They chose Left Behind and I have to think it is up there, but I can’t say for sure how bad it really is. Rifftrax needs to get on it and Saving Christmas as soon as possible.
Movies I saw that I did not enjoy:
The Giver - adore the book, but this was poorly made. Very sad, since it could be good.
Frank - again, this is only for movies I saw. I actually thought this movie was a huge letdown. Kind of boring.
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Expendables 3** - This may be the worst movie I saw from 2014. Shame since the last 30 minutes are quite fun. The opening 60 minutes, though, is a huge mess and should not have been filmed.
Madagascar 2 was pretty awful. The entire thing was just strung together scenes setting up bad one liners. That semi-funny scene in the previews with the penguin chewing of Cheetos while the wolf talks, yeah, that was perhaps the best part and it still made no sense.
Worst movie I saw this year was Divergent. Just completely predictable and stupid. I turned it off with about a half hour left because I realized I just didn’t care.
Most disappointing movie was Godzilla. I didn’t hate it but I wanted to love it.
Movie that surprised me by being watchable instead of a giant shit pile was Transformers: Age of Extinction.
Worst movie I never saw because I know it sucked so why would I was Tammy.
I know the critics loved it and a lot of people around here loved it but I thought Birdman was a total bore.
Of course those in the biz loved it since they always love movies about themselves. Because apparently actors are really complicated, eccentric, interesting people.
I was going to sit through the last 30 minutes just to see how it ended then realized I didn’t really care how it ended and walked out.
As with the OP, this is a hard one for me since I don’t watch movies I don’t think I’ll like. Of the ones I did watch, Godzilla was the worst. It wasn’t horrible, but it was the movie I watched this year that I enjoyed the least.
For the second year in a row, the absolute worst film I saw in a theater featured Emma Thompson. As terrible as John Wick and A Million Ways to Die in the West were, they still can’t hold a candle to the laughable and ridiculous Men, Women and Children.
Everyone one I know loves John Wick, but the biggest surprise from this thread is how many of our erudite members thought whatever number Godzilla remake was worth watching.
A Million Ways to Die in the West had its moments. Not a huge number of moments, mind you, but the basic concept of life being brutal and short on the late-19th-century frontier had promise.
Some people seem to think “worst movie of the year” equals “movie I was disappointed by”. Most movies in this list are mediocre at worst.
Here’s the problem with John wick: I can suspend disbelief that he’s a shit hot assassin who can face a couple dozen assailants and be the last man standing.
But he behaves like he knows he can’t get hurt; walking nonchalantly into situations where someone out of sight would have opportunity and motive to shoot him in the back of the head. So it just feels like a superhero movie.
A good action movie is e.g. wolf warrior 2, where even though the hero is badass you never doubt that he’s human and in fact you start to doubt that he can really triumph in the end.
I thought Left Behind was a movie that was “Panned but if you actually watch it…its really decent.” But apparently that was “Knowing”.
I haven’t seen any of the John Wick movies, but I’m glad Keanu has finally attained the same status Tom Cruise seems to have got lately. “You know something…no one does Keanu/Tom better than Keanu/Tom and the world is just all right with that.”
