Your worst movie of 2018?

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**Thargrim**

Ouze wrote:
I kind of liked the Cloverfield Paradox. It wasn't great by any means but it had the bones of a solid movie, albeit with poor execution. Unfortunately you can pretty easily see where they chopped it up to force it into the Clover.... verse? Whatever they're calling it.

Oh, yeah, I also didn't like Solo very much. It was the darkest movie I've ever seen in a theater, not in tone but literally dark. The brightest color I ever saw was medium grey. The cave scene, I know was supposed to be dark but I literally couldn't see what was going on.

I actually had no problem with the dim and greyed out cinematography but I saw it at home not in theaters. I just despised the darth maul scene and all the betrayal twist shenanigans at the end. Everything about it felt half baked I didnt really like the characters or pacing. I mean the looks of the movie were imo the least of its problems

And man if I thought this was a bad year for movies then next year looks even worse. Aside from the tarantino film and the next movie done by the guy who did The Witch it looks like a dull year. At least in 2018 we got annihilation, suspiria, mandy. But next year im not even seeing movies of that caliber being released.

**Techpriestsupport**

Thargrim wrote:
Ouze wrote:
I kind of liked the Cloverfield Paradox. It wasn't great by any means but it had the bones of a solid movie, albeit with poor execution. Unfortunately you can pretty easily see where they chopped it up to force it into the Clover.... verse? Whatever they're calling it.

Oh, yeah, I also didn't like Solo very much. It was the darkest movie I've ever seen in a theater, not in tone but literally dark. The brightest color I ever saw was medium grey. The cave scene, I know was supposed to be dark but I literally couldn't see what was going on.

I actually had no problem with the dim and greyed out cinematography but I saw it at home not in theaters. I just despised the darth maul scene and all the betrayal twist shenanigans at the end. Everything about it felt half baked I didnt really like the characters or pacing. I mean the looks of the movie were imo the least of its problems

And man if I thought this was a bad year for movies then next year looks even worse. Aside from the tarantino film and the next movie done by the guy who did The Witch it looks like a dull year. At least in 2018 we got annihilation, suspiria, mandy. But next year im not even seeing movies of that caliber being released.

So would you say annihilation is worth watching?

**BobtheInquisitor**

Yodhrin wrote:
Ouze wrote:

Oh, yeah, I also didn't like Solo very much. It was the darkest movie I've ever seen in a theater, not in tone but literally dark. The brightest color I ever saw was medium grey. The cave scene, I know was supposed to be dark but I literally couldn't see what was going on.

Blame the cinema, this was a widespread issue but it was entirely down to the lazy, low-effort way that cinemas are run these days - they rack up a bunch of films on the digital projector and run the whole day, sometimes multiple days in a row without altering the settings to account for the specific films, and sometimes without even switching the lenses out when showing 3D and 2D films in the same theatre. That kinda-sorta works for bog-standard movies, but when you get something like Solo that uses a different style of cinematography and lighting it just makes it into unwatchable garbage.

If you watch the home media release on a decent TV/monitor it remains "dark" in a lot of scenes, but all the vibrancy and range that was choked out of the film in the cinemas is in there and it looks brilliant.

In support of this, I saw Solo in the theater and it was not too dark. For the few days before I read an article on the projector issue, I was wondering what movie everyone else was talking about.

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Formosa wrote:
what really good films came out this year??

pretty much everything seems like overhyped tosh

We must have different tastes, because I thought this was a really good year for movies. And I still haven't seen Hereditary, Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Sorry to Bother You, and Black Klansman. 2018 is going to keep giving for me well into 2019.

**Mr Morden**

Techpriestsupport wrote:
Thargrim wrote:
Ouze wrote:
I kind of liked the Cloverfield Paradox. It wasn't great by any means but it had the bones of a solid movie, albeit with poor execution. Unfortunately you can pretty easily see where they chopped it up to force it into the Clover.... verse? Whatever they're calling it.

Oh, yeah, I also didn't like Solo very much. It was the darkest movie I've ever seen in a theater, not in tone but literally dark. The brightest color I ever saw was medium grey. The cave scene, I know was supposed to be dark but I literally couldn't see what was going on.

I actually had no problem with the dim and greyed out cinematography but I saw it at home not in theaters. I just despised the darth maul scene and all the betrayal twist shenanigans at the end. Everything about it felt half baked I didnt really like the characters or pacing. I mean the looks of the movie were imo the least of its problems

And man if I thought this was a bad year for movies then next year looks even worse. Aside from the tarantino film and the next movie done by the guy who did The Witch it looks like a dull year. At least in 2018 we got annihilation, suspiria, mandy. But next year im not even seeing movies of that caliber being released.

So would you say annihilation is worth watching?

I enjoyed it - it had a good cast, interesting ideas and was well crafted.

