Okay, I gave you my 'best of' list, so it only stands to reason that I bestow upon you the "best of" the worst fucking movies of 2015. These movies get the dreaded "Burnt Kernel" because they either failed to live up to expectations or were just so amazingly stupid I had to include them. So without further ado and no additional fanfare, let's get to the garbage.
#10 - Fantastic Four
Josh Trank's Fantastic Four was anything but. It started off with a lot of promise, but it quickly fell apart. Now there are rumors about how the studio took the film from Trank and edited it to Trank showing up on the set drunk out of his mind. Again just rumors but what isn't a rumor was just how bad this film was, and believe it or not, it is the worst preforming Fantastic Four film at the box office which is why I didn't bother to review it.
#9 - Jupiter Ascending
This cornball, ham-fisted of a movie flies in at number nine. Jupiter Ascending made little sense and what little sense it did make was just ridiculous. All of the performances seemed mailed in. Though visually the movie was impressive which is a Wachowski trademark. Too bad this is a fail on their resume. It was so bad I chose to not even review this movie either.
#8 - Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2
Mockingjay Part 2 held plenty of promise after the brilliance of Part 1. Too bad it didn't even come close to delivering. This movie was a boring, schizophrenic waste of time that couldn't decide if it wanted to be an action film or a drama. Francis Lawrence and his Mockingjay missed the target on this one. A sad way to bow out.
Full review.
#7 - Southpaw
Antione Fuqua's boxing film Southpaw charged its way into the theaters with such hype that it seemed like a can't miss. It had a great director, great cast, and it was written by Kurt Sutter (the man behind Sons of Anarchy). Sadly this film was a melodramatic mess with a really stupid title which is why it's number seven on the list.
Full review.
#6 - Entourage
The tag line in Doug Ellin's Entourage was The Ride Ain't Over, and it really should have been. The number six film based off the HBO series that follows around a bunch of entitled knuckleheads in Hollywood was both a massive waste of time and money. My biggest beef was this should have been aired on HBO, not something released in theaters because it was just a longer episode of the show (and the show was garbage).
Full review.
#5 - Jurassic World
Forget for a second the dumb chick running from a Tyrannosaurus Rex in heels, and forget for a sec the "zookeeper" keeping prehistoric creatures from jumping on him and tearing him apart with just his hands (if you can). The top grossing movie of 2015 was also one of the worst (in my opinion). Colin Trevorrow's Jurassic World was just stupid and unexciting because you knew who would live and who would die in the jaws of the genetically modified dinosaur. Remember that.
Full review.
#4 - Tomorrowland
If you want to talk about a movie that made no sense and where the trailer was ten times better than the movie then you'd be talking about Brad Bird's big budgeted Tomorrowland. The trailer was a bait and switch of the highest order, and I'm still a tad bitter about it. They got me once, but I'll always look at any Brad Bird film in the future with a suspicious eye.
Full review.
#3 - Child 44
Tom Hardy has had one phenomenal 2015, but even he is not immune from clunkers, and director Daniel Espinosa's Child 44 was one of the worst clunkers of the year. A period film about a man seeking out a pedophile serial killer during the time of WWII sounds like it would make a pretty good movie. Well they tried and failed spectacularly.
Full review.
#2 - Terminator: Genisys
Alan Taylor's Terminator: Genisys was just bad on so many levels. Besides there being no chemistry between the two main actors and the story calling for turning John Connor into a terminator hybrid, whenever Arnold Schwarzenegger is the best thing about your film then you're in trouble. This was so bad that the proposed trilogy has been nixed which I think was a brilliant fucking idea.
Full review.
And the absolute worst movie of 2015 was...
#1 - 50 Shades of Grey
Sam Taylor-Johnson's film adaptation of E.L. James' novel was without a doubt worse piece of garbage of last year. There was NOTHING good about this film. There was no chemistry between anyone in the movie, there was no passion, and there wasn't a good story. I never read the book, but if it was as bad as this film then that was an excellent call on my part. As with Terminator: Genisys, the other two movies that were in the works for Jame's other two books in her series have been reconsidered. All I can say to that is thank the GODS!
Full review.
There are other atrocious movies that were released in 2015 that deserve honorable mention, but you know what. Why even bother? LOL
I only saw one of these films (thankfully) and it was Southpaw and I only went because it was free. Gratuitous bloody violence just isn't my cup of team. Thanks for the list!
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome for the list and you were smarter than me in skipping these duds :)
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