Top 12 Worst Movies of 2014

Well it’s that time of year again. It’s a new year where we clean the slate from last year and start over for what’s in store this year. Speaking of cleaning the slate when it comes to the movies I like to clean the slate by counting down the worst movies from 2014. Trust me this wasn’t easy sitting through some of these movies and then having to recap them. But let’s get this over with and clean the slate.

12) The Expendables 3

Sylvester Stallone and his fellow action hero stars are at it again for (like they in the trailer) ONE LAST RIDE. Now I was a fan of the first two movies as they paid homage to all the classic action movies from the 80s and 90s. This time around they didn’t do much to go out with a bang on their so-called last ride. Not to mention they took a page out of Die Hard 4’s playbook by lowering the rating to PG-13 as opposed to the R-rating. Not to mention (aside from Stallone) majority of the original cast got less screen time this time around. This was one last ride that should’ve went out in a blaze of glory but didn’t.

11) Blended

I swear how many times is Adam Sandler going to keep playing the same lousy slacker? I use to be an Adam Sandler fan back in his earlier days but now he’s just playing the same character and just doesn’t care anymore. Sandler reunites with Drew Barrymore for a third time (oh yay like we’ve never seen this before). That plus the movie is too much like another Adam Sandler movie, “Just Go with It”. How original for an actor to rip off another movie of his, NOT!

10.) Transformers 4 - Age of Extinction

Just when you thought it was all over after Michael Bay said the third movie was the last one. Then what happens? It makes millions of dollars and then they make another movie. I love Mark Wahlberg but this movie just doesn’t seem like it’s for him. Plus I thought it was too soon for them to start over with the franchise. Come back a few years later when some time has past. Plus it’s time for Michael Bay to quit ruining popular cartoon franchises from the 80’s and 90’s! I won’t be surprised if Bay starts pissing off anime fans next.

9) Dracula Untold

Ok so Universal wants to reintroduce classic monster movie franchises to modern audiences but an origin story on Dracula? Screw that! I never thought a story on how Dracula became Dracula would be so stupid and so boring. Not really too much more to say about this one. I turned it off half way through.

8) Winter’s Tale

For every movie year there’s one movie based off a novel to make every critic’s worst of movie year list. This one takes the cake for 2014. Not to mention another flop of an all-star cast which consisted of Colin Farrell, William Hurt, Jennifer Connelly, Russell Crowe and Will Smith. This movie is part supernatural good versus evil and part love story. But maybe too supernatural which is the main problem of the movie for a live-action movie. No wonder why Martin Scorsese thought this movie was un-filmable when he turned down the directing job. This movie would’ve been better off if it were animated film.

7) A Haunted House 2

This movie is a sequel to a movie that was an excuse for Marlon Wayans to re-live his memories of doing Scary Movie 1 & 2. Other than that it’s just another excuse to make carbon copy spoof movies where it’s just a bunch of punch lines with no set up for the jokes. I’ve seen bad comedy sketches funnier than this piece of crap.

6) Sabotage

Once again Arnold Schwarzenegger is trying to do everything he can to find his headlining comeback. His involvement in The Expendables movies doesn’t count. The movie looked like it could’ve been it but all it was nothing but another one of those blow them up shoot them movies.

5) This Is Where I Leave You

I wanted to like this movie but I couldn’t. The movie has a nice comedic cast consisting of Jason Bateman and Tina Fey but those two would’ve been better off with a different screenplay. There were times where this movie had it’s moments but half it of was cheap laughs and not to mention not getting anywhere on some serious moments with clichéd conflicts involving this dysfunctional family.

4) I, Frankenstein

This movie had to be a major rip-off of the “Underworld” movies minus Kate Beckinsale and the vampires versus werewolves factor. Instead of a battle between vampires and werewolves we get Aaron Eckhart versus demons and gargoyles. It’s loud, it’s stupid, there isn’t any interesting characters and it wasn’t creative at all. This screenplay should’ve been tossed into the paper shredder.

3) The Robocop remake

It’s hard to believe that we’re getting to the point where movies from the 1980’s are starting to get thrown into the remake pile. The cast I will admit isn’t the problem of the movie. Especially when you have Samuel L Jackson, Gary Oldman and Michael Keaton in the supporting cast. Joel Kinnamen falls flat with his monotone voice that is a problem for the character trying to maintain his human side while he is machine. The ending is obvious to the point where you see it coming from a mile away. I would rather watch Robocop 3 again than this crap.

2) The Other Woman

Out of all the bad comedies in 2014 this one takes the cake. Cameron Diaz, Leslie Mann and Kate Upton star in this revenge comic caper as they pay back Nikolaj Coster Waldau for cheating on all three of them. This movie is a complete insult to women as the outcome walks away with no dignity and screwed up morals. I didn’t care at the end when they showed the “here’s what happened to each character” montage.

1)   Need For Speed

Based on the popular video game franchise, this movie comes off as a mix of Steve McQueen movies and The Fast & the Furious franchise thrown into a blender and then completely ripping it off. I like Aaron Paul and I’m glad he’s taking the next approach in his career to transition to movies coming off the end of “Breaking Bad”. However this wasn’t the best choice to start for Paul to begin this phase in his career. The dialogue and the race scenes are so clichéd that we’ve seen all these race stunts before in The Fast & the Furious movies. The wonderful Michael Keaton is wasted in a cameo as a rambling podcast host making it totally obvious he did it for a quick payday. It plays like a two-hour car commercial and a two-hour video game that you’re watching someone else play.

Well now that I got those bad memories out of the way be on the look out for my list of Top 12 Best Movies of 2014.