Movies so bad we couldn’t finish them

Movies so bad we couldn't finish them

There’s nothing worse than a truly awful film. I’m not talking about movies that are bad; I mean a film that has no redeeming qualities.

Movies so bad that I’d rather watch paint dry. It really is a mood killer, because I can stomach a bad movie, but these films were a test of patience that I wasn’t up for.

According to audiences and online chatter, these are the movies that are so bad, we couldn’t finish them.

Transformers: The Last Knight

Transformers The Last Knight
Image Credit: Paramount Pictures.

The Transformers movie franchise was never pretending to be anything more than some mindless popcorn action with impressive CGI, and that’s exactly what the first one was!

Every subsequent sequel, however, suffered from a drop in quality, until 2017’s The Last Knight decided it was time to find the bottom of the barrel.

You People

You People
Image Credit: Netflix.

You would assume that a cast as talented as Netflix’s You People, starring Jonah Hill, Eddie Murphy, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and David Duchovny, would have some redeeming factors.

Instead, it forgoes any thought of a joke that’s actually funny and instead is one of the more uncomfortable movies in recent memory.

Jurassic World Dominion

Jurassic World Dominion
Image Credit: Universal Studios.

One of the more popular trends in Hollywood today is using nostalgia as a way to bring people back to theaters rather than actually offering any new, original, or creative ideas. Case in point, Jurassic World Dominion.

Who in their right mind decided to make the villain of a Jurassic Park movie bugs? And why did the OG cast have to come back only to, again, focus on giant locusts?

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Independence Day: Resurgence

Independence Day Resurgence
Image Credit: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.

Speaking of getting the OG cast back together, Independence Day: Resurgence is what happens when the best part about your predecessor doesn’t come back for a sequel that shouldn’t exist.

Once Will Smith was out, they should have shut down production. I’m glad I walked out of the theater on this one and watched the original as soon as I got home.

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Image Credit: STXfilms.

As much as I wanted Valerian to be anywhere as close to good as The Fifth Element, it’s sadly not.

The opening moments are intriguing, but as the film progresses, it lulls you to sleep behind an unlikable and dull cast.

Holmes & Watson

Holmes & Watson
Image Credit: Sony Pictures Releasing.

I know what I’m getting into when it’s time for a dumb comedy. There are plenty of great movies that are, at their heart, stupid comedies.

Holmes & Watson is incredibly lazy, with Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly, who have collaborated on successful comedies, going through the motions as if they only care about the paycheck.

The Happening

The Happening
Image Credit: Twentieth Century Fox.

We know that M Night. Shyamalan is capable of great things. The Sixth Sense is fantastic, I absolutely love Unbreakable, and even some of his more recent films (Trap, for example) have moments of greatness.

The Happening is a trainwreck from start to finish, featuring one of the worst performances by Mark Wahlberg that you’ll ever see from any actor. Also, if you’re movie is billed as your first ever Rated-R movie, that’s not a good sign for the actual film.

Wonder Woman 1984

Wonder Woman 1984
Image Credit: Warner Bros. Pictures.

The first Wonder Woman? Great film! The ending is a little disappointing, but it’s one of the few D.C. movies that are worth your time and money.

Its sequel was a total disaster from start to finish. The movie was so bad that it derailed the future of the Wonder Woman franchise, and director Patty Jenkins’ future Star Wars film appears to be on hold as well.

Fifty Shades of Grey

50 Shades of Grey
Image Credit: Universal Pictures.

I will never understand why the books were so popular.

The source material these movies had to work with was an absolute joke, and the actors did not take any of it seriously, something that’s incredibly apparent as you watch them on screen.

Blonde

Blonde movie
Image Credit: Netflix.

No matter how hard Ana de Armas tried, she couldn’t make Blonde work.

Instead of being a legitimate biopic on Marilyn Monroe, the movie is pretentious, exploitative, and worst of all, not true. It’s all based on a fictional version of Monroe’s life.

The Matrix Resurrections

The Matrix Resurrections
Image Credit: Warner Bros. Pictures.

We didn’t need a new Matrix movie, yet we got one in The Matrix Resurrections, and it got my hopes up after seeing the trailer.

Once the reviews came in, I was honestly scared to watch it. Even today, I can’t finish it; the movie is trying way too hard to deconstruct the lore of the Matrix franchise while acting as a metaphor that it gets lost in its own convoluted message, forgetting everything that made the original film great.

Thor: Love and Thunder

Thor Love and Thunder
Image Credit: Marvel Studios.

I cannot believe that the same people who made Thor: Ragnarok, one of the funniest Marvel films, also made this movie.

I can, however, believe that after this film bombed, Taiki Watiti’s stock in Hollywood plummeted like a rock being dropped into the ocean.

Cats

Cats
Image Credit: Universal Pictures.

The very definition of a trainwreck movie. The long-awaited big screen adaptation of the beloved musical forgoes the traditional cat costumes and instead goes all-in on a CGI-induced nightmare that is as off-putting as the music is.

Bohemian Rhapsody

Bohemian Rhapsody
Image Credit: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.

I cannot believe that this disaster of a movie, which is nowhere near worthy of the legacy of Queen, won awards.

It’s poorly edited and too busy congratulating itself on Queen’s storied career rather than offering any actual insight or tension. If I wanted to listen to Queen’s Greatest Hits, I’d play the actual album.

War of the Worlds (2025)

War of the Worlds (2025)
Image Credit: Universal Pictures.

I don’t know who’s responsible for delivering another big-screen adaptation of the classic H.G. Wells story, but I’d love to have a chat with them.

First and foremost, why does most of the movie look like it’s being done in a Zoom call? Second, why are the visual effects so bad? It’s 2025, and this movie makes The Scorpion King‘s CGI look good.

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