3. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
Well we all know the story to this one, don't we. Who wasn't excited to see the return of Dr. Jones to the big screen? Who wasn't excited to that immortal John Williams theme once again? Who wasn't excited to see Harrison Ford don the fedora once more? Answer: pretty damn near everyone. Who was disappointed with what they saw? Answer: pretty damn near everyone. Somehow you knew, you just knew that as soon as you saw that CGI gopher or prairie dog or whatever the hell it was pop up on screen, you knew it wasn't going to be good. Okay, I can forgive the fridge thing. But Shia LaBeouf swinging on vines? Aliens? Oh, I'm sorry, INTER-DIMENSIONAL BEINGS. Ray Winstone? John Hurt? Two very talented actors, wasted. However the most terrifying and unforgivable thing about this film: Cate Blanchett's wig. What the hell was that about?
2. Spider-Man 3 (2007)
Sam Raimi had done the double. He had brought Spider-Man swinging into the twenty first century with a blistering first installment that set the benchmark for future comic books movies and then raised it even higher with part 2. Part 2, we were promised, was only a taster of things to come. Now we were getting to the good stuff with Part 3. We were getting to Spidey's dark side. Venom and the alien symbiote were coming. Geek and excitement levels through the roof. But what did we get? Rather than being a dark reflection of himself, Peter Parker just turned into a massive emo who did a little jig now and then and had stupid hair. Great plan alien symbiote. You latched onto a massive emo dork. Venom was a let down as was the hugely underwritten Sandman and the film suffered from an over abundance of characters and subplots that stalled the film right in it's tracks. Despite being skillfully executed, you can't help but watch now and muse on what could've been. Click "next" below to read the final part...