I try to avoid movies that don’t look good to me, so this is more about my least favorite movies I saw this year. It gets tricky to rank some of these, and sometimes it just boils down to which ones I rather watch again if I had to.
Watch the more detailed (and SPOILER-filled) version of my list on YouTube
5. Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire – Somewhat forgettable story, flat humor and weak supernatural elements can’t
be saved by a generous use of legacy characters.
4. Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire – A decent Kong film with some fun action, but not only do the human characters feel shoehorned in, but so does Godzilla…and his name is in the title.
3. Kraven the Hunter – Despite some cool and bloody action sequences, everything else falls flat thanks to characters that you don’t care about or characters that are just corny. Even those violent action moments have no real bite to them.
2. Joker: Folie à Deux – A mediocre prison drama, mixed with a hugely disappointing court room drama and a half-assed musical would be hard enough to overcome, but the total disrespect towards what everyone liked about the first film is what truly sinks this project.
1. Madame Web – Despite a few hints of a more interesting film, the weak acting, terrible script, bad ADR and overall bad execution turned this into a complete mess. And it was borderline insulting the way it tries to have its cake and eat it to by being and not being a Spider-Man film.