10 Huge Recent Movie Moments That Fell Totally Flat

7. New York City Gets Iced - Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire

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Given that the most recent Ghostbusters movie is straight-up called Frozen Empire and the marketing focused on villain Garraka plunging New York City into a horrifying deep freeze, it was tremendously disappointing how this ended up feeling like a total afterthought.

Despite the trailers suggesting this to be a majorly motivating plot element which happens much earlier on, it's ultimately relegated to the final 25 minutes of the film, and the freeze isn't nearly as catastrophic or widespread as we were led to believe.

The Ghostbusters swiftly band together to battle Garraka and thaw the city out, and that's that. 

Turning New York into a popsicle was actually a pretty neat and original hook for a new Ghostbusters movie, but perhaps in an attempt to keep the budget down, it ended up comprising a frustratingly small portion of a generally tedious sequel.

 
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