Sunday, 24 January 2016

Editorial: My Top 10 Worst Movies Of 2015


Not that I've watched every single movie that came out, and I don't go chasing after movies that are badly reviewed like Alvin And The Chipmunks: The Road Chip; and I haven't caught the highly anticipated Attack On Titan: Part 1 and Part 2 because after seeing the trailers I thought they could end up on this list.

I'm also very surprised, as hard as I wanted to, Fantastic Four did not make the top 10! I couldn't take out anything else from these 10 movies below to squeeze in the disaster that was Fantastic Four.

Others that fared slightly better but could have been in the list were movies like Minions, Pixels, Unfriended and Point Break.

So here are the top 10 worst movies that came out and that I have encountered in 2015, from worse to worst.


10) Vacation (4/10)
2015 was the year of the revived franchises like Star Wars, Creed and Mad Max. Vacation did not manage to get added into that list. The first half of the movie had a few redeeming factors that mostly involved the two siblings and Chris Hemsworth, but everything else wasn't funny and felt desperate.

9) Return To Sender (4/10)
I don't know why Rosamund Pike wanted to do this immediately after Gone Girl, her agent should be fired. Her character here was like the origin story of the Gone Girl one but the build up was so painfully slow that the ending did not justify the torture.

8) Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 (4/10)
Nobody asked for this sequel but it did get made. And the end product was way worse-off than the first one. I wasn't expecting much but this bored me even more than I thought it would. The final act was completely garbage.



7)  Home (4/10)
When you have Rihanna leading a voice cast, that probably signals a warning. This animated movie was not targeted for adults at all. It was dull and humorless. And Jim Parsons did not do anything different from his character in "The Big Bang Theory". What was Dreamworks thinking?

6) Jupiter Ascending (3.5/10)
Or as people are calling it, Wolf Boy And Toilet Girl. How did the Wachowskis screw this up so badly. From beginning to end, the plot points were horrible, story continuity out the window, and the acting was atrocious.

5) Absolutely Anything (3.5/10)
This was a typically weak and lazy story writing that was filled with continuity and character development issues, or there lack of; and had no redeeming qualities at all even in the final act.



4) Dragon Blade (3.5/10)
This represents those Chinese movies that tried to use Western movie stars to boost up the movie's profile, at its worst. But the director just couldn't make this work and it ended up being such a cheesy and campy action movie with bad dialogue and poor story progression. You can tell the producers wanted an epic saga desperately and the movie couldn't deliver.

3) Pan (3/10)
What happened to this movie? The biggest disappointment of the summer. Hugh Jackman, Garret Hedlund and Rooney Mara couldn't save this movie from how much of a bore it was. Director Joe Wright turned this story into something so immature that I was happy it flopped.

2) Poltergeist (3/10)
A completely failed effort to bringing this classical horror back to the silver screen. But one thing the producers forgot to do was to update it so that it would be able to sit well in the 21st century. The whole movie had the 80's written all over it. Worst thing was that it wasn't even scary nor suspenseful.



1) Vice (3/10)
This was one movie that I came out from and couldn't figure out what I just watched. It's as if I got punked. Bruce Willis, the actor that no longer care, phoned in another performance that was clearly just for the pay cheque. Thomas Jane had no emotions and the director felt like he didn't want to film this movie. A complete waste of time and yet Brunei brought this garbage in instead of Creed.

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