{"id":30012,"date":"2019-01-03T01:20:15","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T06:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=30012"},"modified":"2019-01-03T01:17:26","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T06:17:26","slug":"the-10-worst-films-of-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/03\/the-10-worst-films-of-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"The 10 Worst Films of 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I saw a ton of movies in 2018, and thankfully I didn’t see too many awful films in the theaters. 2018 was a pretty great year for film, and while I didn’t have enough time to see everything, the share of films I checked out were mostly passable. Even the really alleged awful films people complained about were just disposable junk, and not worth complaining about, or even reviewing. That said I did find ten particularly bad films in 2018, and these had the dishonor of making the list.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>10. Bohemian Rhapsody
\n<\/strong>Original Review\u00a0<\/a> |\u00a0 Buy It Here<\/a>
\n<\/strong>Bryan Singer\u2019s authorized biography of Freddie Mercury\u2019s rise to music fame is the McDonald\u2019s version of his life. It\u2019s safe, it\u2019s family friendly, it\u2019s broad, it\u2019s inoffensive, easily digestible, it\u2019s focus group tested with an aim toward merchandise and branding. It\u2019s also pretty damn stupid, especially when you consider how subtly the film demonizes homosexuality. It\u2019s the epitome of vanilla Oscar bait, and it\u2019s sure to sweep the Oscars. At the very least, it threatens to grab a few of the big awards. A force of nature and such a revolutionary artist and LGBTQ icon like Freddie Mercury deserved so much better.
\nSay Something Nice: <\/strong>Rami Malek\u2019s performance is superb.
\nWatch Instead: <\/strong>Queen: Days of Our Lives (2011)<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>9. Blumhouse\u2019s Truth or Dare?
\n<\/strong>Original Review\u00a0<\/a> |\u00a0 Buy It Here<\/a>
\n<\/strong>Lost in a haze of nonsense, there\u2019s a good movie about guilt, owning up to past sins, and how cleansing the truth can be. Sadly, a lot of \u201cTruth or Dare?\u201d is silly, boring and filled with plot holes. I\u2019d love to consider the monster in \u201cTruth or Dare?\u201d some kind of up and coming horror icon, but I just don\u2019t see it happening. The acting is stale, the pacing is sluggish, and the movie lacks any kind of scares and or suspense. All in all it feels like a young adult novel brought to the big screen, but I wouldn\u2019t recommend it to potential horror fans as a gateway film, at all. I can think of a million better films that represent the supernatural and morality tales ten times better than this junk.
\nSay Something Nice: <\/strong>Jason Blum\u2019s speech at the Israeli Film Festival was courageous.
\nWatch Instead: <\/strong>Final Destination (2000)<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>8. Venom
\n<\/strong>Original Review<\/a>\u00a0 |\u00a0 Buy It Here<\/a>
\n<\/strong>Ruben Fleischer\u2019s \u201cVenom\u201d feels so dated and sanitized, it\u2019s almost like watching a middling superhero movie from 1993 that\u2019s been cleaned up for network television. It\u2019s almost like someone in the movie wanted to tell a violent story about a man possessed by an alien being, while others wanted a dark comedy about a growing anti-hero who finds some kind of purpose while also fighting off superior offspring.\u00a0 Tom Hardy portrays Eddie Brock as a meathead who is pulled back and forth in this extraordinary situation, and he\u2019s barely ever interesting or engaging as a main character. I don\u2019t know how they\u2019re going to turn this version of Venom\/Eddie Brock in to a vicious super villain. Frankly, I\u2019m too busy dreading the impending sequels at the moment to care.
\nSay Something Nice: <\/strong>I like Tom Hardy much more than Topher Grace.
\nWatch Instead: <\/strong>Upgrade (2018)<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>7. Slender Man
\n<\/strong>Original Review<\/a>\u00a0 |\u00a0 Buy It Here<\/a>
\n<\/strong>Once upon a time Slender Man seemed like a great idea for a horror movie. The Creepypasta story still is pretty creepy when you dismiss all the other nonsense that\u2019s come with it. Hopefully somewhere down the line Slender Man can be turned in to a great and scary movie. Hollywood is still ripping the character off, after all. This is not the movie that Slender Man should have been, but I sense once before it was cut to shreds, it was probably a strong horror film with some great tension and suspense. As it is, it\u2019s a missed opportunity filled with plot holes, horrific writing, and a boogeyman who is almost irrelevant in his own tale.
\nSay Something Nice: <\/strong>I wouldn\u2019t be opposed to watching an Unrated Director\u2019s Cut, if they ever grant us one.
\nWatch Instead: <\/strong>Beware the Slender Man (2016)<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>6. Gotti
\n<\/strong>Original Review<\/a>\u00a0 |\u00a0 Buy It Here<\/a>
\n<\/strong>There\u2019s nothing wrong with Oscar aspirations, I\u2019m sure, but \u201cGotti\u201d is just the wrong path for any of the cast here. Particularly John Travolta, who probably went in to this role thinking it would give him a golden statue, or at least rabid acclaim. Instead it\u2019s a big belly flop of a performance that should be filed in the list of terrible Travolta vehicles, and bad bio-pics. Director Kevin Connolly loves \u201cGoodfellas\u201d and loves Gotti so much that he tries to simultaneously create his own version of the Scorsese film while painting Gotti as something of an anti-hero or crusader of his time. Despite Travolta\u2019s best efforts, make up and all, \u201cGotti\u201d is a mess, and an embarrassing one at that. The performances are awful (how do you get a bad performance out of Pruitt Taylor Vincent?), the direction stinks, and the movie\u2019s message is muddled and often times borders on comical. It also doesn\u2019t help that the film\u2019s PR team did it no favors.
