10 Terrible Movies That Tricked Us With Awesome Posters

What The Poster Promised Us: The first official American Godzilla movie teased classic monster movie fans with this crafty poster featuring just a glimpse of his colossal size but enough to suggest he’s going to be an awesomely huge and quite terrifying beast that’s going to wreak havoc on New York City.

Finally, it looks like we have a movie with a budget big enough and special effects advanced enough to create a truly amazing and awe-inspiring incarnation of the iconic monster that will do Godzilla justice.

What We Actually Got: An odd iguana-frog hybrid masquerading as Godzilla that was nowhere near scary or impressive enough to make up for the film’s flimsy and farcical plot and lame characters led by Matthew Broderick as an unconvincing scientist who goes on like a grown-up version of Ferris Bueller.

Perhaps Godzilla is best left to Japan, Hollywood.