2017 has been a great year for movies.
This year, the audience got to watch the first female-fronted superhero movie in a decade, Wonder Woman, and it received both financial and critical success. After nearly forty years, Ridley Scott's Blade Runner finally have a sequel, and it was nothing less of spectacular. Lady Bird also broke the Rotten Tomatoes record and became the best-reviewed movie in the site's history.
However, 2017 has also gifted the world with movies that hopefully will fade into oblivion as time moves forward. Here are the worst movies of the year.
'The Emoji Movie'
This year, Sony Pictures attempted to turn those little iPhone iconographies into movies heroes, and it was every bit as horrendous as everyone imagined. The Emoji Movie, starring T.J. Miller as the 'Meh' emoji, received bad reviews from movie critics and the audiences alike.
In its review of the movie, Variety called The Emoji Movie a witless knockoff of Inside Out. Meanwhile, The Guardian went even further and warned that the movie was evil and should not be watched by children.
"However, the most disturbing part of this toxic film is the way it infects audiences with its ugly cynicism," a reviewer wrote. "A viewer leaves The Emoji Movie a colder person, not only angry at the film for being unconscionably bad, but resentful of it for making them feel angry."
If it was an emoji, it will probably be the poop emoji.
'The Mummy'
Tom Cruise's movies in the recent years have been a hit or miss. Sometimes, he gives his fans great works such as Edge of Tomorrow. Other times, he is starring in an unwanted reboot of a monster movie from the 1930s.
The Mummy was meant to kick off a new cinematic universe where Dracula coexist with the creature from the Black Lagoon. Because it bombed at the box office and was reviewed poorly, the audience might have already seen the last of Universal's Dark Universe.
'Baywatch'
This year, Hollywood insisted on making television series into big-screen features. Unsurprisingly, most attempts failed.
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson starred this year in the movie adaptation of Baywatch, a television series from the '80s that starred David Hasselhoff and Pamela Anderson.
As expected, the movie was an all-around mess. It lacked the fresh concept of the original, the laughs are too few and too far in between. The audience would save time and a few brain cells by avoiding this movie like a plague.
'Fifty Shades Darker'
The movie adaptation of E. L. James's erotic trilogy was problematic from the beginning. Aside from the usual romance novel clichés or cringe-inducing lines, Fifty Shades Darker tends to romanticize abusive relationships. Making Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan) a misunderstood bad boy who needs saving gives the impression that love is synonymous to control and coercion.
'Justice League'
Perhaps, the biggest disappointment of the year award should be handed to Warner Bros.' Justice League.
The live-action comic book movie was supposed to be DC's answer to Marvel's The Avengers. However, it was doomed from the beginning. Behind the scenes, the movie had to change directors when Zack Snyder had to step down to tend to personal matters, and Joss Whedon was tapped to oversee reshoots and post-production.
The two directors clearly had two different visions for the movie, and the result was a manic mess. Not even Wonder Woman can save this one.
