I’ve seen two movies already this year that lived up to big expectations: Blue Jasmine and Gravity. I consider this a triumph! How often does this happen? Not that often, as you’ll see in the following list: the 10 biggest movie disappointments of the past five years. Maybe we didn't expect all of these features to be critical darlings, but we had reasons to root for their success. And that was our downfall.
10.
Love and Other Drugs
I will say this about Love and Other Drugs: It is one of the best-GIF’d movies ever. There’s a naked Jake Gyllenhaal hunched over with his junk tucked in! There’s a naked Jake Gyllenhaal’s delicate ass! There’s Anne Hathaway getting out of naked Jake Gyllenhaal’s way! Truly, I found his nudity in this movie exceptional. But that is absolutely all. For a movie with a lot of charisma in its two leads (and if you’re one of those people who pretends Anne Hathaway has no charisma, just see yourself to the door), this was almost unbearable. How about that comic sideplot where a homeless man keeps stealing medications from the dumpster, and we watch his life improve thanks to the power of magical drug companies? How about the strangely insensitive treatment of people with Parkinson’s (which afflicts Hathaway’s character)? What about the fact that a movie about Viagra set in 1996 is mostly charmless to begin with?
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