The worst movies you saw in the cinema last year?

[Little Woodsman]

I don't go to the movies very often but of the few I saw in 2013 Man of Steel was by far the worst. Right after viewing it I thought that it was OK, that there were just a lot of things that I didn't like about it because I'm an ancient comic book geek. But the more I thought about it the more I realized that it's just an objectively bad movie. The single worst part about it is that it's two worst offenses could have been fixed by adding/changing just a few lines of dialogue.

 

[Batou667]

Watching magic tricks is interesting in person because of the skill it takes for the magician to manipulate your attention so you don't see the slights of hand, and the various mechanical things that go into the magic tricks. The problem with watching movies about magicians and magic tricks is that anything done in the movie is completely unimpressive since the director gets to decide exactly where you're looking at all times, and anything can be done with CGI.

Yeah, I agree. I basically rage-quit while watching The Illusionist on DVD because of this: the "illusions" being shown were so blatently just CGI that it lost any kind of spectacle or gravitas.

Now You See Me didn't suffer from that quite as much, and the fact that some of the main tricks were explained helped take the edge of the "oh, bullshit" factor. The "twist" at the end was a phenomenal ass-pull though.

Anyway, my worst cinema film of last year was Man of Steel. It was complete car-crash viewing; I sat there in equal parts appalled and filled with schadenfreude. There were parts where I was basically shaking my head in disbelief and thinking, they couldn't have made this worse if they tried. That's IMPRESSIVE.

 

[NoeL]

Trying to think of all the movies I saw in theatres last year...

Man of Steel
Iron Man 3
Pacific Rim
Thor: The Dark World
Frozen
Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela

... I think that was it.

The worst would have to be a toss up between Man of Steel and Pacific Rim (leaning more towards MoS). The best was easily Frozen, with Thor 2 in second.

 

[Longstreet]

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Well, thanks to that wonderful thing called sleep deprivation (or just being really, really tired) i completely missed that "last year" part in the title.


I don't even think i went to the movies last year.

 

[Trunkage]

Pacific Rim. I was actually getting excited for it. That movie was so boring it was like playing the sockem robots in ME3 Citadel.

Star Trek is second because it had a God awful ending.

 

[Aris Khandr]

I only saw two movies in the theater last year: Saving Mr. Banks and Jurassic Park. Saving Mr. Banks was so good I went back and saw it again the next day with my grandmother. Meanwhile, Jurassic Park is my favorite movie that does not begin with 'L'. So really hard to say which was the worst of the two. I guess Jurassic Park, just because I'd seen it so many times that I was really only paying for dinosaurs in 3D.

If we expand the list to movies that were in theaters this year, but I waited for to come to Amazon, then yeah, Spring Breakers was damned awful. And I say that as someone who generally enjoys both Vanessa Hudgens and Selena Gomez, to the point where I'll go see anything that they're in. But the movie had no plot, just a series of scenes one after the other. I kept waiting for there to be an actual story, and it never happened. Nonsense after more nonsense.