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Kaitlyn's Bottom 5 Movies of 2017

For every good movie we see, there are about fifty bad ones that come out. One of the best part of being a critic is that a lot of these bad movies don't screen for us so unless we really want to we don't have to see them. For example they didn't screen The Emoji Movie and I decided I literally anything better to do with my time than seek it out. However, this doesn't mean we avoided all of the bad movies this year. There were still plenty out there and here are the dishonorable mentions and the bottom five.

Kaitlyn's Bottom 5 Movies of 2017

Dishonorable Mentions: A pile of the bad movies this year. None of which are really worth getting worked up about as they are not worth your time or energy to go see.
Fifty Shades Darker, The Dark Tower, Ghost in the Shell, The Shack, King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul, The Book of Henry

Kaitlyn's Bottom 5 Movies of 2017
5. Downsizing

A movie that is ending up on some years "best of" lists for reasons that cannot be explained. Downsizing is proof that a killer premise and a killer cast cannot save a badly executed movie. There was probably a point somewhere in this movie but it was muddled that we couldn't possibly say what it was. It feels like someone took two scripts and smashed them together then called it good. They don't do anything interesting with the idea of shrinking people aside from some basic sight gags that would feel at place in a Honey? I Shrunk the Kids R-rated reboot. While newcomer Hong Chau is good in the role she is typecast as the worst Asian stereotypes and while her broken English and over-exaggerated accent might have been her choice as an actor it just comes across as racist. This is reportedly a passion project for writer/director Alexander Payne but passion projects, when they fail, are usually fascinating failures. There is nothing fascinating about this dud.

Kaitlyn's Bottom 5 Movies of 2017
4. The Mummy

The movie that sunk an entire cinematic universe in one strike. That's pretty impressive for this mid-summer movie that no one seemed to really like. While it did fine overseas it was critically panned and it looks like the Dark Universe has had its second non-starter in one decade which is kind of sad. For a movie called The Mummy it decided to waste the talents of Sofia Boutella to focus on Tom Cruise's character. It's a movie that took the concept of female mummy so they had to add a bunch of sexist parts to it. She's a woman so of course she kills people by kissing them. They also play into the Betty/Veronica, "good white girl/bad dark girl" trope. Did a movie about a mummy need a love triangle where the evil, dark haired, ethnic girl is fighting over the boy against the white, blond, good girl? Apparently or apparently not since the Dark Universe is essentially dead in the water.

Kaitlyn's Bottom 5 Movies of 2017
3. Transformers: The Last Knight

There aren't enough jokes in the world to say how bad all of the Transformers movies are. This one gave me a migraine so bad I had to lie down in the back seat of my car and wait for the medication to kick in after I saw it in IMAX. These movies are so lost in their own convoluted mythology that there's a chance they aren't ever getting out. We all know the Transformers movies are bad and the fact that they are wasting the talent of Travis Knight on the Bumblebee movie is even worse.

Kaitlyn's Bottom 5 Movies of 2017
2. mother!

A movie about the assault and abuse of a woman at the hand of everyone around her. A movie where you have to watch a baby get eaten while being beaten over the head with a crowbar as the movie struggles to find the message it wants to make. A movie where you have to watch a woman get raped by her husband as the movie tries to pass it off as romance. There isn't a possible way for this movie to be more pretentious and as the camera continues to pan over Jennifer Lawrence again and again as she brutalized it feels like watching a snuff film. This is just a movie about a woman, whether literally or metaphorically, giving up her life for a man.

Kaitlyn's Bottom 5 Movies of 2017
1. Split

The movie that the comment sections still bring up, almost a year later, about me hating it. While A Ghost Story stuck with me throughout the year nothing topped the hatred I feel when it comes to Split. A movie that ruins the best M. Night Shyamalan movie by haphazardly making a cinematic universe because that is the thing to do. A movie where the fantastic James McAvoy dresses up like a woman because why not adds some transphobia while we're also using mental illness as a plot device. The worst though comes when Anya Taylor-Joy's Casey is spared not because she is strong, not because she outsmarts him, not because fights until the bitter end, but because she molested. The villain sees her scars, comes to the conclusion that she was molested like he was, and lets her live. After systematically stripping her and the other girls of their clothes the entire time it's then implied, but maybe not, that she goes back to living with the Uncle that abuses her. There is not a single redeeming quality about this movie and the fact that it's dragging Unbreakable through the mud with it is even worse.

Warner Bros Justice League
Special Award: Justice League

Justice League was not one of the worst movies of the years. However, considering the caliber of people involved and the fact that this should have been one of the biggest movies of the year it must be called a let down if nothing else. The fact that the Justice League movie made less than Suicide Squad speaks volumes about audience apathy when it comes to this cinematic universe. Justice League should have been one of the events of the year on par with Star Wars. Instead we got a movie that virtually everyone has forgotten about less than a month later. We have a little under year before the next DC Extended Universe movie comes out and after the less than stellar performance of Justice League we have to wonder how anyone is going to care about Aquaman come December 2018.


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Kaitlyn BoothAbout Kaitlyn Booth

Kaitlyn is the Editor-in-Chief at Bleeding Cool. She loves movies, television, and comics. She's a member of the UFCA and the GALECA. Feminist. Writer. Nerd. Follow her on twitter @katiesmovies and @safaiagem on instagram. She's also a co-host at The Nerd Dome Podcast. Listen to it at http://www.nerddomepodcast.com
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