**Ouze**

I would agree with the sentiment that - on the whole - this was actually a pretty good year for movies. We had a ton of movies that maybe didn't achieve greatness but were greatly entertaining, workmanlike, solid films - stuff like Halloween, RP1, First Man, Bohemian Rhapsody, Game Night, Colette, Ant-Man & The Wasp, Venom, Isle of Dogs, Alpha, Incredibles 2, Overlord, The Bird Box, and Deadpool 2.

This is not counting the actually great movies, like Into the Spider-Verse, Black Panther, Infinity War, the criminally underrated Widows, the deeply disturbing Hereditary, A Star is Born, Black KKKlansman, A Quiet Place.... and apparently Bumblebee, which I have not yet seen.

**Voss**

Thargrim wrote:
Ouze wrote:
I kind of liked the Cloverfield Paradox. It wasn't great by any means but it had the bones of a solid movie, albeit with poor execution. Unfortunately you can pretty easily see where they chopped it up to force it into the Clover.... verse? Whatever they're calling it.

Oh, yeah, I also didn't like Solo very much. It was the darkest movie I've ever seen in a theater, not in tone but literally dark. The brightest color I ever saw was medium grey. The cave scene, I know was supposed to be dark but I literally couldn't see what was going on.

I actually had no problem with the dim and greyed out cinematography but I saw it at home not in theaters. I just despised the darth maul scene and all the betrayal twist shenanigans at the end. Everything about it felt half baked I didnt really like the characters or pacing. I mean the looks of the movie were imo the least of its problems

And man if I thought this was a bad year for movies then next year looks even worse. Aside from the tarantino film and the next movie done by the guy who did The Witch it looks like a dull year. At least in 2018 we got annihilation, suspiria, mandy. But next year im not even seeing movies of that caliber being released.

Ugh, are they still letting Tarantino pretend to be filmmaker? Not looking forward to another decade of contextless quotes and pointless murders

**LordofHats**

Lance845 wrote:
The Predator. By far the worst.

I'd pick the same just out of spite. The whole movie was a hot mess.

**Crazyterran**

the new Harry Potter was pretty disappointing.

**BobtheInquisitor**

Rumor has it the new Harry Potter movie died in preproduction but was swapped with a product of exploitation.

**Manchu**

BobtheInquisitor wrote:
In support of this, I saw Solo in the theater and it was not too dark. For the few days before I read an article on the projector issue, I was wondering what movie everyone else was talking about.

Same. Solo is a great looking film. What a shame the cinemas fethed up so badly.

**epronovost**

Manchu wrote:
Same. Solo is a great looking film. What a shame the cinemas fethed up so badly.

I was actually surprised by Solo. I thought it would be bad and kind off boring, but I liked it. It was a 70% grade movie. Good, but not great. The lead actor wasn't all that good, but at least he was tolerable.

My worst movie of 2018 (not that its a movie I watched in 2018, not necessarily distributed in 2018) was American Poltergeist 2. It's an "horror" flick with about the third of the budget of a single episode of CSI. It's hilariously bad and is the sequel to a slightly less cheap, but just as terrible movie. I would also add Rings to that list. It was terribly boring and trying way to hard to be edgy. Honorable mention to Ready Player One. It's a very pretty movie, but its nothing but a nostalgia piece and I'm not a nostalgia fan, which is strange for an historian.

**Manchu**

Ready Player One was a pretty forgettable film but at least entertaining while you are watching.

The Predator is not only the worst movie of 2018; it may be the worst movie I have seen this decade.

**Voss**

epronovost wrote:
Manchu wrote:
Same. Solo is a great looking film. What a shame the cinemas fethed up so badly.

I was actually surprised by Solo. I thought it would be bad and kind off boring, but I liked it. It was a 70% grade movie. Good, but not great. The lead actor wasn't all that good, but at least he was tolerable.

Yeah, I finally got to see it yesterday. It was... alright. Nothing stellar, and young Han didn't have anything resembling Ford's speech patterns (and the 'always a good guy at heart' sets up weird storytelling for New Hope), but it wasn't bad. Just some weak motivations (some were just snipped off way too early) and too many convenient resolutions and cliches (including bad guys suddenly not being bad for no reason).

**Asherian Command**

Predator
Christmas Chronicles
Aquaman

Predator was the worst Triple A hollywood movie of this decade honestly.

**Elbows**

Just have to step in and undo my previous vote for Jurassic...whatever it was.

I watched The Predator tonight. What a colossal insulting mess of a film...easily the worst I've seen in years (if we're talking about Hollywood budget films). It was an absolute laughable effort.

**Elemental**

Compel wrote:
Batman Ninja.

Monkeys... somehow turned into a giant robot... That turned into a giant Batman when a bunch of bats flew at it, which fought a voltron made out of castles.

