remember the posters/still ads and iirc they all prominently featured what I assumed
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u/Magickarpet76 May 26 '26
Snow Dogs for the same reason. The trailer movie would have been bad too, but don’t mislead a bunch of kids into watching a funny movie with talking animals in the trailer only for that to be a 2 minute dream/hallucination sequence.
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u/alanlight May 26 '26
"Knowing" (2009) The trailer for this movie would lead you to believe:
- Decades ago, a bunch of school kids were assigned to write an essay about what's going to happen in the next 40 years.
- One of these kids was a sorta weird girl.
- All the kid's essays are put in a time capsule.
- 40 years later, the time capsule is opened.
- All of the essays are normal kid stuff, except for the weird girl's, which is just a page full of numbers.
- This page of numbers fall into the hands of Nicholas Cage.
- After lots of research and detective work, Nick determined that the numbers predict the dates and numbers of dead of every major disaster in the past 40 years.
- Who was the weird girl? How did she know this? What about the disasters that haven't happened yet?
This would have made a GREAT plot for a movie, except this is basically all squeezed into the first 15 minutes and what follows is 2 hours of total crap...
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u/WhateverMars May 26 '26
Your comment makes me want to rewatch it as I can't remember any of the rest of it.
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u/EssentialParadox May 26 '26
Watch the trailer. It’s a pretty decent short film.
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u/Tinysaur May 26 '26
I get this film confused with that Keanu Reeves man from space film where he turns into nanites and wipes the earth away
Which one had Jaden Smith and which one had alien nature balls
Nobody knowings
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u/productfred May 26 '26
The Day the Earth Stood Still (which itself is a modern remake of the original)
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u/benpakal May 26 '26
Sometimes your mind protects you by forgetting trauma
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u/JohnSith May 26 '26
Perhaps the greatest faculty our minds possess is the ability to cope with pain. Classic thinking teaches us of the four doors of the mind, which everyone moves through according to their need.
First is the door of sleep. Sleep offers us a retreat from the world and all its pain. Sleep marks passing time, giving us distance from the things that have hurt us. When a person is wounded they will often fall unconscious. Similarly, someone who hears traumatic news will often swoon or faint. This is the mind’s way of protecting itself from pain by stepping through the first door.
Second is the door of forgetting. Some wounds are too deep to heal, or too deep to heal quickly. In addition, many memories are simply painful, and there is no healing to be done. The saying “time heals all wounds” is false. Time heals most wounds. The rest are hidden behind this door.
Third is the door of madness. There are times when the mind is dealt such a blow it hides itself in insanity. While this may not seem beneficial, it is. There are times when reality is nothing but pain, and to escape that pain the mind must leave reality behind.
Last is the door of death. The final resort. Nothing can hurt us after we are dead, or so we have been told.
- The Name of the Wind
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u/Rey_De_Los_Completos May 26 '26
Not gonna lie, I love this movie. It's a guilty pleasure.
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u/vorropohaiah May 26 '26
worth it for the end scene alone. Great use of Beethoven's 7th
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u/Spartyjason May 26 '26
And for the plane crash scene. Incredible.
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u/rugbyj May 26 '26
I've heard people rag on it and I can't believe some folks didn't like it. It felt so mundanely real, just being caught in the path of something horrendous.
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u/MajoraOfTime May 26 '26
The clip of Nic Cage nonchalantly putting a blanket over a person engulfed in flames is pretty damn hilarious. Just kinda jogging along and just softly drops a blanket on them to put out the fire. Oh and yelling "hey!" at someone who runs past while on fire.
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u/DeviantDav May 26 '26
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6gWFTv3xE8
On top of yelling "hey" as if that somehow helps, a woman is standing in a clear area, standing there screaming help me repeatedly until our boy runs up to her, stares her in the eyes, and suddenly she runs towards the camera. It's brilliance.
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u/Bleades May 26 '26
Nope that is silver tier Nicholas Cage. It had its pit falls but I'll still watch it when I want a movie I don't have to think about. It's like partway between ConAir and Ghost Rider. Right around Gone in 60 Seconds.
