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| In a year more defined by letdowns than bad films, Voyage of Time, Suicide Squard, and others take the cake. |
The year might finally be the death of the superhero movie after several box office letdowns and even more caped and cloaked turkeys. The studios had numerous crash landings this year, too, with the Spielberg-level cheese of Sully and the fake Beyoncé Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk by Clint Eastwood and Ang Lee, respectively. 2016 is more a year for disappoints than it is for all-out clunkers, though, from the linear letdown of American Pastoral to the overhyped Derp of a Nation to the blockbuster mehs of Ghostbusters, Suicide Squad, The Magnificent Seven, The Accountant, and a lot of other films I’ve frankly forgotten.
But before we start popping bottles on our way to toasting
the best, let’s raise a glass of Baby Duck to 2016’s biggest turkeys:
The Worst Films of 2016
10. Tallulah
An award-calibre performance by Alison Janney finds itself consumed
by a grating Ellen Page in this Sundance-to-Netflix dud.
120 fps is Satan’s business.
A four-time Oscar winning international sensation becomes a
“Netflix movie.”
7. Trolls
I honestly don’t know how or why parents do it.
You're both dead to me.
5. Misconduct
It’s the first film to star Al Pacino and Anthony Hopkins in
the same scene, yet Misconduct grossed
only £97
at the UK box office. The numbers don’t lie.
4. Collateral Beauty
“Sometimes there’s just so much collateral beauty I feel
like I can’t take it.”
-A bullsh*t Hallmark card signed by Will Smith
3. End of Days, Inc.
Never again will I review a cheap Canadian movie that
four-walls the Carlton.
2. A Hologram for a King
Just when I was starting to like you again, Tom Hanks.
And the worst film of 2016 is…
What happened to you, Malick? You used to be beautiful, man!
