1. Terminator Genisys
Yes - they really are calling it that. From conception Terminator Genisys has been a questionable prospect, but while Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Jurassic World have presented enough potential to justify rebooting their own long-dead franchises, each development here has only made Terminator 5 seem more and more like a bad joke. Alan Taylor, the man behind the most creatively compromised entry in Marvel's Phase Two, was brought on as director, who subsequently cast the most geek-baiting cast imaginable (Daenerys Targaryen, The Doctor, Arnie again), and Jai Courtney for some reason. Then that spell-checker-angering title change was made, only matched in ridiculousness by a plot that encompasses changing the time-line within the confines of the original two movies because copying Star Trek/X-Men: Days Of Future Past is easier than coming up with a new time travel idea. The trailer released at the tail end of 2014 didn't do much to improve the perceived situation. The cinematic equivalent of an excitable friend slapping you on the arm at each painfully obvious reference to the originals, it embarrassingly thought a Golden Gate Bridge set-piece was in any way fresh. But worse than all that, it looks like Genisys is ready to jump the shark and show a scene so silly it makes inflatable boobs seem rational - John Connor and Kyle Reese having a serious conversation on the fate of humanity while the latter's hanging free. Bring back Jim. Or, you know, stop. Which 2015 movies do expect to be big let-downs? Could any of these end up matching, or even exceeding expectations? Share your predictions in the comments below.
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Loves The Usual Suspects. Hates Transformers 2. Everything else lies somewhere in the middle.
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