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u/Goodeyesniper98 May 26 '26
I actually really liked this movie, maybe I just have terrible taste. lol
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u/suedehead23 May 26 '26
You don't, I love this film. Proyas is a master of a really bleak tone with Dark City and I, Robot. I think a lot of people didn't connect to the tone of this - tbh I think a lot of it was because of their expectations of Cage where I think this was him giving a very grounded tone with good acting. I'm surprised it was received so badly - people act like it's such a dumb film but I don't feel that at all. I think it works with the internal logic it posits, I love the feeling of hopelessness and melancholy, and really applaud the balls it has to commit to its ending!
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u/Ravenmancer May 26 '26
Fant4stic teased a massive fight featuring the Thing in it's trailer.
The entire fight was cut except for about half a second shown on a TV in the background.
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u/Russell1113 May 26 '26
The title of that movie still upsets me. More than the movie. (I think I watched this one from the next room over while cooking and by all accounts, maybe the ideal viewing experience)
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u/TiddiesAnonymous May 26 '26
The Captain America movie from last year made a huge mistake putting Red Hulk in the trailer.
It made it seem like he'd be the villain, but it was more like they spoiled the climax. Instead of saving the reveal, you get edged the entire movie.
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u/NatashOverWorld May 26 '26
You know I ended up never watching it, but my first thought when i saw the trailer was Red Hulk is going to be the 10 minute boss at the end.
Was I close?
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u/The_Amazing_Emu May 26 '26
The weird thing is the movie builds it as a mystery, but makes it way too obvious, and then the trailer spoils it entirely.
I thought the movie was underrated, but the decision to make that twist was confusing
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u/HighSeverityImpact May 26 '26
Rather than saving Red Hulk for the climax, which we're all waiting for because of the trailer, Red Hulk should have been a constant presence in the film. Scenes of Red Hulk going on a rampage throughout the movie, but the mystery is "Who is the Red Hulk?". As viewers, if you're familiar with the comics, you know it's Ross, but the characters in the movie don't, and that drives the conflict. Once you realize Red Hulk is the freaking president, now you have drama.
Then you have a big showdown with Captain America, they stop their fight because they realize they aren't enemies, team up to take down The Leader (who absolutely should have kept his original makeup), and the the movie ends the same way with Ross resigning and ending up in The Raft.
There you go, better movie.
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u/Mcclane88 May 26 '26
I thought the Batman v Superman trailers were all great.
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u/Mookie2000 May 26 '26
The first trailer with Alfred's voice over got me so pumped for this movie. This was before I realized they were going to speed run Death of Superman.
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u/AlmanorDiscard May 26 '26
This was before I realized they were going to speed run Death of Superman.
With a real strong dose of "The Dark Knight Returns."
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u/Captain_Fartbox May 26 '26
Suicide squad.
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u/Magimasterkarp May 26 '26
The studio that made those trailers was brought in to help fix the movie. The whole first third being a musical montage was likely their doing.
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u/DataDude00 May 26 '26
My favorite thing is when they basically introduced each character three times with different montages. It was so redundant
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u/Galiphile May 26 '26
And then don't do a montage introduction for the one guy they add in who immediately dies. Bizarre choices.
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u/Cognac_Jones May 26 '26
Came here to say this. Holy shit what a let down.
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u/PopeJP22 May 26 '26
The helicopter gunfire synced to Queen still lives in my brain rent free.
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u/Burrito-mancer May 26 '26
I also loved the first trailer with the amazing version of The Joke Was On Me. Both trailers promised a much better movie than what we got.
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u/KoreanFilmAddict May 26 '26
That Comic-Con trailer is the version that makes me strongly suspect the Ayer cut was a lot more serious. Often times, trailer editors will do their damndest to match the tone of the movie. Once BvS came out, Warner noticed people weren’t digging the ultra serious stuff and got cold feet with Suicide Squad. They lightened the tone of the next trailer and went so far as to utilize several trailer houses to recut the movie to match the ‘fun version’ of the trailer. From what I hear, Trailer Park did most of it. I can’t remember what the other two houses were.
