I will pick one “worst” and the rest are unranked.
Worst:
Megalopolis - No. Nope. This isn’t a brilliant, hard to crack, work that will go up in esteem later. It’s horrible, comically bad. We need to face it. Francis Ford Coppola isn’t going to make another good movie. I can tell the actors had no idea if it was good or not while making it; it’s a mess. Everyone just trusted Francis knew what the whole picture would look like, but it’s an assembled edit of nonsense and embarrassing bits. Even bringing in Larry Fishburne to narrate, which I bet was added a lot later, didn’t help it make sense.
Would be a fun Rifftrax movie, though. In fact, fun to watch and make fun of in general. Then again, it is dull beyond belief in longer stretches.
The rest:
Lisa Frankenstein
Madame Web - clearly no one acting knew the plot. Very odd.
Challengers - on many best lists. Uh, I hated it. Shallow. I hated the whole thing.
Street Trash - not even fun as a trash movie
Humane - I was into it early on…but it ended up being really bad.
Sometimes I Think About Dying - the joke writes itself for this one. So dull.
Death Streamer - from Full Moon Pictures, but lame for even their fun bad movies. Boring.
Agreed that Megalopolis was the worst movie in ages. A gigantic fustercluck and a waste of millions of dollars. Madame Web made my list as well, as did Lisa Frankenstein (though I know a lot of people who really liked the latter).
I’d add Red One. Ugly, cynical towards its audience, devoid of soul and laughs. I’m glad I watched it on streaming rather than on the big screen.
I can’t imagine doing a worst movies list: I only watch movies via streaming and if I don’t like it I quit watching after 5, 10, 15 or whatever minutes.
I try to forget bad movies as soon as I’ve seen them but two that I specifically remember leaving the theater feeling like someone owes me two hours of my life back were The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare and Monster Summer.
A lot of people crap on Borderlands but I thought it was entertaining enough. It was bad though, I do not dispute that at all.
My nominee for unquestionable worst movie I saw was the 2024 reboot of The Crow. I think there could still be life left in the franchise and I think there are some good stories to be told here but this sure as hell was not it.
Madame Web was a great example of how to spend a ton of money making a bad movie. They could have embraced the cheese and it might have been glorious in a so-bad-it’s-good kind of way but instead they decided to have this movie try to take itself seriously.
I liked Red One but it is absolutely a “turn off your brain” movie.
Here’s somebody’s list of worst movies (and some TV shows) of 2024. I haven’t seen but a few of those. (Ditto not seen any Razzie noms.) I am surprised to see The Idea of You and The Greatest Hits on it. Both are decent enough or better. Different strokes.
For the one that stands in terms of relative badness, expectations vs. delivery, is Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice.
But slightly worse in absolute terms is Greedy People.
Agree on Ministry, in terms of biggest disappointment.
It’s a great premise and idea, based on a true story and I’ve loved the last couple of Guy Ritchie’s movies, but holy shit what TERRIBLE action sequences which were the entire point of the movie. So boringly shot, the heroes literally slowly walk through scenes and murder the bad guys with absolutely no real effort. The bad guys in Commando gave Arnie more trouble than the entire Nazi army in this.
Even though I saw 158 films last year, I only saw one mentioned in this thread, Megalopolis. (And Challengers too but that wasn’t a bad movie…)
All of these other films looked terrible just from the trailer or word of mouth. Rarely do I see a film that is actually bad because I just don’t go see things I know I won’t like. Most of my least liked films of the year I wouldn’t even say are bad, they just did not work for me.
The Front Room (now this one was truly a piece of shit and was really the only film I saw that I actually hated) Megalopolis (although I didn’t like it, I am glad I saw it, and it was truly an experience seen on the largest screen in the country) Y2K Venom: The Last Dance Rumours All We Imagine as Light (yeah yeah some people say it’s great, it was boring and meandering with no plot) Moana 2 (sequel that did not need to exist) Mufasa: The Lion King (ditto)
Prabha rescues a middle-aged man from drowning by resuscitating him with CPR. While he is waiting for the local doctor, Prabha cleans and cares for him.She begins having a conversation with him, transforming him into her husband. He apologies for abandoning her and seeks her forgiveness, but she tells him that she does not want to see him ever again.
Does that mean he is her husband and slowly the audience realizes, she pretends he is, she pretends in her head (nothing actually happens), or she literally transforms him in some weird fantastical Indian film way (and they all sing and dance at the end? )
IMO she either pretends he is and he goes along with it, or it’s all in her head. For that to have actually been her husband strains all kinds of credibility. If I remember right, she was in another part of the country when that happens so for her actual husband to suddenly wash up onshore and she just so happens to be there would be so stupid and unbelievable.
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