The Worst Movies 2017 – As We Say Goodbye to 2017, There Are Many Movies We Are More Than Happy To Say Farewell To
The Worst Movies 2017
If you missed The Idiot‘s list of Best Hollywood Movies of 2017, read it here.
If you missed The Idiot‘s list of Best Bollywood Movies of 2017, read it here.
If you missed The Idiot‘s list of Worst Bollywood Movies of 2017, read it here.
2017, like any other year, was filled with both the Good and the Bad, with its fair share of the Ugly. From highly anticipated movies tanking in the Box Office to small budget movies making it big, we at Cinedicted list the worst movies of this year.
Some movies were so bad that Critics, Fans and Cinephiles – almost everyone universally vented out their anger over such disastrous films. Presenting the most over-hyped and overrated movies of 2017 (in no particular order):
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The Emoji Movie
Fan Reaction:
–> Not only should this be the worst movie of the year, but also one of the worst movies of all time. The voice actors sound dead, they most likely are due to them never wanting to act for this movie, and the plot is slightly unoriginal. It’s like Wreck it Ralph (involving electric devices), The LEGOMovie (friends going on an adventure), and Inside Out (emotions) mixed together, with waste and garbage put over it. In case you’re too lazy to read all the long comments below, they’re just describing how terrible the movie is, but I addressed that. Hopefully, I made this short enough.
–> Good god, I just watched it, it was everything I expected. I had such LOW expectations for this “film” that it wasn’t that terrible to watch it, except for the ABYSMAL ending!
–> The only movie-snack people will have at the cinema for this is bleach.
–> The entire concept for this movie is pure garbage. All I want to say.
–> What’s next? A Fidget-spinner movie?
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Fifty Shades Darker
Fan Reaction:
–> We Already Have 50 Shades of Grey, ONE OF THE WORST MOVIES OF ALL TIME Do We Really Need A Sequel?
–> I enjoy leaving the theatre with the taste of popcorn and candy, not with the taste of vomit and sadness.
–> The movie should have been renamed: Fifty Shades Crapier.
–> Even the BDSM community hates this heaping pile.
–> This is the lamest porno ever created!
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Transformers: The Last Knight
Fan Reaction:
–> I would vote for other much more deserving contenders, but those ones are overfilled, but this certain movie deserves to be at this very spot. I was baffled when I watched this film, everything from the overstretched but the rushed plot, weak humor, bland characters (they couldn’t even get a split-personality British robotic BUTLER to be exciting, what the hell.), a wasted but talented cast (such as Anthony Hopkins and Mark Wahlberg) and undeveloped pacing. I will give credit where it’s due, Michael Bay sports dazzling visuals, a dramatic soundtrack and various chase/action/fight scenes that’ll leave you satisfied for a few minutes.It is not the worst, I can give you that. But it is horrendously mediocre, maybe even awful.
–> Just full of dull crap, explosions, anti-awesomeness, and everything that makes it look like a Jacob Sartorious movie. This movie is a rotten apple.
–> It will totally suck! But the good news is… actually there is no good news! More of these movies are coming!
–> Hmm, why will this suck? Oh, it’s a Michael Bay movie!
–> Couldn’t ask for a worse film, could ya?
Fan Reaction:
–> But once in awhile, there comes along something so egregiously bad that trying to find something good to say about it is its own kind of cruelty; such an obvious act of reaching only highlights the production’s garish dimensions, its abject failures. And, worse still, it can encourage more. In these instances, pure and unadorned honesty is really the only way to go, difficult as it may be to deliver. And so, dear Justice League, I must say that no, the lighting is not good. The script is not interesting. The costumes are not fun. The film is, plainly stated, terrible, and I’m sorry that everyone wasted their time and money making it—and that people are being asked to waste their time and money seeing it. I hate to be so blunt, but it simply must be said this time.