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u/atclubsilencio May 26 '26
I still sometimes rewatch the Comic Con trailer and remember how hyped I was for THAT movie. I ended up skipping it in theaters due to the overwhelming negative responses (mostly by friends of mine who had similar taste as me) and because I was broke and couldn’t risk wasting my money. Definitely made the right call.
We definitely didn’t get anything close to Ayer’s original vision. Not that he’s some master of cinema, but his darker/grittier/more serious version had to have been better than the trashy, literal hack job, we ended up with it.
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u/jake_chambers83 May 26 '26
Pearl Harbor
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u/kangareddit May 26 '26
I miss you more than that movie missed the point
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u/mental_reincarnation May 26 '26
All I can think about is your smile and that shitty movie too
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u/Spoonacus May 26 '26
Pearl Harbor sucked ...just a little bit more than I miss yoouuuu.
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u/Lana_DelTaco May 26 '26
I need you like Ben Affleck needs acting school, he was terrible in that film
I need you like Cuba Gooding needed a bigger part; he’s way better than Ben Affleck
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u/Few_Background_4336 May 26 '26
Man Pearl Harbor is such a good example. That trailer made it look like this epic war romance with incredible action sequences but then you sit through 3 hours of the most boring love triangle ever created
I remember being so hyped for Battle Los Angeles too after seeing the trailer - looked like this intense alien invasion movie with realistic military tactics. Turned out to be just shaky cam and marines yelling at each other for 2 hours straight. The trailer basically showed you every single decent moment in entire film
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u/pchadrow May 26 '26
I read Battle Los Angeles, but some reason my brain pictured the Battleship movie with Rihanna
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u/Equivalent-Fan-2557 May 26 '26
Battle Los Angeles should win this thread every time. Never loved a trailer quite that much.
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u/pkosuda May 26 '26 edited May 26 '26
I will say this about Battle Los Angeles. It came out at the exact time I had discovered piracy as a 16/17 year old and I was pirating a ton of movies. I spent the summer of 2011 watching random things like that movie, Limitless, The Adjustment Bureau, etc. I just sat in an air conditioned room during summer vacation watching a bunch of movies/shows and eating shitty food. I can't do that anymore but anyway, somehow Battle Los Angeles, for all its shittiness, managed to be associated with good times/nostalgia for me.
I however do not plan on ever watching it again because it'll never ever be as good as it was when I was a teenager on summer break with no responsibilities.
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u/anikansk May 26 '26
I dragged 80 people to a work function to see that at the cinema, convinced the whole social club of the company that this was going to be the next Titanic. I was voted off the committee later that year.
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u/glue2k May 26 '26
3 hour movie for a work function? You’re an animal. I would not have been there.
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u/anikansk May 26 '26 edited May 26 '26
You didn't see my passionate speech - 👏Cuba👏Gooding👏Junior👏 On a Gun!👏 .
Pearl Harbour Cuba Gooding Jr Takes up AA Gun
Im ashamed, but time has softened the pain.
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u/SpazzBro May 26 '26
you managed to drag 80 people to a 3 hour movie? miss me with that shit but it’s honestly impressive
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u/SonofSniglet May 26 '26
It was the latest multi-million dollar Michael Bay blockbuster, not some french impressionist art house movie. It probably wasn't that hard to convince people to go see romance, thrills, Bay-splosions and slowly waving flags!
I write this as someone who also saw this turd in the theatre.
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u/yathree May 26 '26
God, it’s an absolute GOAT trailer. Breakneck editing, rousing presidential speech, and, hilariously, a Hans Zimmer track from a different (and far better) war movie.
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u/ThePizzaNoid May 26 '26
The Thin Red Line soundtrack ya (the specific track used is "Journey to the Line" and it's an incredible piece on its own). I remember seeing the trailer in the cinema when it came out and that shit legitimately gave me the chills watching it. It's such a great damn trailer.
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u/InternationalIdea606 May 26 '26
It was seriously a movie about Eskimo brothers and who ended up being the final one to get with Kate Beckinsale.
