AvClub's 20 Worst Films of 2018

So glad that Bruce Willis is on the list. His acting sucks.

About half of these movies didn't even go to theaters. Most straight to VOD stuff is obviously crap.

Travolta's films just suck worse and worse

The Razzie for Worst Actor already has Travolta’s name on it.

Travolta should just retire from acting and retire his hairpiece. I think he likes dressing up and pretending to be something else. He's trying to follow the Johnny Depp career plan but hasn't lucked into finding a director that loves him.

The Wife. Dreadful Oscar-bait.

[quote]I think he likes dressing up and pretending to be something else.

Like a heterosexual?

The only films Travolta was good in are Saturday Night Fever, where he played himself being a dancer, and Pulp Fiction, where he played himself playing Vinnie Barbarino. He fails at any role that is not meta.

THE HAPPY PRINCE wasn't bad. In fact Rupert Everett was surprisingly great.

Agree with Death Wish. Horrible. I thought it was the worst film I've seen this year until I saw "The Happytime Murders".  I've since seen Melissa McCarthy in "Can You Ever Forgive Me" but I can't, not for her starring in "The Happytime Murders".

Mute was a disgrace but I think most of the Netflix original films are garbage. It's the respectable version of the SyFy channel.

Disagree with Sicario: Day of the Soldado. Not as good as the first one, but I think it gave more insight on Benicio Del Toro's character.  Brolin was great. Disagree with Mile 22. Subpar but I wouldn't say worst film. There were good elements to it.  Heartily disagree about "Life Itself". It's "This is Us" amplified so if you like "This is Us", which I do, you'll like that.  I don't understand why the critics pissed all over it.  It's not great but didn't deserve the savaging it received especially since the performances were so great.

But most of these are the lowest of low hanging fruit - low budgeted indie affairs or horror films that are typically cheesy.

They were really scared of listing that Saudi woman's movie, lol.

I've only heard of maybe 2 or 3 of these.

I thought that Queen biopic was dreadful.

I agree with r2, they should've done a second list of the worst more people would have been likely to see. The Razzies wouldn't have worked if they concentrated on the actual worst movies, straight to dvd crap, they go for movies that have had at least a modicum of mainstream success.

No one makes shitty movies like Bruce Willis.

There was really a 2018 movie about how funny it would be if puppets acted lewd and dirty? Wow - that one was cracked out of amber.

Gotti was not that bad.

R14 Bruce Willis and John Travolta have been in lots of great films. If they both were to retire today, their legacy would still be assured. Bruce Willis, especially, has never chased critical acclaim or awards.

I’m sure Ignatiy Vishnevetsky would love to do a list of what he considers overrated middlebrow movies... back when he was doing the Ebert show he would either rave about obscure intellectual things or he’d give contrarian praise to tacky junk. But movies like “Green Room” he would tear apart (I’m guessing... I haven’t read his review if there is one).

Truth or Dare was not that bad. I picked it up on Black Friday for a couple bucks. I'm glad I didn't pay for a full price ticket, though.

[quote] God’s Not Dead series just to see what dreary Hollywood melodramas would look like if American showbiz were run by evangelical Christians instead of left-leaning New Agers

[quote] Transporting the vigilante action from a grimy New York to a reactionary’s vision of Chicago as hellish war zone, this glib, unexciting remake cheerfully promotes the NRA talking point of a good guy with a gun stopping bad guys with guns, all while learning to man-up and defend his own.

[quote] Soldado jettisons everything complex and troublingly ambiguous about its predecessor, offering only a piss-poor imitation of Denis Villeneuve’s sinister style, as well as some timely Trumpian fear-mongering involving bad hombres and suicide bombers flooding over the Mexican border.

[quote] Mile 22 distills all of Berg and Wahlberg’s derivative creative impulses and reactionary politics into 94 terrible minutes, perhaps—one can only hope—to purge them from their systems, once and for all.

Why can't people just leave politics out of their reviews? I don't watch movies like Death Wish for incisive political satire.

