15 Overhyped Movies You Wish You'd Not Watched

There are disappointing Oscar-Bait films... and then there's Downsizing. 

Every year there are plenty of films that are anticipated to be big award contenders and then fail to live up to the hype, that's just what happens with awards season. And many of those films, even if they're not as great as expected, are perfectly OK. Downsizing, on the other hand, is a genuinely terrible film. 

Expectations were raised high by the film's wonderful premise, terrific director (Alexander Payne) and consummate cast, and these expectations were then dashed by a mind-blowingly dull affair that mostly consists of Matt Damon's protagonist cleaning people's apartments with an insufferable and borderline racist comic-relief character (Hong Chau). 

And then, in the final stretch, it suddenly becomes a preachy warning about global warming and the end of the world... what the hell is this? 

Downsizing is yet another one of those potential-wasting failures that's depressing to sit through more than anything else, and it's one of the worst films by a great director in recent memory.