20 Movies That Weren't Worth The Wait
These long-gestating films just weren't worth all that waiting - or the hype.
Good things come to those who wait, or so the saying goes.
And for sure, that's certainly true in the case of films like Mad Max: Fury Road, Blade Runner 2049, and Barbie - projects which spent years and years cooking, and yet ultimately delivered far above and beyond most reasonable expectations.
But the unfortunate reality is that more long-delayed, ever-in-the-works movies end up missing the mark, enough that those who spent years waiting might feel like it really wasn't worth all that time and energy.
That's surely the case with these 20 films, each of which were in the works for years and years, maybe even decades, before someone was finally able to get them made one way or another.
Perhaps the world had simply moved on in the interim, or maybe the film could only finally get made with some severe, quality-impacting compromises.
Whatever the reason, these movies all fell far short of what fans hoped they would be after such a ridiculously long wait.
The lesson here? If a film takes forever to come out, you'd best temper your expectations...
20. Tron: Ares
Tron: Ares is just the third entry into the sci-fi action franchise in 43 years, serving as a follow-up to 2010's Tron: Legacy.
Though Disney intended to produce a direct sequel to Legacy in short order, the film's underwhelming box office performance gave the regime pause, and so the decision was eventually made to instead produce a largely standalone third film.
While Tron: Ares boasts some undeniably dazzling visuals and a pulse-pounding score from Nine Inch Nails, that's more or less all the film has going for it.
The Tron-on-Earth narrative is such a generic, messy mish-mash of half-baked ideas that Ares is somehow the one thing few expected - a genuinely boring Tron movie.
It doesn't help that Jared Leto's Ares makes for an utterly listless protagonist, and the film as a whole just feels painfully uninspired, even outright forgettable.
After fans waited patiently for 15 years, Disney really needed to come out swinging, and this just wasn't it.