No, just not...

[reads your post and immediately resolves to see this movie]

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

I really wouldn’t. I really really wouldn’t.

For me? The Meg.

It pains me to say this. I mean, it should be daft fun. Jason Statham, prehistoric Shark. What’s not to like? Well, sadly, the execution of the whole thing. I mean, it’s not terribad, but it’s just the wrong side of daft. Especially in the latter stages, where it just sort of arses around in the shallows.

The Meg? No. The Meh.

**Blackie**

According to IMDB I've watched (and rated) 33 movies that were released in 2018 so far. The worst one was Deadpool 2 which I rated 3/10 but I admit it's not my type of movie, my friends loved it. Then Rampage and The Spy Who Dumped Me, both with a solid 4/10. Those were absolutely terrible as well.

I also disliked Ocean's 8, Skyscraper, Game Night, Gringo and First Man but they all weren't that bad.

I missed The Meg and Predator because I thought they were awful, looks like I was right.

**Just Tony**

With my work schedule I don't get to see many movies at all. I know my daughter has fed in tons of Netflix movies, and some were so cloying I couldn't sit in the same room. So I'd vote those, whatever the hell they were.

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

The Meg may land better for others.

But for me, it’s not daft enough to be a good B movie, and not serious enough to be a proper creature feature. It’s almost too self conscious, like the director knew the plot was inherently silly, but refused to let it be what it was destined to be.

Like some kid with a guitar that wants to be a great composer, but who’s ‘original compositions’ are clearly just cover versions in a slightly different key, with a couple of notes swapped around.

Should’ve been the Jaws on Steroids we wanted, but is instead an anaemic Remora with delusions of grandeur.

**Elbows**

MEG screamed "the industry is pulling every single string behind this feature" which is always a recipe for disaster...and far more prevalent nowdays.

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

Actually, yes. Absolutely.

It was a premise that just needed a low budget and enthusiasm, but instead received a middling budget and a leash.

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You know. I think I’m all the more disappointed because it should have been a slam dunk. Moderate budget. Daft premise. Usually, those movies are good fun.

The Meh, it just wasn’t. Again, it turned out anaemic.

**timetowaste85**

The Meg...was fun. And I don’t care how many people tell me I’m wrong!!

**Manchu**

I wish the Meg had been fun. That’s all I wanted from that movie. But it was totally boring. Something like 45 min into the film with no direct shark attacks ... Just a snoozefest, which is the worst that can be said about a shark attack picture.

Still, it was miles better than the Predator.

**Techpriestsupport**

So, to you people who saw the predator, did they even try to give a reason for why the predators wanted to get human DNA hygidized into them? I heard they they wanted human predator hybrids.

**Lance845**

Techpriestsupport wrote:
So, to you people who saw the predator, did they even try to give a reason for why the predators wanted to get human DNA hygidized into them? I heard they they wanted human predator hybrids.

Spoiler:

**Manchu**

Fair points there Lance. I hadnt thought of that, regarding the ultra dumb pred dogs.

**LordofHats**

Lance845 wrote:
Techpriestsupport wrote:
So, to you people who saw the predator, did they even try to give a reason for why the predators wanted to get human DNA hygidized into them? I heard they they wanted human predator hybrids.

Spoiler:

It's not ONLY humans. Apparently Predators are just a genetic soup race that mashes DNA into themselves to constantly try to perfect the perfect warriors. They collect skulls of the best kills as a way to bring the DNA back. There are new Pred dogs in this one. These pred dogs look way worse then the ones from Pred 3, mostly because they look like if you took a predator and made it into a dog complete with a predators face. At least the pred dogs from 3 looked like an animal that might have existed on their planet or some other planet that they adapted as pack hounds. However the message here is clear. They genetically modified their own people into weird dog monsters.

In this movie the human they really want to collect is a 10 year old autistic kid.

Basically none of this movie will be cannon moving forward if anyone has any sense about them.

Spoiler:

**Pink Horror**

Ready Player One - it's one of those movies where the entire world has to be incredibly stupid in order to make the average protagonist look smart. The hand-wavy hacker garbage, people using VR helmets on the side of the road, a corporation that makes its operatives dress up like stormtroopers in-game instead of blending in, a visionary game designer that evryone reveres, who just licenses everything he can and sticks it into a VR world - it's all so dumb. They have so much IP to reference and yet they still made the world dark and dull.

**Manchu**

I would say the most insulted I felt during the Predator was during the forest fight when the volume of the movie increases suddenly and for no reason by approx 15-20%. I say “no reason” but what I mean is for no narrative or stylistic reason. There is a reason, of course, and that is because the film by that point is such a complete pile of nonsensical garbage that the desperate editor must have figured his only option was to try and physically hurt the audience in order to distract them from the catastrophe on screen.