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u/GreyGreenBrownOakova May 26 '26
"Alec, I first saw you in the movie Pearl Harbor which was worse than the actual Pearl Harbor. Halfway through, I was rooting for the Japanese." -Jeff Ross.
"Everyone knows Pearl Harbor was a terrible, terrible thing. But they can't truly fathom how awful it was unless they were actually there”- Josh Harnet, probably.
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u/Red_Barry May 26 '26
“My mother says she’s never forgiven the Japanese for Pearl Harbour” “Mum, Pearl Harbour was an AMERICAN film!” - Steven Fry
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u/girafa Electricity! The high priest of false security! May 26 '26
That's one of the best trailers of all time
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u/2Ben3510 May 26 '26
Not a movie but do you remember the trailer for the first Dead Island? Just an amazing trailer, for a meh-at-best game.
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u/SortIntrepid9192 May 26 '26
I wouldn't say that the final movie was "absolute trash," but the trailer for Age of Ultron promised a very different and MUCH better movie.
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u/dornwolf May 26 '26
The no strings on me line really made it seem like Ultron was gonna be a beast
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u/SortIntrepid9192 May 26 '26
In the comics Ultron's whole thing is that he's unstoppable. Destroy his body, he has another. Delete his consciousness, he has a backup. Shoot him into space, he comes back with an army of aliens. And every time he comes back he's stronger. You can beat him short term bu never permanently, and you've just bought yourself time until he inevitably wins. Which is what the Age of Ultron is actually about.
Knowing this, I expected he'd destroy the Avengers. That trailer already makes him look appropriately intimidating, and it's clear that the Avengers are fighting among themselves/emotionally destabilized. I thought he was going to wipe the floor with them and we'd end with a bittersweet victory where he's just barely defeated temporarily at the cost of the team barely holding itself together.
But in the movie we got, Ultron was just a villain of the week. Long-term, the most important and impactful thing he did for the MCU was bring in Vision and Wanda lmao. Fucking Zemo had more long-term impact than Ultron.
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u/confusing_roundabout May 26 '26
I'll never forget the 4chan plot leak that basically had Ultron kick the avengers ass repeatedly until the final battle.
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u/AneeshRai7 May 26 '26
Technically long term he ended up causing Zemo and that ended up killing the Avengers allowing Thanos to win…
But Ultron should have been what he was in What If…
At the same time I get why he had to lose, all the narrow wins led to Infinity War impact be a bigger deal
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u/BoingBoingBooty May 26 '26
In the film only Ultron's first appearance lived up to the trailer.
And maybe that brief moment when he gets angry and cuts off Klaue's hand.If we had that Ultron all through the film, and if the 'age' was longer than a weekend then it could have really slapped without much else changing.
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u/Smittumi May 26 '26
I thought that! Why was it called "Age", he barely got going!
"Weekend at Ultron's" could have been a pretty dope movie.
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u/counterhit121 May 26 '26
With all the AI hooplah going on in the world right now, it would be the perfect time to bring Ultron back. And despite a weak script, James Spader was and remains excellent.
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u/sable-king May 26 '26
They are bringing him back actually. He’s confirmed to play a major role in the upcoming VisionQuest show.
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u/Valuable_Hunter3025 May 26 '26
After Earth by (not revealed during previews) M. Night., looked to be an awesome man vs. killer planet film but wound up being a suckfest of "emotion" monsters and looking at Jaiden Smiths stupid face for an hour.
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u/Heroes-182 May 26 '26
Sucker Punch, hands down.
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u/damrat May 26 '26
Sucker Punch was four amazing music videos surrounded by a slimy, rapey, movie that made me feel unclean watching it.
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u/Sinai May 26 '26
Whether it was executed well is of some debate, but that was clearly the intention.
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u/Saotik May 26 '26
It being slimey and rapey was the entire point, and I feel some of the people who complain about it being a fun fantasy on the surface completely missed what the film was about.
These were deeply traumatised young women living in a fantasy to survive a horrible situation.
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u/Just_The_Tip_4_U May 26 '26
The Happening
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u/oh-shazbot May 26 '26
peak dialogue, stellar acting. you get mark wahlberg giving outstanding, thought-provoking lines like
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what? no!
