Worst Movies of 2015

Well, with my Best Movies of 2015 finished, it’s time to look at the movies that…well…didn’t fare so well.  I was going to do a separate list for the most disappointing movies of 2015, but I think it would make more sense to put those here.  Now, the disappointing ones aren’t necessarily irredeemable, it’s just they weren’t quite what I was hoping for.  Make no mistake, I will be getting to some of the worst movies I’ve seen this year, but the first half of this post is going to be dedicated to the ones that just didn’t quite make it.  So, let’s have some fun, eh?

MOST DISAPPOINTING MOVIES OF 2015:

1.When The Avengers came out back in 2012, it was a sight to behold.  Some of Marvel’s most iconic heroes on the big screen together.  A movie like that has never happened before.  It was one of the most spectacular, exciting and entertaining movies of that year.  It was a movie that could’ve EASILY gone horribly wrong.  But thanks to Joss Whedon, it didn’t.  So, I was genuinely excited when Age of Ultron was announced.  The Avengers going up against one of their most notorious and dangerous enemies?  Hell, yeah.  Count me in.  But what did we get?  An overstuffed movie with some of the worst character development I’ve seen in years.  Ultron himself was actually kind of cool, being performed by James Spader.  Awesome.  Most of the character interactions between the Avengers are pretty amusing.  However, the romantic angle between Banner and Black Widow was poorly done.  Those two had NO chemistry, and it just came off as….awkward.  The whole AI thing just made the whole movie feel….generic.  The action is fantastic, the pacing is pretty good, but overall, the movie was just….not what it should have been.

2.

I want to make it clear that I really enjoyed this movie.  I really did.  My disappointment with this film comes from the fact that the damn marketing team spoiled what could have been one of the most interesting twists in the film.  And it wasn’t just the one, they pretty revealed the whole fucking thing in that one trailer.  So, when I saw this in theaters, I wasn’t as thrilled as I should have been.  It got better on repeat viewings, but I just couldn’t shake my initial impression of Terminator: Genisys.  The movie suffered statewide, because of that and the fact that it was released on a Wednesday instead of a Friday.  Internationally, it did a hell of a lot better, but I still think Paramount is still smarting over the film’s poor domestic performance.  I know I am.  Is there going to be a Terminator 6 in the future?  Pun intended, only time will tell.

3.

Honestly, I went into this movie knowing it was probably going to be bad, but I had hope that it was going to be at least fun.  Some of it was.  Seeing Vin Diesel as a Viking-style warrior is awesome.  I think Diesel would make a hell of a Viking.  The movie reminds me too much of I, Frankenstein, which was a complete disaster.  I really wanted to like this one, but the poor special effects, the incompetently written story and characters, just made for a very lackluster experience.  It ain’t the worst movie I’ve seen, we’re getting to that, but The Last Witch Hunter was just horribly mediocre.

THE WORST MOVIES OF 2015:

So we come to it at last, the great disappointments of our time….or, you know, the year…just….yeah.  2015 was a very strong year for movies.  We saw a whole lot of great action movies, drama, comedy and horror.  We also saw the return of Star Wars.  There’s that.  Sadly, there are always two sides to every coin.  A yin to every yang.  The films of 2015 are no different.  For every Star Wars, we get a Fant4stic.  Let’s begin, shall we?

1.

This movie was a cash grab, pure and simple.  There’s no getting around that.  How Taken ever managed to become a trilogy boggles my mind.  The first film was amazing, and it should have been a one and done kind of deal.  But no, we get a sequel, which to be honest, really wasn’t that bad.  Taken 3 shouldn’t have been made.  Olivier Megaton doesn’t seem to have the greatest idea of what makes an action movie, an action movie.  It’s incredibly poorly edited, shot and a whole lot of other things.  The other thing is that the story is pretty much The Fugitive-lite.  This is just not a good movie in any form.

2. 

Oh, this one hurts soooooo bad.  I really wanted this to be good.  This had the potential to be a very unique and brand new IP in cinema.  It’s a visually spectacular film, with some great music, set pieces and costumes.  The problem: The Wachowskis.  Their ego has gone to their heads.  There’s a lot of philosophical mumbo-jumbo going on here with some really pathetic acting.  Channing Tatum looks….goofy with those damned ears.  Mila Kunis, while beautiful, is just woefully underwhelming.  Eddie Redmayne could possibly be the poster child for over-acting.  The one big sin that this movie has committed, is that it’s boring as hell.  Yeah, the action is pretty good.  But there’s not enough of it.  The writing and dialogue are George Lucas level of awful.  Yeah, I gave the film an 8 out of 10, and I stand by that, but the fact is that this is not a good movie whatsoever.

3. 

This one had issues from the moment it was announced.  This was a movie that nobody wanted.  After three poor films based on The Fantastic Four, it is inconceivable that anybody would even touch this franchise again.  It’s a shame, too, because the potential for a great movie is there.  Fant4stic is a blatant attempt to hold on to a failing film franchise.  Fox Studios was naive enough to think that this would end well.  It sure as hell didn’t.  Once the dirty laundry behind the film was aired, there was just no way this movie going to succeed.  Between Josh Trank’s drunken tirades to his abuse of the cast and crew, Fant4stic was destined to crash and burn.  The horrible writing, acting and visuals didn’t help matters any.  Fox Studios took a massive 60 million dollar loss on the film, and at one point they had even tried to remain open to the possibility of a sequel.  As for Josh Trank, I don’t think he will ever direct another triple-A movie again in his career.  Again, the biggest sin a movie can be is boring, and Fant4stic had NOTHING going on until the last 10 minutes.  I like the direction the film was going, it was just terrible execution.  Oh, and a note to other movie studios looking to make a comic book movie: NO ORIGIN STORIES!!  We’ve had enough of those.

Well, we are here at the end of the year, and the time has come for me to reveal what I consider to be the worst movie of the year:

I’ve seen my fair share of bad movies, but never before has a movie made me walk out of a movie theater in the middle of the film.  Pixels did just that.  It started off innocently enough, but the moment Adam Sandler stepped on the screen, everything went downhill from there.  Not only that, Kevin James was cast as the President of the United States.  That was a really fucking stupid decision to make.  Not only is Sandler basically sleep-walking through the film, but Kevin James was just horribly miscast.  Josh Gad just needed to have his trap duct-taped.  I honestly made it about 40 minutes into the film, before I said, “Fuck it.”  Any movie that has me walking out of the theater before it’s finished, has royally screwed up.  I managed to sit through ALL of Fant4stic.  That should tell you how horrible Pixels is.

Thankfully, I’ve managed to not see EVERY bad movie out there, but these ones got under my skin the most this year.  That’s pretty much it.  2016 looks to be pretty damn good for movies, but I’m bracing for a lot of shitty movies too.  So…..bring it on.  I hope everyone has had a great year, and I will see you next year.

 

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