–> Garbage. Absolutely cliché. Plus the new version of the flash is a total piss bag and very annoying. Superman should have stayed dead since there is no point for the other characters since Superman can do everything. DC should try a little harder to make their storylines more realistic. Overall, the movie was an overrated cliché that was grossly predictable.
–> But for whatever combination of reasons, the end result is a broken film, swimming in bad CGI and forgettable mayhem, that you can’t imagine any number of rewrites or reshoots could have saved.
–> Directors—and producers—who make movies like “Justice League” use their actors to do one thing at a time, sell one emotion per close-up, lest too much humanity confuse the plot.
–> Zack takes too much time to introduce everyone and gets them together to form a team.
–> Some rough justice is needed with the casting of this franchise.
–> DC follows the triumph of Wonder Woman with a bust.
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Beauty And The Beast
Fan Reaction:
–> You can’t PC-ify that which was already perfect, to begin with, and hope that it’ll gain a new audience. This movie didn’t know if it wanted to be like the fairy tale, or the animated version, and the end result failed at making a decent version of either of them. Only watch this movie if you want to gain a better appreciation for the animated classic. If you already love the original, like I do, stay as far away as possible.
–> sighs I really wish they would stop making live-action retellings of Disney movies. You really are making yourselves look like money grabbing whores Disney. Also if you must retell/remake these films then choose the crap ones and improve on them, not the ones that don’t need to be done again.It does not matter if this film ends up being good, the first version will always be loved more so it’s a waste of time.
–> I really don’t like it anymore; it’s a cash-grab which ruins our childhood.
–> Disney just needs to stop with the live-action remakes.
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The LEGO Ninjago Movie
Fan Reaction:
–> Unfortunately, I’m going to be expressing some disappointment and sadness in my next review, because this movie was absolutely dreadful to sit through. An obnoxious, detestable, inaccurate, and greedy piece of soulless dreck that makes its intentions to sell LEGO sets blatantly obvious throughout. Hell, in the end credits they literally show you what looks like pages of LEGO instruction booklets for the mechs that the Ninja use in the movie! The consumerism in these animated movies isn’t even trying to be subtle anymore. First The Emoji Movie, and now this.
–> It’s so sad to see this flop because it had so much potential, but it turned out to be a movie to make more toys.
–> This movie was rubbish, disgusting, cheap, plagiarized, and only made for kids to buy toys!
–> This film absolutely sucks!
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
Fan Reaction:
–> The only Pirates movie that impressed me was Curse of the Black Pearl. I dislike this franchise because of the over-marketing and hype. Now, this flick is an improvement on Stranger Tides. But it still doesn’t succeed to be a great flick like the original and is very decent in my opinion. Decent action, decent effects, decent villain, characters, and Johnny Depp performance is wild like it always is. But It feels so free that it becomes a huge Joke! I guess Curse of the Black Pearl is the only one that I can appreciate.
–> Everything about this movie screams “END THIS SERIES! ” Everything about it is just mediocre and flavourless. This series is like the movie version of Katy Perry. Sure she’s passable, but she’s never astounding. This franchise in a nutshell. 5/10
–> So far, this movie has been slandered by critics. This looks pretty mediocre, and this is coming from a fan of the Pirates franchise before it went downhill.
–> Better than the last one but still kind of bad.
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Baywatch
Fan Reaction:
–> What a shame to take this charming cast and maroon them in a morass of stale jokes and sub-sitcom-level plot twists in a remake that reads as a missed opportunity.
–> The mark Baywatch should be aiming for is 21 Jump Street. Bad news: it’s ended up more like 21 Chump Street.
–> I’m calling it right now, by the end of the year this movie will be 1 of the biggest box office bombs of the year.
–> When your main poster is made to be a dick joke you know the movie is gonna suck.