How did I forget this gem?

[quote] Dark Crimes is everything critics accused Hostel of being: a plodding, exploitative, pointless provocation that fetishizes misogynist violence and caricatures Eastern Europe as a grim, perpetually overcast hellhole where reading books composed primarily of explicit descriptions of sexualized femicide is apparently a mainstream pastime.

R21 Oh my. What socio-political insight this writer has. It sounds like they’ve never seen a torture porn movie set in Eastern Europe before. I’ve got some better ones to recommend if they really want to spin themselves into a fury of self-righteous indignation..

Soldado was only disappointing in the mountainous shadow of its predecessor, just like any sequel to that movie was bound to be no matter who directed it. That doesn’t mean it was one of the worst films of the year.

That Dinesh D'souza movie sounds like an embarassment

It's pretty safe to say that most of the movies on the list were chosen due to some political bias on the author's part and had very little to do with their objective quality. Sure, a lot of those movies do indeed suck, but not for the reasons the author cites.

Shocking that Datalounge hasn’t used this thread to trash Lady Gaga yet

How the hell did they miss white privilege Jennifer Garner fighting bad hombres for the Trump crowd in the disastrous "Peppermint"?

That’s right, everyone! Melissa McCarthy starred in “Happy time Murders”!!!

The D'souza one is too easy, like a previous poster mentioned it's low hanging fruit. Anything produced by him or involving Kirk Cameron is obviously going to be heinously shitty and aimed at a very niche audience anyways.

[QUOTE]How the hell did they miss white privilege Jennifer Garner fighting bad hombres for the Trump crowd in the disastrous "Peppermint"?

Now THAT is a serious contender for worst movie.

What's this Peppermint shit?

I’m sure it’s the critics wokeness keeping the actual worst film of the year Wrinkle in Time, to be nowhere found on the list.

Rolling my eyes at r32. Maybe they just disagree with you - it wasn't good but it was hardly the worst film of the year. You must think your opinions are facts. Bitching about being "woke" gives you away as a Trumpster.

Wow, lots of right wing concern trolls on here with opinions on movies!

Wrinkle in Time was definitely one of the worst films of all time. The little boy's acting alone sunk the film into unimaginable depths of putrid.

The reviewer is most definitely woke. Why else include a Clint Eastwood film on your list unless you're offended by its patriotic leanings?

A wrinkle in my pussy

I disagree with the inclusion of The Happy Prince and Darkest Minds. Especially, when movies like Acrimony, The Open House, Proud Mary, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Skyscraper and The Cloverfield: Paradox are mysteriously absent. But, then again, I seldom agree with the contrarians over at the AV Club.

Contrarians? LOL. Most of these are obvious junk.

R38 A biopic about Oscar's Wilde's life in exile is "obvious junk"? Besides, I meant in general. Their best of lists are typically laughable.

r39, The Happy Prince may not be obvious junk but most of the other films on that list are. Are their "best of" lists only laughable because you disagree with them?

“15:17” sounded ridiculous from the moment it was announced. Clint should’ve got some fucking actors—that’s what they’re for. Calling the movie shit doesn’t have anything to do with Clint’s political leanings. Nobody liked it, and the author’s right that it’s probably his worst film.

R40 Haha. Well, duh! Do you write for them? Why are you so invested in my opinion anyway? Or are people who hang on the AV Club's every word only allowed to comment on their lists?

Kings, Venom, Proud Mary, Robin Hood, Slender Man, Winchester, Terminal, Hell Fest.

As far as Elle Fanning, The Vanishing of Sidney Hall was worse than Mary Shelley.

r42, why are you even posting in this thread if you don't care about their opinions?

Did you even read the OP R44? Lol

[i]Do you agree with their choices?

What else would you add to the list?[/i]

The Happytime Murders should be #1.

What about Robin Hood?

Travolta, Bruce Willis, Jim Carrey...how the mighty have fallen.

They're right about Mute. I'd forgotten what a disappointing shitfest that was.