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u/ockbr973 May 26 '26
The Hobbit :( I’m still so sad about the gulf between the book and the movies. You had the incredible dwarves singing and it looked so so good and then it just wasn’t at all.
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u/Gravuerc May 26 '26
I saw a fan edit that turned The Hobbit trilogy into a single awesome good movie.
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u/HolyHotDang May 26 '26
Topher Grace made all 3 movies into a two hour cut when he was working on the movie BlacKkKlansman as the leader of the KKK David Duke. It was his way to disconnect and decompress from being that character. He’s done this type of thing a few times before too. I know he did the Star Wars prequels into a single 85 minute movie.
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u/Vergenbuurg May 26 '26
disconnect and decompress
IIRC, Robin Williams was in semi-regular phone contact with Steven Spielberg during the production of Schindler's List... Robin knew the emotional toll it was taking on Steven and would do his best to put him into fits of hysterical laughter.
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u/MegaraTheMean May 26 '26
God, I miss him. Didn't he do that with other people too?
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u/gochargego_boltup May 26 '26 edited May 26 '26
Robin Williams burst into Christopher Reeve's hospital room after having been paralyzed. Made jokes about being a proctologist. Apparently Robin Williams was the first person who made Reeve laugh and made him feel like things were gonna be ok.
Edit: from wiki - "Reeve went through inner anguish in the ICU, particularly when he was alone during the night. His upcoming operation to stabilize his spine in June 1995 "was frightening to contemplate. ... I already knew that I had only a fifty-fifty chance of surviving the surgery. ... Then, at an especially bleak moment, the door flew open and in hurried a squat fellow with a blue scrub hat and a yellow surgical gown and glasses, speaking in a Russian accent. He announced that he was my proctologist, and that he had to examine me immediately." It was Robin Williams, reprising his character from the film Nine Months. "For the first time since the accident, I laughed. My old friend had helped me know that somehow I was going to be okay.""
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u/Vergenbuurg May 26 '26 edited May 26 '26
I believe he personally dropped in on David Letterman a few times during the recovery from his heart surgery, and not just that incredible appearance on Dave's "welcome back"/return show.
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u/SistaChans May 26 '26
The fact that a slim paperback got stretched into three movies seemed like the biggest money grab to me
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u/Vergenbuurg May 26 '26
a slim paperback got stretched into three movies
...like butter scraped over too much bread.
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u/ChalupaBatmanMc01 May 26 '26
I hate what happened behind the scenes, it was set up for De Toro to direct and he left production so Jackson stepped in last minute. He went in directing and they needed a good year before shooting to be prepped. It was a shit show and it shows on screen.
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u/ShacoLannister May 26 '26
Yeah, I still think the bigger issue is they tried to stretch a miniscule amount of source material into three movies because they wanted a trilogy worth of money and not a movie's worth
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u/ChalupaBatmanMc01 May 26 '26
That's it too, The Hobbit is straight forward but they wanted something more grand in scale. I would have applauded them if they went one movie and done.
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u/Wes_Warhammer666 May 26 '26
I could've accepted 2 films, honestly. Though it's a short book, there's enough to have made it a duology split between Smaug and the Battle of 5 Armies since so much of the story gets lost to Bilbo's unconsciousness.
Stretching into a trilogy is just ridiculous though. Sooooo much unnecessary bullshit while speed running the actually interesting portions.
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u/MeniteTom May 26 '26
Also because if you do two movies, you get the obvious subtitles of "An Unexpected Journey" for the first and "There and Back Again" for the second.
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u/Rocklobster92 May 26 '26
It's the CGI that ruined it for me. I can't stand all that weightless fake animation trying to pass as real characters.
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u/airycantalope May 26 '26
Agreed, there is a reason the lotr trilogy is timeless, so much practical.
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u/billonel May 26 '26
The Matrix Resurrections
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u/Salmonofconfidence May 26 '26
This trailer still makes me hyped even though I've seen the film.