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King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
Fan Reaction:
–> Yeah, it sucked alright! It was a generic action flick with characters you could care less about, crappy action sequences that were ripped out of a video game, unoriginal plot, And David’s stiff performance! I thought it was going to be an epic journey! But it turned out to be a generic comedic Video game like movie! Even the jokes weren’t funny and I wanted this movie to be over after a few minutes in! So whatever you do! Don’t waste your time on this crappy flick! It was something we thought was going to be epic! But became a disaster! What did the people at Warner Bros even smoke?
–> A loud, obnoxious parade of flashy set pieces, as one visually busy, belligerent action scene after another marches by, each making less sense than the last, but all intended to overwhelm.
–> It’s sufficiently dutiful to observe just enough of the niceties of Arthurian myth, even as it tweaks, to the point of breaking, many others.
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The Fate of the Furious
Fan Reaction:
–> So I heard about a lot of the backlash coming from fans and critics in regards to this Fast and Furious film. And while at first I didn’t believe it and was planning to watch it as a fan of the franchise, I finally did. And sadly, everyone else was right! For once, the plot was truly a convoluted mess, with constant unnecessary bickering between Luke Hobbs and Deckard Shaw, Dom Toretto’s motive making little to no sense at all, to Roman Pearce being even dumber than he already was, to being a poor man’s fusion of Need For Speed Most Wanted 2005, Watch_Dogs, Grand Theft Auto IV, and Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare! The only redeeming factors of this film are some of the cars and some good songs. Overall, it was a 4/10, because I was sometimes able to laugh at how bad it was.
–> Like other recent movies in the popular franchise, this one settles into effortless cruise control, escalated only by its extravagant stunt sequences.
–> Is it so much to ask for dialogue that doesn’t make you roll your eyes throughout “F8”? Or, you know, a story that adds up?
–> Fast and Furious 8 doesn’t break new ground, but makes it up by destroying a whole lot of cars and bones along the way.
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Underworld: Blood Wars
Fan Reaction:
–> “I have seen so much killing, so much war. I cannot bear more.” So says the heroine Selene near the end of Underworld: Blood Wars. And you know what? I feel exactly the same way about this franchise.
–> For half an hour or so, “Blood Wars” makes a token stab at actual theatrical drama in order to set up the ballistic body-splattering that is its real reason for being.
–> The fifth movie in this supernatural action/horror series isn’t the worst, but it isn’t very good, either; it has moments of mindless fun, but also too much seriousness and mood-killing awkwardness.
Fan Reaction:
–> They completely ruined my favourite anime of all time. They changed Light’s last name to Turner, switched Light and Misa (or shall I say “Mia’s”) personalities, made L black (no racism intended) and turned Ryuk into some horribly terrifying monster (what happened to our awesome, sarcastic Ryuk, huh? ) Also they left out Mello, Near and Matt. Near was my favourite character in the anime and my #husbando, and we can’t forget the ever so important ( no sarcasm intended) chocolate loving Mello! He displays a very important role in the show. And last but not least, mister “4 minutes of pure awesomeness” MATT! he played a very important role in the show. Without him, Mello wouldn’t have been able to kidnap Takada, and the whole show might have had a different conclusion.
–> This and the Magic School Bus reboot have to be the two worst things Netflix has done this year in 2017. Honorable mention goes to them making some of their new anime titles exclusive to them and not simulcasting them. That aside, Death Note and Ghost in the Shell are just two of the most recent examples of why live-action adaptations of anime just don’t work.
–> Aiming for suspense, shock, and revulsion, the film succeeds at some level, but fares less well with its ludicrous premise, dizzying array of “rules” of the game, and giant leaps of logic.
–> One of the most loved anime series turned into utter rubbish, from the very beginning of the movie it was utter garbage.
–> If this took place in The US then why are the names still Japanese?
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The Mummy
Fan Reaction:
–> A literal-minded, bumptious monster mash of a movie. It keeps throwing things at you, and the more you learn about the ersatz intricacy of its “universe,” the less compelling it becomes.
–> The Mummy is just another Tom Cruise film where the 54-year old continues to sell us his man-child image. Neither scary nor engaging!
