# Worst movie of 2016? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 15, 2016, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-of-2016/774810 "2016-12-15T21:00:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2016, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-of-2016/774810/41 "2016-12-19T03:08:34Z")
**The Do Over** - New Adam Sandler movie he stars in with David Spade. I believe I saw it on Netflix. I’ve seen most if not all of the movies in this thread, including Gods of Egypt - in theatre. I promise this is worse. ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2016, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-of-2016/774810/42 "2016-12-19T03:10:46Z")
The bottom three that I saw were: Batman vs Superman Jason Bourne Independence Day: Resurgence Honestly, I don’t think I could pick between those three. They are all so terrible in different ways. If you put a gun to my head, I’ll say Independence Day: Resurgence. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2016, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-of-2016/774810/43 "2016-12-19T06:09:00Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > **Hail, Caesar** : a very well-made film, but this just struck me as more Hollywood-self-ass-kissing bullshit, made to pat each other on the back and show other Hollywood people and pretentious film students how deep they are in the Hollywood film culture. Hated it. It’s the Coen Brothers - believe me, they don’t have to prove a thing to anyone. If they wanted to play a riff on Hollywood in the 1950s, it’s only because they rightfully thought it would be funny. Personally, I think **Hail Caeser** was their funniest movie since\*\* O Brother\*\*, a laid-back lark and a fine return to form. ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2016, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-of-2016/774810/44 "2016-12-19T09:29:22Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > It’s the Coen Brothers - believe me, they don’t have to prove a thing to anyone. If they wanted to play a riff on Hollywood in the 1950s, it’s only because they rightfully thought it would be funny. Personally, I think **Hail Caeser** was their funniest movie since\*\* O Brother\*\*, a laid-back lark and a fine return to form. Did we watch the same film? I love Coen Brothers films but spent the entirety of _Hail Caesar_ waiting for something to happen. I thought it was a terrible film that went nowhere, seemed to get bored of stuff halfway through, didn’t make me laugh, and the only reason I don’t feel like I wasted my time watching is is because I was an aeroplane and didn’t have anything better to do. My other biggest disappoinment of the year was _Suicide Squad_ - Will Smith? Margot Robbie in a stripper-tastic outfit? How did the movie not work? Turns out the makers found a way all the same, IMO. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2016, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-of-2016/774810/45 "2016-12-19T09:55:52Z")
> [@Martini\_Enfield](#): > > Did we watch the same film? I love Coen Brothers films but spent the entirety of _Hail Caesar_ waiting for something to happen. I thought it was a terrible film that went nowhere, seemed to get bored of stuff halfway through, didn’t make me laugh, and the only reason I don’t feel like I wasted my time watching is is because I was an aeroplane and didn’t have anything better to do. I admit that it was more a series of vignettes than a straightforward story, but that’s what the brothers were going for. I saw it in the movie theater and though it was hysterical. YMMV. I agree with you about _Suicide Squad_, though. Lazy writing, lazy directing, lazy everything. It didn’t even work at a dumb action movie level - the action direction and choreography was atrocious. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2016, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-of-2016/774810/46 "2016-12-19T10:12:49Z")
Wow, you people have nominated a bunch of stuff I really liked. ☹ _Hail Caesar_ - I fucking love this movie. I think it’s the best thing the Coen Brothers have done since _O Brother Where Art Thou_. I was giggling like a schoolgirl through the whole thing. I do completely understand why it’s polarizing, though. About halfway through, one dude in the theater behind me turned to his companion and whispered “what the hell is this movie _about_?” _Ghostbusters_ - I thought it was pretty good. It doesn’t surpass the original, but the chemistry between the leads was fantastic. (It also helps that Kate McKinnon is one of my favorite people.) The third act was a mess, though. There’s a better movie hiding in there, somewhere. _Midnight Special_ - I thought this was a fascinating, unusual, exhilarating little sci-fi/horror thriller. OK, the ending sucked. But it was an intriguing, original concept and kept me interested. _Star Trek Beyond_ - Shutup Star Trek is awesome!!!111 My nominees for worst: _Batman v. Superman_ - the less said about this, the better. _Suicide Squad_ - same. I haven’t seen it, but two friends I trust (who are both professional film critics) have already nominated _Collateral Beauty_ as among the most atrocious things they’ve seen. _Zoolander 2_ - I don’t even know how this happened, especially given that the original is one of my favorite comedies. It was magnificently awful. And contains some truly bizarre and uncomfortable pedophilia jokes. WTF. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2016, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-of-2016/774810/47 "2016-12-19T23:17:59Z")
Thowing me 2 cents in on the “Polarizing” _Hail Caesar_. I watched it. I enjoyed it. It was well done, but certainly not their best. But I don’t need to see it again. I don’t get how people can say they hated it just as I don’t get how people can say they loved it. A very middling movie for me. ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2016, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-of-2016/774810/48 "2016-12-19T23:58:21Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#): > > Thowing me 2 cents in on the “Polarizing” _Hail Caesar_. > > I watched it. I enjoyed it. It was well done, but certainly not their best. But I don’t need to see it again. I don’t get how people can say they hated it just as I don’t get how people can say they loved it. A very middling movie for me. I could go on at length about how incredibly disappointed I was by the film and its squandering of a great concept, but it’d probably derail the thread. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2016, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-of-2016/774810/49 "2016-12-20T00:55:43Z")
> [@Martini\_Enfield](#): > > I could go on at length about how incredibly disappointed I was by the film and its squandering of a great concept, but it’d probably derail the thread. I’ll definitely concede that it was disappointing. But it was a long way from “Worst Movie of the Year”. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2016, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-of-2016/774810/50 "2016-12-20T01:09:00Z")
> [@Dendarii\_Dame](#): > > Star Trek: Beyond. Concur. I am willing to cut the Star Trek franchise a lot of slack, but this was the sloppiest and least entertaining one since they went looking for God (and that at least had Nichelle Nichols doing an exotic dance…) But I only see a half-dozen movies a year, so I have a smaller sample size. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2016, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-of-2016/774810/51 "2016-12-20T04:19:58Z")
I somehow have managed to miss pretty much everything mentioned here, except _The Fifth Wave_, but yeah, that was fairly crap, so that’s my entry. Based solely on a trailer I saw a couple days ago, I want to nominate the upcoming eighth entry in the _Fast and Furious_ series, but I see it’s not coming out until next April. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2016, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-of-2016/774810/52 "2016-12-20T13:57:31Z")
> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > Concur. I am willing to cut the Star Trek franchise a lot of slack, but this was the sloppiest and least entertaining one since they went looking for God (and that at least had Nichelle Nichols doing an exotic dance…) In terms of “sloppy” and “unentertaining,” that describes almost all the ST:TNG movies far more than it does any of the reboot ones. I’m not saying “Beyond” or “Into Darkness” were good movies because they weren’t, but they’re masterpieces compared to throw-away junk like “Star Trek: Insurrection,” which looked like it was written the morning they started principal photography and on a budget scarcely more than the catering bill for “Star Trek Beyond.” It was a stupid movie, and for reasons I cannot for the life of me understand seems to ignore the events of the previous movie, but it looked cool and I felt like the producers were making an effort to entertain me, at least. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-of-2016/774810.md?page=2)