10 Dumbest Things In The Worst Summer Movie Season Ever

9. The Lack Of Mythical Beasts - Hercules

The Scene: Not so much a single scene as the entire tone of the piece. Surprisingly, Hercules is a revisionist take on the legendary warrior, mostly eschewing the mythic writings about the character as a man who slew unbelievable beasts, instead grounding him as a more authentic warrior for the most part, if still a man with an inconceivable level of strength. Why It's Dumb: The whole appeal of a Brett Ratner-directed Hercules film was that it might be dumb, cheesy fun. The trailers heavily relied on clips of Hercules (Dwayne Johnson) fighting a multi-headed Hydra, killing a gigantic lion and so on, yet in the final movie these epic battles only appear in a brief montage at the beginning, and we as audiences have essentially been hornswoggled for our hard-earned cash. The studio, well aware that the revisionist take might hit some audiences the wrong way, essentially chose to conceal it, and though the movie is by no means a terrible film, it's not the movie we paid to see at all. Johnson is still a blast in the lead role, but we wanted lengthy set-pieces of him slaying gigantic monsters, not regular battles against puny soldiers.