The 10 Most Disappointing Movies Of The Past 5 Years

From: The Backlot

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Les Miserables

I will never forget — as long as I live — how self-congratulatory every single trailer for this movie was. Hugh Jackman opined endlessly about how lip-syncing in movie musicals “takes you out of the moment.” Amanda Seyfried gushed about Tom Hooper‘s visionary direction. Anne Hathaway wanted to weep every day on set, she was so in love. And so did we, after we got an earful of Russell Crowe‘s singing voice, an eyeful of the joylessly overwrought drama at hand, and enough extreme closeups to put Wayne’s World to shame. Every single scene of this movie is both endless and awkward, and every actor tries mugging his/her way through the mess with fierce, photogenic determination. Again, I like Anne Hathaway and I’m glad she has an Oscar, but I’m blown away that anyone could’ve found this blaring, overindulgent Evanescence video anything more than full of itself.