Feb 162015
If there is a best, there must be a worst, and it is far more important to point those out. Otherwise, how will the filmmakers ever learn just how terrible they are. Again, keeping it simple for this year, So:
Nominations for Worst Feature Film*
- Hercules
- Left Behind
- Noah
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Transformers: Age of Extinction
Nominations for Most Painful Performance
- Johnny Depp as Napping Guy in Transcendence
- Kelsey Grammer as Guy Just Getting a Paycheck in Transformers: Age of Extinction
- Mark Wahlberg as Overacting Abusive Father in Transformers: Age of Extinction
- Megan Fox as Drunk & Confused Gal in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Nicolas Cage as Under-acting Nicolas Cage in Left Behind
Nominations for Most Ridiculous Time Filler
- Godzilla – The human soldier does…things
- The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies – No, really, another orc getting stabbed
- The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies – Every other frame
- Interstellar – Earth
- Noah – Let’s kill the grandchildren
- Transformers: Age of Extinction – Every scene with Mark Wahlberg
Nominations for Most Disappointing
- Godzilla
- The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
- Interstellar
- The One I Love
- The Tale of Princess Kaguya
Nominations for Most Egregious Exposition
- Dracula Untold – Voice over
- The Giver – Voice over
- Interstellar – Explanatory speeches masquerading as dialog.
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – Turtles explaining the story
- Noah – Recap of The Bible
*Because a worst list would have been nothing but little-seen, found-footage films, I simply ignored those — not only the horror ones, but the SF (Earth to Echo), and the not-comedy (A Haunted House 2) ones. They’re already winners.