–> This movie ended the Dark Universe before it even began…
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Monster Trucks
Fan Reaction:
–> The creators of this movie think that this idea is unique, but there’s a fine line between unique and lazy, sure nobody has done this idea, a monster truck that has an actual monster in it, but when you really think about it, it really does sound like a lame idea, it’s like making a movie where walls talk, does that sound creative or lazy to you?
–> Considering the rock-bottom expectations for this $125-million movie, it’s actually not that bad of a story about a teen and his extraordinary, endangered bestie; but that doesn’t mean it’s good.
–> From the moment the main guy took a selfie with the monster I instantly knew this was gonna suck.
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Resident Evil: The Final Chapter
Fan Reaction:
–> Like most films of its type, “The Final Chapter” is utterly ridiculous in every possible way but unlike a lot of them (I am looking at you, “Underworld”), it at least has a healthy sense of its own absurd nature that comes as a blessed relief. And a couple of the action bits are gloriously goofy to behold.
–> If you’re looking for character development or compelling acting or anything other than a cinematic bucket of zombie chum chucked into your face, you’ve come to the wrong place.
–> The Final Chapter meets the standard for mindless thrills set by the previous Resident Evil films, ending the series on more of a shrug than a bang.
–> The film is drab and epileptic.
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The Dark Tower
Fan Reaction:
–> Based on Stephen King’s novels, this sludgy science fiction/fantasy dud reduces King’s epic vision to a series of mindless clichés, surrounded by lazy dialogue and half-baked visual effects.
–> The thing about King is that his passion is always palpable, even when his material is second- or third-hand, whereas no one here seems to be having any fun.
–> The Dark Tower resembles nothing so much as a mashup of The Lord of the Rings and The Matrix reimagined for the young adult crowd.
–> The Dark Tower feels like another wannabe franchise to add to the scrapheap of YA also-rans (R.I.P. Divergent, Ender’s Game, etc.)
–> It gets where it’s going fast enough, but you don’t feel like you’ve travelled anywhere at all.
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Assassin’s Creed
Fan Reaction:
–> It is astonishing how a movie titled Assassin’s Creed explores absolutely nothing about the brotherhood, their goals, purpose, personal motivations or you know, the life of an assassin.
–> Obtuse, narratively incoherent, and ultimately frustrating, it stands as another example of how hard it is to make a good mainstream movie out of a popular computer game.
–> Despite a high-class cast, this fantasy-battle movie — based on a video game series — is disorienting, makes very little sense, and, worst of all, is a terrible, humourless bore.
–> I suppose you could say the film made me slightly more likely to play one of the games, but only because I’d do just about anything before I saw this movie again.
–> Between its tortured logic and its fatalistic view of religion, Assassin’s Creed does little more than kill off a couple of hours that might have been better used.
–> There are undoubtedly worse video game adaptations… [but] Assassin’s Creed is plenty bad in its own right and hardly deserves pity points.
Worst Movies 2017 – Other Notable Mentions:
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul
- Boo 2! A Madea Halloween
- Smurfs: The Lost Village
- The Space Between Us
- Captain Underpants
- The Book of Henry
- The Bye Bye Man
- The Great Wall
- All Eyez on Me
- Power Rangers
- The Boss Baby
- The Snowman
- The Shack
- Rock Dog
- Snatched
- Fist Fight
- Mother!
- Cars 3
- Rings
Idiot’s Corner
For other Idiots opposing this Idiot’s view on ‘bad movies’, please understand that earning $100 Million at the Box Office isn’t what makes a movie great, or even good. For a movie to be good, Box Office numbers don’t mean much (except profit); it’s the content that makes it so. Movies without substance have no place of honour in The Idiot’s Temple of Good Cinema (although they are worshipped by the other Idiots all over the world).
Calling Justice League ‘good cinema’ would be the same as comparing Batman v Superman to The Dark Knight.
Which one was your worst movie of 2017?
Source: List & comments compiled from all over the Internet.
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