10 Awesome Trailers That Tricked Us Into Seeing Awful Movies
9. X-Men: The Last Stand
The buildup to X-Men: The Last Stand was a time before we knew that X-Men movies could suck, so anticipation for the movie could not have been higher. Both X-Men and its sequel were superb, and it was fully expected that The Last Stand would cap off the trilogy in a satisfying fashion.
The movie's spectacular trailer was another reason to get excited, too. It teased a major shift in the relationship between mankind and mutantkind, and a story that looked a lot darker than the two movies that came before it.
It also mentioned a "cure" for the mutant gene, giving The Last Stand a sense of finality, like this was going to be the heart-wrenching conclusion to the journey these characters had been on for several movies.
In reality, The Last Stand was the silliest of its trilogy, with plenty of dumb moments and too many under-developed plotlines to count.
The movie provided plenty of spectacle but it lacked the soul and emotional weight of its predecessors, its surprisingly short runtime only serving to make the story feel hastily shoved together - elements like The Dark Phoenix subplot are woefully undercooked.
The movie was so bad that it forced Fox to re-structure the X-Men series by developing the prequel X-Men: First Class, and eventually, The Last Stand was retconned out of existence by X-Men: Days Of Future Past. Deservedly so.