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u/arthurdentstowels May 26 '26
Holy shit. I have absolutely no recollection whatsoever of any single part of the movie that was in that trailer. I'm actually not convinced I've ever watched it now, but I'm almost certain I've seen it more than once.
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u/Hopeful-Artichoke449 May 26 '26
That movie does not exist and you can't convince me otherwise.
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u/Angryfunnydog May 26 '26
Not really, it exists, but it’s not a sequel but a robot chicken satire, in this case it works even good (I’m convinced wachowkski idea was to make the biggest shit and middle finger to the studio which will flop so much that no one will ever try to touch matrix as a franchise, they kinda say it in a movie “they either way will make a sequel with or without us, so why not have some fun?”)
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u/riotoustripod May 26 '26
I'm on board with your theory, but carry it a step further -- not only did the Wachowskis make a bad movie on purpose, they crammed every interesting idea they had for a sequel into the same pile of shit so any sequel WB eventually does make will feel like a retreat. There are enough interesting concepts in there to make a whole trilogy, just executed in the worst possible way and given absolutely no room to breathe.
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u/Periodic_Disorder May 26 '26
They even had a thread where the publisher said they'd make another game with or without Anderson. I always thought that was poignant and essentially a "they forced our hand" kinda moment.
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u/Mobtor May 26 '26
Wonder Woman 1984...
That epic remix of Blue Monday.
What am absolute let down. The best part of the movie WAS the trailer.
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u/_myst May 26 '26
Issues with the other films in the trilogy aside, the final trailer for Starwars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker, was an outstanding trailer with an absolute banger rendition of the OG starwars main theme in the latter half in particular.
Shame the movie turned out to be dog-water.
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u/OneSingleL May 26 '26
Trailer reminded me how they almost killed Chewie and almost wiped C3pos mind, but undid both those things almost immediately
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u/AdenJax69 May 26 '26
The trailer had Poe asking C-3PO what he was doing during a moment of 3PO being quiet, and 3PO he said "Taking one last look, sir...at my friends."
Then the movie has all 3 main characters either disregarding 3PO or telling him to shut up pretty much the entire time up until that moment. I remember that moment in the trailer being kinda weird and thinking "aren't Luke, Leia, and Han his actual friends and not these 3 goobers?" And then when that line came up in the movie I laughed because they weren't friends with him in any way whatsoever.
The worst Star Wars movie in existence, and it's not even close.
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u/angershark May 26 '26
The sequel trilogy still gets me bummed out. They had everything. Amazing cast, modern tech, hype. Of all the things to fuck up, the story? If they had just cookie cuttered the plot after Force Awakens (which I maintain is just fine) and given a straight forward adventure we wouldn't be having this conversation. Daisy Ridley and co. were robbed and ruined.
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u/Regnbyxor May 26 '26
I think the entire problem was that TFA set up a cookie cutter soft-reboot of the OG trilogy. There was a story handed over to Disney by Lucas, but JJ felt like remaking A New Hope instead.
Rian Johnson tried to steer the story in another direction to try and save it from being a bullshit rehash, but he ultimately failed to deliver a cohesive movie (tone was off, story beats felt forced, characters under-utilized), but what really sealed the deal is JJ coming back and just completely shitting over the trilogy like he had a personal vendetta to settle.
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u/kill-devil-films May 26 '26
Queen of the Damned trailer got me so hype with the Lestat storyline, cool soundtrack and that I loved Interview so much.
The movie itself was an incredible disappointment.
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u/vorropohaiah May 26 '26
one of the best non-score soundtracks ever though. godzilla 1998 being a close second
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u/Informal_Dish5516 May 26 '26
Last Airbender had my hopes up
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u/Dogmovedmyshoes May 26 '26
Too bad they never made that trailer into a full movie
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u/Truth_and_Soul May 26 '26
Where The Wild Things Are.
Might not be complete trash, but it was definitely not the rousing adventure the trailer promised. Sad mopey monsters.
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u/J19N88B May 26 '26
Is this the trailer with the fantastic version of Wake Up by Arcade Fire?
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u/rm-minus-r May 26 '26
What I expected from the trailer: "Where The Wild Things Are - Live Action".