\nSay Something Nice: <\/strong><\/strong>I assume at least ten years from now, \u201cGotti\u201d will be appreciated as a camp classic.
\nWatch Instead: <\/strong><\/strong>Goodfellas (1990)<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>5. Robin Hood
\n<\/strong>Original Review<\/a>
\n<\/strong>Call it \u201cRobin Hood Begins,\u201d or \u201cThe Dark Hood,\u201d or \u201cThe Dark Hood Returns,\u201d or \u201cSherwood: A New Hope,\u201d this derivative reworking of an already tired story, \u201cRobin Hood\u201d is another stab at the public domain archives that yet again fails to rejuvenate the story of the \u201cprince of thieves.\u201d Whether it\u2019s the bows and arrows that shoot like rifles, a boring Maid Marian who looks like she stepped off the cat walk, a hilariously stupid book end of a climax that hints at a possible sequel\/franchise, \u201cRobin Hood\u201d is a waste of time. On the bright side you can<\/em><\/strong> make a drinking game out of the many times it rips off \u201cThe Dark Knight\u201d and Batman in general.
\nSay Something Nice: <\/strong>This would make an okay elseworlds tale for Batman
\nWatch Instead: <\/strong>Batman Begins (2005)<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>4. Death Wish
\n<\/strong>Original Review<\/a>\u00a0 |\u00a0 Buy It Here<\/a>
\n<\/strong> In a period where America is ravaged by mass shootings and gun murders, Eli Roth displays his pure idiocy by delivering a remake of a grief stricken middle aged man who finds new life in his pursuit to find and shoot lower class people, and brown people, sans guilt. Willis\u2019 main character Paul Kersey literally finds a sense of rejuvenation, and perhaps sexual thrill, by holding, wielding, and using his gun to take down criminals. \u201cDeath Wish\u201d watches like it was orchestrated by a sociopath, taking glee in promoting how easily life\u2019s woes can be solved by pulling a trigger. Meanwhile Willis looks one second away from yawning, as always.
\nSay Something Nice: <\/strong>Charles Bronson is in no danger of being replaced.
\nWatch Instead: <\/strong>Death Sentence (2007)<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>3. The Happytime Murders
\n<\/strong>Original Review<\/a>\u00a0 |\u00a0 Buy It Here<\/a>
\n<\/strong> You won\u2019t find anything in \u201cThe Happytime Murders\u201d that hasn\u2019t already been done before in better films like \u201cMeet the Feebles,\u201d or \u201cTeam America – World Police.\u201d This blatant rip off of \u201cWho Framed Roger Rabbit?\u201d imagines a world where humans and puppets exist, but never quite imagines anything that\u2019s remotely funny, entertaining, or vaguely interesting. The ill cast Melissa McCarthy does little to save this slide in to nonsense, with a boring and silly murder mystery topped by an almost endless array of goofy puppet puns, including an orgasm scene that goes on so long, that it\u2019s painful.
\nSay Something Nice: <\/strong>Jim Henson is a childhood hero of mine.
\nWatch Instead: <\/strong>Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988)<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>2. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
\n<\/strong>Original Review<\/a>\u00a0 |\u00a0 Buy It Here<\/a>
\n<\/strong> It\u2019s not something I appreciate when producers of a movie admit that they only made it to get to the next movie. And of course, \u201cFallen Kingdom\u201d shows right down its core. It\u2019s a horrendous sequel to an already abysmal reboot that basically rehashes so much of the previous movie, while also inexplicably destroying all of the foundations established in the first two films. Everything from creating another doctor who worked with Dr. Hammond, to staging much of the original film\u2019s shots, it\u2019s all so embarrassing and incredibly unpleasant. I can\u2019t decide if it\u2019s the dull new characters, the pointless return of the previous film\u2019s characters, or the confusing inclusion of a human clone, but I hated \u201cFallen Kingdom.\u201d
\nSay Something Nice: <\/strong>I would like a spin off or web series with new character Zia Rodriguez
\nWatch Instead: <\/strong>The Valley of Gwangi (1969)<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>1. The 15:17 to Paris
\n<\/strong> Original Review<\/a>\u00a0 |\u00a0 Buy It Here<\/a><\/strong>
\nClint Eastwood takes a wonderful story of heroism and bravery turns in to a jingoistic, schmaltzy, movie of the week bore that takes an event that would amount to a good hour long documentary, and stretches it in to a ninety minute slog. Eastwood does nothing but fill the time leading up to the event in the train cart, focusing on the back stories of our heroes, including some of the goofiest and silliest dialogue and character interactions ever filmed. Even worse, the film insists heavily on this idea that this entire event was fated and somehow in the stars, and that these men knew that their entire lives were leading up to this one moment when they would be called on to protect people in a crucial moment. It wasn\u2019t just a luck of the draw, or a quick act of bravery that saved people, but something that was in the stars. To top it all off, Eastwood casts the real men that were drawn in to this act, placing them in to the unfortunate position where their lack of acting ability distracts from the overall theme of the movie. It\u2019s not often I used the word crapola very often, but Clint Eastwood\u2019s treatment of the story of the 15:17 to Paris is crapola.
\nSay Something Nice: <\/strong>The event that unfolded on the train is still incredibly admirable and amazing; it deserves to be admired.
\nWatch Instead: <\/strong>United 93 (2006)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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