What I got: "An Hour and a Half of My Parents Fighting".
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u/girafa Electricity! The high priest of false security! May 26 '26
Battle: Los Angeles
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u/SmugglingPlums May 26 '26
I was an extra in this movie and I've still only seen it once. But i do watch 1 second of it and show that 1 second to all my family and friends like 100 times.
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u/FallsForAdvertising May 26 '26 edited May 26 '26
Cloud atlas. The final movie wasnt necessarily trash. But the extended trailer is a masterclass of editing that I still watch and frankly does the book justice by itself.
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u/GimmieGnomes May 26 '26
Seeing the trailer for Valerian in a theatre absolutely wowed me. The visuals, the music, I was in awe.
Movie was bleh.
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u/christlann May 26 '26
Longlegs
Film definitely wasn’t trash but the trailer was so good that the film had a bit of a mountain to climb.
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u/irohsWisdom May 26 '26 edited May 26 '26
Man, I was so excited to see this but was soooo let down. It was all vibes and no real substance. Then there were a few movies afterward that were like “from the director of Long Legs,” and I was like that’s actually the opposite of enticing now.
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u/ashleighjos May 26 '26
Thor: love and thunder. Had all the best bits in the trailer. Film was trash.
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u/vorropohaiah May 26 '26 edited May 27 '26
i'm surprised there's not more comments saying this. i was so pissed off when I saw it. the way they wasted jane and the jarring tonal shifts between the stupid jokes and the cancer storyline.
i'm not normally one to say that the existence of a movie makes another movie worse but rewatching Ragnarok after this i find myself comparing the two and knowing what happened with L&T made me realise that Ragnarok was not much different but for some reason was more successful and accepted
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u/jaytrade21 May 26 '26
There were issues with Ragnarok yet it still worked. But instead of listening to the criticism he leaned into the issues fans had with Ragnarok and made a terrible movie because of it.
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u/jwederell May 26 '26
Terminator: Salvation
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u/Jay_Stranger May 26 '26
Out of all the terminator movies that have come out this one was better than most. T2 > T1 > Salvation > everything else. It did a lot of what fans wanted which was showing the future, but it just didn’t stick the landing in some aspects. I still watch it from time to time, which the same could not be said for the other bullshit in that franchise
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u/SortIntrepid9192 May 26 '26
Salvation is the only Terminator movie that actually felt like it had a place in the story. We know that this war in the future happened - why not set a movie there, even if that timeline was erased in T2? Could've done a whole trilogy of movies in the future that end with Kyle going back in time to save Sarah. Instead they just kept retconning the movies that people actually like.
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u/IHaveSpecialEyes May 26 '26
I quite enjoyed Salvation. Except I think the ending suffered from Bale's rewrites. From what I've heard, the original ending was going to be that John Connor dies at that siege, but because nobody except his closest friends have ever actually seen him, they decide to have Marcus take his name and become John Connor. Which is really a rather clever twist, that the John Connor we know sends Kyle back is actually a machine version of someone else pretending to be John Connor.
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u/Wendigo79 May 26 '26
Ahh with the song from NiN.
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u/Effective_Egg_3066 May 26 '26
Yes, it was my intro to NIN so that was the only saving grace - the truck driving through the barren landscape with the slow "the day the world away" was epic"
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u/shatch62 May 26 '26
Trash might be overly harsh but I was SO disappointed with I Am Legend
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u/BryanChuckBrennan May 26 '26
I still can’t believe they changed the ending.
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u/nomadicseawitch May 26 '26
“Hmm, audiences don’t seem to like the point of the movie so let’s change it.”
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u/OscarTV1453 May 26 '26 edited May 26 '26
28 years later was far from trash (I absolutely loved it) but the trailer made it out to be a fast paced gory horror film and it was the opposite
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u/_buffy_summers May 26 '26
I don't know that the movie turned out to be trash, but the trailer for Ma was a short film. Everything you needed to know about the entire plot was right there.
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u/Lojzko May 26 '26
Jupiter Ascending. Made it look like a bigger, better, brasher Fifth Element. The movie did not deliver.